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A33874	A collection of the funeral-orations, pronounc'd by publick authority in Holland upon the death of ... Mary II Queen of Great Britain, &c. by Dr. James Perizonius ..., Dr. George Grevius ..., F. Francius ..., Mr. Ortwinius ..., and, the learned author of the Collection of new and curious pieces ; to which is added, the invitation of the chancellor of the electoral University of Wittenberg, in Saxony, to George Wilbain Kirchmais, to pronounce a funeral oration upon the Queen's death, &c. ; done into English from the Latin originals.	Kirchmaier, Georg Wilhelm, 1673-1759.; Francius, Petrus, 1645-1704. Oratio in funere Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae Mariae. English.; Graevius, Joannes Georgius, 1632-1703. Mariae Stuartae ... Britanniae, Galliae, et Hiberniae Reginae ... justa persoluta. English.; Ortwinius, Joannes. Laudatio funebris recitata post excessum Serenissimae ... Mariae Stuartae. English.; Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701. Laudatio funebris ... Mariae II Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae. English.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5203; ESTC R10177	94,331	161

and procure the safety of so many People and generally after her Death desir'd and bewail'd Now as she was always like her self through the whole Course of her Life so neither did she swerve from her self at her death The manner of her most pious and constant End apparently answer'd the most Holy Purpose of her whole Life As against all other fears so against the most terrible of all Terrours her Courage was Invincible neither the cruelty of the Disease nor the unlucky approach of Death in the Flourish of her Age in the midst of so many soothing Pleasures of this Life could prevail with the Queen to shew the least sign of sadness On the other side when she heard and was sensible of being call'd away many and most Illustrious were the signs of her undaunted departing from this Station of Life When the Right Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury sent for some few days before she expir'd gave her to understand the certain Approach of Death that she was to prepare for the Journey which all Mortals early or later are to take placidly without any sign of a sick Mind though extreamly weakned in Body by the Force of the Disease she made Answer That that was not the first Day of her Learning to prepare for Death for that she had serv'd God during the whole Course of her Life A saying truly worthy of so great a Queen worthy the Remembrance of all Ages She had learnt that then we begin to live when we die We die as soon as born every day something is imperceptibly cropt from our Lives till by degrees the whole be lopt away And that this most pious Queen neither deceiv'd her self nor the Archbishop is apparent from that memorable saying of hers about six years before her fatal day when she sate by the Bed-side of a Noble Person 's Wife whom she highly Lov'd and valued to confirm and comfort her then drawing her last breath They who were present desir'd her that she would turn away her Eyes from the Expiring Lady But the Queen refus'd saying withal That it rarely fell out for Persons of her Rank and Quality to see such a Spectacle as now was offered her by the design'd Favour of Heaven to make Advantage of it in better understanding the Vanity of our Life What Advantage she made of it the conclusion of her Days sufficiently taught us After this she fed her Soul with the Coelestial Food of the Body and Blood of Christ with a deep sence of the Pains which our Redeemer Suffered for us Refresh'd with this Sacred Banquet she cast away all Further Care of Earthly Affairs that she might think upon nothing else but of Enjoying God when freed from her Corporeal Imprisonment that God whom upon Earth she had so fervently lov'd and so purely Worshipt She bid the King farewel in these words which are utter'd by me in Latin for you do not hear what she could say but what she said I leave the Earth I hope dear King you never mistrusted my Fidelity and Love Moderate your Grief I wish that with the same Joy that I depart with the same easiness you may set bounds to your sorrow Soon after the Divine MARY expir'd in the Hands and Embraces of the King who never left her nor stir'd out of her Chamber Day or Night whilst she lay labouring under three most cruel Diseases the Small-Pox an Erysipelas and a Pestilential Fever either of which was enough to have carried off the strongest of Men. 'T is better to pass over in silence the Grief that overwhelm'd the King than to spend time and words in vain For words cannot be found that can in any measure express the Vastness of his Grief Such was always and so great the Resolution of the most Couragious King and such his Fortitude that tho assail'd with Angry fortune's utmost Fury he never could be mov'd never succumb'd but bore his Adversity with an Elevated mind Never any Man whatever were the madness of Raging Disaster could perceive any change of Countenance in the King But this same Grief he was not able to withstand Vanquish'd by the Force of his Love and Loss as having lost the most certain and faithful Componion of his Fortune of his Counsels his Cares his Labours and his Thoughts who far exceeded all the Excellencies of the Female Sex that hardly the Vertue of any Woman in any Age can be compar'd to hers For that reason perhaps it was that Heaven deny'd her Off-spring lest she should bring forth a worse than her self and her Husband seeing Nature could go no further No wonder then that Invincible Resolution that undaunted yet sedate Courage of William in all the Rudest Tempests of this Life was so deeply struck and shaken with this Thunder-Bolt For he now misses the only Best and Wisest of Queens when he most needed her and might have reap'd infinite Advantages from her Fidelity Prudence and Assistance in Governing wisely at Home while he perform'd Wonders abroad There is no man so Iron-hearted but must be sensible of the Extremity of Pain when the One half of his Soul is sever'd from him by so violent a stroke However we doubt not but the King out of his incredible Wisdom tho his Grief can never be exhausted will recollect himself and re-call his Mind from the Bitterness of his Grief to accomplish what he has so prosperously begun that Work which turns the Eyes of all Europe upon him on whom the Fate of it depends To the End that by his Conduct and Counsel Ease Tranquility and Security may be restord to so fair a Portion of the Habitable World and Peace so settl'd that not only Arms may be laid down but with those Arms all fear of taking 'em up again Wherefore as all men unmeasurably Grieve for the Death of the Queen as being a Wound by which all suffer so now again all Pray for the Safety and Preservation of the King all who are concern'd for the safety and liberty of Europe Mary was The Flower of Queens was once the Ornament of the Age the Love of the People the Delight of the World the Granary of the Poor the Altar of the miserable Thou best and Greatest of Queens hast lost nothing who Reapest now Eternal Beatitude the Fruit of a Life so Piously so Chastly so Prudently Led exempt from all the Cares and Troubles wherewith we miserable Wretches are toss'd by Storms and Waves of these wicked times The King has lost the Alleviation of his Cares the Ornament of the People in Prosperity their Aid in Adversity and all good Men their main Tower of Defence Thou Departedst this Life in the Flower of thy Age but what remorseless Death has abstracted from the Number of thy Years men will add as much and more to the Eternal Glory Fame and Remembrance of thy Name That was not to be said thy Life which thou ledst in the Chains of thy Mortal Body but is to be call'd

and that Motherly Affection of a Munificent Princess to the Sick and Poor whose charitable Deeds like those of the Roman Centurion may be thought to have ascended up into Heaven Or lastly that extraordinary and more than Masculine Magnanimity and Constancy as well through the whole Course of her Life as at her Death Who among the poorest and most miserable ever with more easiness resign'd this mortal Life so obnoxious to a Thousand Calamities than She in the midst of Regal Pomp and plenty with a Royal and truly Heroick Mind contemn'd and surrender'd all the Pleasures of Life and Regal Dignity and hasten'd to the Supream King of Heaven and Earth by whom she had been only sent us hitherto How many proofs did she manifest of a Mind undaunted joyful and desirous to leave this Life How many clear and evident Demonstrations did she give of her Love to God How comfortably did she address herself to the King and the rest of the standers by How well assured of Eternal Life and Immortality did she bid farewell to this Life and all Terrestrial Felicities and transmigrate to that same only Fountain and perpetual Spring of all Beatitude So that her Life and Death was a most perfect and consummate Exemplar of Vertue and Piety Nor did Nature ever produce any thing more excellent than she who in all her Life never did never said or thought any thing but what was Praise-worthy so that what was said of Scipio Aemilianus may be more truly recorded of our Princess whose Vertues were so many so great and of that moment every one that no Man ever durst presume so much as tacitly to beg of the Immortal God as this our Queen obtain'd from the most indulgent Dispenser of all Good And because the mind of Man is better discern'd by his Death than by his Life for Man is apt in his Life time to conceal and dissemble his Affections but at his Death the Mask being remov'd he appears what he is what was more noble or signal than the Death of this Queen What more becoming a Wise Man and a Christian than that saying of hers This is not the first time that I prepar'd my self for Death Great Sentence most worthy a Philosopher and a Pious Man What more does Philosophy teach us what more the Christian Religion For if Philosophy be meditation upon Death as rightly of old the Platonics observ'd if we must be always learning to dye according to the Stoies may not she be said to have liv'd a Philosophical Life and the likest to Socrates himself who during the whole course of her Life was always meditating upon Death Socrates is every where lovely every where appears a Vertuous and Holy Man but no where more lovely or greater than at his Exit and at his death which he so generously sought by which he immortaliz'd his Vertue and Integrity and confirm'd what he had all along taught not by Words but Deeds and his Voluntary Exit out of this Life How much a more signal and Laudable Testimony of her Vertue and Sanctity than that Philosopher did our Queen give to the World by her death so Heroick and to be imitated by all Christians Who forsook not a private not a miserable but a Royal Life abounding in all delights without the least repining who so departed this Life as from a Banquet efcap'd from the Court as out of a Prison who more assur'd of the immortality of her Soul and the hopes of a better Life with a greater Resolution did not inflict a spontaneous Death upon herself but expected a decreed Stroak from the Hand of the Supream Lord of all things who forbids us to quit our Stations uncommanded by himself and beheld the common Enemy of Mankind the most terrible of all most terrible things with a Mind altogether undaunted and a Countenance nothing terrified No wonder she had learnt to dye it had been her only Study She understood the Frailty of Life like Glass the brighter the more brittle She knew that we dy'd every day that the beginning of Life was the beginning of Death that there was nothing firm and Stable here that we are promis'd another Life constant solid and and permanent that Death is but the Passage to it that no Man can dye well but he that liv'd well that no Man lives well but he that has Death always before his Eyes and has learnt to dye well Our Princess fill'd with these Cogitations scorn'd and repudiated all the conveniences and blandishments of Life Honors and Dignities Scepters and Diadems and whatever Men deem Fortunate and with a great and Royal Mind while she liv'd contemn'd Life and Death when she dy'd and by so doing nobly and gloriously triumph'd over both Renown'd Woman of a Masculine and Couragious Spirit victorious over Death it self By what name shall I call thee Whether Parent of thy Country formerly the Sirname ascrib'd to Livia bnt more truly to be given to thee Whether August which was attributed to the Roman Empresses but due to thy Merit than which nothing was more Sacred nothing more August Or the best of Princesses which was first allow'd to Scipio Masica afterwards to Trajan by decree of the Senate An Epithete that must never be renew'd again now thou art gone nor will return to Earth without the Remembrance of thy Vertues Or the Defendress of the Faith a Title more truly appropriated to Thee than to Him to whom it was first indulged Most Holy and Religious Princess before whom no Woman is to be preferr'd Let sacred and prophane Histories recommend to us the Fortitude of Deborah the Charity of Dorcas the Prudence of Semiramis and her Knowledge how to Govern the Couragious Soul of Zenobia and her fervent Love of Learn-the incredible Endowments both of Body and Mind in Aspasia and her singular Modesty the Piety of Placilla and her assiduous care of the Needy and Sick let the British Annals extol their Maud their Philippa their Elizabeth and their transcending Vertues neither Antiquity nor this our modern Age can boast of any thing that is to be compar'd with this our far surpassing Queen worthy of far greater Encomiums What singly they possess'd this had accumulatively crouded in one Person as being a Compendium of all those Vertues For my part when I revolve all these things in my Mind and diligently weigh the particular Vertues of this single Woman I am plainly and evidently convinc'd that never any thing was produc'd in this world more excellent than this Princess nor that ever any greater Blessing happen'd to Mortals For if that saying of Plato be true as 't is most certain that Cities then will have an end of all their miseries when great Power and Prudence by a certain divine State meet with mutual Embraces with Equity and Justice if the VVorld shall then be happy as the same Author asserts when either Kings are wise or wise Men Reign how happy and fortunate would have been

gone again To deceive the Wishes of so many Mortals who thought there could nothing more corroborate their Felicity in this moveable Scene of Wordly Affairs then if MARY should long live and Govern Dost thou thus Great QVEEN withdraw they self from thy WILLIAM from thy People from thy Hollanders Of whom we may more truly say then fawning Rome of her Augustus or Severius that they ought either never to have been Born or never to have Died. Whose First Birth when thou wert born to the Earth might be look'd upon as the Palilia or Foundation-Festivals of Britain and the Universal Church but thy Last Birth by which thou wert born to Heaven might be thought the utmost Line of Both didst thou not still live in WILLIAM Behold how the Reformed Church and of all Hands the most Fortunate that was Illustrated by such a Sun is now wrapt up in Darkness by the departure of so Bright a Luminary portending great and unspeakable Calamities unless the most benign Deity avert them bow'd by the loud Prayers of His Elect. However we envy thy Immaculate Happiness in this our single Love of thee exceeding whatever Charity we have for our selves that we strive not to recall thee back to those Frail Glories which thou seest below us and tramplest 'em all under thy Feet rais'd above all the Rage of Treachery the Snares of Envy the Violences of Enemies the Injuries of Age or the Fleet Image of Worldly Things We bewail our own and the Losses of the whole World but with bruised Breasts we accuse our Transgressions against Heaven as the Causes of our Calamities And may it then be lawful for us also in these our last Funeral Offices to give thee a long and Eternal Farewel Farewel AUGUST MARY lately the Most Sacred Pledge of Heaven the Felicity of the World the Ornament of the Age the Admiration of the People the Palladium of Britain the Delight of Holland the Consolation of the Church the Support of Truth the Curb of Vice the Foster-Mother of the Poor the Hope and Defence of the Miserable Suffer us tho taken from our Eyes that we may always fix thee in our Minds that we may always behold with a joyful and perpetual Remembrance that Countenance that Aspect which formerly we approached with Veneration that Royal Right-Hand which we have often so submissively Kiss'd but more especially that Coelestial Mind and in That the Concurrence of all Praises and all manner of Vertue Lastly HAPPY SOUL accept not the vain Noises of profuse Applause which they pour often from their Breasts that are prodigal in praising others not Female Lamentations not Fruitless Wishes not Windy Expressions and Vollies of Idle Words Accept not Sacrilegious Altars nor Temples nor Masses nor Circension Pomp nor Funeral Chariots but accept this Publick and Grateful Testimony of Minds most devoted to thy Vertues to thy Benefits to what thou hast merited of us CONSECRATED TO THY ETERNAL HONOUR AND MEMORY And now we turn our selves to Thee the MOST INVINCIBLE yet the MOST SORROWFVL of Things in whose Royal Palace among Triumphant Lawrels the unfortunate Cypress supplies the room of the most Auspicious Rose You with more right implore from the Immortal God what Augustus Caesar is reported to have begg'd at the Funeral of Drusus Germanicus that his False Deities would grant him an Exit equally Glorious you with more right I say this day that MARY is carried to her Tomb with publick Funeral Splendor implore of God an Exit like that of your QVEEN and the Glory of a Death like Hers. But we above all things stretch forth our Hands and Hearts to Him under whose disposal we live that none of us may see that Black Day Rise wherein the Hasty Death of WILLIAM would prove the Common and the Fatal Funeral Pile of all Europe and the Vniversal Church Strengthen your self with Vertue and Courage MOST VALIANT of HERO'S You that are accustomed to vanquish others even anger'd Fortune it self You that appear'd more wonderful in Adversity then in Prosperity You whom the World 's Sovereign Emperor has hardned from the Cradle by Misfortunes and whose Vertue had been less conspicuous had it been less subdued and exercised so frame your Mind to Constancy of Resolution that it may be manifest not only to Britain but to all the World that you could overcome your Self whom no man else could ever vanquish even when Invincible Nature was to be expugn'd which is the Chiefest Victory of all We do not desire Your Breast should be inaccessible to Grief or Joy which Marcus Aurelius is reported to have affected far from any commotion of Mind We only desire this that after Your Tears have prov'd You to be a Man You would remember that You are a Prince and such a Prince upon whose single Fortitude so many Nations so many People so many Panting Souls believe their Safety their Liberty their Hopes and Fortunes depend You have all along been mindful which we look upon and esteem to be the Greatest Thing of all that you are a Christian bred up in the more Sacred School then the most Eloquent of the Romans while you are fully convinc'd that nothing happens preternatural or unusual to the Laws of Providence not so much as the fall of a Sparrow much less of a Man still much less of all those who are the express Image of that Immortal Deity whom they represent Your Mind GREAT KING that horrid Thought ne're troubl'd which disturb'd the Famous Pompey after the slaughter of Pharsalia whether the Gods took care of things on Earth You that have learnt to wage War with Kings not to contend with the King of Kings suffer not your self to be incens'd against Heaven for redemanding the Pledge which it had given You but for no certain Time So that it may seem doubtful to many whether You have more Reason to lament for what You have lost or to be gratefully thankful for what You once enjoy'd You dive not into the Secrets of the Eternal Mind or that all Provident Wisdom who in a moment seems to us to have destroy'd his own Workmanship and to have disturb'd and disappointed all both Yours and our Hopes This is not the First Day Your Experience how many times God frustrates the Desires of Mortals frequently curtailing long-grounded Hopes by speedy disappointment and no less often converting into unexpected preservation the despair arising from sad and sudden Accidents Even YOU YOUR SELF Great Sovereign have prov'd by Trials of Your own who and how Powerful is that Upholder of Princes that Preserver of Your Person even before You were born that Protecting and Avenging God who wrested you from so many Ambushments when You were hardly come into the World who dash'd in pieces so many Conspiracies against Your Life held back the Hands of so many Hir'd Assassinates scatter'd the force of growing Distempers stifl'd the Hatred and Animosities of Your Enemies averted the Effects of attempted Poysons and