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A23803	The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1695 (1695)	Wing A1194; ESTC R33068	65,567	192

the Memory of the Just is Blessed 〈◊〉 MARIA REGINA II. Obit Decemb. 28.94 Aetatis suae 32 I haue fought a good fight I haue finished My course I haue kept the faith Hence forth There is laid vp for me a crown of righteousness F. H. van Hove sculp The Whole Duty of Mourning And the GREAT CONCERN Of Preparing Our Selves for DEATH Practically Considered Written some Years since by the Author of The Whole Duty of Man And now Published upon the Sad Occasion of the DEATH Of Our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady MARY the II. Queen of England c. of Blessed Memory Necessary to be given at all Funerals LICENSED January 16th 1694 5. Printed for I. Back at the Black-Boy on the middle of London-Bridge THE PREFACE TO ALL Mourners Upon the SAD and MOURNFUL OCCASION Of the much-to-be-lamented DEATH Of Our Most Gracious Queen THis Tract whereof Death is the Subject has been Concealed some Years and upon this Sad and Mournful Occasion of the Death 〈◊〉 our Gracious Queen which loudly calls the Nation to Weeping and Mourning it appears now in the Habit of a true Mourner UPON so irreparable a Loss as the Kingdom has Sustain'd Death is the properest Theme which befits the Season for when mournful Countenances heavy Hearts and watry Eyes appears every where this Whole Duty of Mourning in the Closet may prove a good Companion EVERY day you see Nay every Hour says Seneca shews us what a nothing we are and by some fresh Argument or other puts us in mind of our forgot Mortality but so Doleful and Mournful a Scene England did not expect would have appear'd especially at such a season when our Eulogies and Praises should have Ascended to Heaven from whence flowed the Redemption of the World even by the great Mystery of our Saviours Incarnation but this high Festival is now by the decree of Providence turn'd into Mourning and our Song into Lamentation THE Wise Man tells us Eccles. 7.2 That when the living are in the House of Mourning they will lay it to Heart and if we ought to lay to Heart the Death of any much more of Righteous Persons how ought we then to bewail this Sad and Mournful Calamity wherein God has deprived us of one of our Royal Defenders O then let us speedily wish with the Prophet That our Heads were Water and our Eyes Fountains of Tears that we might Weep Day and Night for the Loss of so Vertuous a Princess and so Gracious a Soveraign Queen TO give a direct Copy of so Blessed an Original my Pen can never arrive to that Dexterity but am Conscious to my self it must be very defective and the only Apology I can make in this time of Dolour and Anxity is that broken Language is the best Rhetorick upon a Mournful Occasion but the Veneration of those matchless Excellencies which appeared in our Royal Soveraign Animates my Pen to joyn with all Condolers in the Contemplation of those excellent Vertues that Adorned so Illustrious a Princess IT was Heavens Decree to take from us the Light of our Eyes and the Breath of our Nostrils a Gracious and most Excellent Princess one under the shadow of whose Wings we sat with great delight and enjoyed a more then an ordinary portion of Happiness and Prosperity for the Radient Beams of her Royal Bounty and Charity extended so far that to preserve a sinking Kingdom she Ascended the Throne not out of any Ambition she had to grasp a Crown but out of a tender Compassion to save a distressed Nation She was truly Magnanimous by Nature Birth and Education and adorned with all the Ornaments befitting so Excellent and Matchless a Princess in her Power and Dignity she was Soveraign Queen over a mighty and renowned People and invested with the highest Authority that a Crown could render her thus being inthroniz'd she was the Glory of her Sex and an Ornament to the Diadem which she Wore HER mind was Noble Large and Capacious and not inferiour to her Power and Dignity her apprehension was quick and lively and her Iudgment was Peircing and Solid Religion and Piety shined with that lusture in all her Divine Conversation and the whole Series of her Life that indeed she was a Pillar of Christianity for the Influences of her Princely Piety was of that Impression and Extent as might well lay Claim to those Second Causes the Almighty Ordains to his Governing Administration here below SHE not only understood her Religion well but loved it and with great Sincerity practised it for she always with a Stedfast Regular and Unaffected Devotion approached with that Awful Sanctity to the Altars of God that she seemed to Instruct when she Prayed and Convert when she Kneeled so that at so high a degree of Piety the greatest Atheist must needs be convinced and believe a Deity and the loosest Libertine could not but be Reformed for his Admiration must needs create a Devotion upon a prospect of her Sacred Example HER Delight was in the Law of the Lord and in that Law did she Meditate both Day and Night for in the midst of all the most Important Affairs of State she forgot not her Creator for so Zealous was she for her Sacred Devotions that she would rather spare time from her Sleep than from her Prayers SHE always had a great Zeal for the Good of the Church and she was the very Joy and Delight of the Hearts of the Clergy for she encouraged their Studies and continually Supported them under all the Reproaches of Malicious and Wicked Persons even such was her Royal goodness to the Pastoral Authority THE best practical Books she often made her Study in her Royal Retirement and at other times caused them to be Read as part of her Entertainmen when she was Pleas'd to sit at Work with her Maids of Honour and this she did as a prudent design whereby to furnish their thoughts with profitable Knowledge and heavenly Meditation for her Heart was wholly fixed upon God and Goodness EVERY Month she constantly Communicated in her Royal Chappel and always prepared her self with such a Strictness and Devotional Frame of Soul that she Received the Blessed Sacrament in a most Humble and Awful manner as being deeply affected with a due Sense of the Divine Majesty HER Temper was Naturally Sweet her Disposition was Free and Generous her Carriage Gracious and her Intentions most Sincere her Conversation was Lovely and she was endued with a large mixture of Christian Charity and Compassion all Eyes that beheld her at a distance might discern Mildness and Goodness in her Majestick Countenance which all her Attendants found its real Effects SHE delighted to do good and had a singular Dexterity in the doing of it for she prudently knew what was proper to be done both as to the manner and Season and she seldom vouchsafed a Royal Favour to any but her Princely Way of doing it trebled the Obligation and very easie was she in

and the revenging Hall indeed so deep Root hath that Envious Mans Seed taken in the Ground of humane Hearts that the whole World almost is become little better then a Field of Tares V. In the Church what Flouds what Seas can lend us Tears enough to bewail this want of Vnity in matters of Religion how is the seamless Coat of our Blessed Lord many times Rent and Torn by Atheists Libertines and Factious Novelists which the Bloody Soldiers themselves spared that it might Prefigure his Vnited Church how was the Spouse like her Head and Saviour Crucified between two Malefactors Schism and Faction while I speak of Love I will not Strait wish those Cut off which did Trouble us but as our Charitable Mother Church hath taught us Pray Lord forgive our Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers and turn their Hearts for Religion hath no such Scandal as this want of Union VI. And for the Common-Wealth how full has it been of Jarrs and Contentions the Elements Fire and Water not at such Strife as Men sure that Prophet spake of those times Ephraim against Manasseh and Manasseh against Ephraim and both against Judah Isa. 9.21 all so captious of Indignities so apprehensive of all Trespasses such going to Law for Trivials that which was antiently said of the Friars of this Realm with a little Variation may now be said of the Lawyers those liv'd of the Ignorance but these wax Fat on the Strife of the People Ah! what is become of that Sin Covering Amity the Badge of Primitive Christianity as Eusebius told a Bishop of his Age that askt him how he should know the Christians from the Infidels in those Miscellaneous Times Observe says he but how they Love each other how fast those Brethren hold the Bands of Amity and the same distinction gives the Bishop of our Souls Hereby shall men know ye are my Disciples if ye have love one to another John 13.35 VII But how are we degenerated into Nabalism Love is fled and not so much as Friendship left very Ethnicks and Jews had both their Golden pair of Friends as David and Jonathan whose Souls were Knit together Theseus and Peruhous who durst Exchange their Bosomes and be the mutual Currents of their flowing Hearts but hard it is amongst Christians now to find Unity as the Apostle says I speak this to our Shame now Love sits on the Lips and can soon take her Flight Frothy Courtship Judas's Kisses Ehud's Embracements are the Friendships of this Age or if any be more real yet are they oft Leavened with Inconstancy and like the Leagues of War hold but for their own hopes and ends very Marygolds that follow but the Sun and Close against the Clouded Evening Now for that Heaven-born Spirit that dares be Faithful in spite of all the Shuffles the Rude World puts on him that knows not upon any Urgencies to Violate devoted Friendship yet to keep Word is a Qualification of a Saint Psal. 15.4 but such a one were as great a Rarity as Salomon's Female Vertue Pro. 31.10 VIII Thirdly a City is an Emblem of Safety of Safety by Consequence as before of Strength indeed our Safety is by Defence that by Strength and both by such well-fenced Cities as Instrumental means in the 35. of Numb 6. you read of Cities of Refuge Cities where very Delinquents might find Safety but we have none such here to secure us even from undeserved Dangers no of all the Fortifications in the World I would fain see that Place that could Wall out a Famine or a Pestilence I 'm sure Samaria was a well-fenced City and yet both these entred it and well nigh Un-peopled it 1 Kings 18. IX Nor need we go so far for sad Examples they have entred our own Cities and no Fence here are Judgment-proof not Argob's Cities let them be Wall'd as high as Heaven Deut. 3.5 a Shower of Vengeance Hell out of Heaven shall Rain down on Sodom be it never so well immur'd and indeed who dares put Confidence in City-Walls that hath ever heard or read of Jericho Josh. 6.20 an Arm of flesh is but a Bruised Reed no Safety in either Horses or Chariots Pharaoh found one of them as David says but a Vain thing to save him Exod. 14.25 where his Chariots hurried the faster to destruction for their Wheels being off and what Safety in the Multitude of an Host Senacherib will tell you whose Confidence was as great as his Army 2 Kings 19.35 X. But those who rely only upon their own Strength God is not in all their Thoughts Like that Proud Emperor Nero that Cut off the Heads of all the Gods in Rome and caused the Image of his own to be fixed upon them we Sacrifice to our own Sword and Spear when 't is the right hand of the Lord that bringeth mighty things to pass Strength of Arms I confess are Means and Instruments of War but unless from God whence they are all and without his assistance may soon again become a Prey to Tyrants the Sport and Rattle of the Wind and Waves some may Remember we have been driven to that of David Psal. 6.10 11. thou O God wentest not forth with our Armies till we came to his Acknowledgments there of Vain is the help of Man God will have the Glory of our Welfare and it is requisite he should since he is the Author of it who else live here in a Shop of angry Meteors violent Elements each of which would soon Destroy us were not he our Lord Protector how often therefore does David call him Rock and Refuge Strength and Tower Castle and Fortress Conclude we then with him Psal. 4. Thou O Lord only makest us to dwell in safety XI Lastly a City is a Hieroglyphick of Rest and therefore in the 21st of Josh. 't is said God gave his people Cities which they builded not and rest round about them nay Eternal Rest it self borrows an Expression from the Name of City 't is call'd the New Jerusalem the City of the Living God Heb. 12.21 but Man is no Citizen of this as 't is a Representative of Rest his Life a Giddy-wheel the Orbs the Clouds the Winds the Rivers not so full of Motion I speak now of the Travells of his Mind that busie Spirit hurried through Thousands of the Worlds Distractions which yet if best Employed is subject to be tired even Reading is a Weariness says the Royal Preacher Eccles. 12.12 and there is no end of many books unless an end of their Author XII But if this Mill Grind Empty have not the Mind good things to Work on and how does it set it self on Fire on Fire of Hell by Sinful and Cupidinous Revolutions what mischief leaves it un-imagin'd on the Bed unpractis'd up how full of all Contemplative uncleanness even to the making up that Sinful climax Gen. 6.5 the Heart of Man the thoughts of the heart and imaginations of the thoughts are all evil continually no Rest from