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<P>A SERMON Preached at the Chappel Royal IN THE TOWER, UPON Sunday the Sixth Day of <HI>January,</HI> 1694/5.</P>
<P>BEING THE <HI>Fea&s;t of the Epiphany:</HI> AS ALSO, The Day whereon the greate&s;t part of that Au|dience appeared in Deep Mourning, upon the Death of Her SACRED MAJESTY, Our Late Gracious QUEEN <HI>MARY.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>JOHN FINGLAS,</HI> Prebendary of St. <HI>Audoens Dublin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for the Author, 1695.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable ROBERT Lord <HI>Lucas,</HI> Baron of <HI>Shenfield,</HI> Chief Governour of His Ma|je&s;ties <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> and Lord Lieutenant of the <HI>Hamlets</HI> there|unto belonging.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Noble LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>'TWill be no Compliment, <HI>in</HI> any <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> to tell Your Lord&s;hip, that, as You did not ea&s;ily per&s;wade me into the <HI>Pulpit;</HI> &s;o, nothing le&s;s than Your Commands, &s;hould (at this time) have forced me to the <HI>Pre&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>I am here a <HI>Stranger,</HI> under all the di&s;ad|vantages that may be, for Study; and not only
<PB REF="3"> &s;o, but my <HI>Thoughts</HI> at pre&s;ent, more ruffled and di&s;turb'd than ever.</P>
<P>As 'twas my misfortune to have but very few Friends <HI>here,</HI> &s;o, 'twas my happine&s;s, that they were <HI>the</HI> Be&s;t and greate&s;t that <HI>England</HI> could afford: Her late <HI>MAJESTY</HI> of <HI>Ble&s;|&s;ed Memory;</HI> and His <HI>Grace,</HI> the <HI>Late Lord Arch-Bi&s;hop of CANTERBURY.</HI></P>
<P>The Affair I came to manage, being a Service to the <HI>Church,</HI> an endeavour to remove a mo&s;t Perfidious incroachment on her <HI>Rights;</HI> recom|mended me to Their Favour; and the De&s;ign ap|peared to be &s;o Ju&s;t, and &s;o much for the <HI>Pub|lick</HI> Good; <HI>that,</HI> as his <HI>Grace,</HI> upon the fir&s;t no|tice, was plea&s;ed heartily to e&s;pou&s;e it: So, when it was (in His <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> ab&s;ence) propo&s;ed to the <HI>QUEEN;</HI> it gained Her approbation &s;o far; that with a great, but <HI>Sweet Condi&s;cen&s;ion,</HI> She was plea&s;ed to &s;ay, <HI>She would become my So|licitre&s;s Her &s;elf.</HI> But, <HI>Alas!</HI> All this now, &s;erves only to agravate my &s;orrow, and heighten
<PB REF="3"> my lo&s;s, which is more than ordinary, and every way great, not only in <HI>Common,</HI> as a <HI>Subject,</HI> not only in a more particular Relation, as a <HI>Church-man</HI> (tho' the meane&s;t of all) but, in my, <HI>Yet more private</HI> Circum&s;tances; having at a great expence of time and Charge, brought this Matter to be fit for a Royal Deci&s;ion, and, all of a &s;udden, deprived of <HI>Tho&s;e, who</HI> were gra|ciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to Patronize both me and it. And tho' I have this Comfort; that, as that God, who hath called Her <HI>MAJESTY</HI> to an <HI>Incor|ruptible Crown,</HI> hath left us her <HI>other Self</HI> (whom God long continue to us, and over us) from whom I may hope for all due Encourage|ment: So, his <HI>Grace</HI> is Succeeded by that <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> of the <HI>Age,</HI> who is mo&s;t Eminent for &s;uch Services.</P>
<P>But <HI>Yet,</HI> notwith&s;tanding the&s;e <HI>Abatements,</HI> I cannot ea&s;ily extricate my &s;elf, from the Sur|prize and Amazement that &s;o ju&s;tly &s;eized me; and 'tis <HI>well,</HI> if the effects thereof, do not too vi&s;ibly appear in the following Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
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<P>But I know 'twas not Your <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> Appro|bation of my performance, but Your Zeal for the <HI>Subject,</HI> together with the joynt de&s;ires of <HI>Some,</HI> who&s;e importunity I re&s;i&s;ted, that made You re&s;olve (again&s;t all that I could offer to the contrary) to have it Publi&s;hed. You re|membred, it had given You &s;ome faint <HI>Idea's</HI> of Your <HI>Dear,</HI> tho' <HI>Dead Mi&s;tri&s;s;</HI> and contain'd &s;ome Motives (<HI>the be&s;t</HI> I could think of, with relation to the &s;ubject, and as <HI>Many</HI> as the time would allow) to promote the Service of Your <HI>Royal Ma&s;ter, wherein</HI> (I can bear Your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> witne&s;s) You would think the la&s;t drop of Your <HI>Blood</HI> well &s;pent.</P>
<P>May Your <HI>Loyal</HI> Example have its due in|fluence upon others, and convince, even tho&s;e un|rea&s;onable (&s;hall I call them?) <HI>Men</HI> among us, who are &s;o &s;trangely in&s;atuated, as to act every way, as much again&s;t their <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> as their <HI>Duty.</HI> And if any thing I have &s;aid here, to which (tho' I now find it &s;welled beyond the
<PB REF="4"> ordinary bulk of a Sermon) I have not added a Syllable, but omitted much of what I deli|vered, may contribute to the &s;ame end. I &s;hall have all I de&s;ire, and all I de&s;ign, be|&s;ides the &s;atisfaction of giving Your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> a full proof of my Obedience, and thereby mani|fe&s;ting, how much, I am, in all <HI>Sincerity,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My LORD,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips Mo&s;t Humble Servant, JOHN FINGLAS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>THere has happen'd &s;ome &s;mall Mi&s;takes at the <HI>Pre&s;s,</HI> e&s;pecially in the Pointing, which the <HI>Reader</HI> is de&s;ired to con&s;ider, and help with his Pen.</P>
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<BIBL>ISAIAH XL. 6, 7, 8.</BIBL>
<Q><P><HI>The Voice &s;aid, Cry. And he &s;aid, What &s;hall I cry? All fle&s;h is gra&s;s, and all the goodline&s;s thereof is as the flower of the field.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The gra&s;s withereth, the flower fadeth, becau&s;e the &s;pirit of the Lord hath blown upon it: &s;urely the people is gra&s;s.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The gra&s;s withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God &s;hall &s;tand for ever.</HI></P></Q>
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<P>I QUESTION not, but upon the read|ing of the <HI>Text,</HI> you ea&s;ily ob&s;erv'd it, to &s;uit but too well with the <HI>&s;ad</HI> and bewailed occa&s;ion of this <HI>days</HI> Solem|nity; which hath given us (beyond any thing to <HI>us</HI> known) a doleful In&s;tance of its Truth; and all I can &s;ay, will come infinitely &s;hort of the <HI>&s;ad</HI> but <HI>clear</HI> Comment, which <HI>the Breath</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam. 4. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>of our No&s;trils,</HI> She of whom we &s;aid, <HI>Nations shall re&s;t under her &s;hadow;</HI> hath given us upon <HI>it,</HI> who being <HI>dead</HI> yet &s;peaks, yea <HI>crys,</HI> in a
<PB N="10" REF="6"> <HI>lowder</HI> than the Prophets <HI>Voice, All fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>All fle&s;h.</HI> It plea&s;ed the great <HI>Creator</HI> of all things to make at fir&s;t Three Sorts of Living Creatures; <HI>Angels</HI> he made pure <HI>&s;pirits</HI> with|out <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and therefore, only for <HI>Heaven,</HI> not to dwell on <HI>Earth. Brutes</HI> he made <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> with|out <HI>immortal &s;ouls,</HI> and therefore, only for <HI>Earth,</HI> not to pretend to <HI>Heaven. Man</HI> is of a middle Nature, partaking both of <HI>fle&s;h</HI> and <HI>&s;pirit;</HI> and therefore made both for Heaven and Earth. But as his <HI>fle&s;h</HI> is but to mini&s;ter and &s;erve his <HI>&s;pirit,</HI> &s;o he was made for <HI>Earth,</HI> but as his pa&s;|&s;age and way to <HI>Heaven,</HI> not, that this &s;hould he his <HI>home</HI> or <HI>happine&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>BUT, how wofully have we perverted this Order, who&s;e ince&s;&s;ant cares for the things of <HI>this life,</HI> &s;ufficiently declare, that we believe our &s;elves <HI>here</HI> at home? <HI>One</HI> man eagerly pur|&s;uing &s;en&s;ual plea&s;ures, as if he had nothing to mind, or hope for, but what the <HI>bea&s;ts</HI> enjoy. <HI>Another,</HI> Riches, and that with &s;o much earne&s;t|ne&s;s, as if he were to enjoy the &s;ame for ever; tho' the <HI>fool</HI> knows not but this very <HI>night</HI> he mu&s;t part from them. A <HI>third</HI> hunting after <HI>ho|nour</HI> and <HI>dominion;</HI> &s;o, as to &s;tick at nothing that may compa&s;s it, and yet little knows, how &s;oon his <HI>Honour</HI> may be laid in the du&s;t. A
<PB N="11" REF="6"> <HI>fourth</HI> after popular applau&s;e, which is nothing but a <HI>bla&s;t,</HI> nothing more vain and uncertain than <HI>it</HI> is. <HI>Whereas,</HI> if we did but rightly un|der&s;tand our <HI>&s;tate</HI> and <HI>condition here,</HI> and &s;eriou&s;|ly con&s;ider, that <HI>all fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> we would little value <HI>the&s;e</HI> things, and at be&s;t, <HI>u&s;e the World, as if we us'd it not; &V;&s;e</HI> it, no otherwi&s;e than a traveller doth his <HI>Inn;</HI> and how is that? when he comes there, tho' he finds every thing <HI>ready,</HI> a <HI>room</HI> well furni&s;h'd, and all things therein, not only conve|nient but delightful too; yet he is not &s;o <HI>&s;illy</HI> as to <HI>&s;et</HI> his <HI>heart upon them;</HI> becau&s;e he knows, on the <HI>morrow</HI> he is to leave them and be gone; and, there's no Man that travels home-ward, that would multiply bu&s;ine&s;&s;es on him&s;elf <HI>unnece&s;&s;ari|ly</HI> in the way. When he is at <HI>home,</HI> in his <HI>hou&s;e,</HI> he may find &s;undry imployments to bu&s;ie him|&s;elf about, but in the <HI>Inn</HI> he cares for nothing, but <HI>re&s;t</HI> and <HI>refre&s;hment; &s;o,</HI> men that are thoughtful, or wi&s;e, know them&s;elves to be but <HI>&s;trangers and Pilgrims</HI> here; and therefore look<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 11.</NOTE> for a <HI>Countrey</HI> and <HI>City</HI> to come; and &s;o think it no wi&s;dom, to intermeddle too much in the affairs of that <HI>Countrey,</HI> through which only they are to pa&s;s; but as <HI>Citizens</HI> of <HI>Heaven</HI> &s;end up their hearts de&s;ire, where they profe&s;s their <HI>trea&s;ure is.</HI> This <HI>Le&s;&s;on</HI> our Saviour teacheth, when he tells us, <HI>After all the&s;e things below do</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat 6. 31, 32.</NOTE>
<PB N="12" REF="7"> <HI>the Gentiles &s;eek,</HI> but <HI>&s;eek ye the kingdom of God, and the righteou&s;ne&s;s of it.</HI> And St. <HI>Paul</HI> a&s;&s;ures, us, <HI>the fa&s;hion of this world pa&s;&s;eth away;</HI> and<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 7. 31.</NOTE> wi&s;heth <HI>us</HI> not to <HI>fa&s;hion</HI> our &s;elves to it.</P>
<P><HI>Could</HI> a Traveller ju&s;tly <HI>Seize</HI> all the valuable things that occur in his <HI>way,</HI> and convey them to his <HI>home,</HI> &s;o as to be of advantage to him <HI>there;</HI> his endeavouring it, might be the more excu&s;able. <HI>And</HI> &s;o, in our <HI>ca&s;e,</HI> could a <HI>man</HI> carry the <HI>World</HI> to <HI>Hell,</HI> to bribe the flames, or corrupt his tormentors, there were &s;omething to be &s;aid for our <HI>fondne&s;s</HI> of it; but the P&s;almi&s;t hath already a&s;&s;ur'd us of the contrary, <HI>His</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 49. 17.</NOTE> <HI>glory &s;hall not de&s;cend after him.</HI> Or could he (tho at the expence of all his worldly injoyments) buy out his pardon, or procure his peace, be|fore he come <HI>there;</HI> This might well excu&s;e our gra&s;ping at <HI>it:</HI> but that's not to be done, neither, for <HI>the redemption of the &s;oul is precious,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver. 8</NOTE> <HI>and cea&s;eth for ever: And what &s;hall a man give</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 16. 26</NOTE> <HI>in exchange for his &s;oul? For</HI> what <HI>material</HI> thing can equalize a <HI>Spirit?</HI> Many things may be had, more precious and fine than the <HI>Body,</HI> but all of them have no proportion to a Spiritual Being. St. <HI>Paul,</HI> we know, counts all things but <HI>dung;</HI> and can we think that God will take<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 3. 8.</NOTE> dung in Exchange for a Soul? O! how dread|ful will it be at la&s;t, to think, that for a little of
<PB N="13" REF="7"> the <HI>world,</HI> for the &s;atisfaction of a <HI>lu&s;t,</HI> for a few dro&s;&s;ie plea&s;ures, and &s;en&s;ual delights, which have been here (not without the mixture of much <HI>&s;orrow</HI> and <HI>allay</HI> injoyed) you have lo&s;t your <HI>&s;ouls,</HI> and forfeited your intere&s;t in tho&s;e <HI>Man&s;ions</HI> that are <HI>above,</HI> where <HI>there are plea&s;ures for evermore:</HI> and all this (in a great mea&s;ure) becau&s;e we believe not, at lea&s;t, mind not this <HI>Voice</HI> in the Text, <HI>All fle&s;h is gra&s;s.</HI> And what more withering and fading? <HI>Du&s;t</HI> it is, and<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 18. 27. 1 Cor. 15. 42.</NOTE> what ba&s;er? <HI>Corruption</HI> it is, and what viler? And yet, was the <HI>Son</HI> of God him&s;elf, for our &s;akes (as at this time) manife&s;ted in the <HI>fle&s;h;</HI> and not only &s;o, but as the Apo&s;tle tells us, in <HI>the likene&s;s of &s;inful fle&s;h;</HI> tho without <HI>&s;in,</HI> yet<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 3.</NOTE> like a &s;inner, &s;o like, that to outward appear|ance, no eye could di&s;cern any difference, be|cau&s;e &s;ubject to tho&s;e <HI>mi&s;eries</HI> and <HI>nece&s;&s;ities</HI> which are the con&s;equences of &s;in in other men.</P>
<P>WAS this a <HI>Manife&s;tation?</HI> it was rather an <HI>Ob&s;curation</HI> and vailing of his glory; yet mani|fe&s;ted he was, as the <HI>end,</HI> and <HI>de&s;ign</HI> of the Work he was about requir'd; manife&s;ted to ignomi|ny and reproach for &s;in: and this was one, and a great point of Chri&s;ts humiliation, that <HI>he took not upon him the nature of Angels, but the &s;eed</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 2. 6.</NOTE> <HI>of Abraham.</HI></P>
<P>BUT we need not boggle at this, &s;ince it did
<PB N="14" REF="8"> contribute to make him a more compleat <HI>Savi|our.</HI> In <HI>that it behoved Him to be made like unto his</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 17.</NOTE> <HI>brethren, that he might he a merciful High Prie&s;t; And in that he &s;uffered by being tempted, he is able to</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 18.</NOTE> <HI>&s;uccour them al&s;o that are tempted.</HI></P>
<P>RATHER, Let it prevail with us, to Prai&s;e <HI>God,</HI> for the great honour <HI>He</HI> hath confer'd upon our <HI>Nature</HI> in the <HI>Fle&s;h</HI> of <HI>his Son,</HI> which in <HI>him,</HI> is <HI>an|nointed</HI> with more <HI>grace</HI> and <HI>glory,</HI> and fill'd with more Va&s;t and Unmatchable Perfections, than all the <HI>Angels</HI> in <HI>Heaven,</HI> are together capable of, <HI>for,</HI> tho' for a while, <HI>He</HI> was made <HI>lower than the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 9.</NOTE> <HI>Angels,</HI> for the Purpo&s;e of <HI>his &s;uffering; yet, he is</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 22.</NOTE> <HI>now &s;et down on the right hand, of the Maje&s;ty on high; Angels, Principalities,</HI> and <HI>Powers, being</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 1. 21.</NOTE> <HI>made Subject unto Him.</HI></P>
<P>THIS Indeed, &s;hould make us put a greater Value upon this <HI>fle&s;h</HI> of ours, than to pro&s;titute <HI>it,</HI> to mean and di&s;honourable &s;ervices. It &s;hould make <HI>us</HI> labour to pre&s;erve it <HI>pure,</HI> and <HI>un&s;potted,</HI> and to <HI>glorifie God in our bodies,</HI> as well <HI>as in our</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6. 20.</NOTE> <HI>&s;pirits, which are his.</HI> It &s;hould per&s;wade <HI>us,</HI> to live no longer to our &s;elves, as <HI>Men,</HI> after our<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3. 3.</NOTE> own <HI>lu&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>ways,</HI> but <HI>as Men</HI> that are <HI>not their own,</HI> but <HI>his that bought them;</HI> to live in his &s;ervice, and to his glory.</P>
<P>THIS will be <HI>likewi&s;e</HI> the be&s;t cour&s;e we can take to hearten <HI>us,</HI> again&s;t this <HI>Voice,</HI> in the
<PB N="15" REF="8"> Text, but neither this, nor ought el&s;e, can ex|empt <HI>us</HI> from the comon lot of <HI>all fle&s;h,</HI> which the Text a&s;&s;ures us, is <HI>but gra&s;s, and all the good|line&s;s thereof as the flower of the field; the gra&s;s wi|thereth, the flower fadeth,</HI> which in other <HI>words</HI> is no more, nor le&s;s than this, <HI>it is appointed for</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 27.</NOTE> <HI>all Men once to die.</HI></P>
<P>ALL <HI>Fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> All that we &s;ee, all that we admire, all the mo&s;t Tempting Objects, we gaze and dote upon, yea the whole World, and all that is therein, is all but <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and all <HI>fle&s;h is gra&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>BUT, Is this a Truth <HI>&s;o</HI> Univer&s;al, that it ad|mits of no exception? tho' it may hold good, as to the generality of Men, yet are not the <HI>Princes</HI> and <HI>Monarchs,</HI> and <HI>Heroes</HI> of the <HI>World</HI> exempted? have not they <HI>&s;omething</HI> in them, that may Pri|viledge them, again&s;t the In&s;ults, at lea&s;t, of the <HI>King</HI> of <HI>Terrors? &s;omething,</HI> that they may (upon occa&s;ion) plead again&s;t the <HI>common Fate? The Pro|phet</HI> &s;eems to agree to all this, and in the very Text, makes &s;ome difference between a <HI>mean</HI> and a <HI>great Per&s;on,</HI> between a <HI>Subject</HI> and a <HI>Prince;</HI> but what is it? No other, than is between green <HI>gra&s;s</HI> and a <HI>flower; Which,</HI> tho' more <HI>beautiful</HI> to the Eye, more <HI>&s;weet</HI> and <HI>plea&s;ing</HI> to the Sen&s;e, is yet, every whit as <HI>fadeing,</HI> as <HI>peri&s;hing;</HI> and as <HI>&s;ub|ject</HI> to be trod under foot, or to be &s;corch'd and wither'd by the <HI>Sun,</HI> as the <HI>gra&s;s</HI> is: <HI>As</HI> they grow
<PB N="16" REF="9"> together in the &s;ame <HI>field,</HI> &s;o they are equally liable to be cut down by the edge of the &s;ame <HI>Syth:</HI> and therefore it is, that the <HI>Prophet</HI> after the <HI>Voice</HI> had cried, <HI>All fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> adds, <HI>and all the goodline&s;s of it, is as the flower of the field.</HI></P>
<P>BY the <HI>goodline&s;s</HI> of the <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> he means it's <HI>Youth,</HI> it's <HI>Health,</HI> it's <HI>Vigour,</HI> or whatever el&s;e in <HI>it,</HI> is mo&s;t Valuable, and Plea&s;ing. By <HI>it,</HI> we may under&s;tand the <HI>&s;tate,</HI> and <HI>condition</HI> of a Man that wants <HI>nothing, Nay,</HI> that abounds in all <HI>things</HI> the World can afford: As <HI>Riches, Honour,</HI> and <HI>Plea&s;ure. Fle&s;h,</HI> &s;aith the <HI>Prophet, in all the glory of it,</HI> in the free and full injoyment of all things on the highe&s;t <HI>pinnacle</HI> of honour, &s;eated upon a <HI>Throne,</HI> crowned with Diadems, and incircled, with all the Badges of Royalty and Grandeur; yet, in the mid&s;t of all this <HI>Pomp</HI> and <HI>Splendor,</HI> it's &s;till but <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and liable to &s;uch damping thoughts as the&s;e.</P>
<P>MAY not God this very night, take me a|way, like the <HI>Fool</HI> in the Go&s;pel, from all the&s;e things, or the&s;e from me? May I not, nay, mu&s;t I not, within the&s;e few years, it may be, within the&s;e few weeks, or days, in&s;tead of my <HI>honour,</HI> be laid in the du&s;t? in&s;tead of my <HI>Pur|ple</HI> and <HI>Scarlet,</HI> be cloathed with <HI>rottenne&s;s?</HI> In|&s;tead of my <HI>Luxuries</HI> and <HI>Delicacies,</HI> become my &s;elf the food of Worms? Is not the poor <HI>Soul</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="9"> in my bo&s;ome, an <HI>Immortal &s;oul?</HI> mu&s;t it not have a <HI>being</HI> &s;o long as there's a <HI>God,</HI> who is able to &s;up|port <HI>it?</HI> And will not the <HI>gayeties</HI> of my <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and the <HI>ornaments</HI> of my <HI>mind,</HI> my <HI>baggs,</HI> and my <HI>titles,</HI> my <HI>plea&s;ures,</HI> and my <HI>preferments,</HI> my ve|ry <HI>learning,</HI> and my <HI>natural endowments,</HI> and eve|ry <HI>thing,</HI> &s;ave my <HI>&s;ins (which</HI> I mu&s;t then <HI>reckon for</HI>) for&s;ake me, when I enter into that <HI>Immortality?</HI> I &s;ay when a Man &s;hall take him&s;elf thus to <HI>task,</HI> and his heart <HI>&s;ummons</HI> him, to &s;uch <HI>&s;erious thoughts</HI> as <HI>the&s;e;</HI> How will he be <HI>&s;tarttl'd</HI> and <HI>amaz'd,</HI> un|der the <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> of his own <HI>Frailty,</HI> and his little <HI>hopes</HI> of a <HI>better State?</HI> And, how dreadful, will it be, for his <HI>Immortal Soul,</HI> to have nothing be|tween <HI>it,</HI> and <HI>Eternal Mi&s;ery,</HI> but that, which will crumble and moulder, into <HI>du&s;t,</HI> and leave the poor <HI>&s;oul</HI> that tru&s;ted to <HI>it,</HI> to &s;ink into bottom|le&s;s <HI>calamities.</HI></P>
<P>Nor do our earthly <HI>injoyments</HI> always con|tinue with us, even to the <HI>la&s;t;</HI> but often leave <HI>us,</HI> before <HI>we</HI> our <HI>&s;elves</HI> go <HI>off. Riches makes them&s;elves Wings, Honour</HI> is fadeing, <HI>Wit, Beauty,</HI> and <HI>Strength</HI> fail, all Created Delights will quick|ly have an <HI>End;</HI> and the Ca&s;ualties that attend their very Enjoyment, doth &s;ufficiently di&s;cover their <HI>Vanity,</HI> and the little <HI>&s;tre&s;s,</HI> that's to be laid upon them: One <HI>Rich</HI> to day, and <HI>Poor</HI> to mor|row; in <HI>Health, Sound,</HI> and <HI>Strong,</HI> to day, to mor|row <HI>Langui&s;hing</HI> and <HI>Expiring</HI> on a <HI>&s;ick Bed;</HI> now
<PB N="18" REF="10"> advanc'd to the high'&s;t <HI>Pinnacle</HI> of <HI>Honour,</HI> anon depre&s;t, and expos'd to <HI>Infamy,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;grace,;</HI> at|tended by Trains of <HI>Para&s;ites</HI> and <HI>Flatterers,</HI> to day, to morrow <HI>de&s;erted, &s;lighted,</HI> and <HI>for&s;aken,</HI> by <HI>all:</HI> And as it is with <HI>Men,</HI> &s;o it is with <HI>Things. Cities, Towns,</HI> and <HI>Villages, Flouri&s;hing</HI> and <HI>Beau|tiful, Rich</HI> and <HI>Opulent,</HI> to day, to morrow laid in <HI>A&s;hes,</HI> and <HI>levell'd</HI> with the <HI>ground.</HI> So that there's no <HI>Flower</HI> more fading, no <HI>Bubble,</HI> more vani&s;hing, no <HI>Dream,</HI> more deluding, nothing more <HI>Vain,</HI> nothing more <HI>uncertain</HI> than the <HI>World</HI> is. <HI>It's all but gra&s;s,</HI> or at be&s;t <HI>but as the flower of the field; the gra&s;s withereth, the flower fadeth.</HI></P>
<P>But in the mid'&s;t of all this <HI>Mi&s;ery, Vanity,</HI> and <HI>&V;ncertainty.</HI> The <HI>Prophet</HI> adds, what may <HI>&s;tay,</HI> and <HI>&s;upport</HI> us, <HI>But the word of our God &s;hall &s;tand for ever.</HI></P>
<P>ALL that's in the <HI>World, all</HI> the happine&s;s that, <HI>that Fle&s;h,</HI> which is but <HI>gra&s;s,</HI> can pretend to in its pa&s;&s;age <HI>here,</HI> is full of <HI>Vanity, &V;ncertainty,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;apointments,</HI> and then u&s;ually fail a <HI>Man</HI> mo&s;t, when he mo&s;t of all relies on them; which mu&s;t needs be one of the greate&s;t <HI>Defeats</HI> that can be. <HI>For,</HI> tho&s;e things wherein Men fear <HI>Mi&s;carriage,</HI> or expect <HI>Di&s;apointment,</HI> they prepare &s;uch a di|&s;po&s;ition of <HI>mind,</HI> as may be fit to bear it; but when a <HI>Man</HI> is &s;urpriz'd with <HI>evil,</HI> when that hap|pens which he lea&s;t expected, the <HI>Novelty</HI> increa|&s;eth the trouble: And the <HI>Scripture</HI> expre&s;&s;eth the greatne&s;s
<PB N="19" REF="10"> ne&s;s of a Judgment, by the unexpectedne&s;s of it; <HI>When thou did&s;t terrible things which we look|ed</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 6. 4&punc; 3.</NOTE> <HI>not for.</HI> Their not looking for it, rendred the Judgment &s;o much the more terrible. <HI>A Breach in an in&s;tant, a momentary, a &s;udden de&s;truction, a &s;wift Damnation, a flying Role, a winged Woman,</HI> are all Expre&s;&s;ions to denote a &s;evere Judgment. Now Men are too too apt to promi&s;e them&s;elves much Content|ment and Satisfaction in the fruition of world|ly things; and to be herein di&s;appointed (as they u&s;ually are) mu&s;t needs be a great &s;ur|prize, and occa&s;ion no &s;mall vexation.</P>
<P>BUT the Word of God is <HI>an abiding Word,</HI> as founded on the Immutability of Gods own Truth, he that makes it his Refuge, relies on the Omnipotency of God him&s;elf; and has all the Strength of the Almighty, ingag'd to help him. <HI>A&s;a</HI> was &s;afe while he depended up|on God in his Promi&s;es, again&s;t the huge <HI>Ho&s;ts of the Ethiopians and Lubims;</HI> but when<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 16. 7, 8, 9.</NOTE> he turned a&s;ide to other aids, and tru&s;ted too much in the Arm of Fle&s;h, he purcha&s;ed to him&s;elf nothing but perpetual Wars. And this was that which e&s;tabli&s;hed the Throne of <HI>Jeho&s;haphat,</HI> and cau&s;ed <HI>the fear of the Lord to</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 17. 9. 11.</NOTE> <HI>fall on all the Kingdoms of the Land, that were round about him;</HI> becau&s;e he honour'd the
<PB N="20" REF="11"> Word of God, and cau&s;ed it to be taught to his People. When <HI>I&s;rael and Judah,</HI> did at any time forget to lean upon Gods Word, and betook them&s;elves to corre&s;pondence with Idolatrous People, or other the like helps, they found them&s;elves always bereft of &s;uccour; and all their hopes deceived and bla&s;ted. Which &s;hould teach us not to re&s;t upon our own Wi&s;dom, nor lean upon our own Strength, nor build our hopes and a&s;&s;urances upon Hu|mane Foundations; but in all Conditions, lay Hold upon <HI>Gods Word,</HI> which &s;hall &s;tand for Ever, and &s;upport us in any Extremity, and carry us, <HI>Through the valley of the &s;hadow</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 23. 4.</NOTE> <HI>of death it &s;elf.</HI></P>
<P>AND thus I have done with what I de|&s;ign'd to offer from the Text, but to apply it to the Occa&s;ion, I know neither how to begin nor where to end.</P>
<P><HI>The Voice &s;aid, Cry.</HI> BUT how many Voices now Cry? The Church Cries, O my <HI>Protectre&s;s!</HI> The State Cries, O my <HI>Supportre&s;s!</HI> The King Cries, O the Friend of my Bo&s;ome, the Joy of my Life, the Companion of my Youth, the Sharer in my Joys, the Comfort in my Troubles, the Directre&s;s in my Coun&s;els! The Court Cries, my <HI>Darling,</HI> my <HI>Delight,</HI> my <HI>Crown,</HI> and my <HI>Glory!</HI> The Subject Cries, my <HI>Shield,</HI> my
<PB N="21" REF="11"> <HI>Defence,</HI> the joynt <HI>Author</HI> of my pre&s;ent Peace, the <HI>Foundre&s;s</HI> of my Happine&s;s, the <HI>Defender,</HI> the <HI>Promoter,</HI> and (in &s;ome &s;en&s;e) the <HI>Re&s;to|rer</HI> of my Religion; The mo&s;t Careful&punc; Pru|dent, the mo&s;t Tender and Indulgent Queen, and in all re&s;pects my <HI>Parent!</HI> But all the&s;e di&s;tinct Voices that compo&s;e the &s;everal Notes of this Mournful Harmony, do all meet, and joyn, and end in this Chorus, <HI>All fle&s;h is gra&s;s, and all the glory therof as the flower of the Field.</HI></P>
<P>THE <HI>Voice</HI> Cries &s;o <HI>Loud,</HI> and the Blow (tho' for our Sins ju&s;tly inflicted) is every way &s;o amazing, that the very thoughts of it were enough to make a Man lo&s;e all me|thod, tho' he had &s;tudied it never &s;o care|fully.</P>
<P>AND therefore, That I may neither confound you, nor lo&s;e my &s;elf, I &s;hall on|ly glance at &s;ome few things, that may &s;ati&s;|fie us, what great Advantages we might have reapt from her <HI>Life,</HI> had it pleas'd the Wi&s;e Di&s;po&s;er of all things to have continued it. And this will naturally tend:</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t.</HI> To give us a due &s;en&s;e of our lo&s;s.</P>
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<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> To quicken us to &s;uch Duties, whereby (&s;ince 'tis impo&s;&s;ible to improve it to our Temporal Advantage) we may yet make the be&s;t of it, that our Misfortune as well as our other Circum&s;tances will ad|mit.</P>
<P>ALL that know me, can tell, I neither love nor u&s;e to offer any thing from this place by <HI>Hear&s;ay,</HI> and yet it cannot be ex|pected, that I had the Honour of any &s;uch <HI>Acce&s;s,</HI> as to capacitate me to &s;ay much, from my own immediate knowledg. But yet this need not di&s;courage me now; &s;ince I could ea&s;ily &s;ay more, than what the time would allow, and nothing but what we all know to be true.</P>
<P>I AM not in&s;en&s;ible, how the glozeing Tongues of &s;ome <HI>Mercenary Orators,</HI> have Preached both them&s;elves, and the&s;e kind of Di&s;cour&s;es quite out of credit; as if their de&s;ign were only to garni&s;h a Di&s;h for Worms, to make a trimming for the Grave, and paint for the Chambers of Death; but all Wi&s;e Men know the Vanity of &s;uch Varni&s;h, and Colours thus laid on, give no Complexion to a judicious Eye; And how mi&s;erably will
<PB N="23" REF="12"> &s;uch Paint melt and drop away, and leave &s;ome faces horribly appal'd in that great day of the Lord? When the mouth of all wick|edne&s;s &s;hall be &s;topped, when Funeral Ser|mons &s;hall be &s;hut, and tho&s;e other <HI>Books</HI> (Books that cannot err) &s;hall be opened, and the Dead judged by them.</P>
<P>AND therefore there's nothing Mini&s;ters &s;hould more avoid, than courting and com|plimenting with the Dead and Living too in Funeral Sermons, making them rather Harangues of Commendation to the Dead, than any &s;erious Summons and Alarums to the Living; when it may be, neither the Life, nor the Death of the Decea&s;ed, gave any Evi|dence of &s;uch grace or comfort, as de&s;erves either the imitation or the commendation of the Living.</P>
<P>BUT I'm re&s;olv'd to be innocent from this great <HI>Offence,</HI> which is the <HI>Reproach,</HI> and may prove the <HI>Ruin</HI> of the&s;e kind of Ser|mons. At lea&s;t I need not fear it now, &s;ince if I had &s;o little <HI>Integrity,</HI> that I would, yet that incomparable <HI>Queen,</HI> who&s;e lo&s;s we now deplore, had &s;o much <HI>Excellency,</HI> that I could not flatter.</P>
<P>THE lo&s;s of a good (tho' private) Per&s;on, is at all times, e&s;pecially, in bad times, a ju&s;t
<PB N="24" REF="13"> ground of deep &s;orrow; What then mu&s;t be the lo&s;s of a good Queen, who is a Com|mon Stock, in which millions have a &s;hare? A burning <HI>Lamp,</HI> which &s;hin'd and impart|ed its Light to Three Great Kingdoms? No wonder if the exhau&s;ting of &s;uch a Store, the quenching of &s;uch a Lamp, &s;hould be matter of doleful complaint.</P>
<P>AND here I could willingly indulge both yours and my own pa&s;&s;ion, that we might &s;it down a while in &s;ilence, and only by the Language of our Tears &s;peak our &s;en&s;e of this heavy, this irreparable lo&s;s: But all Pa&s;&s;ions, e&s;pecially that of <HI>Grief,</HI> need rather a Bridle than a Spurr; and we have &s;ome|thing elfe to do upon &s;uch an extraordinary occa&s;ion, than to bewaile our lo&s;s after the common rate, tho' that's allowed us too.</P>
<P>A BRIGHT Star is removed; nay, our Sun is &s;et: well may Darkne&s;s over-&s;pread our Horrizon; <HI>A Cedar is fallen,</HI> well may<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zech. 11. 2.</NOTE> the <HI>Fir-trees howl.</HI> A <HI>Cedar,</HI> which had God &s;o plea&s;ed, might have &s;tood and flouri&s;hed much longer: But we often &s;ee the loftie&s;t Cedar cut down before the u&s;ele&s;s Shrub, and they frequently fall (&s;ays one) who while they &s;tood, not only graced the Forre&s;t,
<PB N="25" REF="13"> but gave &s;hade and &s;helter to others too. And oh! that we had not now the Occa&s;ion to bewail the Fall of the mo&s;t Flouri&s;hing <HI>Plant,</HI> that grac'd our own or any other Soil; verify|ing that of St. <HI>Paul, The fa&s;hion of this world</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 7. 31.</NOTE> <HI>pa&s;&s;eth away;</HI> and we together with it. The Throne leaves &s;ome, and others leaves it; and as there is <HI>but one Kingdom which cannot be &s;ha|ken,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 28.</NOTE> Eternal in the Heavens; &s;o there is but one King, the Immortal King of Ages, <HI>God</HI> over all, ble&s;&s;ed for ever. All the re&s;t are but <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and <HI>All fle&s;h is gra&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>AFTER &s;uch a Voice, what can warrant any of you that you &s;hall be alive while too morrow? Who can be &s;ecurity for his own life one moment beyond the pre&s;ent? You'll &s;ay my Youth, my Strength, my Temperance, and my Vigour, the&s;e will &s;ecure me: But was there ever any, more healthy, more lively, more temperate, or more vigorous than the Queen? How &s;prightly, how fair, how hail, how charm|ing, was &s;he but this day three Weeks, and al|mo&s;t a Week after? And yet the King of Ter|rors &s;tole upon her, before her &s;elf, or at lea&s;t, her friends &s;u&s;pected, being even (after &s;ome days illne&s;s) look'd upon as &s;afe, and pa&s;t all danger, on Tue&s;day; and yet, beyond all ex|pectation given over, and the Sentence of Death
<PB N="26" REF="14"> pronounc'd by her Phy&s;icians, before Noon on Wedne&s;day. <HI>So vain a thing is Man.</HI></P>
<P>BUT yet this can be no &s;urprize to tho&s;e, who&s;e u&s;ual exerci&s;e it is to die daily; and as St. <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> conceived of <HI>Valentinian</HI> the Emperour, &s;o may we of her Maje&s;ty; The Evidences pa&s;t in her health, are fair Proofs of that Di&s;po&s;ition her Soul was in, in her Sickne&s;s. But more of this anon; for tho all her earthly advantages are now become the &s;poils of Mortality, yet &s;he's not to be laid in the Du&s;t like Common Mold, nor depo&s;ited in the Shades with &s;ilence.</P>
<P>IT's true; in the Ble&s;&s;ed State to which &s;he is now arrived, crowned with an Incorruptible Diadem, in the Company of Angels and Saints, and all her Triumphant Ance&s;tors; &s;he needs no prai&s;es of ours; but yet, that, which every good man may claim, is much more ju&s;tly her due; Commendation after Death, being a Ju&s;t Tribute to a Religious Life.</P>
<P>CONSULT the Scriptures, and you &s;hall &s;carce find one Godly Man laid in his Grave without an Epitaph of Honour; view the Fathers, and you &s;hall ob&s;erve it their practice, to honour the Death of the Good, e&s;pecially of Princes; and if this had never been done before, it might be now allow'd to her, who was as well the be&s;t, as the greate&s;t among Women. 'Twere
<PB N="27" REF="14"> ea&s;ie to &s;hew it, in the In&s;tances of her Illu&s;trious Birth (being de&s;cended from a Royal Race of Kings, as well the greate&s;t, as of the longe&s;t and mo&s;t interrupted Succe&s;&s;ion now in the Chri&s;tian World) in her Suitable Edueation, in her Natural and Acquired Accompli&s;hments; which rendred her the Darling of the Age, as well as the Glory of her Sex. But we mu&s;t leave the&s;e, and many other Advantages, with all her great Actions, to fill up Chronicles; and they will better become the Hi&s;tory and Annals of the Age, than the Nook of a Ser|mon.</P>
<P>THE Sweetne&s;s of her Temper, her Beauty, Wit, and Charms of Conver&s;ation, which made her like <HI>Ve&s;pa&s;ian, Deliciae humani generis,</HI> and rendred her Amiable and Dear, to all that had the honour to know her (tho they were Gifts from above) yet mu&s;t they now be pa&s;t over in &s;ilence, as being <HI>Praeda Mortis;</HI> A Spoil unto Death and the Grave.</P>
<P>WHICH Con&s;ideration, &s;hould cure the undue E&s;teem, which too many Chri&s;tians &s;eem to put upon them; being more ambitious to outvy others in every thing, rather than real Holine&s;s; which (after all's done) is the only Ornament that Death cannot &s;poil us of.</P>
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<P>NOR were the Endowments of her Mind any whit inferiour to tho&s;e of her great Birth, and other Per&s;onal Advantages; Her Appre|hen&s;ion more quick and lively; her Judgment more penetrating and &s;olid, her Elocution more ready, fluent, graceful, and every way more per&s;wading, than is u&s;ually found in her Sex. And what good u&s;e <HI>She</HI> made of the&s;e Talents, I need not tell you; and it may ju&s;tly upbraid many other Ladies, even of the Fir&s;t Rank, who (I know not upon what pretences) omit improving them the &s;ame way.</P>
<P>I AM &s;ure &s;he had more <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;s</HI> to divert her, more <HI>Plenty</HI> and <HI>Abundance</HI> to entertain her, as much <HI>Beauty</HI> to tempt her, and more <HI>Favour</HI> and <HI>Honour</HI> to intangle her, than any of them all; and liv'd in the &s;ame Athei&s;tical degenerate Age that they live in. An Age wherein a &s;in|cere and &s;erious, a religious and devout Tem|per, is expos'd to <HI>Ridicule,</HI> and e&s;teem'd the mo&s;t unmodi&s;h, unfa&s;hionable, and u&s;ele&s;s thing that can be.</P>
<P>AND yet all the&s;e di&s;advantages, all the&s;e temptations to rai&s;e her Pride, and make her haughty, to render her carele&s;s, &s;ecure, and in|devout; &s;erv'd only to rai&s;e her Ambition, to behave her &s;elf more agreeable to her great Quality, by a Carriage truly exemplary, and
<PB N="29" REF="15"> every way great; A Carriage, that was in all re|&s;pects, religious, honourable, and vertuous.</P>
<P>HER Circum&s;tances, we know, were &s;uch as would have allowed her to have indulg'd her &s;elf in a great many of the Vanities, which a loo&s;e and &s;inful Age might prompt her to. But the&s;e &s;he always look'd upon with the great|e&s;t indifference and contempt imaginable. She was no enemy to the Modes and innocent Cu|&s;toms of her Countrey, but yet us'd them with &s;o much indifference and unconcernedne&s;s, as to her &s;elf, that could not but di&s;cover the lit|tle value &s;he put upon them; Her Dre&s;s always mode&s;t and becoming, and &s;uited more to her Quality than the <HI>Mode;</HI> that is, more rich than gay, and without the addition of Artificial Hand&s;omne&s;s; which, as &s;he needed it not, &s;o neither would &s;he cen&s;ure, or re&s;train the liber|ty of tho&s;e that did: But &s;he had that within, the Ornament of a meek but great Spirit; which was more truly valuable, and wherein &s;he did every way excel.</P>
<P>THE Great God of Heaven, the Creator and Di&s;po&s;er of all things, was chiefly regard|ed in all her Behaviour; and the fir&s;t and main Principle of all her Actions.</P>
<P>HENCE &s;prung that awful regard and re|verence of his Divine Maje&s;ty, which was vi|&s;ible
<PB N="30" REF="16"> in all her Carriage; and I have heard, that <HI>She</HI> us'd frequently to expre&s;s a great &s;en&s;e of the Folly, the Ignorance, and Impudence, of tho&s;e (tho e&s;teem'd Wits) who pretend to deny the being of a Deity; when they had &s;uch clear Convictions of Him, his Attributes, and Provi|dence, in every particular of the Creation; even &s;uch as were obvious and di&s;coverable to their very Sen&s;es. And as no Pulpit Di&s;cour&s;es pleas'd her better, than &s;uch as were dexterou&s;ly levell'd again&s;t this unrea&s;onable, this helli&s;h Error; &s;o for prevention of its growth, in an age &s;o fruitful in evil, they were always com|manded to the Pre&s;s.</P>
<P>IT was upon this Belief, upon this Know|ledge (as the be&s;t Foundation) that &s;he rear'd that Noble Structure of Piety and Devotion, Uprightne&s;s and Sincerity, Purity and Charity, and all other the Duties of Chri&s;tianity, that &s;hined &s;o brightly thro the whole Cour&s;e of her Life.</P>
<P>BUT by a Di&s;cour&s;e, Ju&s;t come to my<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr. <HI>Wake</HI>'s Sermon, at <HI>Grays.</HI> Inn, on the &s;ame occa|&s;ion.</NOTE> hands, I find my &s;elf prevented, and every way out-done, as to what I offer'd upon the&s;e Heads; therefore, I cho&s;e rather to refer the Reader to it; and the rather becau&s;e that Reve|rend <HI>Author</HI> &s;peaks <HI>all</HI> or <HI>mo&s;t</HI> from his own knowledge, which may render it more Au|thentick;
<PB N="31" REF="16"> and more Satisfactory to him: and (as <HI>He him&s;elf</HI> ob&s;erves) the Reader need not fear <HI>his</HI> impo&s;ing on him; for he may Defie <HI>him</HI> to flatter, if he would.</P>
<P>THERE, you may behold this Great <HI>Queen</HI> Delineated at large. You may &s;ee how <HI>Great,</HI> how <HI>Good,</HI> how every way <HI>Ex|emplary</HI> She was in Her <HI>Life,</HI> and no le&s;s &s;o, in Her <HI>Death;</HI> being an Object not lightly to be laid to all our Hearts, not only as <HI>Subjects,</HI> not only as <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> but as <HI>Men,</HI> as <HI>Mor|rals</HI> too; warning all that have <HI>&s;een</HI> or &s;hall <HI>hear</HI> of the &s;udden bla&s;ting of this <HI>Flower, that all fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> and louder than any other <HI>Voice</HI> crys, <HI>All the goodline&s;s thereof</HI> is but as <HI>the flower of the field.</HI></P>
<P>THERE, you may &s;ee how great a Friend She was to the <HI>Church,</HI> how careful of the welfare of the <HI>State,</HI> and how much She did contribute to the <HI>Hapine&s;s</HI> of <HI>both.</HI> How Re|ligious, how Pious, in <HI>Publick:</HI> how Ex|act, How Punctual in <HI>Private:</HI> How con&s;tant in the <HI>Chappel:</HI> How frequent in the <HI>Clo&s;et:</HI> and how <HI>Sincere</HI> and <HI>Devout</HI> in both.</P>
<P>I HAD once the Honour to be near Her, when She received the Ble&s;&s;ed Sacra|ment, and I &s;hall never forget, with what <HI>Reverence,</HI> what <HI>Humility,</HI> what <HI>Zeal</HI> and <HI>In|tention,</HI>
<PB N="32" REF="17"> She did Participate of that Divine <HI>Mi&s;tery;</HI> which plainly &s;hewed, She was as <HI>Sincerely</HI> as <HI>Seemingly,</HI> Devout.</P>
<P>HER <HI>Affections</HI> &s;eem'd to be rai&s;ed above their common pitch, and Her <HI>Carriage,</HI> du|ring the whole <HI>Action,</HI> was &s;o Heavenly and &s;o Divine; as if Her <HI>Soul</HI> had actually a&s;cended to that <HI>God,</HI> to whom Her <HI>Prayers</HI> were di|rected: And brought to my thoughts, that &s;aying of St. <HI>Lukes,</HI> concerning St. <HI>Stephen,</HI> when he &s;aw the Heavens opened, and <HI>Je&s;us</HI> &s;tanding at Gods Right Hand. <HI>His face,</HI> &s;ays the Text, <HI>was as the face of an An|gel.</HI></P>
<P>AND now, <HI>She,</HI> that by &s;uch remarkable In&s;tances of <HI>Piety</HI> and <HI>Devotion,</HI> Manife&s;ted the Profound Reverence and Veneration <HI>She</HI> had for God, could not be wanting in any regard to the re&s;t of his Commandments: <HI>She</HI> that was &s;o exact in the Duties of the <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> could not be defective in tho&s;e of the <HI>Second</HI> Table. Her <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> was no <HI>Le&s;s</HI> Illu&s;trious in that re&s;pect, than Her <HI>Piety</HI> was in the other.</P>
<P>HER <HI>Word</HI> was as Sacred as any <HI>Oath,</HI> and no inconvenience would make Her flinch from what <HI>She</HI> had once promi&s;ed. <HI>She</HI> &s;o much abhorred a Di&s;honorable <HI>Rece&s;s,</HI> that
<PB N="33" REF="17"> <HI>She</HI> had no great <HI>Value</HI> for tho&s;e, who by <HI>Little</HI> Arts and Shifts would free them&s;elves from their Ingagements; and thereby di&s;ap|point the <HI>Expectations</HI> they had rai&s;ed in o|thers.</P>
<P>BUT I need not &s;tay upon this. Her Ver|tues in this kind were <HI>&s;o</HI> Eminent, and <HI>&s;o</HI> Con|&s;picuous, that (con&s;idering the <HI>Orb</HI> She &s;hone in) it was impo&s;&s;ible they could be conceal'd: And this was it, that made Her &s;o ju&s;tly Ad|mired, and &s;o entirely Beloved of all.</P>
<P>She was of that Sweetne&s;s of Temper, of that Kindne&s;s, Affability, and (con&s;idering Her great Quality) of that Condi&s;cen&s;ion and Courte&s;ie, in all Her <HI>Demeanour,</HI> as rendered Her very <HI>Dear,</HI> and Her <HI>Conver&s;ation</HI> very Grateful, and De&s;irable, to all that had the <HI>Honour</HI> to be near Her.</P>
<P>SHE was u&s;ually very Plea&s;ant and Chear|ful, but Her Mirth was always managed with Di&s;cretion, and bounded with Religion; Her Prudence kept her within the limits of <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> and her <HI>Piety</HI> re&s;trained her from be|ing <HI>Vain:</HI> In both <HI>which,</HI> She was very <HI>Excel|lent,</HI> and very <HI>Exemplary.</HI></P>
<P>SHE was in <HI>Her</HI> Conver&s;ation (notwith|&s;tanding the <HI>Re&s;pect</HI> due to her Quality) far from ingro&s;&s;ing all the Di&s;cour&s;e to her &s;elf:
<PB N="34" REF="18"> And when <HI>She</HI> did &s;peak <HI>She</HI> &s;till (according to the Wi&s;e Mans Character of the good <HI>Woman) opened her mouth with wi&s;dom, and in</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 31. 26.</NOTE> <HI>her tongue was the Law of kindne&s;s.</HI> And She did &s;o far excel all others <HI>this</HI> way, that, if a <HI>Stranger,</HI> who had never &s;een her, had come in, and found her at work among her Maids of <HI>Honour</HI> (as he often might) or in the com|pany of other Ladies, without any Badges of Royalty and Di&s;tinction: He had been very <HI>&V;ndi&s;cerning,</HI> if (after a little ob&s;ervation ei|ther of her graceful <HI>Meen;</HI> or winning way of <HI>Addre&s;s</HI>) he had not pre&s;ently concluded, <HI>That's the</HI> QUEEN. In a <HI>Word,</HI> She was &s;o great a <HI>Proficient</HI> in all the Arts of Obliging, that She Reigned over the <HI>Hearts,</HI> as well as the <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> of all tho&s;e, who were happy in the Honour of her Conver&s;e.</P>
<P>AND now, <HI>She</HI> who was thus <HI>Exact,</HI> thus <HI>Perfect,</HI> in all the Duties both of the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> and <HI>Second</HI> Table, mu&s;t needs <HI>Excel</HI> in <HI>that</HI> which is the great <HI>Badge</HI> and <HI>Character</HI> of them all, <HI>Charity;</HI> of which She was &s;o <HI>Compleat</HI> a <HI>Pattern,</HI> that, if She out-did her <HI>Self</HI> in any one <HI>Thing,</HI> it was in this; which She extended both to the Per&s;ons and Nece&s;&s;ities of <HI>all.</HI></P>
<P>Being all <HI>Goodne&s;s</HI> her &s;elf, She was apt to believe mo&s;t People <HI>Good</HI> too, or at lea&s;t, bet|ter
<PB N="35" REF="18"> than perhaps they were; <HI>Charity thinking</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13. 6.</NOTE> <HI>no evil.</HI> And <HI>She</HI> u&s;ed this good opinion of others, as an <HI>In&s;trument</HI> to make them, what <HI>She</HI> was &s;o willing to &s;ignifie She thought them. She would never dimini&s;h the ju&s;t prai|&s;es of any that de&s;erved them; nay, would rather le&s;&s;en their other failings, and com|mend them for &s;ome one good quality, to cover a great many bad ones: And &s;o would make People good by believing them to be &s;o, and by this ingagement make them a&s;ha|med to deceive or di&s;appoint her expectation, and thoughts of them.</P>
<P>AND then, as to the <HI>Nece&s;&s;ities</HI> of others, She was <HI>willing to Her Power, yea and beyond</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 8. 3.</NOTE> <HI>her Power,</HI> to relieve them. God who always <HI>Honours them, that honour him,</HI> had given<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 2. 30.</NOTE> her <HI>Riches and Honour in abundance,</HI> as is &s;aid of King <HI>Jeho&s;haphat.</HI> Yet her <HI>Heart</HI> was not<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 17. 5. Ver&s;. 6.</NOTE> puffed up by them, <HI>but lifted up under them in the ways of the Lord.</HI> And the great &s;ati&s;|faction She took in them, was the opportu|nity they afforded her of doing <HI>Good;</HI> and when at any time they would not an&s;wer the great <HI>De&s;igns</HI> of her <HI>Willing Soul,</HI> the fore|mentioned di&s;cour&s;e tells us, what her con|cern<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pag. 36.</NOTE> and regret was.</P>
<PB N="36" REF="19">
<P>SHE had a deep Sen&s;e of the <HI>Wants</HI> of all Per&s;ons, and would catch at the lea&s;t hint of any proper <HI>Object</HI> of <HI>Charity,</HI> when at any time mentioned; and never declin'd relieving any <HI>Indigent,</HI> either <HI>Families</HI> or private <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> when recommended to her.</P>
<P>NOR was her Charity confined only to &s;uch <HI>Here,</HI> but extended to <HI>Ireland</HI> too; and not only to tho&s;e <HI>there,</HI> who had &s;uffered for being Prote&s;tants, or for e&s;pou&s;ing her Intere&s;t; but even to the <HI>Iri&s;h Orphans,</HI> that is, the <HI>Chil|dren</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Parents</HI> who died in actual Rebel|lion, and Fighting again&s;t <HI>Her;</HI> and <HI>That,</HI> after they had Robb'd, and Stripp'd, and Kill'd, and Murdered many of Her Loyal Subjects: Yet to their <HI>Children,</HI> was her great <HI>Charity</HI> de&s;ign'd: And She was (to my knowledge) very &s;oli|citous, to have &s;ome <HI>Fund</HI> &s;ettled for their &s;up|port, that they might be brought up in the Prote&s;tant Religion, and maintained, while fit to be put to Trades, or otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed of.</P>
<P>THIS was <HI>Charity</HI> indeed, the doing <HI>Good</HI> for <HI>Gods &s;ake,</HI> without any other than a <HI>Chri|&s;tian</HI> and truly <HI>Pious</HI> inducement, <HI>to lay up in</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 19.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tore a good foundation again&s;t the time to come, And to make to her &s;elf friends of the Mam|mon</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 16. 9.</NOTE> <HI>of unrighteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI></P>
<PB N="37" REF="19">
<P>SHE had a great compa&s;&s;ion for &s;uch Fo|reigners as fled for their Religion, as being forward to <HI>do good to all,</HI> &s;o e&s;pecially to <HI>tho&s;e of the Hou&s;hold of Faith.</HI></P>
<P>BUT She had a particular concern for &s;uch indigent Per&s;ons, who&s;e Circum&s;tances had been any ways con&s;iderable in the World; there being &s;ome <HI>Objects</HI> of real <HI>Charity,</HI> which are not &s;o to vulgar <HI>Eyes</HI> or <HI>Pur&s;es,</HI> on whom She would <HI>Confer,</HI> and whom She would <HI>Sur|prize</HI> with great and &s;uitable a&s;&s;i&s;tances; and to &s;uch, She was generally <HI>Kind</HI> in the very manner, as well as mea&s;ure of her <HI>Charity;</HI> being as tender of their <HI>Mode&s;ty,</HI> as <HI>She</HI> was compa&s;&s;ionate of their <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity,</HI> and by her &s;weet obliging <HI>Way,</HI> made her <HI>Gift</HI> &s;eem more a <HI>Pre&s;ent</HI> than a <HI>Charity.</HI> But I &s;hould never have done, &s;hould I <HI>in&s;i&s;t</HI> on particu|lars, or &s;ay all that might be &s;aid of <HI>Her</HI> in a <HI>Private</HI> Capacity, as a <HI>Chri&s;tian.</HI> And how much more might be &s;aid of <HI>Her</HI> in <HI>Relation</HI> to others?</P>
<P>AS She was the be&s;t of <HI>Queens,</HI> &s;o She was the be&s;t of <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es,</HI> to tho&s;e who had the <HI>Ho|nour</HI> to &s;erve her; never (as I am informed) urging her commands upon them, &s;o much by her <HI>Power</HI> and <HI>Authority,</HI> as by obliging them by her <HI>Kindne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Condi&s;cen&s;ion;</HI> treat|ing
<PB N="38" REF="20"> them more like <HI>Friends</HI> than <HI>Servants.</HI> And as their <HI>Quality</HI> did intitle many of <HI>them</HI> (as much as <HI>any</HI> of their fellow <HI>Subjects</HI>) to her <HI>Friend&s;hip,</HI> &s;o She lo&s;t nothing by afford|ing <HI>it;</HI> but did &s;ecure their mo&s;t ready <HI>Obedi|ence</HI> upon &s;tronger <HI>Principles</HI> than that of bare <HI>Authority,</HI> even tho&s;e of <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Grati|tude;</HI> which as <HI>they</HI> are mo&s;t acceptable and plea&s;ant on all <HI>&s;ides,</HI> &s;o are <HI>they</HI> mo&s;t <HI>Faith|ful</HI> and mo&s;t <HI>La&s;ting.</HI> In a word, I have been <HI>told</HI> that <HI>Her</HI> carriage among <HI>them</HI> was &s;o <HI>Obliging</HI> and &s;o <HI>Prudent,</HI> that <HI>She</HI> was never known to &s;ay or do any <HI>thing</HI> unworthy of her great <HI>Self,</HI> or unbecoming that great <HI>Wi&s;|dom</HI> and <HI>Di&s;cretion</HI> that appeared in all her <HI>Actions.</HI></P>
<P>I SHALL now con&s;ider her as a <HI>Queen</HI> and that but briefly, fearing to out-&s;trip my time. And fir&s;t, As a <HI>Queen Con&s;ort,</HI> As a <HI>Wife:</HI> and here we may &s;ay as the Scripture &s;ays, <HI>The heart of her Husband did &s;afely trust in her, and</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 31. 11, 12.</NOTE> <HI>&s;he did him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.</HI> Never was Woman more a <HI>Crown</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 12. 4.</NOTE> and <HI>Ornament</HI> to Man. She lived, doubtle&s;s with a great <HI>Sen&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Covenant</HI> of God, that was betwixt <HI>Them,</HI> upon her <HI>Heart,</HI> and might &s;ay, as <HI>Her</HI> Royal <HI>Grandfather</HI> in his Me&s;&s;age to his <HI>Queen,</HI> that &s;he never tran&s;|gre&s;t
<PB N="39" REF="20"> the <HI>Obligation</HI> of <HI>Fidelity</HI> or <HI>Affection</HI> to <HI>Him,</HI> no not in <HI>Thought.</HI></P>
<P><HI>She</HI> was all <HI>Love,</HI> and all <HI>Obedience.</HI></P>
<P>A GREAT part of her care, was to ob|&s;erve every thing that was mo&s;t plea&s;ing to him, and &s;he was in all re&s;pects what &s;he ought to be, <HI>A help meet.</HI> And the inexpre&s;&s;ible <HI>Sor|row</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 20.</NOTE> His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> Groans under, for her <HI>Lo&s;s,</HI> is a too &s;ufficient <HI>Manife&s;tation</HI> of all this.</P>
<P>AND upon this <HI>Head,</HI> it might not be improper to add a <HI>Word</HI> or two as a ju&s;t and farther <HI>Vindication</HI> of Her <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> in the only <HI>thing</HI> her mo&s;t malicious Enemies could charge <HI>Her</HI> with.</P>
<P>SHE, who was &s;o generally and &s;o ju&s;tly <HI>beloved</HI> and <HI>admir'd</HI> by <HI>all,</HI> had yet the hard <HI>thoughts</HI> of &s;ome <HI>few</HI> Bya&s;t and Unrea&s;onable <HI>Men;</HI> who pretended <HI>for&s;ooth,</HI> to be di&s;&s;atisfied with <HI>Her way</HI> of coming to the <HI>Crown;</HI> and were therefore &s;o <HI>Impudent,</HI> as to <HI>Cen&s;ure</HI> Her for <HI>it. But</HI> had there not been other great and weighty <HI>Rea&s;ons,</HI> yea an ab&s;olute <HI>nece&s;&s;ity</HI> for it, as <HI>great</HI> as the <HI>&s;aving</HI> Three tottering King|doms from <HI>&s;inking,</HI> and our <HI>Religion, Laws,</HI> and <HI>Liberties,</HI> and after <HI>them,</HI> our <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> and <HI>Lives</HI> from expiring. Had there been, <HI>I &s;ay,</HI> none of <HI>the&s;e</HI> or any other <HI>Inducements,</HI> yet the <HI>Obligations She</HI> lay under as a <HI>Wife</HI> (which by one
<PB N="40" REF="21"> of the fir&s;t <HI>Sanctions</HI> in Holy-Writ, are far<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 20.</NOTE> greater, than any Due from a <HI>Child,</HI> to a <HI>Pa|rent</HI>) might very well have excu&s;ed <HI>Her;</HI> and removed their <HI>di&s;like</HI> upon that <HI>&s;core,</HI> and &s;o rendred Her as <HI>amiable</HI> and <HI>dear,</HI> to them, as <HI>She</HI> was to all others.</P>
<P>AND now we might con&s;ider Her as a <HI>Queen Regent.</HI> And <HI>here</HI> again, as a farther demon&s;tration of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> great <HI>Affection;</HI> when the a&s;piring <HI>De&s;igns</HI> and <HI>Attempts,</HI> of a potent and haughty <HI>Enemy,</HI> forc'd Him from <HI>Her</HI> and <HI>us;</HI> and nece&s;&s;arily required <HI>His</HI> Pre&s;ence el&s;ewhere, He intru&s;ted the whole Management of the <HI>State,</HI> to Her <HI>Care</HI> and <HI>Conduct;</HI> to which, tho' She was (in His ab|&s;ence) Qualified and Intituled by <HI>Law,</HI> yet, it was a high Te&s;timony of his <HI>confidence</HI> in Her <HI>prudence,</HI> to leave and intru&s;t it to Her &s;ole <HI>Care.</HI> Which <HI>Tru&s;t</HI> She di&s;charged with &s;uch <HI>Dexterity,</HI> &s;uch <HI>Exactne&s;s,</HI> and &s;uch ad|mirable <HI>Wi&s;dom;</HI> that She never gave or left <HI>occa&s;ion</HI> for any Complaint, but rendred <HI>all</HI> more than <HI>&s;ilent, &s;atisfied;</HI> and not only <HI>&s;atisfied,</HI> but <HI>applauding,</HI> and <HI>admiring</HI> her <HI>pru|dent</HI> and <HI>honourable Conduct.</HI></P>
<P>AND tho' She loved, and even hugg'd Her <HI>retirements</HI> as Her greate&s;t <HI>&s;atisfaction;</HI> yet when the <HI>Exigences</HI> of affairs requir'd <HI>it,</HI>
<PB N="41" REF="21"> She would deny her &s;elf, and her particular in|clination, to comply with a <HI>Duty</HI> of a more publick <HI>concern;</HI> and <HI>cheerfully</HI> &s;u&s;tained the hurry of <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;s,</HI> which was inevitable, and always acquitted her <HI>&s;elf</HI> (with <HI>honour</HI> and <HI>ap|plau&s;e</HI>) of the great <HI>tru&s;t</HI> impo&s;ed in <HI>her.</HI></P>
<P>But never did any man, after a long and un|ea&s;ie confinement <HI>meet</HI> his <HI>liberty,</HI> with more <HI>joy</HI> and <HI>&s;atisfaction,</HI> than &s;he did &s;olace her &s;elf, when &s;he had e&s;cap'd the <HI>noi&s;e</HI> and <HI>croud</HI> of <HI>affairs</HI> which mu&s;t needs have ruffled and di&s;turb'd her <HI>quiet,</HI> and (&s;o far) le&s;&s;en'd (or at lea&s;t) &s;u&s;pended the full <HI>injoyment</HI> of her <HI>&s;elf.</HI></P>
<P>And now by &s;uch a <HI>regular,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>pious,</HI> and &s;uch a <HI>righteous life,</HI> we cannot ea&s;ily &s;u&s;pect <HI>&s;he</HI> could be unprepar'd even for the mo&s;t <HI>&s;udden</HI> death: and tho the warning was indeed but &s;hort; yet we have no rea&s;on to fear it was much <HI>&s;urprizing</HI> to <HI>one</HI> that always lived in ex|pectation of <HI>it.</HI></P>
<P>She was always (as I was inform'd) in the mid&s;t of her <HI>health,</HI> and <HI>&s;trength,</HI> apprehen&s;ive enough of the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> whereof <HI>&s;he</HI> died; yet be|ing &s;eiz'd with it, <HI>&s;he</HI> &s;eem'd not at all di&s;cou|rag'd, and profe&s;s'd her &s;elf intirely <HI>willing</HI> to acquie&s;ce in the <HI>will</HI> of <HI>God;</HI> and all the while of her <HI>illne&s;s,</HI> continued in the &s;ame frame: and notwith&s;tanding a complication of Di&s;tempers,
<PB N="42" REF="22"> notwith&s;tanding the trouble &s;omepre&s;criptions of Phy&s;icians, and the no le&s;s trouble&s;ome applications of others; notwith&s;tanding her own <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Di&s;order;</HI> of which (her Con|&s;titution, and other Circum&s;tances con&s;ider'd) <HI>She</HI> could not but be <HI>very</HI> &s;en&s;ible, yet with an admirable <HI>Patience</HI> and <HI>Re&s;ignation</HI> to the <HI>Will</HI> of <HI>God;</HI> with a great contempt of the <HI>Vanities</HI> of the <HI>World,</HI> and with a Holy indif|ference even, to <HI>Life</HI> it &s;elf; <HI>She</HI> was ready to an&s;wer, when it plea&s;ed God to call: being impatient in <HI>nothing,</HI> nor importunate in any <HI>thing</HI> &s;ave an earne&s;t <HI>de&s;ire</HI> that &s;he might know her <HI>Danger;</HI> and when it was at la&s;t declared to her; O God! How like an <HI>An|gel,</HI> rather than a <HI>Soul</HI> clogg'd with <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> did She receive <HI>it?</HI> With &s;uch an <HI>Humble</HI> uncon|cernedne&s;s, &s;uch <HI>Submi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and &s;uch even|ne&s;s of <HI>Temper;</HI> as <HI>nothing</HI> could have given, <HI>but</HI> an Innocent and Meek <HI>Spirit,</HI> and a <HI>Con&s;ci|ence void of offence, towards God and towards man.</HI> And re&s;igned up Her great <HI>Soul</HI> in <HI>Death,</HI> with the &s;ame <HI>courage,</HI> and the &s;ame <HI>quietne&s;s,</HI> that She had po&s;&s;e&s;t <HI>it</HI> in <HI>patience</HI> all Her <HI>Life.</HI></P>
<P>AND thus <HI>Lived,</HI> and thus <HI>Died</HI> (who can &s;peak it without <HI>tears?</HI>) this great <HI>Queen,</HI> this glorious <HI>Saint;</HI> tho' not full of <HI>Years,</HI> yet full of <HI>Mature Fruits</HI> and <HI>Graces:</HI> when all <HI>Men</HI>
<PB N="43" REF="22"> Judged Her worthy of a <HI>longer,</HI> but <HI>God,</HI> the on|ly <HI>unerring Judge,</HI> found Her full ripen'd for a better <HI>Life.</HI> And after He <HI>had prevented her with the ble&s;&s;ings of goodne&s;s, and &s;et a Crown of pure Gold upon her Head:</HI> After He had given Her the Univer&s;al <HI>E&s;teem, Love</HI> and <HI>Admiration,</HI> of all that knew <HI>Her;</HI> the <HI>ble&s;&s;ing</HI> of a <HI>good|name;</HI> and more than un&s;potted; a <HI>bright</HI> and <HI>re&s;plendent Reputation.</HI> After <HI>He had granted her the reque&s;t of her lips, and &s;hut not out her prayer.</HI> After <HI>He had made her glad with the light of his Countenance,</HI> and given Her the <HI>Heaven</HI> up|on <HI>Earth,</HI> the ble&s;&s;ing of a <HI>calm purified</HI> and <HI>well a&s;&s;ured Con&s;cience.</HI> In a <HI>word,</HI> After He had ta|ken out the <HI>Sting</HI> of <HI>Death,</HI> and made it an ea&s;ie pa&s;&s;age to <HI>Everla&s;ting Life,</HI> He then took Her from her corruptible and <HI>Earthly,</HI> to an incor|ruptible and <HI>Heavenly Crown.</HI></P>
<P>AND She is now <HI>&s;afely</HI> arriv'd in that <HI>hap|py Place,</HI> where (as the <HI>Father</HI> &s;weetly Warbles) there's <HI>Vita Aeterna, Beatitude Perfecta, &amp; Summa Voluptas;</HI> Fullne&s;s of Joy, Eternity of Life, and Perfection of Bli&s;s. Where Her <HI>Faith</HI> is turned into <HI>Sight,</HI> Her <HI>Hope</HI> into <HI>Fruition,</HI> and <HI>Love,</HI> Everla&s;tingly &s;atisfied with the <HI>Pre&s;ence</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> the <HI>Face</HI> of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> the <HI>Fulne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Spirit,</HI> with the <HI>Communion</HI> and <HI>Society</HI> of all <HI>Saints,</HI> and the <HI>Spirits</HI> of Ju&s;t <HI>Men</HI> made <HI>Per|fect;</HI>
<PB N="44" REF="23"> where all the <HI>Cares</HI> and <HI>Troubles</HI> annext to an Earthly <HI>Crown,</HI> are now done away; and where <HI>She is,</HI> and <HI>&s;hall be</HI> for <HI>ever</HI> ravi|&s;hed, in joyning with <HI>Angels</HI> and <HI>Saints,</HI> and all the <HI>Choir</HI> of <HI>Heaven,</HI> to Carrol forth <HI>Prai&s;es,</HI> and Sing <HI>Hallelujahs to him that &s;its upon the Throne, to the Lamb, and to God for ever. The</HI> mo&s;t Glorious <HI>Imployment;</HI> the mo&s;t Happy <HI>State&punc;</HI> that the greate&s;t <HI>Monarch,</HI> the greate&s;t <HI>Angel</HI> ever arrived to: And tho' it be every way Her <HI>Advantage</HI> and Her <HI>Gain,</HI> yet it's &s;till our <HI>Lo&s;s,</HI> and Her many <HI>Excellencies</HI> be|fore mentioned, may &s;atifie <HI>us,</HI> what great <HI>Advantages</HI> we might have expected from her Life, had it plea&s;ed the <HI>Almighty</HI> to have con|tinued it.</P>
<P>AND now let us &s;u&s;pend our <HI>Sorrow</HI> a while; and con&s;ider what may be <HI>ju&s;tly</HI> ex|pected from our <HI>Selves</HI> on this <HI>&s;ad Occa&s;ion.</HI> And <HI>here</HI> I could lay before you a <HI>Pattern</HI> worthy of your imitation; &s;uch a <HI>Pattern,</HI> as, in all <HI>re&s;pects,</HI> this <HI>Age,</HI> perhaps, has not pro|duced; A <HI>Patern</HI> that may for ever Silence, what, either the <HI>greate&s;t</HI> or the <HI>meane&s;t</HI> Per&s;on, can offer again&s;t the Rea&s;onablene&s;s or the Nece&s;&s;ity of a <HI>Holy Life:</HI> and may &s;ufficiently convince <HI>us,</HI> that there are no in&s;uperable difficulties in <HI>Religion;</HI> for tho' She was a <HI>Queen,</HI>
<PB N="45" REF="23"> yet She was a <HI>Woman,</HI> of the feebler <HI>Sex;</HI> a Great and a Rich <HI>Woman, and how hardly can &s;uch</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 19. 23.</NOTE> <HI>be &s;aved?</HI> A <HI>Woman</HI> of like <HI>pa&s;&s;ions</HI> with your <HI>&s;elves,</HI> inwardly clogged with the &s;ame cor|rupt and &s;inful <HI>Nature,</HI> outwardly be&s;et with the like or greater <HI>Temptations;</HI> and yet She ca&s;t off the <HI>weight</HI> that hung upon <HI>Her,</HI> broke through the <HI>difficulties,</HI> that did incompa&s;s <HI>Her, and ran the Race, which was &s;et before her;</HI> and <HI>through faith, and patience, hath obtained,</HI> and now <HI>Inherits the promi&s;es,</HI> and that <HI>&s;ure re|ward,</HI> that <HI>Crown</HI> of <HI>Glory,</HI> that <HI>endle&s;s Kingdom;</HI> which <HI>God</HI> hath provided, and <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath pur|cha&s;ed, and promi&s;ed; to <HI>Her,</HI> and all <HI>Them</HI> that love and fear <HI>Him,</HI> and <HI>wait for his ap|pearing.</HI></P>
<P>I COULD <HI>likewi&s;e</HI> here &s;how you, how idle and frothy are the <HI>Projects</HI> and <HI>Purpo&s;es,</HI> the <HI>De&s;igns</HI> and <HI>Re&s;olutions,</HI> which worldly <HI>Men</HI> are too too <HI>apt</HI> to propo&s;e to them&s;elves on the <HI>Hopes,</HI> and to build upon the <HI>A&s;&s;u|rances</HI> of long <HI>Life;</HI> than which there is no|thing more <HI>Vain,</HI> nothing more <HI>&V;ncertain.</HI></P>
<P>IF ever any <HI>meer</HI> Mortal could by any pri|viledge what&s;oever, pretend or hope &s;or <HI>Ex|emption</HI> from the Arre&s;ts of <HI>Death;</HI> This <HI>Good,</HI> this <HI>Great,</HI> this <HI>Young,</HI> this <HI>Healthy Queen</HI> might; and <HI>yet</HI> all the advantage <HI>She</HI> has now over
<PB N="46" REF="24"> common <HI>Du&s;t,</HI> is, that to <HI>Her</HI> may <HI>David</HI>'s La|mentation over <HI>Saul</HI> be more fitly applyed; <HI>O! how is the Mighty fallen? how lovely and plea&s;ant</HI> was<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 1. 19.</NOTE> She in her <HI>Life?</HI> and yet She is <HI>fallen; as if She had not been Anointed with Oyle.</HI> And indeed no|thing in the whole <HI>World,</HI> could have more convincingly a&s;&s;ured <HI>us</HI> of this <HI>truth,</HI> that <HI>all fle&s;h is gra&s;s,</HI> than Her <HI>Fall</HI> hath done.</P>
<P>BUT I ha&s;ten to what yet remains&punc;</P>
<P>THERE are two <HI>Duties</HI> that &s;eem &s;peci|ally and nece&s;&s;arily to be <HI>Incumbent</HI> upon us at this <HI>time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> WHAT we are to <HI>do</HI> to &s;anctifie, or at <HI>lea&s;t</HI> how we are to demean our <HI>&s;elves,</HI> that <HI>God</HI> may &s;anctifie this great <HI>Lo&s;s</HI> to <HI>us.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> WHAT we are to <HI>Do</HI> to le&s;&s;en it, &s;o as it may not prove <HI>fatal</HI> to us.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> HOW we are to Improve <HI>this</HI> &s;o, as to have it &s;anctified to <HI>us.</HI></P>
<P>THIS is certain, by &s;uch di&s;pen&s;ations as <HI>the&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Death</HI> of his <HI>Servants; God</HI> doth fore|warn us of &s;uture Judgments; e&s;pecially, if they be &s;uch as are <HI>great</HI> and <HI>eminent,</HI> whether in <HI>Church</HI> or <HI>State:</HI> and we have <HI>now</HI> lo&s;t the <HI>Greate&s;t</HI> in <HI>Both;</HI> And this is a fearful <HI>Sign</HI>
<PB N="47" REF="24"> that &s;ome heavy Judgment attends the Rem|nant of the <HI>People.</HI> This is that whereof our <HI>Prophet</HI> &s;peaks, <HI>Behold the Lord, the Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 3. 1, 2, 3.</NOTE> <HI>doth take away from</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>the mighty man, and the man of War, the Judge, and the Prophet, and the Prudent, and the Ancient, the Captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the Coun|&s;eller;</HI> and all this threatned as the fore-runner of of heavy Judgments; &s;uch as the having <HI>children</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 4, 5</NOTE> for <HI>their Princes,</HI> their <HI>oppre&s;&s;ing one another,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver. 8.</NOTE> and no <HI>le&s;s</HI> than the <HI>ruin</HI> of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and <HI>the fall of Judah.</HI> And the &s;ame <HI>Prophet,</HI> el&s;where tells us, <HI>That the Righteous peri&s;heth, and no man layeth it to heart, and merciful men are taken away, none con&s;idering that they are taken</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 57. 1.</NOTE> <HI>from the evil to come.</HI></P>
<P>THUS was that good King <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> dealt with, not long after who&s;e <HI>Death,</HI> followed the <HI>Cap|tivity</HI> of <HI>Babel.</HI> In the <HI>Grave</HI> wherein <HI>he</HI> was Interr'd, the <HI>Liberty, Glory,</HI> and <HI>Peace</HI> of <HI>Jewry,</HI> lay al&s;o Buried.</P>
<P>I Would not willingly be the <HI>Prophet</HI> of our <HI>Wo,</HI> but whatever we may <HI>think,</HI> or however we may <HI>flatter</HI> our &s;elves, <HI>God</HI> never with-draws &s;uch <HI>great lights</HI> out of the World, but at the approach of &s;ome Black and Dreadful <HI>Tempe&s;t; which,</HI> if we <HI>humble</HI> not our <HI>&s;elves,</HI> under his <HI>Mighty hand,</HI> and prepare to meet him in the
<PB N="48" REF="25"> <HI>way of his Judgments</HI>) will certainly over-take us. And <HI>therefore</HI> while it is called <HI>to day,</HI> let us not <HI>harden our Hearts,</HI> but look to the <HI>Things</HI> that concerns our <HI>Peace.</HI> Let us <HI>Search and try our ways, and turn again unto the Lord.</HI> We cannot think he hath made this great <HI>Breach,</HI> only, to open a pa&s;&s;age to our <HI>Sorrow,</HI> much <HI>le&s;s</HI> to furni&s;h us with new matter of <HI>Di&s;cour&s;e:</HI> No, <HI>He</HI> de&s;igns that we &s;hould glorifie him in our <HI>Hearts</HI> and <HI>Lives,</HI> more than formerly we have done; and therefore let it be our <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI> and our <HI>Care,</HI> to <HI>Hear the rod, and who hath appointed it,</HI> to turn every Man from the <HI>Evil</HI> of his <HI>Way,</HI> before the Lords <HI>Wrath</HI> be farther kind|led, and to <HI>repent</HI> and <HI>relent</HI> for <HI>all our tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ions, that &s;o Iniquity may not be our ruin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> LET us &s;ee how we may le&s;&s;en this great <HI>Lo&s;s,</HI> at lea&s;t, &s;o <HI>far,</HI> as to prevent its being fatal to us. And I conceive, the be&s;t cour&s;e we can take in order to <HI>this,</HI> is to put a double <HI>value</HI> upon <HI>Him,</HI> whom <HI>God</HI> in his mercy yet <HI>&s;pares</HI> to us, <HI>Our Gracious King;</HI> let this Heavy Stroke, render His <HI>Life,</HI> more dear to us. Let us pray more con&s;tantly, and more fervently, for his <HI>health,</HI> his <HI>&s;afety,</HI> his <HI>happi|ne&s;s,</HI> and his <HI>&s;ucce&s;s.</HI> We may be induced <HI>&s;trongly</HI> to <HI>this,</HI> upon the&s;e Grounds.</P>
<PB N="49" REF="25">
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> WE we are to do <HI>this,</HI> for <HI>Her</HI> &s;ake that is <HI>gone.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> FOR His own <HI>&s;ake.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> AND <HI>E&s;pecially</HI> upon the account of our &s;elves.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> FOR Her <HI>&s;ake</HI> that's <HI>gone,</HI> While &s;he lived, &s;he <HI>Loved, Honoured</HI> and <HI>Admired</HI> him: She knew His <HI>Worth</HI> beyond what we do; and be&s;ides his many other <HI>Accompli&s;hments,</HI> which his ve|ry Enemies admire in <HI>Him;</HI> She knew, that in his greate&s;t undertaking, <HI>He</HI> had no other <HI>Aim,</HI> or <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> than the good of <HI>Europe,</HI> and e&s;pe|cially that part of it which needed mo&s;t his help, and to which he was in all re&s;pects mo&s;t obliged to give it; <HI>Great Britain</HI> and <HI>Ire|land.</HI></P>
<P>IN a <HI>Word,</HI> She be&s;t knew him, and there|fore ju&s;tly valued him: And &s;urely if the Saints departed, have any knowledge of what pa&s;&s;es here below, we cannot perform a more grateful <HI>Service</HI> to her <HI>Memory,</HI> than to value him, to <HI>Love, Honour</HI> and <HI>Admire</HI> him too.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> FOR his own &s;ake. Remember he is a <HI>Prince</HI> that has got nothing by us, but <HI>Trouble,</HI> and <HI>Care,</HI> and <HI>Travel,</HI> and <HI>Toyl,</HI> and <HI>Danger;</HI> A <HI>Prince,</HI> who when we were in the extreame&s;t danger, upon the <HI>Brink</HI> of being ruined and undone, &s;taked his <HI>Life,</HI>
<PB N="50" REF="26"> his <HI>Fortune,</HI> his <HI>All,</HI> to &s;ave us; in which <HI>At|tempt</HI> (con&s;idering the <HI>Sea&s;on,</HI> and the power|ful <HI>Army</HI> there was to oppo&s;e him, with the other <HI>Difficulties,</HI> he had to &s;truggle with) the <HI>Di&s;couragements</HI> were &s;o many: that none but a <HI>Courage,</HI> great like his, could have en|countred them: And indeed the undertaking was &s;o great, and the means to carry it on, (in <HI>Proportion</HI> &s;o little) that we need not think it an <HI>Hyperbole</HI> in him, who concludes, there was a Power more than Humane, in bring|ing it to pa&s;s; and the <HI>I&s;&s;ue</HI> &s;eems to confirm it. In&s;omuch that <HI>France</HI> her &s;elf, that laught at the <HI>Attempt,</HI> was yet amaz'd at the <HI>Succe&s;s,</HI> and well &s;he might; it being the likelie&s;t &s;tep that was ever made towards her Ruine. But to return:</P>
<P>REMEMBER, He is a <HI>Prince,</HI> who, af|ter many Years Effeminacy, Luxury, Ea&s;e, and Softne&s;s (wherein the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Valour &s;o famed heretofore.) lay withering and fading, unactive and ru&s;ting) hath renewed to us, the Memory of tho&s;e great <HI>Kings</HI> who Head|ed <HI>Engli&s;h Armies</HI> abroad, and hath done more in his own <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> than all the CROWNED Heads of this, or (for ought I know) any other <HI>Age.</HI> What <HI>Prince</HI> ever &s;o oft expo&s;ed to the <HI>Dangers</HI> of the <HI>Sea,</HI> as well as to the
<PB N="51" REF="26"> <HI>Plots</HI> of <HI>A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ines,</HI> and the <HI>Arms</HI> of the <HI>Ene|my</HI> by <HI>Land?</HI> As <HI>He</HI> has been.</P>
<P>A PRINCE, That as always, &s;o lately, and e&s;pecially in the Reduction of <HI>Ireland,</HI> hath made good the <HI>Character</HI> of <HI>His</HI> Illu&s;trious Fa|mily, in being the <HI>Deliverer</HI> of oppre&s;&s;ed <HI>Na|tions.</HI> In a word, A <HI>Prince,</HI> who hath every way performed his part; how much &s;oever his Affairs hath been clogged at <HI>Home,</HI> by the unnatural Treachery of <HI>&s;ome,</HI> who like the true <HI>Seed</HI> of <HI>Nero,</HI> can rake with delight in the Bowels of their <HI>Mother,</HI> and betray the Native Intere&s;ts of their <HI>Countrey,</HI> to its mo&s;t inveterate Enemies; not only holding a <HI>Cor|re&s;pondence</HI> with them, but offering up <HI>Vows</HI> and <HI>Prayers</HI> for their <HI>Succe&s;s,</HI> and di&s;covering a cur&s;ed kind of laughter and &s;atisfaction, at the lo&s;&s;es, and misfortunes of their own <HI>Nation:</HI> an Indignity which no <HI>Government</HI> in the <HI>World,</HI> de&s;erves <HI>le&s;s</HI> then <HI>this,</HI> and none upon <HI>Earth,</HI> would perhaps bear but <HI>this;</HI> but <HI>mercy</HI> is a <HI>God-like temper;</HI> and it would ill become this <HI>Place,</HI> to offer any thing again&s;t <HI>it:</HI> and I doubt not but <HI>Heaven</HI> it &s;elf will take care to avenge &s;uch <HI>mon&s;trous</HI> Ingratitude&punc;</P>
<P>I COULD farther &s;hew you, with what <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI> He unites and keeps together the <HI>Con|federates,</HI> again&s;t the Di&s;turber of the <HI>Peace</HI>
<PB N="52" REF="27"> of <HI>Chri&s;tendom,</HI> for which, we are (next a&s;ter our Deliverance it &s;elf) as much beholding to <HI>Him,</HI> as for any one thing what&s;oever. For by this means, the <HI>War</HI> is kept at a di&s;tance, and we live free from all Di&s;turbance; with|out which, what could <HI>England</HI> hope for, but to be a Field of Blood.</P>
<P>IT had long &s;ince been &s;o, had not His <HI>Ma|je&s;ty</HI> Interpo&s;ed, we were ready to &s;heath our &s;words in one anothers bowels, while a <HI>Third</HI> Party (under the pretence of A&s;&s;i&s;ting <HI>one</HI>) was gaping for an opportunity to devour <HI>both.</HI> Nay it had been &s;o, notwith&s;tanding this Interpo|&s;ition, were not the <HI>Enemy</HI> kept at a di&s;tance, by continuing <HI>Flanders</HI> the Seat of the <HI>War,</HI> and (af|ter all our noi&s;e) all that's done to &s;upport our <HI>Allies,</HI> is no le&s;s than nece&s;&s;ary to &s;upport our <HI>&s;elves;</HI> It's to find the Enemy work, on that <HI>&s;ide,</HI> that we may live in quiet at <HI>home;</HI> No com|mon <HI>Ble&s;&s;ing,</HI> if we con&s;ider what our <HI>Neighbours</HI> both in <HI>Flanders</HI> and <HI>Germany,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, &s;uffer by the &s;courge of <HI>War.</HI> And notwith|&s;tanding the malicious and unrea&s;onable <HI>&s;ug|ge&s;tions</HI> of &s;ome, who cry out (tho' with no o|ther <HI>de&s;ign</HI> than to foment our <HI>Animo&s;ities</HI> and <HI>Divi&s;ions</HI>) that we are at the va&s;t Expence of a <HI>needle&s;s War,</HI> to maintain the Dominions of a Foreign <HI>Prince:</HI> Yet all men of <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> know,
<PB N="53" REF="27"> that the pre&s;ervation of <HI>Flanders</HI> is as much, nay more, for the Intere&s;t of <HI>England,</HI> than of <HI>Spain;</HI> If that &s;hould once fall a <HI>Victim</HI> to <HI>France,</HI> we need not &s;ure, be told at this time of day, what would &s;oon follow.</P>
<P>AND therefore, &s;ince we have no other <HI>Choice</HI> then to fight for <HI>Flanders,</HI> or for <HI>England,</HI> in <HI>Flanders,</HI> or in <HI>England;</HI> there's none but men <HI>be&s;ides</HI> them&s;elves, or otherwi&s;e notoriou&s;ly <HI>Bya&s;t,</HI> that would chu&s;e the later.</P>
<P>BUT I need in&s;i&s;t no longer upon this. It's but too <HI>plain,</HI> we ought to value and admire <HI>Him</HI> for his own &s;ake; let us now &s;ee what obligations lie upon <HI>us,</HI> to do it for our <HI>Own.</HI></P>
<P>AND&punc; what can in this Ca&s;e, be le&s;s expected from a <HI>Grateful</HI> and a <HI>Brave People,</HI> to &s;o <HI>Gene|rous;</HI> &s;o <HI>De&s;erving</HI> a <HI>Prince?</HI> But that we contri|bute our endeavours, that we may neither be wanting to our &s;elves, nor in <HI>Duty,</HI> and <HI>Affection,</HI> to <HI>Him,</HI> but that we &s;hare in His <HI>dangers,</HI> and promote His <HI>De&s;igns,</HI> and do all, that in every one of us lies, to keep <HI>Him</HI> in a Capacity, of meeting His Enemies with equal Numbers; whom they dare never <HI>attack</HI> but with unrea|&s;onable <HI>odds.</HI></P>
<P>THIS Indeed, is but what we owe to our <HI>&s;elves,</HI> to our <HI>Countrey,</HI> our <HI>Families,</HI> our <HI>Po|sterity,</HI>
<PB N="54" REF="28"> and beyond all, to our Religion; for all the&s;e are at <HI>Stake,</HI> and they are (let &s;ome pretend what they will) the very things we contend for in the pre&s;ent <HI>War</HI> with <HI>France;</HI> which is endeavouring to get not only our <HI>Hou&s;es,</HI> but the <HI>Hou&s;es</HI> of <HI>God</HI> into their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on; and how they will u&s;e both them and us, they have given us more than a <HI>Specimen</HI> by what they have done at <HI>home,</HI> in their own Countrey: Where within the&s;e few Years, there were more than a Thou&s;and places of <HI>Gods</HI> pub|lick <HI>Wor&s;hip,</HI> where &s;ome Hundred Thou&s;ands of <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> &s;erved <HI>God</HI> Religiou&s;ly and Truly; and yet the <HI>French,</HI> at lea&s;t the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Fury, hath turn'd all tho&s;e Churches into ruinous Heaps, and treated the poor <HI>Owners</HI> of them (tho' their <HI>Countrey-men,</HI> their <HI>Neighbours,</HI> their <HI>Friends</HI> and <HI>Relations</HI>) with more Scorn and Contempt, more Barbarity and Cruelty, than has been heard among <HI>Turks</HI> and <HI>Infidels.</HI> So that it's every Mans <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> to ingage in this quarrel; and were it not only &s;o, yet a due &s;en&s;e of <HI>Honour</HI> might excite all Per&s;ons of <HI>Character</HI> and <HI>Reputation,</HI> to follow the Example of their <HI>KING,</HI> who hath &s;o often expo&s;ed him&s;elf for us, and who is &s;till ready to &s;acrifice his Life for our &s;afety.</P>
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<P>I AM &s;ure, there's no man can tell me, what it was for (almo&s;t this Age pa&s;t) we de&s;ired more than &s;uch a <HI>King;</HI> what it was we long'd for more, than a <HI>Prince</HI> without any private <HI>de&s;igns,</HI> and beyond all <HI>&s;u&s;picion, Firm,</HI> in the Na|tions <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> and <HI>Quarrel</HI> again&s;t <HI>France;</HI> this ve|ry qualification had atton'd for all other failings, and the want of it (for ought I know) hath been, in a great Mea&s;ure, the <HI>&s;ource</HI> of all our Mi&s;car|riages; and not only Mi&s;chievous to us, but Fatal to all <HI>Europe.</HI> And now that, <HI>that God,</HI> who brings Good out of Evil; hath as it were, Mer|cifully compli'd with our de&s;ires, and ble&s;t us with a <HI>Prince,</HI> who (be&s;ides His other endow|ments) is of all <HI>other</HI> the be&s;t qualified this way. A <HI>Prince</HI> whom that <HI>Monarch</HI> always fear'd, and has now more rea&s;on to fear than ever. Shall we not lay hold of the opportunity, and pu&s;h on the pre&s;ent <HI>War,</HI> with the utmo&s;t Vigor.</P>
<P>BELIEVE it, to talk or think of re&s;toring the late <HI>King,</HI> without a <HI>French Army</HI> (as &s;ome of our Di&s;affected Scriblers would &s;eem to im|po&s;e upon us) or to think that &s;uch an <HI>Army,</HI> if they could re&s;tore Him, would then only take their leave and be gone (as others of them would per&s;wade us) is a <HI>Vanity,</HI> a <HI>Madne&s;s,</HI> that may require our <HI>Pity,</HI> but &s;eems to be pa&s;t our <HI>Cure.</HI> And therefore, to <HI>Cabal</HI> or <HI>Plot,</HI> or <HI>Cen|&s;ure</HI>
<PB N="56" REF="29"> or <HI>Murmur,</HI> or if we arrive not to this height of Undutifulne&s;s and Folly, but only remain un|concern'd, or &s;tand only <HI>Gazeing</HI> and looking on, as if it were no great matter how the War &s;ucceeded; mu&s;t needs be, becau&s;e we will not exerci&s;e &s;o much <HI>Fore-thought,</HI> as to con&s;ider the Dreadful <HI>Con&s;equences</HI> of mi&s;carrying in it.</P>
<P>ALL wi&s;e Men will tell you, we had better be &s;ubdued by any Nation under Heaven than the <HI>French,</HI> for be&s;ides, that no <HI>other,</HI> con&s;idering our Situation (as one hath lately ob&s;erv'd) hath <HI>Naval Forces</HI> enough to &s;ecure &s;uch a <HI>Conque&s;t;</HI> &s;o no <HI>other</HI> would in&s;ult and in&s;lave us at the rate they would. If the <HI>Turk</HI> &s;hould &s;ubdue us, he would (&s;aith the &s;ame Author) mi&s;erably <HI>Tyrannize,</HI> but yet for a &s;mall Yearly <HI>Tribute,</HI> he would allow us the <HI>exerci&s;e</HI> of our <HI>Religion.</HI> If other <HI>Nations,</HI> either their <HI>Di&s;tance</HI> would &s;lack|en our <HI>Bonds,</HI> or their <HI>weakne&s;s,</HI> would pre&s;s us more <HI>lightly:</HI> But <HI>France</HI> is our next <HI>Neighbour,</HI> very powerful by Sea and Land, able to load us with heavy <HI>Chains,</HI> and to rivet them up|on us: <HI>Be&s;ides,</HI> &s;he has found us capable of being a <HI>Rival</HI> to her <HI>Glory,</HI> and we know, who it is, at this minute, that &s;tops her <HI>Conque&s;ts,</HI> who gives <HI>Check,</HI> to all her a&s;piring <HI>De&s;igns:</HI> Nay &s;he has felt the Power of our <HI>Arms</HI> in her
<PB N="57" REF="29"> <HI>Bowels,</HI> and has been <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This Conque&s;t was undertaken upon ju&s;t grounds, <HI>Edward</HI> II. King of <HI>England&punc;</HI> having Mar|ried <HI>I&s;abella</HI> Daughter to <HI>Philip the Fair</HI> of <HI>France,</HI> who&s;e three Sons dying without I&s;&s;ue, the Crown de&s;cended to the Heirs of <HI>I&s;abella;</HI> and then it was, when <HI>Edw.</HI> III. in right of his Mother claimed the Kingdom of <HI>France,</HI> that they made their <HI>Salique Law,</HI> which could however, bar only for the fu|ture, and not for the time pa&s;t; and therefore the King invaded <HI>France,</HI> and was very &s;ucce&s;sful in all the Battels he fought, but by rea&s;on of &s;everal diver&s;ions at home, this Succe&s;s was not pur&s;ued by his immediate Succe&s;&s;ors; yet <HI>Hen.</HI> V. coming to the Crown (A <HI>Prince</HI> of a Warlike temper) and con&s;idering, that, not only <HI>Normandy, Guien, Aqui|tain,</HI> and <HI>Anjou,</HI> were the rightful <HI>Inheritances</HI> of the <HI>Kings</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> but al&s;o his ju&s;t Title to the <HI>Whole Kingdom,</HI> derived from <HI>I&s;abella</HI> afore&s;aid; after he had fir&s;t by <HI>Amba&s;&s;adors</HI> &s;et forth, and de|manded his Right, he with an <HI>Engli&s;h Army</HI> in|vades <HI>France,</HI> and after he had won &s;everal Battles, was at la&s;t Married to <HI>Katharine,</HI> Daughter of <HI>Charles</HI> VI. And thereupon Declared and Crown|ed <HI>King</HI> of <HI>France</HI> in Rever&s;ion: <HI>Charles</HI> and <HI>I&s;abel</HI> his Queen to Reign during their Lives, and <HI>I&s;abel</HI> &s;urviving <HI>Charles, at</HI> her death, made a <HI>Will,</HI> de|claring her Son in Law, <HI>Henry</HI> V. Heir to all her Goods, and to the <HI>Crown&punc;</HI> which gives the <HI>Kings</HI> of <HI>England</HI> a farther Right to the <HI>Kingdom</HI> of <HI>France:</HI> And I am per&s;waded if the <HI>French King</HI> had half &s;o much right to <HI>England,</HI> as the <HI>King</HI> of <HI>England</HI> hath to <HI>France,</HI> we &s;hould be pe&s;tered with his <HI>Manife&s;to's</HI> and <HI>Scribles,</HI> alledging his ju&s;t Preten&s;ions; as he calls all, that he makes.</NOTE> Conquered by us, and has had &s;uch proofs of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Valour, that &s;he would be <HI>&s;ure</HI> to take care never more&punc; to &s;tand in fear of her <HI>Antient Ene|mies:</HI> And upon the&s;e grounds we are to ex|pect no <HI>Mercy</HI> at her <HI>Hands,</HI> but the wor&s;t of an <HI>Ho&s;tile Fury;</HI> and nothing perhaps, <HI>le&s;s</HI> than our total <HI>Sub|ver&s;ion,</HI> would &s;erve their turn. Nay, when we con&s;ider, how bar|barbarou&s;ly they u&s;e the <HI>People</HI> whom they <HI>Subdue,</HI> tho' of their own <HI>Religion,</HI> without regard to <HI>Churches</HI> or <HI>Religious</HI> Hou&s;es, or the very <HI>Sepulchers</HI> of the <HI>Dead,</HI> tho' <HI>Princes</HI> them&s;elves; we may believe, our <HI>Engli&s;h Papi&s;ts</HI> (however they may flatter them&s;elves) would meet with no better <HI>Quar|ter</HI> than others: But for tho&s;e <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> who, tho' at ea&s;e in their <HI>Fortunes,</HI> and injoying all
<PB N="58" REF="30"> the Priviledges of their Fellow Subjects, are yet <HI>Re&s;tle&s;s</HI> and <HI>Di&s;&s;atisfied,</HI> and <HI>Weary</HI> of a Go|vernment, that's the only <HI>Security</HI> of their <HI>Re|ligion</HI> and <HI>E&s;tates;</HI> Surely, as they will be the ea&s;ie&s;t, &s;o they will be the mo&s;t de&s;pi&s;ed <HI>Prey</HI> of their <HI>Enemy,</HI> who (if they have any <HI>Man&punc;hood,</HI> or any thing that's <HI>great</HI> in them; will &s;hew more <HI>Favour</HI> to the brave <HI>Defenders</HI> of their <HI>Countrey,</HI> than to tho&s;e, who have &s;o ba&s;ely, and trea|cherou&s;ly de&s;erted and betrayed it.</P>
<P>BUT I know, if I &s;hould Di&s;cour&s;e at this <HI>rate,</HI> out of this <HI>place,</HI> or where I might expect an an&s;wer, I &s;hould pre&s;ently be told; that I had u&s;ed a great many <HI>words</HI> to little purpo&s;e, and had run on all along upon a fal&s;e <HI>ground,</HI> for that the Great King of <HI>France,</HI> hath nothing of <HI>Self,</HI> in all this, nor is he farther concern|ed, then out of a Principle of <HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>Ge|nero&s;ity</HI> to E&s;pou&s;e an <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ed,</HI> and to re&s;tore, an <HI>Exil'd Prince, That he</HI> was neither oppre&s;t, nor bani&s;hed, is plain enough: And on who&s;e <HI>&s;ide</HI> the <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ion</HI> lay, we all know; and yet we will allow them, that, that <HI>Monarch,</HI> may &s;eemingly with much Gallantry, E&s;pou&s;e His <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> till he &s;ee a fair opportunity of &s;etting up his <HI>Own:</HI> but, to be &s;ure, no longer. <HI>Or</HI> &s;up|po&s;e he &s;hould not do <HI>this:</HI> can we however think, that he would not demand &s;o great
<PB N="59" REF="30"> a <HI>Charge,</HI> as that the whole <HI>Wealth</HI> of the <HI>Nation</HI> would be too little to an&s;wer? and were it not better <HI>Policy</HI> in us (tho we had no other induce|ment) to &s;upply <HI>Him,</HI> even to a <HI>Moiety</HI> of what we <HI>have;</HI> who will pre&s;erve the <HI>re&s;t,</HI> by keep|ing &s;uch Enemies <HI>out,</HI> and by cheri&s;hing and protecting us in our <HI>Religion,</HI> and other <HI>Rights.</HI></P>
<P>To be &s;paring in a ca&s;e of &s;uch <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity,</HI> is to be <HI>Wanting,</HI> and indeed <HI>Cruel,</HI> to our &s;elves, and our Po&s;terity: like the fatal <HI>Par&s;imony</HI> of the <HI>People</HI> of <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> who refu&s;ed to &s;upply their own <HI>Emperour</HI> (tho' by way of <HI>Loan</HI>) with a thirti|eth part of that <HI>Money,</HI> which the <HI>Turki&s;h Empe|rour</HI> deprived them of, together with the lives of the wealthie&s;t of them. Whereas, by that &s;ea|&s;onable <HI>Supply,</HI> they might in all likelihood; have pre&s;erved their <HI>City</HI> and their <HI>Lives</HI> too.</P>
<P>'TWERE ea&s;ie to &s;hew, what a poor thing <HI>Money</HI> is, in re&s;pect of our <HI>Religion,</HI> our <HI>Lives,</HI> our <HI>Laws,</HI> and our <HI>Liberties;</HI> and it's not yet <HI>Seven Years,</HI> &s;ince all con&s;iderate <HI>Men</HI> and good <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> among&s;t us, would have given more than this <HI>War</HI> will co&s;t us, to have been under the <HI>Circum&s;tances</HI> we now are: But (God be thanked) there's no need to in&s;i&s;t upon this. Tho&s;e worthy <HI>Patriots</HI> who &s;o freely and cheer|fully find out <HI>Ways</HI> and <HI>Means</HI> to &s;upport the <HI>War,</HI> are highly &s;en&s;ible of <HI>it.</HI> And all I have to
<PB N="60" REF="31"> <HI>offer</HI> upon their accounts, is; to <HI>pray</HI> as <HI>David,</HI> when the <HI>People</HI> even beyond what he expected, offer'd &s;o <HI>willingly</HI> towards a Publick <HI>Good. O</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 29. 18.</NOTE> <HI>Lord God of Abraham, of I&s;aac, and of I&s;rael our Fathers, keep this for ever, in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people.</HI> But to return, <HI>That</HI> I may leave nothing un&s;aid, to open the Eyes of tho&s;e who are not <HI>wilfully</HI> Blind; I will for their &s;atisfaction, <HI>&s;uppo&s;e;</HI> that this extravagantly ambitious <HI>King</HI> (upon whom they &s;o much <HI>depend</HI>) had no private <HI>de&s;ign,</HI> but would only cleer the <HI>Way</HI> to the <HI>Throne,</HI> and then fairly draw off, without any other <HI>Con&s;ideration</HI> than the &s;atisfaction of his own <HI>Haughty</HI> and <HI>Ambitious Humour:</HI> Let us I &s;ay &s;uppo&s;e this (tho' indeed it's next to impo&s;&s;i|ble) yet even in this <HI>Ca&s;e;</HI> Might not the <HI>Prince</HI> whom he left repo&s;&s;e&s;t (I only pre|&s;ume to ask the Que&s;tion) ju&s;tly write him&s;elf; <HI>James the Conquerour?</HI> And tho' I am not to determine, how mercifuly he might u&s;e us, if left to his own <HI>Conduct</HI> (tho' we mu&s;t believe him more than a Saint to forget, what is pa&s;t) yet, con&s;idering <HI>how</HI> he has been influenced; and (con&s;idering his Principles) how he &s;till mu&s;t <HI>be:</HI> (if ever <HI>Divine Judgment</HI>) as a pu|ni&s;hment for our <HI>Sins,</HI> &s;hould &s;uffer this to come to <HI>pa&s;s;</HI> The very thoughts of what
<PB N="61" REF="31"> we might expect, are &s;o full of <HI>Horror,</HI> that I chu&s;e rather to draw a <HI>Vail</HI> over it, and pa&s;s it in <HI>&s;ilence,</HI> than go about to di&s;play it; and if any Man be &s;o <HI>Weak,</HI> or &s;o <HI>Short &s;ighted,</HI> as to wi&s;h or de&s;ire it, I am per&s;waded, that a &s;hort change with a Subject of <HI>France,</HI> would very effectually <HI>Cure</HI> him of his <HI>Ma|lady</HI> and <HI>Folly</HI> too.</P>
<P>And yet <HI>Our Ca&s;e</HI> might be, much more de|&s;perate than &s;ome of <HI>Theirs,</HI> and no <HI>better,</HI> to be <HI>&s;ure,</HI> than that of the Prote&s;tant Sub|jects under that <HI>Crown;</HI> and how it &s;hould be <HI>wor&s;e,</HI> is not <HI>ea&s;ie</HI> to imagine. And now,</P>
<P>SINCE, tho&s;e very Men among&s;t us, who &s;eem mo&s;t fond of the late <HI>Kings return,</HI> do yet pretend, they would by no means have <HI>Him</HI> come with a <HI>French Power; as</HI> being aware of the dreadful <HI>Con&s;equences</HI> thereof. <HI>Since</HI> it is not po&s;&s;ible he &s;hould come by any other, or any other way. The a|bu&s;ed Affections, of his <HI>Quondam Subjects</HI> (except a few not worth the naming) be|ing now &s;ettled upon a <HI>Prince,</HI> who has gain|ed them with the Hazard of His <HI>Life.</HI> A <HI>Prince,</HI> that is not only <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> of our <HI>fle&s;h;</HI> and <HI>bone,</HI> of our <HI>bone;</HI> and &s;o our <HI>Natural Liege Lord;</HI> but of our <HI>Religion</HI> al&s;o, and therefore the <HI>dearer</HI> to <HI>us,</HI> as we are the &s;afer; this being <HI>&s;o,</HI> it is not po&s;&s;ible they &s;hould think of <HI>recalling</HI> a <HI>Prince</HI>
<PB N="62" REF="32"> under who&s;e <HI>Admini&s;tration,</HI> they &s;uffered &s;o much, and who&s;e incen&s;ed <HI>wrath,</HI> would not be ea&s;ily appea&s;ed; and who&s;e <HI>thir&s;t,</HI> for <HI>&V;nli|mited Power,</HI> He would be &s;ure to <HI>quench</HI> at our <HI>Co&s;t;</HI> and therefore mu&s;t come by a <HI>French Power,</HI> or not at <HI>all.</HI></P>
<P>SINCE, Such a <HI>Power,</HI> if they could &s;et him on <HI>Engli&s;h ground</HI> (which I much que&s;ti|on) would either, in his <HI>Name,</HI> and under his <HI>&V;mbrage,</HI> do all for <HI>Them&s;elves: or</HI> at their go|ing <HI>off,</HI> demand &s;uch <HI>va&s;t Sums,</HI> as we could never pay; and <HI>yet</HI> for not paying, would be expo&s;ed to all the <HI>Mi&s;eries,</HI> that <HI>Scorn</HI> or <HI>Cruelty</HI> could invent.</P>
<P><HI>Since,</HI> After they had done <HI>this (or</HI> &s;uppo&s;e they &s;hould not do it) <HI>They</HI> would at, <HI>be&s;t,</HI> leave us in the hands of a <HI>Conqueror,</HI> all <HI>Incen&s;ed,</HI> full of <HI>VVrath</HI> and <HI>Revenge;</HI> who u&s;ed us <HI>not over well,</HI> when <HI>He</HI> had no pretence to that <HI>Title:</HI> but would now be &s;ure (without u&s;urping a Di&s;pen&s;ing Power) make his <HI>Will</HI> our <HI>Law,</HI> and impo&s;e whatever his <HI>Ambition,</HI> his <HI>Wrath,</HI> or a Je&s;uiti|cal <HI>Cruelty</HI> could inflict.</P>
<P>SINCE, Our <HI>Religion</HI> (with which nothing &s;hould come in Competition) is &s;ecured to <HI>us,</HI> and our <HI>po&s;terity,</HI> being wrapt up and &s;afe, not <HI>only</HI> in His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> (whom <HI>God</HI> long pre|&s;erve) But in tho&s;e <HI>Illu&s;trious Heirs</HI> of the <HI>Crown, Her Royal Highne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Her Royal Son;</HI> in <HI>whom</HI> we may one day be <HI>happy.</HI></P>
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<P>SINCE, Our <HI>Laws</HI> are once more <HI>Sacred,</HI> our <HI>Priviledges Allowed,</HI> our <HI>Rights,</HI> and <HI>Li|berties Cheri&s;hed.</HI> And <HI>Since</HI> we are <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed</HI> with a <HI>King</HI> by who&s;e <HI>Prowe&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Conduct,</HI> by who&s;e <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> and <HI>Goodne&s;s,</HI> we may (if not wanting to our &s;elves) be as <HI>Great,</HI> as <HI>Happy,</HI> and as <HI>Dreadful,</HI> as <HI>Ever.</HI></P>
<P>SINCE, <HI>This, I</HI> &s;ay, is <HI>&s;o,</HI> it is not po&s;&s;ible (unle&s;s we be in love with <HI>Chains</HI>) and fond to &s;ee our <HI>Religion</HI> truckle to <HI>Popery,</HI> our <HI>Li|berty</HI> to <HI>Slavery,</HI> our <HI>Rights</HI> and <HI>Priviledges,</HI> to <HI>Courte&s;ie:</HI> unle&s;s we de&s;ire to &s;ee our <HI>Lives</HI> expo&s;ed, and our <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> offered as an <HI>Obla|tion</HI> to a &s;uper&s;tious, greedy <HI>Church;</HI> or as a <HI>re|ward,</HI> to the <HI>Soldier</HI> that &s;hall de&s;troy <HI>us:</HI> un|le&s;s, I <HI>&s;ay,</HI> we are fond of the&s;e things, it is not po&s;&s;ible we &s;hould <HI>de&s;ire,</HI> or ever <HI>long</HI> for &s;uch an <HI>Admini&s;tration,</HI> as will certainly produce <HI>them.</HI></P>
<P>IF therefore, we have any Natural <HI>Love</HI> for our <HI>Countrey, or</HI> any Supernatural <HI>Affection,</HI> for our <HI>Religion, or</HI> any Natural <HI>In&s;tinct</HI> of <HI>Self Pre&s;ervation, or</HI> any Sen&s;e of <HI>Honour,</HI> in Acting &s;uitably to &s;uch <HI>Principles;</HI> If a <HI>Royal Example,</HI> can <HI>incite us, or</HI> our own <HI>Welfare</HI> and <HI>Safety</HI> incourage us; <HI>Let us</HI> in the <HI>Name</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> as we <HI>Value</HI> any, or all of the&s;e <HI>Dear Things,</HI> in all Due <HI>Thankfulne&s;s</HI> to the <HI>Authour,</HI> and in all Loyal Duty, and Affection, to the <HI>In&s;tru|ment</HI>
<PB N="64" REF="33"> of our <HI>Deliverance;</HI> turn from our <HI>Sins,</HI> and <HI>&V;nite</HI> and <HI>Strengthen</HI> our Selves, again&s;t the <HI>Common Enemy,</HI> of our <HI>Religion,</HI> and <HI>Civil Rights,</HI> as the only <HI>way,</HI> to have our <HI>Peace,</HI> and <HI>Happine&s;s,</HI> Re&s;tored and Settled, upon <HI>&s;ure</HI> and <HI>la&s;ting Foundations.</HI></P>
<P>AND <HI>this</HI> I conceive, is the be&s;t <HI>cour&s;e</HI> we can take, to le&s;&s;en this Great <HI>Lo&s;s;</HI> &s;o, as it may not prove <HI>fatal</HI> to us: To <HI>Stand</HI> by our <HI>King,</HI> with our <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Fortunes:</HI> To <HI>Pray</HI> con|&s;tantly, and to <HI>Pray</HI> fervently, that <HI>God</HI> would Protect <HI>Him,</HI> from the private <HI>Machinations,</HI> and open <HI>Violence</HI> of His <HI>Enemies;</HI> that He would pre&s;erve <HI>Him,</HI> to perfect that <HI>Great,</HI> that <HI>Glorious Work,</HI> He hath &s;o Generou&s;ly, and &s;o Succe&s;sfully <HI>Begun,</HI> that &s;o we may enjoy <HI>Him,</HI> in <HI>Peace,</HI> and e&s;teem <HI>Him,</HI> as the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> did <HI>David, the light of our I&s;rael;</HI> and as they did<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 21.</NOTE> <HI>Jo&s;iah, the breath of our No&s;trils.</HI> The &s;erious ac|knowledgment<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam. 4. 20.</NOTE> <HI>whereof,</HI> will not &s;uffer <HI>us</HI> to be wanting in all Duty and Affection to <HI>Him,</HI> whom <HI>God</HI> continue long over us; and let <HI>all</HI> that <HI>Love</HI> the <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>Happine&s;s,</HI> the <HI>Well|fare</HI> and <HI>Glory,</HI> of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now to God onely Wi&s;e, Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t, be a&s;cribed, as is Mo&s;t Due, All Glory, Honour, Power, Prai&s;e, Might, Maje&s;ty, and Domi|nion, Now and for Ever, Amen.</HI></P>
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