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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44675	A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and most gracious Queen Mary, of most blessed memory by John Howe.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing H3023; ESTC R7264	27,333	50

what is the mark and price of the high calling of God in Christ 12 14. This can be no other than final consummate Christianity the Christians high calling in termino and which they that are inchoatively perfect or sincere must be so minded as to design it for themselves verse 15. Therefore let me but tell any man so that he can understand me what true Christianity now is and he can tell me what Heaven is Let me tell him what it is to be a sincere Christian in this present state and he can tell me what it is to be perfect in the Heavenly state The writing God's Law in the heart truly and perfectly goes far towards both The two great Commandments impress'd that are both fulsill'd in Love are of vast compass to this purpose and with the certain connexa comprehend all Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart c. And thy Neighbour as thy self c. What an Heaven upon Earth would these two create reduc'd to practice And when the impression is perfect What needs there more But God knows men too commonly measure their Heaven by their Christianity on the wrong hand a Christianity and an Heaven both external and foreign to them God deliver me from this so palpable and destructive a delusion of a Christianity and an Heaven foreign to my Soul A Religion and a Felicity that touch not our Minds that never impress our Inner Man What can we be the better for them What to be impos'd upon by so absurd a misconceit and so repugnant to Scripture Which so expresly tells us that Glory we are finally to expect is a Glory whereby we are to be glorified made glorious and to be revealed in us and wherein we are to partake with Christ Rom. 8. 17 18. Or did the Son of God put on Man and suffer so deeply for us with a design upon us less than this But now my work is done nor do my limits allow me to enlarge in reference to the 2d Head of Discourse proposed In what sense sincere Christians may be said to be already come to the Spirits of the Just made perfect Enough may be collected from what hath been said 'T is to be understood I. In a Relative sense they are come they already belong to that General Assembly that Church which the Myriads of Angels and the perfected spirits of the just are of A Local coming none can pretend in this case to dream of They are said to be come to the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem Such were truly said to be come into the very Constitution of the Roman Polity that were Civitate donati admitted Freemen though they lived a thousand Miles of IId In a real sense by a gradual but true participation of the primordia the first and most constituent Principles and Perfections of the Heavenly State And now if that were the thing design'd there is a most Adequate groundwork laid for a true and the most ample Encomium of that rare Person our never too deeply Lamented nor too highly Renowned Queen whose Funerals drew my thoughts to this Theme View the Perfections of the Spirits of the Just as they were growing and more eminently grown towards their highest pitch and here is our Ground Do not wonder it is laid as high as Heaven for thence they begin as well as end there By most benign influences from thence tho the plant was set on Earth they had an early bud in concealment but we have seen them blossom in open view still aspiring thitherward as there they are fully blown Her otherwise Royal Parentage was thus incomparably more Royal. The Lustre of Her excellent Vertues had all the advantage which they could have by dwelling well as the Endowments what they were of a Great Prince heretofore were noted to have had the contrary disadvantage It was common Sense not the Poets Authority that could make the Apprehension take place That Vertue is more grateful exerted from a Comely Body So illustrious an instance would give more countenance than the most Argumentative Philosophy to the Opinion That Souls have a great subordinate Agency informing their own Mansions Which the more one apprehends the less credulous he would be of their Original Equality It must be a very peculiar Genius that could stamp so inimitable and undeceiving Signatures as appear'd in Her Majesty's most graceful Countenance in Her comely Meen and Looks and all Her Deportments Whosoever should behold the Fabrick She Inhabited made up of Pulchritude and State must conclude some very Lovely and Venerable Inhabitant dwelt there But nearer approaches discover'd such Excellencies of the indwelling Mind that Quickness of Apprehension that Clearness and Strength of Reason that Solidity of Judgment that Complectionate Goodness The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which that Noble Philosopher speaks of as the seed-plot of Vertues that must soon beget not Conviction only but Admiration Such were the Bounties of Nature in the forming a rare and excellent Person but how munificent were the Largesses of Grace That Reverence of the Divine Majesty that appear'd in Her whole course a Life transacted under the Government of Religion Her constant care to avoid what She thought Sinful and readiness to do what She judg'd might be Serviceable to the Interest of God Her Detestation of the profligate Wickedness that She knew to be Dishonourable and Offensive to Him and of all the Principles that any way tended thereto Her continued Conversation with God in the constant Practice of Religious Duties and in all the Exercises of Godliness that belonged to Her most beloved and frequented Closet the Family or more Solemn Assembly Her most composed seriousness in attendance upon the Worship of God in the way which She chose and which that She chose no one could think strange the natural and most unaffected appearances hereof the remotest from ostentation but which could not quite be hid nor ought when in Religious Assemblies we are to testify we all Worship the same God and that all our Applications and Addresses have one Center above and are all to be directed to one and the same glorious Object unless one would have the Religion of the Church be allowed the retiredness of a Closet or reduce joynt social Worship wherein all are some way or other to express their Unanimity and Consent unto that which is meerly Solitary and Single Her Assiduity in Her Religious course the Seasons Order and Constancy whereof seemed to be Governed by the Ordinances of Heaven that Ascertain the succession of day and night so that what was said so long ago of that famed Person 's Justice and which equally may of Hers might have a nobler application to Her Religion That one might as soon divert the course of the Sun as turn Her from Her daily course in Religious Duties This argued a steady Principle and of the highest excellency that of Divine Love Any other would have its more