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A87060	Lacrymæ Ecclesiæ; or The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah. Delivered in two sermons, Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn fasting and humiliation, for the martyrdom and horrid murder of our late gracious King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory. In the church of the borough of Blechingley in the county of Surry. / By Wil. Hampton rector of the said church.	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing H634; Thomason E1086_9; ESTC R202530	24,674	40

and for our National sins we have all contributed to that stock of sin which brought that stroak of divine vengeance upon the Land Let us weep in the bitterness of out souls for the great and crying sins of the Land our mourning repining unthankfulness for former mercies our barrenness and unfruitfulness under the means of grace our swearing and blasphemy our excess and drunkenness our hatred and uncharitableness our irreligiousness and prophaneness and all other our heinous sins which so highly provoked the Lords anger to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of such merciless and blood-thirsty men let us I say mourn for them in the bitterness our souls and beseech the Father of heaven to pardon them all for the merits sake of his dear Son And as we mourn for our provoking sins so let us turn from them subdue and mortifie them that so we turning from our evil wayes and ceasing from sinning the Lord may cease from punishing and turn from his wrathful indignation and restore to us his wonted blessings and favors as praised be his name he hath in great mercy begun Our sins our sins have been the cause of this judgment and of all the judgments following it O let us stir up our hearts with indignation against our sins as the Jews took hold of Paul crying men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth every where against the people so should we lay hold on our sins which are the greatest disturbers and cry to the Lord for help against them as we read of Marcus Antonius when Iulius Caesar was murdered in the Senate house and some sought to pacifie the business he brought forth Caesars coat all bloody rent and cut and spread it before the people Look here sayes he you have your Emperours coat thus bloody and torn whereupon the people were presently in an uproar and cryed out to slay the murderers Thus looking upon this horrid bloody fact and the other judgements crowding in upon us of late years and considering that our sins have been the murderers and authors of all these mischiefs our hearts should be raised to fly upon our sins with indignation and not be satisfied without the destruction of them which have wrought so much distraction among us Vse 2. If the violent death of a good King be a ground of great mourning to all good people see here what good people they are who mourn not nor ever did mourn upon this account what good people they are who plotted contrived abetted assisted and acted in that black and bloody work the horrid murder of our dear Soveraign what good people they were who gloried in it rejoyced in it and justified it being done as I my self heard one say that the taking off of the head of that blessed King was the greatest and worthiest piece of Justice that ever was We know who they were and of what principles they were whose hands were dipt in that blood and whose fingers were defiled with the iniquity The Sectarian party Anabaptists Quakers Independents fifth Monarchists of a new stamp were the sticklers in that detestable black business and the approvers applauders of it Judge wha they are They have indeed of late usurped to themselves the name of Saints good people the well affected of the Nation pious precious men the holy the godly men the holy the godly party as if all other were reprobates to them Whether they be such or no let their workes speak and let the world judge and the Lord himself shall judge If murder aeason homicide parricide regicide hypocrisie perjury immrnity cruelty be piety then let them be Saints Solomon saith That the mercies not of the Saints but of the wicked are cruel from such Saints and from their mercies good Lord deliver us Vse 3. See what cause we have to bless God for the late blessed and healing Parliament which hath endeavoured to avert Gods wrath and to acquit the Land of that innocent blood by disavowing the deed and by Justice upon the Traytors and murderers and to vindicate our Nation and Religion from that shame and reproach which the adversaries cast upon both though unjustly for that horrid fact whereas neither our Nation nor Religion liked or allowed it but loathed abhorred and detested it it was devised hatched and perpetrated by a Sectarian Anabaptistical fanatick party who as the Act saith were as far from being true Protestants as from being true subjects all true Protestants did abominate it and in bitterness of soul mourned in secret for it And blessed also may they be for enacting this Law and Ordinance in our Israel for an anniversary fasting and humiliation in relation to it a thing my soul desired that so we may have liberty and opportunity to express our detestation of it and lamentation for it in publick Vse 4. See what cause we have to pour forth our humble prayers and most hearty supplications to the most high for his mercifull and powerful protection and preservation of our most gracious Soveraign that now is such a son of such a father that this land may never have the like cause of mourning that he may be a second Josiah only any such tragick act or end excepted which the good Lord avert for the glory of God and for the joy and comfort of this Church and Nation That as he hath even miraculously kept him from the peril of the sword and rescued him from the midst of his furious enemies brought him back to his people and restored him with little less then a miracle to his just rights and placed him on his Fathers Throne so he will vouchsafe to be his defence and strong Tower to hide him under the shadow of his wings until uniquity be overpast That his sacred person may never come under the power or be at the mercy of such Saints or rather Satanists whom nothing could suffice but the blood of a righteous King the Lords anointed and as we have just cause to fear who being levened with such sowre principles thirst no less after his Lord therefore disappoint their plots and confound them in their wicked devices Let all that rise up against him be like Sisera and Iabin who perished at Endor and became as the dung of the earth make them and their Princes like Oreb and Zeb yea make all their leaders like as Zeba and Salmunah O our God make them like a wheel and as the stubble before the wind persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storms make their faces ashamed let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloak let their mischief come upon their own heads and their cruelty fall on their own pates so shall the King rejoyce in thy strength exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation for why the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in thy mercy O thou most high let him not miscarry so we thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will be shewing forth thy praise from one generation to another so shall thy name be glorified thy son magnified thy truth defended thy Gospel propagated our breaches repaired thy poor Church comforted which we humbly beseech thee to grant O Father of mercies for his sake who is the Son of thy love and our only Saviour Jesus Christ the righteous to whom with thee and the blessed Spirit of Grace and Truth one Almighty and ever-living God be all honour praise and glory adoration and obedience now and for ever Amen FINIS

doctrine manner of worship and Divine Ordination as if all had been nought and a boundless toleration given for a monstrous many headed new Religion and Priests start up of the meanest and lowest of the people many boldly intruded upon that holy work to administer the Word and Sacraments without a lawful call and separation to it they climbed up and crept in the wrong way like thieves and robbers Iohn 10. they consecrated themselves with audacious and sacrilegious presumption rushing upon that sacred Function and came not in by the door of Divine Ordination which none ever durst presume to do since the Apostles time till these daies of confusion and these were the Priests of the high places these these the only men in those disorderly times who having never taken holy Orders were thought most worthy to be mounted to the high places of preferment 2. A Chaos of confusion follows also in the state They which kill the Heir to gain the inheritance and stone Naboth to seize his Vineyard must maintain with a vast expence of blood and treasure what they have unjustly gotten by which means the poor people are oppressed and squeezed harrowed and peeled to the very bones We have found and felt this true what sore oppressions unsupportable taxes and over-heavy burthens besides devouring free-quarter when our Lord-Danes boasted that all was theirs and that they had more to do in our houses and with our goods expertus loquor then we our selves have we undergone since the oppression and murder of our good King Besides there is a vast confusion after such a fact by reason of contestations between Competitors as was in the Roman Empire upon Caesars death between Octavius Lepidus Marcus Antonius and others there is a furious busling and strugling who shall be Master and Supreme now one strives for it and now another now one hath it and then another now one Government is up and then another and so the oppressed people in this time of confusion are the greatest sufferers pelted and buffeted between both tumbled and tossed and emptied from one vessel to another till their purses are as empty of money as their hearts of content or their lives of comfort Now then seeing such a Chaos of confusion both in Church and State follows upon the murder or violent death of a good King as we all alas can too feelingly and knowingly speak is not the point clear that the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of great mourning to all good people for I am sure none will grant them to be good people unless themselves may be Judges and their own mouths praise them who applaud a Chaos of confusion in Church and State and delight like Sharks Harpies and Cormorants to fish in troubled waters or like Tories to live upon spoil and rapine because there out they have formerly sucked no small advantage I hasten on to the application of this truth to all our souls Vse 1. First then see here what great cause we have of sad mourning and of great lamentation who have seen a Iosiah a good and religious King our great our chief friend our common Father our Bridegroom our dear Husband snatched from us by bloody hands and by a violent death well may this day be called a bitter day as the mourning for one only son or the mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah Let us a little parallel Iosiah in my Text with our Iosiah that so seeing his excellent worth we may be the more sensible of this exceeding loss and find what cause we have for great mourning 1. Iosiah was a very pious and religious Prince well affected to Religion to the true Religion the reformed Religion as it was by his care reformed and restored according to the Law of God found in the Temple by Hilkiah the High-Priest to this he adhered cleaving to the Lord with all his heart and walking in all the wayes of David his father and turned not aside to the right hand or to the lest 2 King 22.2 So our Iosiah was very pious and zealously affected to Religion to the true reformed Protestant Religion which he firmly professed and cleaved to And though his adversaries in the beginning of our troubles blasted him with Popery as if he had been a Papist a slander as false as the Father of Lies could invent and one of their most cunning Engines whereby Absalem-like they stole away the hearts of his people and brought him so low yet he continued constant in it to his last breath and sealed it with his blood and that unparallell'd book which he wrote and left behinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein he commends that Religion to his son our now gracious Soveraign to be constantly imbraced and professed by him which he found by proof to be the best of all Religions and neerest to the Apostolical primity and purity I say this shall stand as a lasting monument to all posterity to the perpetual shame of those malitious Traducers Out of that divine book so I may call it for much of a divinely inspir'd spirit appears in it give me leave to add some of his own sweet words to the Prince of Wales If you never see my face again I do require and entreat you as your Father and your King that you never suffer your heart to receive the least check against or disaffection from the true Religion established in the Church of England I tell you I have tryed it and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the world not only in the community as Christian but also in the special notion as reformed keeping the middle way between the pomp of superstitious tyranny and the meanness of fantastick Anarchy And a little after The scandal of the late troubles which some may object and urge to you against the Protestant Religion established in England is easily answered to them or your own thoughts in this that scarce any one who hath been a beginner or an active prosecutor of this late War against the Church the Law and me either was or is a true lover imbracer or practiser of the Protestant Religion established in England which neither gives such rule nor ever before set such examples 2. Iosiah was very zealous for Gods house he took great care for the repairing of the Temple and the beautifying of it 2 King 22.3.1 Chron. 35.20 So our Iosiah was zealous for the houses of God in the year of his raign he took order that the Temples and Churches through the Kingdome should be repaired and beautified and attempted and to a good degree brought on the reparation of that great Mother-Church the old Ornament of our Metropolis or great City famous for the antiquity of it and for its great bulk being reputed for its building the greatest pile in the Christian world great part of which charge he took upon himselfe which with his fall is falling

sufferings Iosiah a King as good as great yet slain in battell The Lord seeth good sometimes to have it so to humble the best and greatest that none may presume or trust to any worldly priviledge or dignity and to prepare his servants for a suffering condition 2. Let us be instructed to beware of rash Iudgmen not to be censorious of all that suffer either sharp affliction or some bitter death if they die penitently c in true faith of Christ or in a good cause it doth not diminish ought from their future happinesse but rather promote them in the way to glory But let none of you suffer as a murtherer saith St Peter or as a thief or as an evill doer or as a busie bodie in other mans matters yet if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God on this behalfe 1 Pet. 4.15 16. Christ hath taught us not to deem them the greatest sinners who are the greatest sufferers Eo nomine for that very reason because sufferers by the example of those Galilaans who sacrificing were sacrificed Pilate mingling their own blood with the blood of the beasts which they offered and of the other who were mangled and quashed to death by the sudden fall of a Tower Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans because they suffered such things I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Or those eighteen upon whom the Tower in Siloe fell and flew them think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwell at Ierusalem I tell you nay But except you repent you shal likewise perish Lu. 13.2 3 4. And though our late dear Iosiah underwent a bloody death made as it were a sacrifice for the Church and his people by the rage malice and immane cruelty of mercilesse and perfidious men or rather monsters Horrendum factum dictu Horrendum Yet God forbid any of us should have the least doubt of his souls felicity Although his hard hearted and implacable enemies denyed him that which is freely granted to the vilest and most notorious condemned malefactors the help and comforts of his Chaplaines for his souls refreshment in the time of his hard imprisonment and therein as he complaines in his Soliloquies might seem as they sought to deprive him of all things else so to be afraid he should save his soul other sence charity it selfe can hardly pick out of these repulses I received saith he Yet we have good ground to conclude and ful assurance to perswade us that the better part of him is safe they which killed the body had no power to hurt the soul That bitter cup conduced much to his souls happinesse calix mortis calix salutis the cup of death and Martyrdom was to him a cup of Salvation His meek submitting to the will of God his patient bearing taunts reproaches and injuries evento shameful spitting on his meek yeelding to an unjust and bloody stroak his hearty praying for his enemies and murtherers according to that glorious pattern of his blessed Master his commending his soul to God trusting to his mercies in Jesus Christ our only Saviour for an eternal crown all being fruits of a sanctified soule are comfortable evidences of a saved soule Though his death was bloody and violent yet being sweetned with Christs death and his being washed and bathed in the blood of the Lamb we have firmperswasion and good assurance that he lived and dyed the dear child of God and is now a Saint in Heaven praising God among the noble army of Martyrs an heire of salvation and of that immarcescible Crown of glory which the Lord hath promised to them that love him Vse 3. Let it prepare and arm us against the fear and terrour of violent death if such should befal any of us we know not but it may it is sometimes the lot of Gods dearest children Let us not then overmuch disquiet our selves with the fear of violent death by theeves robbers murtherers or by the rebellious rout of Fanaticks The Sectaries talk high and hope yet to have a day their hearts are bloody and their hands would be at work these times they say will not hold we shall have a change though we have now a time of rejoycing yet we shall ere long have a time of howling and crying our harp shall be turned into mourning and our mirth into the voyce of them that weep but we hope their hornes will be clipt and their nailes pared a book be put into their nostrils and a bridle in their lips to hold them back from rebellion and mischief If they should break out in murther as they did begin and if any of us should fall by their knives swords or guns let not the fear or thought of this too much affright us Let us arme and prepare our selves with the shield of Faith and be alwaies ready and if we die in the Faith and favour of our God in Christ it shall not hinder us at all to our way to heaven but bring us the sooner to our Fathers House the place of true rest and happiness I proceed to the second Observation That it hath been an ancient custom among the people of God to mourn for the dead and in a moderate manner to mourn for our departed friends is not unlawful but rather Christian and commendable The custome hath been very ancient Solomon speakes of it as a thing commonly used in his time Eccl. 12.5 And we find it more ancient Abraham the Father of the faithfull bewailed his dead wife Sarah Gen. 23.2 Sarah dyed in Kirjath-arba the same is Hebron in the Land of Canaan and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her Joseph mourned many dayes for his Father Jacob. They mourned with a very great and sore lamentation and with grievous mourning Gen. 50.10.11 All the people mourned thirty dayes for Moses Deut. 34. David mourned for Ammon and for Absolom and for Abner yea he was the chiefe mourner there King David himselfe followed the biere and the King lift up his voyce and wept at the grave of Abner and all the people wept yea all the people wept again for Abner 2 Sam. 3.31 32. And as in the Old Testament so we find it used in the New The devout widows wept for the death of Tabitha Act. 6.39 Christ wept at the grave of Lazarus Joh. 12. And the good woman mourned and wept when he dyed And devout men carryed Steven to his buriall and made great lamentation over him Act. 8.2 And here all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah and Jeremiah lamented for Josiah c. From all which examples we see the the antiquity of this custom and hence Use May learn That moderate mourning for the dead is not unlawful but rather commendable Christians are not to be like Stoicks or rather Stocks void of all naturall affection But to this I shall not need to exhort