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SERMON

UPON THE

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OF THE

TH

QUEEN,

Preached in the Parish-Church of

St. MART WHITE-CHAPPEL.

By WILLIAM PAYNE, D. D. Rector of St. Mary White-Chappel, And Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.

LONDON,

Printed by J. R. for B. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil: S. Smith, and B. Walford, at the Princes - Arms in St Paul's ChurchTard, MDC XCV.

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I have faid, Ye are Gods, and all of you are Children of the Most High; but ye shall dye like

Men.

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HIS Pfalm was directed to the Princes,
Judges, and Magiftrates of Ifrael, by Asaph
the Author of it.

It is not my design, or to my purpose, to take any further notice of the Bufinefs or Occafion

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of it, then as it gives Then the great Character in my Text, calling Them by the Name of Gods, and of Angels; for that is meant by the Children of the Moft High, as it is exprefly in the Chaldee.

Yet when it had put thefe High Titles, and Honourable Names upon them, and Raifed them to a Degree and Quality almoft above Mortals; it thinks fit to remind them at the fame time, that they are ftill but Men; Though of that High State and Dignity above others, yet fubject to the fame Death and Mortality with their Poorer and Meaner Brethren ; Though in fome Refpects nearer Ally'd to Heaven, and like Gods and Angels, yet ftil! Akin to Earth, and who should dye like Men.

I have faid, Ye are Gods: &C.--

The Lofs of our Late Excellent Queen Suggests. and Offers both parts of my Text to our Thoughts in the fulleft manner.

I am apt to believe, She had as much of God in her, and as much of Angel, as any Prince, Judge, or Magistrate that ever Sat upon a Throne, or a Bench, or that was any way Advanced above the rest of Mankind.

And yet to our great Grief, we find, She was fubject to Death; to a Sudden, an Over-foon Death, had not God thought otherwife, as well as any of her Subjects.

Her God-like and Angelick Qualities which She had not only in common with other Princes, but upon many Accounts far above them, could not preferve Her from the Common Fate of Mortality, of Dying like other Men and Women.

I fhall first show upon what Accounts Princes and Magiftrates are called Gods, and are like Angels, or Children of the Moft High; And how thefe Cha

racters,