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cause_n	lord_n	people_n	sin_n	3,287	5	4.6566	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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