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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Conduct to which tho she was in his Absence qualified and entitled by Law yet it was a high Testimony of his Confidence in her Prudence to leave and intrust it to her sole Care Which Trust she discharged with such Dexterity such Exactness and such admirable Wisdom that she never gave or left occasion for any Complaint but rendered all more than silent satisfied and not only satisfied but applauding and admiring her prudent and honourable Conduct And tho she loved and even hugg'd her Retirements as her greatest Satisfaction yet when the Exigences of Affairs required it she would deny her self and her particular Inclination to comply with a Duty of a more publick Concern and chearfully sustained the hurry of Business which was inevitable and always acquitted her self with Honour and Applause of the great Trust imposed in her But never did any Man after a long and uneasy Confinement meet his Liberty with more Joy and Satisfaction than she did solace her self when she had escaped the Noise and Crowd of Affairs which must needs have ruffled and disturb'd her Quiet and so far lessen'd or at least suspended the full enjoiment of her Self And now by such a Regular such a Pious and such a Righteous Life we cannot easily suspect She could be unprepar'd even for the most sudden Death and tho the Warning was indeed but short yet we have no reason to fear it was much surprizing to one that always lived in expectation of it She was always as I was inform'd in the midst of her Health and Strength apprehensive enough of the Disease whereof she died yet being seiz'd with it she seem'd not at all discourag'd and profess'd her self entirely willing to acquiesce in the Will of God and all the while of her Illness continued in the same Frame and notwithstanding a Complication of Distempers notwithstanding the troublesome Prescriptions of Physicians and the no less troublesome Applications of others notwithstanding her own Pain and Disorder of which her Constitution and other Circumstances consider'd She could not but be very sensible yet with an admirable Patience and Resignation to the Will of God with a great Contempt of the Vanities of the World and with a holy Indifference even to Life it self she was ready to answer when it pleased God to call being impatient in nothing nor importunate in any thing save an earnest desire that she might know her Danger and when it was at last declared to Her O God how like an Angel rather than a Soul clogg'd with Flesh did She receive it with such an humble unconcernedness such submission and such evenness of Temper as nothing could have given but an innocent and meek Spirit and a Conscience void of Offence towards God and towards Man And resigned up Her great Soul in Death with the same Courage and the same Quietness that She had possest it in Patience all her Life And thus lived and thus died who can speak it without Tears this Great Queen this Glorious Saint tho not full of Years yet full of mature Fruits and Graces when all Men judged Her worthy of a longer but God the only unerring Judg found her full ripen'd for a better Life And after he had prevented Her with the Blessings of Goodness and set a Crown of pure Gold upon her Head after he had given Her the universal Esteem Love and Admiration of all that knew Her the blessing of a good Name and more than unspotted a bright and resplendent Reputation After he had granted Her the Request of her Lips and shut not out her Prayer After he had made Her glad with the Light of his Countenance and given Her a Heaven upon Earth the Blessing of a calm purified and well-assured Conscience In a word after he had taken out the Sting of Death and made it an easy Passage to Everlasting Life he then took Her from her Corruptible and Earthly to an Incorruptible and Heavenly Crown And She is now safely arriv'd at that happy Place where as the Father sweetly warbles there 's Vita Aeterna Beatitudo Perfecta Summa Voluptas Fulness of Joy Eternity of Life and Perfection of Bliss Where her Faith is turned into Sight her Hope into Fruition and Love everlastingly satisfied with the Presence of God the Face of Jesus Christ the Fulness of the Spirit with the Communion and Society of all Saints and the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect where all the Cares and Troubles annext to an Earthly Crown are now done away and where she is and shall be for ever ravished in joining with Angels and Saints and all the Choir of Heaven to carol forth Praises and sing Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the Throne to the Lamb and to God for ever The most glorious Imployment the most happy State that the greatest Monarch the greatest Angel ever arrived to And tho it be every way her Advantage and her Gain yet it 's still our Loss and Her many Excellencies before-mentioned may satisfy us what great Advantages we might have expected from her Life had it pleased the Almighty to have continued it And now let us suspend our Sorrow a while and consider what may be justly expected from our selves on this sad Occasion And here I could lay before you a Pattern worthy of your Imitation such a Pattern as in all respects this Age perhaps has not produced a Pattern that may for ever silence what either the greatest or the meanest Person can offer against the Reasonableness or the Necessity of a Holy Life and may sufficiently convince us that there are no insuperable Difficulties in Religion for tho She was a Queen yet she was a Woman of the feebler Sex a great and a rich Woman Mat. 19.23 and how hardly can such be saved A Woman of like Passions with your selves inwardly clogged with the same corrupt and sinful Nature outwardly beset with the like or greater Temptations and yet she cast off the Weight that hung upon Her broke through the Difficulties that did incompass Her and ran the Race which was set before Her and thrô Faith and Patience has obtained and now inherits the Promises and that sure Reward that Crown of Glory that endless Kingdom which God hath provided and Christ hath purchased and promised to Her and all them that love and fear him and wait for his appearing I could likewise here shew you how idle and frothy are the Projects and Purposes the Designs and Resolutions which worldly Men are too too apt to promise to themselves on the Hopes and to build upon the Assurances of long Life than which there is nothing more vain nothing more uncertain If ever any meer Mortal could by any Privilege whatsoever pretend or hope for Exemption from the Arrests of an early Death this Good this Great this Young this healthy Queen might and yet all the Advantage She has now over common Dust is that to Her may David's Lamentation over Saul be more fitly