A sermon preached upon the much lamented death of our late gracious sovereign Queen…

In the Perfection of Glory the Angels are not without Change; their Understandings and Wills are variously tinctured and coloured by Diversity of Objects: their Minds are illustrated with new Discoveries of the Divine Counsels in their gradual Accomplishment. The Apostle tells us, Unto Principalities and Powers is ¹made known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God. With the intellectual Change their Wills receive new Impressions of Joy. At the Incarnation of our Saviour a Chorus of Angels sang with celestial Harmony, Glory to God on high, on Earth Peace, good Will towards Men. At the Conversion of a Sinner there is new Joy² among those blessed Spirits: but the blessed God is always the same. 'Tis from the Consideration of God's Peerless Excellencies that the glorious Seraphims are for ever in a Posture of lowest Reverence before the Throne, and magnify him by the transcendent Title that separates him from all Creatures of the highest Order, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Host: the Earth is full of thy Glory. The most proper Affection due to that infinitely excelling Object, is Admiration mixed with humble Fear.

In the Perfection of Glory the Angels are not without Change; their Understandings and Wills are variously tinctur'd and colour'd by Diversity of Objects: their Minds are illustrated with new Discoveries of the Divine Counsels in their gradual Accomplishment. The Apostle tells us, Unto Principalities and Powers is ¹made known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God. With the intellectual Change their Wills receive new Impressions of Joy. At the Incarnation of our Saviour a Chorus of Angels sang with celestial Harmony, Glory to God on high, on Earth Peace, good Will towards Men. At the Conversion of a Sinner there is new Joy² among those blessed Spirits: but the blessed God is always the same. 'Tis from the Consideration of God's Peerless Excellencies that the glorious Seraphims are for ever in a Posture of lowest Reverence before the Throne, and magnify him by the transcendent Title that separates him from all Creatures of the highest Order, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Host: the Earth is full of thy Glory. The most proper Affection due to that infinitely excelling Object, is Admiration mix'd with humble Fear.