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A49604	A funeral oration or sermon upon the most high, most potent Lord, Francis Henry De Montmorancy ... prounc'd at Paris, in the church of the Profess'd House of the Company of Jesus, the 21 st. of April, 1695, by Father De la Rue, of the same society ; from the french original.; Oraison funèbre de très-haut et très-puissant Seigneur François Henry de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg et de Piney. English	La Rue, Charles de, 1643-1725.	1695 (1695)	Wing L455; ESTC R6889	22,402	33

A Funeral Oration OR SERMON UPON The Most High Most Potent Lord Francis Henry De Montmorancy Duke of Luxembourg and Piney Peer and Marshal of France Governour of Normandy Knight and Commander of the King's Orders Captain of the Guards of His Majesty's Body And General of His Armies Pronounc'd at PARIS in the Church of the Profess'd House of the Company of Jesus the 21st of April 1695 By Father De la RVE of the same Society From the French Original LONDON Printed and Sold by Richard Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane 1695. TO THE READER THE following Sheets contain a Funeral Harangue upon the Duke of Luxemburgh compos'd and pronounc'd by a Jesuite And it is a consummate Piece of Jesuitism For it neither speaks Truth to Man nor to God To make his Champion of France Great he falsifies the Story of the Greatest Heroe at this day in the World He knew he had undertaken a Hard Task to Praise a Man who setting aside that he was a Soldier had long labour'd under a very Immoral Character No wonder then he employs all the stock of his Rhotorical Flourishes to varnish over the Conduct and Actions of his Great General by mis-representing the more Noble Exploits of his Antagonist We can allow him the Gingling Rhodomontado's of a Panegyrist so long as the Event has made it evident to the World that if Luxembourg were able to Cope with the King of England it was more then his Master the French King was ever able to doe Moreover to be convinc'd of the Jesuit's Double-dealing with Man and his Falsifying the Records of open Story there needs no more then to read on the Second Part of his Oration and seeing him using the same Flourishes of Humane Oratory to God and borrowing plausible Insinuations from Deduction and his General 's Affection to the Virgin Mary to lift him up into Heaven This Piece has made a Noise in the World and has been spread over Europe in the French Language an Effect of Gallick Ostentation and therefore it was thought requisite to expose it in English that the Vanity of the Orator might be derided here as well as in other Places Autoritatem nullam nec fidem Commentitiis Rebus adjungere debet says Cicero A Funeral Oration UPON Francis Henry Duke of Luxemburgh For we do not present our Supplications before thee for our Righteousnesses but for thy great Mercies Dan. 4.18 THESE are the Moans of a Prophet in the midst of a Captive People remote from their Country and panting after Liberty What a Force was not this able to give to Prayer by representing to God the Services of David of Jacob and Abraham and by striving to draw down his Compassion upon the Children by the Remembrance of their Forefathers To these vain Subjects of Presumption rather then Confidence Daniel clos'd his Eyes He found a surer Support in the meer Mercy of God then in all the Vertues of Men and without losing any thing of that Zeal which enclin'd him to Prayer and of that Hope which ought to uphold Prayer he Pray'd he Hop'd but still his Prayers and his Hopes were grounded upon the Mercies of God What are we now come to doe my Beloved in the Presence of the same God Come we to bewail the Dead in vain where it becomes us only to shed the Tears of Repentance Come we here to vaunt their Victories and Heroick Labours 'T is only to the Saints the Vanquishers of Sin that Religion permits us to pay Duties of this Nature to Honour their Tombs and to Extoll their Vertues in Hymns and Songs ev'n to the Footsteps of the Throne of God because they reign with Glorious Him in the same Glory But as for Princes and Hero's whose Vertues frequently Humane were no other for the greatest part then Passions disguis'd under specious Names and Veils when You are call'd to their Interments 't is to set before Your Eyes Grandees of the World a Moving Spectacle of that Inevitable End which you never think of 'T is to set before your Eyes that Death which you look upon with Disdain in the bloody and precipitated Heat and furious Motion of Combat but which you can hardly look in the Face when Cool and Serious expos'd to your Reflexions in this Funeral Pomp which forces you to Lessons of Repentance In short If at any time by a Custom establish'd in the First Ages of the Church we presume to interrupt the Holy Mysteries with an Elogy of their Actions 't is not with a Pharisaical Pride that vaunted before God the Justice of their Works Not for our Righteousness 't is with the Modesty of the Publican who begg'd for Mercy only but for thy great Mercies The sad Recitals of so many Exploits that exalt the great Names and Fame of Mortals were never made to move God's Compassion but to touch the Hearts of Men. And it is with this Intention my Beloved that I undertake this day the Elogy of the Most High and Most Potent Lord FRANCIS HENRY of MONTMORANCY PEER and MARSHAL of FRANCE KNIGHT and COMMANDER of the KING's ORDERS GOVERNOR of NORMANDY CAPTAIN of the GUARDS of the KING's BODY and GENERAL of His ARMIES Upon the only Pronouncing of this Name what a Croud of Things present themselves to our Minds What Wonders what Courage what Resolution what Justice also in the Opinion of Men But in the Sight of God all this is nothing Not for our Righteousness 'T is for You my Beloved and for all France who have reap'd all the Fruit of his Great Actions to find therein the Motives of Acknowledgment and by consequence a Zeal to Pray for him But in these same Actions and in all the Events of so Turmoyl'd a Life how many signal Traces of a particular Mercy apply'd to his Salvation 'T is there that we are to fix our Hope and to seek the Support of our Prayers which we pour forth before God But for his manifold Mercies Reducing my self therefore to the Intention of the Church and the Simplicity of the Text which I have chosen I shall only shew to all the Faithful whom Piety concerns in his Salvation in the Two Parts of this Discourse I. The Obligations that France has to Pray II. The Reasons that she has to Hope Her Obligations to Pray from what he has done for France The Reasons she has to Hope from what God has done for Him But Lord what has he done for Thee and for his Salvation For this is that which makes the Personal Merit and weighs down in the Decisive Ballance of Eternity We shall find it included in these Two Points which will fill our Minds with this comfortable Idea That this God who only crowns his Gifts when he crowns our Merits and who making the Vertues of Saints Meritorious is pleas'd to make the Tears of Sinners also Meritorious will have found in this Great Man whom we lament what is sufficient to procure him that last Mercy

which he bestows upon whom he pleases and which no Man can deserve St. Paul instructing the Faithful in their Duty toward Great Men proposes to 'em among other Motives of Respect the Authority which they have receiv'd from God to protect the Good and suppress and punish the Wicked For says he they bear not the Sword in vain And upon this establishing the Right not only of Kings but of all Persons advanc'd in Dignity he requires that those Honours and Tributes should be pay'd 'em that are their due Tribute to whom Tribute Honour to whom Honour is due But besides these Tributes settl'd by Humane Laws the Apostle in favour of Great Personages imposes upon Us another far differently Precious Tribute Entreaties Prayers and Petitions And the Reason which he gives is Because that under their Authority we live secure in Peace and Piety Now if there be any one in the Degrees inferiour to Sovereigns to whom this Tribute is due from all among us that are True Frenchmen and True Christians is it not to this Famous and Warlike Champion from whom the Kingdom and the Church have receiv'd such successful Services And to search for the Foundations of his Merit in the Deserts of his Ancestors is there any Descent among those whose Names and Renown we Honour of which it may be more justly said in the words of St. Paul They have not borne the Sword in vain And how long since my Lords The Crown has not been more ancient upon the Head of our Kings then the Nobility of the Blood of these Hero's The Faith of Jesus Christ ascended the Throne with Clovis but it enter'd into the Court with a Montmorancy Whence that singular Title of First Christian Baron which is Hereditary to 'em and which equally denotes as well their Antiquity their Nobility as their Descent Let us leave these Times of Obscurity Are Seven hunder'd Years I will not say of Distinction but of Constant Advancement enough to merit our Esteem We no sooner behold their Name issuing forth from the Darkness of Antiquity but immediately we see it cloath'd with the Lustre of the Highest Dignities and more-especially Military Employments The Name of Constable never began to appear in the World at least in our Histories till they wore it Ever since those Transcending Dignities have been as it were perpetuated to their Family Seven Constables Seven Marshals Four Admirals Great Officers of the Crown Governors of Provinces Generals of Armies almost without number and at all times Never was the Kingdom or our Religion in any Glorious or Dangerous Condition but Providence still careful of our Affairs has supply'd us out of this Noble Family most extraordinary Succours either of Wisdom or Valour Consequently how greatly is the Church and State oblig'd to pay with a zealous Fervency this Tribute of their Prayers to all those that bear this Name seeing we have prov'd that for so long a time they have not borne the Sword in vain But Oh the Depth of God's Designs and Judgments That this Grandeur so Ancient so stedfastly fix'd upon such Solid and such Just Foundations supported by so many Arms Allianc'd to all the Thrones of Christendom should be now upon the Brink of being Extinguish'd That the Principal Pillars of this so Potent Family should now be Tottering Alas and under those Fatal Strokes the sole Remembrance of which makes us Tremble That their Honours and their Merits should be so near Extinction shall I say their Glory with their Merits One only Child born in Tears an Orphan before he came into the World scarce able to make his Way into the Seats of Day-light in the Midst of the Ruins of his Family is destin'd to re advance the Fortune of his House and to recall to the Elder that Honour and Grandeur which for Two hunder'd Years together the Younger have acquir'd And this same Infant so dear to Providence is the Great General for whom we Pray Let us pass over the First Years of his Life and the First Exercises of his Valour 'T was not He alone that needed this Indulgence 't is due to the Misfortune of those Times He was envelop'd in 'em less by his own Choice then by the Condition of his Fortune What Illustrious Exploits which we dare not remember and which we cannot forget What Use did he make afterwards of that lucky Habit Shall we enumerate the Particulars of Thirty Years Labours if I may not rather call 'em Successes Nor think my Lords that I go about to degrade any one of our Hero's by Comparisons always rash and odious There are so many Ways that lead to Honour and so many different Traces of Merit and Valour that they may severally serve for Objects of Publick Admiration without defacing or resembling each other But it is enough to say in Praise of Monsieur de Luxemburgh That there have been few of our Great Generals his Contemporaries who have prov'd more Formidable to their Enemies better Belov'd of the Soldiers or more Daring and Resolute in Enterprizes The Qualities of a Perfect Soldier which Solomon paints forth in his Book of Wisdom Terrible Kings shall fear me I shall be able to lead a multitude and stout in Battel But when to the end I may display what is included in these Three Qualities I have made it manifest that there were few who were oppos'd by more Puissant Enemies and who kept himself still more then Superior few that govern'd more numerous Armies and govern'd 'em with more Ease few that sustain'd more doubtful and hazardous Enterprizes and sustain'd 'em with more Resolution and Undauntedness what Rank will you allow him among those our Generals which you most esteem Now 't is this Superiority this Facility of Genius this Resolution and Undauntedness that form the Character of Him we now lament 'T is no new thing for France to see all her Neighbours become her Enemies The Novelty is this to see all her Enemies united against her by one and the same Tye not only a Tye of Passions and Interests but a stronger Tye 't is the Ascendant of of one Captain over all the Members of the League In all other Leagues this Union being wanting till now France had always in the Union of her Chieftain and the Union of her Forces a Puissance easily superiour to the Number and Efforts of her most Potent Enemies But they have at length found out a Genius proper to re-unite all their Hatred against us To give more Force to the Instrument of their Passions they have helpt him to dethrone Vertue it self To make an Enemy sufficient to find us Work they have set up a Master over themselves And who is this my Lords The same upon whom some look'd as the Hereditary Guardian of their Liberty who was by others call'd in to defend their new Laws against the false Terrors of Arbitrary Power and whom others fear'd as the Natural Enemy of their Religion That same Holland so