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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56747	A sermon upon the death of the queen, preached in the parish-church of St. Mary White-Chappel by William Payne ...	Payne, William, 1650-1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing P909; ESTC R18297	18,546	38

a better Book of the Vertues of Womankind from her alone and have out-done all his other Book of Lives I cannot but apply that Character and Commendation to Her which Heraclitus the Philosopher gave to his Daughter Athenaea when for that reason he Disinherited her and gave her little or no Portion Sufficient Chronicon Pascale Olymph 300. Socrat. Histor Eccles l. 7. c. 21. Evag. l. 1. c. 20. Nicephor l. 15. c. 23. said he to her are her Beauty Learning and Vertue in which she excells all her Sex Though this afterwards brought her to be an Empress and which was more a Christian by a Publick Controversie brought before the Judges concerning her Fathers Will whereby she became known to the Emperour Theodosius the Younger who thereupon Marryed her Our Queen had Personal Excellencies enough without her Crown and without all that Rich and High Estate and Worldly Greatness wherewith God had besides Endowed her to Entitle her every way to the Character of the Finest and Bravest Woman in the World the very Phaenix of her Sex nay even to that higher Title in my Text of God and Angel above most other Princes To give her Character in little She was certainly one of the best Women the best Wives the best Princesses and the best Christians that ever lived the Ornament and Glory of her Sex the Ornament of the Court of our Church of the Nation and of the Age. I am loth to leave this Glorious View of Her But I must come to the Dark and Melancholly Scene and draw the Cloud that has covered this our Sun at Noon-day that has Quenched and Eclipsed this Light of our Israel and Darkned all our Joy and Glory with Gloominess and Mourning Though she was a sort of Earthly God upon a better Account and more peculiar Reasons than most other Princes and had the most Divine and Angelick Properties yet alass to our grief she had not that of Immortality I have said ye are Gods but ye shall dye like men Neither the greatest Dignity or greatest Quality of Birth and Fortune no nor the greatest Personal Excellencies and Vertues can protect from Death and the Grave nor Exempt any one from the Common Fate of Mortality to which all the Sons and Daughters of Adam are subject by the Decree of Heaven by the Constitution and Frame of their Nature and by the Punishment of their Sins God and Nature have appointed a certain Period to Humane Life such general Bounds as it cannot pass so that the days of Men are determined the number of his months are with God Job 14.5 And we all carry the Seeds and Principles of our own Mortality within our selves We are of the Earth Earthy and our Earthly Tabernacles however we prop them up awhile will at last sink and decay fall and crumble into Dust so that we must all go down to the Grave the place of Darkness and Forgetfulness where we have seen our Fore-Fathers laid before us and no Man can be so Foolish or so Sceptical as to doubt any more whither he shall once dye then whither he was once born Though every one puts the Thoughts of Death far from him and thinks it is alwayes a great way off of him and though he come never so near it himself by Age yet he fancies 't is still like a Shadow flying as far from him and that at Forty or Fifty he has still a good Life to live and at Sixty or Seventy there are still Older Men than he and those who have lived much longer yet alass this is but a weak however comfortable Delusion Death will quickly meet us somewhere or other and come up to us and strike the Fatal Stroke very probably before we are aware of it It dogs and follows every one of us and may be much nearer us than we are aware and by silent and undiscerned Steps it is every day nearer approaching and making up more closely to us Mankind we see are every day burying of one another We stand wondering to see such and such drop by us and to hear of the unexpected Death as we call it of such of our Friends and Acquaintance who were as like to live as our selves till it comes to be our own turn at last and we drop likewise and are generally as much surprized with our own Death as we were at theirs We are Busie and Thoughtful about a great many Projects and Contrivances which are to take Effect perhaps many of them several Years hence but before half of those Years are gone our whole Life is and the Mighty Babel we were building to our selves of Worldly Happyness and Mighty Designs here is struck down with our Life and in that day all our thoughts perish We whose Blood is now warm our nerves strong and our Pulse beating the Nimble Stroke of Life we alass must have all these lively Motions stopt the whole Clock-work spoilt and we must quickly become only stiff and clammy cold numbed and senseless Carkasses lay'd out at first upon our once warm Beds lockt up in our Coffins put in our Graves lay'd in a Hole turned into heaps of Stench Rottenness and Putrifaction quickly mouldring into the common Dust of the Earth and as quite forgotten in a little while as if we had never been Lord How much is there in this Thought this one Thought the serious thinking of our own Mortality How would the wise and frequent thinking of this one thing if we did it with due and full Consideration and Application of Mind How would this Considering our latter End make us Wise and Religious How would this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this Meditation of Death teach us the truest Wisdom and best Philosophy make us Wise in undervaluing this Life and all the Little and Vain and Momentany things that belong to it Wise in preferring the Great and Lasting and Eternal Things of another World Infinitely before it Wise not to be so much concerned for these sorry Bodies of ours and not make it so much our business to Cater and Provide for them which must quickly dye and perish but rather to take care of our Souls those more Precious Parts of us that make us truely Men and not to neglect those which are Immortal and will live for ever This was the Wisdom of our Excellent Queen Though she was encompassed with the highest Glories of this World and had all the Enjoyments of it set before her and the glitterings of an Earthly Crown to dazle her Eyes yet she looked beyond them all and fixt her Thoughts and desires upon that Heavenly Crown which She has now obtained and which she sought and desired and strove to gain a Thousand times more than she did that other Though she had the Noblest and the Finest Body built with all the Strength and Beauty and Elegance of Ornament as a Fit Temple for her more Noble and Divine Soul so that an Anthropomorphite would by that have took her for