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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23681	The desire of all men a sermon preach'd at Daventry in Northamptonshire, March 5, 1694/5, (being the day of the interment of our late Most Gracious Queen), before the bayliff and burgesses of the said corporation of Daventry and other gentlemen of the country, and published at their request / by Charles Allestree ...	Allestree, Charles, 1653 or 4-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing A1080; ESTC R8239	11,013	30

The Desire of all Men. A SERMON Preach'd at DAVENTRY IN Northamptonshire March 5. 1694 5. Being the Day of the Interment of our Late Most Gracious QUEEN Before the Bayliff and Burgesses of the said Corporation of Daventry and other Gentlemen of the County and published at their Request By Charles Allestree M. A. Minister at Daventry LONDON Printed for Thomas Bernet at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard London and Obediah Smith Bookseller in Daventry 1694 5. To the Bayliff and Burgesses of the Corporation of DAVENTRY Gentlemen YOV having testified the inward Honour and Esteem which you bore to the Virtues of our Late QUEEN by ordering the Desk and Pulpit to be hung in Mourning and desiring me to Preach upon the Solemnity of her Funeral I chearfully obey'd your Request in Preaching and now in Publishing the Discourse I knew my own inabilities too well to think that I could be just to my Subject or be able to reach her Character but I know I have justly said so much of her Moral and Intellectual Accomplishments as must make us despair of those Attainments and I have no other design in the Publication of this Sermon but only to propose Her as a Pattern to the Imitation of all those Good Women that shall hereafter desire to excel in Virtue I am Your Most Obliged Friend and Servant C. ALLESTREE March 7th 1694 5. Numbers 23.10 Let me die the Death of the Righteous and let my last End be like his THis is the Comprehensive Desire of all Mankind in the World both Good and Bad for though few Men are careful enough of imitating the Lives of the Righteous yet even the worst of People by a natural impulse are desirous of following them in their Deaths Now this Desire takes place to the heigth and occurrs irresistibly to the Mind when we see a departing Soul upon the Wing just ready to take seizure of Heaven and of all the Glories that are the promis'd Reward of Virtue and Innocence And to urge us effectually to this pious Ejaculation of praying to die the Death of the Righteous we have the brightest Example before us that ever shin'd in our English Sphere both for the eminency of her Goodness as well as Station in the Interment of our Glorious QUEEN and in her happy Translation into another World We commemorate this Day an instance of the most exalted Virtue and the most Heroick Piety that possibly either this Age or any preceding Time was ever able to produce whose Death by the benignity of Heaven attracted the Desires of all Men It was suitable to the Integrity of her Life and correspondent to the course of her Living here It was an Effect and Demonstration of the Holiness of her Conversation and will powerfully recommend the practise of Righteousness to all Mankind that shall advert to it from the Patience and Resignation that was conspicuous in our Departed QUEEN and from the assurance she enjoy'd of an everlasting Rest in Heaven She had been initiated early into the Principles of Religion and remember'd her Creator in the Days of her Youth so that when God in Mercy thought fit to take Her to himself and to exchange her Corruptible Crown for an Immarcessible one in Glory He was pleas'd not to leave himself without a Witness of his Government but in the terrible day of Trial to demonstrate to the World that Goodness and Virtue are Substantial Blessings that they will bring a Man peace at the last that they are able to fortifie the Mind with patience under the severest pressures and by opening a view of Heaven above to yield comfort to the most languishing Soul under any worldly Calamities or Afflictions When therefore an instance of such Goodness and such a Glorious Departure is present to our Thoughts how forcibly must Mankind be excited to wish from the very bottom of their Souls to die the death of the Righteous and that their last end may be like his Now in prosecuting this matter though I shall have no necessity to piece the Text either with the foregoing or following Verses yet I find my self constrain'd to beg this supposition that as the most proper and suitable season the Words may be imagin'd to be utter'd upon the view of a Righteous Person 's going off to Eternity And then the Motives that render his Death desirable may be reduc'd to these three Heads which I shall severally apply at the end of this Discourse to our Late QUEEN and to the sad Occasion of this Days Solemnity I. First To the consideration of the innocency of the Righteous Man's Life in the whole course and tenor of his Actions II. Secondly To his peaceable Carriage and Deportment in his Sickness or upon his Death-Bed III. And lastly To the assurance he has of enjoying Heaven hereafter and securing himself of Happiness to all Eternity Now though all these Qualifications are not always the ingredients of a Righteous Man's Life or do necessarily denominate or constitute him such but God is pleas'd sometimes without any visible or previous course of Piety before to make use of his Prerogative and pardon a Sinner at the last upon Repentance yet as this is a Case which very rarely happens and no Man at that Season can be morally secur'd of the Sincerity of his Intentions so the Person that dies in these Circumstances wants the Comfort of a Good Reflexion Whereas the Just Man that needs no Repentance as the Scripture stiles him Luke 15.7 has the advantage of seeing Heaven before him and his Good Works behind for his Consolation he looks upon Heaven through the best end of the Perspective and upon his Good Works through the Reverse but both yield him a delightful Prospect Now all these Marks of a Righteous Person were eminently united and center'd in the Character of our Late Gracious QUEEN She was from her Infancy from the dawn of Life to the setting thereof a constant uniform Pattern of all Virtue and Obedience the most remarkable Creature for Patience under the afflicting Hand of God in her Sickness and what endued her with this composedness of Spirit had a Plerophory and inward hope and a certain assurance of her Reward in Heaven I. I begin with the first That the Consideration of the innocence of the Righteous Man's Life is a main Motive and Inducement for us to covet to die his Death It is observable in the Rise and Beginnings of Sickness when Diseases make their Approaches and gradually seize upon the Vitals if they do not come in such an astonishing manner as to stupifie the Senses and benumb the Faculties of the Soul there are but two things at that time which generally the thoughts of Men are conversant and employ themselves about that is in reflecting either upon their Good or Bad Actions For all those indifferent Actions of our Lives which neither carry any malignity or essential Goodness in their Nature are so far from being the