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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

like manner Domestic Servants and Subjects derive their Dye and Colour from the Life and Conversation of the Princess and their Sanctity and Integrity from the Prince who is the Head of the Commonweal Antiquity has recorded that Midas being initiated into sacred Rights by Orpheus fill'd all Phrygia with Religion which render'd the Country much more durably safe then the strength of her Arms. Therefore the most Serene Princess consecrated certain fix'd Hours to Divine Worship which she either spent in Prayer or else in reading Books of good and solid Divinity Sublime Example fit to be transmitted by Encomiums Eulogies Orations Writings and Monuments to all Posterity and to be erected to the Eternal Infamy of Slothful and Irreligious Matrons When those more solemn Duties of Religion were over she never gave her Mind to the frivolous stories of Amadis and impertinent Fictions of Amad. but attentively studied the Volumes of those Authors by which she might improve her Knowledge and her Prudence And lest most learned Auditors any one should think this short Oration compos'd at the obsequious Instigations of specious and pleasingly delusive Flattery I shall relate not what I gathered from the common report of Fame but from the Lips of a most worthy Person and my Friend who being admitted in the Morning to kiss her Hands found before her Cambden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth and Doctor Burnet's History of the Reformation But Piety is never to be accounted solidly accomplish'd unless accompanied with Liberality otherwise it would be Piety only in words and not in deeds as she her self upon the approach of her Expiring Minutes discours'd of a Godly and Vertuous Life You People of France who abandoning your Native Soyl because you would not suffer Violence upon your Consciences nor listen to the adulterate Charms of Bards and Druids You People of France I say depriv'd of all supports of Life fled to this most Clement Princess as to the Altar of some Sanctuary or some present Female Deity What time the Princess struck with Compassion pleaded your unfortunate Cause before the Fathers of the Country she sweetly sollicited the wealthy Treasures of many to pity your Condition Sollicited do I say Nay more she sent 'em away reliev'd and succour'd with her own Royal Revenues That others also were no less Sharers in her Princely Munificence the Money which she order'd to be solded and seal'd up in Papers and distributed without Vainglory and with an unwearied Charity to the Indigent sufficiently manifested Believing it more Generous and more Praiseworthy by this means to oblige her Debtors which were many see that for two or three Years together she order'd to be expended and divided considerable Sums of Money to those who in the Cities of Holland were not able to provide against the extremities of the Season and the injuries of the Weather That she was affable and courteous by which she acquir'd the Respect and Love of all Persons is undeniably acknowledg'd on every Hand For what was more usually observ'd in this Princess She never stay'd for the most convenient times of Address and the fittest times to be spoken with but meeting the Desires of those that made their Suits and Petitions to her receiv'd 'em with a Serene Countenance Saving the Veneration that was due to her believing that Affability and Gravity might reside together in one Mansion she re-saluted those that bow'd to her offer'd what not desir'd rightly deeming that no Person was to return dissatisfied and Pensive from the Presence of a Prince which was the saying of that Emperor who was call'd the Love and Delight of Mankind Now then if we but duly consider those Vertues most Learned Auditors what Man so Iron-Tongu'd and Leaden-hearted who can blame all sorts of Persons whether of high or low degree for being perplexed and troubled at the departure of a Princess so Pious so munificent But unavoidable Necessity demanded and commandingly requir'd that she must begin and follow her beloved Husband the most renown'd of Generals then busily engag'd to deliver the Necks of the English from being trampled on by Superstition and illegal Slavery But when the most Serene Princess call'd to mind the remembrance of her Subjects by whom she was most entirely and dearly reverenc'd and esteem'd when she thought of that Palace of Loo where she oft went to alleviate and divert the Cares of her Mind from having a full Prospect of the Woods and spacious Fields of Velau she beheld her Husband in pursuit of the wild Beasts with a full Cry when she revolv'd in her Mind how terrible a thing it was for a Kingdom to be without a Head and Chieftain contented with her Lot and sore against her Will she was torn away by Force from her Belgian Delights The publick Cause was in Dispute and that overcame her Charity toward her Subjects her Country Pleasures her Moderation her equity of Mind nay even the Considerations which she had for her Father himself whom she never went about to impugn nor ever desir'd his being ejected but enforc'd only to Consent that a Parliament might be duly Summon'd and that what had been alter'd shaken or broken might be restor'd to their former State that is to say according the Laws and most ancient Constitutions of the Kingdom which he had sworn to observe and that above all things care might be taken that Religion and Liberty might receive no harm Reluctant therefore and as it were by Constraint for according to the Socratic Paradox a Wise Man does nothing unwillingly nothing for which he is sorry nothing by Compulsion departing from us upon the twelfth of March in the Year 1689 with a fair Wind she arriv'd in England which was now without a Governour and where the Army was without a Leader But lest any External Force while the Minds of the People were variously distracted and provok'd as Rumour spread abroad the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom resolv'd to resign the Care of the Kingdom and Administration of the Government to the two Princes and upon the seventh of the Kalender of March in the year before-mention'd the same day as some aver that put an end to the Reign of Tarquin the proud declar'd William and Mary King and Queen of England France and Ireland and upon the third of the Ides of April what day they obtain'd the Royal Crown and Scepter King and Queen of Scotland also From that time forward they held the two Kingdoms with equal Auspices and concording Minds yet so that by reason of the Wars which the French King grasping in his boundless hopes the Dominion of all Europe have every where inflam'd was forc'd to cross the Seas and remain abroad for some time Therefore during the absence of the King the Empire of the Kingdom so great was her Genius was committed to her Care which she manag'd with so much prudence and fortitude that she repell'd from the Coasts of the Kingdom an Insulting Enemy menacing to Land

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

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

by his Agent 's Letters the Father sends a long and weighty Epistle to his Daughter wherein he set forth at large the occasion the reasons and methods he had followed in abandoning our Worship and embracing the Opinions of Rome This Letter from King James was delivered to MARY upon Tuesday in the Evening the Messengers who brought it being to return into England the next day Wherefore when she had read it over and over again with extraordinary attention and Studiously considered every thing she set her self to return an Answer wherein she spent the greatest part of the Night And tho frequently put in mind that it was time to go to Bed and that it behov'd her to take care of her Health which would be much disorder'd by Watching the most Prudent Queen made Answer That the Duty of Answering the King's Letters was to be preferr'd before Sleep lest she should be straitned in time the next day and thereby be hindred from performing what she ow'd to her Father That therefore she made the more haste lest if the Messenger should slip away vvithout her Ansvver it might be suspected that she had made use of help and got some Divine to vvrite her Letters for her vvhich if her Father should believe they vvould vvant that vveight and Effect vvhich by the Favour of God she promised her self from dispatching 'em vvith all speed she could The King 's chief Argument was taken from the Antiquity and the long and immovable endurance of the Roman Church Establish'd and Founded upon the Promises of Christ Thou art Peter c. To which were added other places Arguments and Testimonies heaped together to corroborate that Opinion All which the most ingenious Princess Answered and refuted in so short a time and with so much Politeness and Judgment that an Eminent Divine and some few other Persons conspicuous for their Quality and Integrity who afterwards were permitted to see a Copy of that Epistle ravish'd into Admiration asserted that they could never have perswaded themselves that such a Letter so full of Grave and Efficacious Arguments could have been Written by any Man much less by a Woman unless by one who had Devoted his whole Life to the Study of the Scriptures and true Divinity Strange swiftness and perspicacity of a Divine Wit Strange piercing Force of Judgment No snares of Treachery were so occultly laid which the August Queen did not readily discover no Sophisms so fallaciously specious that could deceive Her No knots so difficult but she should unloose 'em at first sight Go now you that are all over nothing but Envy or ill Will you that are blinded by your own ignorance weigh the vast Endowments of the Greatest of Queens by the Exilities of your own slender Parts go now and taunt me with Adulation This Oration is so far from flattery that all men now may see that the greatest applause of Words is far inferior to the Merits of so great a Queen Such was also the sanctity of MARY'S Life that King WILLIAM after her Decease calling to mind her Piety toward God the Integrity of her Life and her Extraordinary Knowledge of sacred things brake forth into this Evpression That if he could believe that ever any mortal man could be born without the contamination of sin he would believe it of the Queen And she preserv'd her self so chast and spotless that while she resided upon Earth she liv'd the Life of the Saints even in the hurry of the Court where there are so many incitements to evil that entice men from the Exercise of Piety so many allurements to pleasure that inveigle and bewitch the mind But as our Divine MARY burn'd with a singular Love of Piety and Religion so was she of a Soaring and Exalted Mind For they who addicting themselves to the Observance of the most pure Religion are once assur'd that being as it were encompass'd with Coelestial Protection they shall not be forsaken will never despond let the Confusions of War Rage round about 'em let the Earth Tremble and Heaven be ready to fall and all things menace present Mortality and Pestilence As to her Contempt of Humane Glory her Constancy in the most violent Storms of Adverse Fortune I wish as they are great things and Aggravations of her lofty Soul I wish it were in my power to set forth in as magnificent Language The Field is infinitely large of rare and unusual Examples but neither the barrenness of a slender Wit nor the straitness of my Time will permit me to expatiate into these Boundless Themes We must be content with a Few How great was the Consternation of all men how general the Dismay and Terror when William Prince of Orange not so much Invited and Requested by England tho she stretched forth her suppliant Hands to Him for succour as by the Call of Heaven at an unseasonable time when both Seas and Adverse Winds with tumultuous Fury opposing him with such an handful hasten'd to England's Relief under the Oppression of Numerous Armies I believe that most of you remember For we may sooner forget our selves than such a dreadful season Only MARY undaunted awaited the Event of Heaven's Decrees She Only wanted no Consolation She alone exhorted and confirm'd the Trembling Womanish Fear in Men in MARY Manly Resolution and Courage vvas to be seen These vvere Noble Things and to be celebrated vvith the Encomiums of all Ages and all Men. And yet they are but Sport and Play if I may so call 'em to vvhat you shall now hear An Hideous Bulk of threatning Evils at the same time roul'd vvith all its Force to overwhelm all England and Holland The Heaven the Sea and Land seem'd to have conspired their ruin and destruction The Army of the Confederates had received a deep wound in the Battle of Fleurus In the sight of England a misfortune befel our Fleet some of our Men of War being sunk and burnt whilst others were detain'd by contrary Winds from succouring those that were o're Powred From Ireland News was brought tho ours had Vanquish'd the Rebels at the Boyn that the King was Wounded in the heat of the Fight with a Canon Bullet The Report was spread abroad that he was slain insomuch that publick Rejoycings were ordered at Paris by publick Authority in a Tempestuous Night and all the Streets and Houses Blaz'd and Shon with Illuminations and Bonfires the signs I will not determine whether of Joy or Madness not to be defac'd by length of Time as if the VVar had been at an end had the King of England been Dead All these things were at the same time tumultuously repeated while Fame augmented as is usual every thing for the worse To this we may add how certainly it was believed that the French Fleet were preparing to Land a great Army in England which was to penetrate into the Heart of the Kingdom naked then of Military Defence the Souldie●y being either in Ireland or the Low