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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

her Forehead lessening the Ghastliness of her Countenance the Fortunate MARY was to be Eternally withdrawn from the most unfortunate Age Almost at the same Years and with the same fury of the Disease as Alexander was ravish'd from the World or Germanicus Caesar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

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 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

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

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

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