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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

hears their secret and special Voice an● in our weeping reads our Humility and Repentance Weep for your selves We have just cause to fear our Sins have hastened this Death which we now deplore God in his Goodness sent us such a Princess as was both a Patroness and Example of Goodness A Glass by which this crooked Age might have rectified it self and seeing he has waited divers Years and found no amendment what was it but just to take the Mirrour from us What should they do with a Light who will not walk by it This is no new thing for If you continue to do wickedly 1 Sam both you and your King shall be destroyed So Solomons Observation was Prov. For the Transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof And if we have not dissembled with God in the Service for the Thirtieth of January we confess that the Crying Sins of the Nation occasioned the Death of King Charles the First The Throne feels many Removes when Subjects go on still in their Wickedness so that there ●ies a necessity upon us to weep an hearty Repentance by way of Atonement and hereafter to live most religiously by way of Prevention Which brings us to the next Consideration III. Weep for your selves and your children Weep so as to reform shed Tears of abhorrence and detestation It were extremely provoking for all this to sin on to be found sinning against God in the day that we should be crying out of our Trouble and Misery While Amasa lay openly wallowing in his Blood the whole Congregation stood astonied they were all highly concerned to see the Land so defiled with Blood 20.12 but yet no sooner was the Dead covered with a Cloth and removed out of sight but every one marched on as he was going I no ways question but the first relation of the Queen's Sickness was dismal to most and at the report of her Death the hearts of many good People were ready to sink within them and all concurred in this Opinion that for the Wickedness of the Land she was fallen and shall we now the Solemnity of her Funeral is over recant God forbid I hope as every day will discover our lo●● to be greater and greater so our loss will imbitte● our Sins to us that we shall set upon a general Reformation Some Tempers are corrected when brought to weeping God grant us Hearts to weep and Grace to amend It was an Observation made of the Jews that they were best in their worst Condition of the Athenians it was spoken Proverbially Non nisi Atrati they never kept any decorum but when in Mourning And a great Statesman once spoke of this Nation Anglica gens est optima slens pessima ridens The English are most like themselves when God turns their Mirth into Sorrow Now therefore you are called to the House of Mourning it is very seasonable both to weep and amend Could we thus mourn God would return and leave a Blessing behind him as ●e did to Nineveh we might yet see Jerusalem in Prosperity Could we thus weep for ●●ur Sins and in weeping leave them off there were hopes after a fair Enjoyment of Peace and Prosperity here we may like her that is now gone before us dye willingly and chearfully for she willingly resign'd her Breath she ●●ll a-sleep without the least reluctancy or resistance It was not regardlessness or ignorance of Death nor was it the Gallantry of her natural Courage that taught her thus to defie the ●ing of Terrors but the good Foundation she had laid up against this Day Her Fidelity in God's Service emboldned her Trust in his Mercy To Conclude I shall now endeavour Two things I. To remove some Discontents II. To give some needful Exhortations 1. Peradvenrure my appearing no sooner upon this Occasion may be called Coldness or Unconcernedness I shall excuse my self no otherwise than by shewing you that I learn from Joab's Reproof to Ahimaz 18. it was manners to l●● Zadock who was thereunto appointed run before 2. Perhaps I may be censured as too partia●●● that I have not sufficiently illustrated and bl●●● zoned the Queen's Vertues In answer hereunto my Opinion is true Grief loves not to be Rh●●torical where it does speak it is but abrub●●● and brokenly like the harsh Cry of Cranes 〈◊〉 the unpleasant chattering of Swallows Beside I did conclude should I have told you in the Language of some that she exceeded King David Queen Elizabeth nay all the Kings and Queens that ever were this would offend as fulsome I could not in one breath declare she was beyond Description and in the next do it in a few Words In short I have seen and observ'd many things I have heard more and do probably believe as much as another but yet dare not speak too liberally for fear I should be thought another Sostratus and to offer more to the Living than Dead Yet however I will not deny my Character which is this Our late Queen Mary was so good that God took her away as too good for such a wicked People as we are You may have a larger Prov. 31. 3. There is yet another prejudice some reproach'd ●he deceased Queen when living and still brand her Honour now dead by charging he with Forgetfulness of the Fifth Commandment This is the Charge but they that are so industrious in spreading and aggravating it would do better to consider The Conjunction of Matrimony is nearer and stronger than that of Parents and Children for God who so strictly commanded and encouraged the Obedience of Children to Parents yet was pleased to dispense with this Law 〈◊〉 13. in case of Matrimony For thi● cause shall a man forsake father and mother c. which Law is equal to either Sex and shows us that i● ever the Paternal Duty should contradict the Marriage that of the Marriage hath the pre-eminence Moreover in the State of Matrimony the Husband hath power over the Wife So that it is against all Reason that the Queen should answer as a Daughter for what she could not refuse as a Wife Plancus near his end was told that Asinius Poll● had prepar'd Funeral-Orations against him and had steep'd his Pen in Gall Plancus slighted the Information saying None but Ghosts will contend with th● Dead Though he thus bravely scorn'd Pollio's Malice yet could not Pollio disgest Plancus's Answer but departed from his intention of railing at him For fear the Manners and Wisdom should be wanting among Christians which was found in th●● Heathen something I will say though not much left the adverse Party should conceit their Objection of greater weight than really it is Put case God had in Mercy to his afflicted Churc● dealt by the Father as he hath formerly done b● other Crowned Heads removed him by som● strange Death had not the Daughter's Title then been good Had she not then legally ascended the Throne What is it then that occasions all this Discontent unless it be God in Judgment remembred Mercy and by one single Act of his Providence both prevented farther Mischief and conceeded the Deluded a larger time for Repentance It hath been said by them of old time Vox Populi Vox Dei then when so fairly call'd who was she that she should withstand We are told our Laws are consonant to Gods if so what are they but Murmurers who complain of what the Law justifies Some Exhortations I. Resolve henceforward to be more Loyal Obedient Faithful and Assisting to his Majesty All wise People will remember they have the Dues of Two to pay to one II. You have great cause to love and be stedfast in your Religion if you consider rightly what of late God hath done in its defence David says Psal Let the multitude of the Isles rejoice we may particularly call upon our own to do so for you ●ee God ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men. You have read that Moses young and helpless less was cast out and should have been destroy'd the King had given such Order yet he that sitteth in Heaven consented not but chose the Daughter of that King to preserve him God can secure our Religion by ways unthought of by us if ever it fall it will not be for want of power in God but love in us I could not leave you with a better Remark that you may remember what great things God hath done for you and yours by her means whom he hath now taken to himself God grant what hath been said may prove as profitable as it has been seasonable and that we may all of us weep so heartily for our Selves and our Children that God may depart from his Wrath and by his gracious Providence make up the breach he hath made upon us FINIS Books Printed for Abel Roper E. Wilkinson and Roger Clavell DR Hammond's Works Dr. Cudworth's Works Dr. Lake's preparatory Office for the Sacrament Week's Exercise for the receiving of the Sacrament Dedicated to the Princess Ann of Denmark The Fourth Edition Westly's Life of Christ In Heroick Verse Adorned with Sixty Copper Cuts A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Father of the Prince of Orange Walker's Epictetus In English Verse