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A40392	A sermon at the funeral of the High & Mighty Prince, Henry de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicount of Turenne ... preach'd December 15, 1675 / by Claude Francis, Ministrier ; Englished out of French.	Menestrier, Claude François, 1631-1705.	1677 (1677)	Wing F2073; ESTC R16802	14,219	34

A SERMON AT THE FUNERAL OF THE HIGH MIGHTY PRINCE HENRY De La TOUR D' AUVERGNE Vicount of TURENNE Mareschal General of FRANCE Colonel General of the LIGHT HORSE and Governour of the Upper and Lower LIMOSIN Preach'd December 15 1675. By CLAUDE FRANCIS MINISTRIER Englished out of FRENCH LONDON Printed by W.G. and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt at the Sign of the Angel in S. Paul's Church-Yard 1677. 2 Sam. 3.32 33 38. And all the People wept And the King lamented and said Died he as a Fool dieth Know ye not that there is a Prince and a Great Man fallen this day in Israel 'T is the Death of Abner General of the Army whom David lamented so 'T is in the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies the Princpal Man and in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great Captain WHen I observe these Walls hung with Mourning and the profound silence which attends this mournful Ceremony I see plainly Gentlemen that you are assembled here to mix your tears with the tears of all France and I conceive my self to be but the interpreter of your grief But when I cast my eyes upon the Trophies which attend the Corps and upon those marks of Grandeur which present to our sight a kind of Triumph in the midst of the very Shades of Death I am sensible that you come not here barely to weep at the remembrance of a Hero we so lately lost the memory of Heroes requires somewhat more than this To the demonstrations of an universal affliction we should add publick Elogics and apparent signs of our particular veneration a weak but a due acknowledgment of what they merit of us How happy should I be Gentlemen if being chosen this day to publish the Encomiums of so great a man I was but able to express one part of your thoughts and but in some measure to represent an Idea of what you your selves conceive of his worth But how is it possible but to omit something in the infinite number of matters which offer themselves in a croud to my Fancy How can I confine within the narrow Bounds of a Discourse the Elogium of a Person whose Glory fills the whole Earth 'T is rare to see a mans Wit upon such an occasion to reach the Sentiments of his Mind And this am I most abundantly sensible of being now to speak the Elogium of Monsieur de Turenne When I call to mind the wonderful number of great Actions which he has done my eyes are dazled and my Fancy is at loss As I know not where for to begin I see not where to end If his Military Virtues surprize me his Christian Virtues ravish me An non proprius virtutum nitor splendorem armorum illustravit Cassiod ep 5. var. If I contemplate him as a Great Hero in War I look upon him likewise as Great a Hero in Christianity and in the midst of that admiration which so many Virtues so many Great Actions so many Miracles both of Wisdom and Valour occasion I must say with the Prophet Know ye that he whom we lament was one of the greatest and wisest Captains in his Age Num ignoratis quoniam Princeps Maximus cecidit Great by the splendor of his Birth and his Immortal Actions but greater yet in the sight of God by the Innocence of his Life 'T is this last Virtue which makes the Praises of Heroes to be allowed of in Holy Places for without it methinks Custom could not have introduc'd Funeral Ceremonies to any other end Mors mater moeroris usurpatur ad gloriam Bern. Serm. 26. in Cant. but to flatter the living by the Elogiums of the dead But a thought so little Christian-like The Cardinal of Bouillon Non tam clari sanguinis colore quam virtutum succo hujus vestimenta purpurascunt D. Ambr in Hexant could never possess the mind of that Prince who has caus'd the paying of these Devoirs to the Memory of his Uncle and who is now as Noble by the Purple with which the Church hath honoured him as by the Splendor of his Birth He designs not here to shew how great he was born but to testifie his Piety Let us endeavour then to imitate him in so holy a Design and let us not so much admire all the other Virtues of Monsieur de Turenne as that alone which is able to render him acceptable in the eyes of the Sovereign Lord of all things If true it is that Nature gives in the Blood the first dispositions to Courage who ever had by Birth greater dispositions to Virtue than the Prince whom we are now speaking of The glorious Blood which descended to him from his Ancestors was as 't were the original Source of his Heroick Valour He is descended from a House whose Royal Alliances have communicated to his Ancestors by fifteen Princesses all the Greatness of all the Soveraign Powers in Europe He is descended in a direct and Male Line from the Ancient Sovereign Counts of Auvergne Justel's Hist of the House of Auvergne Dukes of Aquitane true Heir both to the Virtue and Glory of those Princes who were the Wonders of their several Ages A Birth so advantageous did inspire into him from his very Infancy a strong desire to imitate Penè adolescens Glorie maturitatem occupavit Plin. epist 1.4 nay to surpass the great examples which they had left him He began to bear Arms at an Age when he had not as yet strength to manage them The memory only of so many Glorious actions which those of his Family had done did put him upon great things but the reputation in Arms which the Prince of Orange his Unkle by the Mothers side had gained did yet more vigorously excite him to deserve a share in his Conquests He made the first Essayes of his Valour under that Prince and learning there to obey he was soon qualified to command 'T was his own desire to pass all the degrees before he arriv'd to that great Command of a General in all which different Employes he acquitted himself most honourably To gain that profound understanding in which he did outvie all other Captains he was in person in threescore several Sieges and six set Battels before that he commanded in Chief His Majesties Armies What he did upon every of those occasions do very well merit Elogiums but his Actions since he was a General carry so much of Splendor and Glory with them that a man cannot fix his eyes upon what preceded Let us omit then all the testimonies of Valour and Prudence which he gave before Casal at Turin at Quiers at the passage of the Po near Montcallier at Rousillon in Lorrain and in many other places which I do not mention because I would not distract your Fancy with the almost infinite multitude of his private actions Let us make a little stop at the marvellous effects of his Courage when being sent to

glorious Remains of that great man Ashes of his Body half burnt with that Thunderbolt which snatcht him from amongst his Triumphs go ye and receive the last Honours and the just Marks of the grief of the esteem and of the sense of the greatest of Kings The Tomb which is to enclose you what glorious Titles does it bear of so many brave Actions Go and divide this Honour amongst those great Captains whom Valour Alphonse de Brenne Bertrand du Queseline Lewis de Sancerre Lewis de Evereux Arnaud de Barbaran Guillaume du Chastel buried at S. Denis Wisdom and Piety did so much distinguish in their Life-times that they remain yet distinguished since their Deaths by those proud Monuments which the Magnificence of our Monarchs has caus'd to be erected for them in the Temple appointed for the Burial of Kings But Gentlemen might not this Prince hope for a more solid recompence of his Labours than the Glory of a vain Tomb So many wonderful Actions are they not able to procure him a further advantage than a cold Marble deck'd with the Adornments of Vanity Then he might say with the most afflicted and the wisest of Kings that nothing would remain of him but a Magnifick Silence a vain Ostentation of Elogiums and Specious Titles to cover the emptiness of his Tomb. Job 3.14 Dormiens silerem somno meo requiescerem cum Regibus Consulibus Terrae qui aedificant sibi Solitudines They are but Solitudes that the Powers of the Earth build in erecting of Tombs since that their Glory and Grandeur accompany not the Persons and there remains nothing of them but dumb Shadows Monsieur de Turenne has thought of a more solid Glory He entred so often into the bosom of Eternity in his wise reflections he was so often rais'd above the pitch of those foolish Idea's with which vain men are pleas'd that I date to say that his Soul has acquir'd an eternal happiness by the Innocence of his Life and the Holiness of his Manners He might have lived longer for the Glory of France for the Repose of the People for the Reputation of our Arms and for the Security of our Frontiers But what could he have added to his own Glory Go then Generous Soul go and enjoy that profound peace which you have so vehemently desired You have sought it already in the midst of the great successes of a Campagne so glorious and you have made haste to secure the repose of France that you might entirely apply your self to the thoughts of Eternity in the peaceable repose of a more quiet Life Pretiosa Mors haec quae emit immortalitatem pretio sanguinis Cypr. Epist 9. But in the very instant that your wishes were upon being perfectly fulfill'd you met with Death in the bosom of Glory Our Enemies themselves did commend you at the same time that we lamented you Both Rome and Vienna paid you the Devoirs of Esteem and Piety when Paris rendred you the Devoirs of their Acknowledgments Our Churches Quam opinionem nemo unquam mortalium assequi potuit sine eximia virtutis gloria Aug. l. 3. De Civ Dei c. 15. our Sanctuaries the Tribunals of Justice the Circles the Academies and the Publick Oratories have rung with your Praises both Prose and Verse have consecrated the remembrance of your glorious Actions in all the polite Languages They have said the very same things of you throughout all Europe as have been said throughout all France From the moment of his Death all our Joys have been changed into Torrents of Tears our publick Acclamations into a sorrowful Silence and our Songs of Victory and Triumph into most lamentable Sighs To conclude the People have mourn'd and the King Himself hath shed tears and that incomparable Monarch did make the best Elogium that could be made of your Glory when he publickly said that we had lost the wisest Captain and the Chief man in this Age. Flevit omnis Populus plangénsque Rex lugens ait Nequaquam ut mori solent ignavi mortuus est Num ignoratis quoniam Princeps Maximus cecidit Not being able to add to this Elogy which has proceeded from the mouth of Two great Kings I hold my peace and leave to History the care of making the Panegyrick and communicating to Posterity the Wonders of this Heroe FINIS