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A28910	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Swithin, London, March 10th, 1694/5, upon the much lamented death of our most gracious Queen by Tho. Bowber ...	Bowber, Thomas, b. 1662 or 3.	1695 (1695)	Wing B3866; ESTC R17575	11,149	34

Now that She did so greatly promote and encourage Religion amongst us is a plain proof an undeniable Argument that like Her Pious Grandfather that great Luminary of Religion both in his Life and Death She truly loved that Church in the Communion of which She was Baptized Educated and so lived and dyed Nothing was wanting in Her to bring Religion into the greatest Vogue and Reputation Had it pleased the Almighty to have lengthned out Her Life Vice must have sneaked into Corners and the Person of Honour and the Gentleman had needed no other Distinction but their Virtues than which nothing can be more becoming them Secondly She was a very Zealous Princess so Zealous against the Idolatry of the Romish Church that in that case like Levi of old for which he is so highly extolled in Sacred Writ She knew neither Father or Mother When Israel fell first to Idolatry and Moses said who is on the Lord's side The Sons of Levi stood on the Lords side and appeared against Idolatry even so our Queen by appearing against Idolatry proved Herself to be on the Lord's side and that in a time of imminent Peril and Danger Thirdly She was of a very Publick Spirit for when the Roman Eagle began to expand its spreading wings and we were possessed with the justest Fears and dangers she with an humble Trust and Confidence in Divine Mercy readily parted with whatever was dear to her nay with her Royal dearest Husband for a time who in the most dreadful Season of the Year ventured on a very dangerous Expedition seconded with innumerable Difficulties to rescue us from the daily Rapes committed upon our Laws and Liberties and to preserve and continue the beauty of the Gospel among us for which the Hearts of all good Men did then tremble as much as the Heart of Eli for the Ark of God when he understood it was in danger of being taken by the Philistines with so much gallantry and greatness of Mind mixt with the most submissive Resignation to the Will of Heaven did this most tender Wife and truly Wise Princess behave herself in order to prevent a near-approaching Bondage worse than that of Israel in Egypt for that was only on their Bodies but this on our Souls And it might have been of as long continuance too as theirs in Egypt was when for the long space of four hundred years they Groaned under the heavy yoak and burden thereof The Queen considering the large and capacious Endowments of Her Mind had doubtless as clear and bright perceptions as any Person what great dangers Her truly Loving and as truly beloved Husband would in all probability expose His Royal Person to yet so fixt so intense to the Eternal Honour of Her Sex were Her Thoughts upon the Glory of God and the Publick Good that she found no satisfaction within Herself till our Rights which did then Bleed were Asserted and the Welfare of all the Protestants in Europe which then lay at Stake was in some good measure secured Had She lived to have seen a setled Peace what great and glorious things might both Church and State have expected from Her Fourthly She came to the Throne by a signal hand of Providence so very visible and conspicuous were the Rays of Divine Wisdom Power and Goodness in bringing it to pass that the worst of Men must with Pharaoh's Magicians cry out this is the finger of God We were then in a very low and helpless Condition our Hair was shorn our Strength quite gone all outward means failed us and we saw nothing but Death and Destruction before us and yet this was the Critical Minute wherein Infinite Wisdom found out a way for our Deliverance and the Thunder of God's Power the Arms of his Omnipotency brake asunder whatever hindred it Salvation arose as light out of darkness for God in Judgment remembred mercy Now that our Illustrious Princess was taken from us soon after so great a Diliverance as this may strike Dread into our Hearts and chill our Spirits For tho She was gathered to Her Grave in Peace yet for ought we know it may be a sad Presage of many Miseries and Calamities ready to betide us Mercies and Deliverances when abused turn into Judgments In Josiah's days God offered the Jews Mercy but whatever ties and Obligations lay upon them to reform and amend they would not hearken to the voice of God nor turn from their Evil ways which proved their utter Ruin and Destruction And I pray God that our ingratitude and unreformedness under our late great Deliverance may not end in one of the sorest Judgments that ever yet befel this Nation if it be so we have none to blame but our selves but yet from former instances of Gods Love and Goodness towards us we need not doubt but that he hath still Mercy in store for us The only thing wanting is an Heart truly sincere and duly qualified to receive the same at his hands Fourthly and Lastly What remains further to be added is to consider the Lessons and Instructions to be learnt from this Discourse the more closely we apply to our selves what hath been spoken the greater Benefit we shall reap from it First Then If the Death of Religious Princes be matter of great Mourning We may hence take just occasion to upbraid the folly of such who are so far from condoling the death of our most Religious Princess that they Rejoyce and Triumph at it For the Conviction of Men so degenerate and void of all Natural Affection to their Country as well as Prince it may not be inexpedient or unseasonable to argue thus That if the thickest Darkness be more desireable than Light if the heaviest Bondage be a more discreet choice than liberty or the sight of Fields streaming with Blood be more amiable and lovely than Peace then here is a sort of Men who may rejoyce but if to be deprived of the brightness and purity of the Gospel to be harassed with Anti-Christian Tyranny and and to be involved in Confusion and Blood be sore Judgments which every one that loves his Religion and Country must own upon a Nation then they ought to pay the just Tribute of Tears to the Death and Obsequies of our Great and Merciful Princess Secondly Did all Judah and Jerusalem Mourn for the Death of Josiah Let then all Persons among us of what Rank and Quality soever learn to Mourn for the Death of our Royal Sovereign the Queen Let the Nobles Mourn for their Mighty Princess is fallen whose chief care was to support the Protestant Interest and Religion throughout all Europe Let the inferior Dispensers of God's Word and Sacraments Mourn for they have lost the best of Queens who was a true tender Nursing Mother to the best of Churches Let the more immediate Attendants on Her Majesty mourn for they have lost a Queen whose great design was not only to make them Great and Honourable here but also truly Religious that

Stars that did ever Shine on the Throne of Israel or Judah There are some special remarks of his Piety In the Eighth Year of his Reign that is the Sixteenth Year of his Age for he was eight years old when he began to Reign whilst he was yet young he began to seek after the Lord Solomon also sought the Lord God of his Fathers whilst he was young but his Piety was strangely Clouded and Eclipsed in his elder years for it came to pass when Solomon was old that his Wives turned away his heart after other Gods 1 Kings 11. v. 4. But Josiah's Seeking of the Lord was as clear as the Morning as bright as the Sun it knew no Declension His Piety did surpass that of all the Kings of Israel and Judah which were before him The Holy Ghost gives this High and Honourable Character of him that like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his Heart and with all his Soul and with all his Might according to all the Law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him Other Kings there were in Israel and Judah of very high Elevations in Gifts and Graces whose Hearts were sincere and perfect with the Lord and lifted up in his Ways yet they had some foiles their Beauty was sullied with some spots and blemishes But this good King was unspotted in his Reputation and so innocent in his Life that we cannot charge him with any thing unbecoming his Profession Secondly He was a very Zealous Prince a Burning Lamp of Zeal for the Glory of God and Purity of his Worship the most Zealous of the Kings that did ever sit on the Throne of Israel or Judah in rooting out Idolatry In the twelfth year of his Reign he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the carved Images and the molten Images and they brake down the Altars of Baalim in his Presence and the Images that were on high above them he cut down and the Groves and the carved Images and the molten Images he brake in pieces and made dust of them and strewed it upon the Graves of them that had Sacrificed unto them and he burnt the bones of the Priests upon their Altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem 2 Chron. 34. v. 3 4 5. Of other Reforming Kings 't is noted That they took away the Altars of the strange Gods the high places brake down the Images and cut down the Groves Howbeit the High Places were not taken away they took away some but not all but this good King destroyed all the Monuments all the Reliques of Idolatry as you may read at large in the 2 Kings chap. 23. from the 4th to the end of the 20th verse Thirdly He was of a very publick Spirit for when he understood by the words of the Law That great was the Wrath of the Lord that was to be poured out upon Judah and Jerusalem because their Fathers kept not the Word of the Lord he commanded Hilkiah the Priest and others saying go enquire of the Lord for me and for them them that are left in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the book that is found And he endeavoured partly by Penitential Tears and deep Humblings of himself to allay the Divine Wrath and Indignation for his heart was tender and he did humble himself before God and partly by entering into a Covenant with God the sum and tenor of which was to walk after the Lord and to keep his Commandments and his Statutes with all his Heart and with all his Soul and to perform the words of the Covenant which are written in the Book of Moses And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin to enter into the Covenant and to stand to it and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the Covenant of God the God of their Fathers as you may find it written 2 Cron. 34. verses 31 32. All this did this good King to avert were it possible imminent Judgments and threatned Desolations but he came to the Throne in such an ill time when they had so highly offended the Majesty of Heaven and so increased his Anger through their many Sins and repeated Provocations that notwithstanding all this great Reformation and the keeping of such a Passover as never was kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the Prophet yet the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kinled against Judah because of all the provocations that Manasses had provoked him withal Fourthly Josiah was taken away when their Hopes and Expectations of some lasting Prosperity both in Church and State were advanced to the highest pitch Therefore Jeremiah thus Laments his Death The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Lam. 4. v. 20. I am apt to think that this was not spoken of Zedekiah as some would have it for under such a Wicked and Idolatrous Prince they could not promise themselves any safety and when Josiah Dyed all their swelling hopes of future Prosperity expired and dyed with him then the Godly amongst them expected nothing but a Deluge of Sin and Misery to break in upon them For their splendid Reformation was only superficial a meer veil of Hypocrisie as Jeremiah who Prophesied in Josiah's Days complains Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to the Lord with her whole heart but feignedly or in falshood Jer. 3. v. 10. Having given some Account of the Jews great and universal Mourning for the Death of Josiah I come Thirdly To set before you the reasons of our Mourning for the Death of our late most Excellent Princess which well weighed are of force to dissolve three Kingdoms into Tears For First She was a Princess of most Illustriand Singular Piety She Sacrificed the Flower of Her Age and Time to the Service of the Great God from whom She had Her Being No Person had a greater sense of Religion or was more sincere in Her Devotions in which she was as constant as the returns of Day and Night the lofty Elevations of her Soul and her daily flights to Heaven did plainly show that Her Conversation was there also and that She had Communion and Fellowship with God the Father and with Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant Her Life was so exactly Correspondent to Her Profession that She became the greatest Ornament and Example of true Piety that these later Ages have produced That Honourable Character given Josiah that like unto him there was no King before him may in some respect well become Her For She was the first of all the Kings and Queens that sate upon the British Throne who appointed After-noon Sermons to be Preached every Sunday at her Chapel in White-hall which She was pleased to Honour and Countenance with Her Royal Presence