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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23803	The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1695 (1695)	Wing A1194; ESTC R33068	65,567	192

able sufficiently to declare that we cannot yet make an Estimate of it AND as our Sorrows cannot but be justly Expressed in the Loss of so Excellent and so Vertuous a Queen yet let us offer up our Praises unto God from whom every good and perfect Gift cometh that he has not left us Comfortless that he has not cut down the principal Cedar that he has not deprived us of our chiefest Support and Royal Defender but that we enjoy and have a good King to Sit upon the Throne to Sway the Scepter and to go in and out before us to Protect us from the force of France and the danger of all Europe and that our Dear and Dread Soveraign may be for ever Happy in us his Loyal Subjects and we in so Good and Gracious a Prince let us Implore the Divine Powers to Protect Guide and Defend him in Spirit Soul and Body as for his Enemies let them be Cloathed with Shame but upon himself let his Crown for ever Flourish and let all the People say Amen AND now O all you Sons and Daughters of Sorrow and Affliction that faithfully Lov'd and Honour'd our Renowned Princess Lament your Loss but seem not to Bewail her Felicity do not immoderately drown your Eyes because God has Wiped away all Tears from hers and though in such a National Concern of highest Grief Natural Duty shews us to be Mortals yet let us not forget to be Christians and as our Saviour said to the Holy Women so may I with all Awful Reverence Express Weep not for her Blest Soul but for your selves that you are not so Happy AND this Sweet Advice Saint Hierom gives us Let us not Mourn as for one Lost but rather be thankful that we have had so Good and so Gracious a Pattern nay that we still have her for all still live in Christ yea though they die and whomsoever he thus takes unto himself are still within his Family THINK that you heard her Royal Tongue Express the great Farewel and in the most Tenderest Affection was pleas'd to say Farewel my dearest Soveraign Lord farewel I hear Heaven's call and the mighty Hour is come that we must part farewell my Royal Family and all my mournful Subjects now farewell each in your own order all must prepare to follow me Follow her then first in her Pious Example Fight the good Fight keep the Faith finish your Course as she did and henceforth is laid up for you what she Blest Saint hath now received a Crown of Righteousness which God the Righteous Judge hath prepared for all those that Love and Fear him G. B. Advertisement For more particular Concernment in Devotion read these Books following THE Whole Duty of Prayer Containing Devotions for every Day in the Week and for several Occasions Ordinary and Extraordinary By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man Necessary for all Families The Fourth Edition Price 1 s. THE Whole Duty of Divine Meditation in all its Various Parts and Branches By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man Price 1 s. Both Printed for John Back at the Black-Boy on the middle of London-Bridge THE Whole Duty OF Mourning AND THE GREAT CONCERN Of Preparing Our Selves for DEATH Practically Considered PSALM lxxxix ver 68. What Man is he that liveth and shall not see Death shall he deliver his Soul from the hand of the grave The INTRODUCTION THat needs no Proof where all are Examples to themselves such is that easiest and hardest Lesson that all must die that Death is the undoubted issue of Sin and that it is a Separation of the Soul from the Body for a time but because it stealeth on as they that sleep in a Ship-under Sail who arrive at their Port while they think not of going so we go on with a restless pace to the Grave and Silence and the unknown Limit of our present Life consuming while we are not sensible of it and because it is terrible to flesh and bloud our main care must be to inform our selves first what Preparation we are to make that neither our Life may prove uneasie nor Death terrible Secondly How to fortifie our selves against the Fear of Death And Thirdly How to comfort our selves with Spiritual Remedies against immoderate Grief for the Loss of Relations and Friends These Three Branches shall be the Heads of my Discourse I. First We must prepare for Death for Solomon tells ye 11 Eccles. 3. in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be and as Death leaves us so Judgment shall find us now as the Passage to the promised Rest which was a Type of Heaven to the Israel of God appear'd terrible Deut. 1.19 so likewise is our Journey to the Celestial Canaan we are instantly ripe though not ready for dying are all subject to this pale Prince to whom we are visiting every moment this day we now live we divide with Death and that which is gone is irrecoverably lost II. The Hour is uncertain to all Men but they are certainly Happy who are then provided Luke 12.37 many are apt to watch against the coming of Thieves who can take nothing from them but only that which a little Time must then what a stupid Negligence is it not to watch and provide for Death which they know will certainly and may quickly come and take away Body and Soul nay Heaven it self to all Eternity from the securest Sinner Thinkst thou of Youth and Strength alas how many that are young and in the Vigour of their Age have died before thee Dost thou at the Funerals of others think with the proud Pharisee Luke 18.11 God I thank thee that I am not as other men are seeing then that thou art exempted from the Privilege of Immortality of Body let not Satan delude thee but seriously prepare for that day which may prove thy happiest III. Consider That God is the Great Creator of the World and the Sovereign Judge of all Mankind Remember he sits above on his glorious Throne in whose hands are the Keys of Life and Death that whatever he pleases he brings to pass and none can resist his Almighty Power whatever he does is surely the best and none can accuse his All-knowing Goodness IV. Next If we consider our own sinfull State we may well cry out and say Unhappy we the Children of Dust and Ashes Why were we born to behold the Sun Why did our Mothers conceive us and bring us forth to a miserable World and unkindly rejoyce to hear us cry Whether alas has the Errors of their Lives lead us and in how deplorable a Condition do's our Birth engage us We enter this vain World with weeping Eyes but upon Death's Summons we go out with sighing Hearts V. All the few Days we live are full of Folly and Vanity and our choicest Pleasures are mixt with Bitterness the Time that 's past is vanish'd like a Dream or Shadow and that which we expect to come is not yet