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An essay on the memory of the late Queen by Gilbert, Bishop of Sarum.
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Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
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but be pleased to see how much His Character rises by the just Acknowledgments He pays Her and by that deep Affliction for Her loss which has almost overwhelmed a Mind that had kept its Ground in the hardest shocks of Fortune but lost it here IF our Apprehensions of His Sacred Life grow now more tender and we feel more sensibly than formerly that it is He who makes us Safe at home as well as Great abroad if we do now see what is that Interposition that is now left and that keeps off Misery and Destruction from breaking in upon us as the Sea to swallow us up if that Life it self is so often exposed that this creates a new Cloud upon our Minds gloomy and black as if charged with Storm and Thunder If all this gives us a melancholy Prospect we know that nothing can divert or dissipate it but our turning from our Sins which lay us so naked which have brought one severe Stroke already on us and by which God may be yet further provoked to visit us again Another Stroke must make an end of us To conclude THE truest as well as the usefullest way of lamenting this Loss is after that we have given somewhat to Nature and have let Sorrow have a free course then to recollect our Thoughts and to study to imitate those Vertues and Perfections which we admired in Her and for which her Memory must be ever Precious among us Precious as Ointment poured forth ever Savoury and Fragrant HER Death has indeed spread a melting Tenderness and a flowing Sorrow over the whole Nation beyond any thing we ever saw which does in some measure bear a Proportion to the just occasion of it How dismal soever this may look yet it is some Satisfaction to see that just Respects are paid Her Memory and that our Mournings are as deep as they are universal They have broke out in the solemnest as well as in the decentest manner Those August Bodies that represent the whole began them And from them they have gone round the Nation in genuine and native Strains free and not emendicated But if this should have its chief and best Effect to drive the Impressions of Religion and the Tetrours of God deeper into us than we might hope that even this fatal Stroke as terrible and threatning as it now looks might produce great and even happy Effects So different may Events be from the Causes or at least from the Occasions of them HOW lowering soever the Sky may now seem a general Repentance and a sincere Reformation of Manners would soon give it another Face It would break through those Clouds that seem now to be big and even ready to burst If this is too much to be expected yet if there were but a few that did heartily go into good Designs even they might procure to us a lengthening out of our Tranquillity and a mitigation of our Miseries and that tho' they were fixed on us by irreversible Decrees A number of true Mourners might hope at least to stop their Course till they themselves should die in Peace or they might look for a milder Fate if they should happen to be involved in a common Calamity Mark the Perfect and behold the Upright for their End is Peace FINIS Books Printed for Richard Chiswell DR THOMAS TENISON now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Sermon concerning Discretion in giving Alms. 1668. His Sermon against Self-love before the House of Commons 1689. His Sermon of doing Good to Posterity before Their Majesties 1690. His Sermon concerning the Wandring of the Mind in God's Service before the Queen Feb. 15. 1690. His Sermon of the Folly of Atheism before the Queen Feb. 22. 1690. His Sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Clergy-mens Sons Decemb. 3. 1691. His Sermon concerning the Celestial Body of a Christian before the Queen on Easter-Day 1694. His Sermon concerning Holy Resolution before the King at Kensington Decemb. 30. 1694. on Psal. 119. 106. His Sermon at the Funeral of the Queen in the Abby-Church in Westminster March 5. 1694 5. Dr. BURNET Lord Bishop of Sarum his Discourse of the Pastoral Care 8vo His Four Discourses delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum Concerning I. The Truth of the Christian Religion II. The Divinity and Death of Christ. III. The Infallibility and Authority of the Church IV. The Obligations to continue in the Communion of the Church 8vo 1694. His Sermon at the Funeral of Archbishop Tillotson 1694. His Sermon Préach'd before the King at St. Iames's Chapel on the 10th of February 1694 5 being the first Sunday in Lent on 2 Cor. 6. 1. Dr. PATRICK now Lord Bishop of Ely his Heart's-Ease or a Remedy against all Troubles With a consolatory Discourse particularly directed to those who have lost their Friends and Relations To which are added Two Papers printed in the time of the late Plague The Sixth Edition corrected 12mo 1695. His Answer to a Book spread abroad by the Romish Priests intituled The Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel wherein the true Doctrine of the Church of England and many Texts of the Holy Scripture are faithfully explained 8vo 1692. His Eight several occasional Sermons since the Revolution 4to His Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8vo A Vindication of Their Majesties Authority to fill the Sees of the deprived Bishops In a Letter occasioned by Dr. B 's Refusal of the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells 4to A Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a new Separation on Account of the Oaths to the present Government With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to them 4to A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a new Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A brief Answer to the said Discourse c. 4to Rushworth's Historical Collections The Third Part in Two Volumes Containing the principal Matters which happened from the meeting of the Parliament Nov. 3. 1640 to the end of the Year 1644. Wherein is a particular account of the Rise and Progress of the Civil War to that Period Fol. 1692. The Letters of the Reverend Father Paul Counsellor o State to the most Serene Republick of Venice and Author of the Excellent History of the Council of Trent 1693. An Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland In Two Parts From the Time that Duke Schomberg landed with an Army in that Kingdom to the 23d of March 1692. when their Majesties Proclamation was published declaring the War to be ended Illustrated with Copper Sculptures describing the most important Places of Action By George Story an Eye-Witness of the most remarkable Passages 4to 1693. Dr. Iohn Câ—nant's Sermons Publish'd by Dr. Williams 1693. 8vo Of the Government of the Thoughts The 2d Edition By Geâ— Tully Sub-Dean of York 8vo 1694. Origo Legum Or a Treatise of the Origine of Laws and their Obliging Power as also of their great Variety and why some Laws are immutable and some not but may suffer change or cease to be or be suspended or abrogated In seven Books By George Dawson Fol. 1694. A brief Discourse concerning the Lawfulness of Worshipping God by the Common-Prayer In answer to a Book intituled A Brief Discourse of the Unlawfulness of Common Prayer-Worship By Iohn Williams D. D. 4to 1694. A true Representation of the absurd and mischievous Principles of the Sect commonly known by the Name of Muggletonians 4to 1694. Memoirs of the most Reverend THOMAS CRANMER Archbishop of Canterbury Wherein the History of the Church and the Reformation of it during the Primacy of the said Archbishop are greatly illustrated and many singular Matters relating thereunto now first published In Three Books Collected chiefly from Records Registers Authentick Letters and other Original Manuscripts By Iohn Strype M. A. Fol. 1694. A Commentary on the First Book of Moses called Genesis By the Right Reverend Father in God Simon Lord Bishop of Ely 4to 1695. The History of the Troubles and Trial of the most Reverend WILLIAM LAUD Lord Archbishop of Canterbury wrote by himself during his Imprisonment in the Tower To which is prefix'd the Diary of his own Life faithfully and entirely published from the Original Copy and subjoyned a Supplement to the preceding History The Archbishop's last Will His large Answer to the Lord Say's Speech concerning Liturgies â— His Annual Accounts of his Province delivered to the King and some other things relating to the History Publish'd by Henry Wharton Chaplain to Arch-bish Sancroft and by his Grace's Command Fol. The Possibility and Expediency and Necessity of Divine Revelation A Sermon preach'd at St. Martin's in the Fields January 7 169â— at the beginning of the Lecture for the ensuing Year Founded by the Honourable Rob. Boyle Esq by Iohn Williams D. D. The Certainty of Divine Revelation being his Second Sermon preach'd at the said Lecture Feb. 4 1695. His Vindication of the Sermons of his Grace Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Divinity and Incarnation of our Blessed Saviour and of the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Sermon on the Mysteries if the Christian Faith from the Exceptions of a late Socinian Book intituled Considerations on the Explications of the Doctrine of the Trinity To which is annexed a Letter from the Lord Bishop of Sarum to the Author of the said Vindication on the same Subject Historia de Episcopis Decanis Londinensibus necnon de Episcopis Decanis Assavensibus a prima utriusque fundatione ad 〈◊〉 MD XL. Accescit Appendix instrumentorum quorundam insignium duplex Autore Henrico Whartono A. M. Advertisement THere will be published Several Sermons and Discourses of the Most Reverend Dr. IOHN TILLOTSON late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury by order of his Administratrix faithfully transcribed from his own Papers by Dr. Iohn Barker Chaplain to his Grace Which are disposed of to Richard Chiswell and his Assigns If Any pretend to publish any other except those already Printed they are to be look'd upon as Spurious and False And the Publishers will be proceeded against according to Law The first that will be published are his Sermons of Sincerity and Constancy in the Faith and Profession of the True Religion which are in the Press and will be finish'd this Easter Term 1695.
and looked with so solemn an Air that how much soever She deserved the Affections of the Nation yet we never thought that She possessed them so entirely as appeared in those Days of Sorrow It was a Season of great Joy We were Celebrating that Blessed Nativity that gave us all Life and the Hopes of a Blessed Immortality But it was a sad Interruption to that Sacred Festivity when we were alarmed with those frightful Apprehensions We were once revived with the Hopes of a less formidable Sickness This spread a Joy that was as high and universal as our Grief had been We were easily enough brought to flatter our selves with the belief of that which was so much wish'd for But this went soon off It was an ill-grounded Joy the Clouds returned so much the blacker by reason of that mistaken Interval Then all that prayed upon any Account whatsoever re-doubled their Fervour and cried out Spare thy People and give not thy Heritage to reproach We prayed for our Selves more than for Her when we cried to God for her Life and Recovery Both Priest and People Rich and Poor all Ranks and Sorts joined in this Litany A universal Groan was Echoed to those Prayers through our Churches and Streets We were afraid to ask after that Sacred Health and yet we were impatient to know how it stood It seemed our Sins cried louder than our Prayers They were heard and not the other BUT how severely soever God intended to visit us She was gently handled She felt no inward depression nor sinking of Nature She then declared that She felt in Her Mind the Joys of a good Conscience and the Powers of Religion giving her Supports which even the last Agonies could not shake Her constant Softness to all about her never left Her That was indeed natural to Her but by it all saw visibly that nothing could put Her Mind out of its natural Situation and usual Methods A few Hours before She breathed her last when He who ministred to Her in the best Things had continued in a long Attendance about Her She was so free in her Thoughts that apprehending he might be weary She commanded him to sit down And repeated Her Orders till he obeyed them A thing too mean in it self to be mentioned but that it shewed the Presence of her Mind as well as the Sweetness of her Temper Prayer was then Her constant Exercise as oft as She was awake And so sensible was the Refreshment that her Mind found in it that She thought it did her more good and gave even her Body more ease than any thing that was done to Her Nature sunk apace She resolved to furnish Her self with the great Viaticum of Christians the last Provisions for Her Journey She received the Blessed Sacrament with a Devotion that inflamed as well as it melted all those who saw it After that great Act of Church-Communion was over She delivered her self up so entirely to Meditation that She seemed scarce to mind any thing else She was then upon the Wing Such was her Peace in Her latter end that tho' the Symptoms shewed that Nature was much oppressed yet She scarce felt any uneasiness from it It was only from what She perceived was done to Her and from those Intimations that were given her that She judged her Life to be in danger But She scarce knew Her self to be sick by any thing that She felt at Heart Her bearing so much Sickness with so little Emotion was for a while imputed to that undisturbed Quiet and Patience in which She possessed her Soul But when She repeated it so often that She felt her self well inwardly then it appeared that there was a particular Blessing in so easie a Conclusion of a Life that had been led through a great variety of Accidents with a constant equality of Temper THE last and hardest Step is now to be made Our Imaginations which must still be full of the Noblest and Augustest Idea's of Her may be apt to represent Her to our Thoughts as still alive with all those Graces of Majesty and Sweetness that always accompanied Her But alas we are but too sure that all this is the illusion of Fancy She has left us She is gone to those Blessed Seats above Where even Crowns and Thrones are but small Matters compared to that brighter Glory which rises far above the Splendour of Triumphs Processions and Coronations THE measuring of so great a Change and so vast an Advancement in its full Latitude as it is the properest Thought to mitigate our Sorrows so it seems to be too lively a one for us now and above what we are capable of in our present Depression This may make us conclude with a sudden Transport of Joy that She is Happy unspeakable Happy by the Change And has risen much higher above what She her self was a little while ago than She was then above the rest of Mortals BUT black and genuine Horrour still returns and seems to wrap us and all things about us with so thick a Mist that so bright a Thought as that of Her present Glory cannot break through it While we are persuaded of her Happiness and that She has gained infinitely by the Change yet Self-love is so strong and Sense makes so powerful an Impression that when we consider what we have lost in losing Her we sink under our Burthen Dispirited as if our Life and Joy were gone with Her as if black Night and lasting Winter had chill'd all our Blood and damp'd all our Powers IT may seem a needless Severity to aggravate all this as if we were not enough loaded already But that a further black Scene must be opened And that we must be filled with the gloomy Prospect of that which we may but too justly and too reasonably look for God seems to be making a way for his Anger And to be removing that Interposition which we have reason to believe did effectually stop those Miseries for which we may well fear that we are more than ripe WE are not quite abandoned God does still preserve Him to us by whose Means only considering our present Circumstances we can hope either to be Safe or Happy That Duty and Respect which was before divided does now Centre all in Him All that we payed Her does now devolve to Him by a Title that becomes so much the juster because we have all seen I wish we may not feel it how deep a Wound this made on Him whose Mind has appeared hitherto Invulnerable and where Firmness seemed to be the peculiar Character It is indeed but natural that He who knew Her best should value Her most The best Tribute that we can offer to the Ashes of our Blessed Queen is to double our Duty and our Zeal to Him Whom She loved so entirely and in whom Her Memory is still so fresh that tho' for our own sakes we must be concerned to see it sink so deep Yet for His sake we cannot