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A33874	A collection of the funeral-orations, pronounc'd by publick authority in Holland upon the death of ... Mary II Queen of Great Britain, &c. by Dr. James Perizonius ..., Dr. George Grevius ..., F. Francius ..., Mr. Ortwinius ..., and, the learned author of the Collection of new and curious pieces ; to which is added, the invitation of the chancellor of the electoral University of Wittenberg, in Saxony, to George Wilbain Kirchmais, to pronounce a funeral oration upon the Queen's death, &c. ; done into English from the Latin originals.	Kirchmaier, Georg Wilhelm, 1673-1759.; Francius, Petrus, 1645-1704. Oratio in funere Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae Mariae. English.; Graevius, Joannes Georgius, 1632-1703. Mariae Stuartae ... Britanniae, Galliae, et Hiberniae Reginae ... justa persoluta. English.; Ortwinius, Joannes. Laudatio funebris recitata post excessum Serenissimae ... Mariae Stuartae. English.; Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701. Laudatio funebris ... Mariae II Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae. English.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5203; ESTC R10177	94,331	161

England and with all their Might to endeavour the Restoration of King James to the Crown that he himself had thrown away The King considering the Danger was in deep suspence for some time whether he should return back into England or stay in the Low Countries to curb the Fury and disappoint the Counsels of the Enemy The first was advis'd by many who were of the King 's more secret Counsels in England and not a few of the Officers here about the King were of the same Opinion In this same Commotion of his Fluctuating Thoughts after an anxious deliberation the King at length decreed That the Yachts that wafted him hither should be sent back into England but that the Men of War that guarded him should be so disposed of that if need required he might be speedily conveigh'd back into England Whither he also sent word that Forty of the Men of War with the Admiral should steer away toward the Coast of France with this Design that if they found an Opportunity they should burn all the Enemies Transport-Ships But before the Yachts and the Messenger who was sent with the King 's Expresses arriv'd in England the Queens Letters were brought hither to the King giving him an Account That she had ordered a Fleet of Forty Men of War to sail away for the Coast of France and burn the Enemies Ships which were reported to be design'd to infest the English Shoar What Symphony could produce a more harmonious Harmony of Notes then this of the Opinions and Counsels of the King and Queen when the one knew nothing of the others Mind Insomuch that similitude of Manners and consent of Minds not Fortune seem'd to have joyn'd William and Mary together This is that true Love that so conglutinates and knits both Hearts together that nothing can be more closely join'd not to be sever'd by any distance of Time or Place and constitutes such a concord of Opinions that no force is able to dissolve Which who sees not in the King and Queen and being seen does not admire must needs be blind and ignorant of what is to be wondred at Therefore in all varieties of Times and Fortunes the King still found the greatest safety in the Love of the best of Queens It was a Saying of the King before he thought of Marriage to Charles the Second's Embassador at a time when there happen'd an accidental discourse about the choice of Wives that of all the Qualities to be sought for in a Wife his first care should be to find out the Best-Condition'd And he himself made himself the Master of his Wish for he could not have found a better Wife had the Sun it self according the Proverb been to have sought her out But as the King met with his chief help and assistance in the Queen's Love so not only her Subjects but all others for whom it was in her Power to do good found more than ordinary Succour in her bountiful Nature She thought the Day lost wherein she had not an opportunity to do good to several She measur'd her Felicity in that indulgent Height of Fortune by nothing more than by her Power to render others happy Yet was she not profuse nor did she scatter her Benefits promiscuously without Judgment or diligent Enquiry but gave plentifully gave considerately gave to fitting Objects She took more Pleasure if she had plac'd her Charity right than if Princes had heap'd upon her self all manner of Benefits and more rejoyc'd in bestowing than they who wanted in receiving She never forgot those Benefits which she receiv'd from others but still recalling 'em to Mind never suffer'd to slip out of her Memory What she bestow'd upon others she scarce remember'd as if she had lost her Memory I wish I could find Words to set forth the flowing Liberality of the most Pious Queen and were able so loudly to proclaim it and in such Language as that it might be heard in all Places Sparing to herself profuse to the miserable and wanting who believ'd that she herself enjoy'd what they receiv'd from her How many experienc'd the Bounty of her Munificent and Liberal Hand as well in England as in Germany the Low-Countries Piedmont but more especially the French Exiles who rather chose to lose their Estates than to hazard the loss of their Souls And the Splendor of this Benevolence shin'd forth in Mary's first coming into this Country For the Prince of Orange so soon as Mary became his Consort order'd such a sum of Money to be paid her for the necessary Expences of her Apparel and Princely Ornaments What did the Divine Princess do with it at those Years She did not stifle the Money in close and dark Chests nor did she lavish it out in gorgeous Attire upon Pearls and Gemms which other Women far distant from her degree are so mad after that they never cease this Fury till they have quite ruin'd their Husband's Patrimonies But moderate in her layings out considering the Grandeur of her Fortune upon her Apparel and other Ornaments which the Dignity of so great a Princess requir'd she introduc'd into the Court Diligence Frugality Parsimony Vertues most commonly unknown in Courts The rest of that large Allowance she consum'd in relieving the distresses of honest and worthy People who labour'd under great Necessities not through their own Extravagancy but reduc'd thereto by Misfortune and the hardness of the Times Magnanimous Queen superiour to all Applause For who is able deservedly to extol the Excellency of so bountiful and beneficent a Soul Where is the Woman among Ten Thousand that would deprive herself of the Money allow'd her for fine Cloaths and gaudy Ornaments to bestow upon the poor and needy while so few are contented with wearing the spoils of fair Estates upon their Backs and think all mis-spent that is not wasted upon Vanity and Finery But alas to compare the Queen with other Women is to do an Injury to her Divine Vertues wherein she equall'd or exceeded the Praises of the Greatest Men. Nor did she expect or desire any other Fruit from this her Bounty than a Conscience that told her she did well She never vaunted her Charity nor imputed it to Merit Most commonly she sent her Charity by Persons unknown who were not permitted to discover the Doner that she might not burden the Modesty of the Receivers So far was she from seeking the Favour of those on whom she conferr'd her Bounty that she deny'd 'em the Hopes of returning thanks when the greatest part were ignorant who bestow'd the unlook'd for Liberality Arcesilaus is highly applauded who laid a bag of Gold under the Pillow of his poor Friend but counterfeiting poverty all the while that he might privately supply the want of one who was needlesly modest Which Praises are not to be attributed to Mary who reliev'd not her Friends but Forreigners and Strangers whom she never saw whose Exigencies she had only heard of contrary to their Expectation

Daughters have done Virtuously but thou excellest them all Now in regard that all the Precepts of the Gospel are enclos'd in these two things love God with all thy Heart and thy Neighbour as thy self these were the two Essential things that comprehend so many others which this Pious Soul most effectually studyed 'T was by Reading and meditating upon the word of God that her Soul was purified and exercis'd it self in the desires of Eternal Blessings That we may be always with God it behoves us to Read and Pray often God speaks to us in Scripture and we speak to God in Prayer says St. Austin The Reading of the Holy Scripture fills the Soul with light and separating it from the Vanities of the World raises it up to the Love of God This our Pious Princess knew most admirable well and this was that which she practic'd with a Devotion and Zeal always worthy of Applause With what respect with what attention did she Read this Sacred and Divine word With what Zeal and Fervency did she apply her self to Prayer This is the accomplishment of Happiness said David Happy is the Man who sets his Affection upon the Law of the Lord and meditates upon it Day and Night Happy he who Addresses himself to thee I lift up my self to thee and I make my Prayer to thee in the Morning In this sacred Book it was that this Pious Princess had learnt that the only employment of the blessed in Heaven will be to adore God Holy Holy Holy Lord God who art and will be for ever is the continual Song of the blessed Spirits above You People of the World who only conform your selves to the examples of the Grandees upon Earth learn from the Pattern of the most solid and most Illustrious Piety that can be set before your Eyes to make Prayer a most assiduous and regular Duty Prayer is no way different from the Practice of other Virtues and we attain to it by the same ways 'T is by a diligent Care and Practice in applying the mind to the objects of Faith in entertaining good Thoughts and by endeavouring to excite in our selves Holy desires and Holy affections Not but these means may be sufficient of themselves to cause them to grow in us but because that God is pleas'd to conceal his supernatural Operations under those means that appear Human. Knock and it shall be opened unto yee ask and you shall receive The Queen's great employments never hindered her one Day from being present at publick Prayers which may be said to be the least time that she employed on that Duty For how often in her Closet did she not humble her self before the King of Kings in whose sight the King 's of the Earth are but as Dust to acknowledge how mean and despicable she was in comparison of him before whom the Angels cover their Faces With what Humility did she not pay him Homage for all that she had and for all that she was Nor can I pass over in silence the trouble and perplexity of this great Princess when the Prince her August Husband after redoubled sollicitations from the English Nation found himself constrain'd to pass over into England Which way soever the Princess turn'd her self at that time she beheld nothing on every side but occasions of fear and affliction France and the King of England in League together were upon the point of destroying the protestant Religion This Republick saw themselves in imminent danger The liberty of Europe was threatned with approaching Ruin England in particular was in such an agitation as tended to a general Insurrection The wrong'd and oppress'd People were resolv'd to hazard all rather then see their Laws and their Religion overturn'd In this extremity what was our Princess to do but pray to God as she did without ceasing in the publick Churches in her Chapel privately in her Closet that he would be pleas'd in order to the accomplishment of his Holy Will to direct all things for his Glory to the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ his Son and the preservation of the lives of Two Princes of which the one was her Father and t'other was become another self as being ty'd to her by the strongest tyes on Earth God heard her Prayers Never was a Revolution of that importance with less Tumult with more Calmness and less Bloodshed The People who had call'd in that grsat Prince for the support of their Laws and their Religion receive him with loud Acclamations and Testimonies of their extraordinary joy Afterwards K. James took upon him a Resolution to retire out of his Kingdom without being oblig'd to it and without the least violence offer'd to him 'T was to the prudent Conduct of the present King and the Queens Prayers that we are to ascribe the success and easiness of this miraculous Revolution through the dispensation of Divine Providence They who had the Honour to be acquainted with the Character of this great Queen well knew that the lustre of a Crown did never dazle her No never Princess of such an Illustrious Birth and Rank as hers descended as every body knows from a long Race of Kings and Ally'd to the greatest Princes of Europe was endued with such a real Humility And thô she were more capable of Reigning then any Person of her Sex and that she had given Testimonies of it in ticklish and difficult Conjunctures and thô she performed that burthensome employment so much to the satisfaction of the English as will cause her to be always belov'd and lamented by that Nation nevertheless there was a real sorrow to be perceived in her Countenance that she was to quit this Country to which she had been accustomed and to whom the pleasantness of it appeared so charming where she had been respected caress'd esteem'd and if I may presume to say it ador'd by all the World where while she led a calm and pleasing Life she has been heard to say and I have heard her my self when she was congratulated upon her advancement to the Crown That many times so much Grandeur was a burth●n That in such Stations People liv'd with less content to themselves then others and that she should wish she were in Holland again And indeed she had Reason to say so For it may be said of those that Govern that they resemble the Stars that shine with a bright luster but are never at rest And this repose it is which being made so good a use of as she was wont to do that is so beneficial for those that desire to take care of their Salvation 'T was this desire of her Salvation which estrang'd her so fervently from the things of this World and which caus'd her to think so often of her end 'T was this Idea of unavoidable death which this devout Soul still set every day before her Eyes looking upon it as attended and accompany'd with the Sentence of God that will in that very moment

and suppress'd and extinguish'd Conspiracies enter'd into by a new sort of Catilines She muster'd the Land Armies and view'd the Fleets and took care that nothing should be wanting in either that might be useful either to stop or invade the Enemy or relieve and assist her own For this Tranquility of the Times for this same singular Providence and Vertue did she not more truly then any Princess before her deserve the Appellations of Augnst of Parent of her Country of Best Mother and Mother of the Martial Camps This every year she labour'd to see accomplish'd to the end the King might recross the Seas in his Military Ornaments the Key of the Kingdom being deliver'd to the Queen till towards the end of last Autumn after an Expedition ended upon the Borders of France he hasten'd to the Embraces of his Royal Consort and to provide for those things which were to be consulted in Parliament for the raising of Money towards the supplies of the Armies and Fleets The King took Shipping put to Sea and with a prosperous Wind arriv'd in England where he had no sooner set his Foot ashoar but the loud acclamations of the People were heard in all quarters of the British Dominions Long flourish Great Britain long live our Country long live King William And not long after her Majesty meeting the King all along upon the Road these lucky Omens and transcending Applauses fill'd the Sky Vnder the Protection of our King and Queen we live under their Protection we Navigate and Trade under their Protection we enjay our Fortunes and our Liberties Then most August Monarch should any one from among those vast congratulating and triumphing Multitudes have shew'd himself and presag'd that those Rejoycings were but the Fore-runners of Grief and would be soon defil'd by some signal Calamity impending on the Royal Family would he not have been deservedly lookt upon as some impertinent Enthusiastick So ignorant are human Minds of future Chance and Fate Such Sacrifices and Attonements as these the Omnipotent has prescrib'd to vaunting Mortals and ordain'd it as a Law that the greatest Inconstancy should rule their Affairs the Prosperity of which no Man could ever so assuredly promise himself as to depend upon a Fortunate Course of his Life without some intermixture of Adversity Thus it fell out that when the toilsome Labours of the Camp had recall'd the King to Rest and Pastime a mournful Calamity shook and oppress'd his generous Soul still wakeful over the safety of his Kingdoms where all succeeded according to his Mind and no less vigilent for the Common Good of the Belgians who conceiv'd in their Minds a lucky Omen of succeess from the more early then usual tho' ardently wish'd for return of their renown'd General For upon the third of January 1694-95 The Queen was seiz'd with a slight shivering but which threatned nothing of danger to her Life the Physicians giving hope of Relief and Cure believing this Royal Fortress might be defended by their Hands But upon the sixth of January the Fever gathering Strength and reinforcing its Virulency and the small-Pox a Contagion generally incident to Youth appearing but not kindly coming forth tho' all help and remedies were apply'd that human Experience has invented against the violence of that distemper it was in vain at length for all the Art of Physick to contend for the Disease immediately seiz'd upon the Queen with such a pernicious force as vanquish'd all the aid of Man All the while the King refus'd to stir from the Languishing Queen's Bedside assiduous to serve her and careless of the Infection that many times accompanies that Malady and being often requested to spare his Royal Person and not to inflict another Wound upon suffering Europe made Answer That when he Marry'd the Queen he Convenanted to be the Companion not only of her Prosperity but of whatever Fortune befel her and that he would with the hazard of his Life receive from her Lips her last expiring Gasps Felices ter amplius Quos Irrupta tenet Copula nec Malis Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvet Amor Dic. All hope of Recovery now was fled away and the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury being admitted into the Room in order to perform the last Duties of his Function told her Majesty that the fatal hour was at hand that the Forces of her Body being weaken'd and broken Death was making his Approaches and therefore she had nothing more to do but to submit herself to the Pleasure of the Almighty Such a harsh and disconsolate Message would have struck another Person tho' long exercis'd and harden'd in Stoical Indolency with Horror and Trembling But what said the Queen to this Full of Faith and Constancy she receiv'd the tidings with a chearful and undaunted Countenance saying withal That she did no way seek to shun the the stroke of Death but was ready prepar'd for the Dark Mansion of the Grave for that she had always so led her Life that whenever Death gave her his last Summons she should be a gainer by it Having thns spoken without the least emotion of Mind she receiv'd the certain Pledges of Divine Peace and ineffable Consolation to allay the Thirst and Hunger of her Soul deliver'd her by the Most Reverend Father at the same time with most ardent Wishes and pious Ejaculations calling upon her Redeemer nail'd to the Cross This last and most mournful Act remain'd and then the King oppress'd and bowing under the Burden of his own Sorrows e're death had quite benumm'd her trembling Arteries and the warm Vapour of Breath lay panting in her sacred Breast bid her Eternally farewell Which last demonstrations and evident signs of the most tender motions of the Soul were perform'd with that Sincerity of a Cordial Passion that you may readily most Learned Auditors conjecture the Anguish of such a doleful Parting though my Oration my bow being enfeebled with Sadness cannot reach the perfect Description At length my words stick fast upon my Tongue At length I say upon the seventh day of the Ides of January about twelve a Clock at Noon the Blessed Queen resign'd her pure Soul to God with a most placid Exit not having fully accomplish'd the thirty third year of her Age and consequently in the flower of her Years This was the End of a Queen in whom not only Piety Benignity and Humanity but all Vertues seem to be ecclips'd Oh cruel Fate Oh untimely Death Timely I should have said my Accompt fail'd me For if we measure the Course of the Queen's Life circumscrib'd by Years at first sight it appears to be very much streightned and very short But if we look farther we shall find it to be a long and immense Race of Glory One day of a Wise Man says Possidonius is more extensive then the whole Age of an ignorant Person That same Alexander whose Atchievements acquir'd him the name of Great Germanicus Caesar endu'd

enlarge I shall say nothing of Great Brittain the most Fortunate of all the Islands upon which the Sun shines the Parent of Emperors the Foster-Mother of so many Potent Kings and famous for their Noble Atchievments in all Climates of the Earth the Nurse of so many Couragious Leaders the Domicel of the Reformed Religigion and all laudable Arts the Seat of Liberty wherein MARY first drew her Vital Breath Let them admire and boast the Felicity of their Country to whom their Country is an Ornament not they who adorn their Country MARY in whatever Land she had been born had been adjudg'd worthy of that high Degree to which the State of her Birth had exalted her as being form'd by the Hands of more Benign Nature to Royal Dignity She had Shon with her own Beams even in Darkness it self such a disposition to Vertue appear'd in her from her tender Years The Glory of an Illustrious Family won by the Vertue of the Founders is admir'd among all People For as Gems more splendidly glitter when set in Gold so Vertue shines forth more dazlingly in true Nobility However they who are puft up with Titles and grow big with the Images of their Ancestors supported by no Vertue of their own are not vvorthy of those Ornaments They fall from their Nobility who fully the Dignity of it with Pride Sloath and other Vices MARY was sufficiently Ennobl'd by her Descent But so great and so incredible vvas the multitude of the admirable Vertues of this Princess that she rather Illustrated her Ancestors than vvas illustrated by them and contributed more Ornaments to the Enlargement of their Glory than she receiv'd from their Antiquity What men have admir'd as the principal Ornaments of an Illustrious Family in particular Persons all those crowded together so far as her Sex was capable in MARY the most accomplish'd vvith all Endowments and Perfections of Body and Mind vvhich God the giver of all good things had largely confer'd upon her But vvhy do I insist upon those things vvhich are common to her with her Ancestors when she abounds with so many particular Graces and Ornaments peculiarly her own Among which that her Piety to God and her Love of Religion held the chiefest place there 's none of you that ever doubted What the Sun is in Heaven among the Stars that Piety is among the Vertues All Light is derived from the Sun From Piety also and Religion as from the only and most Limpid Fountain flow the rest of the Vertues which she foster'd in her Bosom and her Embraces What Prudence what Fortitude what Fidelity what Moderation what Benignity can be found in any other person where there is not care taken to suppress the Turbulent Motions of the Mind to restrain the Impetuosities of Desire and be mindful of their Dignity and Duty But this is the Work of Religion only Now with what a Love of Religion the August MARY was inflam'd with what a fervency of Mind she was incens'd to the Improvement of her Piety I should not adventure to commemorate were it not a thing well known to all people not only to such as attended about her Person but to the Embassadors of forreign Princes and Commonwealths who frequented the Queens Court They will hardly gain credit perhaps among those who understand the Manners and Customs of Courts and of those that are bred up in 'em or among such who are perswaded that Religion Piety and Modesty are only Names made use of to impose upon the People or at least the Properties of private persons They who would be accounted Pious among Men think it sufficient to say their Prayers Morning and Evening to read a Chapter in the Bible and go duely to hear the Sermons at Church upon a Sunday If they acquit themselves of these Duties they think they do enough and considering the Contempt and Neglect of sacred things now a-days their Piety is to be commended But MARY'S Religion was not circumscrib'd within these Narrow Limits In the Morning so soon as she rose she spent Two hours alone in her Bed-Chamber in Prayers in Reading and Contemplation of Heavenly Things If Affairs of Moment call'd her sooner to the Publick Management she rather chose to spare something of her accustomed Hours allowed for Sleep and Rest than to lose a Moment of the time which she had consecrated to God About Nine a clock she went to the Chappel and there with the Royal Houshold and such others as mov'd by her Example resorted thither she offered up her most Innocent Supplications to God The same thing she did every day about five a Clock Nor would she suffer her self to be called away from this settled performance of sacred Duties by any Sports and Allurements of Lawful Pleasures any Audiences of Princes or Royal Embassadors This was the Law which she had Ordain'd to her self of daily attoning God O singular and unwonted lover of Religion in that so high station of Fortune in that healthy condition of Youthful Age in that abundance of Delights and Pleasures wherein Devotion is but little minded And this is that which I am sure you all admire Attend I beseech ye and ye shall hear those things which will redound to the greater Admiration of the QUEEN When WILLIAM Prince of Orange was Sollicited and Importun'd by the Unanimous and loud Voice of England to vindicate her Sacred Rites that were Polluted to assert her Laws that were trampled underfoot to ward off the Destruction and Bondage that hung over the Necks of all the People of England and Europe that was wounded through her sides by a certain Instinct of Heaven and with the good will of all Kings and Princes those excepted who design'd and Plotted all these Mischiefs he undertook the English Expedition Then it was that the most Pious MARY spent not only three or four Hours as she was wont to do in Prayers in Supplications and as well in publick as Domestick Performances of Divine Duties When she had performed 'em all in the English she went to the French Church and after that to the Dutch Congregations in all which Prayers were put up for several hours for the Preservation of the Greatest Prince and for the prosperous Success of that Expedition undertaken for the Preservation of the Christian Name and the Defence of its Dignity No wonder then that Heaven whose Cause was then the Subject of the Contention bow'd down a ready Ear to the Suppliant and most Pious MARY and the Prayers of so many good People But I return to MARY's daily Meditations of Piety The rest of the day which required not her Care of the Kingdom in the King's absence she did not wast in vain Discourses in hearing stories of the Amours of Princes and Illustrious Ladies nor in reading those Trifles commonly called Novels but she read over her self or caused to be recited by others either the Divine Monuments of Sacred Story or such other Books as explain'd

was she Who ever knew a Wife more Obedient in a private Family I here forbear to relate with what an Excess of Grief she parted from her William's side when setting forward and ready to quit the English Shoar in order to restore the Low Condition of Europe's Affairs I neglect to tell with how much Joy and Affection she received the King returning from the Conquest of Ireland These are the vulgar Commendations of all Wives but what I shall now commemorate is a singular and most Illustrious Pledg of a certain more than wonderful Affection When King James confiding in an hasty Flight deserted the Kingdom and left the Royal Throne quite Empty and in a manner falling it was Debated in the Convention who should be set up in James's Room whether the Ensigns of Soveraignty should be Offered to the Prince of Orange and Mary his Consort to Reign with Equal Power or to Mary only the Eldest Daughter of James and in her Right to William her Husband Many were of the last Opinion but upon this Condition that Mary should be Crown'd Queens but that the Administration of the Government should by Authority of Parliament be committed to Prince William as Mary's Husband The Resident of a Certain Prince who then Resided in England so soon as he understood these things though but uncertainly reported over-hasty and credulous as if the Thing had been already determined presently hires a Messenger and orders him with all the speed imaginable to carry the News to his Master that MARY the Eldest Daughter of King James was by Decree of Parliament to be the next day Proclaim'd Queen of England The Messenger was to pass through the Hague and to impart the News in the Residents Name to a Person of High Authority and no less high both in William and Mary's Esteem He immediately hastens to the Court and informs Mary of this Vote of the House and congratulates her Advancement to the Royal Dignity She according to her wonted Good Nature mildly indeed but with a less familiar Countenance and a more contracted Brow made Answer That she neither hop'd those things to be true which he related neither did she believe that William would accept the Kingdom as a Substitute to Female Authority or as one that was to be beholden to a Woman for a Crown I beseech ye Noble Auditors could the best of Princesses declare the Excess of her most tender Affection by a more Illustrious Argument She had rather that her self she had rather that her Husband should lose a Kingdom than permit that he should receive it as her Gift or that William should obtain by Female Favour what he had deserv'd by the suffrage of his own Valour as having undergone so many Toyls and Dangers for the Preservation of it Hence when some Peers of the highest Rank who wish'd well to MARY obstinately urg'd That the Kingdom should be decreed to William upon no other Conditions than those already mentioned and asserted that it would be a means to fix themselves in MARY's Favonr She took it so unkindly and after she was Crown'd Queen openly complain'd of their Preposterous Argument nor would for a good while admit those who had Voted after that manner to kiss her Royal Hand nor did admit 'em till after some time that she was at last over-rul'd by the King What could be done more Lovingly or what greater Testimony of Affection could Fiction invent By what greater Argument could she demonstrate that nothing was dearer to her than her Husband Neither Scepter nor Crown for the sake of which many Women abjure their Chastity their Religion all Veneration Divine and Human if separated from King William's Interests which she always prefer'd before her own Oh singular Conjugal Fidelity O admirable Affection of a Queen that never can be too highly Applauded Infinite are the Examples of this her wonderful and incredible Affection toward the King which we have not Language nor time sufficient to Enumerate However one in the midst of so much Plenty most Illustrious must not be omitted In the Eeighty fourth year of this Age the Embassador of a certain King not necessary here to be Nam'd Plotted an unworthy Contrivance at the Hague and had Sollicited certain of the Prince of Orange's Attendants to Associate with him which come to Light so highly Incens'd a Prince at other times so mild and gentle as to incur a Censure of being slow that he could not dissemble his Anger The King recall'd his Embassadour from the Hague no doubt inform'd of the Just reason of the Prince's Indignation against him The Embassadour therefore knowing that Kings and Princes have long hands was willing before his departure to reconcile himself to Prince William To which purpose making his Addresses and submissively and with humble Protestations of his Innocency and Deprecating his Offences the most Mild of Princes Magnanimously forgave him But from Mary by no Allegations by no Expiations of Satisfaction whatever could he obtain his Pardon Upon which when it was admir'd that Mary should be so implacable when the Embassadour had done nothing against Her nor had injur'd Her either in word or deed when William Justly offended had pardon'd the Delinquent she order'd this Answer to be made That had the Crime been committed against her she would not have been either severe or inexorable but that she could not forget an Attempt against her Husband nor grant her Pardon so easily to him who had so highly offended William Who can sufficiently extol this Conjugal Fidelity this unusual Affection of a Queen toward a Husband For my part I am not able to Admire it as I ought to do Nor was the Queen belov'd with less Affection by the King than was the King belov'd by Her There was no need of falling out to renew their Love but such was the Harmonious agreement of their Minds and Counsels from the first day of their Auspicious Marriage that their Wills were still the same whatever pleas'd whatever dislik'd the one always dislik'd still pleas'd the other such an Agreement of Opinions in all things both private and publick that tho in Persons divided by long Intervals of distant Leagues yet by an unaccountable Sympathy they were always of one mind in all Affairs most difficult and of dubious Event which would have puzled the most acute and experienc'd Politicians So that they might be said to be Born under one Constellation but rather that one Soul resided in two Bodies And that you may not think I speak a Fiction behold an Example of a reall Harmony of Minds almost beyond belief About three years ago at what time the King arriv'd in Holland Intelligence was sent from no mean Hands nor from one place to the King here present to the Queen in England then sitting at the Helm that the French were fitting out a Navy and that they intended in a short time to put to Sea with a design to Land a considerable Army in

by his Agent 's Letters the Father sends a long and weighty Epistle to his Daughter wherein he set forth at large the occasion the reasons and methods he had followed in abandoning our Worship and embracing the Opinions of Rome This Letter from King James was delivered to MARY upon Tuesday in the Evening the Messengers who brought it being to return into England the next day Wherefore when she had read it over and over again with extraordinary attention and Studiously considered every thing she set her self to return an Answer wherein she spent the greatest part of the Night And tho frequently put in mind that it was time to go to Bed and that it behov'd her to take care of her Health which would be much disorder'd by Watching the most Prudent Queen made Answer That the Duty of Answering the King's Letters was to be preferr'd before Sleep lest she should be straitned in time the next day and thereby be hindred from performing what she ow'd to her Father That therefore she made the more haste lest if the Messenger should slip away vvithout her Ansvver it might be suspected that she had made use of help and got some Divine to vvrite her Letters for her vvhich if her Father should believe they vvould vvant that vveight and Effect vvhich by the Favour of God she promised her self from dispatching 'em vvith all speed she could The King 's chief Argument was taken from the Antiquity and the long and immovable endurance of the Roman Church Establish'd and Founded upon the Promises of Christ Thou art Peter c. To which were added other places Arguments and Testimonies heaped together to corroborate that Opinion All which the most ingenious Princess Answered and refuted in so short a time and with so much Politeness and Judgment that an Eminent Divine and some few other Persons conspicuous for their Quality and Integrity who afterwards were permitted to see a Copy of that Epistle ravish'd into Admiration asserted that they could never have perswaded themselves that such a Letter so full of Grave and Efficacious Arguments could have been Written by any Man much less by a Woman unless by one who had Devoted his whole Life to the Study of the Scriptures and true Divinity Strange swiftness and perspicacity of a Divine Wit Strange piercing Force of Judgment No snares of Treachery were so occultly laid which the August Queen did not readily discover no Sophisms so fallaciously specious that could deceive Her No knots so difficult but she should unloose 'em at first sight Go now you that are all over nothing but Envy or ill Will you that are blinded by your own ignorance weigh the vast Endowments of the Greatest of Queens by the Exilities of your own slender Parts go now and taunt me with Adulation This Oration is so far from flattery that all men now may see that the greatest applause of Words is far inferior to the Merits of so great a Queen Such was also the sanctity of MARY'S Life that King WILLIAM after her Decease calling to mind her Piety toward God the Integrity of her Life and her Extraordinary Knowledge of sacred things brake forth into this Evpression That if he could believe that ever any mortal man could be born without the contamination of sin he would believe it of the Queen And she preserv'd her self so chast and spotless that while she resided upon Earth she liv'd the Life of the Saints even in the hurry of the Court where there are so many incitements to evil that entice men from the Exercise of Piety so many allurements to pleasure that inveigle and bewitch the mind But as our Divine MARY burn'd with a singular Love of Piety and Religion so was she of a Soaring and Exalted Mind For they who addicting themselves to the Observance of the most pure Religion are once assur'd that being as it were encompass'd with Coelestial Protection they shall not be forsaken will never despond let the Confusions of War Rage round about 'em let the Earth Tremble and Heaven be ready to fall and all things menace present Mortality and Pestilence As to her Contempt of Humane Glory her Constancy in the most violent Storms of Adverse Fortune I wish as they are great things and Aggravations of her lofty Soul I wish it were in my power to set forth in as magnificent Language The Field is infinitely large of rare and unusual Examples but neither the barrenness of a slender Wit nor the straitness of my Time will permit me to expatiate into these Boundless Themes We must be content with a Few How great was the Consternation of all men how general the Dismay and Terror when William Prince of Orange not so much Invited and Requested by England tho she stretched forth her suppliant Hands to Him for succour as by the Call of Heaven at an unseasonable time when both Seas and Adverse Winds with tumultuous Fury opposing him with such an handful hasten'd to England's Relief under the Oppression of Numerous Armies I believe that most of you remember For we may sooner forget our selves than such a dreadful season Only MARY undaunted awaited the Event of Heaven's Decrees She Only wanted no Consolation She alone exhorted and confirm'd the Trembling Womanish Fear in Men in MARY Manly Resolution and Courage vvas to be seen These vvere Noble Things and to be celebrated vvith the Encomiums of all Ages and all Men. And yet they are but Sport and Play if I may so call 'em to vvhat you shall now hear An Hideous Bulk of threatning Evils at the same time roul'd vvith all its Force to overwhelm all England and Holland The Heaven the Sea and Land seem'd to have conspired their ruin and destruction The Army of the Confederates had received a deep wound in the Battle of Fleurus In the sight of England a misfortune befel our Fleet some of our Men of War being sunk and burnt whilst others were detain'd by contrary Winds from succouring those that were o're Powred From Ireland News was brought tho ours had Vanquish'd the Rebels at the Boyn that the King was Wounded in the heat of the Fight with a Canon Bullet The Report was spread abroad that he was slain insomuch that publick Rejoycings were ordered at Paris by publick Authority in a Tempestuous Night and all the Streets and Houses Blaz'd and Shon with Illuminations and Bonfires the signs I will not determine whether of Joy or Madness not to be defac'd by length of Time as if the VVar had been at an end had the King of England been Dead All these things were at the same time tumultuously repeated while Fame augmented as is usual every thing for the worse To this we may add how certainly it was believed that the French Fleet were preparing to Land a great Army in England which was to penetrate into the Heart of the Kingdom naked then of Military Defence the Souldie●y being either in Ireland or the Low

Countries 'T is hardly to be imagin'd how great the Fear the Dread the Consternation was of the Nobility Gentry and common People Still the Queen displayed no sign of Fear nothing of dubious anxiety nothing of sadness either in her looks or words more Especially when she heard that the Wound in the King's shoulder was neither Mortal nor Dangerous MARY at that time Rode through the City of London with so Serene a Countenance that Tranquillity and Security seem'd to shine in her Eyes The People beholding the Queen so void of any Perturbation repented and recovered themselves from their extraordinary Consternation Nor were the People only refreshd and revived with chearful Hearts and Countenances but also the Nobility the King and Queen's Friends and sharers of all their Arcana For when the Queen shewed the same mind in Council no less sedate and Void of Tumult so soon as she was gone a person of the Highest Quality and Dignity acknowledg'd that after he had seen and heard the Queen he was much more Confirm'd in his Mind than before That so many Messengers of ill News from all parts one upon the Neek of another had strook a dread into him and a very great fear of more terrible Calamities but that now he was releast from his Fears in regard that neither in the Queen's Countenance nor in her Words he perceived not the least sign of any Perturbation or Anxiety but that she still consulted for the general Good with the same constancy as before that with the same Advice and Judgment she took care that nothing should fall out amiss at Home that the publick should receive no damage and provided abroad how Miscarriages might be attoned losses repaired and the Counsels of the Enemy be disappointed These things when he saw he could not sufficiently Admire the Incredible Fortitude of the Queen nor could he believe the loss was so great or Affairs in so ill a Condition as they were generally thought to be What an Illustrious Person so much admir'd all Nations all Posterity will wonder at That there was so much Resolution in a Woman that she could not be dejected by the severest Frowns of adverse Fortune that would have shaken and did shake the Courage and Counsels of Men themselves Octavianus Caesar when he heard of the Varian Slaughter foolishly suffered his Hair and Beard to grow as if the Germans had been afraid of his careless Beard like men that are terrified with the streaming Tail of a Comet He wept like a Woman beat his Head for madness against the Wall and like a man that had been Frantick cry'd out Varus Restore me back my Legions as if these Clamours could have Terrified the Enemy or that the Slain could have thereby reviv'd And this same Despair and Female Imbecillity of Mind the same Augustus betray'd as if Hannibal had been at the Gates of Rome when three Legions were Defeated by the Germans in the utmost Confines of the Roman Empire But what did our Couragious and Prudent Queen do when the Army was Routed in the Adjoyning Low Countries when in the very sight and throat of England the Enemies Navy numerous and Victorious Rode Mistress of the Seas when Rapines Burnings Slaughters Desolation presented themselves before the Eyes of all men if the Enemy which many were afraid of which wicked Subjects boasted abroad and Rebels wish'd had turn'd their Forces against the British Shoar in the King's absence and while the Arms of England were Employ'd either in our Territories or in Ireland Nothing of all these things mov'd MARY's Courage She did not yield to raging Torture or submit her Courage to it but the more boldly made resistance with an undaunted Vertue never to be sufficiently Extoll'd by human Expressions and with such a sublimity of Mind whereby she not only overcame the Opinion of all men but her self out-did her self by which she attained to such a Degree of Glory and Dignity as a Prince of highest Vertue can hardly be allowed to wish for in this Life No less Conspicuous was the Excellency of her lofty Mind in moderat Prosperity as in her Couragious Brooking Adversity She never proudly abused so great a Power never in that most Towering Station of Human Affairs utter'd an haughty word or did an unequal Act. For it was always her Opinion that Royal Majesty consisted not in the Ensigns of Royalty the Globe the Scepter or the Crown but in Vertuous Ornaments in Gentleness and the Power of doing Good to all People and was desirous it should be conspicuous for Sanctity and Sweetness of Manners and Nobleness of Mind not in swelling Pride in haughty Pride and intollerable disdain of her Subjects and of all other Men with the Cecropide arrogated to themselves and Men of mean Condition advanc'd above themselves to splendidness of Fortune Nor did the Queen more laudably excel in Majesty of Empire than in Modesty of which how many Examples did she shew to the World But this was most singular and wonderful She was call'd by the People of England together with her Husband William to be his Associate in the Kingdom that as she was the Confort of his Bed she might be the Companion of his Scepter and that they might Administer the Government with equal Auspices This Power she never exercised unless when the King in Vindicating and Asserting the Liberty of the Christian World was thundering with Arms abroad upon the Meuse the Scheld or the Boyne and going to cross the Seas committed the Reines of the Kingdom into her Right-hand which she rul'd so prudently with the general Applause of all Men in the most difficult times that none of her Subjects could perceive the King was absent The King was wanting in his Person no body miss'd his Courage or his Prudence In Council when Affairs of greatest Moment and Intricacy were Discuss'd the most prudent Queen ne're hesitated never was at a stand such was her Diligence such her Discernment so Capacious was her Counsel that she saw with a most piercing Eye what was needful to be done and readily found out the Expedient which way things were to be accomplish'd For she had a Wise prospect into Futurity that she might be thought to Prophesy rather than Pronounce Decrees and Judg'd so truly of this present that she might be thought to have deriv'd every sentence she spoke from some Oracular Answer of a Deity So that the King might deservedly complain when he lost our most Prudent MARY that he had lost the best of all the Counsellors he had in his Council You have heard a most true saying of great WILLIAM who himself as well in Military Courage as in the Wisdom of Peace is second to none of all the Kings that are or ever were He could never perform such great things abroad unless he had those at home upon whose Fidelity and Counsel he might rely For never at any time more certain Ship-wrack threatens a Common-wealth than when such a

one sits at the Helm who wants to be Steer'd and Govern'd himself But so far was the Queen from depending upon the Counsel of others that many times they who were of the Council were convinc'd by her Arguments and came over to her Opinion tho before they Dissented from it And many times she greatly confirm'd those who waver'd between several Opinions What need I call to your Remembrance the Vigilancy of the Queen Day and Night as in a Watch-Tower she watch'd over the safety and Dignity of England and the Vnited Provinces She never look'd off from their Preservation She laid nothing more to Heart than the Publick Safety the Liberty the Ease of the People the Harmony and Union of the Parliament and the Harmony and Tranquility of the whole Common-wealth It was the most sacred of all her Cares to Govern her Subjects with a concording Moderation Which when she perform'd to a Miracle the People on the other side in the mortal Person of the Queen reverenc'd the Present Immortal God whose Image on Earth all supreme Powers Represent so long as they faithfully and prudently fulfil all the Duties of just and legal Rule By this means she not only suppress'd not so much by force of Arms as by the Love of her Subjects with which she was always strongly Guarded from the Exorbitant Fury of Wicked Men who during the King's absence Plotted her Ruin and the Destruction of the Kingdom These are Great things and to be Celebrated by the Tongues and Pens of Posterity Yet will I not contend with those who assert that the British Empire was Govern'd by Elizabeth with no less Applause of Prudence and Moderation But this is wonderful and unusual that a Queen when she sate at the Helm in the King's absence all good subjects wishing all Prosperity to so just and mild a Rule while others were astonish'd that the Rudder of Government should be so prudently and knowingly held by a Female Hand so soon as the King set foot again in the Kingdom should not concern her self with any part or care of it as if she had not been marry'd to the King or that the Administration of the Kingdom had nothing belongd to her tho his Associate in the Government Read over the Annals Noble Auditors of all Times and Nations revolve in your Memories whether you ever read or heard of any thing that may be compar'd with this Moderation of the Queen There have been many Queens many Princesses who have taken upon 'em Masculine Cares who have either had Uxorious Husbands or have been by them willingly permitted to share the Soveraignty with ' em You shall find no Woman who being call'd by the Legal Suffrages of the People to be an Associate in the Government who ever actually executed the Regal Office that did not challenge her self a great share of the Command and thought she had an Injury done her if she were not admitted to all Counsels taken concerning the Administration of the Government or if she were not advis'd with in all manner of Transactions or if she were Equal in Authority with her Husband did not challenge to herself an Equal Right They who have once tasted Soveraign Command are hardly reduc'd to lead a private Life You may sooner wrest Hercules's Club out of his hand than desire of Dominion from such persons especially from the Female Sex who are generally Petulant Proud greedy of Power Covetous of Command and expert at putting all things into confusion so they may attain their Desires That She Vlysses that she might not be despoil'd of that Power which she had exercis'd so many years by the connivance of her Husband extinguishd all Augustus's Family by her Treacheries Frauds and wicked Contrivances not so much out of her Novercal Hatred though that were also none of the least violent but inflam'd with desire of Command that she might advance her own Son to the Empire and rule under his Minority as she had done before under the Indulgence of her Husband Infinite other Examples of Female Pride and Desire of Rule might be produced which neither Time nor Place will give us leave to recite And indeed who can be ignorant of 'em when every Age has produc'd several such Monsters So much the more is the Moderation of Divine Mary to be wonder'd at who might have Reign'd in her own Right but would not but in the Absence of King William and who was so far from complaining or repining that she gladly and freely resign'd the Government of the Kingdom upon his Return as an hard and heavy burthen which she had unwillingly born all the time before Where can a Moderation like to this be found within the memory of History She thought it the Greatest and most Noble Act of Soveraignty to be able to command her self Those Tears which were no counterfeited Droppings and which she shed when she understood that the Crown was Voted to Her and William by both Houses of Parliament what else did they signifie but that MARY's Mind was far remote from all desire of Rule Remember I beseech ye with what Grief and Reluctancy she suffer'd her self to be torn from our Re-publick But it was not for her to withstand the hidden Counsels of Eternal Providence She was to go where Destiny call'd her not with an Intention to dethrone her Father as an audacious Impostor lately took upon him to vomit forth against the most Pious Queen For the Father had dethron'd himself by his subversion of the Laws the Religion and Constitutions of the Kingdom before any Forreigner mov'd to the Relief of England but that she might succour her Country forsaken complaining groaning and imploring the Aid of Heaven and the Faith of William and Mary For this was the Only Remedy for Britain upon the Brink of the Precipice nor had she any other to whom in her Despair she could have Recourse Therefore did Great Britain stretch forth her Right Hand to MARY when she came and received their Conservatrix with a more than Ordinary Joy Thence a New and Benign Light in the midst of so great a Mist and so dark a Night spread a bright splendour quite through Britain insomuch that the day wherein MARY and WILLIAM were inaugurated might be accounted England's Second Birth-day that wip'd off Rusty Decrepidness and Deformity from a Kingdom gayly flourishing before But the Spring and Fountain of this wonderful Modesty which during the whole course of her Life she made appear by so many Rare Proofs to the whole World was that of which you have been told already Her Piety and Observance of Religion From thence proceeded that undefiled Conjugal Fidelity that Chastity without blemish that Benevolence toward all Mankind that Munificence and Bounty toward the miserable If ever any Woman eminent above others for the Splendor of her Descent and Excellency of her Outward Form were the most affectionate to her Husband and the most jealous of her Chastity DIVA STVARTA