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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

King and people That he would gather him to his Fathers in peace that his eyes might not see all the evill which he should bring upon Jerusalem whereby is clearly implyed that soon after his departure evil should come upon them and had they not reason bitterly to lament his death So that to sum it up since it was not captivity but death and that not late but early natural but violent of no mean man but a King and he not a stranger but a native not a Tyrant but a good King and this both the consequent of their sins and forerunner of their ruine just cause there should be a great mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon 2. There remaineth nothing now to be discussed in reference to the Text but the particle of similitude As which knits the two mournings together by way of resemblance of one to the other and foretels that the mourning in Jerusalem should be as great as that of Hadadrimmon The mourning of Hadadrimmon as you have already heard was great in three respects but as the known saying is of similitudes in general that they do not run upon all four feet so I may say of this in particular it doth not hold in all three The mourning of Hadadrimmon was general so was not this in Jerusalem the greatest part of the Jews remained obdurate and so continue to this day But as the mourning of Hadadrimmon was perpetual so no doubt was the mourning of the converts in Jerusalem to their dying hour And in the mystical Jerusalem the Church of Christ the mourning for our crucified Jesus shall continue to the worlds end And as to that which the similitude chiefly aims at being as it were the edge of the knife the measure of the mourning this particle as is not only a note of quality but equality nay redundance and intimateth that the sorrow for Christ pierced should be as great nay greater than that which was for Josiah slain and good reason upon a double account 1. The mourning for Josiah was by them who were only spectators of his death yea assistants to him in the battell whereas these were the enemies of Christ and actors in that dismal Tradegy who had so much the more cause to weep bitterly for that blood whereof themselves were so deeply guilty 2. Besides which is principally considerable as it was said of Solomon so may I of Josiah Behold a greater ey and a better than Josiah is here one of whom he was but a Type and to whom therefore far inferiour so that what it was said by Lamech of Cain and himself in case of vengeance may be fitly used concerning Josiah and Christ in case of sorrow If Josiah were to be lamented seven fold truly Jesus seventy times seven the guilt of his bloud being not seventy times onely but seven thousand times seven yea infinitely greater than that of Josiah That which I shall observe from hence is that whereas the cause of the mourning of Hadadrimmon was an evill of afflliction and the cause of the mourning in Jerusalem was an evil of sin Our sorrow for sin ought to be as great nay greater than for any outward trouble what soever It is very considerable to this purpose that the Prophet maketh use of so many comparisons drawn from our mourning for worldly losses and those of the saddest nature as if one two nay three were not sufficient to expresse the greatnesse of that sorrow which ought to be for our sins The truth is the least iniquity is a greater evill than the greatest calamity and consequently the committing of the one ought to be matter of sadder lamentation than the suffering of the other But alas how unlike is our practice to this prediction how far short is our mourning for sin of our worldly sorrow if God be pleased to take from us any near or dear relation any earthly comfort whatsoever we are ready to fall into a bitter passion and mourn even to murmuring but though we provoke our gracious God by our sins we passe it over with little or no contrition Like Ulisses who wept more for the losse of his dog than his wife and that Citizen who was more grieved for the losse of his Hen called Roma than the ruine of the City called by that name we can weep flouds of tears for the miseries we endure whenas we have scarce a tear at command for the iniquities we commit Oh! let us be exhorted to heighten and enlarge our mourning for our sin and as those Disciples prayed Lord increase our faith so let us Lord increase our repentance It is easie to exceed in worldly but not in godly sorrow Let our tears for afflictions be only to the ankles but let those for our transgressions be to the knees nay chin they cannot be too high unlesse over head and ears I must not shut up this without a slave for weak Christians who may perhaps conclude against themselves as destitute of godly mourning because they are sometimes more affected with and afflicted for worldly troubles In order to which I shall propose this threefold consideration 1. If our mourning be not greater intensively yet it may and must be extensively for our crimes than our crosses our tears for a worldly misfortune may be like a land-floud more violent but for sin they must be like a river more permanent 2. Though our mourning be greater for afflictions expressively yet it may and must be greater for transgressions appretiatively There is a sensitive and there is a rational sorrow that maketh a great noise whilst shallow whereas this being deep is silent We have oft-times heard one sick of the gout or toothach roar extreamly whilst he that is sick perhaps of the plague saith nothing and yet this latter doubtlesse is inwardly more sorrowfull by how much the disease is more desperate our passion may break forth more violently upon some emergent losse and yet our will may be far more displeased at the sin we have acted than the comfort we have lost 3. Lastly If our godly mourning be not so great effectu in act yet I hope it is and certainly it ought to be greater affecta in desire and endeavour If we cannot mourn so much as we ought let us mourn that we can mourn no more and let us to our utmost strive that our penitential sorrow may exceed all other whatsoever And thus I have done the Composers part in setting as it were the several letters of my Text I shall now endeavour to perform the Printers in laying on the sheets and as it were pressing it home by a punctual and particular Application to the dolefull occasion of this dayes solemn Assembly This Scripture as you have already heard speaketh of a double mourning The one principal and directly intended to wit mourning for Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who was pierced to death by nails upon the Crosse. The

A LOUD CALL TO Great Mourning IN A SERMON PREACHED On the 30 th 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 D. D. D. R. Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majesty and Vicar of S t Martins in the Fields LONDON Printed by Abraham Miller for Joseph Cranford at the Gun in Saint Pauls Church-yard 1662. Veneris 31 die Januarij Anno Regni Caroli Secundi Regis 13. ORDERED THat the Thankes of this House be returned to Mr. Dean Hardy and Mr. Alsop for the Sermons by them Preached yesterday before this House at St. Margarets Westminster and they are desired to Print their Sermons And Sr. Thomas Meeres is desired to return the thanks of this House to Mr. Dean Hardy and my Lord Richardson to Mr. Alsop Will. Goldesbrough Cler. Dom. Com. To the Honourable and Loyal Knights Citizens Burgesses OF THE COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT THere were some dayes which were called by the Romans Atri infansti black and omnious dayes dayes not to be reckoned with a white stone but marked with a black coale Such was and no doubt will be for ever accounted the 30 th of January 1648. by the inhabitants of England Scotland and Ireland as being a day wherein one King and three Kingdomes were beheaded at one blow The King deprived of his natural and the Kingdoms of their political Head Before that dismall Day came I thought my self many wayes oblieged to be among the small number of those who did in their Pulpits earnestly deprecate and vehemently declaim against that villanous attempt Since that time at the yearly Returne either upon or near the day I adventured to become a remembrancer To God be it spoken with reverence of vengeance To the people of penitence for that bloudy fact a fact indeed which though it is not to be mentioned without abhorrency yet cannot be forgotten without stupidity I have now lived to see an Yearly Fast enjoyned upon that dolefull Day to be kept throughout all Generations and by your favour Worthy Senators had the honour to be one of your servants in that solemne Work this last Anniversary I knew not any Subject more proper for such a Day than Mourning and God knoweth my designe and desire was to make all sorry but none angry If because of my impartial reprehension any instead of being pricked to the heart with sorrow were cut to the heart with anger I am heartily sorry I was so much disappointed of my aime My hope is that if they who heard with a left eare will be pleased to read with a right eye they will find nothing but what may very well admit of a Candid construction However I blesse God that my faithfull though slender performance met with your favourable acceptance In obedience chiefly to your desire and partly for my own vindication I have made the Discourse publick which without any wilfull omissions and with very few additions I humbly tender to your review and patronage above all commending it to divine benediction I cannot passe by that remarkable passage of providence which so directed the Preachers Discourses that by the discord of their Notes they made the sweeter Harmony whilst the one excited you to great Mourning the other to exceeding Joy So that I may very fitly invert the Psalmists words Heaviness endured for the morning but joy came in the evening Nor were the Texts upon this account more opposite one to the other than both apposite to the Day on which there was cause at once both of grief for the peoples vices and joy in the Kings vertues sadnesse for the sinnes which brought him thither and gladnesse that he behaved himself so well there And blessed be God that as even on that Day of Mourning there was cause of Rejoycing in the Magnanimity of Charles the First so that after many years of Mourning we have at length great cause of Rejoyceing in the Prosperity of Charles the Second Nor is it a small addition to our joy I speak without flattery that under our Gracious Soveraigne we have at this day an House of Commons made up of Gentlemen and those both faithfull Subjects to their King and zealous Friends to the Church so that we assure our selves Unde periculum inde remedium as an House of Commons was the source of our former miscry so an House of Commons will be the happy means of our future tranquility I shall only crave leave to inculcate in the close of this Epistle what was insinuated in the close of the Sermon That what was heretofore fondly mistaken nay falsely pretended may by you be effectually endeavoured namely a thorough Reformation not of our Religion which though I will not say it is not at all defective yet I cannot say wherein it is corrupt nay I dare say is exceeding good but of the manners and lives of people which are excessively bad That your impartial zeal would purge the Land at once of that faction and prophanenesse which still threaten our ruine Finally That you would go on as you have begun and improve your power to the utmost for promoting the honour of God his name his worship his dayes stablishing the Kings Throne confirming the Churches Rights and setling the Kingdoms peace That in order to these excellent ends the Spirit of the Lord may rest upon you the spirit of wisdome and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledg and the fear of the Lord to guide and direct you in all your Consultations and that your labour of love to God the King the Church the Kingdomes may be recompensed an hundred-fold upon you and your Posterity is and shall be the fervent prayer of Your humble Servant Nath. Hardy A LOUD CALL TO Great Mourning Zachariah 12. 11. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon MOurning is the principal word in the Text and it is the chief work of the day The Hebrew word for mourning signifieth sunebri ritu lugere a Funeral mourning and that this day calls for Finally the mourning of the Text is for the death of a Royal Person and that is the dismall occasion of this dayes lamentation Lace befits not a mourning Suit nor flourishes of Rhetorick a mourning Sermon On such a day and Text as this the Preachers words should be sighs his accents groans and the Auditors tears are the best commendation of the Sermon For this end I am come this day though not as my Saviour saith in another case to send fire yet to draw water that this place may now become like that where the Angel of the Lord delivered his sad message to the Israelites Bochin a

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