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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45691	Threni Hybernici: or, Ireland sympathising 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 funerall solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector. By Dr. Harrison, chief chaplain to his said Excellency.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916A; ESTC R221279	14,781	29

Threni Hybernici OR IRELAND Sympathising with England and Scotland In a sad LAMENTATION for 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 Commonalty there Assembled to Celebrate a Funerall Solemnity upon the death of the late LORD PROTECTOR By Dr. Harrison chief Chaplain to his said Excellency And all Judahand Jerusalem mourned for Him 2 Chron. 25.24 This is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation Ezek. 19.14 4 Reg. 13 14. Pater mî Pater mî Currus Israel auriga eius 4 Reg. 2.12 Cicero som Scip. Omnibus qui patriam conservarint adjuverint auxerint certus est in Coelo ac definitus locus ubi be●ti aevo sempiterno f●u●ntur Seneca Numquam stygias fertur ad umbras inclita virtus LONDON Printed for Robert Clavell at the Staggs-head by St. Gregories Church in Pauls Church-yard 1659. TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS RICHARD LORD PROTECTOR OF England Scotland and Ireland And the dominions thereunto belonging May it please your Highness IT was the saying of David Psal 112.6 The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance And of Solomon Prov. 10.7 The memoriall of the Just shall be blessed Divine Providence made it my Lot to heare this ensuing Sermon pathetically delivered by that Pious divine Dr. Harrison in a ful and fluent manner extracting Tears from the Eyes and Sighs from the Hearts of the Hearers I moved the Doctor for the Printing therof being so precious a Piece touching so unparalle'd a Person that it was more fit to be made publick then to perish in Oblivion who in a modest manner tearmed it A suddain imperfect and unpolisht Collection of scattering Thoughts and Notes which brevity of time and burthen of Spirit would not permit him more compleatly to Compile yet upon my Importunity be was pleased to condescend to my Motion and delivered me this Copy now Printed written with his own Hand The usefulness of the Piece repleat with so many rare Observations together with the desire of Erecting all lasting Monuments that may conduce to the Eternizing of the blessed Memory of that thrice Renowned Patron and Pattern of Piety your Royall Father whose pious Life is his never-perishing Pyramide Every mans Heart being his Tomb and every good mans Tongue an Epitaph hath emboldned me in all humility to present it to your Highness as a lively Effiges to mind you of his unmatchable Vertues And as the learned Author intended it not so much for the Ey or Ear as for the Heart not for Reading only but Practise principally So may your Highness please to make use thereof as a Pattern of Imitation for Piety and Reformation in the Nations that your Highness may become a successful Successor of such a peerless Predecessor to inherit his Goodness with his Greatness that out of his Ashes you may spring another Phoenix as an Honey-Comb out of the strong Lyon a Royall Branch of that rare Root a strong Rod to be a Scepter to rule So shall your Highness holy and vertuous Progress be a new Crown of Comfort to the three Nations filling the Peoples Hearts with joyfull hopes of Happiness and a firm well-grounded Peace that they may sit safely under their own Vines and Fig-trees freed from the Terrors and Turmoils of tumulteous bloody Broils And that your Highness may obtain and enjoy the continuall Protection of the Omnipotent Protector to Crown your Highness and the Nations with Loving-Kindness and tender Mercies shall be the constant Cordiall Prayer of Your HIGHNESS Most humble And faithfully devoted Edward Matthews IRELANDS Lamentation For loss of their JOSIAH LAMENT V. 16. The Crown is falne from our Head Wo unto us that we have sinned THese Words put forth themselves into these three Branches First Here is the Calamity of the People of God the Crown was faln from their head Secondly the Cause of it We have sinned Thirdly the Effect of both they take up a wofull Lamentation upon both these Considerations the latter especially Wo unto us that we have sinned Let me a little open the Words Our Head The Head spirituall is Christ and he cannot fall nor his Crown from him but they speake here of the Civill the outward and visible Head of the State as in Isa 9.15 The Ancient and Honourable he is the Head The Crown that is The Emblem of Praeeminece and Authority and an Ornament in them that have no Authority as in Prov. 12.4 A verteous Woman is a Crown to her Husband Not a Ring for his Finger or a Chain for his Neck but a Crown for his Head a choice and chief Ornament So here they are speaking of Josiah who was the Glory and chief Ornament of their State and so the Hebrew Doctors expound it I know the Seventy say it was written in the time of their Captivity and upon that occasion only and this is embraced generally our Expositers But why might not Jeremy look upon it as then present though thirty years before they did go into Captivity and four Princes Reigns between And that passage in the 2 Chron. 35.25 warrants this Interpretation And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing Men and the singing Women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations Wo is sometimes put for a word of Threatning or Propheticall Denunciation as in Matth. 11.21 Wo unto thee Chorazin wo unto thee Bethsaida c. And in Matth. 23. from the 13. to the 17. Verse Wo unto you Scribes and Pharises Hypocrites Sometimes 't is used as a word of Pitty of Commiseration as in Jer. 13.27 Wo unto thee or Alas for thee O Jerusalem Wilt thou not be made clean When shall it once be Sometimes for a word of Confession or acknowledgement of our sad and calamitous Estate as in Psal 120. 5. Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar amongst these spirituall Blackmoors so in 2 Sam. 1.26 Wo is me or I am distressed or in anguish for thee my Brother Jonathan c. And here it may be taken in all these senses We unto us Now for Now is in the Original our wo is Now begun and it will multiply they felt and foresaw misery coming on their present sorrow was great and their expectation was far worse they saw the Consequents in the Antecedents they saw the Effects in their Causes And so may we unless through infinite Mercy those Causes be timely removed The words thus explained will yield us three Observations Observ 1. It is a mater of wofull lamentation to Gods people when God causeth the Crown to fall from their heads when the Glory the cheif Ornament falls from their State from their Government When a Jacob dies though as a Rick of ripe Corn he be gathered into the Barn yet even the Aegyptians will mourn for