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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56749	A sermon upon the death of the Queen, preached in the parish-church of St. Mary White-Chappel by William Payne ...	Payne, William, 1650-1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing P911; ESTC R22909	18,504	38

visible Seraphim with the Devotion and the Countenance of an Angel Rev. 5.8.8.4 having a Golden Censer and Vials full of the Incense of Prayers to be offered up to the Throne of Heaven both for her self and others And no doubt we owe a great many of those Blessings which God has vouchsafed of late to this Sinful and Unworthy Nation to the Prevalence and Availing Power of her Righteous Prayers These were a Guard to her Royal Consort abroad and a Protection to him in all those dangers where Providence so wonderfully preserved him for they followed him every where and he owed his Success and Victory perhaps more to them than either to his Fleet or Army for this depended more upon God and the Blessing of Heaven than any Second Causes and whilst her Hands were so Devoutly lifted up thither he prevailed God grant that we may not want her help now and that we of this Nation may not find how much we owed our Safety to her Religion and Devotion whilst she stood in the Gap to Save us Ezek. 22.30 and Keep us from being destroyed May she with our other Friends and Members of the Church Triumphant in Heaven still afford us the benefit of their Prayers and may they Powerfully Intercede with God for this poor Church and Nation While she was upon Earth Devotion was her great Delight and the Church of God was the Place she loved to be in above all others There she kept up the Solemnity of Publick Worship with the greatest Decency and did so Worship God in the Beauty of Holyness without either the Garish Dress of too many Ceremonies or the Naked and Sordid Undress of none as made both Religion and our Church appear very Beautiful and Comely to all even to the Enemies of both She understood Religion very well for she had a great Judgment and discerning Sagacity in every thing she medled with but Religion was the great Business of her Life that she studied that she minded that she delighted in that she truely understood and though she had a great Dexterity in managing other things yet she was a True Mary who chose that better part that one thing necessary above them all Her Ministers of State admired her for her Skill and Dispatch in Business for her Judgment in the Cabinet and the Council as if she had minded nothing else but those State-Affairs Her Ministers of Religion thought she was wholly theirs and minded nothing but Religion and the Ladies at the same time thought she minded only the Perfections and Accomplishments of their Sex so perfect was she in All as if she had been singular only in one of those Excellencies and not had them all together But Religion run through them all and was the Golden String upon which they all hung or rather the Mighty Pearl of Price the most Valuable of all her other Excellencies and that which gave Value to all the rest Her Religion lay not in Affected Singularities in Pharisaical Showes and Pretences in an unnecessary Restraint and Abstinence from things Lawful and Innocent or in any Bigotry and Immoderate Zeal for little and indifferent things of no Value or Importance in Religion but it lay in Solid and Substantial in Wise and Regular and Decent Piety and Devotion in a great Sense of God and Zeal for his Glory and an hearty Endeavour to promote Piety Vertue and Goodness in others in being very strict in her own way and very Charitable to others in theirs being very Conformable in her Practice and very Moderate in her Thoughts in being sincerely Devout her self and judging others tobe so who differed from her And she was not only a good Christian but likewise a good Divine too she had a well furnished Library especially of Divinity Books which she very much Read and Studied and had Judgment enough to find more Sense and Witt and Entertainment in them than in Empty Romances and Frothy Plays where the Froth is often not only Thin but Poysonous too She never was better pleased than either in Reading or Hearing Religious Discourses both in Private and Publick which best suited both with her Excellent Understanding and her Pious Inclinations Therefore she doubled the Sun day Sermons at White-Hall and was every way for Increasing and Advancing Religion all she could I well remember the first Afternoon Sermon there that perhaps was ever in England before a King or Queen having the honour to Preach it my self before her Octob. 20th 1689. Her Receiving the Sacrament was very Constant and very Devout with as much Humility as if she had been the greatest Sinner and with the Love and Ardour of the highest Saint The most Penitent Mary Magdalen could not treat her Saviour with more Signs and Expressions of her Hearty Affection and be more Hungry and Thirsty for the Heavenly Food of his Body and Blood and yet I believe she was one of those Just Persons of whom our Saviour speaks Luke 15.7 who needed no Repentance Her Innocent Soul formed early to Vertue and Religion by a good Education never lost its Virgin Purity and her Pure Life was never stained or spotted with any wilful sin that should put her into a Bad State I cannot say she was an Angel that never fell to our Comfort and to our Honour she was as we are the Off-spring of fallen Adam and brought into the World no doubt without the Miracle of an Immaculate Conception but had I any Inclination to some Mens Principles I should be apt to think her one of the Greatest Instances of a Particular Election and of a Special and Irresistible Divine Grace Her Religion Vertue and Piety will both Make and Prove Her a Choice Vessel of Grace and Election one of the most Choice and Excellent Christians that ever were She Equalled if not Out-did the Helena's the Placilla's the Eudocia's those Empresses famous for Piety and Religion the Marcella's the Gorgonia's and the like Celebrated Women in former Christian Ages only she wants an Eusebius a Gregory or an Hierome to set her out But I hope there will be some Religious Pens in our Age that in this will as much out-doe those Excellent Writers as our Great Subject does theirs The Custom of Panegyrics upon such occasions is very Antient and very Christian and has greater Leaders than those at home who thought it served the ends of Vertue and Christianity as no doubt it does to commend very highly where the Example was very Singular and fairly to Illustrate those Vertues which they would invite others first to look upon and then to imitate Had Plutarch that Excellent Heathen who tells us 't was a Law among the Greeks to have the Vertues of Great Persons thus Recited and Commended had such an Instance or Example before him of all Vertue as our Extraordinary Queen he might have furnisht the World with another and a better Book of the Vertues of Womankind from her alone and have out-done all