A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…

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.

In such a Funeral Solemnity, for so Great and Excellent a Personage, there is what may most fitly entertain a while, there is not that which ought finally to terminate, a Wise and a Judicious Eye.

Honours done to the Memory of Great Persons deceased, have by the Wisdom of all Nations been counted Decencies, and even Debts; when especially the deceased have been sometime, and might have been much longer, public Blessings: Then indeed it is that such Rites are most fitly (as they are usually) called Justa.