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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51822	A sermon preach'd at the parish-church of St. Andrews Holborn, the 30th of December, 1694, on the most lamented death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Queen Mary by Tho. Mannyngham ...	Manningham, Thomas, 1651?-1722.	1695 (1695)	Wing M504; ESTC R6484	8,282	35

Born of God They are Educated under the Highest Institution the Dictates and Government of the Holy Spirit That Spirit of Gentleness Meekness and Love and thereby their Souls are enlarg'd into the most generous Designs of Humanity and Publick Good And such was the Temper of our most Excellent Queen a Natural Sweetness of Mind heighten'd by good Principles and a pious Education perfected and brightned by a Constant Exercise in the Duties of Religion This made all Her Carriage Gracious Her Intentions most Sincere Her Conversation most Lovely All who saw Her at a Distance read Kindness in Her Looks and all who attended on Her found its Real effects She had all that Majesty which was needful Temper'd with that Mildness which made it more Becoming She knew not how to maintain a sullen Grandeur among those whom She ever esteem'd more Her Friends than Her Subjects and they who censur'd Her as too Familiar in Her Conversation for a Queen may well pardon Her Condescention when they consider that in all Her sweet Behaviour She endeavor'd to shew that She was Akin to our Nation Besides She had spent some part of Her days in a Country where 't is not the fashion for the Highest Persons to affect much Distance but where they chuse to Converse more upon a Level with more Freedom and Equality than is usual in the Courts of Monarchies and by this Obliging Civility of Hers She won the Hearts of all the Considerable Families in the Provinces and was almost Adored by the Common People And had there not been some unhappy Differences in this Kingdom about her way of Coming to the Throne which made some People study to be peevish and censorious She had been Vniversally Admir'd and would have wanted nothing but a longer Reign to have equall'd Her with the most Celebrated of all our Queens Which will further appear if in the II d place we consider Her in Her continual Concern for and Encouragement of the True Religion establish'd amongst us Her Zeal for the good of the Church and Her right Sense and Judgment in Matters of Religion were so well known to all the Clergy who were about Her that She was the very Joy of their Hearts the Encourager of their Studies and their continual Support under all the Reproaches of the Wicked She stor'd Herself with the best choice of good Books written in the way of Practical Divinity read them often in Her Retirement and made them part of Her Entertainment when She sate at work with Her Maids of Honour where there was constant Reading of Good Books either of History or Divinity which they undertook by turns one always Reading aloud to the rest and this they did to carry on a Constant Improvement to supply their Thoughts with useful Knowledge or Meditation and to prevent all unprofitable Discourse Now this is a Pattern for all our Ladies to imitate that they may be able to give a good account of that Time and Leisure which their plentiful Fortunes and their fairer circumstances of Life allow them that thereby they may shut out many Temptations to which they are otherwise most exposed furnish their Minds with the best Arguments of Discourse raise their Conversation into more degrees of Wisdom and exchange their Censoriousness of others for a more frequent Examination of themselves 'T is to the Queen that we owe many of those Pious Treatises which have been lately Publish'd amongst us And that multitude of plain useful and Practical Sermons which She approv'd of and caus'd to be Printed are Her Gift to the Publick It is hardly to be express'd with what Delight She came to Her Chapel what Attention She gave to the Preacher and what an Example of Seriousness She was during the whole Service of the Church She stir'd up such an Holy Emulation in all who appear'd before Her in the Pulpit that it is judiciously concluded by many that there was no such Preaching in the whole World besides as at Whtie-Hall and never such in England before I do not think that any of Her Sex and truly but few of ours were able to make a better Judgment of those Performances She never was affected with fine sayings and flowers of Rhetorick with angry Controversie or Spiritual Railing but where there was sound Divinity solid Sense good Rules and Directions plain Matter an Vseful Subject and a vein of Holiness that ran throughout there Her Approbation was sure to follow there She commended and there when seasonable She plac'd Her Preferments Her Heart was wholly set upon Goodness and all who were Her Favourites came to that Honour under the Character of Good and Pious We may soon know where Her Heart was if in the III d place we contemplate Her in the constant practise of Her own Devotion Devotion is usually look't upon as the softest and most delicate exercise of Religion where the Affections may have an innocent Enlargement and the Soul may safely display it self in all the Ardours of Divine Love Upon this account all pious Ladies have laid an especially claim to Devotion as their peculiar Province and tho' they have yielded to Men in other parts of Religion where greater strength of Reasoning is requir'd yet in this more Affectionate part they have always studied or pretended to Excel Let this be granted But then consider again how common and how dangerous the Miscarriages are in those warmer Elevations of the Soul where the Affections which are so apt to Inflame are most unfit to Guide for how easie is the passage from earnest Devotion to Heats of Enthusiasm or to weaknesses of Superstition How ready are the Humours of the Body to mingle with the Fervours of the Mind and to Taint the Sacrifie nay how often are the Zealous deceiv'd with false ways of Worship and having a strange Impetus of Praying upon them are Directing it to every Object that an Idolatrous Custom shall set before them and lastly How often does it happen that they who are most eager in Raising their Affections in their Closets do make sad work with their Passions in their Families a long time after Whereas I can say this for the Queen's Devotion that it was the most Judicious the best Temper'd and the most Constant that I ever observ'd in any of Her Sex She address'd Her self to God in a most Humble and Aweful Manner without any Affectation of odd Motions Gestures or Voice She usually cover'd Her Face to keep Her Attention fix'd and to prevent the Wandering of Her Thoughts She always seem'd to be deeply affected with a due sense of the Divine Majesty and of the great Duty She was about but being of a very Even Temper She was not subject to much Transport on one hand or to much coldness on the other but seem'd to keep up an Equal Concern a Continual fire in Her Heart without much Flame from the beginning to the end of Her Devotion In which Her Constancy was very remarkable