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A28849	A sermon preached at the funeral of Mary Terese of Austria, Infanta of Spain, Queen of France & Navarre, at St. Denis, Sept. 1, 1683 by Monsieur James Benigne Bossuet ...; Oraison funèbre de Marie-Thérèse. English	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3791; ESTC R22734	20,939	36

by her Birth which made Piety as well as Greatness hereditary to her by her holy Education by her Marriage by the renown and love of so great a King by the Merits and respects of her Children and the veneration of all the people could see nothing on earth but what was beneath her Raise up now O Lord my thoughts and voice that I may represent to this August Assembly the incomparable beauty of a Soul wherein you have always dwelt which has never grieved your holy Spirit Ephes 4.30 Heb. 6.4 which never lost the tast of the Heavenly gift that we may begin miserable sinners as we are to shed a torrent of tears being ravisht with the pure charms of innocency we may never cease bewailing the loss of it In truth Christians when we behold in the Gospel the lost sheep preferred by the good shepherd above all the rest of the flock Luke 15.4.20 and also that happy return of the lost Prodigal and that transport of a tender Father which sets all the Family in rejoycing a man is almost tempted to think that Repentance is better than Innocency and the Prodigal returned receives more favour than his elder Brother who never left his Fathers house Yet is he the eldest and two words which his Father tells him makes him understand that he has not lost any of his advantages Ibid. 30. My Son says he to him you are always with me and all that I have is yours This Theme Gentlemen is seldom handled in the Pulpits because this inviolable saithfulness is seldom sound now in the world Yet let us insist on it seeing our subject leads us to it and has a perfect agreement with our Text. St. Thomas explains the full meaning of it God shews more love to the just who has always been so he also shews more to the reconciled sinner but in two different manners One will appear more favoured if we regard what he is and the other if we observe whence he came God keeps for the just a greater gift he draws the sinner out of a greater mischief the just will seem more advantag'd if we weigh his merit and the sinner more beloved if we consider his ununworthiness The Father of the Prodigal Son explains it himself Son you are always with me Luke 15.31 Ibid. 32. and all that I have is thine you ought to rejoyce because your brother was dead and is now alive Thus does he speak of him whom he has drawn out of the greatest abyss of misery Thus are mens hearts seized with a suddain joy by the unexpected sight of a sun-shining day in winter which after rainy and gloomy weather immediately chears the face of the whole world but yet we prefer before it the constant serenity of a more gentle season and if we expound our Saviours sentiments by those of men he concerns himself more sensibly in converted sinners which are his new Conquest but reserves a more sweet familiarity for the just who are his ancient and constant friends seeing that he says speaking of the Prodigal Bring forth the best robe and put it on him Ibid. 22. but yet does not say You are always with me or as St. John repeats it in the Revelations They are always with the Lamb Revel 14.4 5. and appear without spot before his Throne Sine macula sunt ante Thronum Dei How this purity is kept in this seat of temptations and illusions of worldly greatness the Queen will instruct you she is one of those of whom the Son of God has pronounced in the Revelations Revel 3.12 He that overcometh will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God faciam illum columnam in Templo Dei mei He shall be the ornament of it he shall be its prop by his example he shall stand high he shall stand sure Here we have already some description of our Queen He shall go no more out for as non egredietur amplius Unmoveable as a pillar he shall have his abode fixt in the Lords house and never go out of it by the commission of any crime I will make him saith the Lord for its the work of my grace But how will he fasten this pillar hear the Mystery and will write upon him adds he I will set up this pillar but at the same time write on it a memorable inscription What is that O Lord three names only to the end the inscription may be as short as 't is magnificent I will write thereon says he the Name of my God and the Name of the City of my God the new Jerusalem and my new Name These names as the sequel will shew signifie a lively faith within the outward practices of Piety in the observations of Holy Church and frequent receiving of the blessed Communion three means of keeping innocency and the epitomy of our Princesses holy life which is what you will see written on her pillar and you will read in her inscription the causes of her Constancy and I will write says he the Name of my God by inspiring her with a lively faith 'T is Gentlemen by such a Faith that the Name of God is deeply engraven in our hearts A lively Faith is the foundation of the stability which we admire for whence happen our inconstancies but from our wavering Faith This foundation being not firmly laid we are afraid to build thereon and we walk doubtfully in the ways of Vertue 'T is Faith alone that can fix the wavering Spirit for observe the qualities St. Heb. 11.1 Paul attributes to it Fides sperandarum substantia rerum Faith says he is a substance a solid foundation a firm prop. But of what of what is seen in the world Why attribute a consistence or to speak with St. Paul a substance and a body to this fugitive shadow Faith then is a Prop but of things which we must hope for And how again Argumentum non apparentium is a plain conviction of that which does not appear Faith must have in it a Conviction You have it not you will say I know the reason because you are afraid of having it instead of begging it of God who freely gives it And therefore all falls to ruine in your hearts and your determinate senses carry away your uncertain and unsetled Reason And what means this Conviction of which the Apostle speaks of but onely what he says elsewhere 2 Cor. 10.5 a bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ Behold the pious Queen prostrate before the Altar observe how she is possest with the divine presence 'T is not by her Train that she is known 't is by her Attention and that devout setledness which would not suffer her Eyes to wander The adorable Sacrament approaches Ah the Faith of the Centurion admired by our Saviour himself was not more lively and he did not say with more humility I am not worthy Mat. 8.8.10 See how she

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF MARY TERESE of Austria INFANTA of SPAIN QUEEN OF France Navarre At St. DENIS Sept. 1. 1683. By Monsieur James Benigne Bossuet Bishop of Meaux Counsellor to the King in his Council Late Preceptor to the Dauphin And Chief Almoner to Madam the Dauphiness Printed at Paris by the King 's special Command Reprinted at London by J. C. and F C. for H. I and sold by Samuel Crouch in Cornhil MDCLXXXIV CHAP. 14 Revelat. v. 5. For they are without fault before the Throne of God My Lord WHat an Assembly does the Apostle St. John shew us This great Prophet opens Heaven to us and our Faith discovers on the Holy Mountain of Sion in the highest part of the blessed Jerusalem the Lamb which takes away the Sins of the World attended by a company worthy of him They are those of whom 't is Written in the beginning of the Revelations Thou hast a few names even in Sardis Rev. 3.4 which have not defiled their Garments those rich Vestments wherewith Baptism furnish'd them Vestments which are nothing less than Jesus Christ himself according to that of the Apostle Gal. 3.27 For as many of you as have been Baptised into Christ have put on Christ. This little number beloved of God for its innocency and remarkable for the rarity of so exquisit a gift has known how to preserve this precious Vestment and the Grace of Baptism And what shall be the recompence of so rare a Fidelity Hear what the Just and Holy one says Rev. 3.4 They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy worthy through their Innocency to carry into Eternity the Livery of the Lamb who is without Spot and walk always with him seeing they have never left him since he took them into his company pure and innocent Souls Virgins as St. John calls them Rev. 14.4 2. Cor. 11.2 in the same sense as St. Paul says to the faithful of Corinthia I have espoused you to one Husband even Christ The true chastity of the Soul the true Christian pudor is to blush at Sin to have no eyes nor love but for our Saviour Christ and to keep our Senses free from the corruptions of the World It is in this Innocent and Chast company wherein the Queen is placed her dread of Sin has purchased her this Honour Faith which pierces even the Heavens now shews us her placed in this happy Company Methinks I see that Modesty that Peaceable temper of Soul that humble Gesture of Body before the Altar which inspired the beholders with Devotion to God and respect for her God retribute these holy dispositions with the transports of Celestial joys Death has onely changed a mortal and fading Beauty for an Immortal one That delicate whiteness the Symbol of her Innocency and Candour of her Soul has onely if a man may so speak withdrawn it self to appear more illustrated by a Divine light Rev. 3.4 she walks with the Lamb for she is worthy The uprightness of her Heart without dissimulation ranks her in the number of those of whom St. John speaks the words which precede those of my Text ibid. 14.5 that Lying is not found in their Mouth nor any disguise in their Conversation and therefore are they without Spot before the Throne of God In effect she is without reproach before God and Men. Calumny could not attack any part of her Life from her Childhood to her Death and an Honour so unspotted is a precious perfume which recreates both Heaven and Earth My Lord Behold this great spectacle can I better comfort you and the Princes which attend you than by shewing you in the midst of this resplendent company and in this glorious state a Mother so beloved and regretted Lewis himself whose constancy cannot vanquish his just grief will find it more appeasable by this consideration But that which ought to be your only comfort ought My Lord likewise to be your Example and ravisht with the Immortal Splendor of so regular and irreprochable a life 't is your duty to transmit the Excellency of it into your own How rare is it Christians how it is rare again I say to find this Purity amongst men but especially amongst the great ones Revel 7.13 14. Those whom you see cloathed with a white garment those says St. John came from great affliction to inform us that this Divine whiteness is commonly form'd under the Cross and seldom under the tempting state of worldly greatness And yet Gentlemen it is true that God by his miraculous Grace has been pleased to choose these innocent Souls amongst Kings Such was St. Lewis ever pure and holy from his Childhood and Mary Terese his Daughter has receiv'd this excellent-inheritance from him Let us enter Gentlemen into the Designs of Providence and admire the bounty of God bestowed on us and all people in the election of this Princess God has raised her up on the pinacle of worldly greatness to make the purity and regularity of her Life the more conspicuous and exemplary Thus her Life and Death equally full of Grace and Holiness become an instruction to all Mankind Our age cannot expect a more perfect example for there cannot be the like Purity in so high an estate Here 's in short what I have to say of the most Pious of Queens she had nothing but what was August in her Person nothing but what was Pure in her Life Come hither all ye people of the earth come and behold in the chiefest rank the rare and Majestick Beauty of a Vertue ever constant In so regular a life it matter'd not the Princess where death strook there appeared no weak part whereby she might fear a surprize always watchful always attentive on God and her Salvation her so suddain and mournful death to us had nothing dangerous in respect of her So that her high state will serve only to shew the Universe this important truth That there is nothing solid or truly great among men but to avoid sin and that the only precaution against the attacks of death is innocency of life This is Gentlemen the admonition which the most High most Excellent most Mighty and most Christian Princess Mary Terese of Austria Infanta of Spain Queen of France and Navarre offers us in this Tomb or rather from the highest Heaven I need not tell you that great Birth Allyance and Posterity are from God Gen. 17.6 2 Kings 7.2 Acts 17.24.26 't was he that told Abraham Kings shall come out of you and made his Prophet tell David The Lord will make you a house God who of one man formed all Mankind as speaks St. Paul and from this common spring fills the whole earth has foreseen and predestinated from all Eternity both Allyances and Divisions marking the time adds he and setting bounds to the habitations of the world 'T was God then who exalted the Queen by her great Birth to an