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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

like manner Domestic Servants and Subjects derive their Dye and Colour from the Life and Conversation of the Princess and their Sanctity and Integrity from the Prince who is the Head of the Commonweal Antiquity has recorded that Midas being initiated into sacred Rights by Orpheus fill'd all Phrygia with Religion which render'd the Country much more durably safe then the strength of her Arms. Therefore the most Serene Princess consecrated certain fix'd Hours to Divine Worship which she either spent in Prayer or else in reading Books of good and solid Divinity Sublime Example fit to be transmitted by Encomiums Eulogies Orations Writings and Monuments to all Posterity and to be erected to the Eternal Infamy of Slothful and Irreligious Matrons When those more solemn Duties of Religion were over she never gave her Mind to the frivolous stories of Amadis and impertinent Fictions of Amad. but attentively studied the Volumes of those Authors by which she might improve her Knowledge and her Prudence And lest most learned Auditors any one should think this short Oration compos'd at the obsequious Instigations of specious and pleasingly delusive Flattery I shall relate not what I gathered from the common report of Fame but from the Lips of a most worthy Person and my Friend who being admitted in the Morning to kiss her Hands found before her Cambden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth and Doctor Burnet's History of the Reformation But Piety is never to be accounted solidly accomplish'd unless accompanied with Liberality otherwise it would be Piety only in words and not in deeds as she her self upon the approach of her Expiring Minutes discours'd of a Godly and Vertuous Life You People of France who abandoning your Native Soyl because you would not suffer Violence upon your Consciences nor listen to the adulterate Charms of Bards and Druids You People of France I say depriv'd of all supports of Life fled to this most Clement Princess as to the Altar of some Sanctuary or some present Female Deity What time the Princess struck with Compassion pleaded your unfortunate Cause before the Fathers of the Country she sweetly sollicited the wealthy Treasures of many to pity your Condition Sollicited do I say Nay more she sent 'em away reliev'd and succour'd with her own Royal Revenues That others also were no less Sharers in her Princely Munificence the Money which she order'd to be solded and seal'd up in Papers and distributed without Vainglory and with an unwearied Charity to the Indigent sufficiently manifested Believing it more Generous and more Praiseworthy by this means to oblige her Debtors which were many see that for two or three Years together she order'd to be expended and divided considerable Sums of Money to those who in the Cities of Holland were not able to provide against the extremities of the Season and the injuries of the Weather That she was affable and courteous by which she acquir'd the Respect and Love of all Persons is undeniably acknowledg'd on every Hand For what was more usually observ'd in this Princess She never stay'd for the most convenient times of Address and the fittest times to be spoken with but meeting the Desires of those that made their Suits and Petitions to her receiv'd 'em with a Serene Countenance Saving the Veneration that was due to her believing that Affability and Gravity might reside together in one Mansion she re-saluted those that bow'd to her offer'd what not desir'd rightly deeming that no Person was to return dissatisfied and Pensive from the Presence of a Prince which was the saying of that Emperor who was call'd the Love and Delight of Mankind Now then if we but duly consider those Vertues most Learned Auditors what Man so Iron-Tongu'd and Leaden-hearted who can blame all sorts of Persons whether of high or low degree for being perplexed and troubled at the departure of a Princess so Pious so munificent But unavoidable Necessity demanded and commandingly requir'd that she must begin and follow her beloved Husband the most renown'd of Generals then busily engag'd to deliver the Necks of the English from being trampled on by Superstition and illegal Slavery But when the most Serene Princess call'd to mind the remembrance of her Subjects by whom she was most entirely and dearly reverenc'd and esteem'd when she thought of that Palace of Loo where she oft went to alleviate and divert the Cares of her Mind from having a full Prospect of the Woods and spacious Fields of Velau she beheld her Husband in pursuit of the wild Beasts with a full Cry when she revolv'd in her Mind how terrible a thing it was for a Kingdom to be without a Head and Chieftain contented with her Lot and sore against her Will she was torn away by Force from her Belgian Delights The publick Cause was in Dispute and that overcame her Charity toward her Subjects her Country Pleasures her Moderation her equity of Mind nay even the Considerations which she had for her Father himself whom she never went about to impugn nor ever desir'd his being ejected but enforc'd only to Consent that a Parliament might be duly Summon'd and that what had been alter'd shaken or broken might be restor'd to their former State that is to say according the Laws and most ancient Constitutions of the Kingdom which he had sworn to observe and that above all things care might be taken that Religion and Liberty might receive no harm Reluctant therefore and as it were by Constraint for according to the Socratic Paradox a Wise Man does nothing unwillingly nothing for which he is sorry nothing by Compulsion departing from us upon the twelfth of March in the Year 1689 with a fair Wind she arriv'd in England which was now without a Governour and where the Army was without a Leader But lest any External Force while the Minds of the People were variously distracted and provok'd as Rumour spread abroad the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom resolv'd to resign the Care of the Kingdom and Administration of the Government to the two Princes and upon the seventh of the Kalender of March in the year before-mention'd the same day as some aver that put an end to the Reign of Tarquin the proud declar'd William and Mary King and Queen of England France and Ireland and upon the third of the Ides of April what day they obtain'd the Royal Crown and Scepter King and Queen of Scotland also From that time forward they held the two Kingdoms with equal Auspices and concording Minds yet so that by reason of the Wars which the French King grasping in his boundless hopes the Dominion of all Europe have every where inflam'd was forc'd to cross the Seas and remain abroad for some time Therefore during the absence of the King the Empire of the Kingdom so great was her Genius was committed to her Care which she manag'd with so much prudence and fortitude that she repell'd from the Coasts of the Kingdom an Insulting Enemy menacing to Land

return'd Thanks to their Queen upon that occasion and openly and publickly express'd the sentiments of their Hearts in words at large So that the English were hardly sensible of the absence of their King nor nor was there any thing which they wanted but only the Person of the King Thus for several Years this Royal Heroess held a Divided Empire between her Royal Husband and her self She rul'd England while William govern'd Belgium till toward the end of the preceeding Year she began to sink under the first Assaults of a Terrrible Disease which tho it slacken'd at the Beginning afterwards every Day prevailing more and more and the fatal hour approaching after she had bid adieu to Royal Pomp and all Earthly Affairs she betook her self to pious meditations plac'd her only hopes in God alone and to him commended her soul In the mean time together with several others of the same Order the Pious and most Reverend Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Tennison visited her who observing how dangerously ill she was and for that Reason with pious and wholsome Exhortations putting her in mind in her approaching End with an undaunted Countenance she return'd him this masculine and truly royal expression I am not now to prepare for Death it has been my study all the days of my Life Then the Archbishop gave her the Memorial of the Divine Body the Sacrament of our Militia Which having received after she had given her last and never to be repeated Embraces to her most Dear Husband she compos'd her self altogether to die and between the sixth and seventh of January about midnight in the Royal Palace of Kensington piously and placidly expiring surrender'd her chast soul to God as became so Devout a Princess Oh Black and Dismal Night O horrid Day that followed and blacker than the Night it self Fallacious Hopes and Vain Cogitations even of Kings themselves The Hero sooty with the Dust and Smoak of War and tyr'd with the Labours of a Tedious Campaign delighted in the Embraces of his Beloved Consort and thought to have wasted the Winter Hours in her Society But his Wishes were disappointed Instead of Joy he meets with Sorrow Mourning instead of Applause and finds a Funeral where he thought to have met a Wife His otherwise Invincible Courage gives way to Raging Grief and he who had so often contemn'd the Bullets and Swords of his Enemies he who dreaded neither Flames nor Steel nor Death it self Languishes Falls and Swoons away upon the Death of his Dearest Queen He remembers himself to be but a King finds himself a Man and not unwilling acknowledges the Excess of his Grief Miserable man that I am said he I have lost the best of Women and the most pleasing Companion of my Life Nor was that so much the Exposing of Love as of Truth it self For all that knew her acknowledg this Queen to have been the best and most Excellent of Women endu'd with all Royal and Christian Virtues and Adorn'd with all the Graces both of Body and Mind And altho these Blessings of the Mind are really solid and sempiternal Blessings far to be prefer'd before the Perfections of the Body yet Vertue shines more Beautifully and more pleasingly insinuates it self into us from a Graceful and Beautiful Body after a manner not to be express'd Which if it be true in private Persons how much more in Princes in whom that Excellency and Grace of Body charms and adds to the Allurements of Dignity by unknown and secret Insinuations For seeing that the most Beautiful Workmanship of God is Man and the more excellent part of Man is the Mind how rare a thing and how transcendent is it to carry a beautiful Mind in a beautiful Structure of Body and to how few Mortals doth that perfection happen But in the Queen both these Perfections were Eminent For she had a structure of Body to Admiration Taller than usual well shap'd well proportion'd and Majestick Correspondent to her Body was her Face becomming Empire and Command A radiant Beauty overspead her Countenance and the Concomitants of Beauty Grace a Royal Majesty and a certain severity temper'd with a mild serenity You might know her to be a Queen by her Aspect But a much nobler guest Inhabited this Domicil a mind more Lovely than her Body from whence as from a perpetual Fountain and a certain unexhausted Spring all other both Royal and Christian Vertues exuberantly Flow'd which how many how transcendent and Illustrious they were their Enumeration and Contemplation will make manifest In the first place How extraordinary was her understanding and her insight into all Affairs How quick and smart her judgment in discerning How great her Memory in retaining With what a Fortitude endow'd in undertaking With what a Resolution to Execute What an Elevation of mind On the other side how Mild how Gentle how Clement how Courteous How Affable How Good and what an inbred and natural Benignity towards all Men How Prudent and Wise in administring the Affairs of the Kingdom How severe and just in the determination of Differences In the Distribution of Punishments and Rewards How munificent and liberal to the Poor How singularly modest How frugal and temperate in the midst of the Temptations of Life and in the Pleasures of a Court That hardly ever any private Person less indulg'd her self than a Princess advanced to such an Illustrious Station of Honour and Dignity But nothing was more Illustrious in her nothing more commendable or more deserving Admiration and Encomium among so many and so great Vertues than that primary and above all transcending Vertue real and sincere Piety which the wisest of Kings adjudg'd to be the beginning of all Wisdom There was nothing which she esteem'd more Religiously incumbent upon her than to serve the Immortal God and be assiduous in his Worship to defend maintain and propagate with all the Force of her Kingdom the true Religion purg'd and purified from Idols and Superstition Nor was it her Opinion that piety consisted in the Lips but in the Heart not in subtil Disputes but in good Works not in the Knowledg but the Observation of Precepts and in the Cordial Performance of enjoyn'd Duties Nor was it her choice with the Athenians rather to know than do that which was right but with the Antient Cato tho more truly than he rather to be good than to seem so In the morning she rose with the Sun and Worship'd the Lord of Heaven and Earth But when she was sometimes forc'd to rise at midnight by reason of the Urgent Affairs of the State and could not afterwards sleep she commanded either the Holy Scripture or some other Pious Book to be brought her If any persons came to Visit her in a morning before she had pour'd forth her Prayers she sent 'em back with this Expression That she was first to serve the King of Kings If any persons were said to seek her Life by Treachery and Conspiracy her Answer

A Funeral Oration ON THE Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent PRINCESS MARIE STUART QUEEN OF England Scotland France and Ireland c. Recited by the Learned Author of The Collection of Canons and New Pieces In his Third Tome pag. 274. Done into English from the French Original Printed at the Hague LONDON Printed for J. Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and Sold by Edmund Richardson near the Poultry-Church 1695. A Funeral Oration c. Favour is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Praised Prov. chap. 31. v. 30. WE cannot but wonder and be sensible of the works which Nature sets before our Eyes but on the other side we must acknowledge that those Objects so lovely and worthy of our Admiration are subject to Corruption and that they fade away and Perish All things that are under the Sun shall Perish and there is no longer any memory of things that are past and those things that are to come shall be forgotten by those that come after us sayes Solomon in the Ecclesiastes Those Empires formerly so Vast and Potent what are now become of ' em The mighty Men and Potentates of the Earth after they have made a noise in the World for Fifty or Threescore Years at most whether do they retire What is become of all their Grandeur and Luster They are returned into the Earth from whence they came and by a fatal necessity they instruct us that All that is no more then Dust must return to Dust The Days of Man sayes David are like the Flower of the Field which in the Morning is clad with a Thousand lively Colours but no sooner is it cropt but it Fades and Withers nor is there the least Beauty of it to be discovered by the Evening This is the fate of the things of this World 'T is then upon the meditation of their Vanity that they ought to reflect 'T is to the Consideration of Eternal Blessings that we ought to apply our selves to the end we may learn so to govern our days that we may be said to have a Heart of Wisdom and Understanding The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom A good Understanding have all they that do his Commandments His Praise endureth for ever Psalm 3. Favour is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain but the Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Praised It may be justly said that never any Person merited this Praise more then the Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent Princess MARY STUART Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland My Design is therefore to endeavour to set before your Eyes the surpassing Virtues of this great Queen not only to excite your Admiration of that Piety that Greatness of Soul that prudent Conduct which she made appear in all her Actions and in all her Words but more especially to follow the Examples of Piety and Sanctity of which we have been some part of Us the Eye-witnesses during her Life and which she left us after her Death I must acknowledge my self altogether unable to undertake a task so far above my strength only my Zeal for the Memory of this great Princess and the great desire I had that we should make the best benefit of a Life and Death so Holy and so Pretious in the sight of God has engag'd me in despite of my self and caus'd me to forget my weakness in going beyond the limits of my Character Think it not then strange if I observe not in this discourse all the Methods and all the Rules of Art Consider that there is something I know not what of Irregular in Sorrow and Affliction and that it is not so much the work of my Wit as of my Heart it being out of the abundance of my Heart that my Mouth speaketh Most Holy and Divine Spirit who didst enliven this Pious Queen enliv'n me now with a sacred Fire to the end I may render serviceable to thy Glory the Holy Examples which he hath given us and that by the imitation thereof we may become more Prudent and more Pious Never fear it 't is not here my design according to the Idea's of the Worldly Eloquence to study for flattering Discourses to give in this place false Phrases to false Virtues When we have for the subject matter of such discourses any one of those common and Worldly Lives in whom we can find nothing to commend but the last motives of a long delay'd and almost fruitless Repentance it is a difficult thing I must confess if I may not say impossible but that we must flatter Vanity and confound Fortune with Virtue But here all our trouble will be that we shall not be able to find Elogies enow to set forth so many Virtues nor Terms strong enough to express so many admirable Qualities wherewith Nature and Grace seem'd to be at strife to accomplish this most incomparable Queen What a Majesty and Grandeur in her Aire What a sweetness What a modesty in her Counnance What a politeness in all her Manners What Charming Graces in her Person And these you know were the least things to be commended in her For if we pass to the qualities of her Soul what a large Field was there for Elegies or rather what a subject of wonder and admiration In the first Years of her Youth this Princess displaid the best Natural disposition in the World a sweet Humour agreeable and always equall a Heart upright and sincere a solid and firm Judgment and a Piety beyond her Age. And it was upon this sincere report that the great Prince who espous'd her desired to be united to her declaring That all the circumstances of Fortune and Interest did never engage him so much as those of her Person and particularly those of her Humour and Inclination A sentiment truly great generous prudent and Christian-like and so much the more noble and worthy to be observ'd as being rare in great Personages who regulate their Friendships only according to their Interests and have neither so much Christianity nor niceness as to consider that it is Virtue which produces and cherishes Friendship and that when a Man is really a Man of worth he can never be too attentive in making choice of the Person to whom he is to be ty'd all the Days of his life However this was the Care of the great Prince who espous'd her and as his intentions were pure and upright God heard his Prayers and his Wishes in giving him for a Consort I will say not only the most amiable and most accomplish'd Princess of Europe but the most perfect of all Women that ever were in the World Of whom we m●y say that all Virtues were assembled together in her without any mixture of Vices And in saying so I say no more then what was the publick and unanimous Voice of all People and of this Princess it is that we may justly say what is said in the Proverbs Many

his Beams However She shone with Her own and Her ownmost Radiant Light and made it doubtful which way She from Her self diffus'd the serenest Light whether by her Royal Descent or by weilding the Royal Scepter Her self in her own Right Associate of the Empire or lastly by Her Royal Vertues and Graces conspicuous through all the Regions of the Earth Where the Sun hides and where he brings forth Day And wherein She far surpasses the Lot of all Women What August Queen did ever the least Fabulous Annals what Queen did former Intervals of Ages measur'd by the Line of our Ancestors or the Times wherein we live e're shew to the World who from an interrupted series of succession of Kings like Hers deriv'd her Birth and of whom with more Justice and without Assentation it be unanimously said Missa per innumeros Sceptra tuetur Avos Scepters does She defend That from unnumber'd Ancestors descend We take no Notice of Kings descended from the Immortal Gods the Father of the Romulean Race from Mars the Macedonian Amyntas or Philip from Hercules the Hornbearing Alexander from Jupiter the Julian Pedegree from Aeneas and Venus into which the Wife of Augustus by the Name of the Goddess Julia is to be inserted How much more true and sacred without offence to these Deities was the Original of this PRINCESS who understood Her self to be not only the Progenie of the Stuarts from Robert the Second Sirnamed the Happy and three Ages lower but from a more Ancient Original of the Royal Race in Scotland not to descend into the dubious Succession of Hector Boetius Then from the Anglo-Saxons by the Marriage of Margaret to Malcolm the Second From the Norman by the Marriage of the Daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth the Wife of James IV. From the Danes by Ann Her Great Grandmother Lastly from the Blood of France by Her Grandmother Mary of Bourbon the no less Unfortunate Mother of the unfortunate James So that to what ever corner of the Heaven our Heroess turn'd Her Eyes she certainly saw her Ancestors Cloath with Royal Dignity But tho she were descended from such a Progeny of Kings and would to God she had been the Mother of Kings Since Women born there never was any like her who as it were forgetful of her Extraction of her Ancestors and the Power derived from Antiquity which many believe to be sufficient to authorize their Transgression who carried her self more humbly to all Fortunes Degrees and Conditions of Men even to the poorest sort negligent of her Station and that Towring Throne from whence with her Great WILLIAM she gave Laws to so many spacious Kingdoms so many Seas Islands and People MARY in that same High Degree of Dignity would not be thought unworthy of the Scepters of her Ancestors nor the Glory of her Progenitors nor her own proper Lot to Command and Reign She bore in mind that High and Low were in subjection to the same Law of saving and coming into the World tho the same Fortune and Splendor did not attend all alike yet all were of the same Mould they who are cloathed with Imperial Purple and they who are forc'd to shroud themselves under the meanest Cottages Which was the saying of Socrates that there was no difference between Alcibiades nobly descended and the most Obscure Porter She well knew that Long descent and Ancient Lineage were but vain shadows that the Blood which is sprightly and ruddy in Youth grows languid and degenerates with Age or rather that the Beams of the most Splendid Light diffuse themselves upon Common-sewers That is to say upon Julia's and Agrippina's upon Caligula's and Nero's upon Domitian's and Nero's born to be the Insamy of their Families rather Excrements then Blood Whence it came to pass that they rather chose to be accounted the Heads and founders of their Race and Name then that it should be thought the Glory of their Ancestors extinguished in them I remember Noble Hearers the one day that this Pious and Pensive Princess recalling to Mind her Father who had so lately rul'd most flourishing Kingdoms but gone astray from that Faith which the Laws of God and Man had establish'd ever since the Reign of Edward VI the Josiah of his Age and which his Father and Grandfather had subscrib'd to I remember I say that being admitted into her Private Chappel after she had let fall a showre of Tears she gave thanks to God the Supream Parent of all things who sometimes forsook the Sons and Grand-children of Hero's sometimes in them supply'd what was wanting in their Parents correcting the Vice of Nature by the Benefit of Grace Which when I had confirmed by the Examples of her self and her Great Grandfather James the Son of Unfortunate Mary and that it was done by the same Miracle of Grace as we daily see Nature produce Gold and Diamonds out of stony and craggy Mountains and Sweet Juices out of Bitter Roots I added by way of Consolation of her Afflicted Piety that perhaps the Father of so many Tears aud Sighs would not be lost in Heaven Whose chiefest Glory it was to have begot MARY and from whom she received her Being while he on the other side receiv'd from his Daughter the benefit and aid of her Prayers then which there is nothing of greater force to expugn the Clemency of Heaven and a useful Pattern of Grace which she every day set before his Eyes And indeed whatever there was of Great that rais'd our Heroess above all the Queens of all Former Ages whatever the English almost ador'd in her what the Batavian lov'd the German honour'd the Switzer reverenc'd and the girning and reluctant French admir'd Fame has also so loudly proclaim'd to the utmost Limits of the Hyperborean Eastern and Western World that she can never be said to have celebrated the fame of any other Woman as she has sounded forth in Praise of this Princess And all this we must certainly conclude was ne're infus'd into her by any Human but by a Divine an Immortal Operation In the first place that most Sweet and Holy Name of MARY consecrated from the very Birth of Grace it self was a most Auspicious Augury of the Future Salvation Restoration and Security of Britain And it was as fortunate in Ours as it was Ominous and Fatal in Four Former MARYS of England Scotland France and lastly of Italy whose Fame Religion trampl'd under foot the Sacred Worship of God prophan'd Laws violated Halters Slaughter-Houses Racks Funeral Piles and Flaming Busts and lately the Church it self upon the brink of Ruin and groaning under most oppressive Servitude proclaim far and near In like manner as the mournful Annals of the Church declare both the Substance and the Omen to have fail'd under former Christian Governments in the Fausta's Eudoxia's Honoria's Eusebias Theodora's Irene's Specious indeed but empty Names of Christian Queens in former Ages And therefore Britain that had been ruin'd by MARIES was at