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of . life , have said so little ef her religious views and hopes , and of the confidence she placed in Christ , her only refuge . This . we regret . We cannot forbear thinking she must have said something on this . great and fundamental theme . It is to he &oj > ed , that when she desired
the sacramental ^ Lerneiits , agreeably to the forms of the .-English Church , she looked through the * $ e elements to Him they represented * , as the only Saviour of a lost world . This brings to our jremembranee the piety of -George 'HI ,, . who sometimes thought , ( a short time
prevkros to Ms death , ) when a prisoner in his own palace , ivhile partaking of his ordinary / meals , that he was receiving the holy Supper ,, and was heard to repeat those holy expressions which the fathers of tine -Church had collected ^ to assist the devotion of her members .
< e One thing has been handed down , to the lasting honour of our late Queen , —tshe died , forgiving her enemies ; and we consider this as one of the most -solemn and satisfying proofs of her innocence of the crimes with which she was . accused . This is among the most difficult and the rarest of Christian virtues and Christian
acts . This most striking part of her Majesty's conduct in her dying moments , we hold up for the imitationof all - Were I ambitious of the highest class of disinterested honour , it would be this , to lead a life of innocent suffering , terminated by the solemn , unfeigned act of forgiving my enemies . !" - —< Pp . 19— : 21 .
Mr . Fox ' s " Funeral Sermon" is , as might be expected from his former publications , of an unhesitating , decisive character . He is the fearless , indignant champion of " the Injured Queen of England . " His zeal carries him to the verge-of decorum . Confident in the truth and justice of his cause he makes little reserve of' his
opinions or feelings . His statements are forcible and his reflections poignant * and many passages exhibit the sallies of a brilliant fancy . Mr . Fox ' s text is Job iii . 7- Having contemplated the appearance of the great hnd small and the good and evil before the last tribunal , he tfitus sums up the Queers character : *"
*'» The voice of candour and charity , nay , as $ eein& to nie ,, that of the sternest justice , warrants our best and brightest hopes , at' that b » r for Her who is departed . That she was innocent of the foul offence laid to her charge , ( and never did fewer honest and disinterested men , some such there , were undoubtedly > flte-
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sent from a general opinion than qn tliat subject , ) is saying comparatively little , as many are free from such offences who have small claims on respect ; though it should be observed , that not once in an
age is any one so completely abandoned to inducements to error . She had an active and vigorous mind , aad she did not debase that mind : it was perhaps irregularly exercised and cultivated ; but still exercised and cultivated it was ; nor
did she ever act more wisely , justly , and greatly , than when relying on her own decisions . Her greatest error during Jxer last residence here ^ the rash rejection of the Parliamentary grant , was caused by yielding her own conviction to the judgment of others . If in her manners there was ^ somewhat of a foreign tinge ( the
inevitable result of education ) which suits not England , this can scarcely be imputed as a fault , while the condescending kindness which marked them , even to the meanest , raises them into goodness . Her charitable disposition was not merely most unquestionable , but most admirable . It had the strength of a passion , and the
firmness of a principle ; and blended beautifully with her habitual energy of purpose and . action . In the very difficult situation in which she was placed in this country , where her rank and the aspersions on her character made it an imperative obligation to relinquish voluntarily no right , and where poliey and duty alike
warned against being factious , or unnecessarily vexatious , her * course was ( in my opinion ) guided by the soundest judgment and the correctest feeling . Her particular forgiveness of Louisa Deniont was truly Christian , and this and other circumstances of her last illness which have been published , can have been read
by few ( I pity those few ) wrthout tears of admiration and regret . Of what her religious notions were , I kuaw nothing , nor whether her celebrated journey to Palestine was connected with them , or merely prompted by an hopourable curiosity ; but her conduct impresses with a
conviction of her piety ; and in her superiority to the fear of death , steadily for some days as she contemplated his approach , in her submission to the will of God , and her charity to all , even the most injurious , we trace the fruits of piety—such fruits < as are better than a thousand professions .
" It was her first misfortune , to be born of royal parentage * * and the suffer-* la my opinion a heavy misfortune , in a moral view , on all so born . I enter npt on politics . Sovereignty may he necessary for the well-being of society ;
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5 t 5 g Review . — Funeral Sermons for the Queen .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/48/
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