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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37275	A sermon preach'd at the parish-church of St. Chad's in Shrewsbury, March 5, 1694/5 being the funeral day of our most gracious sovereign Queen Mary / by Thomas Dawes.	Dawes, Thomas, 1652?-1715.	1695 (1695)	Wing D451; ESTC R24877	12,749	32

A SERMON Preach'd at the PARISH-CHURCH OF St. Chad's in SHREWSBVRY March 5.1694 5 BEING THE Funeral Day of our Most Gracious Sovereign Queen Mary By THOMAS DAWES B. D Minister of the Church of St. MARY in the said Town LONDON Printed by F. C. for Gabriel Rogers in Shrewsbury and are to be Sold by John Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695. To the Right Worshipful Samuel Adderton Esq Mayor And other the Members of the Corporation Together with the Gentry c. of the Town of Shrewsbury WHen my Service was desired to assist on the much Lamented Occasion of our Good Queens Funeral Day I confess I thought the Solemnity so agreeable to my own particular respect and Duty that as a Son of the Church I could not well refuse But when afterwards your Requests proceeded so much farther than I had reason to expect and your Importunity would not easily admit of any Excuse I am more unwillingly forced thus a second time to Gratifie you by appearing more publick than I intended which I am sensible might as well have been spared were it not for your Serious Regard to the common Loss in which I own a real Concern and in so doing am sure to approve my self more acceptably as I am Your most Affectionate Humble Servant THO. DAWES 2 Chron. Chap. 35. latter part of the 24 v. He Dyed and was Buried in one of the Sepulchres of his Fathers and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah COuld our Grief be always hid and modestly conceal'd we Christians need no stronger Antidote than that of our Religion as it teaches us Submission to all Gods Providences when they look unfavourably to our Temporal Interests Thus we have often in silence put our hands upon our mouths and with Reluctancy stop'd th' eruption and clamour of many of our Sorrows and would have done so now and stoop'd particularly under our Fate which is our pressure very sensible but that our Loss is so confessedly great and our Passions in their resentments more than usually high lavish and indeed ungovernable All Afflictions we find by woful experience are not equal and of the same size and magnitude 'T is alas more than once we have lost a Dear Friend who living stood very nigh our tender heart and when Dead we could not but Lament but seldom so loud as now when we are forced to exchange our Patience for our Pious Sorrow we Weep and mean it so as we think it is our Religious Duty to bewail I need not name th' Occasion when I see here all Faces gather Blackness and strive with concern zealously to augment the serious Pomp of our Funeral Lamentation We have lost but could our Loss be utter'd I am not able equally to express your Grief who want Words so many to express my own But here this Day when all the English Nation Mourns as we do and the vast Deluge of our Tears swells so universally wide that they waft a far of our Sorrow as they roal from shore to shore and drown our Neighbours too as well as we how can we refrain Let this day pass ever then for a Day of Sorrow Yet tho' I cannot possibly excuse your Mourning give me leave to inquire a little into the Nature of our Common Distress thereby to justifie our Grief as approveable to all Mankind and to shew how 't is not only a violent hasty Tempest of our sensual Passion but a calm deliberate sound resentment if our Sorrow be capable of so much Moderation which has invited us hither to Condole together the Death of our Good Queen To this end I have pitch'd upon one of the Greatest Instances in the History of the Antient Jewish Church Josiah by name famous for Goodness and Virtue with a real Zeal for the Worship and Honour of the true God which is all indeed besides what is less Lustre and Magnificence which raises and supports the Throne of Majesty We find here his Good Subjects of all sorts assembled 't is like as well as we all over the Land Town and Countrey to Mourn and Lament his Funeral He Dyed and was Buried says the Text in one of the Sepulchres of his Fathers i. e. in the Sepulchres of the Kings and all Judah and Jerusalem mourn'd for Josiah The Royal Person here spoke of and Lamented was a King of Judah inclusive of the Tribe of Benjamin which were the only two which remained whole of the Twelve all the rest excepting some few persons having gone off generally long before from the true Church of God as then 't was into Idolatry at the fraudulent Instigation of a wicked King Jeroboam who made Israel to sin and not long after into remediless Captivity under the Tyranny of the Heathen their Neighbours There had been some Good and many Bad Kings 'till the succession of Josiah whose Government commenc'd about 385 years after the Death of King David the second in order but yet the first of their Religious Kings Josiah was a Good Son of a very Bad Father Amon who was the Son of Manasseh Manasseh went off and apostatiz'd from his Religion and turn'd a profess'd Idolater He did evil after the Abominations of the Heathens Built High places and Altars to Baal c. made his Son to pass through the Fire a cruel bloody Sacrifice or rather here a kind of Lustration to the Idol Molech so prevalent is Superstition and Bigottry even to the loosing the strongest Bond of Natural affection You 'll see his History more at large here Cap. 33. 2 Kings 21. where 't is said v. 20. He Amon did evil in the sight of the Lord as did Manasseh his Father They were both Father and Son immediately descended of that Good King Hezekiah who did much for the Worship of the true God and confiding in his Religious Integrity and the favour and protection of th' Almighty he manfully withstood the Blasphemy of Sennacherib here Cap. 32. 2 Kings 18 There passed 56 years betwixt the Reign of Hezekiah and Josiah all which time the Government was wretchedly Debauch'd with Idolatry and other grievous Abominations for which Mannasseh is drove out of his Kingdom into a Forreign Land From all which you will easily guess there was more than a little for our Religious Prince to do when he came to the Throne and intended a Thro-Reformation and the the truth is He did not Delay but set presently about it with all his power which will better appear if we consider how He came very young to the Crown 2 Kings 22. and here Cap. 34. but what he wanted in Age He made up in Virtue He was says Josephus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of an excellent Disposition and naturally inclin'd to Virtue and good Life which is a mighty Character of a Young Prince agreeable to what the Antient Scripture says of him from whence the Antiquary took it When this Godly man was but 20 years old He began to purge Judah and Jerusalem