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A23803	The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1695 (1695)	Wing A1194; ESTC R33068	65,567	192

the Memory of the Just is Blessed 〈◊〉 MARIA REGINA II. Obit Decemb. 28.94 Aetatis suae 32 I haue fought a good fight I haue finished My course I haue kept the faith Hence forth There is laid vp for me a crown of righteousness F. H. van Hove sculp The Whole Duty of Mourning And the GREAT CONCERN Of Preparing Our Selves for DEATH Practically Considered Written some Years since by the Author of The Whole Duty of Man And now Published upon the Sad Occasion of the DEATH Of Our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady MARY the II. Queen of England c. of Blessed Memory Necessary to be given at all Funerals LICENSED January 16th 1694 5. Printed for I. Back at the Black-Boy on the middle of London-Bridge THE PREFACE TO ALL Mourners Upon the SAD and MOURNFUL OCCASION Of the much-to-be-lamented DEATH Of Our Most Gracious Queen THis Tract whereof Death is the Subject has been Concealed some Years and upon this Sad and Mournful Occasion of the Death 〈◊〉 our Gracious Queen which loudly calls the Nation to Weeping and Mourning it appears now in the Habit of a true Mourner UPON so irreparable a Loss as the Kingdom has Sustain'd Death is the properest Theme which befits the Season for when mournful Countenances heavy Hearts and watry Eyes appears every where this Whole Duty of Mourning in the Closet may prove a good Companion EVERY day you see Nay every Hour says Seneca shews us what a nothing we are and by some fresh Argument or other puts us in mind of our forgot Mortality but so Doleful and Mournful a Scene England did not expect would have appear'd especially at such a season when our Eulogies and Praises should have Ascended to Heaven from whence flowed the Redemption of the World even by the great Mystery of our Saviours Incarnation but this high Festival is now by the decree of Providence turn'd into Mourning and our Song into Lamentation THE Wise Man tells us Eccles. 7.2 That when the living are in the House of Mourning they will lay it to Heart and if we ought to lay to Heart the Death of any much more of Righteous Persons how ought we then to bewail this Sad and Mournful Calamity wherein God has deprived us of one of our Royal Defenders O then let us speedily wish with the Prophet That our Heads were Water and our Eyes Fountains of Tears that we might Weep Day and Night for the Loss of so Vertuous a Princess and so Gracious a Soveraign Queen TO give a direct Copy of so Blessed an Original my Pen can never arrive to that Dexterity but am Conscious to my self it must be very defective and the only Apology I can make in this time of Dolour and Anxity is that broken Language is the best Rhetorick upon a Mournful Occasion but the Veneration of those matchless Excellencies which appeared in our Royal Soveraign Animates my Pen to joyn with all Condolers in the Contemplation of those excellent Vertues that Adorned so Illustrious a Princess IT was Heavens Decree to take from us the Light of our Eyes and the Breath of our Nostrils a Gracious and most Excellent Princess one under the shadow of whose Wings we sat with great delight and enjoyed a more then an ordinary portion of Happiness and Prosperity for the Radient Beams of her Royal Bounty and Charity extended so far that to preserve a sinking Kingdom she Ascended the Throne not out of any Ambition she had to grasp a Crown but out of a tender Compassion to save a distressed Nation She was truly Magnanimous by Nature Birth and Education and adorned with all the Ornaments befitting so Excellent and Matchless a Princess in her Power and Dignity she was Soveraign Queen over a mighty and renowned People and invested with the highest Authority that a Crown could render her thus being inthroniz'd she was the Glory of her Sex and an Ornament to the Diadem which she Wore HER mind was Noble Large and Capacious and not inferiour to her Power and Dignity her apprehension was quick and lively and her Iudgment was Peircing and Solid Religion and Piety shined with that lusture in all her Divine Conversation and the whole Series of her Life that indeed she was a Pillar of Christianity for the Influences of her Princely Piety was of that Impression and Extent as might well lay Claim to those Second Causes the Almighty Ordains to his Governing Administration here below SHE not only understood her Religion well but loved it and with great Sincerity practised it for she always with a Stedfast Regular and Unaffected Devotion approached with that Awful Sanctity to the Altars of God that she seemed to Instruct when she Prayed and Convert when she Kneeled so that at so high a degree of Piety the greatest Atheist must needs be convinced and believe a Deity and the loosest Libertine could not but be Reformed for his Admiration must needs create a Devotion upon a prospect of her Sacred Example HER Delight was in the Law of the Lord and in that Law did she Meditate both Day and Night for in the midst of all the most Important Affairs of State she forgot not her Creator for so Zealous was she for her Sacred Devotions that she would rather spare time from her Sleep than from her Prayers SHE always had a great Zeal for the Good of the Church and she was the very Joy and Delight of the Hearts of the Clergy for she encouraged their Studies and continually Supported them under all the Reproaches of Malicious and Wicked Persons even such was her Royal goodness to the Pastoral Authority THE best practical Books she often made her Study in her Royal Retirement and at other times caused them to be Read as part of her Entertainmen when she was Pleas'd to sit at Work with her Maids of Honour and this she did as a prudent design whereby to furnish their thoughts with profitable Knowledge and heavenly Meditation for her Heart was wholly fixed upon God and Goodness EVERY Month she constantly Communicated in her Royal Chappel and always prepared her self with such a Strictness and Devotional Frame of Soul that she Received the Blessed Sacrament in a most Humble and Awful manner as being deeply affected with a due Sense of the Divine Majesty HER Temper was Naturally Sweet her Disposition was Free and Generous her Carriage Gracious and her Intentions most Sincere her Conversation was Lovely and she was endued with a large mixture of Christian Charity and Compassion all Eyes that beheld her at a distance might discern Mildness and Goodness in her Majestick Countenance which all her Attendants found its real Effects SHE delighted to do good and had a singular Dexterity in the doing of it for she prudently knew what was proper to be done both as to the manner and Season and she seldom vouchsafed a Royal Favour to any but her Princely Way of doing it trebled the Obligation and very easie was she in

Deut. 24.6 these Teeth failing Life begins to fail wherein the Memorial of Death is set before us X. And as in the outward Parts so the like Weakness and Decay of strength is to be observ'd in the inward the Silver Cords of the Sinews which conveys the Faculty of Sense and Motion from the Head in Old Age are loosed Eccles. 12.6 that Cable of the Marrow in the Back Bone which was wont so firmly to hold and stay the frail Bark of our Body tossed with so many Motions and by those many Conjugations of Nerves which kept our Body steddy begins now to dissolve the Head which is the golden Bowl wherein is emboxed the Brain that ministers that Faculty of Sense and Motion through Age is broken and become crazy the many Veins which carry the nourishing Blood from the Liver unto each part of the Body become like unto broken Vessels and the Arteries which by the reciprocal Motions and Pulses do convey the Vital Spirits from the Heart even to all Parts of the Body these through languishing Age becomes slow and weak and all these faint Operations are so many Memorials of Death and do plainly portend the Approach of our Latter End XI The Old Man's gray head is in Scripture compared to the white Blossoms of the Almond Tree Eccles. 12.5 this Tree making hast to flourish before many others in the Spring is therefore in Vision used to signifie that God will hasten his Word to perform it Jer. 1.11 12. and consequently the sight of the gray head either in our selves or others serves as a Divine Vision to warn us of God's Decree of hastning our Latter End yea those are upbraided of God as Contemners of this Vision who though their head be not all white do not observe the first sprinkling of the head when as the gray hairs are here and there upon them and they know it not Hos. 7.9 and regard not this Memorial of their Mortality XII As to the decay of Sense in Old Age they that look out of the Windows be darkned Eccles. 12.3 the Eyes fail Gen. 27.1 and 48.10 1 Sam. 3.2 and 4.15 and that dimness of Sight is one of Death's Apparitors to summons Men to their End by that restraint of Sight God calls Men to make a new Covenant with their Eyes to turn them out of the Corners of the World not to gaze longer after Vanity nor to walk after the Lust of their Eyes to live by Faith and not by Sight 2 Cor 5.7 not to look after things temporal which are seen but after things Eternal which are not seen 1 Cor. 4.18 and as the Sense of Seeing waxes dim in Old Age that of Hearing likewise fails the daughters of Musick are abased and brought low Eccles. 12.4 Men cannot then any more hear the voice of singing-men and singing-women 2 Sam. 19.35 God that planted the Ear Psal. 94.9 when he makes this Plant to wither again calls them to remember their Transplantation into another World to wait for their changing and to prepare for it The Tasting likewise decays for Old Barzillai cannot taste what he eats or what he drinks 2 Sam. 19.35 Old Isaac by his touch cannot distinguish betwixt the hands of his Son and the Skin of a Beast Gen. 27.16.21 22 23. The Psalmist when Old is covered with Cloaths and feels no heat 1 Kings 1.1 yea the inward Senses begin to fail also Memory decays the Understanding is diminished and the Aged sometimes in their decrepid Age return to their Infancy and not able to discern between Good and Evil 2 Sam. 19.35 how inexcusable are they that live securely and think not of Death when they have so many Warnings given them XIII With Decay of Strength and Sense comes the decay of Health Old Age is many times a continual Sickness and when the days of Man are multiplied they are but Labour and Sorrow even the strength of them Psal. 90.10 then is the time when the evil days approach and the years of which Man says I have no pleasure in them Eccl. 12.1 then is the Light of Sun Moon and Stars obscured and then the Clouds return after the Rain one Infirmity after another v. 2. Through decay of Natural Heat ariseth Indigestion and Crudity of Stomach and thereupon follow Rheums and Catarrhs and from thence proceeds Aches and manifold Pains and Diseases whereby the Almighty as with an Iron Pen writeth our Lesson and engraveth this Sentence deep in our Flesh and Bones Remember your latter end approaching and prepare for Death CHAP. VI. Several Forerunners of Death which may warn Men to prepare for it Practically Considered THus in every Age before Death Approaches we have manifold Fore-Warnings of his Coming and when Death appears God usually brings with it some Joynt-Warnings to prepare us further for our speedy Dissolution And first before Death makes a Seizure there is commonly Pain like a Harbinger sent before to warn the Soul to entertain the Almighty with a present and diligent renewing of their Faith and Repentance for God could have taken Men out of the World without Pain or Sickness by a sudden Change in the twinkling of an eye 1 Cor. 15.51 52. but the Divine Wisdom saw it not necessary II. When the Lord appeared unto the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles and vouchsaf'd unto them Visions of his Glory he used commonly to send before as a Marshal or Usher some great fear Gen. 15.12 Exod. 3.6 so that they fell down as dead Men Ezek. 1 28. and 2.1 2. Rev. 1.17 or stood trembling Dan. 10.8.11 their hair stood an end and all their bones did shake Job 4.14 15. But since God in his Divine Wisdom has altered that Method and appears unto a Sinner at his Death in sweeter Visions of Heavenly Comfort and prepares them with all Reverence for that hour III. God doth now as it were usher his way by sending Sicknesses and bitter Diseases that thereby we might be humbled for Sin and renounce this Transitory Life by giving a more willing Farewell unto it and to long for our Translation and the Joy which succeeds it God shews that then he expects a special Act of Humiliation when near our End he visits us with such Pains which creates a Mourning in us for Sins committed in the World before we depart out of it then are we summoned to stir up the Grace of God within us and to raise up our Spirits with all Love and Reverence to meet the Lord that we may receive his Blessing and enter into his Gates with Joy and into his Courts with Thanksgiving IV. These Pains prevailing at the approach of Death causeth Men to lye down and fall upon their Beds Job 33.19 Acts 5.15 and to let all the Affairs of the World alone with the Works of their several Callings through Infirmity of Body God forceth them to stoop and calleth them to remember their Frailty and their End as if he should command them to couch down

nor ever entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 IV. Now we ought not to forget this End but Imprint it in our minds for though we know not distinctly what the things prepared are yet we know they are Great and Glorious for so much is revealed unto us by Gods Spirit and we have the mind of Christ 1 Cor. 2.10.12.16 and therefore O thou great being teach us to make a Covenant with our Eyes to turn them away from beholding of Vanity and ever to look at this mark and to feed our Eyes with a sight of this Glory and even afarr off to behold it by Contemplation until we approach neerer unto it and with the Psalmist be satisfied therewith Psal. 17 1● V. And in our Fellowship with God we are not only allowed to see him but to enjoy him and all that we see in him by Covenant he gives himself to be our God Gen. 17.7.8 and is our portion and inheritance Psal. 16.5 Jer. 10.16 Lam. 3.24 in this Promise are Contained all the Riches of Glory and all the Treasures of Immortality and in all the Promises of the Gospel there is not more Comfort then that which is included in this Word for what Gift is greater then God or what can be wanting to them that have the Lord for their exceeding great reward Gen. 15.1 VI. The Comfort of this Gift is unspeakable for the present in the midst of affliction but in the last period of our lives then is the fulfilling of this and the like Promises therefore is that End ever to be remembred and longed after then especially shall it appear how his Flock shall remain as Lambs in the Bosome of the Lord their Shepherd Isa. 40.11 then will it be further revealed how God dwelleth in them and they in him 1 John 4.15 16. he that fills heaven and Earth Jer. 23.24 is himself a House wherein they shall dwell and they a Mansion wherein he shall make his abode John 14.23 by this Heavenly Conjunction and Cohabitation with God shall the Elect be one even as the Father and the Son are one Christ in them and the Father in him that they may be perfect in one John 17 22. VII This thrice Blessed and most Glorious Union is that Green bed of Christ and his Spouse Cant. 1.16 an Eternal Paradise of Delights and Garden of Spiritual Comfort by this Communion God Embraceth those who are his with both armes of his love and putteth them in his bosom Cant. 2.6 chap 8.3 and in this divine Embracement there is felt more Happiness and Heavenly Joy then all the Love and Fruits of Love or whatsoever went under the Name of the Tenderest and Strongest affection in this World could ever yield unto the Heart of Man for if the first Fruits of Spiritual Joy now at this pesent in the midst of Tribulation be an Hundred fold more than all the Pleasure of Houses and Lands Fathers and Mothers Wife and Children the most desirable things of this World Mark 10.29 30. then how can it be but more then an Hundred Thousand fold Pleasure to enjoy the Beauty and Face of God in Heaven to inherit the fulness of Joy in his Presence and Pleasures for evermore at his Right Hand VIII If the infinite Blessedness of the Glorious Persons in the Holy Trinity doth appear in their mutual Union so that they were an all sufficient and Eternal delight unto themselves in enjoying one another continually before the World was and before Men or Angels were made Pro. 8.30 then may we well think how our Vessels shall be filled and overflow with Heavenly Comfort 1 John 14. when we come to Drink of that Divine Fountain and Enter into our Masters Joy Mat. 25.21.23 and taste the sweetness of that Communion this Love of God is better then life it self Psal. 63.3 and all our Life and Love of this World is to be hated in Comparison of it Luke 14.26 IX And as in Soul so in Body shall we be made like unto Christ our vile bodies shall be changed and fashioned like unto his glorious body and this according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3.21 that is as effectually and Comfortably as an Almighty Power is able to bring to pass and therefore as in the transfiguration of Christ his face did shine as the Sun Mat. 17.2 Even so shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father Mat. 13.43 as the raiment of Christ through the brightness of his Body did shine as the Transparen light and was exceding white as snow Mark 9.3 and withal white and glistring Luke 9.29 So the whole Person of the Righteous made whiter then snow in their transfiguration shall shine Glister and Sparkle with a Radient Beauty and Heavenly Brightness then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously Isa. 24.23 then he shall be glorified in his Saints and made marvellous in all them that believe 2 Thes. 1.10 X. If the Face of Moses while he was yet Cloathed with Corruption when he had seen but the Back-parts of the Almighty and that but for a moment in one Vision did yet shine so Gloriously that Men fled away amazed from him and durst not behold the Brightness of his Countenance Exod. 34.30 chap. 33.23 What then shall be the Glory of the Righteous when being Cloathed with Immortality they shall see God Face to Face and that in a perpetual Vision for evermore XI From this Transfiguration of the Saints made so Glorious by the sight of God and Fellowship whith him ariseth the Glory of their Fellowship one with another which is also an unspeakable Felicity of the Second Life to enjoy all the Beauty and all the Love of all the Glorified Souls and Bodies in Heaven as Jonathan seeing the Grace of God in David was knit unto him and loved him as his own Soul 1 Sam. 18.1 So here the Saints beholding the Glory of God revealed in each other shall be link'd together in the nearest bonds of entire Affection they that first give themselves to God do then give themselves to one another by the will of God 2 Cor. 8.5 they are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3.28 there is one body and one spirit Eph. 4.4 all are gathered together in one under one head whether things in heaven or in Earth Men and Angels whether they be Thrones or Principalities or Powers Eph. 1.10.22 all things are the Saints whether it be Pauls or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are theirs and they are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23. XII Hereupon the Angels take the Souls of Men deceased into their Bosomes and convey them to Heaven and then even