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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28849	A sermon preached at the funeral of Mary Terese of Austria, Infanta of Spain, Queen of France & Navarre, at St. Denis, Sept. 1, 1683 by Monsieur James Benigne Bossuet ...; Oraison funèbre de Marie-Thérèse. English	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3791; ESTC R22734	20,939	36

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF MARY TERESE of Austria INFANTA of SPAIN QUEEN OF France Navarre At St. DENIS Sept. 1. 1683. By Monsieur James Benigne Bossuet Bishop of Meaux Counsellor to the King in his Council Late Preceptor to the Dauphin And Chief Almoner to Madam the Dauphiness Printed at Paris by the King 's special Command Reprinted at London by J. C. and F C. for H. I and sold by Samuel Crouch in Cornhil MDCLXXXIV CHAP. 14 Revelat. v. 5. For they are without fault before the Throne of God My Lord WHat an Assembly does the Apostle St. John shew us This great Prophet opens Heaven to us and our Faith discovers on the Holy Mountain of Sion in the highest part of the blessed Jerusalem the Lamb which takes away the Sins of the World attended by a company worthy of him They are those of whom 't is Written in the beginning of the Revelations Thou hast a few names even in Sardis Rev. 3.4 which have not defiled their Garments those rich Vestments wherewith Baptism furnish'd them Vestments which are nothing less than Jesus Christ himself according to that of the Apostle Gal. 3.27 For as many of you as have been Baptised into Christ have put on Christ. This little number beloved of God for its innocency and remarkable for the rarity of so exquisit a gift has known how to preserve this precious Vestment and the Grace of Baptism And what shall be the recompence of so rare a Fidelity Hear what the Just and Holy one says Rev. 3.4 They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy worthy through their Innocency to carry into Eternity the Livery of the Lamb who is without Spot and walk always with him seeing they have never left him since he took them into his company pure and innocent Souls Virgins as St. John calls them Rev. 14.4 2. Cor. 11.2 in the same sense as St. Paul says to the faithful of Corinthia I have espoused you to one Husband even Christ The true chastity of the Soul the true Christian pudor is to blush at Sin to have no eyes nor love but for our Saviour Christ and to keep our Senses free from the corruptions of the World It is in this Innocent and Chast company wherein the Queen is placed her dread of Sin has purchased her this Honour Faith which pierces even the Heavens now shews us her placed in this happy Company Methinks I see that Modesty that Peaceable temper of Soul that humble Gesture of Body before the Altar which inspired the beholders with Devotion to God and respect for her God retribute these holy dispositions with the transports of Celestial joys Death has onely changed a mortal and fading Beauty for an Immortal one That delicate whiteness the Symbol of her Innocency and Candour of her Soul has onely if a man may so speak withdrawn it self to appear more illustrated by a Divine light Rev. 3.4 she walks with the Lamb for she is worthy The uprightness of her Heart without dissimulation ranks her in the number of those of whom St. John speaks the words which precede those of my Text ibid. 14.5 that Lying is not found in their Mouth nor any disguise in their Conversation and therefore are they without Spot before the Throne of God In effect she is without reproach before God and Men. Calumny could not attack any part of her Life from her Childhood to her Death and an Honour so unspotted is a precious perfume which recreates both Heaven and Earth My Lord Behold this great spectacle can I better comfort you and the Princes which attend you than by shewing you in the midst of this resplendent company and in this glorious state a Mother so beloved and regretted Lewis himself whose constancy cannot vanquish his just grief will find it more appeasable by this consideration But that which ought to be your only comfort ought My Lord likewise to be your Example and ravisht with the Immortal Splendor of so regular and irreprochable a life 't is your duty to transmit the Excellency of it into your own How rare is it Christians how it is rare again I say to find this Purity amongst men but especially amongst the great ones Revel 7.13 14. Those whom you see cloathed with a white garment those says St. John came from great affliction to inform us that this Divine whiteness is commonly form'd under the Cross and seldom under the tempting state of worldly greatness And yet Gentlemen it is true that God by his miraculous Grace has been pleased to choose these innocent Souls amongst Kings Such was St. Lewis ever pure and holy from his Childhood and Mary Terese his Daughter has receiv'd this excellent-inheritance from him Let us enter Gentlemen into the Designs of Providence and admire the bounty of God bestowed on us and all people in the election of this Princess God has raised her up on the pinacle of worldly greatness to make the purity and regularity of her Life the more conspicuous and exemplary Thus her Life and Death equally full of Grace and Holiness become an instruction to all Mankind Our age cannot expect a more perfect example for there cannot be the like Purity in so high an estate Here 's in short what I have to say of the most Pious of Queens she had nothing but what was August in her Person nothing but what was Pure in her Life Come hither all ye people of the earth come and behold in the chiefest rank the rare and Majestick Beauty of a Vertue ever constant In so regular a life it matter'd not the Princess where death strook there appeared no weak part whereby she might fear a surprize always watchful always attentive on God and her Salvation her so suddain and mournful death to us had nothing dangerous in respect of her So that her high state will serve only to shew the Universe this important truth That there is nothing solid or truly great among men but to avoid sin and that the only precaution against the attacks of death is innocency of life This is Gentlemen the admonition which the most High most Excellent most Mighty and most Christian Princess Mary Terese of Austria Infanta of Spain Queen of France and Navarre offers us in this Tomb or rather from the highest Heaven I need not tell you that great Birth Allyance and Posterity are from God Gen. 17.6 2 Kings 7.2 Acts 17.24.26 't was he that told Abraham Kings shall come out of you and made his Prophet tell David The Lord will make you a house God who of one man formed all Mankind as speaks St. Paul and from this common spring fills the whole earth has foreseen and predestinated from all Eternity both Allyances and Divisions marking the time adds he and setting bounds to the habitations of the world 'T was God then who exalted the Queen by her great Birth to an