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A88808	Three sermons viz. Davids tears for his rebellious son Absalom, Israels tears for Abners fall by bloudy Joab, infants tears for Athaliahs treason, / preached by S.L. a true lover of the church, his king, and country, in his country-cure.	S. L.; T. L.	1660 (1660)	Wing L66; Thomason E2129_2; ESTC R210253	75,004	185

our father our nursing father It is observed that the love of Parents descends and flows with a greater stream to their children than childrens love ascends upwards to their Parents and this God shews Isaiah 49. 15. Can a father forget his child or a woman not have compassion on the son of her womb but he saith not Can a child forget his father as if that were too frequent too common and lay at every mans door but spero meliora de vobis I hope better things of you and that ye have learned better things and your duty better than to set light by your father Deut. 67. 16. We take much notice of those whose consciences are so seared and hearts hardened that have not a tear at their fathers grave and God and angels will take notice of us for stupidity and blockishnesse if we will not weep for our Abner our Prince and great man that is fallen 3ly If prayers and Supplications ought to be made for all men but especially for Kings and all that are in authority 1 Tim. 2. 1. then consequently it must follow that their deaths ought to be lamented more than other mens and if so then Vse 2. Is for reproof 1. If those that rejoice and glory in their shame Phil. 3. 19. whose end without great Repentance will be their damnation One boasteth that he subscribed to the lions death another that he tried the lion another that he sentenced the lions damme another that he slew the lion another that he shared of the lions skin but if there be a wo unto them that speak good of evil and evil of good which put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for sowre Isa 5. 20. then as Jacob said of Simeon and Levi Brethren in iniquity Gen. 49. 6. Let not my soul enter into their secret and my glory be not joyned with their Assembly for an horrible curse and wo like the sin of Cain lieth at their door 2ly Of those that had the least hand in or approved of Abners fall Certes many men with Pilate will seem to wash their hands clean from his blood because they were no principal actors in it but qui non vetat peccare quum potest iubet saith Seneca He that is not with me saith Christ is against me or he that hinders not a foul fact but approves of it is as guilty as the principal in it Abner is fallen by whom and whose means the scruple is resolved verse 30. of this Chapter so Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner Abishai being privy to the murther and not preventing it is counted by the Spirit of God as deep in blood as the bloody executioner of the Treason Joab himself David killed not Vriah but the men of Rabbab yet because he plotted and conspired against his life and was well pleased with his death Nathan tells him point-blank and in plain terms 2 Sam. 12 9. Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house Ahab was not accessary unto Naboth's stoning but his wife Jezabel who made use of his Seal unto the Elders and Nobles that were in his City that they might deprive him of life and Vineyard yet he approving of what was done and rejoycing in his spoil and prey that he had taken Elijah the Tishbite meets him and upbraids him of cruelty covetousnesse and blood 1 Kings 21. 19. Hast thon killed and also taken possession therefore in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs even lick thy blood also And in this sence Saul bewailed his sad condition and acknowledged his unworthinesse and unfitnesse to be a Minister of the Gospel to the Gentiles because he persecuted the Church of God and had a hand in Stevens death not as one that murthered him as a cut-throat but allowed and applauded them that acted that villany as his own words best speak it Acts 22. 20. Lord when the blood of thy Martyr Steven was shed I also stood by and consented to his death and kept the clothes of them that slew him Now the Marginal Note saith this is properly spoken for Steven was murthered of a sort of rude rakehels not by order of Justice but by open force and he liking of what was done and lulling and spurring them forward unto it accounts himself a chief instrument in the conspiracy of robbing God of a Saint the Church of a pillar and the world of a bright shining light which would have enlightened them that fit in darkness to the true light Iohn 1. 9. and so to the light of heaven As the intruders into other mens Rectories plead for themselves that they thrust them not out when they are contented to inherit their possessions and eat up the bread that should feed the right owners and their children approving of the Sequestration even so there be that plead not guilty of Abners fall when in their hearts they cryed C●ucifige let him die and stroked the contrivers of his ruine but how one or the other can answer their juggle before God who judgeth righteously taketh the affection and will for the deed I am ignorant unlesse it be with speechlesness like to him that came to the wedding feast without a wedding garment Matth. 22. 1● and so partake of his portion and bitter potion 3ly Those that reviled Abner living and detract from him much more being fallen their greatest religion is ill byassed which is to speak evil of their Prince He that is most foul mouthed like Shimei is held fitest to be a States-man and have a hand in reformation When Paul had called Ananias whited wall and the standers by check'd him for reviling Gods high Priest he acknowledged his errour saying I knew not that he was the High Priest for it is written thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people Acts 23. 5. from whence may be inferred that to calumniate him is sin 4ly This highly reproves those Servants of this Prince this great man that helped to pull him down Gravior inimicus qui latet sub pectore a bosome enemie is of all the worst When Caesar was stabbed in the Senate house and seeing Brutus acting his part amongst the Conspirators it cut him to the heart using these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what and thou too my son Brutus then fall Caesar even so for a Prince to bring up birds to pick out his own eyes and breed vipers to sting him to death it cannot but much adde to the bitternesse of his fall and this made David to complain so sadly Psal 41. 9. That his friend his familiar friend whom he trusted which did eat of his bread lifted up his heel against him that is like a wild horse to kick at him and trample him under his seet Of all injuries there are none stick

for them that fear God and Kings with Princes were ordained to the like purpose i. e. by godly example good Laws and faithfull labourers in the Gospel under them to lighten men to Canaan above for Regis ad exemplum totu● componitur orbis 2ly To relieve those that are in want Thus the Kings of England have their Almoners to fling out money to the poor 3ly The Apostle tells us Rom. 13. 4. They bear not the sword for nought for they are the Ministers of God to take vengeance on them that do evil 4ly Righteous lips are the delight of Kings Prov. 16. 13. and so stand in the gap like Moses between God and his people to make their atonement for them 5ly To vindicate the cause of the innocent from the oppressour and wrong-doers To this effect speaks Solomon Prov. 29. A King that judgeth the poor in truth his Throne shall be established for ever and Prov. 29. 28. and for this light to be put out and extinguished this oyl to be poured on the ground this sword to rust this innocency to be smothered in dust and ashes this judge of the poor fatherlesse and widow to be condemned and this Angel to fall Let us not any more cry out with the woman of Tekoah 2 Sam. 14. 4. Help O King but help O Israel for a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in thee O Israel 4ly Because people without a Prince are like those Acephali a body without a head and sheep without a shepherd as Orphans Fatherlesse as Servants without a Master as the world without a Sun If the eye or head be cut off surely the body will perish If there be no shepherd the sheep lie open to spoil by the greedy wolf and Jesuite If the world loseth his Sun all things wither to nought and if the Servant be robbed of his Master that feeds him fully cloths him richly and rewards him liberally can their ey●s be dry to think of their losse Magis c●rendo quam fruendo The Sheep the Servant the body will know and feel their misery sooner by the want of their Prince than they were sensible of their own happinesse in him Had I wist will not serve turn to say they were deceived to say they were not sensible of Joab's juggle will not avail them in the day of wrath no more than their unjust gotten riches since by Abners fall Prov. 11. 4. And seeing one Prince one great man will not be suffered to reign over them as they in the Gospel said Luke 19. 14. How just will it be with God as the wise man speaks Prov. 28. 2. For the transgression of the Land many should be the Princes thereof whose least finger should be heavier than the others loins as Rehoboam told the Israelites and for gentle rods they should be chastised with scourges 1 Kings 12. 14. 5ly Princes seldom fall alone but their Lord-like Train will as well follow them to the grave as to the palace If the tree be stubbed up at the root the top branches must fall with it the Lord avert this sad presage if it be his blessed will Vse Is for our Instruction 1. To lament over and for our Abner As the Turks have a Proverb unto this day when they would expresse their grief in the privation of any comfort Great such a one is dead as if all their hopes were bedded with him and all their joyes were nipped in the bud And as Phinehas his wife hearing that the Ark of God was taken 1 Sam. 4. 21. presently fell into travel calling hir Sons name Ichabod for saith she The glory is departed from Israel Even so every true Israelite may speak Ichabod our glory is departed from us Abner is fallen great Abner and not more great than good Of whom it may be said as Pharaoh of Joseph Gen. 41. 38. Can we find such a man as this and yet this Abner this great man is fallen the Lord be good unto our Israel that all Israel falls not presently after him Ob. If your Abner were so great so good why did not God suffer him to grow to a good old age as he once promised Abraham Gen. 15. 15. Nay why did God suffer Joab to mow him down like grasse before his eye was satisfied with seeing his ear with hearing and his heart with lusting Eccles 1. 8. Ah certainly latet anguis sub herba there was some Pad hidden under this straw Some Achans wedge of gold Some abominable execrable thing in him that God brought him down so suddenly so wonderfully as it is said of Jerusalem Lam. 1. 9. Ans 1. It is not for dust and ashes to enter into arcana Dei Gods secrets or dive into Gods Cabinet counsel lest whilst we seek to know those things that are not revealed ' we sind not the comfort of those things that are reveiled It was wittily answered by one that was asked what God did before he made the World makes this reply He made Hell for such curious Inquisitors as thou art quae supra nos nihil ad nos those things that are above our sphere belong not unto us to search into Peevish curiositie in man below is detested by God above As the Master of the house said to his Labourer Mat. 20. 14. So I speak to thee Friend take that which is thine own and go thy way and let the rest alone 2ly Who art thou O man that contendest against God or pleadest with God Rom. 9. 20. Wilt thou take Gods glory away and give it to another Isa 42. 8. Wilt thou wrest the sword out of the Lords hand and maintain justice in thine own Shew me thy warrant from Heaven for this Shew me any Law of God or any Law of man for this Ob. 1 Sam. 15. 3. 33. Did not the Lord command Saul to smite Agag King of the Amalekites and when Saul had spared his life did not Samuel hew him into pieces Answ But our Abner was no Agag our Joab no Samuel and so I proceed 3ly Isa 57. 1. The righteous perisheth and no man considereth it in heart and merciful men and Kings too are taken away and no man understandeth that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come 4ly God might suffer Abner to fall for the greater aggravation of Joab's condemnation 5ly Suppose our Abner our Prince our great man had sin in him as there is no man that sinneth not saith Solomon 1 Kings 8. 46. and to the like effect speaks John 1 Ep. 1. 8. yet Religion yet Charity thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. that he was not guilty of so soul a crime that nothing could expiate his sin but his Fall 2ly It teacheth us that it is a great shame for any of our eyes to be dry in such a general losse and publik calamity Jacob wept and mourned for his Joseph and would not be comforted Gen. 37. 35. how much more cause have we to mourn for the losse of