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A sermon preach'd at the parish-church of St. Chad's in Shrewsbury, March 5, 1694/5 being the funeral day of our most gracious sovereign Queen Mary / by Thomas Dawes.
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Dawes, Thomas, 1652?-1715.
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Deferr'd till his Death inasmuch as his Heart was tender and He humbled Himself before God here Cap. 34 27 28. He Dyes at his Royal City and was Buried in the Sepulchres of the Kings his Fathers and all Judah and Jerusalem the whole Kingdom mourned for Josiah And no doubt a sad Mourning 't was The Loss of so Good a King and at such a time when we must think the Eyes and Hearts of all his People were upon Him Jeremiah upon this sad occasion Weep'd and penn'd a Mournful Elogy emphatically a Black Book of Lamentation in such a deep natural racy strein that it weeps yet afresh to every eye that reads it see there Cap. 4.20 The Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their Pits of whom we said under His shadow we shall live among the Heathen And so famous was this Solemn Mourning of the Jews that about an 100 years after where the Prophet Zechary foretells of the Coming of the Kingdom of the Messiah and the fearful Desolation which should at that time befal the Jews in the Total Devastation of their Second Temple and their City with their whole Government by the Romans He could not express their Sorrow to greater advantage than by this Deplorable instance of the Death of Good Josiah Cap. 12.11 In that day says he There shall be a great Mourning in Jerusalem as the Mourning of Haddadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon which is the Mourning of the Text here And such was the Jews estimation of their Great Loss and Misfortune that 't was not only a little time which once they set apart to this their Mourning but they made it an Anniversary Fast in their Generations by an Ordinance for ever in the v. next after the Text. From whence it would seem The Book of Lamentations was the Form of their publick yearly Humiliation upon this account So great the Loss and so great the Sorrow of this unhappy people And yet not so great but in good sence of Resemblance it may become a Pattern of ours now 'T is confessed Blessed be our Good God who in Judgment remembers Mercy our Circumstances are not in Prospect so Deplorable as theirs were The proud King of Babylon has not yet set his foot upon our Land nor Burnt our Church and made us his Captives nor we hope ever will so long as we have God and a Good King our Protectors who is as Josiah was an implacable Adversary to his our Church and Nations Enemies The Glorious Champion of our Holy War The Greatest Patron of all the Protestant Churches Born indeed the Son of War whose Sword invincible as 't is glisters astonishment in the Hearts of those who are only great in this that they have the honour to fall under the resistless stroke of his Victorious Arms. His Royal Great Soul untaught to yield to any other Adversity to shew He had an Heart of Flesh and Affections tender as his Religion is Wept over the Royal Ashes of his Dearest Consort our Good Queen Mary Nor was this any light faint transient stricture of his inward Sorrow His indelible Piety so deeply rooted in his Breast sunk him down low in this his Affliction as low as 't is possible Love and Virtue could Behold here a Brave Glorious Constellation of the greatest Fortitude and the greatest Love such an one seldom never shone before in our Hemisphere How then shall we Subjects Dispense with this Free Subsidy yet naturally a Debt of our Funeral Lamentation unless we have in this Distance to Her much Lamented Death spent all our Stock already and in so doing exhausted the Fountain of our Tears Alas our cheap vulgar Weeping here is not big enough at lowdest to ballance one single Sigh of our Josiah's Royal Grief We who had so great a part and interest in her Princely Care and Indulgence and might have had so still but that our Ingratitude that unpardonable sin for which we and this poor English Nation have so often smarted our hateful Ingratitude rendred us by so many degrees unworthy of her longer Life A Blessing so infinitely desireable as I believe you think that I Despair of adding any thing to your present Information I 'll not therefore now touch upon any Preliminaries as her Royal Birth and Descent her Natural and her Acquired Perfections exceeding great with her truly Christian Education here under the sacred influence of our Dear Mother the Church of England Which in her by plainest experiment has taught us the most incomparable Temper of her wise Guardiancy and Tuition and would make us all lovely and belov'd as She for th' inestimable Beauty of Virtuous Christian Life and would Teach our Docility not to shift so improvidently from under her Heavenly Doctrine and pious Discipline when her Spiritual Gifts are so many and so highly advantageous and would easily Blush and shame all that unreasonable Prejudice which drives some of us foolishly away and bewilders us in a dark Superstitious Maze of a stubborn forgetfulness of our Duties and ourselves See here and wonder an Angelical Mind fram'd by God and perfected into Bliss by true Religion This Noble Affectionate Theme wings the highest flights of our most grateful Thoughts I am too weak to support thus the Greatness of her Character only wish sincerely that the radiant Honours of the English Crown may ever Descend a portion to so Good Examples as 't was in Royal Her is now and we pray will ever be Beloved you know how we were left before their Majesties happy Arrival joyntly in the Throne Left so that we were at a Loss on both sides how to state probably the reasons of our publick welfare Behold a Dreadful Enemy to our English Nation Popery on one hand and Anarchy and Confusion on the other We could not be prevail'd upon to change our Good Religion for a worse and if not we must part with our Property and Establishments 'T is true these things were not wrested yet quite out of our hands but we were throughly taught what we were to expect by a costly sad Tryal of another Neighbouring Kingdom before as well as since by one of our own all this over and above to what was miserably indur'd in a former Reign upon the same Name and Principles and however we are misrepresented we stook close enough to our Passive Obedience to the visible Joy and Triumph of our Enemies that hated us this so long 'till He that should have Govern'd us left us without our fault and what reason we should indure longer must our Antient Government rot and sink into Ruine upon its own Foundations It must certainly have done so had not God sent us and He came the Defender of his own Rights and together with them our Protestant Faith William by the good Providence and Grace of God with his Royal Consort whose Death we now Lament This Latter is my Subject more especially now Who when she Landed from