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Medicine could promise nothing. Here was an object deserving the pity of the most forlorn and destitute. That the amiable sufferer was not distracted with the horrors of her situation, but met her approaching change with fortitude, is a proof of her dutiful submission to the will of her Maker; is a proof how well she had profited by the lessons of a religious father; and that she was able to look beyond the grave with confidence, through Christ, that her triumph over temporal afflictions would "work for her a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

Sermon preached by the Rev. H. J. Knapp, St. Andrew Undershaft.

PSALM CXlvi. v. 2, 3.

" While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.-Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.”

GRIEVE now, O parents! for great, and at present matchless, is your loss!-Yet, while you most lament her dead, be ready most to shew forth in yourselves that she has lived. Be eminent in conjugal fidelity (that bond and crown of domestic happiness); she has taught you to concentrate there your tenderest affections, your highest earthly joys. Removed from the vortex of dissipation (which lures many an unheeding creature to her ruin), in her you beheld a model of the pure love of truth, of peaceful contentment, of time marked by sedulous occupation, of select and improving converse, of the strict observance of her Christian duties. Children! in her you saw dutiful obedience and a fixed unshaken regard to her parents. Lament, ye laborious and afflicted! for your best benefactress is no more! Well may your tears now flow for her, who felt and wept for you. But, O ye subjects! whose breasts now are sympathetic with that of the royal, interesting, exemplary mourner; how can your grief be with justice portrayed on this most melancholy occasion? To yourselves it can but be expressed; for what the heart most deeply feels it were vain to expect that words can adequately convey.

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Sermon preached by the Rev. Archdeacon Pott, St. Martin in the Fields.

ECCLES. vii. v. 1.

"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."

ONLY before I quit the theme of personal and distinguished worth, having touched one point on that pattern, impossible it is not to remember that for the encouragement of every good and seasonable exercise of duty or of preparation for a day of peril, there was, in addition to the prompt, spontaneous, and well-cultivated inclinations of a virtuous mind, formed carefully from early infancy to good principles, and apt and ready to imbibe them, there was the nearest possible example of congenial virtues, derived from the happiest and most hopeful union, and operating with increasing efficacy to strengthen every good impression in the heart, and to confirm, enlarge, and perfect every noble quality.

Sermon preached by the Rev. John James, Oundle.

MATTHEW vi. v. 10.

"Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

HER growing attachment to religion was so conspicuous; her " light so shone before men," that the richest and the poorest might alike imitate her. She remembered the sabbath-day and kept it holy with marked solemnity, as well by publicly worshipping God, as by studying the holy Scriptures in private, and striving, under the divine blessing upon her pious endeavours, to gain understanding " in the way of godliness." A few days before her expected hour of trial as a mother, she received "the most comfortable Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ," to seal her covenant with a reconciled God, through the merits of her Redeemer's sacrifice. By so doing she sought to fortify her mind against the fears which naturally assailed her, and to gain the aid of that grace which is never sought in vain,

Sermon by the Rev. B. Williams, St. Stephen, Walbrook.

PROVERBS, chap. xxviii. v. 1.

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."

AS to sympathy, never perhaps was the disposition more generally diffused, or so acutely felt, or so strikingly displayed. Perhaps, not even the mourning at Megiddo and Hadadrimmon; certainly nothing in modern history can shew its parallel-Who that hath beheld this day the streets of our great empire, and hath ever seen the like? Here is not only the outward garb of sorrow, but there is the indication in every countenance ef that within which passeth show. "Tis as if the general pulse of life stood still, and made an awful pause, prophetic of her end !-'Tis somewhat in appearance as was once in Egypt, as if in every house some one was dead!

Sermon by the Rev. C. S. Hawtrey, M. A., Episcopal Jews' Chapel, Bethnal-Green.

REVELATION, chap. iii. v. 19.

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."

WE cannot forget that it has been in the prime of her youth, in the very blossom of her days, that this fair flower has been cut down; it embitters our recollection to reflect, that she was not worn out with any lasting decay, but that even within a few days of her decease, she was in the full enjoyment of health of body and vigour of mind, and possessed of every blessing which this world can afford. Filled with mingled sensations of grief and astonishment at such an unlooked-for vicissitude, we behold an awful proof of the truth of God's word. The time too when the hope of our country has been cut off has tended in no small degree to add to the bitterness of our grief. It was in the very moment when the joyful expectation of a far different result universally prevailed; when we were waiting to hail the birth of an heir, who under God might prove a blessing to future generations: we were not only disap

pointed in that hope for the present, but we saw her vanish in an instant from our view, through whom alone there was a prospect of such a desire being accomplished. The edge of this chastisement is also sharpened by the remembrance that there were so many things in this heiress to our throne, that were calculated to endear her to the inhabitants of Britain.

Catholicon.

VAIN would be the attempt to describe the general impression made by this direful and unexpected calamity on the hearts of every Briton, of whatever rank or station, sect or party. All seem to acknowledge a visitation on their sins in that bolt, which, in striking the royal house, and bereaving it of its natural succession, bereft them also of her whom they regarded, as she merited, with an ardour of affection worthy of the most enviable days of high-toned chivalry.

Sermon by the Rev. H.Phillpotts, M.A., St. Margaret's, Durham GENESIS, chap. iii. v. 19.

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

LET not our feelings waste themselves in idle lamentation, still less on the vain parade of an ostentatious sensibility. It is indeed honourable to the age in which we live that so much grief is felt for the loss of a Princess, whom few of us have ever seen, and fewer can have aspired to know. Combined with the heartfelt sympathy which the affliction of our venerable Sovereign has excited, it affords the best rebuke of that false philosophy which has dared to deny the possibility of a nation loving its rulers, or entertaining towards them any warmer sentiments than respect.

Sermon preached by the Rev. T. Jervis, Mill-Hill Chapel, Leeds.

1 CORINTHIANS, chàp. vii. v. 31.

"The fashion of this world passeth away."

PERHAPS no single circumstance in the eventful history of

this country, has at any period produced a sensation of such general interest and such deep concern; I may at least venture to say, none so combined with sentiments of tenderness and affection, as that which gives rise to the solemnities of the day. It is felt in every corner of the empire-might I not add, in every part of Europe and the continent of America; and, I am proud to observe, that this tribute of respect for the character, and affection for the memory, of the young Princess, whose untimely fate we are met this day publicly to deplore, are the more appropriate, the more gratifying, and the more honourable, inasmuch as they are not imposed by authority, not prompted by the miserable motives of party spirit, or the paltry prejudices of political intrigue.

Sermon preached by Rev. James Pringle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. MICAH, chap. vi. v. 9.

"The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

HOW much then are we indebted to the sacred records for that wisdom which is profitable to direct. Not to mention the salutary effects of the Bible, wherever it is possessed and perused, and understood and felt, in the temporal condition of mankind, in proving a powerful stimulus to industry, order, science, learning-to every thing, in short, that can improve individual character, and lend a charm to the social intercourse of human life; its influence on pure religion and sound morality, together with its intimate relationship to the great realities of the eternal world, prove its paramount importance to the children of men.

Sermon preached by the Rev. Rich. Winter Hamilton, Leeds.

JEREMIAH, chap. xv. y. 9.

"Her sun is gone down while it was yet day."

FEMALE example possesses an influence that few can appreciate; it is piety in an angel's form; and when it is united with the adventitious endowment of titular distinction and

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