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A70654	Threnodia, the churches lamentation for the good man his losse delivered in a sermon to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament and the reverend Assembly of Divines at the funerall of that excellent man John Pym, Esquire, late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons : preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster / by Stephen Marshall ...	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M794; ESTC R17869	27,959	53

the righteous dye and mercifull men are taken away and no man considers it Secondly we have plenty of examples the whole Church crying out Psal. 12. helpe Lord for the Godly man ceaseth for the faithfull faile from amongst the children of men You all know the great lamentation made at the death and buriall of old Jacob at the death of Moses of Samuel of David especially at the untimely death of good King Josiah how all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him how Jeremie the Prophet lamented for him and all the Singing Men and Singing Women spake of Iosiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel behold their lamentations are written in the book of the Lamentations insomuch that the greatest mourning that ever should be in the world is by the Lord compared to the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon which was the bitter lamentation of the Church at Josiah his death so in the 24. of Esaiah you shall find that among the songs that were heard from the uttermost parts of the Earth even glory to the righteous rejoycing in that remainder of Godly men who were found amongst them the Church cryeth out My leannesse my leannesse Woe unto me because the good men were but as the shaking of an Olive-tree and as the gleaning Grapes when the Vintage is done And when the Martyr Stephen was so barbarously murthered when devout men carryed him to his Buriall they made great lamentation over him The time would faile to name particular instances I will adde but one more of a King and hee none of of the best Ioash the King of Israel who when Elisha was fallen sicke of his sicknesse whereof he dyed came downe unto him and wept over his face and said O my Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and the horsmen thereof Thirdly wee have also strong reason out of Scripture to enforce it First in regard of God there is required sorrow fear and trembling at such evident manifestation of his wrath in these remarkable judgements When Nadab and Abihu fell untimely by fire which issued out from the Lord and devoured them though they dyed in and for their sinne yet being the Lords Priests from whom better things might have been expected God commanded that the Whole house of Israel should bewaile the burning which the Lord had kindled Assuredly if God would have the death of these men lamented in whose fall his displeasure was manifested not against his people but against themselves onely much more doth he expect it when he taketh away our jewells our comforts our meanes and instruments of good not in wrath to them who die but in sore displeasure to us who remaine alive when our heavenly Father thus spitteth in our faces should we not be humbled and ashamed before him Secondly From the hon●ur due to them who are thus taken away God threateneth in his word that the name of the wicked shall rot but the memoriall of the just shall bee blessed the righteous shall bee had in everlasting remembrance now it is one great degree of rottennesse to the name of the wicked as to live undesired so to die unlamented which was Iehojakim his portion concerning whom thus saith the Lord they shall not lament for him saying Ah my brother or ah my sister They shal not lament for him saying Ah Lord or ah his glory He shall be buried with the buriall of an Asse drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Ierusalem But now this is a great glory and honour which God putteth upon his servants to have their death honoured with the sighs of his mournefull people and embalmed in their teares Was it not a great honour to the Patriarch Jacob to have all the Princes and Nobles of Egypt and all the Elders of Israel lament his death threescore and ten dayes together Was it not a great honour to Abner to have David and all his people following the Beere lifting up their voices and weeping over him saying dyed Abner as a fool dieth c. Was it not a great honour to Elisha the Prophet to have the King of Israel to acknowledg that the Chariots and Horsmen of Israel all fell in his death The like may be said of all mentioned before and of Dorcas about whom the Widdows stood weeping mournfully shewing her Coats upon their Backs I have read of Lewes the eleventh King of France that he counterfeited himselfe to die to try whether his death should be honoured with the tears of his Court and somewhat to this purpose of Paulus Aemilius whose Son died just when he was himself to triumph that hee more joyed to see their mourning for his Sonne then in all the other glory of his Triumph nature in these men did draw them to breath after that which free Grace casts-in to them even in this World who do worthily in the service of God besides their eternall reward in heaven that as they are desired in life so they shall be lamented at their death Thirdly in regard of our selves there is then great cause of mourning in divers respects First because we are hereby deprived of so many means of our good of their counsell and direction the lips of the righteous feed many and disperseth wisdome and knowledge their examples are as a tree of life they are the lights of the world their very presence every where a blessing they are a blessing in the midst of the land where-ever they goe God is with them God will give Kingdomes for their ransome hee 'll rebuke the devourer for their sake they may stand in the breach to turne away Gods wrath when it 's ready to breakein to devoure people they may run with their Censers and stand between the dead and the living and make an attonement for a whole Congregation when wrath is gone out from the Lord against them the innocent men may deliver the Iland and it is delivered by the purenesse of their hands they are the very chariots and horsemen of the places where they live their Prayers are exceeding powerfull which can open and shut heaven it selfe What is it that the God of mercy will deny to their prayers who saith Aske me of things to come concerning my sonnes and concerning the worke of my hands command ye me In a word they are very store-houses and granaries of good to the places where they live fruitfull trees affording both food and shelter the only excellent men of the world they are wholly medicinable and should not such a losse as this be felt and lamented Secondly And as their death deprives us of much good so it often presages and pregnosticateth wrath to come upon those they leave behind Esa. 57. The righteous perisheth and no man layes it to heart mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from