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A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…
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.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vers. 22. But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the City of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable Company of Angels.
Vers. 22. But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the City of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable Company of Angels.
Vers. 23. To the general Assembly, and Church of the First-born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judg of all, and to the Spirits of Just Men made perfect.
We have had this last Week a public Solemnity, that was becomingly Great and Magnificent, upon a sad and mournful Occasion, the last Act of a doleful Scene that hath lasted many Weeks. You know I have taken notice to you (my usual Hearers) of the first and saddest, the leading part in this Tragedy, once and again: Nor would I have this last to pass us, without some instructive Observation and Remark. It will the more instruct us the less it detains us; or if only taking a due (not, I mean, a slight and too hasty, but yet a transient) notice of it, we be prompted by it to look forward, from what was in its own kind most deservedly Great, to what is incomparably Greater in a more excellent kind.
We have had this last Week a publick Solemnity, that was becomingly Great and Magnificent, upon a sad and mournful Occasion, the last Act of a doleful Scene that hath lasted many Weeks. You know I have taken notice to you (my usual Hearers) of the first and saddest, the leading part in this Tragedy, once and again: Nor would I have this last to pass us, without some instructive Observation and Remark. It will the more instruct us the less it detains us; or if only taking a due (not, I mean, a slight and too hasty, but yet a transient) notice of it, we be prompted by it to look forward, from what was in its own kind most deservedly Great, to what is incomparably Greater in a more excellent kind.