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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

us mourn yea mourn and weep that notwithstanding our sins brought such dreadfull judgments upon our King and Kingdom our persons and families those judgments have not wrought any reformation in our lives so that though we have been humbled we are not humble and have been sorely smitten we have refused to receive instruction Nay once more let us mourn yea be afflicted and mourn and weep were it possible a Sea of tears to consider that notwithstanding God hath pleased in the midst of judgment to remember mercy and commanded an unexpected and blessed change for us so that instead of usurping Tirants we enjoy our native Rightfull King instead of that black so the Martyr justly calls it we have a white Parliament that instead of no Lords new Lords by no just power we have both old and new Lords of a right extraction an House of Lords spiritual and temporal according to its ancient constitution that so much villified Order of Bishops being by the providence of that God who only worketh great marvels as it is in the Collect restored to their pristine splendor that in the roome of a pack of bloody Rebels we behold a full House of Commons whom for their loyalty to the King and zeal for the Church all generations shall call blessed and whose dissolution I hope I shall not see till the house of David and the house of Aaron be more firmly seiled That by the means of such a King and such a Parliament we obtain safety liberty tranquility and prosperity together with that which is far more prctious the liberty and shall we trust in due time the uniformity of Gods publick worship I say that notwithstanding God hath punished us lesse than our iniquities deserve and hath given us such a deliverance as this we do again break his Commandments and that with an high hand hard heart and stiffe neck most ungratefully returning monstrous iniquities for miraculous mercies Nor must we think we have done enough in mourning ey though it be a great and bitte● mourning no there is something further required that our humiliation may find acceptation and therefore give me leave to commend unto you a double item 1. One and that which in some measure I am prevented in is that pretious Royal bloud which on this day was villanously shed must not only be deeply mourned for by all but throughly avenged by those to whom the sword of justice is committed Justice justice was the loud cry of that hellish Crew to that infernal Court may it not be justly the cry of all Loyal Subjects now That good King whilst he lived prayed for mercy but now dead his blood calls for vengeance In the dark night of persecution we often prayed to God how long Lord holy and true wilt not thou avenge O! let not God have cause to say to us how long will not you avenge 2. But secondly those sins which any way procured this dayes fatal blow would not only be mourned for but turned from by our selves and as much as may be suppressed in others I have already intimated There were sins ey and those grievous sins on both hands On the one hand Schisme Sedition Rebellion Treason were those sins which did instrumentally procure his death you have done well Loyal Worthies exceeding well to use the best means for the restraint reformation of them by severe and extensive Laws Taking care that Rebellion to which the other sins are subservient may be destroyed in that which was its principal engine the Illegal League and Covenant made by a faction in two Nations without the consent yea against the command of their lawful Soveraign and in its rotten principles those doctrines which give power to two Houses of Parliament in some cases to take up Arms without or against the Kings command and distinguish betwixt the personal and politick capacity of a King as to the point of resistance which till they be utterly disclaimed both by Clergy and Laity there may be just suspition of new Insurrection upon the first occasion On the other hand Swearing and Drunkennesse Chambering and Wantonnesse Pride and Profanenesse are among the number of those sins which were the meritorious causes that wrought His and his Kingdoms ruine Oh! let not these escape your severest censure Revive and reinforce the old Laws and if it be needfull prepare new for the more carefull observation of Gods publick worship upon all holy dayes especially the Lords-day together with effectual restraint of those want on vanities and wicked vices which abound among us That you may the better prevaile with others by your Laws for a speedy and thorough reformation begin it I beseech you at your own persons and families that you may be patterns to those among whom you live of piety sobriety and all manner of virtue And oh that that Prophesie of Isaiah concerning the Jews might be accomplished in the people of this Kingdome That the time might come when the Lord should have washed away the filth of the daughter of England and should have purged the blood of London and Westminster from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning And that that of Malachy concerning Christs coming in the flesh might be spiritually fulfilled among us that his spirit may come and passe through the whole Land and sit as a refiner and purifier of silver upon both those parties which have been so long divided That so we may from the bottome of our hearts bemoan detest and abandon not only one the sin of the other but both their own sins Oh my Brethren would but the one party mourn for and leave of their execrable hypocrisie and the other their abominable profannesse the one their mock cantings and the other their fond rantings the one their spiritual and the other their corporal pride and drunkennesse the one their impious forswearing and false swearing the other their vain and rash swearing the one their schismatical separation from and the other their atheistical neglect of the publick worship Finally the one their seditious and rebellious both principles and practices and the other their vicious licentious conversations both their mutual strifes envyings and animosities there would be no need either to fear the return of those judgments under which we so long groaned or to doubt the continuance of those blessings which at present we enjoy It is high time that I should now dismiss you till the Evening Service when I doubt not but the abler gifts and longer warning of my Reverend Brother will supply my manifold defects Nothing now remaineth but our praises and prayers our praises in behalf of the Father our praises and prayers in behalf of the Sonne And I beseech you let us all joyn together In hearty thanksgiving to Almighty God for Charles the First of glorious memory that excellent pattern which he gave as on this day of meekness charity and withall of

is offensive unto God 5. Lastly This mourning for Christs piercing is not to be confined to Jerusalem since all Gentiles as well as Jews are guilty of it The Jews were the instrumental causes by whose instigation but all men were the meritorious causes for whose transgressions he was pierced and therefore saith the Prophet Isaiah The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all It was the hypocrisie of our hearts that mocked him the bribery of our hands which buffeted him the oaths of our mouths that spit in his face we betrayed him with our wanton kisses we whipt him with the cords of our oppression and gave him gall and vinegar to taste by our intemperance our pride in hair apparrel ornaments platted a crown of thorns upon his head and stript him of his garments Finally our many mighty sinnes were the nails which pierced his hands and feet and the speare that was thrust into his side The Lord of glory was brought to shame for our shamefull lives The Lord of life was put to death for our deadly sinnes and the word became speechlesse for our crying sinnes So that I may justly bring this home to every man in this Congregation with Nathans Tu es homo Thou art the man that piercedst Christ and every one of us were that question put to us seriously which was to him scoffingly Prophesie who smote thee may without the gift of prophecying returne the answer It is we that smote him And now methinketh every one of us should look upon him whom we have pierced and bespeak him in this or the like penitent language Blessed Jesus my sinnes pierced thy side and hands and feet shall they not my heart they bruised thy body shall they not my soul they fetched blood from thee shall they not tears from me they made thee heavy to the death shall they not make me penitent to life the Heavens were hung in black at thy passion and shall not I be cloathed in mourning the rock rent and clave asunder at thy suffering and shall my heart be more stony and obdurate than the rock Oh! my brethren let us both duly meditate on our Redeemers sufferings and our sins as the cause of those sufferings and that so long till our hearts be not only bruised but broken our head not only become dew but waters and our eyes not as a bucket but a fountaine of tears And thus I have given a dispatch to the mourning which was the matter of the prediction I now proceed to the other which is brought in by way of allusion in those words As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon Which words I shall desire you to look upon with a double aspect to wit as they are in themselves and as they stand in connexion and accordingly there is a double assertion to be handled The mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon was a great mourning The mourning of Jerusalem shall be as great as the mourning of Hadadrimmon 1. I begin with the absolute consideration of the clause which implyeth the mourning of Hadadrimmon to be very great in discussion whereof I shall enquire What the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon was Wherein it appeared to be a great mourning What reason there was for the greatness of that mourning 1. In answer to the first of these it will not be amiss to take notice of the various reading of and glosses upon these words 1. The Septuagint construe Hadadrimmon and Megiddon as appellatives and read the clause thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a pomegranate cut down in the fields of which reading the Greek Fathers give a double construction Theodoret borroweth the allusion from the noise which the woodcleaver maketh when in hewing down a pomegranate or any other tree he fetcheth as it were a groan at every blow he maketh but St. Cyril more probably conceiveth that it alludeth to the grief of the owner whose Orchard of pomegranates is cut down against his will as we have sometimes beheld in the late war a goodly Grove or Orchard for the safety of an adjacent Garison hewed down to the sorrow of the possessour 2. The Generality of Interpreters and most probably construe Hadadrimmon and Megiddon to be proper names but yet with variety By the more learned among the Hebrews saith Vatablus Hadadrimmon is thought to be the name oujusdam viri insignis ac cluri of some famous and eminent person who was cut off at Megiddon to the great sorrow of the people The Caldee Paraphrast takes it to be the name of him who slew Ahab the Son of Omri But S t Hierom and most rationally conceiveth it to be the name of some Fort or Town or Village near to Megiddon We read in the Story of the Kings that King Josiah going forth against Pharaoh Necho King of Aegypt was slain by him at Megiddon and consequently the mourning in the valley of Megiddon is the mourning for Josiah who was there slain And it is called the mourning of Hadadrimmon either because near that place he received his deaths wound or in that place the mourning for him began 2. That which is next to be resolved is Wherein this mourning appeareth to be great The Answer to which is returned from that in the Chronicles 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 Where we may observe the greatnesse of the mourning in three respects namely the measure the extent and the duration It was Luctus intensus publicus perpetuus a vehement a common a permanent and consequently a great mourning 1. The mourning of Hadadrimmon was a very intense mourning the first word which is there used signifieth to mourn as one doth ob rei charissimae amissionem for parting with what is most dear and certainly where there is a dearnesse of affection there cannot but be an excessive lamentation The Greek there rendreth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word very significant also to note an high degree of sorrow It is not unworthy our observation that the two preceding similitudes of a first-born and onely Son are designed to expresse intensivenesse of sorrow for though that conceit of St. Hierom be ingenious that he whom they pierced was unigenitus proprietate naturae primogenitus à mortuis resurgentium the only begotten by the propriety of his divine nature and the first begotten of them that rise from the dead the only Son of his Father and the first born of his Mother and that in that respect there is a congruity yet doubtlesse the true reason of using those comparisons is upon the account of the mourning The losse of any Child much more of a Son of a younger