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

We had upon the late sad Occasion a Panegyris. We find that Word in the introductive Part of the Text; and tho it is more commonly applied to a Multitude gathered on other Occasions, it disagrees not to that orderly great Concourse on that mournful Occasion, a General Assembly, that is a National One, met, then, on purpose to mourn: a Nation assembled, and mourning in their Representative. It was decent it should be so. A Loss so National, so general a Sorrow, were with no Congruity, otherwise, to be resented and expressed. Our Mourning was therefore by all the Estates of the Kingdom, the Head only mourning with greater and more decent Majesty in Retirement, or being (as is usual in solemn Mournings) hid, and covered on that Day. So was the whole Legislature concerned in that Sorrow, as if it were ordained by Statute, or as if our Mourning were, as that for an excellent Prince also, (2 Chron. 35. 25.) by an Ordinance in our Israel: And as if our Tears and Lamentations were, as before they were, by Merit, to be also made due by Law! Death marched in State and Triumph that Day: The King of Terrors took the Throne, and filled that Part which it had made vacant, having plucked away from thence not only so bright an Ornament, but so glorious an Instrument, in our Government: And all the Orders of the Realm, as Captives, attended the Chariot of the Conqueror. England had lost its Delight, its pleasant Comeliness, and even half its Soul. Nothing could correspond to such a Case, but a National Groan, as of an half-expiring Kingdom, ready, ⟨p. 6⟩almost, to breath its last, and give up the Ghost.

We had upon the late sad Occasion a Panegyris. We find that Word in the introductive Part of the Text; and tho it is more commonly apply'd to a Multitude gathered on other Occasions, it disagrees not to that orderly great Concourse on that mournful Occasion, a General Assembly, that is a National One, met, then, on purpose to mourn: a Nation assembled, and mourning in their Representative. It was decent it should be so. A Loss so National, so general a Sorrow, were with no Congruity, otherwise, to be resented and express'd. Our Mourning was therefore by all the Estates of the Kingdom, the Head only mourning with greater and more decent Majesty in Retirement, or being (as is usual in solemn Mournings) hid, and covered on that Day. So was the whole Legislature concern'd in that Sorrow, as if it were ordained by Statute, or as if our Mourning were, as that for an excellent Prince also, (