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A59269	A sermon preach'd at the chappel royal in the Tower upon the death of Her Sacred Majesty, our Late Gracious Queen Mary / by a true lover of the church, the King, and his country.	True lover of the church, the King, and His country.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2632; ESTC R19634	24,464	39

Edward III. in right of his Mother claimed the Kingdom of France that they made their Salick Law which could however bar only for the future and not for the time past and therefore the King invaded France and was very successful in all the Battels he sought but by reason of several Diversions at home this Success was not pursued by his immediate Successors yet Henry V. a Prince of a Warlike Temper coming to the Crown and considering that not only Normandy Guien Aquitain and A●j●u were the rightful Inheritances of the Kings of England but also his just Title to the whole Kingdom of France derived from Isabella aforesaid after he had first by Ambassadors set forth and demanded his Right he with an English Army invades France and having won several Battels was at last married to Katherine Daughter of Charles VI. and thereupon declared and crowned King of France in Reversion Charles and Isabella his Queen to reign during their Lives and Isabella surviving Charles at her Death made a Will declaring her Son-in-Law Henry V. Heir to all her Goods and to the Crown which gives the Kings of England a farther Right to the Kingdom of France And I am perswaded if the French King had half so much Right to England as the King of England hath to France we should be pestered with his Manifesto's and Scribles alledging his just Pretensions as he calls all that he makes conquered by us and has had such fatal Proofs of the English Valour that she would be sure to take care never more to stand in fear of her Antient Enemies And upon these Grounds we are to expect no Mercy at her Hands but the worst of an Hostile Fury and nothing less perhaps than our total Subversion would serve their turn Nay when we consider how barbarously they use the People whom they subdue tho of their own Religion without regard to Churches or Religious Houses or the very Sepulchres of the Dead tho of Princes themselves we may believe our English Papists hower they may flatter themselves would meet with no better Quarter than others But for those Protestants who tho at ease in their Fortunes and enjoying all the Privileges of their Fellow-Subjects are yet restless and dissatisfied and weary of a Government that 's the only Security of their Religion and Estates surely as they will be the easiest so they will be the most despised Prey of their Enemies who if they have any Manhood or any thing that 's great in them will shew more Favour to the brave Defenders of their Country than to those who have so basely and treacherously deserted and betrayed it But I know if I should discourse at this rate out of this place or where I might expect an Answer I should presently be told that I had used a great many words to little purpose and had run on all along upon a false Ground for that the great King of France hath nothing of Self in all this nor is he further concerned than out of a Principle of Honour and Generosity to espouse an Oppressed and to restore an Exil'd Prince That he was neither opprest nor banished is plain enough and on whose side the Oppression lay we all know and yet we will allow them that that Monarch may seemingly with much Gallantry espouse his Cause till he see a fair opportunity of setting up his Own but to be sure no longer Or suppose he should not do this can we however think that he would not demand so great a Charge as the whole Wealth of the Nation would be too little to answer And were it not better Policy in us tho we had no other Inducement to supply him even to a Moiety of what we have who will preserve the rest by keeping such Enemies out and by cherishing and protecting us in our Religion and other Rights To be sparing in a case of such Necessity is to be wanting and indeed cruel to our selves and our Posterity like the fatal Parsimony of the People of Constantinople who refused to supply their own Emperor tho by way of Loan with a thirtieth part of that Money which the Turkish Emperor depriv'd them of together with the Lives of the Wealthiest of them Whereas by that seasonable Supply they might in all likelihood have preserved their City and their Lives too 'T were easy to shew what a poor thing Money is in respect of our Religion our Lives our Laws and our Liberties and it 's not yet seven Years since all considerate Men and good Protestants amongst us would have given more than this War will cost us to have been under the Circumstances we now are But God be thanked there 's no need to insist upon this Those worthy Patriots who so freely and chearfully find out Ways and Means to support the War are highly sensible of it And all I have to offer upon their Accounts is to pray as David when the People even beyond what he expected offer'd so willingly towards a Publick Good O Lord God of Abraham of Isaac and of Israel our Fathers 2 Chron. 29.18 keep this for ever in the Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart of thy People But to return that I may leave nothing unsaid to open the Eyes of those who are not wilfully blind I will for their satisfaction suppose that this extravagantly ambitious King upon whom they so much depend had no private Design but would only clear the Way to the Throne and then fairly draw off without any other Consideration than the Satisfaction of his own haughty and ambitious Humour Let us I say suppose this tho indeed it's next to impossible yet even in this Case might not the Prince whom he left repossest I only presume to ask the Question justly write himself James the Conqueror And tho I am not to determine how mercifully he might use us if left to his own Conduct tho we must believe him more than a Saint to forget what is past yet considering how he has been influenced and considering his Princicles how he still must be if ever Divine Judgment as a Punishment for our Sins should suffer this to come to pass The very Thoughts of what we might expect are so full of Horror that I chuse rather to draw a Vail over it and pass it in silence than go about to display it and if any Man be so weak or so short-sighted as to wish or desire it I am perswaded that a short Change with a Subject of France would very effectually cure him of his Malady and Folly too And yet our Case might be much more desperate than some of theirs and no better to be sure than that of the Protestant Subjects under that Crown and how it should be worse is not easy to imagine And now Since those very Men amongst us who seem most fond of the late King's Return do yet pretend they would by no means have him come with a French Power as being aware

A SERMON Preach'd at the Chappel Royal in the TOWER Upon the DEATH Of her Sacred Majesty Our Late Gracious Queen MARY By a true Lover of the Church the King and his Country London Printed by J. D. for R. Mount and sold by John Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695. TO THE READER THE following Sermon was preach'd soon after the fatal Death which occasion'd it and at the Importunity of some whom the Author could not in Gratitude disoblige it was also printed but not thinking it worthy of a more publick View there were no more Books run off than what were presented to those who were desirous to see it except a very few to some particular Friends by which he has drawn this Inconvenience upon himself that a greater number of his Friends remain disgusted than he hath had the opportunity of obliging by it For which Reason as also because he is by no incompetent Judges inform'd that it may be of use at this Juncture but especially to do himself and it Right there having happen'd several Mistakes and Oversights in the first Impression he is prevail'd with to suffer it to go abroad but under the same Defects of Stile and Method as before hoping it may not by those it is designed for be lik'd the worse because of the Plainness of its Dress ISAIAH XL. 6 7 8. The Voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry All Flesh is Grass and all the Goodliness thereof is as the Flower of the Field The Grass withereth the Flower fadeth because the Spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it surely the People is Grass The Grass withereth the Flower fadeth but the Word of our God shall stand for ever I Question not but upon the reading of the Text you easily observ'd it to suite but too well with the sad and bewailed occasion of this Solemnity which hath given us beyond any thing to us known a doleful Instance of its Truth and all I can say will come infinitely short of the sad but clear Comment which the Breath of our Nostrils She of whom we said Lam. 4.20 Nations shall rest under her Shadow hath given us upon it who being dead yet speaks yea cries in a louder than the Prophet's Voice All Flesh is Grass c. All Flesh It pleased the great Creator of all things to make at first three sorts of living Creatures Angels he made pure Spirits without Flesh and therefore only for Heaven not to dwell on Earth Brutes he made Flesh without Immortal Souls and therefore only for Earth not to pretend to Heaven Man is of a middle Nature partaking both of Flesh and Spirit and therefore made both for Heaven and Earth But as his Flesh is but to minister and serve his Spirit so he was made for Earth but as his passage and way to Heaven not that this should be his Home or Happiness But how wofully have we perverted this Order whose incessant Cares for the Things of this Life sufficiently declare that we believe our selves here at home One Man eagerly pursuing Sensual Pleasures as if he had nothing to mind or hope for but what the Beasts enjoy Another Riches and that with so much Earnestness as if he were to enjoy the same for ever tho the Fool knows not but this very Night he must part from them A third hunting after Honour and Dominion so as to stick at nothing that may compass it and yet little knows how soon his Honour may be laid in the Dust A fourth after Popular Applause which is nothing but a Blast nothing more vain and uncertain than it is Whereas if we did but rightly understand our State and Condition here and seriously consider that all Flesh is Grass we would little value these things and at best use the World as if we used it not Use it no otherwise than a Traveller doth his Inn and how is that when he comes there tho he finds every thing ready a Room well furnished and all things therein not only convenient but delightful too yet he is not so silly as to set his Heart upon them because he knows on the Morrow he is to leave them and be gone And there 's no Man that travels homeward that would multiply Businesses on himself unnecessarily in the Way When he is at Home in his House he may find sundry Imployments to busy himself about but in the Inn he cares for nothing but Rest and Refreshment So Men that are thoughtful or wise 1 Pet. 2.11 know themselves to be but Strangers and Pilgrims here and therefore look for a Country and City to come and so think it no Wisdom to intermeddle too much in the Affairs of that Country through which only they are to pass but as Citizens of Heaven send up their Hearts Desire where they profess their Treasure is This Lesson our Saviour teacheth when he tells us Mat. 6.32 33. After all these things below do the Gentiles seek but seek ye the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness of it And St. Paul assures us 1 Cor. 7.31 the Fashion of this World passeth away and wisheth us not to fashion our selves to it Could a Traveller justly seize all the valuable things that occur in his way and convey them to his Home so as to be of advantage to him there his endeavouring it might be the more excusable And so in our Case could a Man carry the World to Hell to bribe the Flames or corrupt his Tormentors there were something to be said for our Fondness of it but the Psalmist has already assur'd us of the contrary His Glory shall not descend after him Psal 49.17 Or could he tho at the Expence of all his Worldly Enjoyments buy out his Pardon or procure his Peace before he come there this might well excuse our grasping at it but that 's not to be done neither Ver. 8. for the Redemption of the Soul is precious and ceaseth for ever And what shall a Man give in Exchange for his Soul Mat. 16.26 For what material thing can equalize a Spirit Many things may be had more precious and fine than the Body but all of them have no proportion to a Spiritual Being St. Paul we know counts all things but Dung Phil. 3.8 and can we think that God will take Dung in Exchange for a Soul O! how dreadful will it be at last to think that for a little of the World for the Satisfaction of a Lust for a few drossy Pleasures and sensual Delights which have been here not without the mixture of much Sorrow and Allay enjoyed you have lost your Souls and forfeited your Interest in those Mansions that are above where there are Pleasures for evermore And all this in a great measure because we believe not at least mind not this Voice in the Text All Flesh is Grass Man has many Excellences and Advantages which give him a due Preference above all other living Creatures but