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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45690	Threni Hybernici, or, Ireland sympathizing with England and Scotland in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah represented in a sermon at Christ-Church in Dublin before His Excellency the Lord Deputy, with divers of the nobility, gentry, and commonality there assembled, to celebrate a funeral solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector / by Dr. Harrison ...	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916; ESTC R7212	14,766	24

Privy Seal Exempla heroica sunt supra Regulam Nor may the Magistrate kill an Innocent Person but when he puts a Malefactor to death according to God's order 'ts not Man but God that kills him Now to lose such a Magistrate who bare not the Sword in vain but durst draw it against the greatest Transgressor and who durst not touch the poorest innocent with the least of his Fingers as God himself is impotent as to the doing of the least evil Who could do nothing against the Truth as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 13.8 and could not but do his utmost for the Truth this is a great loss unto a Pleople Fourthly As he is Custos salutis publicae the Vigilant Sentinel of Publick Safety Rom. 13.6 for they are God's Ministers attending continually upon this very thing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} watching by the just punishment of the wicked to preserve and protect the Just as Grotius expounds it and hereupon the Apostle makes one Inference ver. 7. Let them have their due and all their their Ministers under them Custom Tribute Fear and Honour 'T is a sin against all Equity and Conscience to deny or with hold any of these from them seeing they are always watching for our Good And let me make another Inference It is a duty which every Man owes the Magistrate in all Proposals Overtures and Endeavours whether relating to Matters Civil or Spiritual to carry it with all possible Simplicity and Integrity otherwise to bring in Evils under painted Vizards and specious pretences what is it but to surprize these Sentinels and to elude their Vigilance and that 's the practice and part of an Enemy such a Watchman of Israel was Josiah such a Watchman was our Josiah it was no easy matter to surprize him How securely did we sleep while he watched over us Bene dormivi quia Antipater vigi avit I slept well to Night said Alexander because I knew a careful Man was in the Watch But what shall become of us now that this Watchman is fallen asleep If he who keepeth Israel who neither slumbers nor sleep watch not over us and over our Rulers and help them to watch for us I and all the World may say of him that 's now gone from us as one said of Mucianus the Roman Consul He did Vim Principis complecti nomen remittere He had all the Power and performed all the part of a good King though he refused the Title Cause have we therefore to take up a woful Lamentation when such a Prince when such a great Man is fallen in our Israel who in all these respects had so benign an Influence into the Vitals of our State And that 's the first ground of the Lamentation A second may be the rarity and scarcity of such as might supply such Decays fill up such a breach such an Hiatus Where shall a Man be found to stand in this Gap He only who hath the residence of the Spirit can supply us And blessed be his Name that he hath made this Noble Vine fruitful and full of Branches that there are strong Rods for the Scepters of them that bear Rule where there is no strong Rod to be a Scepter to Rule whatever some Men think this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation in Ezekiel's Judgment Chap. 19. ult. O let us pray that the Lord would strengthen these Branches that they may not be broken off that no East-wind of Invasion from abroad may wither them no fire of Contention at home consume them as the Prophet speaks in that Chapter Thirdly this is an usual Honour that God puts on his Eminent and Faithful Servants when they are gone their removal is bewailed and lamented Men may marvell as the Disciples did to see a fruitless Fig-tree suddenly withered away Matth. 21.20 but there 's no moan made there 's no mourning But when an usefull Vine dies which affords both Shade and Fruit that 's a loss much more then that of Jonah's Gourd to be lamented the most serviceable shall always me the most Honourable They that live much desired cannot dye but much lamented as for the wicked and worthless Person it shall be nothing so they shall not lament for him saying Ah my Brother Ah Lord or Ah his Glory He shall be buried with the burial of an Ass drawn and cast forth beyond the Gates of the City The loss then of a gracious Prince of a pious Governor is very lamentable The second Point will lead us to look into the Cause thereof and that 's this Observ. 2. The sins of God's people are the fall of their Crown These Traytors pull it from the head of a State or Government and there was a double sin at that time most remarkable in that people First They went about to pluck the Crown of Soveraignty from God's Head They would not hearken to him nor obey him see this in Jer. 25.2 3 c. From the thirteenth year of Josiah and that was the next year after he began the publick Reformation for it is said in the 2 Chron. 34.3 In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem From the very beginning of the Reformation saith Jeremy even unto this day for ten years space together The word of the Lord came unto me and it died not with me But I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye have not hearkned And the Lord hath sent unto you all his Servants the Prophets rising early and sending them but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear to hear They said turn ye again now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and yet ye have not hearkned unto me saith the Lord that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt Thus even in a time of Reformation they fell to Apostacy Idolatry and Profaness they first sunk into Apostacy and then into Calamity and the Crown dropt from their head that was the beginning of it see this further in Zeph. 1.1 The word of the Lord came unto him in the days of Josiah I will utterly consume all saith the Lord Why what was his Controversy ver. 5. They did worship and swear by the Lord and by Malcham they made a hotch-potch a mingle-mangle of Religion they began to curdle and turn by degrees ver. 6. And them that are turned back from the Lord and those that have not sought the Lord nor enquired for him but fell to looseness and leudness as it is there described particularly in all sorts of Persons from the Prince to the Prentice Secondly They did what in them lay to pluck the Crown from Josiah's head the fairest Flower in his Garland studiousness of Reformation there was none like him for that 2 Kings 23 25. and they did what they could to weaken his heart and hands in it they would not bear it they loathed it and