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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26800	A sermon preached upon the much lamented death of our late gracious sovereign Queen Mary to which is added The address of condolence to His Majesty by the dissenting ministers / by William Bates ...	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1695 (1695)	Wing B1118; ESTC R2534	14,062	32

to abjure the Truth whose infamous Ambition has turned Europe into a Stage of bloody Confusion Our Serenity and Tranquillity the flourishing of Peace and Truth are from the benevolent Aspect and favourable Influence of these two bright Stars in Conjunction I shall in speaking of this excellent Queen not insist on the Privileges in the Order of Nature that eminently distinguish'd her from others Her Descent was Royal but this is only an external Circumstance and derives no Moral Value to a Person The Splendor of Extraction like Varnish in a Picture that gives more Life and Lustre to the Colours makes the Vertues or the Vices of a Person more conspicuous Her Body was the beautiful Temple of a fairer Soul Her graceful Presence inspired Reverence and Love in those who saw her and appeared worthy of Empire But visible Beauty is often join'd with foul Deformity in the same Person I shall begin with her Piety towards God This is the first Duty of Man in Order and Dignity and the most considerable in its Consequences 't is the Foundation of all Royal Vertues In the Publick Worship of God she was a bright Example of solemn and unaffected Devotion She prayed with humble Reverence heard the Word with respectful Silence and with serious Application of Spirit as duly considering the infinite Interval between the Supremacy of Heaven and Princes on Earth That their Greatness in its Lustre is but a faint and vanishing Reflection of the Divine Majesty One Instance I shall specify in this kind When her Residence was at the Hague a Lady of Noble Quality coming to the Court to wait on her on a Saturday in the Afternoon was told she was retired from all Company and kept a Fast in preparation for the receiving the Sacrament the next day The Lady staying till five a clock the Princess came out and contented her self with a very slender Supper it being incongruous to conclude a Fast with Feast Thus solemnly she prepared her self for spiritual Communion with her Saviour When Moses was surpriz'd at the sight of the flaming Bush and intended to come near to it he was warn'd by a Voice from Heaven Draw not nigh hither Put off thy Shoes from thy Feet for the Place wherein thou standest is holy Ground By the familiar figure of putting off the Shoes is signified the purifying our selves from all Defilements And certainly the Presence of the Son of God is more peculiar in that sacred mysterious Ordinance than it was in the burning Bush accordingly we should sanctify our selves and approach with holy Fear Her Religion was not confin'd to the Chappel but every Day she had chosen Hours for Communion with God of which he is the only Discerner and Rewarder Some that are High in the World think it sufficient to pay a Complemental Visit to God once a Week and content themselves with the external Service tho destitute of Holy Affections which are the Life of Religion or at best are satisfied with a few expiring Acts of Devotion But the good Queen's Conversation was in Heaven she was constant in those Duties wherein the Soul ascends to God by solemn Thoughts and ardent Desires and God descends into the Soul by the Excitations and Influences of his Spirit Her Religion was not only exercised in Divine Worship but was influential into her Practice The Law of God was written in her Heart and transcribed in her Life in the fairest Characters She had a sincere Zeal for the healing our unhappy Divisions in Religious Things and declared her Resolution upon the first Address of some Ministers that she would use all Means for that Blessed End She was so wise as to understand the Difference between Matters Doctrinal and Rituals and so good as to allow a just Liberty for Dissenters in Things of small Moment She was not fetter'd with Superstitious Scruples but her clear and free Spirit was for the Union of Christians in Things essential to Christianity This revives in me the sorrowful Remembrance of the late Excellent Arch-bishop tho in Place incomparably inferiour to the Queen their Principles and Temper their Designs and Endeavours were for Peace And the hopes of obtaining it are weakened by the fatal Conjuncture of their Funerals The Holiness of her Life was Universal She was Born and Lived in the Court that shines in Pomp and flows in Pleasures and presents charming Temptations to all the Diseased Appetites Pride that destroyed both Worlds and cleaves so close to Human Nature reigns there The Love of Pleasure is a soft Seducer that easily insinuates through the Senses and captivates the Soul 'T is an Observation of St. Chrysostom that the three Hebrew Martyrs that were preserved unpolluted in the Court of Babylon was a greater Miracle than the preserving them unsinged in the Fiery Furnace In the absence of Temptations the Corrupt Nature is sometimes so conceal'd that 't is hardly known to it self but when tempting Objects arm'd with Allurements offer themselves the corrupt Nature is presently discover'd Especially if a Person comes to the Licence of the Scepter that swells Pride and authorizes the exorbitant Desires To be humble in such a high Elevation to be temperate in the midst of the freest Fruitions is the Effect of powerful Grace Who ever saw in the Queen an Appearance of Pride and Disdain How graceful was the Condescendence of her Greatness Who saw any Disorder in her Countenance the Chrystal wherein the Affections are visible Her Breast was like the Pacifick Sea that seldom suffers and is disturbed by a Storm She was so exempt from the Tyranny of the angry Passions that we may have some conjecture of the Felicity of the State of unstained Innocence of which one Ray is so amiable And was so abhorring from the sensual Passions that nothing impure durst approach her Presence In her Relation to the King she was the best Pattern of Conjugal Love and Obsequiousness How happy was her Society redoubling his Comforts and dividing his Cares Her Deportment was becoming the Dignity and Dearness of the Relation Of this we have the most convincing Proof from the Testimony and Tears of the King since her Death Solomon adds to many Commendations of a vertuous Woman as a Coronis that her Husband praises her The King 's declaring that in all her Conversation he discovered no Fault and his unfeigned and deep Sorrow for his Loss are the Queen 's entire Elogy She had an excellent Understanding that qualified her for Government Of this her presiding in Council in times of Danger and preserving the Tranquillity of the Kingdom were real Proofs Her Charity that Celestial Grace was like the Sun nothing within her Circuit was hid from its refreshing Heat Love is the clearest Notion we have of the Deity God is Love A Prince in no Perfection resembles God more than in his communicative Goodness If it were known what this good Queen did and what she designed to do among all her relucent Vertues