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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55552	The death of good Josiah lamented a sermon occasioned by the death of our late most gracious soveraign Queen Mary, of ever blessed memory, preach'd at Balsham in Cambridgshire, March 3, 1695 / Joseph Powell ...	Powell, Joseph, d. 1698.	1695 (1695)	Wing P3063; ESTC R3155	12,894	33

of it and were struck with astonishment and trembling at the news whilst the age just began to be reform'd by her authority and example and we promis'd our selves lasting blessings from her long reign and when we could very ill have spar'd her So unsearchable are Gods councels and his ways past finding out We cannot we must not dispute with Heaven Gods will ruleth over all 'T is as well folly as impiety not to acquiesce in it This Church and Nation stand highly indebted to God that such a blessing was so lent us and one so dear to him and so long sincefitted for the beatifical vision so many Years confined to this low and imperfect State and kept from her reward for the service of others And to do good to the World When it seems good to him to resume his own gifts it becomes us to take up with holy Job's pious reflections Shall we receive good at the hands of God Job 2.10 and shall we not receive evil God has taught us by this instance and a severe discipline it is whereby he learns us this lesson the Vanity of all our blooming hopes when they are placed any where but upon him alone and that he can continue his Favours though he lays aside what we have reason to own as one great instrument of a kind and happy providence to those Nations We must not envy our good Queen the rest and felicity She has reacht to This would be foul ingratitude to a Person who has done us so much good to repine that she has exchang'd the troubles and cares of an earthly Crown for one that has nothing sticks to it to darken the brightness of it or abate the happiness of possessing it Her Death was her reward for her uncommon goodness as the most early and sudden death is to every one that is fitted for and goes directly to bliss but it is otherwise to be consider'd in respect of us who have reason to look upon our selves as judg'd unworthy of her Allow us then to let fall a tear upon her Hearse and at least to sigh out our loss that if there be any in the remotest corners of her dominions from whom her vertues lay conceal'd they may here begin to understand something of that loss which time and experience will better explain than it can now be exprest And may these inclinations be awaken'd in us all to enquire further after her that what through the shortness of her reign was left unfinish'd in encouraging Vertue and putting a restraint upon Vice may in some measure be supplied and a Reformation perfected by the remembrance of her It seems to me too bold a judgment of divine Providence to speak confidently of Gods anger as hereby declar'd to be gone out against us and to forebode upon this occasion some amazing evil at our heels to overtake us We seldom guess aright when we assign a reason and take upon us to account for Gods providences in this world which are so very dark that we expect it to be a part of that perfection of knowledge which will be our reward hereafter to unfold the mysteries of them This indeed was certain in Josiah's death who was not to see the evil coming upon Jerusalem and this observation has been made of many other excellent persons When St. Austin pray'd for an enthanasy he hereby exprest his desire not to live to see the desolations that were hastning upon the African Churches and his prayer was heard for he dy'd just before the sacking of that City whereof he was Bishop The like Mr. Calvin has noted of Luther that he often pray'd he might not see the vials of wrath pour'd upon Germany which immediately after his death came upon those places in a storm and with the swiftness and execution of a whirlwind but those reach only such cases as are evident 't was either by Prophesie or the event It would be a very undue return to God for those signal favors we have so long enjoy'd It would a gue a very small sense of that Providence which has hitherto defended us and too fond a reliance upon second causes upon this occasion though a very sad one to anticipate evil or despond of our safety The only pious and safe use to be made of our fears will be to do all we can which was the great aim of our Quren to promote a reformation of manners throughout the Nation This after all other fruitless expedients without it will be the only sure and effectual course to be taken to any lasting security and since we have suffered a loss not to be recovered what is left for us but wisely to consider how religiously she used her power and how admirable an example she has left the age that we may strive to be such true and sincere Christians as she her self was and desir'd and pray'd and endeavour'd all her Subjects might be So may we hope that God will still protect our King amidst those dangers he exposes his Royal Person to for our safety to whom her Pravers were a Sheild for a continuance of success to our arms though we are depriv'd of that benefit we owe to the purity and fervency of her devotions for peace and quietness at home whilst we are engag'd in a war abroad which it were great ignorance of the World not to own to have been hitherto the result of her wise conduct of affairs and the effect of the singular goodness of her temper and the remarkable Piety of her conversation concurrent causes of calming the feircest passions and procuring Gods blessing upon us and protection over us So may she still live and rule and do good to these Nations and continue to be what she foret her inclinations to accept the Government for a happy instrument of saving us from ruine and making us a wise religious and a prosperous Nation which God grant for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be all honour and praise now and ever Amen FINIS Some Books Printed for and Sold by Thomas Speed at the Three Crowns near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1695. THirty Six Sermons viz. 16 Ad Aulam 6 Ad Clerum 6 Ad Magistratum 8 Ad Populum with a large Preface By the Right Reverend Father in God Robert Sanderson late Lord Bishop of Lincoln The Eighth Edition Corrected and Amended Whereunto is now Added the Life of the Reverend and Learned Author Written by Isaac Walton Fol. Price 15 s. 1. Conversation in Heaven Part the First Being Devotions Consisting of Meditations and Prayers on several considerable Subjects in Practical Divinity Written for the raising the decayed Spirit of Piety The second Edition in Twelves Price 2 s. 2. Conversation in Heaven Part the Second Being Sacramental Devotions Consisting of Meditations and Prayers preparatory unto a Worthy Receiving the Holy Communion As also Meditations and Prayers suited to every part of Administring and Receiving it Twelves Price 1 s. Both Written by the Reverend Dr. Lawrence Smith Rector of South-Warnborough in Hampshire 3. Of the Happiness of the Saints in Heaven A Sermon Preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall October 12 1690. By William Beveridge D.D. Rector of St. Peters Cornbil The second Edition 4 to Price 6 d. 4. An Anatomy of Atheism a Poem Written by a Person of Quality 4 to Price 6 d. 5 Religion the only Happiness A Poem in a Letter to a Friend 4 to Price 6 d. 6. A Sermon at the Funeral of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Grey late Vicar of Dedham in Essex Preach'd in the Parish Church of Dedham February 2 d. 92 with a shortaccount of his Life By Joseph Powel A.M. Then Rector of St. Mary on the Wall in Colchester and now Rector of Balsham in Cambridge shire Quarto price 6 d. 7. Cursory Remarks upon a Sermon Preach'd before the Lord Mayor at St. Mary-le-Bow January the 30th 94. In a Letter to the Honourable Sir P.D. Barronet By the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Rogers A.M. Quarto Price 6 d. 8. Tachygraphy the most exact and Compendious Method of Short and Swift Writing that hath ever yet been Publish'd by any Composed by Thomas Sholton Author and Professor of the said Art approved by both the Universities Octavo Price 1 s. 9. Zeiglographa Or a new Art of Short Writting never before Published more Easie Exact short and speedy than any heretofore Invented and Composed by Thomas Shelton Author and Teacher of the said Art Allowed by Authority Octavo price 1 s. 10 In the Press and will be published the next Term The Duties of the Closet being an Earnest Exhortation to Private Devotion 12 mo price 1 s 6 d. FINIS