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A83971	Englands losse and lamentation, occasioned by the death of that Right Honourable, Robert Lord Brooke, Baron of Beauchamp-court, who was slaine at Lichfield the second day of March. 1642. Amplified, by some mournfull funerall expressions, from the authors feeling sense of so unvaluable a losse; complaining of the kingdomes stupidity, to awake a people slumbering in security, insensible of their insuing misery. Concluding with some consolations to his friends, and terror to his enemies popishly affected, and all malignants. By a loyall subject to the King, and a lover of the late Lord Brookes, and all his wel-wishers.	Loyal subject to the King and a lover of the late Lord Brookes and all his wel-wishers.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2992; Thomason E92_18; ESTC R5991	5,823	8

Prophets thy seers have seene false burdens causes of thy misery misleaders of thy King and Princes Thou art a derision to the Nations that have feared and honoured thee Thy idolatrous Enemies open their mouthes against thee and say this is the day they looked for we have have found it we have seene it Thy righteous men perish and thou layest it not to heart thy young and thy old men lie on the ground and are fallen by the sword in the day of Gods anger but thou regardest it not God hath called for the sword against thee and every mans sword is against his brother yet thou art not humbled to seeke thy God though all this is upon thee for thine iniquity And for thy sinne is this pillar taken from thee He while he lived lived for thee was thy servant to keepe thee from bondage esteem'd thy liberty above his owne life but thou didst not nor hast nor canst requite him his labour love zeale religion and faithfulnesse is his Crowne He died in Gods cause and his workes are with him His Ladies teares his Childrens cries his Souldiers weeping his Servants mourning his Friends bewailing his Neighbours sorrow his Tenants griefe and his Acquaintance moanings The Poores complainings and the Kingdomes lamentations can adde nothing to his happinesse They may all expresse their owne unhappinesse and irrecoverable losse But thou Lichfield the sinke of iniquity cage of uncleane and wicked spirits ungodly prophane and most prodidiously wicked chiefe instrument of the Kingdomes misery let the remembrance of thee be hatefull and thy name blotted out from among the Townes of the Provinces And let it not faile that some of thy inhabitants be for ever visited with some Diseases fall by the Sword and want bread Hee whom thou hast slaine hath finished his course rests from his labour and his soule is for ever blessed The cry of his bloud is gon to Heaven to hasten vengeance upon thee and his enemies And you his friends and Souldiers be you humbled who it is likely are not guiltlesse of his death you have too much deified his worth and provoked God to take him from us When good men are contemned God taketh them away that he may the sooner destroy a Nation or people as Noah and Lot And when good men are deified that is rather looked upon as causes then instruments God also takes them away because his glory is by them eclipsed in dlivering a Nation or people as Moses who died in the Mount whose Sepulcher was never knowne to this day And that victorious King of Sweden who in his life time foretold the same of himself Therfore let every man looke to his owne heart and finde out the sinne that hath displeased God and be humbled and then be not discouraged by this Noble mans death but rather get more courage manfully to avenge his guiltlesse blood and God will assist you The cause is Gods himselfe is engaged in it with you put forth your strength use your weapons make your best preparations but trust in nothing neither men nor Armes but in God who is alone the God of battell and Lord of Hosts he will supply you with an other Ioshua to goe before you and will not faile you nor forsake you The Lord is with you while ye be with him and if you seeke him he will be found of you You have double encouragement to go on with confidence in this cause you have Gods promise and you have experience of his gracious presence going with you in it The Lord heare you in the day of your trouble the God of Iacob defend you First for encouragement take notice of Gods promises he hath promised if you serve him onely he will deliver you 1 Sam. 7. 3. Again He will deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evill touch thee in Famine he will deliver thee from death and in warre from the power of the sword Iob 22. 30. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee Jerem. 1. 8. They shall fight against thee but shall not prevaile for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the Lord Ierem. 15. 20. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly and reserve the unjust to be punished 1 Pet. 2. 9. Gods promises of this nature are obvious in every booke of holy Scripture yea God is delighted to deliver his people when they truely seeke to him See these places Psal. 50. 15. 2 Chron. 16. 35. Object This Noble Lord believed the promises and yet he saw no deliverance Answ. Nationall promises though they never faile a Nation or people when Gods time is come yet are not alwaies made good in the same kind to every particular man as we see in the two first battels of the Tribes of Israel against the Tribe of Benjamin though they went against them by commission from God they were slaine 40000. yet the third time when they had sought God by humiliation and prayer they overcame all those wicked Beniamites who refused to deliver up the men of Belial to the justice of the Law We have also particular instances in Moses Vzza Asa c. Sometime God doth it because of particular failings in men sometimes to make way for the worke of some other part of his providence as it was in the death of righteous Ionathan or for the clearer manifestation of his own power and glory yet such men faile not of their part in such promises but enjoy a greater good and better promise of which the other is but a shadow and we have assurance that all things worke together for the good of them that love God Object But we see whole Kingdomes and flourishing Churches have been destroyed notwithstanding these promises as whole Iudea Jerusalem all the flourishing Churches of Asia and of late Germany the Churches of the Palatinat Rochell and Ireland c. Answ. When whole Kingdoms consent to sinne and associate themselves in wickednesse then whole Kingdomes are destroyed and when Churches set up Idolatry and wholly forsake God and adulterate Gods pure worship God gives them over to be destroyed for as God promiseth deliverance when Idolatry is thrust out by dislike and reformation so he denounceth destruction and desolation where wickednesse and Idolatry is authorized So when religion consists onely inform and outside-worship without the love and power of it as now then God brings a people into the fire of affliction in which without reformation they may be consumed but if such a Kingdome or such a Church doe then humble themselves and pray and seeke Gods face he will be mercifull to their sinne and will heale their Land But the representative body of this Kingdome have not associated in wickednesse nor is the worship of God yet wholly adulterated but Idolatry opposed by that body and many thousands besides in this Kingdome against whom wicked men and I dolaters give counsell and doe associat themselves to hinder the reformation they desire Therefore though not for our righteousnesse but for the wickednesse of those men we may and ought to rest with confidence upon the promise of God for our deliverance if our humiliation be good and our desire of reformation right Secondly for incouragement take notice of the experiences of Gods gracious presence going with us in this Parliament as with Israel to bring them out of their Egyptian bondage he hath by his own hand wrought great things by them and for them he hath been to them a pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to guid and to defend them It was no small part of providence to bring them together and wonderfull in guiding directing providing preferring and defending of them and no lesse wonderfull in discovering defeating and blasting the designes of their enemies Consider that saying of Manoahs wife to her husband when he said they should surely die If the Lord saith she were pleased to kill us he would not have shewed us all these things wicked men may prevaile for a time but are as the Psalmist speakes suddenly destroyed There is one righteous Judge who will give righteous judgement There is one mighty King in whose hand are the hearts of all Kings who in his due time wil save his Anoynted and destroy his enemies and our eyes are towards him for we know not what to do but to trust in him If you beleeve in the Lord your God so shall you be established beleeve his Prophets and you shall prosper 2 Chron. 20. 20. FINIS Lam. 2. 1. We cannot account better of those men then sons of ' Belial and limbs of the devil Who at the newes of this noblemans death called their hellish companions to the Taverns and for joy drunke themselves drunk and in their drunkenesse spake scandalous railing speches against Him God rebuke them God and men heard and saw them 2 Sam. 3. 33. Lam. 2. 13. c. Esay 57. 1. Lam. 2. 21. Ezech. 38. 21. 2 Sam. 3. 29 Deut. 31. 6. 2 Chro. 15 2 Psal. 20. 1. Judg. 20. Rom. 8. 28 Judg. 3. 7 8. 2 Chr. 7. 14 Jud. 13. 23. Psal. 64. 7. Prov. 21. 1. 2 Chro. 20 12.

ENGLANDS LOSSE AND LAMENTATION Occasioned by the death of that Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke Baron of Beauchamp-Court who was slaine at Lichfield the second day of March 1642. Amplified by some mournfull funerall expressions from the Authors feeling sense of so unvaluable a Losse complaining of the Kingdomes stupidity to awake a people slumbering in security insensible of their insuing Misery Concluding with some consolations to his friends and terror to his enemies Popishly affected and all Malignants BY A loyall Subject to the KING and a lover of the late Lord Brookes and all his wel-wishers 2 Sam. 3. 31. And David said unto Joab and to all the people that were with him rent your Clothes and gird you with sackcloth and mourne for Abner and King David himselfe followed the Biere Verse 29. And the King said unto his servants Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel LONDON Printed for L. Chapman Anno Dom. 1642. Englands losse and Lamentation ENGLAND may justly at this day lament with the Prophet Ieremy and say How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from Heaven to the Earth the beauty of Israel As if the Lord had purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion He hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying he made the Rampart and the wall to lament He hath destroyed and broken her barres Her King and Princes are among the Gentiles The Law is no more Her Prophets find no vision The Elders sit upon the ground and keep silence they have cast up dust upon their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth And for my selfe mine eyes doe faile with teares my soule is troubled because of Englands miseries Her own sword hath destroyed her Prophets like a destroying Lion her young men are slaine her Virgins are defloured famine is entering in upon her When children and sucklings wil say to their mothers where it bread Where is drink when they swoone as the wounded in the streets and powre their soules into their mothers bosome O England where is thy glory Thy Freedome Liberty Lawers and Religion shall thy freedome be lost and thy hereditary liberties be taken from thee thy just Lawes corrupted and thy Religion adulterated by Idolatry and yet will you not see it Shall thy profits be destroyed and thy honorable men slaine by the sword and thou not avenge it Where is thy zeale to God where is thy care thy love thy Justice to posterity art not thou guilty of depriving thy children of the blessing which God hath by thy Fathers given thee wilt thou not maintaine thine owne inheritance and the rights of thy children or wilt thou suffer those worthyest to be destroyed that lose their lives in thy defence and not avenge their bloud Is there not a Prince and a great man fallen in Israel fallen by upholding thee and not onely a Prince and a great man but a holy just and righteous great man a Pillar of the Church a supporter of the State That right Honorable Robert Lord Brooke rightly to be honoured to lasting posterities He was honest and just to all men righteous in all his wayes and religious in his whole life learned in all arts And able in all Sciences Loyall to his King faithfull to his Country And valiant in his undertakings for the defence of both to his end pittifull to his enemies in his end happy to himselfe And by his end terror to his enemies whose bloud will hasten vengeance upon the actors and causes of such cruelties Who can but commend his parts and honour his vertues Morall and Divine What man can staine his life blemish his practise tax his fidelity or gainsay his stoutnesse courage and valour in him as much manifested in so little a time as ever in any man At his first meeting with his great Antagonist E. N. betweene Banbury and Edge-hill Heroick Brooke offered to deside the contraries quarrell by a Lordly combat as is knowne to those whom it then concerned and for his undaunted courage against the face of an Enemy in battell Let Keinton and Branford make report Stratford cannot deny it and Lichfield must confesse the same Whose basenesse had no resistance against his valour but cowardly treachery And thereby have robb'd the Kingdome of a pretious Jewell and weakened the Church and state of a principal pillar O England consider What hast thou lost But why doe I aske thee thou knowest not thine owne losse Thou art in thy stupidity or in a slumber of carnall security a foolish and undiscerning Nation Thou rejectest thy friends and imbracest thine enemies Thou lovest pelfe and slightest pearles art at peace with thy destroyers and makest War with thy preservers That hast lost a Noble refreshing Brooke an unvaluable friend a pearle of great price a Hector better then ever Troy injoyed an Achilles more valiant then ever Greece possessed A Brook yea a Brook better then the famous river Nilus Nilus could onely refresh the herbes and plants of Egypt This Brook the lives and spirits of men Who ever knew him and grieves not who can say he loves God religion the King the State or good men and yet mournes not for such a losse a pillar of the Kingdome a staffe of the War a peere of the Parliament a Patriarch of his Country a sincere servant of God and a loyall Subject to the King and State He this pillar this staffe this Peere this Patriarch Gode servant the Kings Subject He is slaine slaine in the Kings and his Kingdomes cause slaine treacherously basey and cowardly by an Enemy and Traytor to both If David a King lamented over Abner though he had beene his Enemy how much more should we lament over this our Abner a friend alwayes and to the death as faithfull as Ionathan to David But how died this Noble Brooke died he as a foole dieth no died he by the hands of his equall no died he in a battel by any valour of any Enemy no But how died he As a man that falleth before wicked men to fell our Noble Brooke and all his friends weep and lament for him Weepe thou his vertuous Lady cry yee pretty children his owne pictures weepe al yee his Souldiers mourne yee his servants bewaile your losse all you his Friends Tenants Neighbours and Acquaintance And you poore people weekly relieved by his bounty weepe and houle yea lament whole England because he is not Thou wilt know thy losse by the want of him though thou prizedst not thy gaine whilest thou hadst him but thou canst not recover thy losse I cannot but take up my lamentation for thee as once the Prophet did for Ierusalem by way of quaere What shall I witnesse of thee what shall I equall to thee that I may comfort thee for thy breach is great like the Sea who can heale it Thou hast beene deluded by thy