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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23681	The desire of all men a sermon preach'd at Daventry in Northamptonshire, March 5, 1694/5, (being the day of the interment of our late Most Gracious Queen), before the bayliff and burgesses of the said corporation of Daventry and other gentlemen of the country, and published at their request / by Charles Allestree ...	Allestree, Charles, 1653 or 4-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing A1080; ESTC R8239	11,013	30

utmost Period and Extent of Time Let her Example therefore excite us to a Holy Imitation of her Virtues and let us consider with her the Greatness of our Nature the end of our Creation and what we were made for all Vice is below the Dignity of Man it is Virtue or in another word Righteousness which is the same thing only Virtue improv'd and sublimated by Grace that is the proper and commensurate Object of our Thoughts If we stedfastly pursue this and hunger and thirst after Righteousness we shall all be so happy as to die the Death of the Righteous that is to die like Her We shall have her assurance her sedate and composed Temper in our Sickness so that if we are consign'd to another World we shall expect our Change with Joy and never be dismay'd at the Approaches of Death or if any paleness any horror of Countenance does arise the Alteration will proceed from the Decay of Spirits or the want of Vital Heat and not from any consternation or despondency within Thus have I enforc'd the Motives in a speculative manner that render the Death of the Righteous desirable to all Men. I am sensible that these Discourses in Theory make but a faint impression upon the Mind and that a Bright Example would illustrate and set it off better I shall therefore make the Application in descanting upon the Holiness of the Life and Actions and Happiness of the Death of this most Religious Princess whose Obsequies we celebrate now And in this attempt I shall not fear any misconstructions of Flattery The Subject is above it and uncapable of being perverted to that Abuse the most masterly strokes of Art cannot reach the heigth of those Eulogies that justly appertain to so much Goodness and Perfection much less shall I be able to celebrate her Great Worth in a becoming manner who knew Her as we ought to approach Majesty only at an awful Distance and with an humble Reverence This therefore is a great disadvantage I labour under but it is not sufficient to discourage me from casting in my Mite into the Treasury of all those that have already set forth the Eminency of her Virtues and parentated to her Memory for I consider that it will be an extraordinary Service done to Piety and Religion when the Friend to Learning the Patroness of Religion the Advocate of Virtue and the Pattern of Humility shall be recommended to our Imitation for whole Volumes of Sermons would not be so useful to promote the Ends of Religion and advance the Reputation of Virtue in the World as an Example of it drawn to the Life especially if it be so Great so Illustrious so Honourable and so Majestick a One as this Incomparable Princess was She had the Happiness of being educated early under the Care and Precepts of the best Instructors in Religion and her large and capacious Soul improv'd those advantages to that degree and proficiency both in Knowledge and Piety that She outstript her Age and in the Prophet's Phrase Isai 65.20 The Child was an Hundred Years Old She had then so little of the Vanity or the Pride or the Indiscretions that are usually incident to that time of Life and her High Birth that She became an Example of Modesty and Humility to her Sex in her Youth and gave a sure and certain Omen of that Heigth and Progress in Goodness which afterwards She arrived to and by this means of setting out early in a right Course She acquired Habits of Virtue betimes and enobled her Mind with the brightest Images and Idea's of Truth for having devoted her Innocent Soul to the Service of God and to the Power of Religion and continually begging the assistance of the Holy Spirit She was by his Grace preserv'd safely in the right way and never deviated from the Paths of Righteousness And as an instance that She labour'd after the Power of Godliness and not the form of it She led even in the midst of those Temptations that surround Greatness and attend a Court a most Pure and Innocent a most Holy and even an Angelical Life Her Great Endeavour was to know God and to be assimulated and made like him in the inward Qualities and Depositions of her Soul And this World and the Glories of it could not gain the Ascendant over her Thoughts or make her over-look things that are Eternal The Crown She bore was vile and despicable in her Eyes in respect of that Incorruptible One which She expected and was sure of in Glory She knew that an humble Spirit a sincere Devotion and an habitual Goodness were greater Accomplishments and more comely Ornaments to her Sex than any outward Acquisition whatever and consequently her Devout Soul aspired after the attainment of these Excellencies which She was bless'd with and possess'd to that degree that in her Primitive Christianity was reviv'd afresh and She liv'd as those first and best of Christians did and as we ought to do This was evident as by many other Instances to particularly by the frequency of her private Devotions and constant Attendance in the House of God at Publick Prayers which she never omitted but like holy Anna served God with Fastings and Prayers Night and Day And to this devout Temper of Mind she always added a Munificence of Nature and a Largeness of Heart to distribute Alms to the Poor and her Liberality in this kind was so great that possibly the Annual Incomb of the Richest Subject cannot come up to the heigth of her Charity and Distributions But though she delighted inwardly in these Religious Duties of Prayers and Alms yet it is not to be omitted that she reckon'd the principal part of all her Joys to consist in receiving the Holy Sacrament and accordingly she Communicated once every Month besides Collar-Days and other great Solemnities and her Pious Soul found most ravishing refreshments in the Spiritual Feast of the most precious Body and Blood of her Saviour Neither did she superficially or slightly examine her self for her Preparation but she exercised such a strict Devotion and such a Religious Austerity as if she was to pass from the Table of her Lord to his Tribunal neither did she contract any moroseness or fourness of Temper by thus exercising her self with Religious Acts and retiring into her own Bosom She knew that Chearfulness and Religion are consistent and that a good Christian has always the joyfullest Heart and accordingly she was always chearful but under the Government of Reason and none of all her Attendants ever saw her discomposed or out of Humour Many Occasions she met with from the Angry Men of this Generation and from the Libellous Pens of Mercenary Scriblers that put to trial her Patience and Contentment but in her they were not able to produce any sensible alteration she still preserv'd the Constancy and Greatness of her Mind under all Provocations neither was she insensible of Affronts but she was content and could forgive