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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49604	A funeral oration or sermon upon the most high, most potent Lord, Francis Henry De Montmorancy ... prounc'd at Paris, in the church of the Profess'd House of the Company of Jesus, the 21 st. of April, 1695, by Father De la Rue, of the same society ; from the french original.; Oraison funèbre de très-haut et très-puissant Seigneur François Henry de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg et de Piney. English	La Rue, Charles de, 1643-1725.	1695 (1695)	Wing L455; ESTC R6889	22,402	33

Merit we might be afraid that so many profane Exploits and Triumphs might be only the Reward of those feeble Efforts of Vertue which sometimes may escape a Sinner but for which Heaven has no Crowns in store I should look upon him my self with an Eye of Pity as one of those Conquerors whom God made use of to magnifie Himself in Isaiah to subdue Nations put Kings to flight and break down the Walls of Cities and which he abandon'd afterwards to the Merits of their Works and the Punishments attending their Sins after he had rewarded their ambiguous Services with the vain Lustre of Worldly Prosperity God forbid that our Charity should be cool'd this day by such Sentiments as these Too many Reasons raise our Hopes without pretending to dispute the Rights of God's Justice so much Care as he has taken for the Salvation of this Sinner seems to persuade and convince us that God has made him an Object of his Eternal Mercy And here my Lords let us leave him as a Courtier a Warriour and a Conqueror All this was for the Eyes of Men in the sight of God he is a Sinner distinguish'd indeed by all those Titles of Honour which he bore upon Earth but at the same time expos'd to all those Frailties and all those Miseries that seem to be fasten'd to these dangerous Titles Yet in the midst of those Abuses which he might have made of 'em and what at length might have led him as they have done so many others to a Forgetfulness of his God let us admire those singular Tendernesses or rather Wonders of his Mercy bestow'd upon him He bestow'd upon him two of the most precious Graces he could have bestow'd upon Sinners the Grace of Adversity during his Life and the Grace of Repentance at his Death Let him then eternally sing those words of David Blessed be the Lord because he has magnify'd his wonderful mercy upon me You believe it not Grandees of the Earth and yet you find it by Experience at least you make others sensible of it that nothing more corrupts the Heart then a long and constant Prosperity that nothing over-casts the Mind with a thicker Darkness that generally there is nothing but Adversity that can call back a wandring Mortal to his Reason to his Conscience to his Salvation and his God You believe it not and this Errour is your Ruin The Subject of Discourse lay under the same Errour and was subject to those Deviations which are the usual Consequences of it He trod the Paths of Ambition for fifty Years together What a Progress did he make in it But the farther we advance in that Road the more Good God we go out of our Way Nevertheless thou didst follow him step by step Thou didst wait in expectation of a happy Moment to pour down thy Mercy upon him 〈◊〉 up●●●eing 〈◊〉 for a 〈◊〉 and a ●●ncer The happy Moment came and thy Mercy was pour'd down What a signal Kindness my Lords was this for all France A Man of that Name that Rank cloath'd with so many Honours distinguish'd by so many Services to be oblig'd to Justifie himself Upon what account For that which cannot fall but into the Meanest of Souls not only without Religion but without Reason without Fortune without Honour At that very moment he perceives all the Supports of Grandeur failing Feeble Bulrushes nodding with ev'ry Tempest and bowing under the weight of the Tempest He was not astonish'd to see such a Change of Looks and Hearts Solomon says That Slander troubles the Heart of a wise man and destroys the strength of his heart But never did more Prudence appear in his Heart then at that time and never did he raise himself so much above his own Strength and undaunted Courage The Sight of the Danger and the Easiness to avoid it by so many open ways and offer'd to his Choice On the other side the Dread of all things necessary for his Justification never gave him the least Disturbance Considering his Innocency he look'd upon his Liberty as nothing he sacrific'd it himself he ran to the Prison with the same speed that the Guilty flie it There he only minded the saving of his Innocence and his Honour and there he met the Mercy of God that waited for him Yes surely my Lords 't is so and if what I have said has not proceeded from the Mouth of Fame yet has it issu'd from the Lips of Truth In view of this very Church where we are now met together which was in his way he made a stop and at that very moment notwithstanding the Confusion of Thoughts which turmoil'd his Mind he acknowledg'd the Hand of God lifted up against him Far from being consternated like the Heathen Prince at the sight of the Celestial Hand-writing which wrote his Destiny but rather full of Considence and Humility at the same time he enter'd the Church and pouring forth his Soul at the Feet of this same Altar he confess'd that his Sins had been the Source of his Misfortune he ador'd the Goodness of God who had made choice of that means to draw him from the Precipice and set him in the right way of Salvation And less Touch'd with the Danger his Estate and Reputation were in then the Peril of his Soul he renounces Hearken Christians he renounces his Justification before Men if his Justification were opposite to his Salvation This was then the Sense and Spirit of his Prayer He has often explain'd his Meaning upon it at a Time when the Confession he made of it ought to be a Reproach to his Conduct Thou Lord who heardest him and hast promis'd every thing to Prayer more-especially to that which is put up for Salvation Thou who hast afforded him this signal Justification in the Eyes of the World which he implor'd but faintly of Thee wouldst Thou have resus'd him that Salvation which he su'd for then so earnestly in the Bitterness of a Soul sincerely humbl'd This was not ineffectual and if I may be permitted to apply to him what the Scripture speaks of a Just Man persecuted Wisdom descends with him into the Prison and forsakes him not in Bonds He there detested his Vanities he search'd into the Errors and Disorders of his Life he solemnly aton'd for 'em by the Use of the Sacraments nor was he deliver'd from his Captivity till enliven'd with more Pious Resolutions To corroborate him in it God permitted that being Justify'd as he was Free and Triumphant over Envy a Retirement of several Months should serve as a Tryal of his Fidelity Faithful to God all that time he spent his Leisure in the same Exercises and continu'd the Purifying of his Heart by frequent Confessions 'T was then another Heart form'd by Adversity and consecrated by Repentance the Work of the Grace of God How long think ye should any of you have held out Answer you that hear me and search for the Answer in your own Hearts After so