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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28910	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Swithin, London, March 10th, 1694/5, upon the much lamented death of our most gracious Queen by Tho. Bowber ...	Bowber, Thomas, b. 1662 or 3.	1695 (1695)	Wing B3866; ESTC R17575	11,149	34

A SERMON Preached in the Parish-Church of St. Swithin London March 10th 1694 5. Upon the Much Lamented Death Of our Most Gracious Queen By THO. BOWBER M. A. Formerly of Wadham Colledge Oxon. LONDON Printed for William Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1695. To the Right Honourable Sir Iohn Summers Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great SEAL of ENGLAND and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council My Lord IT needs not create Wonder in any to find your Lordships great Name in the Front of this Sermon who will but consider the Faithful Service you did and the great veneration you had for that Excellent Princess of whom in Mournful Accents it speaks The Performance how mean soever is the natural product of just Grief and Sorrow for the Common Loss of us all and therefore needs not fear a favourable acceptance from your Honour But my Lord there is another Reason that entitles this Dedication to your Lordship I must always gratefully remember a singular instance of your Favour and Kindness to me and I thought I could not better express my Gratitude than by making a publick Acknowledgment thereof The Discourse I here present your Lordship with has nothing to recommmend it but Truth and Plainness Astonishing Grief such as ours slights and disdains the mean and useless Ornaments of empty Rhetorick My chief Aim and Design in Preaching it was to make Men better to which Pious end they having so great an Example set before them for their imitation I hope it may conduce now in Submission to the importunities of several some of which for their Piety and Friendship had great influence over me it appears in publick That God Almighty may long continue your Lordship the Delight of this Kingdom for the Impartial distribution of Justice and the Reformation of the Abuses and Corruptions of the late Times is the most sincere and hearty prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most Humble Devoted and Obliged Servant THO. BOWBER 2 Chron. XXXV 24. The latter part of the Verse And all Judah and Jerusalem Mourned for Josiah MAN tho formed in respect of his Body of Corruptible Principles yet these did the Almighty so equally Poise so harmoniously Attemper that the Divine Workmanship had it not dasht itself in pieces might have been for ever free from Corruption For in so blissful a Condition God Created Man with such light of Understanding holiness of Will Affections so Regular and with such Strength and Ability to have withstood the Temptations of the Serpent that he might not only have seated himself in Immortality but have conveyed it down to his Posterity But aspiring to a more high and exalted degree of Happiness than the all-wise God had thought fit to place him in he fell from his Original Excellency and Forfeited his Incorruptibility That Decree Gen. 2. v. 17. In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye took then immediately Life and Vigour and an universal Mortality came into the World every one became obnoxious to Death and all past Generations are but Monuments of its Reign and Triumph The Young Dye with the Old the Rich with the Poor the Wise with the Foolish Good Josiah as well as Wicked Ahab Could Goodness or Greatness Youth or Beauty or any other Human Excellency have been any security against Death our most Incomparable Princess had still Sate upon that Throne which She sola tely Adorn'd with Her Royal Presence but to our unspeakable Grief and the Astonishment of all round about us She was quickly snatcht away by Death and no doubt in Mercy as good Josiah was that her Eyes might not see the Evil which we know not how soon may befall us without a speedy Reformation Her Prayers doubtless as well as Josiah's had a mighty Energy in them to turn away the fierce Anger of God and to encline Him to Mercy Yet whatever Benefit we we might reap from them in Her Life-time we were soon Deprived of Her and that in a time when we thought Happiness at Hand and our selves Embracing it A Lovely Scene of Affairs had but just presented itself with a very Charming Aspect a Check was given to our Enemies abroad the King to the great Rejoycing of His Royal Consort and People returned home in Safety and a Loyal Parliament Assembled ready and prepared to Execute whatever might truly tend to the Honour of the Nation and the Interest of Church and State so that the Hearts of all good Men did exceedingly Rejoyce and they already anticipated that Happiness which they expected without interruption to Enjoy This was the goodly posture of Affairs when we were all surprised by an unexpected turn of Providence And this was the State of Judah when Josiah was gathered to his Fathers the Jews then promised themselves some long Prosperity when on a sudden a fatal Arrow from the Egyptian Host cut off their King and Hopes together It was indeed said of him That he should be gathered to his Grave in peace for he had no open Enemies none that made War against him yet not harkning to the words of Pharaoh Neco who went up to War against the King of Assyria by the River Euphrates not harkning I say to his Words from the Mouth of God would needs Fight him in the Valley of Megiddo where receiving a sore Wound he was carried in a Chariot to Jerusalem where he dyed and was buried in one of the Sepulchres of his Fathers and what great Impression his Death made upon all the People is here Expressed And all Judah and Jerusalem Mourned for Josiah Which words teaching us that it hath been the Practise of the Church mournfully to Resent the Death of Religious Princes the Method I shall confine my self to in the Prosecution of them will be 1st Of all to offer some Reasons in General to show That the Death of good Princes is matter of great Mourning and Lamentation to a People or Kingdom 2dly I shall Enquire more particularly into the great Cause the Jews had to Mourn for the Death of good Josiah 3dly Upon the sad Occasion of the Death of our late most Excellent Princess I shall set before you the great reason we all have to Mourn for so Great and Irreparable a Loss 4thly and Lastly I shall apply what hath been spoken in Two or Three Natural Inferences 1st The Death of Religious Princes is matter of great Mourning and Lamentation and surely were it not so there had never been such Lamentations for their Death Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures When Moses the Servant of the Lord Dyed the Children of Israel are said to weep for him in the Plains of Moab thirty days Deut. 34. v. 8. When Samuel Dyed all the Israelites were gathered together and Lamented him 1 Sam. 25. v. 1. When Hezekiah slept with his Fathers all Judah and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem did him Honour at his Death 2 Chron. 32. v. 33. And this Mourning for