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A87060	Lacrymæ Ecclesiæ; or The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah. Delivered in two sermons, Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn fasting and humiliation, for the martyrdom and horrid murder of our late gracious King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory. In the church of the borough of Blechingley in the county of Surry. / By Wil. Hampton rector of the said church.	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing H634; Thomason E1086_9; ESTC R202530	24,674	40

LACRYMAE ECCLESIAE OR The mourning OF HADADRIMMON For Englands IOSIAH Delivered in two Sermons Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn Fasting and Humiliation for the Martyrdom and horrid Murder of our late gracious King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory In the Church of the Borough of Blechingley in the County of Sury By Wil. Hampton Rector of the said Church In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Zach. 12.11 Nunc requiescit in sinu Abrahae dulcis amicus noster nam quis alius tali animae locus Aug. de Nebridio LONDON Printed for VVil. Hope at the sign of the blew Anchor on the North side of the Royall Exchange 1661. To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cokaine Viscount Cullen Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed Right Honourable and my very good Lord As you have been a great sufferer in your Person and Estate to the loss of more then thirty thousand pounds for your fidelity and loyalty to his late Majesty of blissed memory and yet were cheared more with the continuall feast of a good and a quiet Conscience as I have heard you confesse then you could have been had you saved your estate and gained ten times that sum by engaging on the other side for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anoynted and be guildesse 1 Sam. 26.9 So no less sorrow for his sad sufferings and chiefly that last fatall blow brought upon his sacred Person by the furious rage of merciless and bloody men when a sword did even pierce through your heart as your Lordship hath often expressed in my hearing in my house whither you were pleased to retire your self aster your releasment from Oxford and at other times and to honour me with your presence when we did in private poure forth our souls together in utter detestation of that horrid Fact and in bitter lamentation for it Therefore upon this account I think not these Sermons more due to any one then your self as also for the many obligations that lie upon me for your manifold favours and respects to me even from your youth up till now It is framed in a low and plain stile sitted for a Country Auditory and it hath alwaies been my desire and endeavour to condescend to the meanest capacity My warning was very short for such a work having scarce two dayes to prepare by notice given me by a worshipfull Neighbour one of our late Burgesses in the late healing Parliament of such a day to be kept of which I knew nothing before And although the short warning the exhaustion of my Spirits in Preaching twice the Lords day preceding together with my age might have pleaded my excuse for such a task and confind me to praying and weeping Yet as nothing seemes hard to a willing mind my cordial affection to the duty for I have in my secret prayers long wished I might live to see such a day as this wherein we might in publick as wel express our detestation of as lamentation for that monstrous and bloody Act put me on with the assistance of the Divine Spirit to a performance beyond my strength and expectation The dead Letter cannot be answerable to the lively Delivery which was to the content of my Auditory which that day was great many of the adjoyning Parishes where no notice was given of the day repairing to my Church And which was to my content as it drew teares from mine so from the eyes of a great part of my hearers which is the best commendation of a Preacher The Lord grant it may work upon their Souls to whose sight it shall come whose hearts or hands or fingers were defiled with that innocent blood that they may be deeply humbled and moved to repentance for such a crimson scarlet sin and find Mercy and obtain Pardon from Heaven by having their hearts sprinkled with that blood which speakes better things then the blood of Abel And that it may blunt and alleviate the asperity of their Spirits who have great thoughts of heart and those evill too against this blessed Change a work even of Omnipotency And against our dear and gracious Soveraign whom God long preserve a King of such asweet Christian temper for Wisdom Discretion Meekness Gentleness Pitty Piety Mercy as is too good for such a churlish and unthankful People Thus commending this poor labour to the blessing of God and your Lordship and family to his grace and safe protection I humbly take my leave and remain Your Honours humble Servant in the work of Christ W. Hampton From my Study in Blechingley February 12 1660. The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Josiah The Text. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations 2 Cron. 35.4 25. THis day is a day of blackness and gloominess a day of clouds thick darkness a day of mourning for a good and a religious King cut off by untimely violent death to the unexpressible griefe of all good Christians by the trayterous heads trecherous hearts and bloody hands of wicked and ungodly men yet great pretenders to holiness above all other Now I say this being a black day a day of mourning I have chosen a Text of mourning of mourning for a godly and a religious King Josiah the fittest parallel I can find in the whole sacred book for our Martyred Soveraign Josiah was one of the best of all the Kings of Iudah whose History you may read at large in the foregoing Chapter and in the former part of this Chapter and also in the 22 and 23. book of the Kings He came to the Crown young at eight yeares old and sought the Lord while he was yet young in the eight year of his raign and the twelfth year began the great work for advancing Religion and Piety He purged Ierusalem of Idolatry reformed abuses repaired Gods House restored his worship regarded his Ministers kept such a Passeover as had not been kept before since the dayes of Samuel the Prophet neither did all the Kings of Israel keep such a Passeover as Iosiah kept Vers 18. Like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses neither after arose there any like him 2 King 23.25 And though he was thus good and zealous yet for the peoples sin was he taken away by a violent death as it followeth Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath where with his anger was kindled against Iudah because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withall And the Lord said I will remove Jerusalem out of my

sight as I have removed Israel and will cast off this City Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I have said my name shall be there 2 King 23.26.27 So that for the great sin of the Land was this blessed King snatched from his People by untimely death as a punishment not of his but of their iniquity According as Huldah the Prophetesse had informed the Messenger sent to her by him 2 King 22. from ver 15. to 20. Thus saith the Lord Tell the man that sent you to me Thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon this place and upon the Inhabitants thereof even all the words of the book which the King of Judah hath read because they have forsaken me and have burnt Incense to other gods to provoke me to anger Therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched But to the King of Judah that sent you Thus shall you say to him Thus saith the Lord God of Israel as touching the word which thou hast heard because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy selfe before me when thou heardest what I said against this place and against the Inhabitants thereof to make it a desolation and a curse and hast rent thy clothes and hath wept before me I have also heard thee saith the Lord Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy Fathers and thou shalt be gathered unto thy Grave in peace and thy eies shall not see all the evill that I will bring upon this Land Now that this judgement pronounced might be accomplished upon the Nation This godly and religious King was unhappily drawn into a destructive War Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt going to War against Carchemish King of Assyria to the river Euphrates Iosiah is drawn in to aid the Assyrians Necho sends Ambassadours to disswade him from it what have I to do with thee thou King of Iudah I come not against thee this day but against the House wherewith I have war for God commanded me to make hast for bear thee from medling with God who is with me that he destroy thee not Nevertheless Iosiah would not turn his face from him but disguised himself that he might fight with him and hearkned not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God and came to fight with him in the valley of Megidd● And in this battel he lost his life Vers 23. And the Archers shot at King Josiah and the King said to his Servants have me away for I am sore wounded His Servants therefore took him out of that Chariot and put him into the second Chariot that he had and they brought him to Jerusalem and he dyed and was buried in one of the Sepulchres of his Futhers And then followes my mournful Text And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah and Jeremiah lamented for Josiah c. Jusiah dyed by a fatall arrow as our Iosiah by a dismall blow to the unexpressible griefe of his People the Church of God decay of Religion and damage of the State which the Nation being sensible of betake themselves as our Nation now doth to a generall lamentation and a bitter mourning And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned c. and Jeremiah c. Wherein we have 1. The Person lamented and mourned for and that was Iosiah a godly and religious King yet slain by cruell hand The Archers shot him wounded him sore and he dyed 2. The sad lamentations made for him where we have 1. The generality of the mourners The whole Land mourned the whole Church and Nation of the Jews All Iudah and Ierusalem Jeremiah the Prophet all the singing men and singing women all the People both City and Country Prophets and others This was the greatest mourning that we read of Therefore the very quintessence of mourning is set forth by this Zach. 12.11 In that day there shal be a great mourning in Ierusalem like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Magiddon And that not without cause whether the worth of the man the good that he did or the evill that followed upon his death be considered 2. The continuation of this mourning It was not only for a time for a day or two or a week or two a month or two and no more but it was continued from time to time from year to year by an Ordinance made for it in Israel It was a custom amonst the Iews to have publick mourners at their Funerals both men and women who used to make lamentations in dolefull Tunes at the death of Persons of worth as appeares Eccl. 12.5 Man goeth to his long home and the Mourners go about the streets In these lamentations they used to make mention of the parties deceased and to mourn for them Thus they did for Iosiah in their solemn mournings for others making mention of the great losse of him Insomuch that it became a constant custom and as it were a setled Law or Ordinance to make mention of the sad loss of Josiah in their dolefull Elegies Or it may be that by reason of the losse of so worthy a King a speciall Law was enacted for it as our Nation and State hath now piously and prudently done that at all other solemn mournings there should be mourning for Josiah and that publike Mourners observed the same This is meant when 't is said And made them an Ordinance in Israel 3. The Record for the commemoration of this holy man in the continued mourning for him And behold they are written in the Lamentations Some conceive the Lamentations of Jeremiah registred in sacred Scripture to be here meant which seemes to them to be hinted Lam. 4.20 The breath of our nostrils the anoynted of the Lord is taken in their Pits c. But the most reject this and think there might be some other Lamentations remaining then upon record and wherein the losse of Josiah was set down And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah and Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah c. I shall not now by reason of my very short warning exactly handle every branch of the text but only gather for you from hence three generall observations wherin I shall comprise and bind up together as with a threefold cord the whole sum and substance of the Text. 1. That the child the dearest child of God may undergo a violent death and this I gather from the Person lamented Iosiah a good and godly King a blessed Saint yet slain by cruell hands The Archers shot him 2. That it hath been an ancient custom among the people of God to mourn for the dead And this I gather from the mourners in the Text The Church of God Iudah and Ierusalem Ieremiah the prophet All betaking themselves to sad and solemn mourning for Josiahs death 3. That the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of a great mourning to all good people Good Iosiah being so unhappily slain Iudah and

down apace as also are many other Churches within the Land That O shame to Christianity by our great reformers for many years made not only a den of theeves but a stable for horses As the barbarous Turks dealt with that renouned Temple of St. Sophia in Constantinople when they had conquered that imperial City 3. Josiah was a great friend to the Clergy to the Prophets and Ministers of God the Priests the Levites and gave them encouragement in their Service 2 Cron. 35.2 So was our Iosiah a great lover and respecter of Godly and learned men of able and Orthodox Divines a great benefactor to the Universities and Schools of learning the greatest countenancer cherisher and encourager of the Clergy and Ministers of England of any King before him A tender nurse a most propitious Father of the Church Hear his own words in the foresaid heavenly booke Pag. 208. I am so much a friend to all Church-men that have any thing in them beseeming that sacred function that I have hazarded mine own interest chiefly upon conscience and constancy to maintain their rights whom the more I looked upon as Orphans and under the sacrilegious eyes of many cruell and rapacious reformers So I thought it my duty the more to appear as a Father and Patron of them and the Church And again speaking of the harsh deniall of his Chaplains attendance during his imprisoment But my Agony must not be relieved with the presence of one good Angel for such I account a learned godly and discreet Divine and such I would have all mine to be And again As I owe to the Clergy the protection of a Christian King I desire from them the benefit of their gifts and prayers which I look upon as more prevalent then my own or other mens by how much they flow from minds more enlightned and affections lesse distracted then those which are encumbred with secular affaires besides I think a greater blessing and acceptableness attends these duties which are performed as proper to and within the limits of the calling to which God and the Church have specially designed and consecrated some men And lastly Pag. 214 I must confess I bear with more griefe and impatience the want of my Chaplaines then of any other my Servants and next if not beyond in somethings to the being sequestred from my wife and children since from these indeed more of earthly and temporary affections but from those more of heavenly and eternal improvements may be expected What more cordiall expressions could come from a pious soul of love and affection to that calling 4. Iosiah was a great promoter and furtherer of Gods publike and solemn worship that it might be decently and reverently performed as appears by that most famous and solemn Passeover which he kept in this Chapter which was done by his command and to which he contributed upon his own charge super abundantly thirty thousand Lambs and Kids and three thousand great cattell 2 Chron. 35.7 So our Iosiah was a zealous furtherer of the publike and solemn worship of God that it might be performed with all holy devotion decency and reverence not negligently irreverently rudly and slovenly And which is to be pitied and with a fountain of tears to be lamented this his pious zeal for Gods house and worship and Ministers for the true Protestant Religion for the Church and its Patrimony and for the ancient and orderly Government and Discipline therof was the great crime that provoked the Sectaries to hasten his destruction 5. Iosiah was a King unblameable in regard of any notorious personal crime we find him not noted for any remarkeable personal evill as most of the former Kings had been fome are said to be good and some bad but the best of them had their naevus their spots and blemishes we read of Davids Adultery and of Solomons Idolatry but none was stamped upon Iosiah The greatest blemish I can possible discover in him was a little too much wilfulnesse his rash and unadvised rushing into that fattall battell at Megiddon for which the good man paid dear So our Iosiah was of unblameable life more entire and free from any notorious personal crime as searing drunkennesse whoredom or the like then most of the Kings before him no such like as these could be charged upon him even his most bitterest enemies could not taxe him had they espied any blemish no doubt we should have heard it again and again 6. Josiah was a Prince of a soft heart and a tender conscience Thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self before me saith the Lord 2 King 22.19 So our Iosiah was of a soft heart and very tender conscience how did his conscience check and trouble him when by restless importunity he had yeelded compliance for plenary consent it was not as he said to the Act for the Earle of Straffords death which in his Iudgement and conscience he could not be satisfied was just by any clear Law he confesseth he did never bear any touch of conscience with greater regret How did he mourn like a Dove and complain of itin the bitterness of his soul How meekly did he mention it with griefe as the main thing troubling him at the time of his Martyrdom acknowledging that the giving way to an unjust sentence might besome cause that the Lord permitted such an unjust sentence to be executed upon him What is it that made him so firm and constant to uphold the Church in her just and ancient Rights Government and Patrimony but his tender Conscience which as also his Oath perswaded him that Epistcopacy with some smal regulations was most Ancient Universall Divine and Apostolical and therefore could not yeeld to the extirpation of that Government and to the alienation of the Church-revenues without wounding his conscience with some stain of perjury sacraledge and impiety This tendernesse of conscience and the immeasurable and unmercifull pressing him against it struck him to the heart and stuck nearer to him then any thing else as we find it at large in his wofull complaints uttered between God and his own soul in his Soliloquies This his tenderness of conscience was a clear evidence of a godly gracious and sanctified soul wicked and ungenerate men feel no such cheeks of conscience at sin Though sin be an unspeakable burden like a talent of lead yet the weight of it doth not trouble them so as to seek ease from the Lord. They complain not with David My sin is ever before me and mine iniquities are gone over my head and are like asore burden too heavy for me to bear The Philosophers observe that no Element is heavy in its own place in the Sea let a man be in the bottom of it although he hath the whole Sea on his back yet he feeles not the weight of it but let him take but a bucket full out of the Sea out of its place and then he shall feel how heavy it is So unregenerate