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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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