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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

his integrity and best meaning misconstrued and misinterpreted 24 25. ver Even so our Prince our great man was calumniated and reproched in the Army by rude Souldiers In the City by ignorant Ephesians Factious Schismaticks and many pratling Diotrephe's In the Countrey by Copper-Smith Alexanders and giddy-brained Athenians stil longing to hear and tell news sucking in all poison and then spewing it out to the disgrace of their Prince This was Christs lot and portion Isa 53. 3. to verse 12. and certainly how ever the world deem of it that servant is highly honoured that is admitted to drink of his Masters cup. If they have done these things to the green tree what may they not will they not do to the dry Luke 23. 31. 4ly Abners fall was lamented by all Israel unlesse it were by cursed Joab and his wicked brood verse 32. Even so our great mans subversion did afford much lamentation in our Rhama where among the more godly and constant godly ones there was weeping and mourning and howling for th●ir Abner for their Prince because he was not Matth. 2. 18. Perhaps there might be some greedy of prey might rejoice in his fall that they might rise and step into his seat but as Christ prayed for his malefactors so pray I Father forgive them for they know not what they do Luke 23. 34. That Crown must needs be dear bought which is purchased with blood and an ill conscience and the losse of a soul as Alexander the sixth sold his soul to the Devil to advance him to be Pope The Romans were wont to begin their Epicedies after the death of their Worthies with Augustus mortuus est the King is dead the tidings of Augustus death made a Land flood over all Rome And why should not Abijahs sad tidings of Princeps occidit our Prince is fallen turn our Israel into Bochim a valley of tears Unlesse we have eyes and will not see and hearts that will not understand the which was one of Pharaoh's plagues We never had more cause to pour out water before the Lord than this day 1 Sam. 7. 6. 5ly Abner falling Ish-bosheth presently fell with those adherents to them both 2 Sam. 4. 7. Even so our Prince and great man falling how many hundred Families that are bread at his Table and were cherished by our good Abner were utterly ruined The Peers lost the honour of their birthright and some of them their lives The Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons with the learned Clergy lost their Livings and Liberties The Gentry their Estates and have not all cause to cry out as Elisha did after Elijah when he was taken up into heaven 2 Kings 2. 12. My father my father What shall we do as the servant of the man of God said Chap. 6. 15. 6ly Abner signifies the fathers Candle and what he was by name our Prince was by nature a bright shining light and Candle as it was said of John Baptist John 5. 35. and this Candle being put out we must needs walk in Egyptian darknesse and darknesse is none of the least plagues 7ly Abner was gulled of his life under a colour of kindnes v. 27. Joab pretended love but intended murther Mol in ore verba lactis fel in corde fraus in factis he had honey in his mouth but gall in his heart he spake to him peaceably but struck him to the heart Even so our Prince was fed with golden promises and Naphthalies goodly words that they would make him the greatest Prince in Christendom if he would null Bishops Confirm the Parliament during their own pleasure Resign the Militia into their hands which having obtained and all they could ask at last cut off his head with his own sword as David served Goliah 1 Sam. 17. 51. And so let us pray From the Crafty Counsel of Abithophel From Rabshakeh's railing Shimei's cursing From Iudas's kisse and Joab's bloody hands Good Lord deliver us From all false Doctrine and Heresie From hardnesse of heart and privy conspiracy From sudden death and Jesuitical cruelty Good Lord deliver us Absaloms unnatural rebellion against his father SERM. II. 2 Sam. 18. 33. And the King was moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept and as he went thus he said O my son Absalom my son my son Absolom I would God that I had died for thee Absolom my sonne my sonne DIC mihi Musa virnm Tell me of any man but the son of man that ever was so soaked in sorrows and soused in tears as David was his whole life seemed nothing else from the Cradle to the Grave but a map of miserie the ground on which he stood a red sea of blood or a wild wilderness full of sharp briars and thorns that pricked and peirced him which way soever he moved his diet like Micaiahs 1 Kings 22. 27. Bread of affliction and water of affliction so that he said truly of himself Psal 102. 6. I am like a Pellican in the wilderness whose nature is to trickle down tears on her bill continually and in this sence saith Job Chap. 57. Man is born to sore travell and trouble as sparks flie upward and this ye shall find in the survey of his life 1. He was a shepherd and he that follows that calling duram servit servitutem serves an hard Apprentiship as Jacob speaks and shews Gen. 31. 40. I was in the day consumed with heat and with frost in the night and my sleep departed from mine eyes 2ly He was despised by Eliab his eldest brother 1 Sam. 17. 28. 3ly He was defied by Goliah the Philistim v. 42. 4ly He was assaulted by a lion and a Bear v 34. 5ly He was persecuted by Saul 6ly Despised by Michal his own wife 7ly He was betrayed by the Ziphims chap. 23. 19. 8ly He was envied by Philistims 9ly And in a word to fill up the measure of his griefs his own son his bosome son his Isaac son his darling son seeks his life and Crown a once and yet for this bird that would have picked out his eyes this cuckoe that would have devoured his damme that bred and fed and cockered him he good man weeps and in the midst of his inundation thus he said O my son Absalom my son my son Absalom I would God that I had died for thee Absalom my son my son From whence we learn after his example Obs 1. To love our enemies to blesse them that curse us to do good to them that hate us and to pray for them which hurt us and persecute us Matth. 5. 44. for saith Christ v. 46 47. If we love them which love us what reward shall we have Do not the Publicans even the same Or if we be friendly to our brethren onely what singular thing do we Do not even sinners likewise but to be perfect even as our heavenly father is perfect but with Steven to render good for evil Acts 7. 60. but with David to mourn and grieve

4. and moreover every mans affection almost extending more propter sua than propter se for his private profit or preferment than for any parts or goodnesse he finds in him like drones which haunt the Hive for the honny sake but to love him dead when he can do him neither good nor harm is rara avis nigroque similima cygno a rare quality hardly to be found among the sons of men and yet this was Davids case Israels case for Abner and ought to be our case for our Prince and great man that is this day fallen in our Israel And so this leads me to the next particular 4ly The place where he fell and that is said to be Israel he fell not amongst the barbarous Gothes and Vandals amongst the Turks and Cannibals amongst the inhuman Switzers in the Conquest of the Thuricences in battel Anno Dom. 1443. or amongst the Numantines who vowed not to break their fast but with the flesh of a Roman nor drink till they had tasted of the blood of an Enemie or amongst the heathen and uncircumcised but in Israel where God was known in her Palaces Psal 48. 3. but in Israel where his wonderfull acts were manifested but in Israel a peculiar people chosen to himself but in Israel where his Prophets taught and his name was called upon Quis talia fando temperet à lacrimis who can restrain tears that where there was such gracious means there should be such gracelesse practices by a brotherhood like Simeon and Levi brethren in evil Gen. 49. 5. If this had been done at Rome where degrading of Princes murthering of heretical Princes with their whole families is a warrantable and meritorious tenet the world would not have trembled at it nor wondered or admired it but to be practiced in Israel the wonder of the world for as it is Deut. 47 8. What Nation is so great unto whom the Gods come so near unto them in all that they call unto the Lord for And what Nation is so great that hath ordinances and Laws so righteous Surely this makes Israels condition equivalent to Chorozins and Bethsaidaes Mat. 11. 21. Wo to thee Corazin wo to thee Bethsaida for if the great works which were done in you had been done in Tyrus and Sidon they had repented long agone in Sackeloth and Ashes Wherefore it shall be easier for Tyrus and Sidon at the day of judgement than for you than for Israel Joab and Abishai his brother were men of War and so the lesse marvell they neither respected the person nor place where they shed blood but the hunters of our Prince and great man to death were not only Sword-men but Gown-men even wolves in sheeps clothing and if God spared not the old world nor Sodom nor Gomorrah 2 Pet. 2. 5 6. how shall they escape the judgement of God to come and the judgement of God is according to truth against them that commit such things Rom. 2. 2. Wherefore as Daniel counselled King Nebuchadnezzar 4. 27. Break off thysins by righteousness and thine iniquities by mercy towards the poor that there be a healing of thine errour even so my counsel to all Israel that have had a hand in the Princes death and great mans fall is according to that we read of Amos 4. 12. Prepare to meet thy God O Israel For repentance may heal where thy sin hath wounded 5ly Davids Proclamation throughout all Israel and Judah to take notice of his losse and their losse his and their losse as if they had with him lost the brightest star in the Firmament or had lost their right eyes right hands or their right feet or as the Church complained Lam. 4 20. The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is taken from us of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall be preserved alive among the Heathen How hath the Lord darkened the Daughter of Zion in his wrath and hath cast down from Heaven unto earth the beauty of Israel draw near behold and see what a Prince what a great man is this day fallen Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel 1. The causes moving David to publish this Proclamation were v. 37. his Innocency to clear him in the face of all the people that he had no hand in spilling this innocent blood finding no fault in the man of those things whereof others accused him as Pilate said of Christ although with a better mind Lu. 23. 14. 2ly To make Joab the more odious to the people for executing such a rash and malicious and unnatural fact As Jeroboam is stigmatized with this brand-mark lying in his Grave Jeroboam the Son of Nebat who made Israel to sin and as Judas the Traytor with this Judas Iscariot who betrayed his Master So Joab hath this spot and blot upon his Coat of Arms to be seen read of all ages Joab that in the time of peace slew Abner in the Gate v. 27. And for this David and let all Israel curse him in the words verse 29. Let the blood of Abner fall on the head of Joab and on all his Fathers House that the House of Joab be never without some that have running Issues or Leper or that leaneth on a staff or that doth fall on the sword or that lacketh bread 3ly That Joab by the sight of the publick mourning and vent which the King and People gave to their full hearts might be convinced of his sin and so brought to repentance Know ye not and thou Joab too that there is a Prince and a great man this day fallen in Israel The Observations from what hath been said are Observ 1. That great mens death and Princes fall ought to be lamented by all This David confirms both by Precept and Example and it is said Praecepta ducunt Exempla trahunt Precepts do sweetly allure but examples do violently draw men to obedience So that if the one or the other be of force to work upon our hearts and eyes to weep with Jeremiah day and night for our Abner then look upon David Lissen to his charge to all the people that were with him vers 31 32. Rent your clothes and put on Sackcloth and mourn before Abner and King David himself followed the Beer And the King lift up his voice and wept besides the Sepulchre of Abner and all the people wept and vers 33 34. The King lamented over Abner and all the people wept again for him As if such a mans death can never be over-lamented Know ye not saith David as if no man should be ignorant of this his duty to his Prince to his Country When Josiah was buried there was so great mone made for him 2 Chron. 35. 22. that it grew into a Proverb Zech. 12. 11. Like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon Yea when Jacob but a mean man although father to a Prince was buried they made so great such an

harvest Death thrusts in his sickle and the fairest corn falls to the ground Wise men die and also the ignorant and foolish perish together Psal 49. 10. I said ye are gods but ye shall die like men and fall like others 82. ver 7. All flesh is grasse and all the glory of man like the flower of the field the grasse withereth the flower fadeth away because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it Surely all flesh is grasse omnis Caro all flesh the flesh of Princes and great men so well as of the Peasant and begger Paul saith Heb. 9. 27. Decretum est omnibus mori There is an appointed time for all men to die All the seed of Adam have had their day Noah Abraham Isaac Iacob Solemon Sampson with our Abner Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel Ob. If God bounds mans life to an appointed time to a day then Ioab seems to fulfill the good pleasure of God in giving a full period to Abners life he was but as the Atropos to cut the threed of his mortality asunder and so how could this be said to be sin in him Ans Cain might plead the same Argument in murthering of his brother Abel but how displeasing it was to the most high let his punishment let his yellings and roarings witnesse to the world 2ly Although mans appointed time be known to God yet it is unknown to man so he is called Palmoni which signifies a secret number because he knoweth the number of our dayes which is secret and hidden to us for as Christ spake of the end of the world Mat. 24. 36. so may I speak in this kind Of that day and hour knoweth no man And so it must needs follow that Ioab's wickednesse was Monstrum horrendum most hainous and detestable Vse 1. All men have their falling day Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye Iudges of the earth serve the Lord in fear Feriunt ceisos fulmina montes the higher ye are the more ticklish ye stand and the more ready ye are to fall ye stand upon slippery places and are suddenly cast down consumed and perished Psal 73. 18 19. Quem dies videt veniens superbum hunc dies fugiens videt jacentem Whom the morning behold swelling and strutting like the proud Peacock the Evening beheld wallowing in his own blood and gore Know ye not that a Prince is fallen this day The day of great men is no longer than the poor mans day and therefore it will be their greatest honour and wisdome to work out their salvation whilst it is day Phil. 2. 12. Heb. 3. 13. For the night cometh when no man can work John 9. 4. Vse 2. Here is instruction for inferiours to pray with Moses Psal 90. 12. Lord teach us so to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome and there is no wisdom like to that of looking well to the better part with Mary and gaining of heaven It is written of Alexander the great that a little pit held him after his death whom the whole world could scarcely contain living and so he was still crowding for more elbow room according to that of the Poet. Vnus Pellaeo juveni vix sufficit orbis And of Franciscus Borgia seeing a little Tomb and Coffin to contain all the Princely glory power and magnificence of that great Empresse Augusta that he departed from her Funeral saying Mortem Augustae sibi vitam attulisse that her death should give him life Even so let the consideration of the mortality of our bodies quicken us and put life into us to labour for the immortality of our souls in blisse Let the meditation of sic transit gloria mundi all earthly glory vanisheth immediately like flax that is set on fire as the Master of the Ceremonies was wont to speak to the Pope the first day of his inauguration mind us to seek after the things above Col. 3. 1. which fade not nor fail not Luke 22. 33. It was the saying of Augustine nescis qua hora veniet vigila ut quod nescis quando veniet paratum te inveniat quum venerit ad hoc forte nescis quando veniet ut semper paratus sis the which I may interpret by our Saviours own words Matth. 25. 13. Ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man will come watch therefore that when he cometh he may find you well-doing And for this cause of that day and hour knoweth no man that every man should watch and be found a people ready prepared for the Lord Luke 1. 17. and so enter into the Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the wotld Matth. 25. 34. When Pharaoh Abimelech Sisera Herod Abner least dreamed of their fall then their day was at an end Let then Abolibah learn to be wise by the punishment laid upon her sister Abolah for what is spoke of Abner here will be verified of all in the same sence although not words Know ye not that a Prince and a great man is this day fallen in Israel Obs 4. In Israel Gods Church is not free from spots In Paradise there was a deadly stinging Serpent in Christs bosome a Juda● In the fairest garden Later anguis sub herba will be some venemous creature Israel was a nursery of Religion and Prophets It was the Lords peculiar treasure Exod. 19. 5. and Vine and yet lo this treasure hath a canker this Vine a deadly Viper couching under her branches to sting Abner unto death Know ye not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day How By Treason Where In Israel whom By Joab I might enlarge my self farther but I will conclude all in a few words The Allusion 1. Abner died when he least thought of death even so our Prince and great man is pulled down to his grave in the flower and strength of his years when he least thought of the turning of the Sun ●● Cesar being asked what death he would choose answered no lingring but a sudden death and this our Prince enjoyes being alive and dead in a moment the breath of man can scarce pronounce so fast Est but the Eccho answereth as fast Non est he is fallen 2ly Abner died a violent death even so our Prince by unmercifull hands on every side is bereaved of his life Gebal Ammon and Amalech Edom and Ishmael Moab and the Agarims Jesuites and Zamzummims Deut. 2. ●0 that is a people who called themselves Rephaims preservers or Physicians to heal and reform vices but played the Devils to open a gap to let in all heresie and abomination and wickedness and profanesse and covetousness which is idolatry These all of them have taken crafty counsel against him Psal 83. 3. and worried him and dethroned him and like Cannihals have devoured him 3ly Abner was evil spoken of by Joab and his innocency tainted and spotted by him and