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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56792	A practical discourse upon the death of our late graeious [sic] Queen being a sermon preach'd the 10th of March 1694/5, at St James Clarkenwell / by D. Pead ...	Pead, Deuel, d. 1727.	1695 (1695)	Wing P962; ESTC R17662	8,265	27

cannot miss being arriy'd at the Heavenly Jerusalem and incorporated in an Innumerable Company of Angels I am come to a Glorious Assembly of holy and happy Souls Some accounted my Life Madness and that I was beside my self in that I exerted not my Authority consumed not my Revenue to the Pampering and Indulging Nature my Devotion and Charity my VVatchfulness over my self my Circumspection among my Attendants was a Riddle if not a Scorn to others but how sweet was the Reflexion in the Agonies of Death and how Merciful hath the Gracious Lord rewarded those small pittances of Duty and Service Weep not for me for * Psa● 11. verily there is a Reward for the Righteous But methinks I hear of some of you protesting your noble and grateful tempers cannot dispence with this Counsel but though she neither wants nor takes notice of your Tears Though Death be as natural to Princes as to Beggars Though an early departure to Bliss be an happiness And though she is the Gainer by Exchange of Crowns yet you must and will Weep you cannot refrain 1. Because Tears are the Due Rights the Accustom'd Benevolence paid to departed Friends it was not Reason but Morossness that Spoke in Ennius Nemo me decoret Lachrymis Tears are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 justa defunctorum the Dues the Tribute belonging to the Dead Thus Abraham a great Prince bemoaned his deceased Sarah Jacob Moses Samuel and many others were Lamented when dead because they had been so useful and good when Living The Greater the Person the higher in degree and Quality the more Religious and Beneficial in his Generation the Greater was the lamentation thus Ahijah † Jeroboam's Son died and by God's Special Command King 13. all Israel Mourned for him and the Reason is there given Some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel was found in him But when the Good King Josiah was taken away by death * Chron. 31. his death was in an extraordinary manner Lamented all Judah and Jerusalem Condoled him † The Prophet Jeremiah's head was as a Fountain of Tears ●ers 25. all the Singing Men and Singing Women made great Lamentation for him Such was the Mourning for that good Prince so that it grew into a Proverb ●●ch 12. * As the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon The Comparison were at hand had Grief a Tongue and delighted in Loquacity Was Josiah zealous for the Lord according to the Law of Moses Who more zealous than the Late Queen whose Translation hence we now Commemorate She was zealous for God both according to the Law and the Gospel How industrious was She to Suppress Swearing Drunkenness Whoredom and Sabbath-breaking And how did She commend each respective duty of the Gospel to Her Subjects by her own Practice and Example Was Josiah zealous against Idolatry She more against all Idolatry and Prophaneness Did he turn unto the Lord with all his Soul Who could perceive that she had many Thoughts Desires Studies or Delights but what tended either Primarily or Subordinately to the Glory of God It was that King's Praise That he had the Law Read in the Audience of the People It was our Queen's That She delighted in having the Gospel Piously Reverently and Frequently Preach'd In a Word he was Chronicled for his Strict Observation of the Passover She ought much more to be had in Remembrance for her Devout and Frequent Receiving the Sacrament of the LORD's SVPPER I want Time to shew what Zeal She had what Travel She underwent to Settle the Church to heal our Distractions to compose our Differences How Fervent was Her desire to see the House of God purged from all its dregs to remove all just and tolerable Causes of Separation and to make the Terms of Communion as clear and comfortable as became the Christian Religion Doubtless had God spared Her She would have so Labour'd our Reformation and Union that our Church should have been a Praise in the Earth Should I proceed by the Rule of Her Deserts and you by the same Commensurate your Weeping it were enough to Convert this Island into another Hadadrimmon Is it not Reason then to say Ah Lord and Ah Her Glory It were unpardonable if such a Princess should depart without the Groans of Her People 2. We cannot prevent weeping nor would we because an Unlamented death is Threatned by God as a Curse and the worst of Her Enemies will not Judge so hardly of Her therefore it is pardonable if Her True Admirers Mourn for her God threatens * 16. the Restraining of Lamentation at death as a grievous Punishment and more expresly concerning Jehojakim King of Judah † God said † 22. They shall not Lament for him saying Ah my Brother or Ah Sister Ah Lord Ah his Glory i. e. neither his Relations nor his Subjects were permitted to make Lamentation for him Solomon speaks of it as a thing usual and common * Ecc●● 12.5 That when Men die and go to their long home The Mourners go about the City And how then shall we say That they whom God calleth Gods die like Men if a Queen shall want what is allowed to common Subjects In a word God seems to Resent it very ill when this Kind Office is neglected when these Tributes of Tears are kept back † Isa 1. The Righteous perish and no Man layeth it to heart To spare where God calls for spending to grudge where a gracious Princess so highly deserves is surely Impious But notwithstanding let us once more Mind ●he Text and although it be a general Custom ●nd so we were out of Fashion if we did not weep Although God wills this Respect be shewn to so Eminent an Instrument of his Glory and our Good yet Weep not for me 1. Hypocritically Take heed your Grief your Tears your Con●●rnedness for this Great Loss be not Counterfeit Country have swept away Thousands Hear you not the Cries and dismal Complaints of the Poor The Threats of Enemies The Conspiracy of Traytors The Frauds and Deceits of Subjects And will not the blackness and horrour hereof raise a Tempest of Tears Then surely all Compassion is extinct the Clouds are wont to drop upon less noise Yet behold so little are we affected with ou● Sufferings or sensible of what we have to fear that every one keeps on his old Rode one to his Farm another to his Merchandize one to hi● Business another to his Pleasure and few la● either the present or what we may hereafter lose to heart God took away Josiah 22.10 that he should not see the Evil that was coming on his Kingdom and who knoweth but that our Queen was taken away in like manner Could we weep and pray pray and drow● our Prayers in Tears God would certainly hea● our Cries for Tears have an audible and significant Voice Man may hear their general Voice and from our weeping collect we are in Sorrow but God