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A28849	A sermon preached at the funeral of Mary Terese of Austria, Infanta of Spain, Queen of France & Navarre, at St. Denis, Sept. 1, 1683 by Monsieur James Benigne Bossuet ...; Oraison funèbre de Marie-Thérèse. English	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3791; ESTC R22734	20,939	36

and I will tell you for him what I have seen with joy that the inexpressible tendernesses of Mary Terese tended all of 'um to inspire into him Faith Piety the Fear of God an inviolable Intention on the Kings Service Bowels of Compassion for the Miserable a firm perseverance in all Duties and whatsoever we praise in the Conduct of this Prince Shall I mention the Bounties of the Queen so often experienced by her Domesticks And shall I again renew the Cries of her desolate Family before these Altars And you who are the Poor of Jesus Christ for whose sake she could not endure to hear her Treasures were exhausted first you poor Voluntaries Victims of Jesus Christ Religious Sacred Virgins pure Souls of whom the World is not worthy and you Poor whatsoever name you bear poor known poor who are asham'd sick impotent maimed Dregs of mankind to speak with St. Gregory Nazianzen Orat. 16. for the Queen respected in you all the Characters of Jesus Christ You then whom she assisted with so much Joy whom she visited with such tender Expressions whom she served with so much Faith happy in putting off a lent Majestie and in adoring in your meanness the glorious Povertie of Jesus Christ what an admirable Panegyrick would you utter by your Groans to the glory of this great Princess were it permitted me to introduce you into this august Assembly Receive Father Abraham into your Bosom this Heiress of your Faith Like you a Servant of the Poor and worthy to find in them no more Angels but Jesus Christ himself What shall I say more Hear all in a word Daughter Wife Mother Mistriss Queen such as our Wishes could make but above all excellent Christian she answers all respects without presumption and was humble not onely in the midst of all her Greatness but amidst all her Vertues I shall explain in a few words the other names which we saw written on the mysterious Pillar of the Revelation and in the heart of the Queen By the name of the holy city of God the new Jerusalem you know is meant the name of the holy Catholick Church holy City all the Prayers of which are efficacious of which City Jesus Christ is the foundation Rev. 3.12 which descended from Heaven with him because she is included in him as in the Head from whence all the Members receive their life a City dispersed over the whole Earth and whose top reaches to Heaven to place there its Citizens At the onely name of the Church all the Faith of the Queen was awakened A true Daughter of the Church not content to believe the holy Doctrines of it but to practise them in her Life and Conversation The Church inspir'd of God and instructed by his holy Apostles has so disposed the year that we find with the life Mystery with the Preaching and Doctrine of Jesus Christ the real fruit of all these things in the admirable vertues of his servants and examples of his Saints and in fine a mysterious abridgment of the Old and New Testament and all the Ecclesiastical History By which means every season is fruitful for the Christians every part of the year full of Jesus Christ who is always admirable Is 9.6 Ps 67.36 Luke 10.42 according to the Prophet not only in himself but likewise in his Saints In this variety which drives wholly towards holy unity so much recommended by Jesus Christ the innocent and pious Soul finds with heavenly pleasures a solid nourishment and a perpetual renovation of its fervors Fasts are therein mixt at convenient times that the Soul always subject to temptation and sin may settle and purifie it self by repentance All these pious observances had their happy effect in the Queen which the Church required she renewed her self in all the Festivals she sacrificed her self in all the Fasts and Abstinencies Spain has on this occasion such Customs which France does not follow but the Queen soon reduced her self on the side of obedience Habit could do nothing with her against Rule and the extream exactness of this Princess shewed the tenderness of her Conscience What other has better profited of this saying Luke 10.16 he that heareth you heareth me In which words our Saviour teaches us this excellent Doctrine of proceeding in the way of God under the particular guidance of his servants who exercise his authority in the Church The Queens Confessors could do all things wherein the exercise of their Ministry lay and there was no vertue whereunto she could not be brought by her obedience What respect did she not shew the Soveraign Prelat Vicar of Jesus Christ and all the Ecclesiastical Order But ab ove all who can count the number of tears she shed for those lasting divisions whose end cannot be sought for with too many sighs The very name and shadow of division fill'd the Queen with horror as it does every Pious Soul But let us not be mistaken the Holy See can never forget France nor France be wanting to the Holy See And those who for their particular interests concealed according to the Maxims of their Policy with the pretence of Piety and seem to irritate the Holy See against a Kingdom which has always been the principal bulwark of it should consider that a Seat so eminent to whom Jesus Christ has given so much will not be flattered by men but honoured according to rule with profound submission that she is set up to draw all the world to her unity and at length to reduce all Hereticks and that whatsoever is excessive is so far from being attractive that 't is neither solid nor durable With the holy Name of God and Name of the holy City Jerusalem I see Gentlemen in the heart of our Pious Queen the Name of our Saviour What is Lord thy new Name but that which thou explainest where thou sayst I am the bread of life Joh. 6.48 Matth. 56.26 and my flesh is flesh indeed and take eat this is my body This new Name of our Saviour is that of the Eucharist a Name made up of grace and sweetness which shews us in this adorable Sacrament a source of mercy a miracle of love a memorial and abridgment of all Excellencies and the Word it self changed entire into grace and goodness for the faithful Every thing is new in this Mystery this is the New Testament of our Saviour and we begin to drink this new wine with which the Heavenly Jerusalem is refreshed Mat. 26. But to drink it in this valley of temptation and sin we must prepare our selves for it by repentance The Queen frequented these two Sacraments with a fervor always new This humble Princess felt her self in her natural state when she was as it were a sinner at the feet of a Priest there expecting mercy and the sentence of Jesus Christ But the Eucharist was her solace Every hungry after this bread of life and ever trembling in receiving it although she

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF MARY TERESE of Austria INFANTA of SPAIN QUEEN OF France Navarre At St. DENIS Sept. 1. 1683. By Monsieur James Benigne Bossuet Bishop of Meaux Counsellor to the King in his Council Late Preceptor to the Dauphin And Chief Almoner to Madam the Dauphiness Printed at Paris by the King 's special Command Reprinted at London by J. C. and F C. for H. I and sold by Samuel Crouch in Cornhil MDCLXXXIV CHAP. 14 Revelat. v. 5. For they are without fault before the Throne of God My Lord WHat an Assembly does the Apostle St. John shew us This great Prophet opens Heaven to us and our Faith discovers on the Holy Mountain of Sion in the highest part of the blessed Jerusalem the Lamb which takes away the Sins of the World attended by a company worthy of him They are those of whom 't is Written in the beginning of the Revelations Thou hast a few names even in Sardis Rev. 3.4 which have not defiled their Garments those rich Vestments wherewith Baptism furnish'd them Vestments which are nothing less than Jesus Christ himself according to that of the Apostle Gal. 3.27 For as many of you as have been Baptised into Christ have put on Christ. This little number beloved of God for its innocency and remarkable for the rarity of so exquisit a gift has known how to preserve this precious Vestment and the Grace of Baptism And what shall be the recompence of so rare a Fidelity Hear what the Just and Holy one says Rev. 3.4 They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy worthy through their Innocency to carry into Eternity the Livery of the Lamb who is without Spot and walk always with him seeing they have never left him since he took them into his company pure and innocent Souls Virgins as St. John calls them Rev. 14.4 2. Cor. 11.2 in the same sense as St. Paul says to the faithful of Corinthia I have espoused you to one Husband even Christ The true chastity of the Soul the true Christian pudor is to blush at Sin to have no eyes nor love but for our Saviour Christ and to keep our Senses free from the corruptions of the World It is in this Innocent and Chast company wherein the Queen is placed her dread of Sin has purchased her this Honour Faith which pierces even the Heavens now shews us her placed in this happy Company Methinks I see that Modesty that Peaceable temper of Soul that humble Gesture of Body before the Altar which inspired the beholders with Devotion to God and respect for her God retribute these holy dispositions with the transports of Celestial joys Death has onely changed a mortal and fading Beauty for an Immortal one That delicate whiteness the Symbol of her Innocency and Candour of her Soul has onely if a man may so speak withdrawn it self to appear more illustrated by a Divine light Rev. 3.4 she walks with the Lamb for she is worthy The uprightness of her Heart without dissimulation ranks her in the number of those of whom St. John speaks the words which precede those of my Text ibid. 14.5 that Lying is not found in their Mouth nor any disguise in their Conversation and therefore are they without Spot before the Throne of God In effect she is without reproach before God and Men. Calumny could not attack any part of her Life from her Childhood to her Death and an Honour so unspotted is a precious perfume which recreates both Heaven and Earth My Lord Behold this great spectacle can I better comfort you and the Princes which attend you than by shewing you in the midst of this resplendent company and in this glorious state a Mother so beloved and regretted Lewis himself whose constancy cannot vanquish his just grief will find it more appeasable by this consideration But that which ought to be your only comfort ought My Lord likewise to be your Example and ravisht with the Immortal Splendor of so regular and irreprochable a life 't is your duty to transmit the Excellency of it into your own How rare is it Christians how it is rare again I say to find this Purity amongst men but especially amongst the great ones Revel 7.13 14. Those whom you see cloathed with a white garment those says St. John came from great affliction to inform us that this Divine whiteness is commonly form'd under the Cross and seldom under the tempting state of worldly greatness And yet Gentlemen it is true that God by his miraculous Grace has been pleased to choose these innocent Souls amongst Kings Such was St. Lewis ever pure and holy from his Childhood and Mary Terese his Daughter has receiv'd this excellent-inheritance from him Let us enter Gentlemen into the Designs of Providence and admire the bounty of God bestowed on us and all people in the election of this Princess God has raised her up on the pinacle of worldly greatness to make the purity and regularity of her Life the more conspicuous and exemplary Thus her Life and Death equally full of Grace and Holiness become an instruction to all Mankind Our age cannot expect a more perfect example for there cannot be the like Purity in so high an estate Here 's in short what I have to say of the most Pious of Queens she had nothing but what was August in her Person nothing but what was Pure in her Life Come hither all ye people of the earth come and behold in the chiefest rank the rare and Majestick Beauty of a Vertue ever constant In so regular a life it matter'd not the Princess where death strook there appeared no weak part whereby she might fear a surprize always watchful always attentive on God and her Salvation her so suddain and mournful death to us had nothing dangerous in respect of her So that her high state will serve only to shew the Universe this important truth That there is nothing solid or truly great among men but to avoid sin and that the only precaution against the attacks of death is innocency of life This is Gentlemen the admonition which the most High most Excellent most Mighty and most Christian Princess Mary Terese of Austria Infanta of Spain Queen of France and Navarre offers us in this Tomb or rather from the highest Heaven I need not tell you that great Birth Allyance and Posterity are from God Gen. 17.6 2 Kings 7.2 Acts 17.24.26 't was he that told Abraham Kings shall come out of you and made his Prophet tell David The Lord will make you a house God who of one man formed all Mankind as speaks St. Paul and from this common spring fills the whole earth has foreseen and predestinated from all Eternity both Allyances and Divisions marking the time adds he and setting bounds to the habitations of the world 'T was God then who exalted the Queen by her great Birth to an

smites her innocent Breast how she reproaches her self for the smallest sins how she bows down that Royal Head before which the Universe bows it self The Earth from whence she sprang and to which she 's now returning is not yet low enough to receive her she would even wholly vanish before the Majesty of the King of Kings God by a lively Faith engraves on the bottom of her heart what Isaiah said Enter into the rock Isai 2.10 and hide thee in the dust for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty Wonder not then if she appear'd so humble before the Throne O wonderful sight and which ravishes both Heaven and Earth with admiration You may behold a Queen who after the example of David attacks on every side her own Greatness and all the temptations to Pride which it offers You will see in the words of this great King the lively Image of this great Queen Domine Psal 130. non est exaltatùm cor meum O Lord I am not high minded Neque elati sunt oculi mei I have no proud looks O Lord I was never disdainful nor said in my heart Isai 11.7 I am alone on the earth How far was the pious Queen from those haughty looks and in so high a State who ever saw in this Princess the least spark of Pride or air of Scorn David goes on Neque ambulavi in magnis neque in mirabilibus super me I walk not in vain thoughts nor deal in wonders which are too hard for me He opposes here the Excesses whereinto great People do naturally fall Pride which always ascends when having extended its pretensions to what humane Greatness has most solid or rather less ruinous pushes forward its designes even to Extravagancy and rushes madly upon senseless Projects as that proud King did a true Figure of the Rebellious Angel when he said in his heart I will lift my self up above the clouds Isai 14.14 I will place my throne above the stars and will be like the most High I suffer not my self says David to wander into such Excesses But having beat it down thus in all the several parts where it seem'd to raise it self David gives it its fatal blow by these words If I have not had humble thoughts but exalted my self Si non humiliter sentiebam sed exaltavi animam meam or as St. Jerom renders it Si non silere feci animam meam If I have not made my soul silent If I have not quieted those slattering thoughts which continually offer themselves to puff us up And in fine he thus concludes this excellent Psalm Sicut ablactatus ad matrem suam sic ablactata est anima mea My soul says he has been like a weaned child I have snatcht my self from those Sweets which are unwholsom to betake my self to better Nourishment Thus an excellent Soul governs this Worldly Grandeur and casts it wholly forth from exercising any Supremacy David never fought a better fight than this The defeated Philistins and the Bears torn with his own hands are nothing in comparison with vanquishing himself But the holy Princess whose Funeral we solemnize has equalled him in both in his Attempts and Successes Yet she knew how to shew her self to the World with all that Grandeur her State required Kings owe that resplendent shew to the World like the Sun for the solace and satisfaction of their Subjects they ought to expose a Majesty which is onely a Ray of that of God 'T was easie for the Queen to display a Greatness which was natural to her She was born in a Court where Majesty delights to set it self forth with all its Circumstances and of a Father that knew how to keep with a kind of jealous circumspection what they call in Spain the Ceremonies of State and the Decorums of the Palace But she chose rather to temperate Majesty and abase it before God than to dazle the eyes of men with it How often have we seen her therefore hasten to the Altars to taste there with David an humble Repose and retire into her Oratory where mauger the Tumult of the Court she found a Mount Carmel the Desart of S. John and the Mount so often a Witness of our Saviour's Sighs and Tears I have learnt from St. Augustin that the attentive Soul makes to it self a Solitude Gignit enim sibi ipsa mentis intentio Solitudinem But my Brethren let us not slatter our selves we must find time to be alone if we will keep Religion alive in our Souls 'T is herein that we must admire the inviolable Fidelity which the Queen observed towards God Neither the diversions nor the fatigues of a Voyage nor any other occasion could deprive her of those particular hours which she design'd for Meditation and Prayer Could she thus persevere did she not taste in these Exercises that hidden Manna of which none knows the sweetness but those that taste Rev. 3.17 Manna absconditum quod nemo scit nisi qui accipit On this account she used to say with David 2 Kings 7.27 O Lord thy servant has found her heart to make to thee this Prayer Invenit servus tuus cor suum ut oraret te oratione hac Where run your hearts estranged from God Even in time of Prayer you let your vagabond-hearts take their wild course O could you say with our pious Queen whom we deservedly honour O Lord thy servant has found his heart I have reduced this Fugitive and here he is intire before thy face Holy Angel that presides over the Orizon of this blessed Princess and carries this Incense above the Clouds to burn on that Altar which St. John saw in Heaven relate to us the Ardours of this Heart wounded with the Divine Love shew us those Rivers of Tears which the Queen poured out before God for her sins How do innocent Souls weep do they undergo the sorrows of Penance Yea certainly seeing it is written that nothing is pure on earth Job 15.15 John 1. and he that says he has no sin deceives himself But they are small sins light in comparison I confess light in themselves The Queen knew none of this nature And this is the sence too of every good Soul The least spot shews it self on those Garments which have never been soyl'd I find Christians too knowing in this matter thou knowest too well the distinction of venial sins from mortal ones What will not the general name of sin be sufficient to deter thee from committing any Knowest thou not that those sins which seem small become great by their multitude and by the dreadful effects they work in the Soul And this is no more than what all the holy Doctors do teach by a joynt consent Knowest thou not that those sins which are venial by their Object may become mortal by excessive prosecution of them Innocent Pleasures become such according to the Doctrine of the Saints and those alone