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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64379	A sermon preached at the funeral of Her late Majesty Queen Mary of ever blessed memory in the abbey-church in Westminster upon March 5, 1694/5 by His Grace Thomas Lord Archibishop of Canterbury.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1695 (1695)	Wing T722; ESTC R6633	10,042	16

Time that we may apply our Hearts unto Wisdom To have lost a very Wise and Virtuous Friend tho' of Private Condition had been no small Calamity but here we lament the Death of a Publick person who was as Publick a Good and that has made our Loss so much the heavier There are also Secondly Some Circumstances of Time which farther shew the greatness of it Great is our Loss of a most Pious Queen in an Atheistical and Profane Age the Seeds of which Impiety have been sowing for some years and now seem to spring up in greater plenty than ever Great is our Loss of a most Charitable Queen in an Age which takes up the Reverse of our Lord 's Saying and declares that it is more blessed to receive than give of a most Humble Queen at a time when Pride would bring all to such a Level as is the Parent of Confusion Again Great is our Loss with respect to this Iuncture a time of foreign War and domestick Discontent reigning in those whose Resentments are stronger than their Reasons A Person is taken away who was a Partner in all the Joys and Griefs and Fortunes of the King one who could Administer with the entire Confidence of all the People and without the Competition of the Great Likewise Great was our Loss by the Death of a matchless Queen as taken away in the midst of her Daies and in less than half the common standard of Human Life It is certain All Princes are Mortal Dust they are and to Dust they shal return But yet Good Princes are the especial care of Providence which often preserves them by striking a Terror into the Desperate themselves whilst Tyrants who have not God before their Eyes and observe not how he rules by the Eternal Laws of Equity do seldom die an unbloody death Moreover this Princess being a Person of the nicest Modesty and most regular Life and free from those uneasie vexatious Passions which wear out Nature before its Time we had entertained hopes that under the Shadow of her Protection we might have sate down many Years with safety and delight But Man's Expectation is often very vain and it is as often disappointed and when it is so That causeth Grief And there is a double Grief which it ought to awaken at this time a Grief for our Loss and a greater one for That which is a II. Second Consideration the principal Occasion of it Natural Causes had their share in this Evil but it was the Immortality the Sin of the Nation which hastened it as a Judgment A Sparrow falls not to the ground without God's Providence much less a Crowned Head God has guided and ordered this Affair as he does all things most suitable to his own Justice He is Righteous but we have been Wicked He shewed what a mighty Blessing he had for a People if they would become reform'd but we were not sufficiently sensible nor thankful Their Majesties Letters for Reformation were early issu'd out but how few had a just regard to them The Light shone and we followed not its direction and God has remov'd one Branch of it let us sin no more lest which God avert those which remain be extinguish'd also As yet we may be happy if we will amend for God hath shewed us by several Tokens that he has not yet given us up to Destruction He has afficted us but in judgment he has remembered Mercy And which is III. A third Consideration in this Day of our Trouble He has temper'd Prosperity with Adversity to make the latter the more supportable He hath set the One over against the other And thus much the following Remarks will prove The King's Life is blessed be God preserv'd and his Health re-established and is still pursuing the great Design of securing the Liberties of Europe He was Present in this Kingdom when our Loss happen'd for the keeping us from that Instability which this Accident might have procur'd He still more endear'd himself to his People by that Tenderness which he express'd upon this most sorrowful Occasion That went as far as Decence would permit and gave us an Instance of such true Greatness of Mind as is made up of Courage and Humanity The good Vnion of the Royal Family in this Realm confuted the Surmizes of Evil minded Men and disappointed their Devices The Great Council of the Nation was sitting at this Time and came to a speedy and seasonable Resolution for the Support of the King and his Government The Season admitted of little of such Actions as might disturb Affairs abroad And at the same Time that Foreign Countries had the sad News of the Queens Death they reciv'd Tidings of the Loyalty of the Kingdom These several Things by the Conduct of God's wise Providence have wrought together for Good And there is one Thing more to be considered under this Head that seeing God had determin'd this Good Queen must die the Christian Manner in which She went out of the World is in some sort an Alleviation of the Grief of those whom She has lef behind Her who have indeed Reason more than enough to mourn but yet not as Persons without Hope Some few Days before the Feast of our Lord's Nativity She found her Self Indispos'd That where it was known was I hope some Check to the Liberties of such who mispend that most Solemn Festival in very improper Mirth I will not say that of this Affliction She had any formal Presage But yet there was something which look'd like an immediate Preparation for it I mean her chusing to hear read more than once a little before it the last Sermon of a Good and Learned Man now with God upon this Subject Iob 2 10. What! shal we receive Good from the Hand of God and shal we not receive Evil This Indisposition speedily grew up into a dangerous Distemper As soon as that was understood the earliest Care of this Charitable Mistress was for the removing of such immediate Servants as might by distance be preserved in Health Soon after this She fix'd the Times of Prayers in that Chamber to which her Sickness had confin'd her On that very Day She Shewed how sensible She was of Death and how little she fear'd it She required him who officiated there to add that Collect in the Communion of the Sick in which are these Words That whensoever the Soul shal depart from the Body it may be without Spot presented unto thee I will said Shee have this Collect read twice every Day All have need to be put in mind of Death and Princes as much as any Body else On Munday the Flattering Disease occasioned from Hopes though they were but faint ones On the next Day the Festival of Christ's Birth those Hopes were raised into a kind of Assurance and there was Joy great Joy seen in the Countenances of all good People and heard from their Mouths and I believe it was very warm in their Hearts