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A45554	A loud call to great mourning in a sermon preached on the 30th of January 1661, being the anniversary fast for the execrable murther of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory, before the Honourable Knights, citizens, & burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, in the parish-church of Saint Margarets Westminster / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing H730; ESTC R9601	30,912	58

other collateral and allusively applyed to wit mourning for Josiah King of Judah who was shot to death with an arrow in the fields And loe this day minds us of a third mourning to wit for Charles the First King of England Scotland France and Ireland who was sentenced to death and executed upon a Scaffold by an Axe That as he was a Martyr cloathed in red so we should be mourners cloathed in black The mourning in the Text as it was for two persons so it was of two sorts a mourning of contrition for the horrid crime of piercing Christ and a mourning of compassion for the untimely slaughter of Josiah both of these meet together in that mourning which this day calls for Here is damnum irreparabile a losse a grievous losse such as could hardly be repaired and that calls for the mourning of Hadadrimmon Here is crimen incredibile a crime an hainous crime such as will not easily be believed and that calls for the mourning in Jerusalem Oh! let us mourn this day with the mourning of Hadadrimmon for the losse of Charles the First and well we may if we observe the parallel For Charles the First is dead Those who first raised a rebellious Army against him went so far as to secure that is in plain English to Imprison him and their Army will not stay there they go on to Behead him Indeed as himself tells us there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes but yet whilst only a Prisoner there was hope of being released Charles the Second our gracious Soveraign that now is was for many years banished from his Territories an Exile in forreign parts and is through Gods mercy restored but Charles the First is dead and gone never more to appear upon earth Besides He whose death we bemoan was no lesse than a King one of the greatest Monarchs in Europe was our King by the indubitable right of succession to the Crown And he dyed not in an old decreped age but in the strength of his manhood having not lived a Decad of years more than Josiah and being of that age of forty eight so vigorous as that he was likely to have lived beyond this time Nor did he dye the common death of men in his bed but that of Malefactors upon a Scaffold where by the way the strange providence of God would be observed Oliver the Wolfe dyeth in his den whilst Charles the Lamb is brought to the slaughter But though these thoughts may justly move tears yet there are other Considerations far more cutting Such is that which fixeth our eyes upon not so much the greatnesse as the goodnesse of King Charles the First in reference to which I shall not doubt to say and saying to make it good that he was another Josiah To which end I must intreat you to sit down whilst I shall let you see how clearly the various lineaments of the one are to be discerned in the other 1. We do not find any grosse personal crime laid to Josiahs charge It is said by the son of Syrack that except David Hezekiah and Josiah all the Kings of Judah were defective he meaneth apostatizing from God to Idols otherwise we know David was grosly culpable in the matter of Bathsheba and Uriah but no such sins are fastned upon Josiah His act indeed of going to war with Pharaoh Necho is questionable but at worst we must call it a sin of ignorance since no doubt he that believed and trembled at the book of the Law would not have gainsaid Pharaoh Nechos disswasion had he been sure that what he spake was from the mouth of the Lord. But as to those vices which too often Kings especially whilst young indulge unto we read not that he is charged with them Such an one was Charles the First unspotted either with incontinence or intemperance so that even his most malicious enemies could not lay either to his charge indeed he was an exemplary pattern of the contrary virtues 2. It is said of Josiah he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left This was verified in Charles the first who declined in matter of practice both hypocritical precisenesse and prophane licentiousnesse and in matters of Religion turned neither to the faction of the Schismatick nor the superstition of the Papists for which cause he commended the Church of Englands Religon to his Son Charles the Second as keeping to use his own language better than which I cannot the middle way between the Papists superstitious Tyranny and the meannesse of fantastick Anarchy 3. Josiah was very solicitous to raise money and provide workmen for repairing the house of the Lord which had been long neglected and much decayed Great was the zeal of our Charles in this respect witnesse that Mother-Church of St. Pauls in our Metropolis to which himself contributed very largely he excited many others and in the repairing of which he had made a faire progresse And though the iniquity of the late times perhaps as well out of spleen against him as irreverence to God hath debased defaced and almost ruined it by making it at once a den of thieves and a stable for beasts Yet I hope the piety of this present age being so highly encouraged by our Soveraigne that now is will make haste to fulfill that religious design in reedifying beautifying and restoring it to its pristine splendor 4. Josiah had a great regard to the Priests and Prophets of the Lord it is said of him that he set the Priests in their charges and incouraged them in the service of the Lord he advised with Hilkiah the high Priest sent to Huldah the Prophetesse and Jeremiahs lamenting his death intimateth that he countenanced him in his life yea he would not suffer the dead bones of the man of God to be touched How justly may it be said of our Charles upon all occasions he shewed himself a fast friend to the Clergy he counted them worthy of the double honour both of Reverence and Maintenance and therefore would not suffer either contempt of their Office or alienation of their Revenues Hear his own words which we all know were seconded with his deeds I am so much a friend to all Churchmen that have any thing in them beseeming that sacred Function that I have hazarded my own interests chiefly upon conscience and constancy to maintain their Rights whom the mere I looked upon as Orphans and under the sacrilegious eyes of many cruel and rapacious Reformers so I thought it my duty the more to appear as a Father and a Patron for them in the Church No wonder if the Jeremiahs of the Land mourned bitterly for the losse of such a Patron 5. Josiah was very carefull to restore the worship of God to its antique and primitive administration as appeareth in that famous Passeover which was celebrated by

him and his people according to the Ordinance of Moses and at the observation of which that it might be the more solemn and splendid were the Singers imployed according to the Command of David It was not for nothing that the name Josiah was given him which according to the most probable Etymology I have met with is as much as the fire of the Lord. He was indeed ignis Dei and that both consumens and consummans The fire of his zeal did purge the Land from that idolatry which had been committed breaking down the Altars of Baalim the Images that were in high places cutting down the groves and the carved and molten Images and Idols that were in the Land and withall it did renew and refine the worship of the true God which had been disused and depraved in his Predecessors Reigns It is likely some of our fanatick zelots will be ready to blame King Charles for not imitating Josiah in pulling down those things and places which had been abused to Romish superstition as he did those which had been the instruments of Heathenish Idolatry But truely such zeal had not been a divine fire but wilde fire nor would Josiahs pattern have warranted it It was not lawfull for the Jews to make use of the idolatrous places for the worship of the true God since they were confined to that particular place which the Lord had chosen neither were the Images and Idols capable of being so made use of But here the case was far otherwise since those places and things were easily converted to a religious which had been perverted to a superstitious use Besides I suppose none will assert that there is as vast a distance between a Protestant and a Papist as there was between a Iew and a Gentile or is now between a Christian and a Pagan and therefore the like degree of zeal is not requisite against the one as the other As for our late Soveraigne however falsly calumniated in this particular he was though a prudent yet a real and zealous adversary to whatsoever is truely called Popery nor was he backward upon all just occasions to shew himself so But the truth is as our sad experience informeth us there were another sort of men whose head-strong violence at that time deserved and required his just indignation As to the matter of Gods worship his desire and design was like Iosiahs that it might be decently and solemnly performed that the ancient and primitive usages when Christianity first began to flourish might be brought again into practice and as it is said concerning the Passeover kept in Iosiahs time that there was no Passeover kept like it by any of the Kings of Iudah so may I truely affirme the publick outward worship of God was not so reverently decently and yet not superstitiously celebrated in any time of the former Kings of England as it was in the former part of the Reign of King Charles the first 6. Iosiah was a man of a very tender heart when he heard the curses which were denounced out of the Book of God against Ierusalem and the inhabitants thereof he rent his cloaths and humbled himself before God bewailing and trembling at the miseries which we●e coming upon his Subjects And was not Charles the First a tender hearted King how did his heart smite him for giving way to the death of the loyal and wise Earl of Strafford Will you believe his own words This tenderness and regret saith he I find in my soul for having had any hand and that very unwillingly God knows in shedding one mans bloud unjustly though under the colour and formalities of justice and pretences of avoiding publick mischiefs which may I hope be some evidence before God and man to all posterity that I am far from bearing justly the vast load and guilt of all that blood which hath been shed in this unhappy War How deeply was he sensible of the Irish outragious cruelties Hear his appeal God knows as I can with truth wash my hands in innocency as to any guilt in that Rebellion so I might wash them in my tears as to the sad apprehensions I had to see it spread so far and make such waste When through the unhappy division between him and his two Houses of Parliament and his enforced recesse from them he foresaw what calamities were likely to befall his Kingdom of England how did his heart bleed with what earnestnesse did he once and again importune his enemies to a Treaty and when with much ado he obtained one what fair terms of peace did he offer Shall I give you his own language Though I could seldome get opportunity to Treat yet I never wanted desire or disposition to it and again I was willing to condescend as far as Reason Honour and Conscience would give me leave 7. That expression concerning Iosiah is very emphatical Now the rest of the acts of Iosiah and his goodnesse or according to the Hebrew kindnesses What eminent kindness did Charles the First vouchsafe to his faithfull servants in particular and to all his Subjects in general he seldome or never suffered any service done to him to passe unrewarded and he was still ready to yea accordingly did Pass many Acts of grace and favour to his people 8. Finally In the close of the narration concerning Iosiah its said and his deeds first and last Behold they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Iudah Manasseh his first deeds were bad exceeding bad but his last good very good Iehoash his first deeds were good He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the dayes of Iehoidah the Priest but his last deeds were bad hearkening to the wicked counsel of the idolatrous and bloody Princes of Iudah but Iosiah his deeds were good first and last In the eighth year of his Reign whilst he was yet young as being but the sixteenth year of his age he began to seek after the God of David his Father and so he continued to the last year of his Reign and day of his life Our Charles was at the first in his tender years a Prince of great hopes nor did he forsake that path of Religion and virtue which at first he had taken up to the last Notwithstanding many strong temptations and sore tryals he retained his integrity Hear his own words What tumults and Armies could not obtain neither shall restraint The fear of man shall never be my snare nor shall the love of liberty entangle me neither liberty nor life are so dear to me as the peace of my Conscience the honour of my Crown and the wellfare of my People and how fully did he verifie his saying The cursed proposals of his cruell enemies he with scorn refused even then when death as it were looked him in the face having no doubt before his eyes that of our Saviour to the Angel