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A81847	A sermon at the funerall of the truely vertuous, honourable, valiant, in fame, never-dying, Sir Simon Harcourt, one of his Majesties most honourable privie councell in the realme of Ireland, and colonell over some of His Majesties forces there. Preached in Christ-Church in Dublin, Mar. 31. 1642. Before the Lords Justices, and the rest of His Majesties most honourable privie councell, his Majesties commanders and souldiers for that present service. By Edward Dunstervill, Batchelour of Divinitie. Now published by command of the House of Parliament.	Dunstervill, Edward.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing D2618; Thomason E125_1; ESTC R15434	11,217	24

Christ Jesus who gave his owne bloud aransome for you And this of this first point I proceed now from Iosiahs death to the peoples lamentation for him And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for I●siah This mourning for this godly Saint is further inlarged in Zach. 12.11 In that day there shall bee a great mourning in Ierusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimon in the Valley of Megiddon and the land shall mourne c. The point arising thence is That when God takes away an eminent Saint set in place of extraordinary service that then is surely great cause of great lamentation When Abner that great Generall of the field was slaine by Ioab 2 Sam. 3.32.33 it is storied that David cursed Ioab and he and his people mourned greatly for Abner and sayes the Text the King lift up his voyce and wept at the grave of Abner and all the people wept and the King lamented over Abner c. Again behold what excessive mourning was by him and his people at the tydings of the death of Saul and Ionathan but especially for righteous Ionathan Then David tooke hold of his cloathes and rent them and likewise all the men that were with him they mourned and wept and fasted untill even for Saul 2 Sam. 1.7.12 2 Sam. 1.24 15 and Jonathan and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel because they were fallen by the sword after hee applies himselfe to the women most pathetically and elegantly Yee daughters of Israel weepe over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparell How are the mighty fallen in the middest of the battell O Jonathan thou wast slaine in thy high places I am distressed for thee my brother Jonathan c. Moreover I dare adventure to go further that to be insensible of an affliction that besides a Ioseph a Saint a Land of Gods people is a provoking sinne as is plaine Amos 6.1 2 4 5. Much more when the Lord doth not only wound but take away a Ioseph a Iosiah a religious Statesman a godly Officer as he hath done from us this day 1. Because as you have heard it is a presage of some neere approching evill to the land from whence they are taken 2. Because this begets courage and gives cause of triumph to the adversaries a thing to be lamented oh how did the Papists joy and rejoyce at the death of that sweet Iosiah Edward the sixth and of his unparalleld godly Sister Queene Elizabeth and without question which pierces my heart to thinke on the like rejoycing is now in the hearts of our base and cruell enemits in this Kingdome upon the unhappie tydings of the fall of this renowned valiant This was one maine cause of Davids great mournings for the losse of the forenamed Saul and Ionatham 2 Sam. 1.19 20 21. The beauty of Israel is fallen slaine how are the mightie fallen Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the streets of Askalon Why Least the daughters of the Philistims rejoyce least the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph and for this cause sayes oe o●● our Tex● it was that Iosiah's servants after he was wounded took him out of his owne Chariot where he was and put him into another Chariot to cover and conceale his death from the enemy least they should have then trtumphed in the Campe. Thirdly consider that howsoever it is in many respects a blessing to the Saints thus taken from us yet is it in it selfe a grievous judgement to the people left where they had abode see the Prophets bewaylings of this evill and how hee rankes it with one of Gods sore judgments Isa 3.1 2 3. For behold the Lord the Lord of Heasts will take from Ierusalem the stay and staffe the whole stay of bread the whole stay of water the mightie man marke the man of War the Iudge and the Prophet and the prudent and the Ancient and the Captaine of fiftie and the honour able man and the Councellor So that not improperly may the soules of such cry and apply to the relict land that of our blessed Saviour Weep not for me but weep for your selves for as their gaine is unutterable so in their death the Kingdomes losse unconceiveable I remember what a most solid holy Divine * M. Bolton in his Funeral notes on Iudg Nicols said of the death of a worthy Judge of England that the redemption of the life of such a one in such times as we live in for the good of such a Country had beene worth a Kings ransome neither in my opinion doe I conceive that the life of this deceased Gentleman in such a time and place as this is to bee prized at a lower rate all the bloud in the bodies of a province of Rebels is not worth the bloud that ran in his Vaines The ground of this conclusion is in that the losse of such men doe greatly weaken the State of a Realme especially when a Realme is in such a broken condition and stands in such need of mighty men of men of Warre and prudent Captaines and honourable Councellors and most of all of godly servitors as ours doth this day It is a great losse to lose an Abner a Ioab a valiant Captaine such as were our old English Warwick Talbot and Bedford who were the terrour of the French such as Mountjoy Essex and Chichester in Ireland but there is no losse like the losse of such as these being godly religious As for a swearing deboyst Souldier Ios 7. he may bring a curse upon the Camp he may lose the day in the field though he fight couragiously wee have an example of this in Achan it is like he neither wanted skill nor will nor courage enough to help the Lords noast but by the wickednes he committed in taking the unlawfull pillage the wedge of Gold and the Babilonish garments he so provoked God that he permitted the men of Ai to smite Israels great Hoast them under brave Ioshuah that before prosperous Generall In Tertullians time the Christian Saints were counted of the wicked as now with us hostes publici the enemies of the common-Wealth so Ahab accounted of Elijah the troubler of Israel but the truth is it is Ahab and such as he wicked men who cause trouble and all evill that betides a State being indeed as so many secret hornets and Caterpillars to a Common-wealth or as so many vipers who eate into the bowels of their mother the Church As for the godly howsoever deem'd by the wicked they are the best friends that they have in the world they are the strength of a Land 2 King 2. as it is said of Elijah they are the Chariots and horse-men of Israel that is their very strength of War who prevaile more though at home precando then the Souldiers can pugnando Take away sayes famous Jewell the bonds the hoopes of the vessell and all

will fall asunder so if God take away these who are our bonds our hoopes our Church our Common-weale cannot hold together See Isa 1. Except Lord had left us a seed we had been as Sodome That is except the Lord had continued some seed of righteous men we had been destroyed before this day An example of this we have in Genesis 19. Whenas the Lord was about to destroy Sodom Gomorrah Admah Zeboim and Zegor had there been in those five Cities but 50 45 40 30 20. Yea ten righteous persons the Lord would not have destroyed them for why sayes the Text for tens sake moreover whenas the Lord was bringing fire on them because there was not ten righteous persons found there onely Lot his Wife and his two daughters though a family abased and abused by the ungodly Citizens yet the Lord out of his pretious esteeme and care of them hee provides a Zoar a safe place for Lot and them and commands them to make hast thither Why because saies the Lord I cannot doe any thing marke I cannot doe any thing untill you be come thither Gen. 20.22 These things being considered Vse let any reasonable man tell me when as a godly Iosiah or any other godly and Religious Commander or any righteous person whatsoever is taken away especially I say where there is such breaches and perills whether that the people of that Land nay all the people thereof with Iudah and Ierusalem have not cause to mourne and lament greatly It was Zedekiahs blessing of honour to be lamented of the people Ier. 34.5 And contrary it is a judgment for an eminent person to die and the people not to lament as Jer. 16.4 5 6. Wherefore it is an evill done to the party deceased but indeed the greatest evill is done unto God and to our selves For our particulars Sir Laurence Carij and Captaine Rorchford I pray God it bee not a present sin in this our present evill time we had two religious valorous brave Officers sore wounded to death of late before this Honourable Colonell I might say they were were too slightly lamented howsoever consider what you have heard this day among other things that the neglect thereof is a most grievous sin as a signe of a most wicked sensuall obdurate heart My bel we have other sins as yet reigning and very raging among us want of humiliation on fast dayes excessive drunkennesse abundance of oathes notwithstanding all the desires that God hath brought upon us God of heaven withstand that wee persist no further therein but that wee may forsake our wicked wayes and returne unto the Lord who though hee hath stricken us then wil he surely heale us and make the light of his countenance againe to breake forth upon us in this land of darknesse But passing many other things which the very short time of my meditation constraines me unto Let mee beseech you right Honourable and the rest of Gods people here present to apply your hearts to a sable sensiblenesse of this great evill which the Lord hath done unto us let it never be said that such a religious affable honourable worthy who came over and offered himselfe willingly to help us and by Gods blessing did having by Gods permission in our cause fallen I say let it never be said that such a great man should fall in this our Israel and the people did not lament least the Lord great Iehovah be angry and in his displeasure take away yet more of those brave valiants which he raised up for us to the weakening of our armies and the ruine of our hopes And thus have I ended a few houres meditation of that which may well be many yeares Lamentation FINIS