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A33874	A collection of the funeral-orations, pronounc'd by publick authority in Holland upon the death of ... Mary II Queen of Great Britain, &c. by Dr. James Perizonius ..., Dr. George Grevius ..., F. Francius ..., Mr. Ortwinius ..., and, the learned author of the Collection of new and curious pieces ; to which is added, the invitation of the chancellor of the electoral University of Wittenberg, in Saxony, to George Wilbain Kirchmais, to pronounce a funeral oration upon the Queen's death, &c. ; done into English from the Latin originals.	Kirchmaier, Georg Wilhelm, 1673-1759.; Francius, Petrus, 1645-1704. Oratio in funere Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae Mariae. English.; Graevius, Joannes Georgius, 1632-1703. Mariae Stuartae ... Britanniae, Galliae, et Hiberniae Reginae ... justa persoluta. English.; Ortwinius, Joannes. Laudatio funebris recitata post excessum Serenissimae ... Mariae Stuartae. English.; Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701. Laudatio funebris ... Mariae II Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae. English.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5203; ESTC R10177	94,331	161

Daughters have done Virtuously but thou excellest them all Now in regard that all the Precepts of the Gospel are enclos'd in these two things love God with all thy Heart and thy Neighbour as thy self these were the two Essential things that comprehend so many others which this Pious Soul most effectually studyed 'T was by Reading and meditating upon the word of God that her Soul was purified and exercis'd it self in the desires of Eternal Blessings That we may be always with God it behoves us to Read and Pray often God speaks to us in Scripture and we speak to God in Prayer says St. Austin The Reading of the Holy Scripture fills the Soul with light and separating it from the Vanities of the World raises it up to the Love of God This our Pious Princess knew most admirable well and this was that which she practic'd with a Devotion and Zeal always worthy of Applause With what respect with what attention did she Read this Sacred and Divine word With what Zeal and Fervency did she apply her self to Prayer This is the accomplishment of Happiness said David Happy is the Man who sets his Affection upon the Law of the Lord and meditates upon it Day and Night Happy he who Addresses himself to thee I lift up my self to thee and I make my Prayer to thee in the Morning In this sacred Book it was that this Pious Princess had learnt that the only employment of the blessed in Heaven will be to adore God Holy Holy Holy Lord God who art and will be for ever is the continual Song of the blessed Spirits above You People of the World who only conform your selves to the examples of the Grandees upon Earth learn from the Pattern of the most solid and most Illustrious Piety that can be set before your Eyes to make Prayer a most assiduous and regular Duty Prayer is no way different from the Practice of other Virtues and we attain to it by the same ways 'T is by a diligent Care and Practice in applying the mind to the objects of Faith in entertaining good Thoughts and by endeavouring to excite in our selves Holy desires and Holy affections Not but these means may be sufficient of themselves to cause them to grow in us but because that God is pleas'd to conceal his supernatural Operations under those means that appear Human. Knock and it shall be opened unto yee ask and you shall receive The Queen's great employments never hindered her one Day from being present at publick Prayers which may be said to be the least time that she employed on that Duty For how often in her Closet did she not humble her self before the King of Kings in whose sight the King 's of the Earth are but as Dust to acknowledge how mean and despicable she was in comparison of him before whom the Angels cover their Faces With what Humility did she not pay him Homage for all that she had and for all that she was Nor can I pass over in silence the trouble and perplexity of this great Princess when the Prince her August Husband after redoubled sollicitations from the English Nation found himself constrain'd to pass over into England Which way soever the Princess turn'd her self at that time she beheld nothing on every side but occasions of fear and affliction France and the King of England in League together were upon the point of destroying the protestant Religion This Republick saw themselves in imminent danger The liberty of Europe was threatned with approaching Ruin England in particular was in such an agitation as tended to a general Insurrection The wrong'd and oppress'd People were resolv'd to hazard all rather then see their Laws and their Religion overturn'd In this extremity what was our Princess to do but pray to God as she did without ceasing in the publick Churches in her Chapel privately in her Closet that he would be pleas'd in order to the accomplishment of his Holy Will to direct all things for his Glory to the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ his Son and the preservation of the lives of Two Princes of which the one was her Father and t'other was become another self as being ty'd to her by the strongest tyes on Earth God heard her Prayers Never was a Revolution of that importance with less Tumult with more Calmness and less Bloodshed The People who had call'd in that grsat Prince for the support of their Laws and their Religion receive him with loud Acclamations and Testimonies of their extraordinary joy Afterwards K. James took upon him a Resolution to retire out of his Kingdom without being oblig'd to it and without the least violence offer'd to him 'T was to the prudent Conduct of the present King and the Queens Prayers that we are to ascribe the success and easiness of this miraculous Revolution through the dispensation of Divine Providence They who had the Honour to be acquainted with the Character of this great Queen well knew that the lustre of a Crown did never dazle her No never Princess of such an Illustrious Birth and Rank as hers descended as every body knows from a long Race of Kings and Ally'd to the greatest Princes of Europe was endued with such a real Humility And thô she were more capable of Reigning then any Person of her Sex and that she had given Testimonies of it in ticklish and difficult Conjunctures and thô she performed that burthensome employment so much to the satisfaction of the English as will cause her to be always belov'd and lamented by that Nation nevertheless there was a real sorrow to be perceived in her Countenance that she was to quit this Country to which she had been accustomed and to whom the pleasantness of it appeared so charming where she had been respected caress'd esteem'd and if I may presume to say it ador'd by all the World where while she led a calm and pleasing Life she has been heard to say and I have heard her my self when she was congratulated upon her advancement to the Crown That many times so much Grandeur was a burth●n That in such Stations People liv'd with less content to themselves then others and that she should wish she were in Holland again And indeed she had Reason to say so For it may be said of those that Govern that they resemble the Stars that shine with a bright luster but are never at rest And this repose it is which being made so good a use of as she was wont to do that is so beneficial for those that desire to take care of their Salvation 'T was this desire of her Salvation which estrang'd her so fervently from the things of this World and which caus'd her to think so often of her end 'T was this Idea of unavoidable death which this devout Soul still set every day before her Eyes looking upon it as attended and accompany'd with the Sentence of God that will in that very moment

and suppress'd and extinguish'd Conspiracies enter'd into by a new sort of Catilines She muster'd the Land Armies and view'd the Fleets and took care that nothing should be wanting in either that might be useful either to stop or invade the Enemy or relieve and assist her own For this Tranquility of the Times for this same singular Providence and Vertue did she not more truly then any Princess before her deserve the Appellations of Augnst of Parent of her Country of Best Mother and Mother of the Martial Camps This every year she labour'd to see accomplish'd to the end the King might recross the Seas in his Military Ornaments the Key of the Kingdom being deliver'd to the Queen till towards the end of last Autumn after an Expedition ended upon the Borders of France he hasten'd to the Embraces of his Royal Consort and to provide for those things which were to be consulted in Parliament for the raising of Money towards the supplies of the Armies and Fleets The King took Shipping put to Sea and with a prosperous Wind arriv'd in England where he had no sooner set his Foot ashoar but the loud acclamations of the People were heard in all quarters of the British Dominions Long flourish Great Britain long live our Country long live King William And not long after her Majesty meeting the King all along upon the Road these lucky Omens and transcending Applauses fill'd the Sky Vnder the Protection of our King and Queen we live under their Protection we Navigate and Trade under their Protection we enjay our Fortunes and our Liberties Then most August Monarch should any one from among those vast congratulating and triumphing Multitudes have shew'd himself and presag'd that those Rejoycings were but the Fore-runners of Grief and would be soon defil'd by some signal Calamity impending on the Royal Family would he not have been deservedly lookt upon as some impertinent Enthusiastick So ignorant are human Minds of future Chance and Fate Such Sacrifices and Attonements as these the Omnipotent has prescrib'd to vaunting Mortals and ordain'd it as a Law that the greatest Inconstancy should rule their Affairs the Prosperity of which no Man could ever so assuredly promise himself as to depend upon a Fortunate Course of his Life without some intermixture of Adversity Thus it fell out that when the toilsome Labours of the Camp had recall'd the King to Rest and Pastime a mournful Calamity shook and oppress'd his generous Soul still wakeful over the safety of his Kingdoms where all succeeded according to his Mind and no less vigilent for the Common Good of the Belgians who conceiv'd in their Minds a lucky Omen of succeess from the more early then usual tho' ardently wish'd for return of their renown'd General For upon the third of January 1694-95 The Queen was seiz'd with a slight shivering but which threatned nothing of danger to her Life the Physicians giving hope of Relief and Cure believing this Royal Fortress might be defended by their Hands But upon the sixth of January the Fever gathering Strength and reinforcing its Virulency and the small-Pox a Contagion generally incident to Youth appearing but not kindly coming forth tho' all help and remedies were apply'd that human Experience has invented against the violence of that distemper it was in vain at length for all the Art of Physick to contend for the Disease immediately seiz'd upon the Queen with such a pernicious force as vanquish'd all the aid of Man All the while the King refus'd to stir from the Languishing Queen's Bedside assiduous to serve her and careless of the Infection that many times accompanies that Malady and being often requested to spare his Royal Person and not to inflict another Wound upon suffering Europe made Answer That when he Marry'd the Queen he Convenanted to be the Companion not only of her Prosperity but of whatever Fortune befel her and that he would with the hazard of his Life receive from her Lips her last expiring Gasps Felices ter amplius Quos Irrupta tenet Copula nec Malis Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvet Amor Dic. All hope of Recovery now was fled away and the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury being admitted into the Room in order to perform the last Duties of his Function told her Majesty that the fatal hour was at hand that the Forces of her Body being weaken'd and broken Death was making his Approaches and therefore she had nothing more to do but to submit herself to the Pleasure of the Almighty Such a harsh and disconsolate Message would have struck another Person tho' long exercis'd and harden'd in Stoical Indolency with Horror and Trembling But what said the Queen to this Full of Faith and Constancy she receiv'd the tidings with a chearful and undaunted Countenance saying withal That she did no way seek to shun the the stroke of Death but was ready prepar'd for the Dark Mansion of the Grave for that she had always so led her Life that whenever Death gave her his last Summons she should be a gainer by it Having thns spoken without the least emotion of Mind she receiv'd the certain Pledges of Divine Peace and ineffable Consolation to allay the Thirst and Hunger of her Soul deliver'd her by the Most Reverend Father at the same time with most ardent Wishes and pious Ejaculations calling upon her Redeemer nail'd to the Cross This last and most mournful Act remain'd and then the King oppress'd and bowing under the Burden of his own Sorrows e're death had quite benumm'd her trembling Arteries and the warm Vapour of Breath lay panting in her sacred Breast bid her Eternally farewell Which last demonstrations and evident signs of the most tender motions of the Soul were perform'd with that Sincerity of a Cordial Passion that you may readily most Learned Auditors conjecture the Anguish of such a doleful Parting though my Oration my bow being enfeebled with Sadness cannot reach the perfect Description At length my words stick fast upon my Tongue At length I say upon the seventh day of the Ides of January about twelve a Clock at Noon the Blessed Queen resign'd her pure Soul to God with a most placid Exit not having fully accomplish'd the thirty third year of her Age and consequently in the flower of her Years This was the End of a Queen in whom not only Piety Benignity and Humanity but all Vertues seem to be ecclips'd Oh cruel Fate Oh untimely Death Timely I should have said my Accompt fail'd me For if we measure the Course of the Queen's Life circumscrib'd by Years at first sight it appears to be very much streightned and very short But if we look farther we shall find it to be a long and immense Race of Glory One day of a Wise Man says Possidonius is more extensive then the whole Age of an ignorant Person That same Alexander whose Atchievements acquir'd him the name of Great Germanicus Caesar endu'd

England and with all their Might to endeavour the Restoration of King James to the Crown that he himself had thrown away The King considering the Danger was in deep suspence for some time whether he should return back into England or stay in the Low Countries to curb the Fury and disappoint the Counsels of the Enemy The first was advis'd by many who were of the King 's more secret Counsels in England and not a few of the Officers here about the King were of the same Opinion In this same Commotion of his Fluctuating Thoughts after an anxious deliberation the King at length decreed That the Yachts that wafted him hither should be sent back into England but that the Men of War that guarded him should be so disposed of that if need required he might be speedily conveigh'd back into England Whither he also sent word that Forty of the Men of War with the Admiral should steer away toward the Coast of France with this Design that if they found an Opportunity they should burn all the Enemies Transport-Ships But before the Yachts and the Messenger who was sent with the King 's Expresses arriv'd in England the Queens Letters were brought hither to the King giving him an Account That she had ordered a Fleet of Forty Men of War to sail away for the Coast of France and burn the Enemies Ships which were reported to be design'd to infest the English Shoar What Symphony could produce a more harmonious Harmony of Notes then this of the Opinions and Counsels of the King and Queen when the one knew nothing of the others Mind Insomuch that similitude of Manners and consent of Minds not Fortune seem'd to have joyn'd William and Mary together This is that true Love that so conglutinates and knits both Hearts together that nothing can be more closely join'd not to be sever'd by any distance of Time or Place and constitutes such a concord of Opinions that no force is able to dissolve Which who sees not in the King and Queen and being seen does not admire must needs be blind and ignorant of what is to be wondred at Therefore in all varieties of Times and Fortunes the King still found the greatest safety in the Love of the best of Queens It was a Saying of the King before he thought of Marriage to Charles the Second's Embassador at a time when there happen'd an accidental discourse about the choice of Wives that of all the Qualities to be sought for in a Wife his first care should be to find out the Best-Condition'd And he himself made himself the Master of his Wish for he could not have found a better Wife had the Sun it self according the Proverb been to have sought her out But as the King met with his chief help and assistance in the Queen's Love so not only her Subjects but all others for whom it was in her Power to do good found more than ordinary Succour in her bountiful Nature She thought the Day lost wherein she had not an opportunity to do good to several She measur'd her Felicity in that indulgent Height of Fortune by nothing more than by her Power to render others happy Yet was she not profuse nor did she scatter her Benefits promiscuously without Judgment or diligent Enquiry but gave plentifully gave considerately gave to fitting Objects She took more Pleasure if she had plac'd her Charity right than if Princes had heap'd upon her self all manner of Benefits and more rejoyc'd in bestowing than they who wanted in receiving She never forgot those Benefits which she receiv'd from others but still recalling 'em to Mind never suffer'd to slip out of her Memory What she bestow'd upon others she scarce remember'd as if she had lost her Memory I wish I could find Words to set forth the flowing Liberality of the most Pious Queen and were able so loudly to proclaim it and in such Language as that it might be heard in all Places Sparing to herself profuse to the miserable and wanting who believ'd that she herself enjoy'd what they receiv'd from her How many experienc'd the Bounty of her Munificent and Liberal Hand as well in England as in Germany the Low-Countries Piedmont but more especially the French Exiles who rather chose to lose their Estates than to hazard the loss of their Souls And the Splendor of this Benevolence shin'd forth in Mary's first coming into this Country For the Prince of Orange so soon as Mary became his Consort order'd such a sum of Money to be paid her for the necessary Expences of her Apparel and Princely Ornaments What did the Divine Princess do with it at those Years She did not stifle the Money in close and dark Chests nor did she lavish it out in gorgeous Attire upon Pearls and Gemms which other Women far distant from her degree are so mad after that they never cease this Fury till they have quite ruin'd their Husband's Patrimonies But moderate in her layings out considering the Grandeur of her Fortune upon her Apparel and other Ornaments which the Dignity of so great a Princess requir'd she introduc'd into the Court Diligence Frugality Parsimony Vertues most commonly unknown in Courts The rest of that large Allowance she consum'd in relieving the distresses of honest and worthy People who labour'd under great Necessities not through their own Extravagancy but reduc'd thereto by Misfortune and the hardness of the Times Magnanimous Queen superiour to all Applause For who is able deservedly to extol the Excellency of so bountiful and beneficent a Soul Where is the Woman among Ten Thousand that would deprive herself of the Money allow'd her for fine Cloaths and gaudy Ornaments to bestow upon the poor and needy while so few are contented with wearing the spoils of fair Estates upon their Backs and think all mis-spent that is not wasted upon Vanity and Finery But alas to compare the Queen with other Women is to do an Injury to her Divine Vertues wherein she equall'd or exceeded the Praises of the Greatest Men. Nor did she expect or desire any other Fruit from this her Bounty than a Conscience that told her she did well She never vaunted her Charity nor imputed it to Merit Most commonly she sent her Charity by Persons unknown who were not permitted to discover the Doner that she might not burden the Modesty of the Receivers So far was she from seeking the Favour of those on whom she conferr'd her Bounty that she deny'd 'em the Hopes of returning thanks when the greatest part were ignorant who bestow'd the unlook'd for Liberality Arcesilaus is highly applauded who laid a bag of Gold under the Pillow of his poor Friend but counterfeiting poverty all the while that he might privately supply the want of one who was needlesly modest Which Praises are not to be attributed to Mary who reliev'd not her Friends but Forreigners and Strangers whom she never saw whose Exigencies she had only heard of contrary to their Expectation

his Beams However She shone with Her own and Her ownmost Radiant Light and made it doubtful which way She from Her self diffus'd the serenest Light whether by her Royal Descent or by weilding the Royal Scepter Her self in her own Right Associate of the Empire or lastly by Her Royal Vertues and Graces conspicuous through all the Regions of the Earth Where the Sun hides and where he brings forth Day And wherein She far surpasses the Lot of all Women What August Queen did ever the least Fabulous Annals what Queen did former Intervals of Ages measur'd by the Line of our Ancestors or the Times wherein we live e're shew to the World who from an interrupted series of succession of Kings like Hers deriv'd her Birth and of whom with more Justice and without Assentation it be unanimously said Missa per innumeros Sceptra tuetur Avos Scepters does She defend That from unnumber'd Ancestors descend We take no Notice of Kings descended from the Immortal Gods the Father of the Romulean Race from Mars the Macedonian Amyntas or Philip from Hercules the Hornbearing Alexander from Jupiter the Julian Pedegree from Aeneas and Venus into which the Wife of Augustus by the Name of the Goddess Julia is to be inserted How much more true and sacred without offence to these Deities was the Original of this PRINCESS who understood Her self to be not only the Progenie of the Stuarts from Robert the Second Sirnamed the Happy and three Ages lower but from a more Ancient Original of the Royal Race in Scotland not to descend into the dubious Succession of Hector Boetius Then from the Anglo-Saxons by the Marriage of Margaret to Malcolm the Second From the Norman by the Marriage of the Daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth the Wife of James IV. From the Danes by Ann Her Great Grandmother Lastly from the Blood of France by Her Grandmother Mary of Bourbon the no less Unfortunate Mother of the unfortunate James So that to what ever corner of the Heaven our Heroess turn'd Her Eyes she certainly saw her Ancestors Cloath with Royal Dignity But tho she were descended from such a Progeny of Kings and would to God she had been the Mother of Kings Since Women born there never was any like her who as it were forgetful of her Extraction of her Ancestors and the Power derived from Antiquity which many believe to be sufficient to authorize their Transgression who carried her self more humbly to all Fortunes Degrees and Conditions of Men even to the poorest sort negligent of her Station and that Towring Throne from whence with her Great WILLIAM she gave Laws to so many spacious Kingdoms so many Seas Islands and People MARY in that same High Degree of Dignity would not be thought unworthy of the Scepters of her Ancestors nor the Glory of her Progenitors nor her own proper Lot to Command and Reign She bore in mind that High and Low were in subjection to the same Law of saving and coming into the World tho the same Fortune and Splendor did not attend all alike yet all were of the same Mould they who are cloathed with Imperial Purple and they who are forc'd to shroud themselves under the meanest Cottages Which was the saying of Socrates that there was no difference between Alcibiades nobly descended and the most Obscure Porter She well knew that Long descent and Ancient Lineage were but vain shadows that the Blood which is sprightly and ruddy in Youth grows languid and degenerates with Age or rather that the Beams of the most Splendid Light diffuse themselves upon Common-sewers That is to say upon Julia's and Agrippina's upon Caligula's and Nero's upon Domitian's and Nero's born to be the Insamy of their Families rather Excrements then Blood Whence it came to pass that they rather chose to be accounted the Heads and founders of their Race and Name then that it should be thought the Glory of their Ancestors extinguished in them I remember Noble Hearers the one day that this Pious and Pensive Princess recalling to Mind her Father who had so lately rul'd most flourishing Kingdoms but gone astray from that Faith which the Laws of God and Man had establish'd ever since the Reign of Edward VI the Josiah of his Age and which his Father and Grandfather had subscrib'd to I remember I say that being admitted into her Private Chappel after she had let fall a showre of Tears she gave thanks to God the Supream Parent of all things who sometimes forsook the Sons and Grand-children of Hero's sometimes in them supply'd what was wanting in their Parents correcting the Vice of Nature by the Benefit of Grace Which when I had confirmed by the Examples of her self and her Great Grandfather James the Son of Unfortunate Mary and that it was done by the same Miracle of Grace as we daily see Nature produce Gold and Diamonds out of stony and craggy Mountains and Sweet Juices out of Bitter Roots I added by way of Consolation of her Afflicted Piety that perhaps the Father of so many Tears aud Sighs would not be lost in Heaven Whose chiefest Glory it was to have begot MARY and from whom she received her Being while he on the other side receiv'd from his Daughter the benefit and aid of her Prayers then which there is nothing of greater force to expugn the Clemency of Heaven and a useful Pattern of Grace which she every day set before his Eyes And indeed whatever there was of Great that rais'd our Heroess above all the Queens of all Former Ages whatever the English almost ador'd in her what the Batavian lov'd the German honour'd the Switzer reverenc'd and the girning and reluctant French admir'd Fame has also so loudly proclaim'd to the utmost Limits of the Hyperborean Eastern and Western World that she can never be said to have celebrated the fame of any other Woman as she has sounded forth in Praise of this Princess And all this we must certainly conclude was ne're infus'd into her by any Human but by a Divine an Immortal Operation In the first place that most Sweet and Holy Name of MARY consecrated from the very Birth of Grace it self was a most Auspicious Augury of the Future Salvation Restoration and Security of Britain And it was as fortunate in Ours as it was Ominous and Fatal in Four Former MARYS of England Scotland France and lastly of Italy whose Fame Religion trampl'd under foot the Sacred Worship of God prophan'd Laws violated Halters Slaughter-Houses Racks Funeral Piles and Flaming Busts and lately the Church it self upon the brink of Ruin and groaning under most oppressive Servitude proclaim far and near In like manner as the mournful Annals of the Church declare both the Substance and the Omen to have fail'd under former Christian Governments in the Fausta's Eudoxia's Honoria's Eusebias Theodora's Irene's Specious indeed but empty Names of Christian Queens in former Ages And therefore Britain that had been ruin'd by MARIES was at