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death_n	age_n	die_v	year_n	6,258	5	4.9578	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46365	A pastoral letter written on the occasion of the death of the late Queen of England, of blessed memory with reflections on the greatness of that loss to Europe / by Peter Jurieu ...	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing J1206; ESTC R36214	14,400	32

two Souls were unexpressibly strong And at the same time it is a clear Proof of the Heroical Vertue of both They lov'd each other almost to excess because they knew one another to be perfectly vertuous and worthy to be lov'd For the Love of God and of his Glory was the source of their Conjugal Love And upon this Occasion give me leave to represent to you the greatness of our Obligation to these two Illustrious Lovers They were link'd together by the closest Ties they were passionately enamour'd of each other and yet suffer'd themselves to be separated every Year by a voluntary Exile of Six Months The King sacrific'd His dearest Delights to the Publick Good and to the Glory of God And the Loving QUEEN during these tedious Campaigns sacrific'd that Dear Husband and expos'd Him to the Faithlesness of the Sea to that more terrible treachery of Men and to the Dangers of Battels in which His Courage engag'd Him every moment And all for the Publick Good for the Quiet of Europe and for the Glory of Her God Nor was the End of this Princess unsuitable to Her Beginning Young and Fair as She was a QUEEN and a Happy QUEEN ador'd by Her own Subjects and by Strangers She welcom'd Death like one that had reason to be weary of the World and as if the World had been weary of Her Being inform'd on the second day of Her Sickness that Her Disease was the Small Pox and of a very dangerous Kind because they did not come out She addrest Her self to God in a most devout Prayer and resign'd Her self to his Hands When She was advertis'd of the fatal Approaches of Death She receiv'd the news with a great deal of Firmness and without the least Disturbance She made Her Peace with God and receiv'd the stroke of Death bowing down Her Head and lifting up Her Soul towards Heaven like and Innocent Lamb or a pure Victim that offers up it self to its God in a voluntary Oblation Think what Advantages the World receiv'd and might have receiv'd from such a Queen And indeed it may be said that never any Person of her Sex that had a King and a Husband alive was so useful to Mankind Private Persons may speak of this from their own Experience What a vast multitude of Alms of Pious and Charitable Works are now with Her before God She was sensibly touch'd with the Affliction of the People of God She maintain'd every where a great Number of Women of Quality who had left their Estates and Country She contributed large Sums for the Entertainment of so many indigent Persons who being driven from their own Habitations had without Her assistance led a most wretched and languishing Life She had the Blessings of the Widow and the Orphan and Her only Grief was that She could not provide for all their Necessities These Advantages which we receiv'd were indeed very precious in the fight of God But there were others that shin'd brighter in the Eyes of Men. Who can enough admire her Wisdom Prudence and Courage in sharing the burthen of Government with Her Illustrious Husband By Her that Great King could be present in several Places at once By Her He extended his Empire beyond the Sea While He commanded Armies on our Frontiers and set bounds to that ambitious Grandeur that would have swallow'd up all the World The Queen supply'd his place on the Throne She assisted at Her Council four or five hours together answer'd all Proposals with an admirable Presence of Mind and with a piercing clearness of Judgment unfolded the most knotty difficulties And in what Time did She rule so successfully In the most difficult Times that England ever saw in the midst of a thousand Conspirators who cover'd their pernicious Designs with the specious pretext of a tender Conscience and Allegiance to their Sovereign The Enemies Fleet appear'd on the Coasts under the formidable Name of an injur'd King and an incens'd Father within Cabals were form'd to introduce the Enemy The King was absent busy'd in defending the Frontiers of His Allies The Queen watches labours night and day takes Her measures prevents the Conspirators sees that Fleet disperst which came to put Her in Chains and like a Rock remains unmov'd in the midst of so furious a Tempest Every Campaign renew'd Her Labours and still She was attended with the same glorious success When the King return'd She return'd to Her Rest She retir'd peaceably to Her Works and Gardens as if She had been capable of nothing else Just like those Heroes of ancient Rome who left their Countrey Labours to command Armies and having routed the Enemies and secur'd the Commonwealth return'd again to their little Employments We have already seen what a Queen we have lost let us now hearken to the Instructions that are offer'd to us by the Illustrious Deceas'd In the first place She gives us a Lesson concerning the Vanity of the World which ought to have a great influence upon us 'T is true we see daily Examples of it but they are so many that they cannot make a lasting Impression upon us We are so accustom'd to them that we must have remarkable Examples set before us from time to time to rouse us out of that Stupidity in which we are buried The common People Citizens and Tradesmen perish before our eyes but these are unpriviledg'd Heads which fall in heaps and dye unregarded A thousand Funerals pass along our Streets and are no sooner past than forgotten They tell us of Princes and Kings that died some Ages ago which now are only so many vain Names in History The Preachers draw these Goblins out of their Sepulchres to affright us but they lose their labour Death seizes on as many Crown'd Heads in this as in any former Age for a Crown has no more power now to bestow Immortality upon him that wears it than it had a thousand years ago But we have always some pretext ready to excuse our want of attention and to elude the force of such Examples That Prince was old and 't was time for him to be going This Princess was tender and could not live long Another had done a great deal of mischief and 't was just that he should go to receive the Punishments that he deserv'd One was hated by his Subjects and therefore Death was a Blessing to him And another 't is true did little harm but less good and therefore the World was well rid of him Come my dear Brethren and Fellow Mourners come and see Behold an Instance that cuts off all such pretexts Behold a Young Person who had receiv'd from Nature all imaginable Favours see a Great Princess in the flower of her Age of a sound Constitution which promised a long Life behold a Charitable Soul an inexhausted Source of Good Works and the Delight of all the World Behold in this Instance the Vanity of the World unvail'd the meanness of the most shining Creatures the weakness