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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

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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
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
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