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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66715	A sermon preached at East Dearham in Norf. Jan. 30, 1661 being the day of the most horrid murther of that most pious and incomparable prince, King Charles the First of England &c. / by John Winter ...	Winter, John, 1621?-1698?	1661 (1661)	Wing W3083; ESTC R35262	13,115	23

Throne to him that sits on the dunghill all are concerned to mourn for one Josiah The Prophet Jeremy having a deeper insight into this wound of the Nation than the generallity lamented not only himself but taught all the people to lament also as the following Verse sheweth All the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations Jeremiah an eminent Prophet was most sensible of the loss of Josiah an excellent King De arte nemo nisi artifex An Artist best judgeth of art and good men of good men The Book of Lamentations was composed by the Prophet In perpetuam rei memoriam Jeremy and his holy contemporaries made Josiah's death a matter of mourning unto all generations by a Law and Ordinance to teach even us that we ought to be humbled for and retain the memory of the untimely death of godly Kings It was an ominous presage that Judah was commanded to mourn by an Ordinance and mark the sequell About two and twenty years and six moneths after Josiah's death the Caldeans came and ruined Prince Nobles Priests and people carring the poor remnant into captivity where they continued threescore and ten years After more than fourscore years had they greater cause to mourn that pious Prince's fall than the first day The child whose father was unborn when Josiah was slain had cause to curse those swarth Egyptians So long liv'd are those sorrows which have their birth at the Prince's death A nation is soon wounded but the wound is not so soon healed And now having seen Judah's and Jerusalem's case we come to make it our own and to act the second part of Jeremy's lamentation But how or where well to begin or end our lamentation alas I know not None but Apelles his Pencill was thought sit to draw Great Alexander's picture and it would require another Jeremiah to speak to purpose of our Josiah To declare our Late King of ever blessed memory his life and vertues his miseries and death and in all these our own sin and shame who is sufficient for these things Yet nevertheless as the Jeremiah's of the times may compose Books so the poor Levites may come in to bear a part in the sorrowfull song The mean person may have as true a sense of this misery though not so full a one as the great ones And since it hath pleased God to bring me to the task of this sad day I desire you to assist me herein that what is wanting in elocution may be made up in godly sorrow and contrition concerning the sad story of our Josiah As Hezekiah said 2 King 19.3 so may I This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy A day of trouble for it caused the Nation many dayes and years of trouble and how many more it may God knows who in his just judgement hath smitten man and beast with manifold plagues and punishments And for all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still A day of rebuke it is from all them that are round about us The Papists retort upon us all those crimes wherewith we charged the Jesuites as equivocation perjury sedition rebellion treason and murthering of Kings And a day of blasphemy it is for Jews Turks Pagans and Infidels scoff at Christian Religion and say Lo these are Christs Disciples who have cast aside their Masters precepts neither give God nor Caesar his due neither fear God nor regard man Yea it is to be feared that by this bloody dayes work the Devil hath gotten many an Atheist Many persons seeing so righteous a Prince fall by so wicked hands in so horrid a manner were apt to conclude it was in vain to serve God any longer For this every faithfull person may cry out with the Prophet Jeremy chap 9.1 Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears c. A true Josiah our Late Soveraign was indeed a bright and shining Lord conspicuous in his high affection for Gods glory and the welfare of his people To this end was he born to bear witness to the truth and horresco referens for this was he murthered Full well might he say Psal 69.9 with David in his meditations to the Lord The zeal of thy house hath even consumed me His name Charles signifieth magnanimous valiant a name famous long since for Charles Martell and Charles the Great Kings of France but now more famous for Charles Martyr Charles the good King of Charles the too good King for England He was even his enemies being Judges worthy of the Kingdome had he not been owner of it but because owner of it held unworthy of life Such paradoxes are held in Satan's Schools A King he was whom all Nations admired but his own in this also like his Saviour Mat 13.57 who had no honour in his own Countrey A Prince he was who was the glory of Europe and the shame of his own degenerate people born in Scotland and but that he was born there I should have said of it Joh. 1.46 as Nathanael of Nazareth Can there any good thing come out thence I would be loth to say that he rob'd the Nationall stock but saving to each truly worthy person his respective dignity this I may safely say as was said of Josiah Before him arose no such King God knows what may be after him in our Judah and Jerusalem The greater cause have we all to mourn for our Josiah He was a King who had made an absolute conquest over himself having his passions in better obedience than any Prince hath his Subjects He was pious and discreet heroick yet withall patient in his prosperity sober and moderate in his adversity magnanimous and constant in his judgement profound yet not despising counsell in his determinations deliberate and in defence of the truth invincible The coal which the Seraphim laid upon Esay's lips Isa 6.7 was bestowed upon his Pen whereby he drew out his own Picture in those excellent Pieces which he left behind him for the world to look upon with wonder and reverence There may weread his zeal truly ballanc'd with profound knowledge piety and modesty his grief for the ruines of Gods Church and his people his care for his friends his charity for this enemies his commiseration of others and courage in his own afflictions and in all so even a temper that never any came nearer him who at his Cross did say Luk. 23.34 Father forgive them for they know not what they do Thus God takes the most spotless Lambs for sacrifice For his piety and acute inspection into sacred mysteries he was as much a Priest as a King and for his divine foreknowledge as much a Prophet a Trismegistus thrice great in this age unparaleld A real Defender of the Faith whose Quill wounded to the death with invincible