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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

most perfect Exemplar of those Vertues which would render her the Immortal Desire both of us and our Posterity But from these Exercises of her Youth she was called to Greater and Higher Things and to lay the Foundations of Empire and Council under the Conduct of WILLIAM HENRY And what a Name was that This was he to whom the Divine Wand and that Mortal pointing out the way mark'd out MARY of Britain she that was only to kindle his Flame She that among all Women was the only Person fit for his Choice to be the Glory and Ornament of his Conjugal Life and such a One as Solomon sought but could not find among thousands As He alone among all the Hero's and Princes truly Christian was brightly Eminent and fit for MARY'S Wish to be the Conductor of her Youth and Life As in whom there was a Concurrence of all Praises and Universal Glory As in whom alone all those Great Things met divided of Old in the Persons of the four Ephori that were to instruct the Persian Princes selected to the Government of the Empire of which the First to infuse Religion the Second to govern the Affections the Third to inspire Fortitude of Mind and the Fourth to infuse Love of Justice into those that were to Reign And MARY so deeply imprinted in her Mind the Image of this Great Master and her Mind being capable of Great Things beyond her Sex she profited so well by the Company of so Great a Prince not only by his Instructions but by his Example that she was taught to Reign before she could know her self I will faithfully relate what I only heard my self and therefore can attest While she staid at the Hague after the Expedition for England expecting a Wind I was admitted to the Presence of the Royal Princess and found her turmoil'd with many Cares and deep Cogitations At what time she who was never wanting in any measure of Familiarity casting a Propitious Look upon the Interpreters of the Holy Bible deliver'd her self in these Expressions to me What a Severe and Cruel Necessity said she now lies upon me either to forsake a Father whom my Grandmother first ruin'd hence France the Author of our Parents Calamity or to forsake a Husband my Country nay God himself and my Soul my Nearest and my Dearest Pledge 'T is a Cruel Necessity indeed Madam answer'd I but not to be avoided Heaven not enduring divided Duty nor divided Affections Heaven that has not only joyn'd you by an Eternal Tie to WILLIAM but calls you to Succour your Labouring if not Perishing Country the Church of God your Religion and these your Batavians over whose Necks the Sword or Bondage hang. You forsake a Father Madam 't is true but who first forsook Himself Nature his Children Kingdoms Religion Laws his Word and the Hopes of his Subjects who departed himself from the Government that he might serve the Conveniences of those who under the pretence of False Religions measure all things Divine and Human by their own Advantages And when I added that she was called by the Voice of Heaven from a most delightful Ease to be the Companion of WILLIAM in his Cares and Toyles and unless our Wishes fail'd us to the Government of one of the Greatest Empires in the World I said the Very Image of Modesty it self I Govern a People and Weild Scepters I who have only learnt to handle next the Sacred Bible Books that either may instruct or recreate the Mind then to handle my Needle Pen or Pencil or to mind my Flowers Garden or whatever else belongs to my Family Affairs or calls off our Sex from the Contagion of Idleness And therefore be not deceived in your Opinion continued she smiling as if the Prince by his Society had instructed me in the Arts of Peace and War 'T is true after Hard Hunting or wearied with Continual Audiences or tir'd with Incessant Cares for the Good of the Republick He comes to my Chamber about Supper-time upon this Condition that I should not tire him more with multiplicity of Questions but rather strive to recreate him overtoil'd and almost spent with pleasing Jests that might revive him with Innocent Mirth Thus you see most Noble Auditors that MARY may be said to have been for the greatest part her own School-mistress in the most difficult of all Arts the Art of Reigning nor would she so lately have taken Empire upon her had it not been to preserve the Empire from Ruin And indeed her first Rudiments from the time that she betook her self to the Helm of the Republick while WILLIAM was labouring beyond the Seas to stop the Career of an Impetuous Enemy equall'd if not surpassed the consummate Foresight Sagacity Courage Virtue and fidelity as well in Council as in the Field either of the Marcia's formerly among the Britons or the Zenobia's in the East And that which amaz'd the World was this that neither the Pride nor the Ambition of those Women actuated her yet when all things were in a Tottering Condition within the Kingdom when the surrounding Ocean shook with Gallick Thunder and all good men were struck with astonishment and under the Terror of dubious Event she shewed a Courage undaunted and unacquainted with Fear The British Sea was covered with the Enemies Fleet in a manner Victorious and contemning Female Empire block'd up the English Havens when at the same time after their Fidelity sold and adulterated for Mony the English and their Admiral look'd on as immoveable while the Belgian Ships deserted by Nefarious Conspiracy were sunk and batter'd when they least expected it Within the Bosom of the Kingdom also Fell Conspirators endeavour'd through hidden and pernicious Mines not delv'd with Spade or Pickax but Horrid Machinations to open a way to a most Crafty Enemy who under the Specious pretence of James's Name not only threatned the Queen with Chains the English with Servitude Religion with Exile and to mix all things with Confusion Slaughter Conflagration Sack and Rapine but sang their IO Triumphs as if the Town had been their own In Flanders through a certain Fatal Misfortune and by the Craft rather then the Courage of French Impetuosity our Horse giving way to their first Fury the Confederate Forces were worsted All this while WILLIAM was a great way off in Ireland where the French in conjunction with the perfidious Irish possessed all the Cities Towns Castles Fortresses Ports and the Metropolis of the whole Kingdom Nor were Affairs in a doubtful condition only but almost desperate beyond the Power of Human Sagacity to imagin that ever our Hero in view of an opposing Enemy should ford the Boyn as Caesar did the Rhine and Baetis exposing his Royal Person not unwounded neither to the Cannon Bullets and Musquet Hail and in one day put the Barbarians with their French Confederates to flight and constrain Trembling James to quit the Island In the midst of so many Streights what did MARY do Did

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

attended never shall attend greater and unfold with me the Birth the Life the Death of a Queen the most renown'd in the World And that we may begin from her Cradle the most August Queen was born in the sixty second Year of this Age upon the tenth of May James then Duke of York and the Lord Chancellor's Daughter being her Parents If Splendor of Birth can add any thing of Reputation to her what place more famous than London the most celebrated Emporium of all England and of all Europe What Family more illustrious than that of the Stuarts which plac'd both James and Charles and this his Renown'd Neece upon the most August Throne of Great Britain And has diffus'd the Splendour of its Race into all parts of the Earth But as it was both Noble and Great to be descended from an Illustrious Country and Family so was it much more Noble much more Great to have adorn'd them with her own Vertues and to have added new Splendor to ' em For neither had the Family of the Stuarts ever a more excellent Woman nor the British Empire a more Excellent Princess who gave more Honour more Glory to the Royal Dignity then she receiv'd from it and as far excell'd all other Queens as Queens exceed Private Women Many and conspicuous were the Prognosticks of a true and far from counterfeited Piety that glitter'd in her and shin'd forth in the early dawn of her Infancy For when in her tender Years she had lost an excellent Mother and under the tuition of Persons less concern'd was deliciously bred up in a Court full of all manner of Pleasure and Voluptuousness such was always her Constancy such her Temperance and Modesty that no Example of others no Allurement of Vice no Contagion of Neighbouring Courts could force her to go astray from the right Path. Charles the Second cherish'd these sparks of Vertue and Seeds of Piety and that he might alienate her from the Roman Ceremonies commanded her to be instructed in the Fundamentals of the true Reform'd Religion by the Bishop of London which he so happily laid and she so cordially imbib'd that she could never be shaken by any Treacherous Insinuations any Promises or Threats any Punishments or Rewards choosing rather to dye then never so little to receed from the Truth wherein she had been grounded After she had spent the rest of her Childhood in those Studies by which generous and illustrious Souls are rais'd to the Expectations of great Fortune and had abundantly furnish'd herself as well with Christian as with Royal Vertues in the fifteenth year of her Age she was auspicionsly Marry'd to William the third of that Name Prince of Orange Governour of those our United Provinces a Prince no less renown'd for his Vertues and his far fam'd Atchievements then for the Images of his Ancestors and a long Series of Pedigree William Marries Mary a Kinsman a Kinswoman and thus by a double Tye and a firmer Knot then hitherto the most noble Families of all Europe are joyn'd together She for her Ancestors claims the Family of the Stuarts he the Nassavian Race She the Monarchs of Great Britain He the Governours of Germany and the Caesars themselves The Nuptial Solemnities being over the Royal Bride cross'd over out of England into these Parts together with her Husband and chose for her Seat and Residence the Hague the most pleasant and delightful place not only of Holland but almost of all Europe first of all the Seat of the Counts of Holland afterwards of the Princes of Orange and native Country of this Prince where belov'd of all Men and fix'd in the Good-will of all the People propensely devoted to her for the space of some Years she so charmingly and affectionately liv'd with her Husband the best of Men and no less cordially affectionate to her not only without the least contention or quarrel but without the least suspicion of Luke-warmness that she might well be said to be a conspicuous example of Conjugal Affection not only to Kings and Princes and Men in high Degree but also to private Persons By which Matrimonial Conjunction not only the Persons who contracted it but both People and Nations and the Countries themselves otherwise divided by the Sea and the Interflowing Ocean were combin'd together by a stronger League of Friendship and Society then before and a stricter tye of Amity After some Interval of Time when they who bare ill will to our Princes and us to Liberty and Religion and more especially to this Republick stirr'd up new Troubles in England and the Nobility of the Kingdom call'd to their Aid our Prince who was only able to apply a Remedy to the growing Mischief and that our most undaunted Hero undertaking a vast and absolutely Herculean Labour such as will scarce find credit with Posterity not without a Miracle altogether divine while he strove one way and the Winds drove another at length wafted over with favourable Gales and Wishes safely arriv'd in England and without Resistance but rather with the general Applause of the Nation and as it were born upon the Shoulders of the People came to the Royal City when afterwards he invited his dearest Consort then the Companion of his Bed now of his Kingdom to partake of the Honour offer'd him and the Dignity soon after to be conferr'd upon him and the equal share of his Fortune in the eighty ninth Year of this Age luckily and auspiciously both Husband and Wife were declar'd King and Queen with equal Power and Authority by the common Vote and Suffrage and unanimous Consent of both Houses What was then the Grief of these People when not without sighs and Tears and Sobs interrupted with grief when a Princess so dearly beloved set Sail from this Shoar and left this her so well belov'd Country never to return What was then the Joy of those People when she arriv'd upon the English Coast when the Citizens of London beheld their Future Queen what Crouding what Applauses what Acclamations is more easie to be imagin'd than to be related or comprehended in Words But when the King was to subdue Ireland when our Great General was frequently to cross the Seas in order to withstand the Common Enemy of Europe with what prudence did she administer the Grand Affairs how wisely and advisedly govern the Kingdom and with what Magnanimity confirm the Minds of the People Witness that Dismal and Fatal Day when upon the Tydings of the Navy shatter'd at Sea and of the threatned Invasion of the Enemy by Land like an Armed Minerva she rode through the City raised the dejected Spirits of the People restored Life and Courage to all and muster'd her self the Soldiers design'd for the Guard of the Coasts Witness Havre de Grace and that other Town upon the Coast of France by the Courage of the English Fleet which her industrious Care set forth laid in Ruines and thunder'd into Ashes Witness Both Houses of Parliament that

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

the Mysterious Heads of Christian Doctrine or by wholsome Precepts stir'd her up to the leading of an Honest and Vertuous life She was so taken with reading the Sacred Scriptures which the Prophets and other Coelestial Authors Inspir'd by God delivered in Writing that she never laid it out of her Hands but twice a year read it over from the beginning to the end once her self in her Chamber then again in her Chappel where in the daily service so much was recited every day by the Minister as would suffice to compleat the going through the whole Book within the Year Is there any one among Us most Noble Auditors the Ministers themselves who have so Assiduously in their hands the Divine Oracles Is there any one who with so much Affection so much Diligence or rather with so much Benefit to themselves This Queen had searched so profoundly into the Doctrines of Christian Religion she had so imbib'd it she had so retain'd it in her memory that she excell'd most men who had spent all their Lives in the Study of this Coelestial Doctrine So that she was able accurately to refel the Impetuous Violences of those that laboured might and main to stop the Foundations of Truth Nor could she by any Allurements by any Threats by any Dangers be deterr'd from defending the true Doctrine I see not a few who have hitherto heard what I have said with impartial Ears contract their Brows and silently wonder at my Boldness who have attributed those things to a Queen but young in Years which few could attain to who have grown Old in the Study of Divinity so far as to accuse me of foul Adulation or of that Levity of which some Orators are guilty who being carried away with an Immoderate Love of those things which they have design'd to praise aggravate their Encomiums with expressions too far strain'd and extol what they praise to an higher pitch than what it truly deserves I fear lest they should lay to my Charge what in the last Age was laid to the Charge of Walter Haddon Master of the Requests to Great Elizabeth that other Immortal Glory of the British Queens by Jerome Osorius Bishop of Sylvia in Portugal a most Eloquent Person in his time Haddon had answer'd an Epistle of Osorius written to Elizabeth wherein the Bishop had most bitterly inveigh'd against Innovators as he call'd 'em in this Answer Haddon had extoll'd the Queens Prudence in Ecclesiastical Matters and admonish'd Osorius that he should take heed lest the Queen should brandish the Improvement of her Studies against him This Osorius took ill in his defamatory Answers to Haddon's Defence and taxed him for Imprudent Flattery Osorius allow'd that he could easily suffer Elegancy of Wit and Learning Humanity knowledge of the Greek and Latin Tongues and deep reading in Philosophy to be applauded in a Queen but for a Woman to be extoll'd for her Knowledge in Divinity was a thing neither to be endur'd nor believ'd Nevertheless then Elizabeth exceeded Mary in Years But I shall easily most Noble Auditors wipe off from my self the suspicion of Adulation if as hitherto you have done you will lend me an attentive Ear. What Elizabeth could do I shall not now dispute what Mary did I shall faithfully relate without any Rhetorical Colours a thing worthy for all Nations to hear Then do you be Judges whether I have spoken like a Flatterer or as others more softly say like an Orator or whether plainly truly and faithfully King JAMES the Father of MARY when he came to the Crown employ'd all his Cares and Thoughts and made it his Business to repeal several Acts which his Ancestors had made for the Support of the Reform'd Religion more especially to abolish the Law which enacted taking of the Test which abjur'd all Power and Authority which the Pope or any other Mortal claim'd or could claim either in Civil or Ecclesiastical Matters within the Kingdom MARY openly declar'd that she could not approve his Conduct nor assent to those who urg'd that the English might be absolv'd from the Sanctity and observance of that Oath nor that any one for the future was to be forc'd to it The King inform'd of this order'd his Envoy then at the Hague to make it out to MARY and perswade her that she had a wrong Opinion enduc'd thereto by false Reasons and Grounds of her Father's Intentions and Meaning in that Particular The Envoy taking a fit Opportunity held the Queen in a long Discourse upon this Subject bringing not a few nor those Vulgar Arguments out of Scripture many Testimonies out of the most Ancient and most Learned Fathers os the Church and more than one Reason from the Knowledge of things which Nature has imprinted in our Minds When the Queen had attentively heard him She did not answer him with a Laconism she so readily and so smartly of a sudden took to pieces the Envoy's Discourse and his Arguments refuted all his Reasons with so much Judgment that when the Envoy was dismissed by the Queen he could not forbear testifying and acknowledging in the publick Hall of the Court before a great many Persons of high Quality and Dignity that he could never have believed there had been a Woman in the World endued with so much understanding of the Christian Doctrine and of the Opinions urged to her upon the several Heads of that Doctrine or that could defend what she thought with so much strength and weight of Reason and fortify it with so strong a Guard against all assaults of open Hostility or Treacherous Insinuation He added moreover that he was perswaded that this Princess could be mov'd by no man living from those Opinions concerning Religion wherewith she was so throughly seasoned Nor would he be the occasion that any One should attempt to Discourse her any more upon that occasion unless he intended to lose his Labour And this was what he also wrote to King James In this Conference with the English Agent the most prudent Princess added thus much farther That she could not sufficiently admire nor indeed imagin how it should come to pass that any man not void of Reason or Sence or that had a right Judgment of God and Divine matters or had comprehended in his mind the true manner of Worshipping him could prove a Deserter and run from our Religion to the Ceremonies of Rome When the Agent Replied that her Father the King of Great Britain was a living Example of a better Approbation of the Romish Worship She made Answer That there was nothing griev'd her more and the only thing she wonder'd at by whose seduction upon what occasion by what arguments he could be induced to betray the Bulwork of purest Truth and having left that upon what supporters the Security and Tranquillity of his mind could rely These things the most Wise and Prudent MARY Not long after when there was no question but that King James had been Certified of all these things

one sits at the Helm who wants to be Steer'd and Govern'd himself But so far was the Queen from depending upon the Counsel of others that many times they who were of the Council were convinc'd by her Arguments and came over to her Opinion tho before they Dissented from it And many times she greatly confirm'd those who waver'd between several Opinions What need I call to your Remembrance the Vigilancy of the Queen Day and Night as in a Watch-Tower she watch'd over the safety and Dignity of England and the Vnited Provinces She never look'd off from their Preservation She laid nothing more to Heart than the Publick Safety the Liberty the Ease of the People the Harmony and Union of the Parliament and the Harmony and Tranquility of the whole Common-wealth It was the most sacred of all her Cares to Govern her Subjects with a concording Moderation Which when she perform'd to a Miracle the People on the other side in the mortal Person of the Queen reverenc'd the Present Immortal God whose Image on Earth all supreme Powers Represent so long as they faithfully and prudently fulfil all the Duties of just and legal Rule By this means she not only suppress'd not so much by force of Arms as by the Love of her Subjects with which she was always strongly Guarded from the Exorbitant Fury of Wicked Men who during the King's absence Plotted her Ruin and the Destruction of the Kingdom These are Great things and to be Celebrated by the Tongues and Pens of Posterity Yet will I not contend with those who assert that the British Empire was Govern'd by Elizabeth with no less Applause of Prudence and Moderation But this is wonderful and unusual that a Queen when she sate at the Helm in the King's absence all good subjects wishing all Prosperity to so just and mild a Rule while others were astonish'd that the Rudder of Government should be so prudently and knowingly held by a Female Hand so soon as the King set foot again in the Kingdom should not concern her self with any part or care of it as if she had not been marry'd to the King or that the Administration of the Kingdom had nothing belongd to her tho his Associate in the Government Read over the Annals Noble Auditors of all Times and Nations revolve in your Memories whether you ever read or heard of any thing that may be compar'd with this Moderation of the Queen There have been many Queens many Princesses who have taken upon 'em Masculine Cares who have either had Uxorious Husbands or have been by them willingly permitted to share the Soveraignty with ' em You shall find no Woman who being call'd by the Legal Suffrages of the People to be an Associate in the Government who ever actually executed the Regal Office that did not challenge her self a great share of the Command and thought she had an Injury done her if she were not admitted to all Counsels taken concerning the Administration of the Government or if she were not advis'd with in all manner of Transactions or if she were Equal in Authority with her Husband did not challenge to herself an Equal Right They who have once tasted Soveraign Command are hardly reduc'd to lead a private Life You may sooner wrest Hercules's Club out of his hand than desire of Dominion from such persons especially from the Female Sex who are generally Petulant Proud greedy of Power Covetous of Command and expert at putting all things into confusion so they may attain their Desires That She Vlysses that she might not be despoil'd of that Power which she had exercis'd so many years by the connivance of her Husband extinguishd all Augustus's Family by her Treacheries Frauds and wicked Contrivances not so much out of her Novercal Hatred though that were also none of the least violent but inflam'd with desire of Command that she might advance her own Son to the Empire and rule under his Minority as she had done before under the Indulgence of her Husband Infinite other Examples of Female Pride and Desire of Rule might be produced which neither Time nor Place will give us leave to recite And indeed who can be ignorant of 'em when every Age has produc'd several such Monsters So much the more is the Moderation of Divine Mary to be wonder'd at who might have Reign'd in her own Right but would not but in the Absence of King William and who was so far from complaining or repining that she gladly and freely resign'd the Government of the Kingdom upon his Return as an hard and heavy burthen which she had unwillingly born all the time before Where can a Moderation like to this be found within the memory of History She thought it the Greatest and most Noble Act of Soveraignty to be able to command her self Those Tears which were no counterfeited Droppings and which she shed when she understood that the Crown was Voted to Her and William by both Houses of Parliament what else did they signifie but that MARY's Mind was far remote from all desire of Rule Remember I beseech ye with what Grief and Reluctancy she suffer'd her self to be torn from our Re-publick But it was not for her to withstand the hidden Counsels of Eternal Providence She was to go where Destiny call'd her not with an Intention to dethrone her Father as an audacious Impostor lately took upon him to vomit forth against the most Pious Queen For the Father had dethron'd himself by his subversion of the Laws the Religion and Constitutions of the Kingdom before any Forreigner mov'd to the Relief of England but that she might succour her Country forsaken complaining groaning and imploring the Aid of Heaven and the Faith of William and Mary For this was the Only Remedy for Britain upon the Brink of the Precipice nor had she any other to whom in her Despair she could have Recourse Therefore did Great Britain stretch forth her Right Hand to MARY when she came and received their Conservatrix with a more than Ordinary Joy Thence a New and Benign Light in the midst of so great a Mist and so dark a Night spread a bright splendour quite through Britain insomuch that the day wherein MARY and WILLIAM were inaugurated might be accounted England's Second Birth-day that wip'd off Rusty Decrepidness and Deformity from a Kingdom gayly flourishing before But the Spring and Fountain of this wonderful Modesty which during the whole course of her Life she made appear by so many Rare Proofs to the whole World was that of which you have been told already Her Piety and Observance of Religion From thence proceeded that undefiled Conjugal Fidelity that Chastity without blemish that Benevolence toward all Mankind that Munificence and Bounty toward the miserable If ever any Woman eminent above others for the Splendor of her Descent and Excellency of her Outward Form were the most affectionate to her Husband and the most jealous of her Chastity DIVA STVARTA

inflame her Piety and Faith I say her Piety most Noble Auditors which MARY lookt upon to be the Compendium the Seasoning of all Vertues and the Support of Kingdoms and therefore Religion was always her first Care and her Supreme Law as it was also to her Glorious WILLIAM And therefore it was the frequent Saying of those two August PRINCES That neither the Guards of Majesty the Councils of Princes Emperors Legions Cities Garrison Courage of their Leaders Well disciplin'd and Veterane Armies nor the Sinews of War any thing avail'd to the Preservation of Soveraigns or their Subjects without God's Assistance By which means it came to pass that since the first Foundation of Monarchies and the rejecting of that Nation which was once so Sacred to God never did any other Reign more happily resemble the Form and Image of a Theocracie or God reigning over Mankind I know that the sollicitous Piety of more than one Empress is extoll'd to the Sky by the Annals of the Church not with that servile Pen of some Historians neither as when Josephus commends Poppaea Sabina a Woman of a Prostituted Leudness for her Sanctity to the Gods But whatever Religion has inspir'd into the most Holy Women for whom Publick Prayers have been put up as for the SAFETY and SECURITY of the REPUBLICK and for whom Publick Anniversaries have been Solemniz'd by all the East such as Helena Pulcheria and Aelia Flaccilla yet that all those Mixtures of Humility and Superstition Magnify'd by the Officious Failings of Human Interest ever came near the Conspicuous Sanctity of our HEROESS neither Friend nor Foe will betray his Judgment so far as to believe What Queen like Her with equal Ardour and Affection was ever so Assiduous in her private Conversations with God to whom she not only offer'd the First-fruits of her Morning-sacrifices her self but Commanded it to be done by all that serv'd her Who converted almost into Chappels her Bed-chamber and the Innermost Recesses Who so resign'd her self to Associate with her Saviour that besides her Morning and Evening-Prayers besides her Monthly and set Fasts every Day in her Closet alone by her self offer'd up her Particulations not of Frankincense or Wine but of Sighs and Tears Importuning Heaven with her most fervent Prayers as well for the Despair'd of Conversion of her Father as for the Preservation of her Husband her Kingdoms Armies the Confederate Cause and the many Calamities which the Church groans under More especially how fervently did our Queen implore the most Merciful Deity with deep-fetch'd Sighs powerfully to avert from the Sacred Head of her Royal Husband on which the Welfare of All depended so many Dangers by Sea and Land so many Darts contorted against it so many Machinations and Ambushes of malicious Conspiracy so many Bloody Right Hands of Hir'd Assassinates Who so enter'd the Temple of God as one that only intended Adoration casting out of her Royal Chappel the quavering Singers and Fidlers admitted meerly to tickle the Ears accustom'd always to compose her Mind and not her Looks or Hair moderate in her Dress sparing in her Train but eager and humble in her Attention Who when ever she enter'd the Church doors or happen'd to sneeze in the time of Divine Service impatiently brook'd the Bowings and Cringes of the Sycophant Groud professing That in the House of God the distinction was the same of Meanest and Highest from the most Infinite Majesty What other Princess in the very Imprisonments of Life and August Glory in the slippery Station of soothing Age Beauty and Soveraign Power in the midst of so many good Wishes and Adorations was ever observ'd to exalt her Mind so sublimely yet so humbly to Heaven as if she coveted every Day the Presence of her Soul in Bliss who thought every Day lost that was not spent according to the Precepts of Christ Who trampl'd with contempt upon what was Transient and Mortal as Thrones Scepters Palaces Crowns Diadems Robes of Dignity Purple Trains and whatever else she knew to be only deceitful Shew But as once Mecaenas said Nobly to Augustus Caesar That he would never dye more Immortal then when he call'd to mind every Day that he was Mortal through an equal necessity of being born and dying so was this the frequent if not daily Meditation of our August Queen So that as it were foreseeing her approaching Mortality conscious to her self that the Laws of Fate never regarded Youthful Years nor Majesty of Thrones nor the Pomp of numerous Guards nor surrounding Attendance nor the good Wishes of Men She a rare Example mov'd by the untimely Death of several Illustrious Women in her Court thought it high time more familiarly to converse with Death and meditate upon Eternity And that she might always have him in her Eye besides the sacred Books which she turn'd over more frequently then ever Alexander did Homer's Iliads she apyly'd her self to other Books no less familiar to her which taught the Art of Dying well more especially the Treatise upon that Subject of Charles Drelincourt which she confess'd to his Son then one of her Physicians that she had read above seven times over So that it may be said of this August Queen what Theophilus Alexandrinus is reported to have admir'd upon his Death-bed in the Great Arsenius who embrac'd a solitary Life in Egypt weary'd out with the Honours of Theodosius's Court Happy Thou who didst always set this last Hour before thy Eyes This being the Temper and Disposition of Mary's Mind and the Sanctity of her Life how Great may you think was her Desire to reform what she found to be corrupt and deprav'd in the Manners of the Times through the Licentiousness of the former Reigns The sollicitous and pensive Queen recall'd to her Mind the late Royal Court and the Nation it self soften'd and effeminated by the Delights of the Climate and the Soil and the Temptations of Sin freed from the Fear of Punishment when all People wanton'd in Plenty Ease Luxury Play Balls and Vitellian Wastings of the Night so that the Nerves of all manner of Vertue seem'd to be shrunk up She observ'd there was no Piety but what was either in the Looks or outward Habit Manners everywhere dishonour'd the Publick Churches adorn'd like Scenes Burthens converted frequently into Honours and Incumbent Duties made beneficial the Ministry of the Church into a kind of Civil Domination and the large Revenues of it made the Pampering Food of Wallowing Sloth and Domestick Luxury Who can now doubt but that MARY us'd all her Endeavours to reduce all things into better Order that she might restrain People from Things dishonest more through the shame of Transgressing then the Fear of Punishment And that she might promote to the Care of Spiritual Things to the Priesthood and Preferments in the Church August WILLIAM permitting this Choice to her piercing Judgment none but such as excell'd in Learning Piety and Moderation By which means it came to pass that

the AVGVST COVPLE being rightly considered the Prince was not deceiv'd by the Perjury but the Perfidious themselves ill consulting their own safety while they willingly and voluntarily devoted their Lives their Families and their Fortunes to the Vengeance of a Revenging God From that Extraordinary Indulgence and desire of curing rather than ruining the Guilty who is there that may not easily make a Judgment of all the rest of her Constant Mind in Adversity her steady Faith in God her Love to her Subjects her Affection to her Servants her Fidelity to her Confederates her Pity to the Afflicted and her Love toward all Men Take some Specimens in a few words but most worthy your Attention Presently upon the News of the Death of Charles II. MARY'S Uncle by the Father's side who Lov'd her better then if he had begot her Plus quam si genuisset Amarat When this Most Noble Senate interposed their kind Offices of Condolement for so great a Loss by which her Father came to the Sovereignty but upon which most dark and dismal Storms threatned the Kingdom the Church and the Reformed Religion she as she was never without all the Marks of Civility after she had answered the Messenger added these Expressions That it was the Will of GOD through whose Providence there was no reason to despair of the Public safety That the Best Consolation in Affliction was a Relyance upon GOD That there was a Threatning Cloud hung over Her Father's Kingdoms but that he was able to bring forth a splendid and most Acceptable Cloud out of the Thickest Darkness Oh MARY a true Prophetess and Words a Certain Augury of what was to come 'T is now about two years since that the fatal news reached the Ears of the best of Queens that News more especially doleful to our Merchants that so many Ships laden with Rich Goods and Wealthy Treasure bound for the Levant either through Perfidiousness or supine Negligence were either sunk or burnt or yielded up to the French which penetrated so deeply to the Heart of the Compassionate Queen that she could not forbear watering her Royal Cheeks before all the Standers by with a deluge of Tears nor did she only with her Tears bemoan the losses of those who suffered after a more than ordinary manner but also testified her sympathizing in their Misery to the Widows and Orphans that were hardly able to bear up under so great a Calamity Nor shall I ever forget that Cruel Hour when going to take my leave of the Princess returning to her Country I am call'd said she to my Husband to my Native Country to my Fellow Citizens and whither Providence leads me I must follow But when I leave this Palace I leave the Seat of my Leisure my Tranquillity and Delight And first shall my Right Hand forget it self before I will ever forget this my Belgium after so many Proofs of the Affection and Judgment of this Republick Whose Losses added she without the least Commotion of Mind whose Misfortunes and Calamities and also whatever Prosperous and Joyful befalls it I shall look upon as my own as long I remember my self Pardon me Noble Auditors if Sorrow weakens me to that degree and intercepts my Voice in such a manner that I am forced to draw a Vail over all the Rest More especially as to the pour'd-forth Good Wishes of the People those Respectful Duties of the Reverencing Fathers the Weepings and Lamentations filling all the Streets the loud Farewel Acclamations which the flocking Multitude of Men Women and Children of both Sexes and all Ages sent up to Heaven and with which they rather seemed to call her back then take their leaves of her Farewel Pious Farewel Best of Princes Farewel the most Affectionate to Vs and never to be enough Belov'd again Oh Severe and Cruel Remembrance Oh sad and dismal Presages of a Last and Eternall Separation But here my Sorrow stops my Mouth and I must put an end at length to my Most Bitter Memorial of her Praises But wherefore do I say an End when dying she was so much above all Praises by how much the more she approached nearer to Heaven and Eternity Ah Fatal and Vnfortunate Day fit to be expung'd out of the Records of Time when all things prosperous by Sea and Land at Home and Abroad a Bright Sun gloriously shining in Britain the Court in Jollity the King Safe the Parliament in perfect Union the People pouring forth Acclamations Conspirators all suppressed the Armies breathing forth nothing but Battels and Triumphs all things composed under the Auspices of the turning year as it was thought to more lasting Joys when the Eyes of all the World were fix'd upon the Incomparable Pair of of Sovereigns and the Good Wishes of all were A Happy New Year to the Master and Mistress Ah Unfortunate and Fatal Day when of a sudden the Sky being overcast and a Dark Afrightful Cloud covering the Meridian Sun the Face of Things was chang'd and Pangs like those of Childbed succeeded This Day was the Thirtieth of December according to the Gregorian Account when the most desir'd of Queens Youthful Chearful Vigorous and born as all Men thought to Eternity of Empire and whom the suffrages and desires of all Men had destin'd to exceed the Reign of Queen Elizabeth felt the first signs of an Incroaching Disease that was soon after to lay her in her Grave And presently at the beginning Nature Deceiving Art and the Genius of the Distemper the most Sagacious Physicians while some conjectur'd it to be the Small Pox others the Measels others an Intercuticular Ignis Sacer some one thing others another the Flame gathered strength so insensibly and the Fire wanting no Fuel fed so fiercely while the latent Mischief stuck within her Bowels that no repeated Bloodletting no force of Medicaments no Human Providence no Industry of Art could quench the Heat or drive the Contagion to the outward Parts Thus that QVEEN in whose Eyes never was any Fire but what was truly Holy in whose Countenance never any Colour but what was in imitation of the Rose in whose Praecordia never any Boiling Choler or Burning Anger ever known her Mild and Patient Breast at length the Cruel Flame so shook endeavouring to break forth that within the space of Eight Days the most Lovely and Splendid Structure was burnt down and fell to the Ground Yet fell in such manner that the Tower of her Reason untouch'd and in vain assail'd by Noxious Vapours the Soul that only lodg'd within so great a Domicil the Divine Mind that guided the whole Frame and which being sprinkled with Coelestial Dew like the Burning Bush received no Harm in the midst of the Flames retain'd the Knowledge of God Her Self and her Condition And thus with a Compos'd and Quiet Mind the Lamp of Faith and Hope continually burning and a Hidden Light from Heaven illuminating those Darknesses wherewith the Dying Queen was encompassed and the Serenity of