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A loyal tear dropt on the vault of the High and Mighty Prince, Charles II, of glorious and happy memory by Henry Anderson ...
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Anderson, Henry, b. 1651 or 2.
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1685
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to attain so much as a shadow of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is always in Impatience Patience is too beautiful for his deformed Nature and crooked disposition being a composition of all those lovely Vertues and Graces of the Holy Spirit to which he is a perfect stranger To die by a Persecutor it s Martyrdom in open work but to suffer injuries and love our hater it is Martyrdom in heart Let Baptism be your Armour Faith your Helmet Love your Spear but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Patience Cap-a-pe your whole Armour of defence it is the sweetest Salve to mishap or desire of revenge the truest Remedy of Injuries and the Shield against Wrongs because through Patience in well-doing we seek for Glory and Honour Life and Immortality It is great Fortitude if being hurt to forgive It is great Glory if thou mightest punish and yet to Pardon This was one of the Gemms in the Crown of his late Majesty that he exercised a Soveraignty over all his Subjects with a rejoycing and delightful kind of Patience which does eternize his Memory and blazon his Honour to Posterity even his auspicious and most gentle Government and Chronicle will free me from the least tincture of flattery if any think I am beyond the bounds either of Sincerity or Truth Now if the Prophet Jeremiah composed the whole sorrowful structure of his Lamentations on the mournful Obsequies of the Good King Josiah shall not the English World weep out Elegies and condole the Death of the Royal Charles the light of our Eyes and breath of our Nostrils of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Thirdly His wonderful Beneficence or Christian Charity displays it self First In forgiving his Enemies when they had forsaken their Allegiance by acts of Rebellion and his late Majesty could have crush'd them with the Hand of Greatness yet he made an act of Indemnity or Oblivion the vehicle of his Kindness which speaks his Kingly Beneficence that he was a Patron of Goodness and Charity and gives us occasion to discern how transporting a delight it is to a Noble and Generous Mind to be an Instrument of good to others As the bountiful light in the Body of the Sun illuminates and beautifies all the Orbs and Heavenly Bodies about it by the projection of its beams it begets all the Beauty Glory Sweetness we have here below on the Earth and it is so communicative of doing good as it never restrains the free Communication of its Influence and Glory until it determine by natural and necessary expiration Even so proportionably his late Majesty as the Sun did cherish and enliven Terrestrial Bodies and folded not up his Rays but dispensed them freely so that his Princely Clemency and Charitable Disposition like a rich Fountain did run with large streams of Goodness which renders his Deceased Majesty deservedly honoured by all his Subjects for all things that have an affinity with the Heavens have a communicative Goodness and move upon the Center of another which they benefit and Man may be by so much Neighbour to the Gods by how much he doth good beyond requital for self is a poor Center of a Mans actions but to do good to others begets a strong reflection of Majesty and Honour O that all those who pretend to greatness of Mind would copy out this Munificence taing all Opportunities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to do good for 't is goodness which sits gloriously Triumphant at the Top of Heaven and uncharitableness lies miserably grovelling under the bottom of Hell Heaven descends from one as its principal Cause Hell is built on the other as its main Foundation as the one approximates the Blessed Angels to God and beatifies them so the other removeth the cursed Fiends to such a distance from God and Happiness saith a Reverend Divine not to wish not to do any good It is true Nobleness and carrys with it the signatures of Majesty and Greatness Honour and Piety to be of a large diffusive Spirit exercising Bounty and Mercy as holy Athanasius in his Works affirms that Mercifulness is the Queen of Vertues and his late Majesty whose Sacred Memory we celebrate did practise this high piece of Christian Perfection according to the Prescriptions of our Lord in forgiving his Enemies which shews that Goodness and Charity as Fruit did grow on this Royal Tree Secondly His Kingly Munificence and Liberality not only to the Tribe of Levi but to all that implored his Royal Favour dispensing of his Treasures to the supply of the needy and putting on Bowels of Mercy to those in want and necessity giving Bread to the Hungry and cloathing the naked with a garment And one Charitable Action performed in Obedience to the Divine Command will be more conducive to our Eternal Welfare than the value of innumerable Worlds Therefore this Pious Prince was inclined to acts of Beneficence and Compassion who now injoys the happy consequences thereof for Bread cast upon the Waters is trajectitia pecunia Money for which you take a Bill of Exchange from God and it meets you in a far Country no Robbers by Land no Piracies by Sea no unfaithfulness of Factors no violence of Tempests shall take it from you He hath dispersed he hath given to the poor saith the Psalmist and his righteousness endureth for ever And so Goodness and Charity did shine in this Mighty Monarch like the precious Stones in Aarons Breast-Plate There is no felicity now a wanting to this illustrious Monarch but that of Virginius Ruffus to have another Tacitus to write his Funeral Obsequies those just Encomiums and Praises due to his rare and singular Perfections for Vertues are Copies drawn for imitation and left as paths for succeeding Ages to tread in Regis ad Exemplum totus componitur Orbis And his late Majesty being Dead yet speaks by his Royal Example to all his loving Subjects in the Language of the Holy Apostle Be ye followers of me as I was of Christ in Faith and Hope Humility and Meekness Charity and Patience till you come ad interior a velaminis above the reach of dull Mortality filling up those seats of Blessedness and triumphing in the Glories of a Saviour Death however we figure it with the Pencil of Fancy yet it does but rend the vail of Mortality and lets the Soul into the Palace of inestimable Majesty where we shall not only behold Jesus in all his Glory but receive the utmost effects of his mighty Love and live with him for ever in Heavenly Places The quality of the Grave is alter'd since Christ slept there it was a Prison now a Chamber of repose The Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Death of the faithful saith They shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds for Death of a formidable Enemy is made a Friend and a Blessing in Christ a passage from the Valley of Tears to the Kingdom of Glory Now who would be
afraid to be Happy Indeed were our Tombs the Everlasting Repositories of our moulded Ashes and the Grave a sad Closet of Eternal Sleep a Man had some reason to tremble at the apprehensions of Death and since the Day cannot arise but through the shadows of the Night and there is no transition to Heaven and Eternal Life but through the Chambers of a Temporal Death we should be content to go that way to Glory that our Saviour went before Venerable Job under the sad Tragedy of Misery with a Triumphant kind of Joy laid up in his Bosome this joyful expectation I know my Redeemer liveth and though Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God The same individual Bodies that died will be raised Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the Grave shall hear his voice and come forth And the Resurrection of our Bodies is assured by Christs Testimony the veracity of Christ is witnessed by his Resurrection for Christ is the first-fruits of them that sleep As the first Fruits are a sure demonstration and evidence of the near approach and drawing on of the Harvest so the Resurrection of Christ is a sure ground of hope and comfort for assuring us that all those who dye Christs Disciples shall rise to a Blessed Immortality He shall make us partakers of his Glory and bring us into those everlasting Habitations where dwells an undisturbed Peace where neither Diseases approach the Body nor Vices have access unto the Mind where shall be life without fear of Death and Joys without mixture of Sorrow In the Primitive Times at Funerals they were wont to sing Psalms of Thanksgiving The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Triumphant Song of St Paul O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory bringing them as Champions to the Grave as those that have passed the Pikes and finished their Course and kept the Faith and have conquered the World Sin and Death What cause is there now of Sorrow or Lamentation but rather of Joy and Gladness when we consider Deaths Errand it is our convoy to Heaven the dawning of an Eternal Day and Eve of a Glorious Festival the way wherein we must walk to Happiness If old Jacob when he saw the Chariots come from Aegypt his Heart did leap within him because he should see his Son Joseph We may imagine what a comfort it will be in the beatifical Vision when Adam shall see all his Grand-Children the Sons of Enos together Abraham his faithful Seed Moses his true Israelites Aaron his Spiritual Posterity John the Baptist shall see his Penitents Peter his Converts Paul his Followers the Angels shall see all their Wards God all his Sons Christ all his Members What a glorious appeaing will there be What a ravishing Heavenly Quire What an Anthem shall there be gloriously sung when the Gates of Heaven shall be as it were shut there being no more to enter and these made welcome by the mutual and ineffable embracements of God and Christ Christ now and his Believers like Joseph and Benjamin falling about each others Necks not weeping but shouting for Joy O that this confideration might have its proper operation in the Hearts and Minds of all so as to fear God and practise Religion that we may obtain a Glorious Reward for all Ornaments and Excellencies whether of Art Nature or Policy are but a dead thing unless they be animated and quickned with the power of Religion and fear of God therefore whether we aim at a Temporal or Spiritual good Religion is mainly to be magnified Many Blessings belong to the Religious which they enjoy in this Life The Riches of Grace are poured on them and the Word of Life is preach'd unto them their Thoughts are Heavenly and Hearts the Throne of the Holy Ghost their Tongues talk of the Praises of the Almighty and their Feet stand in the Temple of the Lord their Prayers are like Incense and the lifting up of their Hands as an Evening Sacrifice Who will not now become Religious to wear a Crown that never shall have an end after Death to have Angels their Companions and Saints their Fellows Heaven their dwelling Place and Pleasures of Paradise the recompence of their Reward If sumptuous and stately Buildings do delight what Habitation is so Magnificent and Glorious as the New Jerusalem If Riches what so Rich as that whose Foundation and Wall are of Precious Stones and Gates of Orient Pearls If Honour what Honour comparable to this to be Servants of the Most High the Sons of so mighty a King and Heirs of so Glorious a Kingdom where neither the Teeth of Time can consume nor Rancor of Envy deprive of Honour nor Power of Adversary spoil its Glory being endless and Incomprehensible There is no such gain as trading to Heaven to be Merchant Adventurers for Happiness all other things are nothing let this so raise your apprehensions as your Lives may be an Argument to prove it for if we do expect Salvation Mercy and Glory at the Hands of the Almighty we must be active in well doing Obedient to his Laws Confident in his Promises and Religious in his Service that so being followers of the Blessed Saints who are departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ directing our Lives after their Good Example and particularly of this Pious Prince who has changed the Terrestrial Paradise of all his Kingdoms to be partaker of a Celestial One which is beyond the Power of Empire and grasps greater things than Authority or Command can compass his Name survives his Life and is anagram'd in the choicest Memories and stands in Renown amongst the greatest Worthies that either Pole can boast of being Embalm'd in Honour and whose Actions blossom in the Dust A voice from Heaven has declared Happiness to the Righteous Because blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours and their works follow them NOW after the dayes of Mourning in England for the Death of Britain's Josiah the Great and Good King James the Second hath given us a day of rejoycing in the peaceable Accession to the Imperial Throne of these Kingdoms which hath been long and happily enjoyed by his Royal Ancestors and by an unquestionable Right and lineal Succession descends on his Sacred Majesty We have great cause to rejoyce when we consider our happiness that it hath pleased the Almighty God to give us for our King a Prince of the same Blood Son of Charles the Martyr and Brother to Charles the Good and Great and His Sacred Majesty has attained the Character of James the Just who is not only an Inheritor of the Crowns of his Royal Progenitors in all the Triumphs and Glories of a Coronation but of their Virtues And since the Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church it is the happiness of this Nation that the Seed of that Glorious Martyr of happy Memory is still to reign over us which turns our Tears into Joy and Exultation of Spirit praising and glorifying God for so great a Benefit We adore the Divine Goodness and acknowledge it a Miracle of Mercy by which he kept his Sacred Majesty in Store a Blessing in reserve for us who in the depth of our Affliction hath vouchsafed to bring us from Death to Life again by guiding us through the Horror of our Fears into a State of Security and Comfort by his Princely Word and Promise to follow the Example of our late Dread Sovereign in Clemency and Tenderness to his People And with equal Gratitude and hearts full of Duty and Allegiance we pay the Tribute of Thanks to his Sacred Majesty for his most Indulgent Declaration that he will take our Lives Liberties and Religion into his immediate Protection and the inviolable Steddiness of his Royal Word is that on which we rely with an intire Confidence for the Support and Enjoyment of our Establisht Religion a Religion that has been as his Majesty graciously observes and ever will be for the Maintenance of Monarchy And as our Church is the Rule to us of a pure and unspotted Loyalty so it is not possible we should lose the one since his most Illustrious Majesty is so graciously pleas'd to preserve the other And what can we desire more on this side Heaven than that we live under his auspicious Reign safe in our Religion and Properties What better pledges could we have asked for them than what we have his Sacred Word which hath made us intirely secure and hath left us nothing now to wish or pray for save only that it would please Almighty God by a merciful and over ruling Providence to defeat the Malice and to frustrate and disappoint all the Conspiracies of his Enemies And we humbly beseech the Great God the King of Kings to preserve his Sacred Majesty in Health and Happiness to prosper all his Affairs at home and abroad and make all his Subjects truly Loyal and Obedient and establish his Royal Throne many and many Years that he may long and happily Reign over us to the utmost period of Humane Nature and when the Crown shall slide from his Sacred Temples be at last translated to an Eternal Throne of Glory Amen Amen FINIS Gen. 3. 19. Gen. 2. 17. Gen. 5. Heb. 9. 27. Eccl. 12. 14. Matt. 25. 31. 32. Ib. 34. 41. M 〈…〉 25. 46. Dan. 12. 2. 18. 14. Psal 146. 4. Eccl. 2. 1 Eccl. 11. 9. Job 17. 14. Job 4. 19. Cant. 2. 3. Prov. 20. 28. Psal 19. 1. Isal 61. 8. John 25 8. 2 Chron. 8. 14. 2 Chr. 35. 24. Matt. 11. 29. 1 Pet. 5. 5. Jam. 4. 6. Tom. 2. Matt. 5. 41. Psal 112. 9. Isai 57. 2. Job 19. 25 26 27. Joh. 5. 28. John 11. 25. Acts 10. 38 39 40 41. 1 Cor. 15. 20. 1 Cor. 15. 14 15. 1 Cor. 15. 5. Revel 14. 13.