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A33874	A collection of the funeral-orations, pronounc'd by publick authority in Holland upon the death of ... Mary II Queen of Great Britain, &c. by Dr. James Perizonius ..., Dr. George Grevius ..., F. Francius ..., Mr. Ortwinius ..., and, the learned author of the Collection of new and curious pieces ; to which is added, the invitation of the chancellor of the electoral University of Wittenberg, in Saxony, to George Wilbain Kirchmais, to pronounce a funeral oration upon the Queen's death, &c. ; done into English from the Latin originals.	Kirchmaier, Georg Wilhelm, 1673-1759.; Francius, Petrus, 1645-1704. Oratio in funere Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae Mariae. English.; Graevius, Joannes Georgius, 1632-1703. Mariae Stuartae ... Britanniae, Galliae, et Hiberniae Reginae ... justa persoluta. English.; Ortwinius, Joannes. Laudatio funebris recitata post excessum Serenissimae ... Mariae Stuartae. English.; Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701. Laudatio funebris ... Mariae II Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae. English.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5203; ESTC R10177	94,331	161

either pronounce for or against us an Eternity of Glory or an Eternity of Misery and Damnation Come Luke-warm Souls unworthy Souls that think you have done enough for your Salvation and who over-rul'd by the multiplicity of your Affairs and your Pleasures delay your Conversion till the last minutes of your gasping breath come and learn by the Example of a great Queen that the most Eminent the most difficult the most indispensable imployments ought never to make us forget the grand affairs of Salvation and the formidable Judgment of the last day I have let no day pass said the Pious Queen when they told her what a dangerous condition her Life was in I have let no day pass without thinking upon Death So that she did not look upon it as the people of the World are wont to look upon it with dread and Horrour but she lookt upon it after a Most Christian-like manner as the end of her time and the happy entrance into Eternity 'T was this Reflexion upon the shortness of Life and the inconceivable Diuturnity of Eternal Bliss which wrought in her this Effect that she was not taken with any thing of Temporal Grandeur but that she had a high esteem of Eternity She had frequently thought upon that Sentence which will be pronounced to every one of us at the hour of Death You shall be no more A fatal Sentence for so many people a Terrible decree of which Death it self is to be the Executioner But they who like her think and meditate upon death in their Life time die not when they die death being no more to them then the Beginning of Life This Pious Queen meditating upon death and the duties of Christianity had learnt in the Sacred Scriptures that the Love of our Neighbour necessarily attends the Love of God and that the Glorious promises of Life Eternal are only made to those who are useful to Mankind either by Instruction or by Succour or Assistance 'T was this Charity which is so highly recommended in Holy Scripture by the Saviour of the World which this Pious Queen exercised with so much care and so much Zeal Whatever represented it self to her Eyes as a suffering Person was the object of her Compassion and her Charity With what goodness did she still inform her self of the wants of necessities of those that were in Affliction With-what care did she order 'em to be provided for Her Alms had no other Bounds then those which God had given to the Grandeur of her Power We have seen Tears in her Eyes for sorrow that she could not do so much as she desir'd With what Goodness I will not say of a Princess and a Queen but of a Mother did she take particular Accompts and make particular Enquiries for the succour of Poor Families Parents over-burthen'd with a great number of Children Children depriv'd of their Parents Aged People without any relief of Children or Kindred But more especially with what Goodness with what Tenderness did she interest her self in the Distresses and Want of a great number of Persons of Quality who had generously quitted their Country their Dignities their Estates their Relations to follow Jesus Christ rather then do any thing to wrong their Consciences You know it you that weep you that with somuch reason lament a loss so great so overwhelming and so highly deserving your Moans and Lamentations I cannot disapprove the Tears you shed let 'em have their free course if ever Person merited the Effects of your sorrow without doubt 't was this August Queen But set 'em however their just bounds and remember that 't is the decree of Heaven and that we ought to yield an entire and profound submission to what ever comes from thence Let us take care to appease the Wrath of God justly provoked against us which bereav'd us of this Pious Queen of which the World was not worthy If we desire to do any thing pleasing to God acceptable to the memory of this Good and Charitable Princess let us make good use of this Example of Charity which she has shew'd us while she remained among us in this World let us renounce all manner of Pride and Vanity and if we have any thing to spare from our Necessities let us employ it well let us be Charitable as much as in us lies Let us Love our Divine Saviour in the Persons of the Poor who represent him so that he may say to us at the Great Day as he has said to the Queen I was a dry and ye gave me to d●ink I was a Hungry and ye gave me to Eat I was a Stranger and you Rescu'd me c. Verily I say unto you for as much as you have done it to one of these little ones ye have done it to me Come and enjoy the Kingdom which was prepared for ye from the Beginning of the World 'T was this Charity that made her shut her Eares against Calumny and Backbiting Never durst any one speak ill of any body before the Queen Neither Flattery nor Calumny two of the most dangerous Pests of Soveraign Courts durst never open their Mouths in her Presence Slander was utterly bannish'd from her sight and Hearing I abominate the Secret Slanderer and him that is double Tongu'd for he is the Destruction of several that liv'd in Peace says the Wise Man And indeed it is not enough for Great Persons not to be Slanderers but they must never shew any marks of their taking Pleasure in Slander let it be deliver'd with never so much Wit and quaintness For what do they do by their Complacencies and encourging smiles but animate the Slanderer and warm the malicious Serpent that his malignant Sting may peirce more surely and more to the quick Let 'em Understand that they are no less the Assassins of their Brethren when by their Cruel Abettings they sharpen the weapon that runs 'em through then if they stroke the Fatal blow themselves that made the Mortal Wound Lord says David Who shall abide in thy Tabernacle He that is pure in his Life whose actions are just who speaks always according to Truth who Slanders not his Neighbour and who lends not his Ear to the Backbiter This is then one more Encomium which it behoves us to give the Queen and which you who had the Honour to be near her Person knew that she most justly deserved Let us endeavour to imitate her in this as well as the rest of her Admirable Virtues If I make it thus my business to set before your Eyes the Virtues of this Queen 't is because they were those which She particularly Caressed and because they are also in reality solid Virtues and the Foundations of all the rest But if she possessed 'em in an eminent Degree it may be said without Flattery that there are few persons in the World that had for their share a greater number of those which the World so highly boasts of and which without doubt

and procure the safety of so many People and generally after her Death desir'd and bewail'd Now as she was always like her self through the whole Course of her Life so neither did she swerve from her self at her death The manner of her most pious and constant End apparently answer'd the most Holy Purpose of her whole Life As against all other fears so against the most terrible of all Terrours her Courage was Invincible neither the cruelty of the Disease nor the unlucky approach of Death in the Flourish of her Age in the midst of so many soothing Pleasures of this Life could prevail with the Queen to shew the least sign of sadness On the other side when she heard and was sensible of being call'd away many and most Illustrious were the signs of her undaunted departing from this Station of Life When the Right Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury sent for some few days before she expir'd gave her to understand the certain Approach of Death that she was to prepare for the Journey which all Mortals early or later are to take placidly without any sign of a sick Mind though extreamly weakned in Body by the Force of the Disease she made Answer That that was not the first Day of her Learning to prepare for Death for that she had serv'd God during the whole Course of her Life A saying truly worthy of so great a Queen worthy the Remembrance of all Ages She had learnt that then we begin to live when we die We die as soon as born every day something is imperceptibly cropt from our Lives till by degrees the whole be lopt away And that this most pious Queen neither deceiv'd her self nor the Archbishop is apparent from that memorable saying of hers about six years before her fatal day when she sate by the Bed-side of a Noble Person 's Wife whom she highly Lov'd and valued to confirm and comfort her then drawing her last breath They who were present desir'd her that she would turn away her Eyes from the Expiring Lady But the Queen refus'd saying withal That it rarely fell out for Persons of her Rank and Quality to see such a Spectacle as now was offered her by the design'd Favour of Heaven to make Advantage of it in better understanding the Vanity of our Life What Advantage she made of it the conclusion of her Days sufficiently taught us After this she fed her Soul with the Coelestial Food of the Body and Blood of Christ with a deep sence of the Pains which our Redeemer Suffered for us Refresh'd with this Sacred Banquet she cast away all Further Care of Earthly Affairs that she might think upon nothing else but of Enjoying God when freed from her Corporeal Imprisonment that God whom upon Earth she had so fervently lov'd and so purely Worshipt She bid the King farewel in these words which are utter'd by me in Latin for you do not hear what she could say but what she said I leave the Earth I hope dear King you never mistrusted my Fidelity and Love Moderate your Grief I wish that with the same Joy that I depart with the same easiness you may set bounds to your sorrow Soon after the Divine MARY expir'd in the Hands and Embraces of the King who never left her nor stir'd out of her Chamber Day or Night whilst she lay labouring under three most cruel Diseases the Small-Pox an Erysipelas and a Pestilential Fever either of which was enough to have carried off the strongest of Men. 'T is better to pass over in silence the Grief that overwhelm'd the King than to spend time and words in vain For words cannot be found that can in any measure express the Vastness of his Grief Such was always and so great the Resolution of the most Couragious King and such his Fortitude that tho assail'd with Angry fortune's utmost Fury he never could be mov'd never succumb'd but bore his Adversity with an Elevated mind Never any Man whatever were the madness of Raging Disaster could perceive any change of Countenance in the King But this same Grief he was not able to withstand Vanquish'd by the Force of his Love and Loss as having lost the most certain and faithful Componion of his Fortune of his Counsels his Cares his Labours and his Thoughts who far exceeded all the Excellencies of the Female Sex that hardly the Vertue of any Woman in any Age can be compar'd to hers For that reason perhaps it was that Heaven deny'd her Off-spring lest she should bring forth a worse than her self and her Husband seeing Nature could go no further No wonder then that Invincible Resolution that undaunted yet sedate Courage of William in all the Rudest Tempests of this Life was so deeply struck and shaken with this Thunder-Bolt For he now misses the only Best and Wisest of Queens when he most needed her and might have reap'd infinite Advantages from her Fidelity Prudence and Assistance in Governing wisely at Home while he perform'd Wonders abroad There is no man so Iron-hearted but must be sensible of the Extremity of Pain when the One half of his Soul is sever'd from him by so violent a stroke However we doubt not but the King out of his incredible Wisdom tho his Grief can never be exhausted will recollect himself and re-call his Mind from the Bitterness of his Grief to accomplish what he has so prosperously begun that Work which turns the Eyes of all Europe upon him on whom the Fate of it depends To the End that by his Conduct and Counsel Ease Tranquility and Security may be restord to so fair a Portion of the Habitable World and Peace so settl'd that not only Arms may be laid down but with those Arms all fear of taking 'em up again Wherefore as all men unmeasurably Grieve for the Death of the Queen as being a Wound by which all suffer so now again all Pray for the Safety and Preservation of the King all who are concern'd for the safety and liberty of Europe Mary was The Flower of Queens was once the Ornament of the Age the Love of the People the Delight of the World the Granary of the Poor the Altar of the miserable Thou best and Greatest of Queens hast lost nothing who Reapest now Eternal Beatitude the Fruit of a Life so Piously so Chastly so Prudently Led exempt from all the Cares and Troubles wherewith we miserable Wretches are toss'd by Storms and Waves of these wicked times The King has lost the Alleviation of his Cares the Ornament of the People in Prosperity their Aid in Adversity and all good Men their main Tower of Defence Thou Departedst this Life in the Flower of thy Age but what remorseless Death has abstracted from the Number of thy Years men will add as much and more to the Eternal Glory Fame and Remembrance of thy Name That was not to be said thy Life which thou ledst in the Chains of thy Mortal Body but is to be call'd

and that Motherly Affection of a Munificent Princess to the Sick and Poor whose charitable Deeds like those of the Roman Centurion may be thought to have ascended up into Heaven Or lastly that extraordinary and more than Masculine Magnanimity and Constancy as well through the whole Course of her Life as at her Death Who among the poorest and most miserable ever with more easiness resign'd this mortal Life so obnoxious to a Thousand Calamities than She in the midst of Regal Pomp and plenty with a Royal and truly Heroick Mind contemn'd and surrender'd all the Pleasures of Life and Regal Dignity and hasten'd to the Supream King of Heaven and Earth by whom she had been only sent us hitherto How many proofs did she manifest of a Mind undaunted joyful and desirous to leave this Life How many clear and evident Demonstrations did she give of her Love to God How comfortably did she address herself to the King and the rest of the standers by How well assured of Eternal Life and Immortality did she bid farewell to this Life and all Terrestrial Felicities and transmigrate to that same only Fountain and perpetual Spring of all Beatitude So that her Life and Death was a most perfect and consummate Exemplar of Vertue and Piety Nor did Nature ever produce any thing more excellent than she who in all her Life never did never said or thought any thing but what was Praise-worthy so that what was said of Scipio Aemilianus may be more truly recorded of our Princess whose Vertues were so many so great and of that moment every one that no Man ever durst presume so much as tacitly to beg of the Immortal God as this our Queen obtain'd from the most indulgent Dispenser of all Good And because the mind of Man is better discern'd by his Death than by his Life for Man is apt in his Life time to conceal and dissemble his Affections but at his Death the Mask being remov'd he appears what he is what was more noble or signal than the Death of this Queen What more becoming a Wise Man and a Christian than that saying of hers This is not the first time that I prepar'd my self for Death Great Sentence most worthy a Philosopher and a Pious Man What more does Philosophy teach us what more the Christian Religion For if Philosophy be meditation upon Death as rightly of old the Platonics observ'd if we must be always learning to dye according to the Stoies may not she be said to have liv'd a Philosophical Life and the likest to Socrates himself who during the whole course of her Life was always meditating upon Death Socrates is every where lovely every where appears a Vertuous and Holy Man but no where more lovely or greater than at his Exit and at his death which he so generously sought by which he immortaliz'd his Vertue and Integrity and confirm'd what he had all along taught not by Words but Deeds and his Voluntary Exit out of this Life How much a more signal and Laudable Testimony of her Vertue and Sanctity than that Philosopher did our Queen give to the World by her death so Heroick and to be imitated by all Christians Who forsook not a private not a miserable but a Royal Life abounding in all delights without the least repining who so departed this Life as from a Banquet efcap'd from the Court as out of a Prison who more assur'd of the immortality of her Soul and the hopes of a better Life with a greater Resolution did not inflict a spontaneous Death upon herself but expected a decreed Stroak from the Hand of the Supream Lord of all things who forbids us to quit our Stations uncommanded by himself and beheld the common Enemy of Mankind the most terrible of all most terrible things with a Mind altogether undaunted and a Countenance nothing terrified No wonder she had learnt to dye it had been her only Study She understood the Frailty of Life like Glass the brighter the more brittle She knew that we dy'd every day that the beginning of Life was the beginning of Death that there was nothing firm and Stable here that we are promis'd another Life constant solid and and permanent that Death is but the Passage to it that no Man can dye well but he that liv'd well that no Man lives well but he that has Death always before his Eyes and has learnt to dye well Our Princess fill'd with these Cogitations scorn'd and repudiated all the conveniences and blandishments of Life Honors and Dignities Scepters and Diadems and whatever Men deem Fortunate and with a great and Royal Mind while she liv'd contemn'd Life and Death when she dy'd and by so doing nobly and gloriously triumph'd over both Renown'd Woman of a Masculine and Couragious Spirit victorious over Death it self By what name shall I call thee Whether Parent of thy Country formerly the Sirname ascrib'd to Livia bnt more truly to be given to thee Whether August which was attributed to the Roman Empresses but due to thy Merit than which nothing was more Sacred nothing more August Or the best of Princesses which was first allow'd to Scipio Masica afterwards to Trajan by decree of the Senate An Epithete that must never be renew'd again now thou art gone nor will return to Earth without the Remembrance of thy Vertues Or the Defendress of the Faith a Title more truly appropriated to Thee than to Him to whom it was first indulged Most Holy and Religious Princess before whom no Woman is to be preferr'd Let sacred and prophane Histories recommend to us the Fortitude of Deborah the Charity of Dorcas the Prudence of Semiramis and her Knowledge how to Govern the Couragious Soul of Zenobia and her fervent Love of Learn-the incredible Endowments both of Body and Mind in Aspasia and her singular Modesty the Piety of Placilla and her assiduous care of the Needy and Sick let the British Annals extol their Maud their Philippa their Elizabeth and their transcending Vertues neither Antiquity nor this our modern Age can boast of any thing that is to be compar'd with this our far surpassing Queen worthy of far greater Encomiums What singly they possess'd this had accumulatively crouded in one Person as being a Compendium of all those Vertues For my part when I revolve all these things in my Mind and diligently weigh the particular Vertues of this single Woman I am plainly and evidently convinc'd that never any thing was produc'd in this world more excellent than this Princess nor that ever any greater Blessing happen'd to Mortals For if that saying of Plato be true as 't is most certain that Cities then will have an end of all their miseries when great Power and Prudence by a certain divine State meet with mutual Embraces with Equity and Justice if the VVorld shall then be happy as the same Author asserts when either Kings are wise or wise Men Reign how happy and fortunate would have been

threatning BULLETS and every where cover'd Your Sacred Person in Your Cradle in Your Palace in the Camp in Battle in Your Journeys and in all Manner of Dangers He it was who when all men thought there had been a final End put to the Rights of Royal Succession Ex falso mendaci ventre Puerperio By the False-birth of a Fallacious Womb That the Ruin of Britain her Laws and Religion had been determin'd and the Extirpation of the Reformed Name and the Total Destruction of Carthage had been concluded raised up You far greater then Constantine MARY then Helena to be the Saviours of the British Orb. So is it also the same God who has safeguarded Your Person till these times by so many Prodigies and Miracles to be the Asserter of Liberty the Curb of Tyranny the Terror of a Potent Enemy the Bulwark of the Christian World the Sanctuary of Religion and the Standard by which the Successes of the Greatest Actions and Deliberations are Debated In You alone as in a certain Center now the Wishes of all men meet which before were divided between Two And now as long as the FIERCE GAUL still proudly advances his Head tho with a languishing Kingdom exhausted Treasures intercepted Trade Manufactures laid aside and the Blood of the Subject supplying the Exchequer the Generalitie of the People oppressed and languishing under Exactions Slavery War Famine and scarcity of all Things 't is Your Part to restore and revive what has been prostrated and laid waste by so many cruel Losses receiv'd from a Triumphant Enemy to wipe away our Sorrows and our Grievances and to raise again to its Pristine Lustre Peace and Security almost all the European Orb tired out with so many Calamities wasted by so many Conflagrations deformed with the Ghastly Footsteps of Gallic Fury and streaming every where with Human Blood In a Word 't is You POTENT WILLIAM that the World demands for its Restorer Britain for her Preserver Holland for her Defender the Church for her Vpholder the Army for their Leader the Oppressed and Wandring for their Avenger the Confederacy for their Bond of Concord and all Europe for the Arbiter of her Peace and Wars And while we singly pray that all Things Lucky and Prosperous may attend your Enterprizes we wish that by the same means all Things may Prosperously and Fortunately befall Your Kingdoms this Our Republick all the Christian Churches our Selves our Wives our Children and our Posterity In the mean time we also implore this Advantage to our selves from the Death of your Dear MARY that where-ever we contemplate that Most Accomplish'd Image of all Vertue and Perfection so far as Mortality would allow Her LIFE and DEATH may to every one of us be Guides to Heaven DIXI Books lately Printed for John Dunton SOme Remarkable Passages in the Life and De●●…h of her late Majesty not hitherto made publick as they were delivered in a Funeral Oration pronounc'd by Publick Authority in the Hall of the Most Illustrious States upon the Day of the Royal Obsequies March 5. 1694-95 By Francis Spanheimius F. 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A Funeral Oration ON THE Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent PRINCESS MARIE STUART QUEEN OF England Scotland France and Ireland c. Recited by the Learned Author of The Collection of Canons and New Pieces In his Third Tome pag. 274. Done into English from the French Original Printed at the Hague LONDON Printed for J. Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and Sold by Edmund Richardson near the Poultry-Church 1695. A Funeral Oration c. Favour is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Praised Prov. chap. 31. v. 30. WE cannot but wonder and be sensible of the works which Nature sets before our Eyes but on the other side we must acknowledge that those Objects so lovely and worthy of our Admiration are subject to Corruption and that they fade away and Perish All things that are under the Sun shall Perish and there is no longer any memory of things that are past and those things that are to come shall be forgotten by those that come after us sayes Solomon in the Ecclesiastes Those Empires formerly so Vast and Potent what are now become of ' em The mighty Men and Potentates of the Earth after they have made a noise in the World for Fifty or Threescore Years at most whether do they retire What is become of all their Grandeur and Luster They are returned into the Earth from whence they came and by a fatal necessity they instruct us that All that is no more then Dust must return to Dust The Days of Man sayes David are like the Flower of the Field which in the Morning is clad with a Thousand lively Colours but no sooner is it cropt but it Fades and Withers nor is there the least Beauty of it to be discovered by the Evening This is the fate of the things of this World 'T is then upon the meditation of their Vanity that they ought to reflect 'T is to the Consideration of Eternal Blessings that we ought to apply our selves to the end we may learn so to govern our days that we may be said to have a Heart of Wisdom and Understanding The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom A good Understanding have all they that do his Commandments His Praise endureth for ever Psalm 3. Favour is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain but the Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Praised It may be justly said that never any Person merited this Praise more then the Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent Princess MARY STUART Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland My Design is therefore to endeavour to set before your Eyes the surpassing Virtues of this great Queen not only to excite your Admiration of that Piety that Greatness of Soul that prudent Conduct which she made appear in all her Actions and in all her Words but more especially to follow the Examples of Piety and Sanctity of which we have been some part of Us the Eye-witnesses during her Life and which she left us after her Death I must acknowledge my self altogether unable to undertake a task so far above my strength only my Zeal for the Memory of this great Princess and the great desire I had that we should make the best benefit of a Life and Death so Holy and so Pretious in the sight of God has engag'd me in despite of my self and caus'd me to forget my weakness in going beyond the limits of my Character Think it not then strange if I observe not in this discourse all the Methods and all the Rules of Art Consider that there is something I know not what of Irregular in Sorrow and Affliction and that it is not so much the work of my Wit as of my Heart it being out of the abundance of my Heart that my Mouth speaketh Most Holy and Divine Spirit who didst enliven this Pious Queen enliv'n me now with a sacred Fire to the end I may render serviceable to thy Glory the Holy Examples which he hath given us and that by the imitation thereof we may become more Prudent and more Pious Never fear it 't is not here my design according to the Idea's of the Worldly Eloquence to study for flattering Discourses to give in this place false Phrases to false Virtues When we have for the subject matter of such discourses any one of those common and Worldly Lives in whom we can find nothing to commend but the last motives of a long delay'd and almost fruitless Repentance it is a difficult thing I must confess if I may not say impossible but that we must flatter Vanity and confound Fortune with Virtue But here all our trouble will be that we shall not be able to find Elogies enow to set forth so many Virtues nor Terms strong enough to express so many admirable Qualities wherewith Nature and Grace seem'd to be at strife to accomplish this most incomparable Queen What a Majesty and Grandeur in her Aire What a sweetness What a modesty in her Counnance What a politeness in all her Manners What Charming Graces in her Person And these you know were the least things to be commended in her For if we pass to the qualities of her Soul what a large Field was there for Elegies or rather what a subject of wonder and admiration In the first Years of her Youth this Princess displaid the best Natural disposition in the World a sweet Humour agreeable and always equall a Heart upright and sincere a solid and firm Judgment and a Piety beyond her Age. And it was upon this sincere report that the great Prince who espous'd her desired to be united to her declaring That all the circumstances of Fortune and Interest did never engage him so much as those of her Person and particularly those of her Humour and Inclination A sentiment truly great generous prudent and Christian-like and so much the more noble and worthy to be observ'd as being rare in great Personages who regulate their Friendships only according to their Interests and have neither so much Christianity nor niceness as to consider that it is Virtue which produces and cherishes Friendship and that when a Man is really a Man of worth he can never be too attentive in making choice of the Person to whom he is to be ty'd all the Days of his life However this was the Care of the great Prince who espous'd her and as his intentions were pure and upright God heard his Prayers and his Wishes in giving him for a Consort I will say not only the most amiable and most accomplish'd Princess of Europe but the most perfect of all Women that ever were in the World Of whom we m●y say that all Virtues were assembled together in her without any mixture of Vices And in saying so I say no more then what was the publick and unanimous Voice of all People and of this Princess it is that we may justly say what is said in the Proverbs Many

Reunion of two Persons of such an exalted Merit of so rare a Virtue and so Unanimously ty'd together for the preservation of their Religion their Laws and their Country And then it was that this great Princess surrendring her Scepter and Royal Authority into the Hands of her August Husband betook her self again to reading and resum'd usual Employments like that Roman so Famous in History who after he had led Armies and won Victories returned to manure his small Farm with the same Humility as if he had never won Battle or merited Triumph But if this Great Princess were admir'd while she held the Reins of Government she was yet more to be admir'd when she retir'd to her Privacies where the more nearly she was known the more she was belov'd esteem'd and respected She carry'd her self toward all whose Protectrix she was What an Affliction to so many poor People to whom she was a Bountiful Mother What a Blow What a cruel Blow to a Prince who having such a Sincere and immaculate Friendship for such a Virtuous Consort grounded upon Esteem and Merit feels his Bowels rent and his Heart pierced through with a Thousand Darts in loosing a Dear Companion the only Object of his Tenderness and Inclination She in whose Bosom he confided his Secrets with whom he comforted himself in his Sorrows and Rejoyced in his Prosperities and who had for him the most profound Veneration the most Sincere Affection and a Friendship the most Ardent and Tender that could be imagin'd Thus this Great Heart that was never known to be Greater nor more Constant then in misfortunes was cast down by this Fatal Stroke that took her for ever from his sight Fatal Minute Sorrowful Minute for him and for us but happy for her who is now entered into the Possession of Eternal Glory Let all the Veneration all the Zeal all the Affection which we had for these two August Persons whom Heaven it self had brought together be now united in Hero who still remains among us His Interests are ours his Misfortunes ours His Advantages ours His Prosperities ours and in a word our State depends upon him Let us pray to God to Comfort Preserve and Bless him Let us accompany his designs with our Prayers our Vows and our best Wishes and with all that lies in our Power But if we desire that our Prayers and our Vows may be heard let us put our selves into a Condition that that we may hope to obtain a Gracious answer Let us use all our Endeavours to perform the Duties that Christianity enjoyns us and by observing the Commands of God we shall fulfil the Vows of this Pious Queen who concern'd her self with so much goodness to all those who had quitted their Country for the sake of Religion Piety and the Glory of God which she had always before her Eyes made her continually wish that Persons who had shew'd their Zeal and Affection to the Service of God might do nothing but what became the Character of that Zeal which had enclin'd ' em Let us fulfil these Wishes so just and so Christian like The Incoruptible Crown of Glory shall not be given to him that begins but to him that perseveres Let us therefore Labour our Zeal and Fervency while we may to the end we may find Grace and Mercy at the day of our Death and that we may be made Partakers of that Bliss and Eternal Glory which now the Queen enjoys That Queen who because she was a Woman that truly feared the Lord deserves far greater Praises then we have been able to give her AN ORATION OF Peter Francius UPON THE FUNERAL of the Most August Princess MARY II. QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland Pronounc'd at Amsterdam in the Old Dutch-Church March 5. 1694-95 the very Day she was buried Done into English from the Latin Original LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and are also to be Sold by Edm. Richardson near the Poultry-Church MDCXCV A short PRAYER SEeing I am ascended into this Place appointed for Divine Worship and preaching the Word of God not of my own accord nor rashly of my own head but by the Command of the most Honourable Consuls what more just and reasonable what indeed more necessary than that turning our Faces from men to God we should begin with a Prayer address'd to him to whom the Heathens themselves far remote from the true Worship of God always thought it proper to make their Invocations at the Threshold of their Labours THEE therefore Omnipotent and Eternal God without whose aid we can undertake nothing auspiciously with a mind no less submissive and prostrate than Body I implore and supplicate that thou wilt vouchsafe to look upon this my Oration not sacred indeed however neither impious nor prophane nor misbecoming the Sanctimony of this Place with a Gracious and Favourable Countenance And while I rehearse and commemorate not so much the Praises as the Vertues of a most Pious and Religious Princess not so much her Merits as thy Benefits that thou wouldest deign to afford me that Constancy that modesty which the Reverence of this Place and the Dignity of the Subject requires from me Pour down upon me thy Spirit and inspire me with a sparkle of that Caelestial Fire wherewith of old thou didst enliven thy Apostles those Divine Interpreters of thy will touch my Tongue kindle my Breast and so Enlighten my mind so temper my words that I may utter nothing but what is Grave and Serious and beseeming this Place that I may be enabl'd with a be-fitting Fervency to Celebrate the Obsequies of this Princess to set forth her Vertues and bring to the Propounded End the Work by me begun and fulfil the Duty laid upon me if not with an Applause and Commendation becoming the Subject yet without disgrace and contempt A Funeral Oration OF Peter Francius c. AND was this this then the only disaster that remained to compleat our Calamities and the Miseries of this Republick continued for so many Years that in this Condition of Affairs the War still raging and like a Conflagration every where Consuming the support of our Defence the Consolation of this Affliction the no less Best than Greatest of Queens MARY should be violently extorted from the World Breathless Breathless she lies she that was the most Wise and Prudent Governess of the Brittish Empire and of this Republick and in the half way Race of her Life in the highest Station of Honour in the brightest splendour of Fortune that far shining Constellation is extinguish'd Give Credit Noble Auditors if not to Fame which rarely in bad tidings deceives us if not to your Ears that so often have heard the sad yet too true News however to your Eyes you have before your Eyes the sorrowful Prospect The Obsequies are novv prepared the Queen is novv carried Forth and vvhatever in her vvas Corporeal Frail Mortal or Terrestrial is novv committed to Enterment

return'd Thanks to their Queen upon that occasion and openly and publickly express'd the sentiments of their Hearts in words at large So that the English were hardly sensible of the absence of their King nor nor was there any thing which they wanted but only the Person of the King Thus for several Years this Royal Heroess held a Divided Empire between her Royal Husband and her self She rul'd England while William govern'd Belgium till toward the end of the preceeding Year she began to sink under the first Assaults of a Terrrible Disease which tho it slacken'd at the Beginning afterwards every Day prevailing more and more and the fatal hour approaching after she had bid adieu to Royal Pomp and all Earthly Affairs she betook her self to pious meditations plac'd her only hopes in God alone and to him commended her soul In the mean time together with several others of the same Order the Pious and most Reverend Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Tennison visited her who observing how dangerously ill she was and for that Reason with pious and wholsome Exhortations putting her in mind in her approaching End with an undaunted Countenance she return'd him this masculine and truly royal expression I am not now to prepare for Death it has been my study all the days of my Life Then the Archbishop gave her the Memorial of the Divine Body the Sacrament of our Militia Which having received after she had given her last and never to be repeated Embraces to her most Dear Husband she compos'd her self altogether to die and between the sixth and seventh of January about midnight in the Royal Palace of Kensington piously and placidly expiring surrender'd her chast soul to God as became so Devout a Princess Oh Black and Dismal Night O horrid Day that followed and blacker than the Night it self Fallacious Hopes and Vain Cogitations even of Kings themselves The Hero sooty with the Dust and Smoak of War and tyr'd with the Labours of a Tedious Campaign delighted in the Embraces of his Beloved Consort and thought to have wasted the Winter Hours in her Society But his Wishes were disappointed Instead of Joy he meets with Sorrow Mourning instead of Applause and finds a Funeral where he thought to have met a Wife His otherwise Invincible Courage gives way to Raging Grief and he who had so often contemn'd the Bullets and Swords of his Enemies he who dreaded neither Flames nor Steel nor Death it self Languishes Falls and Swoons away upon the Death of his Dearest Queen He remembers himself to be but a King finds himself a Man and not unwilling acknowledges the Excess of his Grief Miserable man that I am said he I have lost the best of Women and the most pleasing Companion of my Life Nor was that so much the Exposing of Love as of Truth it self For all that knew her acknowledg this Queen to have been the best and most Excellent of Women endu'd with all Royal and Christian Virtues and Adorn'd with all the Graces both of Body and Mind And altho these Blessings of the Mind are really solid and sempiternal Blessings far to be prefer'd before the Perfections of the Body yet Vertue shines more Beautifully and more pleasingly insinuates it self into us from a Graceful and Beautiful Body after a manner not to be express'd Which if it be true in private Persons how much more in Princes in whom that Excellency and Grace of Body charms and adds to the Allurements of Dignity by unknown and secret Insinuations For seeing that the most Beautiful Workmanship of God is Man and the more excellent part of Man is the Mind how rare a thing and how transcendent is it to carry a beautiful Mind in a beautiful Structure of Body and to how few Mortals doth that perfection happen But in the Queen both these Perfections were Eminent For she had a structure of Body to Admiration Taller than usual well shap'd well proportion'd and Majestick Correspondent to her Body was her Face becomming Empire and Command A radiant Beauty overspead her Countenance and the Concomitants of Beauty Grace a Royal Majesty and a certain severity temper'd with a mild serenity You might know her to be a Queen by her Aspect But a much nobler guest Inhabited this Domicil a mind more Lovely than her Body from whence as from a perpetual Fountain and a certain unexhausted Spring all other both Royal and Christian Vertues exuberantly Flow'd which how many how transcendent and Illustrious they were their Enumeration and Contemplation will make manifest In the first place How extraordinary was her understanding and her insight into all Affairs How quick and smart her judgment in discerning How great her Memory in retaining With what a Fortitude endow'd in undertaking With what a Resolution to Execute What an Elevation of mind On the other side how Mild how Gentle how Clement how Courteous How Affable How Good and what an inbred and natural Benignity towards all Men How Prudent and Wise in administring the Affairs of the Kingdom How severe and just in the determination of Differences In the Distribution of Punishments and Rewards How munificent and liberal to the Poor How singularly modest How frugal and temperate in the midst of the Temptations of Life and in the Pleasures of a Court That hardly ever any private Person less indulg'd her self than a Princess advanced to such an Illustrious Station of Honour and Dignity But nothing was more Illustrious in her nothing more commendable or more deserving Admiration and Encomium among so many and so great Vertues than that primary and above all transcending Vertue real and sincere Piety which the wisest of Kings adjudg'd to be the beginning of all Wisdom There was nothing which she esteem'd more Religiously incumbent upon her than to serve the Immortal God and be assiduous in his Worship to defend maintain and propagate with all the Force of her Kingdom the true Religion purg'd and purified from Idols and Superstition Nor was it her Opinion that piety consisted in the Lips but in the Heart not in subtil Disputes but in good Works not in the Knowledg but the Observation of Precepts and in the Cordial Performance of enjoyn'd Duties Nor was it her choice with the Athenians rather to know than do that which was right but with the Antient Cato tho more truly than he rather to be good than to seem so In the morning she rose with the Sun and Worship'd the Lord of Heaven and Earth But when she was sometimes forc'd to rise at midnight by reason of the Urgent Affairs of the State and could not afterwards sleep she commanded either the Holy Scripture or some other Pious Book to be brought her If any persons came to Visit her in a morning before she had pour'd forth her Prayers she sent 'em back with this Expression That she was first to serve the King of Kings If any persons were said to seek her Life by Treachery and Conspiracy her Answer

and suppress'd and extinguish'd Conspiracies enter'd into by a new sort of Catilines She muster'd the Land Armies and view'd the Fleets and took care that nothing should be wanting in either that might be useful either to stop or invade the Enemy or relieve and assist her own For this Tranquility of the Times for this same singular Providence and Vertue did she not more truly then any Princess before her deserve the Appellations of Augnst of Parent of her Country of Best Mother and Mother of the Martial Camps This every year she labour'd to see accomplish'd to the end the King might recross the Seas in his Military Ornaments the Key of the Kingdom being deliver'd to the Queen till towards the end of last Autumn after an Expedition ended upon the Borders of France he hasten'd to the Embraces of his Royal Consort and to provide for those things which were to be consulted in Parliament for the raising of Money towards the supplies of the Armies and Fleets The King took Shipping put to Sea and with a prosperous Wind arriv'd in England where he had no sooner set his Foot ashoar but the loud acclamations of the People were heard in all quarters of the British Dominions Long flourish Great Britain long live our Country long live King William And not long after her Majesty meeting the King all along upon the Road these lucky Omens and transcending Applauses fill'd the Sky Vnder the Protection of our King and Queen we live under their Protection we Navigate and Trade under their Protection we enjay our Fortunes and our Liberties Then most August Monarch should any one from among those vast congratulating and triumphing Multitudes have shew'd himself and presag'd that those Rejoycings were but the Fore-runners of Grief and would be soon defil'd by some signal Calamity impending on the Royal Family would he not have been deservedly lookt upon as some impertinent Enthusiastick So ignorant are human Minds of future Chance and Fate Such Sacrifices and Attonements as these the Omnipotent has prescrib'd to vaunting Mortals and ordain'd it as a Law that the greatest Inconstancy should rule their Affairs the Prosperity of which no Man could ever so assuredly promise himself as to depend upon a Fortunate Course of his Life without some intermixture of Adversity Thus it fell out that when the toilsome Labours of the Camp had recall'd the King to Rest and Pastime a mournful Calamity shook and oppress'd his generous Soul still wakeful over the safety of his Kingdoms where all succeeded according to his Mind and no less vigilent for the Common Good of the Belgians who conceiv'd in their Minds a lucky Omen of succeess from the more early then usual tho' ardently wish'd for return of their renown'd General For upon the third of January 1694-95 The Queen was seiz'd with a slight shivering but which threatned nothing of danger to her Life the Physicians giving hope of Relief and Cure believing this Royal Fortress might be defended by their Hands But upon the sixth of January the Fever gathering Strength and reinforcing its Virulency and the small-Pox a Contagion generally incident to Youth appearing but not kindly coming forth tho' all help and remedies were apply'd that human Experience has invented against the violence of that distemper it was in vain at length for all the Art of Physick to contend for the Disease immediately seiz'd upon the Queen with such a pernicious force as vanquish'd all the aid of Man All the while the King refus'd to stir from the Languishing Queen's Bedside assiduous to serve her and careless of the Infection that many times accompanies that Malady and being often requested to spare his Royal Person and not to inflict another Wound upon suffering Europe made Answer That when he Marry'd the Queen he Convenanted to be the Companion not only of her Prosperity but of whatever Fortune befel her and that he would with the hazard of his Life receive from her Lips her last expiring Gasps Felices ter amplius Quos Irrupta tenet Copula nec Malis Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvet Amor Dic. All hope of Recovery now was fled away and the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury being admitted into the Room in order to perform the last Duties of his Function told her Majesty that the fatal hour was at hand that the Forces of her Body being weaken'd and broken Death was making his Approaches and therefore she had nothing more to do but to submit herself to the Pleasure of the Almighty Such a harsh and disconsolate Message would have struck another Person tho' long exercis'd and harden'd in Stoical Indolency with Horror and Trembling But what said the Queen to this Full of Faith and Constancy she receiv'd the tidings with a chearful and undaunted Countenance saying withal That she did no way seek to shun the the stroke of Death but was ready prepar'd for the Dark Mansion of the Grave for that she had always so led her Life that whenever Death gave her his last Summons she should be a gainer by it Having thns spoken without the least emotion of Mind she receiv'd the certain Pledges of Divine Peace and ineffable Consolation to allay the Thirst and Hunger of her Soul deliver'd her by the Most Reverend Father at the same time with most ardent Wishes and pious Ejaculations calling upon her Redeemer nail'd to the Cross This last and most mournful Act remain'd and then the King oppress'd and bowing under the Burden of his own Sorrows e're death had quite benumm'd her trembling Arteries and the warm Vapour of Breath lay panting in her sacred Breast bid her Eternally farewell Which last demonstrations and evident signs of the most tender motions of the Soul were perform'd with that Sincerity of a Cordial Passion that you may readily most Learned Auditors conjecture the Anguish of such a doleful Parting though my Oration my bow being enfeebled with Sadness cannot reach the perfect Description At length my words stick fast upon my Tongue At length I say upon the seventh day of the Ides of January about twelve a Clock at Noon the Blessed Queen resign'd her pure Soul to God with a most placid Exit not having fully accomplish'd the thirty third year of her Age and consequently in the flower of her Years This was the End of a Queen in whom not only Piety Benignity and Humanity but all Vertues seem to be ecclips'd Oh cruel Fate Oh untimely Death Timely I should have said my Accompt fail'd me For if we measure the Course of the Queen's Life circumscrib'd by Years at first sight it appears to be very much streightned and very short But if we look farther we shall find it to be a long and immense Race of Glory One day of a Wise Man says Possidonius is more extensive then the whole Age of an ignorant Person That same Alexander whose Atchievements acquir'd him the name of Great Germanicus Caesar endu'd

Potent Orders of the Diocess of Vtrecht Done into English from the Latin Original LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and are also to be Sold by Edm. Richardson near the Poultry-Church MDCXCV A Funeral Oration UPON THE Death of the QUEEN THIS Day is Buried the Greatest Queen of Great Britain Are our Affairs reduc'd to this that what was only wanting to compleat our Miseries the bitter Death of August MARY as an Accumulation of our Sadness must sall out to render yet more Grievous the Misfortune of these Mournful Times the Death of August MARY that has afflicted England with an Unspeakable loss that hardly admits of Consolation has struck Holland with Astonishment and fill'd all the Christian World with Anguish and Consternation Already brighter Suns began to shine and the Minds of all Men were erected to hope a more prosperous Fortune and more easie times when of a sudden an unexpected Tempest like Thunder ratling with loud Noise and Terror from a serene Sky strikes and throws down all before it and changes all our promising Hopes into Fear and pensive Solicitude Oh how sudden and how swift is the Vicissitude of Humane Affairs Therefore we behold not only the Dresses but the Countenances of all men chang'd with sorrow and the deeper sence of so great an affliction which having pierc'd the very Marrow is not to be asswag'd nor alleviated by any applications of comfortable Words For together with this most pious Queen even England and Holland themselves are this day carry'd forth to be entomb'd Therefore we behold the Fathers of our Country in Sable Pale and with their Eyes fixed upon the Ground and delug'd with tears and by their mournful silence testifying the Extremity of that sorrow which afflicts their Breasts Nor is it a smaller Demonstration of embitter'd Grief which all Degrees and every Age and every Sex in all places openly discover by their sobbings sighs and lamentable Wailings Nor does the Ignorance of Infancy nor the forgetful Insensibility of decrepit Years nor the simplicity of Women sitting at home exempt 'em from the sadness that oppresses Us. Not only Men but the Country Cottages the Coverings of our Cities our Market-places Courts of Judicature our Tribunals our Schools and Academies o're-spread with Deformity mute and almost in Ruines seem to grieve as being afraid of being levell'd with the Earth now their Supportress is gone The very Walls of this Magnificent Church the Portice's and Chappels hung with Mourning and despoyl'd of their Ornaments fill our Eyes and Minds with all the Marks of Incredible Distraction Lastly there is no place wherein there is not some Monument or other fixed of Publick and Inconsolable Lamentation When the Death of Drusus Germanicus who by his singular Vertue and Benevolence toward all Men had after a wonderful manner won the Good Will not only of his Fellow Citizens but of all forreign Princes and People was reported at Rome the Romans inflam'd with a certain Rage of Mourning and Sorrow defac'd their Temples pull'd down the Altars of their Gods threw their Houshold Deities into the Streets Fathers of Families exposed the New-born Births of their Wives foolishly they and wickedly who went about to bring their Gods into Hatred by Abjuring their Worship with whom they were angry for the loss of Germanicus ravish'd from ' em But we are angry with our selves and our sins by which God being deservedly provokd has taken from us the best of Queens within the memory of History at an unlucky time and in the flower of her Age. And yet we no less impartially Grieve than those Antient Romans tho we are far remote from their impious Piety For this incurable Wound which is laid upon us so tears and rends the minds of all Men that the Torments of infinite Grief overcome all Consolation and all Physick whatever is too weak for the terrible Distemper under which we groan But as the Death of so great a Queen is an accident lamented by all Good so by none more bewail'd if we except the King himself than by the most Illustrious Fathers of Vtrecht How many Signs and Arguments of this most Just Grief for our incredible Loss are Extant every where Nevertheless they were desirous that the Force and Exuberancy of it should be also from my Lips made known as well to others Living as to succeeding Posterity How well could I now wish that I had never understood Letters And this I speak with more sincerity than that Emperor who being to subscribe the Warrant for the Execution of a Capital Offender cried out in like manner Oh that I had never known to Write For my mind abhors and Flies the Performance of this Dismal function both because of the weight of that sorrow which has so broken and weak'nd all the parts of my mind that they can hardly recollect themselves as also for that tho I were in perfect Vigour neither struck nor afflicted with any Trouble yet I am conscious to my self of my own Inability and must acknowledge my self inferior to the Task imposed upon me of setting forth the high Praises and Merits of this Divine Queen Yet there is two things which not a little confirm me and inspire something of a Soul in me the praise that attends Obedience which was all along a most sacred and certain convincement that no man tho most plentifully furnished with all the Endowments of Wit and Learning and exceeded all Mortals in speaking Eloquently and Politely can be able I will not say in words but in thoughts to reach the true Encomiums of August Mary who alone shin'd forth in all sorts of Vertue not only above the Genius of her Sex and the Age she liv'd in but above the Examples of all the most praise-worthy Heroesses in all times that she may be deservedly proclaim'd to be the Only Queen or rather more truly the Queen of Queens Nor can there a greater Praise belong to any man than that it is not in the Power of any man to praise him sufficiently I shall therefore speak of MARY STVART because I am engaged to speak not according to the Dignity of the Subject the excellency of which no mortal can attain to but according to the Strength of Capacity and Endowments Nor do I doubt but you most noble and Worthy Auditors here present out of your Incomparable Veneration for the Queen will give a favourable attention to what I shall say tho it may not answer the Merits of the Queen nor your Exyectation While I obey the Will of those from whom my will ought never to disagree I am in hopes that you will also be satisfied with my most earnest Zeal to satisfy your Commands tho my strength may not equal the Decree of my mind I am unwilling Noble Auditors at the beginning to be tedious in those things upon which the Orations of those Men that pay the last Duties to the Manes of great Personages are wont to

thy Life which thou art to Live immortal in the Hearts and Minds of all People who will always burn with Love and Admiration of thy Vertues Thou hast no reason to grieve that thou didst not bless the King with Off-spring the only thing which many thought was wanting to compleat thy happiness of Earth and which indeed is a more than ordinary Grief both to the King and us For as of old when Epaminondas was upbraided with want of Issue he boasted that he left a Daughter behind him meaning the Battle of Leuctra which would not only survive him but be Immortal so thou most Blessed MARY the Mother of so many Kingdoms and People the Mother of the Oppressed the Mother of the Poor and Needy wilt leave behind thee so many Daughters that will never Dye the Eternal Encomiums and Sempiternal Glory of thy Goodness Beneficence Charity Clemency Mildness and the rest of thy other most lovely Vertues which will live immortal in the Remembrance of all Posterity This Life will prolong thy Consecrated Memory to after Ages Nor Marble Mausoleum nor Golden Vrn shall hide thee Thy Tomb shall be our Breasts DIXI A Funeral Oration TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Most Serene and Potent MARY II. QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland By Francis Spanheimius F. F. Chief Professor of the Academy of Leyden Pronounc'd by Publick Authority in the Hall of the Most Illustrious States Upon the Day of the Royal Obsequies March 5. 1694-95 Containing many Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Her Late Majesty not hitherto made Publick LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and are to be Sold by Edm. Richardson near the Poultry-Church MDCXCV A Funeral Oration UPON MARY II. QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland WHether I should express my self in Inarticulate Lamentations intermix'd with Tears and Sobs among so Great and so many Provocations to Grief that am to be a Spectacle of Mourning to yee all most Sorrowful Assembly of all Degrees and Orders or whether I should let loose my Tongue Speechless almost and motionless through the bitterness of my Anguish into articulate Words tho interrupted with frequent Throbs astonisht and forsaken by my Senses I was long time considering No man can believe that a Flood of Eloquence should flow from his Mouth whose Eyes are blubber'd Cheeks are overflow'd with Torrents of Water continually streaming while we bewail the Funeral of this Day These Walls deformed with gastly and unusual Accoutrements this very Pulpit resembling a Scaffold prepar'd for some sad Execution the alteration of our Senators Weeds every Order in Sable and the Muses in Black the Ensigns of Magistracy revers'd our Citizens with dejected Looks every where a profound Silence every where dropping Eyes and delug'd Cheeks more livelily and forcibly express even without an Interpreter the Grief unspeakable beyond what Imagination can Comprehend and so ponderous upon the Hearts of all Men then it is in the Power of Human Utterance to do tho every particular Member of the Body were turn'd into Tongues and resounded forth several Mones and Lamentations Must I be the Person I who first in this same School in a Publick Speech congratulated not so much the Royal Ensigns of Kingdoms offer'd to William and Mary ty'd together in an Association rarely known Oh that it had been Eternal Two the Choicest Boons of Heaven bestow'd on the Britannick World and the two Tutelar Numens upon Earth of the Universal Church Must I be the first bound by the Sacred Tye of Duty to those who in their own Right have Authority to Command after they had once ordain'd this solemn Day wherein No Body counterfeits Grief that am oblig'd to perform the Office of a Herald of Death to Proclaim the Death of Britannic Mary It was unanimously agreed then Conscript Fathers the Best of Queens is gone in which one word all things are comprehended Not in the sense of the Lacedemonians who at the Funerals of their Kings always call'd the Last the Best Nor as Nero stil'd his Poppaea the Genius of the City which was the Sirname of the Best Emperors but She is gone who by the General Voice of all People so deserv'd the Appellation of BEST that while it remains the allow'd Glory of Kings and Queens in this World can never be ascrib'd to any other by the same Vniversal Consent of Mankind The most Splendid and most Benign Constellation if ever any other enlightn'd and shed down its Influences upon Earth of Britain is set the Constellation of the United Belgian States is set but in an Eternal and Gloomy Night only now to refresh both Nations with the sole shadow of her Name MARY is set like that Star which causes the vicissitudes of Day and Night returning from whence first of all She rose And in this Common tho far different loss of all men WILLIAM bewails more than the one Half of his Soul The Court as it were grown decrepit with Age bewails their Delight The Kingdoms bewail an Empress hardly shewn to 'em yet Greater than the Narrow Limits of Kingdoms or an Age could contain The Subjects bewail their most Indulgent Mother more truly then formerly Livia or Julia the Pious the Mother of their Country the Senate and the Armies Holland bewails her Foster-Child as it were ravish'd and torn from her tender Bosom wherein she had continually cherish'd Her even divided from the whole World beside The Female Sex now misses Her that was their Lustre their Excellency their Glory The Vniversal Church her most loving Protectrix They that were stript of all their Fortunes their Liberal Reliever The Miserable the Asswager of their Calamities The Oppress'd their certain Consolation The Banish'd their not to be violated Sanctuary The Sons of Peace their Irene truly so call'd Lastly All Ages all Orders all Nations who ever they are that in the highest Station of Human Affairs reverence Vertue and Piety miss their most Sacred and most Vnited Head And who among us is not deeply affected and pierced to the Heart in beholding the Mournful sight of one single WILLIAM that most invincible Hero resembling some One of those most Valiant Captains who being opprest by some sudden Astonishment stand Speechless for a while at least bewailing the Companion of his Counsels and his Labours his Delights and Royal Functions snatch'd from an unexpected Fate Of that WILLIAM who was never puft up with Prosperity nor broken by Adversity who terrifi'd by no dangers nor dismaid at any Terrible Accident as if his Breast were environ'd with a Threefold Corslet of Brass or that he carry'd not an Iron but an Adamantine Heart now wounded beyond the Aid of Cure cannot refrain from Tears and Throbs as not being wounded or pierced through by any Bullet of his Enemy but by a Force surpassing Human God Himself which befel the most Holy Men thus wrestling with our Hero in a Dark and Bitter Night till at length the

her Forehead lessening the Ghastliness of her Countenance the Fortunate MARY was to be Eternally withdrawn from the most unfortunate Age Almost at the same Years and with the same fury of the Disease as Alexander was ravish'd from the World or Germanicus Caesar bewail'd by those who knew him not tho their immortality were not the same For with what a Countenance think ye Noble Auditors did she receive the Dismal News of her approaching and certain Fate the terror of Demi-Gods and Hero's before the last Combats and Struglings of Expiring Nature When the renowned THOMAS TENISON a Person in whose Learning Eloquence Integrity and Fortitude of Mind St. Ambrose and Chrysostom may more truly seem to be reviv'd than in his Cope and purple like another Isaiah was sent to comfort up the Queen and thus deliver'd himself to her at the last minute of her Life Madam Settle your Affairs your Family and your Mind you have liv'd and finish'd the Course which the Parent of Nature hath allotted you She receiv'd it with the same chearfulness of Countenance and Mind as she was wont to do every thing else not complaining and murmuring at her last Gasps with Germanicus that she had just cause of Complaint against God who took her away by an untimely end in the Flower of her Youth from her Husband from her Country from her Servants her People and Friends Nay nothing terrified with the Image of Death she made this Reply Father how good a Messenger are you to me who as it were commanded from Heaven bring the Tidings of my last necessity of dying Here I am ready to submit to what-ever pleases God the Disposer of my Life and Death I am not now to learn that difficult Art of Well-dying I have made up my Account with God by the assistance of my Surety Christ I have discharged my Conscience long since I have consider'd the condition of my Mortality I have setled all my Affairs and surrendred into the Bosom of my Dearest Husband all those cares that concern the World And therefore he that calls me finds me ready to lay down the Burthen of this Life being no more than a Load of Infirmities Sin and Labour The turning to her Royal Husband standing by her Bed-side she is said to have brake forth into words to this Effect Farewell my WILLIAM and live mindful of our undefiled Matrimony till Thy Lot shall restore Thee to Me or Me to Thee I shall not altogether dye while Thou singly possessest the Sole Image of Vs both Thou wilt be My Living Tomb more Sacred and more Honourable than any Mausoleum or Funeral Monument I was bound to My Spouse Jesus before I was ty'd to Thee nor dost Thou envy him the Prerogative of My Love who first joyn'd Me to himself Farewel the last time and once more live the greatest Part of me Thus it behov'd Me to go first and that Thou should close My Eyes and not I Thine I was not born to accomplish those Things which being begun by Thee and by Thee strenuously carried on remain to be brought by Thee to perfection 'T is Thy business to wage Wars the Supream Emperor has girded Thy Loyns with a Sword And if there be any Sense of Human Affairs in Heaven while Thou a Second Joshua art fighting in the Field Thy MARY shall pour forth Her Prayers for Thee and Thy Israel in the Mountain of Eternity Lay aside the Vehemence of Thy Grief Dear Prince give way to Destiny rely upon God and forbear to recall Me again by thy Tears from the Port of Tranquillity and the End of my Labours to New Conflicts which I have so often sustained as I have thought upon thy Dangers nor hasten to follow this Soul of Mine but live out those Years that Nature has deny'd to Me and Thy own too And if Thou hast any Love for My People for the Church for Holland for all Europe be more careful than hitherto of Thy own Preservation Soon after notwithstanding the Flame that prey'd upon her Marrow a stronger Fire from Heaven so inflamed her Coelestial Soul so that her fervent Heart that now no longer thought of any thing Mortal soar'd up to God her sparkling Eyes were fix'd upon Heaven and her deep fetch'd sighs ascended up to Jesus those Precious Oblations breathing forth most Sweet Perfumes to Heaven like Costly Odours laid on Burning Coals Till at length the most August and Pious MARY STVART in the midst of the Wailing Throbs of all the Standers by and mournful WILLIAM sipping her last Gasps made a full end of Living and deserving well of Human Kind only in the Lasting Example and Emulation of her Vertues the first day of the Kalends of January in the Year MDCXCV toward the Sixth Year of her Reign in Thirty Third of her Age and Seventeenth of her Conjugal Conjunction with the Renowed WILLIAM and some Months over Thus dyed the AUGUST QUEEN MARY PIOUS COMPASSIONATE BENEFICENT VICTORIOUS BLESSED who magnificently triumphed over Envy Ambition Pride Vngodly Affections the Vices of the Age during the whole Course of her Life and lastly over the Great Enemy of Mankind with whom we are all to struggle Thus she surrendred Scepters Purple thus all Pomp and Glory not till she had first enjoy'd and tasted the Vanity of every one she then whom Ancient and Modern Ages never knew any thing more Majectic or more Venerable nothing more Elated above all the Bounds of Envy or Human Custom and like to whom it will never be possible for the Imagination to form any other Princess while Kingdoms and Empires Endure Thus now must be enterr'd in a Royal indeed but small obscure Six Foot Domicil that Noble but Embowell'd Body of MARY from which they now must turn their mourful Eyes and Hearts who so lately were Chear'd and Exhilerated by the Brightness of her Royal Structure by the Majesty of her Serene and Awful Aspect by the Coelestial Splendor of her Eyes and the Charming Sweetness of her Words Thus e're she had measur'd the one half of ELIZABETH'S Reign by several years MARY ceas'd to live But still this Name seems much more Happy and Auspicious than was the most Praise-worthy Name of Elizabeth For Elizabeth was the Astonishment this the Love and Delight of the World She reigned in the Hearts of a Great Nation This in the Hearts of all People Elizabeth was Famous for the Splendor Magnificence and outward Pomp of her Court and Church but MARY won more Renown by her Humility her Bounty and her Alms. Elizabeth exalted the Grandeur and Honour of the English Name This studied those Things which tended to the Consolation and Succour of the Miserable and to the Eternal Concord Peace and Felicity of her People Oh Sempeternal Ornament of QVEENS and WIVES Didst thou here therefore only come permit me the Repetition of the Words that were said to Cato suddenly withdrawing himself out of the Senate Didst thou come hither only to be

gone again To deceive the Wishes of so many Mortals who thought there could nothing more corroborate their Felicity in this moveable Scene of Wordly Affairs then if MARY should long live and Govern Dost thou thus Great QVEEN withdraw they self from thy WILLIAM from thy People from thy Hollanders Of whom we may more truly say then fawning Rome of her Augustus or Severius that they ought either never to have been Born or never to have Died. Whose First Birth when thou wert born to the Earth might be look'd upon as the Palilia or Foundation-Festivals of Britain and the Universal Church but thy Last Birth by which thou wert born to Heaven might be thought the utmost Line of Both didst thou not still live in WILLIAM Behold how the Reformed Church and of all Hands the most Fortunate that was Illustrated by such a Sun is now wrapt up in Darkness by the departure of so Bright a Luminary portending great and unspeakable Calamities unless the most benign Deity avert them bow'd by the loud Prayers of His Elect. However we envy thy Immaculate Happiness in this our single Love of thee exceeding whatever Charity we have for our selves that we strive not to recall thee back to those Frail Glories which thou seest below us and tramplest 'em all under thy Feet rais'd above all the Rage of Treachery the Snares of Envy the Violences of Enemies the Injuries of Age or the Fleet Image of Worldly Things We bewail our own and the Losses of the whole World but with bruised Breasts we accuse our Transgressions against Heaven as the Causes of our Calamities And may it then be lawful for us also in these our last Funeral Offices to give thee a long and Eternal Farewel Farewel AUGUST MARY lately the Most Sacred Pledge of Heaven the Felicity of the World the Ornament of the Age the Admiration of the People the Palladium of Britain the Delight of Holland the Consolation of the Church the Support of Truth the Curb of Vice the Foster-Mother of the Poor the Hope and Defence of the Miserable Suffer us tho taken from our Eyes that we may always fix thee in our Minds that we may always behold with a joyful and perpetual Remembrance that Countenance that Aspect which formerly we approached with Veneration that Royal Right-Hand which we have often so submissively Kiss'd but more especially that Coelestial Mind and in That the Concurrence of all Praises and all manner of Vertue Lastly HAPPY SOUL accept not the vain Noises of profuse Applause which they pour often from their Breasts that are prodigal in praising others not Female Lamentations not Fruitless Wishes not Windy Expressions and Vollies of Idle Words Accept not Sacrilegious Altars nor Temples nor Masses nor Circension Pomp nor Funeral Chariots but accept this Publick and Grateful Testimony of Minds most devoted to thy Vertues to thy Benefits to what thou hast merited of us CONSECRATED TO THY ETERNAL HONOUR AND MEMORY And now we turn our selves to Thee the MOST INVINCIBLE yet the MOST SORROWFVL of Things in whose Royal Palace among Triumphant Lawrels the unfortunate Cypress supplies the room of the most Auspicious Rose You with more right implore from the Immortal God what Augustus Caesar is reported to have begg'd at the Funeral of Drusus Germanicus that his False Deities would grant him an Exit equally Glorious you with more right I say this day that MARY is carried to her Tomb with publick Funeral Splendor implore of God an Exit like that of your QVEEN and the Glory of a Death like Hers. But we above all things stretch forth our Hands and Hearts to Him under whose disposal we live that none of us may see that Black Day Rise wherein the Hasty Death of WILLIAM would prove the Common and the Fatal Funeral Pile of all Europe and the Vniversal Church Strengthen your self with Vertue and Courage MOST VALIANT of HERO'S You that are accustomed to vanquish others even anger'd Fortune it self You that appear'd more wonderful in Adversity then in Prosperity You whom the World 's Sovereign Emperor has hardned from the Cradle by Misfortunes and whose Vertue had been less conspicuous had it been less subdued and exercised so frame your Mind to Constancy of Resolution that it may be manifest not only to Britain but to all the World that you could overcome your Self whom no man else could ever vanquish even when Invincible Nature was to be expugn'd which is the Chiefest Victory of all We do not desire Your Breast should be inaccessible to Grief or Joy which Marcus Aurelius is reported to have affected far from any commotion of Mind We only desire this that after Your Tears have prov'd You to be a Man You would remember that You are a Prince and such a Prince upon whose single Fortitude so many Nations so many People so many Panting Souls believe their Safety their Liberty their Hopes and Fortunes depend You have all along been mindful which we look upon and esteem to be the Greatest Thing of all that you are a Christian bred up in the more Sacred School then the most Eloquent of the Romans while you are fully convinc'd that nothing happens preternatural or unusual to the Laws of Providence not so much as the fall of a Sparrow much less of a Man still much less of all those who are the express Image of that Immortal Deity whom they represent Your Mind GREAT KING that horrid Thought ne're troubl'd which disturb'd the Famous Pompey after the slaughter of Pharsalia whether the Gods took care of things on Earth You that have learnt to wage War with Kings not to contend with the King of Kings suffer not your self to be incens'd against Heaven for redemanding the Pledge which it had given You but for no certain Time So that it may seem doubtful to many whether You have more Reason to lament for what You have lost or to be gratefully thankful for what You once enjoy'd You dive not into the Secrets of the Eternal Mind or that all Provident Wisdom who in a moment seems to us to have destroy'd his own Workmanship and to have disturb'd and disappointed all both Yours and our Hopes This is not the First Day Your Experience how many times God frustrates the Desires of Mortals frequently curtailing long-grounded Hopes by speedy disappointment and no less often converting into unexpected preservation the despair arising from sad and sudden Accidents Even YOU YOUR SELF Great Sovereign have prov'd by Trials of Your own who and how Powerful is that Upholder of Princes that Preserver of Your Person even before You were born that Protecting and Avenging God who wrested you from so many Ambushments when You were hardly come into the World who dash'd in pieces so many Conspiracies against Your Life held back the Hands of so many Hir'd Assassinates scatter'd the force of growing Distempers stifl'd the Hatred and Animosities of Your Enemies averted the Effects of attempted Poysons and