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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30507	The consolation of death as it was presented to Her Highness, the Princess Ann of Denmark, on the immature loss of William, late Duke of Gloucester / by Richard Burridge.	Burridge, Richard, b. 1670.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5977; ESTC R32012	11,921	31

THE CONSOLATION OF DEATH As it was Presented to Her Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark On the immature Loss of William late Duke of Gloucester By Richard Burridge LONDON Printed for William Pinnocke at the Black Dog and Ball over against Bride-Lane in Fleetstreet 1700. The Epistle Dedicatory To Her Royal Highness THE PRINCESS ANN Of Denmark MADAM ALthough Death may be stiled the summum bonum of Mankind yet now has he proved fatal to mortality by depriving three Kingdoms of that Jewel which promised Posterity eternal happiness the many vertues of your royal Child which outstript his tender years made Heaven take notice of his early piety thought him a blessing too great for Mortals to enjoy the immature dissolution of the late hopeful Branch has caused weeping grief to fly over this Island for which unexpressible loss can not we be happy till Death transports us to the Celestial Regions where we may eternally be admiring that object which the whole Nation so much adored whilst surviving the absence of such a sacred Child without whose conversation the joyes of Angels could not be compleat must needs cut to the heart the greatest Orators that ere the World produced cannot sufficiently ●ndole the royal Family 's sorrow therefore I do not presume to comfort such an insupportable affliction I only attempt to lay this Tractate of the Consolation of Death on the shrine of your benigne favour because it was occasionally written on the too late unhappy misfortune of England for I am highly sensible that any thing of devotion finds grace in your sight whose dazling beams of unparelleld godliness strike your admiring beholders with as much stupefaction as the brightness of the overshadowing Cloud did the amazed Disciples on Mount Tabor Matchless Lady of Piety your royal self being the only hopes great Brittain has now left to make her happy I pray the Almighty King of Kings may lengthen your life with a Nestorian age that by your resplendent Vertues we may be guided to those evelrasting Mansions where the blessed Duke now sits crowned with immortality so divine Princess I rest Your most humble and obedient Servant Richard Burridge THE Consolation of Death DEATH what is it it is the only recess of the Soul from the Body into the eternal Mansions of celestial joys where we shall be cloathed with the glorious robes of immortality and triumphantly rejoyce in the peaceful Shades of undisturbed Rest As our days encrease life decreases so that we are hourly dying and as it is appointed unto all Men once to die what need we be desirous of that which is always flying from us if Man would but seriously meditate on the clogs of humane life he would not though many years younger than that Emperour who joyfully writ to his Nephew Caius that he had escaped the Climacterical year desire to live in the miseries thereof if rich he is envyed if poor he is slighted various scenes of sorrows are daily set before the eyes of mortality as Sickness War Fire Famine Pestilence Losses Crosses and a thousand other calamities which attend the wretched state of Mankind where then can we fly from this Bochim or Valley of Tears for shelter no where but in the Regions of Death when Israel thought his beloved Joseph had been slain he refused to be comforted by his Sons and Daughters saying I will go down into the Grave unto my son mourning by which mournful expression he pathetically intimated that no comfort could mitigate his grief till he had seen Death likewise that most patient Man who dwelt in Vz the metropolis of Chaldean superstition in his great distress and unparalleld afflictions cryed out Why died I not in the womb why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly For now should I have lien still and been quiet I should have slept then had I been at rest thus we are plainly shewed Man is not at peace till in his Tomb there Kings are quiet from the seditions of their Subjects Courtiers from the emulation of their rivals in Honour Favourites from the disgrace of their Princes displeasure Prisoners from their Oppressours and Slaves from miserable Bondage Amaz'd at Death no the comforts of it are such that it delivers Infants from running into actual sin Youth from filling the Catalogue of abominable vices Mankind from the incumbrances of worldly affairs and Old Age from supporting his tottering frailty on the Crutch Death gives ease to the diseased and health to sickness wherefore if you find him any time visiting you be not surprized be not daunted at his alarm but cling to him as the Moabitess did to Naomi crying whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge struggle with him for thy Soul's enlargment as Jacob did with the Angel at Peniel be not faint hearted for to die is gain seeing Death stand before your Face do not timerously say as Ahab did to Elijah Hast thou found me O mine enemy for he is no enemy he is a friend to all flesh and to shew you entertain him as such courageously like Saint Paul cry I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Every Man endued with true Christian courage wisheth to be acquainted with Death the Harbinger of bliss he would willingly sit the Saddle of his pale horse for instance when it was revealed to Simeon that he should not see death before he had seen the Lords Christ as soon as he had took Jesus up in his armes and blessed God he claimed being sensible of the inequality between humane nature and immortal blessings his dissolution in a charming ecstacy he sang Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word in fine those who seriously weigh the difference between Earth and Heaven they would not with Hezekiah pray to have the thread of life spun longer but impatiently wish the golden Planet may hasten his course on the Dial of Ahaz that their pure Souls might follow the Shadow of his reflecting Beams to the all-glorious Habitations of an indulgent God none startle at Death but such whose Conscience is not passport sufficient through the Shadows of an eternal Change 't is such who dread any Distemper they feel to be the Messenger of Death and by the advice of able Physicians would countermand the decree of Nature if Gold and temporal Presents were admitted ransomes at such a time but as it is written in the Gospel whosoever will save his life shall lose it therefore by a godly life make a preparative against Death brings your summons and then Christ tells you whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it Nay so greatly have the Ethnicks been ravisht with the glory of a future being that Cleombrotus and others if we may believe Plutarch reading a Treatise of the immortality of the Soul killed themselves so eager were they of their Souls happiness before their times came shall we