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. 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has made Cyrus appear to be a Prince so much perfecter than the World is disposed to believe that the Picture he gives of him passes rather for a piece of Invention than of History When the World shall have lived beyond the fame of Tradition and Report a Minute History of this Life if exactly writ may probably have the same Fate It will look too great to be credible WHAT is Good as well as what is Great in humane Nature were here so equally mixed and both shined so bright in Her that tho' one of these is always the better part yet it is hard to tell in whether of the two she was the more eminent I will say little either of her Rank or of her Person the Dignity of the one and the Majesty of the other were born with Her Her Sphere was great and She was furnished with advantages proportioned to it She maintained her Authority with so becoming a Grace and inspired so particular a Respect that in this regard only She was Absolute and Despotical and could not be resisted The Port of Royalty and the Humility of Christianity did so happily concurr in Her that how different soever their Characters may seem to be they gave a mutual lustre to one another SHE maintained that respect that belonged to her Sex without any of those Diminutions that tho' generally speaking they do not much misbecome it yet do seem a little to lessen it She would never affect to be above it in common and meaner things She had a Courage that was resolute and firm mixed with a Mildness that was soft and gentle She had in Her all the Graces of Her own Sex and all the Greatness of Ours If She did not affect to be a Zenobia or a Boadicia it was not because She wanted their Courage but because She understood the decencies of her Sex better than they did The Character of a Iean of Navarre or of our Celebrated Elizabeth was much more valuable in her esteem than that of a Semiramis or of a Thomiris A desire of Power or an eagerness of Empire were things so far below Her tho' they generally pass for Heroical Qualities that perhaps the World never yet saw so great a capacity for Government joined with so little appetite to it so unwillingly assumed so modestly managed and so chearfully laid down THE clearness of her Apprehension the presence of her Mind the exactness of her Memory the solidity of her Judgment the correctness of her Expressions had such particular distinctions in them that great enlargements might be made on every one of these if a Cloud of Witnesses did not make them less necessary None took things sooner or retained them longer None judged truer or spake more exactly She writ clear and short with a true beauty and force of Stile She discovered a superiority of Genius even in the most trifling matters which were considered by Her only as amusements and so gave no occasion for deep reflections A happiness of Imagination and a liveliness of Expression appeared upon the commonest Subjects on the sudden and in the greatest variety of Accidents She was quick but not hasty and even without the advantages that Her condition gave Her She had an exaltation of Mind that subdued as well as it charmed all that came near Her A quickness of Thought is often superficial it catches easily and sparkles with some Lustre But it lasts not long nor does it go deep A bright Vivacity was here joined with searching Diligence Her Age and Her Rank had denied Her opportunities for much study Yet She had gone far that way and had read the best Books in the three Languages that were almost equally familiar to Her She gave the most of Her Hours to the study of the Scriptures and of Books relating to them It were easie to give amasing Instances of Her Understanding in Matters of Divinity She had so well considered our Disputes with the Church of Rome that She was capable of managing Debates in them with equal Degrees of Address and Judgment Nor was She unacquainted with those unhappy Questions that have distracted us And had such just as well as large Notions about them that they would have soon laid our Animosities and have composed our Differences if there had been Temper enough of all Sides to have hearkned to them SHE had a generous and a sublime Idea of the Christian Religion and a particular Affection to the Church of England But an Affection that was neither blind nor partial She saw what Finishings we still wanted and had dedicated Her Thoughts and Endeavours to the considering of the best Means that might both compleat and establish us She intended to do all that was possible in order to the raising a higher Spirit of true Devotion among us to engage those of our Profession to a greater Application to their Functions and to dispose us all to a better Understanding among our selves that we might with united Endeavours set our selves to beat down Impiety and Imorality She read and meditated much on these Subjects and judged of them with so just an Exactness that it appeared the Strength of Her Mind went far beyond the Compass of Her Knowledge She took that Care to be well informed of these Matters that when She met with Hints either in Books or Sermons that related to other Subjects with which She was not acquainted She lost none of them If they seemed to be of Importance She called for Explanations of them from those whom She suffered to entertain Her upon such Subjects She proposed them often with a Preface confessing Her own Ignorance And when She had stated some Difficulties to them very clearly She would conclude with Words that carried in them an Air of Modesty that shined then most particularly when She seemed to desire an increase of Knowledge She would say She did not know if there was any Difficulty in such things or not or if She apprehended or expressed it right or if it was only Her Ignorance When any new thing was laid before Her She seemed glad to have an occasion to own that She knew nothing of that before But then She would have it to be fully explained to Her till She found She did thoroughly apprehend it All these Intimations were so carefully laid up by Her that She seemed scarce capable of forgetting them After several Years of Interval She returned in Discourse to some Subjects that had been formerly opened to Her with a freshness of Apprehension about them as if the first Discourse had never been interrupted She knew none of the learned Languages yet when some Passages of Scripture were explained to Her by the Genius and Phrases of the Original Languages She retained them very carefully even tho' She understood not the Foundation of them She loved sincerity in every thing to such a degree that She desired to understand the weak side as well as the strong one of all Parties and
become Her by any part of her Behaviour to discourage or seem to dislike one that was doing his best The hardest Censure that she past on the worst was to say nothing to their Advantage For she never denied her Commendations to any Thing that deserved them She was not content to be Devout her self she infused that Temper into all that came near Her Chiefly into those whom she took into her more immediate Care whom she studied to form with the Tenderness and Watchfulness of a Mother She charmed them with her Instructions as she overcame them with her Kindness Never was Mistriss both feared and loved so entirely as She was She scattered Books of Instruction to all were round about Her And gave frequent Orders that good Books should be laid in the places of Attendance that such as waited might not be condemned to Idleness but might entertain themselves usefully while they were in their turns of Service SHE had a true regard to Piety where ever She saw it in what Form or Party soever Her Judgment tied her to our Communion but her Charity was extended to all The Liberty that some have taken to unchurch great Bodies of Christians for some Defects and Irregularities were strains that She could never assent to Nor indeed could She well bear them She longed to see us in a closer Conjunction with all Protestants abroad And hoped we might strenghthen our selves at home by uniting to us as many as could be brought within our Body Few things ever grieved her more than that those Hopes seemed to languish And that the Prospect of so desired an Union vanished out of sight THE raising the Reputation and Authority of the Clergy as the chief Instrument for advancing Religion was that to which She intended to apply her utmost Diligence She knew that the only true way to compass this was to engage them to be Exemplary in their Lives and Eminent in their Labours To watch over their Flocks and to edifie them by good Preaching and diligent Catechising She was resolved to have the whole Nation understand that by these ways and by these only Divines were to be recommended to Favour and Preferment She made it visible that the Steps were to be made by Merit and not by Friendship and Importunity Solicitations and Aspirings were Practices that affected her deeply because She saw the Use that was made of them by malicious Observers Who concluded from thence that we run to our Profession as to a Trade for the sake of the Gains and Honours that we might find in it and not to save Souls or to edifie the Church Every Instance of this kind gave her a sensible Wound because it hardned bad Men in the contempt of Religion She therefore charged those whom She trusted most in such Matters to look out for the best Men and the best Preachers that they might be made known to Her She was under a real anxiety when Church-Preferments especially the more Eminent ones were to be disposed of She reckoned that that was one of the main Parts of her Care for which a particular Account was to be given to that God from whom her Authority was derived and to whom She had devoted it When She apprehended that Friendship might give a Biass to those whom She allowed to speak to Her on those Heads She told them of it with the Authority that became Her and that they well deserved She could deny the most earnest Solicitations with a true Firmness when She thought the Person did not deserve them For that was Superior with Her to all other Considerations But when She denied things She did it with so much Softness and upon so good Reason that such as might be mortified by the Repulse were yet forced to confess that She was in the right Even when for the sake of a Friend they wished that She had for once been in the wrong IT grieved Her to hear how low and depauperated a great many of the Churches of England were become Which were sunk into such extream Poverty that it was scarce possible even by the help of a Plurality to find a Subsistence in them She had formed a great and noble Design to bring them all to a just state of Plenty and to afford a due Encouragement But Pluralities and Non residence when not enforced by real Necessity were otherwise so odious to Her that She resolved to throw such perpetual Disgraces upon them as should oblige all Persons to let go the hold that they had got of these Cures of Souls over whom they did not Watch and among whom they did not Labour IN a full Discourse on this very Subject the Day before the fatal Illness overtook Her she said She had no great hope of mending Matters yet She was resolved to go on and never to suffer Her self to be discouraged or to lose Heart She would still try what could be done and pursue Her Design how slow or insensible soever the Progress might be She had taken Pains to form a true Plan of the Primitive Constitutions and had resolved to bring ours as near it as could be That so it might become more firm and useful for attaining the great Ends of Religion Neither the Spirit of a Party nor of Bigottry lay at the bottom of all this She did not Project any Part of it as an Art of Government or an Instrument of Power and Dominion HER Scheme was thus laid She thought that the Christian Religion was revealed from Heaven to make Mankind happy here as well as hereafter And that as Mankind and Society could not subsist without any Religion at all so also the Corruption of Christianity had made many Nations the worse rather than the better for that Shadow of it that was received among them She thought that a pious learned and a laborious Clergy was the chief Mean of bringing the World under the Power of the Chistian Religion And that the treating their Persons with Respect was necessary to procure them Credit in the discharge of their Function She intended to carry on all this together and not any one Part of it separate from the rest If at any time She knew any thing in those who served at the Altar that exposed them to just Censures She covered it all that could be from common Observation but took Care that the Persons concerned should be both roundly spoke to and proceeded against when softer Methods did not succeed or that it seemed necessary that their Punishment ought to be made as publick as their Crimes were She would never suffer any to go away with a Conceit that a Zeal for the Service of the Crown could atone for other Faults or compound for the great Duties of their Function This seemed to be the setting the Interests of Religion after their own But She was resolved to give them always the preference No Intimation was ever let fall to Her in any Discourse that offered a probable Mean