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A37275	A sermon preach'd at the parish-church of St. Chad's in Shrewsbury, March 5, 1694/5 being the funeral day of our most gracious sovereign Queen Mary / by Thomas Dawes.	Dawes, Thomas, 1652?-1715.	1695 (1695)	Wing D451; ESTC R24877	12,749	32

asham'd now to think their Civility carry'd them so far beyond the reasons of their Faith But tho' these Holy Men left their Converts here too few by many to raise a Monument to their pretended Learning and Art of Perswasion they forgot not to take their Riches with 'em the vast Treasure by their pious Frauds they had cheated the Nation of Thus we of this National Church are happily restor'd to our Religion it 's free Profession to our Properties to our Laws to our Liberties to our Lives Rid of our urgent Fears and Jealousies all but what the Sons of Trouble studiously strive to nurse in their restless Bosoms Our True Religion has gain'd much honour by the invincible Courage and Constancy of its true Professors which is God's Cause as well as our own Our Government is re-establish'd upon its old best Foundations and all the slubber of our Grief wip'd off till now as we lay a long time a'weeping under the Cross Popery in it's insulting Greatness for ever banish'd our Isles Briefly we have lost nothing but what we could not keep and hope to live as contentedly as we can without and tho' at present ingaged in an expensive Forreign War we fight Honourably in Defence of ourselves and Confederates thereby to lay which must be done with time a sure stable foundation of our Security and common Prosperity for the future And now upon the foot of the Account tell me seriously ye Sons of Wisdom are not these I have named Lovely great Advantages which we owe and confess as many as are impartial next to the good Providence of God to the Care and Vigilance of our Governors and to Her tho not to Her alone whose Obsequies we this day Celebrate She who planted Religion both by Precept and Example in the Court the Head and Fountain of our Government and would have made it all of one piece i. e. Religious took great pains in her Publick and Private Devotion and by her excellent advice and Illustrious Pattern taught others so to do if any other certainly a Nursing Mother of this Church of England which we have reason to think is more indebted to two of our late Queens than well-nigh all the Kings we have had till now since our Happy Reformation Good Edward liv'd but a while and though He did as much as 't was possible for the time being young yet 't was the Rudimental Beginnings only of so great and noble a Design but what we wanted in his was in some good measure compensated by the shortness of the next Reign and especially by the happy Length of that which follow'd close upon it She who did most Queen Elizabeth of ever Blessed Memory the next a Peaceable Learned Prince but came late to our Government succeeded by a Son Religious and Wise who had our Civil Distractions suffer'd him to Live as 't was probable otherwise He might had raised and beautify'd to it 's best advantages our Religious Communion as establish'd but since He could no longer stand He chose to fall a Glorious Martyr with it and when upon our famous Restauration our Regular Worship began again to smile upon us as we did cordially upon it it flourish'd more than a little whise under a Good natur'd King 'till it was again too pitifully beclouded in the last Reign which left it harass'd to the more happy Success and better Government of our King and Queen who had She longer liv'd as She did more than a little in such a narrow stint of time so would have done wonderfully much more for it's Beauty and Prosperity But She is alas untimely Dead not as to Herself but us who promis'd as we had great reason every Day more and more felicity to ourselves under the shadow of Her Government Who as She came with much unwillingness to the Throne so She as willingly resign'd at Gods Command the Burden of it tho' by Her so easily born and taught all Christian Princes by her Illustrious Example how 't is really practicable and their best Interest to be Good and Great at the same time I have excus'd my self already give me leave but this once Alas Christians The Lovely Ornament of our Peace The Beauty of our Regular Devotion A Rare Example of Virtuous Life The Glory of Christian Princes the Greatest of Her Sex the Darling of all Her Good People The Dearest Pledge of God's good Providence our Glorious Princes is Dead and gone Let all our Judah and Jerusalem weep and Mourn for our Good Queen as they did righteously for Josiah 'T is indifferent whether we Lament Her or our Religion they were inseperable in Her and how then shall we distinguish ' em I cannot blame the profuseness of our Grief upon this extraordinary Subject if there be any Venial Sin we Christians can commit surely this is it the great extremity of our present Sorrow and tho' we reasonably conclude this our great Concern will touch the hardest heart in the whole Nation yet if there be any who cannot weep for it and us I hope without injury we may take leave to weep for ourselves and them 'T were well the reasons of our Sorrow were not real as we believe they are upon impartial view Tho' yet we are not in the least unthankful but know how to prize all the Blessings we have left behind our Good King and Royal Family But these all Mourn as well as we and we humbly think we have as great a cause as any tho' all this we know is fruitless and in vain But how can tender hearts express themselves and their passionate resentments in a milder way not that we should seem fondly envy Her her Happiness above who stood ever the fairest Candidate for an Immortal Crown But we beg leave here thus to acknowledge and confess our many obligations and to embalm and preserve her Sacred Memory to perpetual Generations with the Dearest expressions of our most unfeigned Love I fear I have held you too long in this Melancholly Scene I have done then only mind you very briefly of two things to which our present Affliction seems nighest ally'd The reasons I mean that lye uppermost to our knowledge and are most Legible in such an harsh Providence as this is 1. Either by this sort of Discipline God in his infinite wisdom has a mind to mean us from an over fondness we are too apt to create to ourselves of any Humane Help we think stands nighest our Temporal Happiness and then 't will teach us Patience Thus we know He exercised the People of the Jews when under th' immediate Jurisdiction of his Theocracy in Egypt in the Wilderness in Canaan and after when they were embodied and had Kings as th' other Nations depriving 'em of Success oftimes by many secret methods of his good Providence thereby to hold 'em the closer to himself in their Dependence and the Counsel of his own Divine Will who has many more ways for our Succour in the unerring Conduct of his Eternal Wisdom than we can imagine Or 2. God punishes us thus severely for our manifold abominable sins as He did the Jews oftimes particularly here in the matter of Josiah and then Mourning is the least part of what we have to do which concerns us most in a speedy Reformation of our Wicked Lives lest otherwise upon our continued provocations our Judgment as it proceeds from the Divine Justice should thus conclude our Good King too whom God long preserve with th' other Royal Branches this needs every good sober Christians consideration Finally If our Grief be real upon the sence of our great Loss it supposes we understand the worth of Good Princes and consequently as we now Mourn for Her whose Funeral Day we celebrate so we from henceforth apply ourselves with all dutiful and Loyal Love and Fidelity to Him who is now in the Throne and to this good end shun and disencourage the most we can in ourselves and others all causeless Jealousies and turbulent Counsels which in the effect should any way cool and diminish from our cheerful Obedience and learn to submit ourselves Dutifully to our Governors as well as to Pray for 'em That God would grant our King a long and an happy Reign over us and that we and all his Subjects duly considering whose Authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey Him according to God's Holy Word and Ordinance and that He may ever study to Preserve thy People committed to his Charge in Wealth Peace and Goodliness Grant this O Merciful Father for thy Dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS