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A01347	The mourning of Mount Libanon: or, The temples teares A sermon preached at Hodsocke, the 20. day of December, anno Domini, 1627. In commemoration of the right honourable and religious lady, the Lady Frances Clifton, daughter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cumberland: and wife to the truly noble Sir Geruas Clifton of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, Knight and Baronet, who deceased the 20. Nouember, 1627. By William Fuller Doctor of Diuinity, one of his Maiesties chapleines in ordinary.	Fuller, William, 1579 or 80-1659.	1628 (1628)	STC 11468; ESTC S102826	23,698	50

THE MOVRNING of Mount Libanon OR THE TEMPLES TEARES A Sermon preached at Hodsocke the 20. day of December Anno Domini 1627. In commemoration of the Right Honourable and Religious Lady the Lady FRANCES CLIFTON Daughter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cumberland And Wife to the truly noble Sir Geruas Clifton of Clifton in the County of Nottingham Knight and Baronet who deceased the 20. Nouember 1627. By WILLIAM FVLLER Doctor of Diuinity one of his Maiesties Chapleines in Ordinary ECCLES 40. 19. Children and the building of a City continue a mans name but a blamelesse wife is counted aboue them both LONDON ¶ Printed by Thomas Harper for Robert Bostocke and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Kings Head 1628. TO THE MVCH honoured Sir GERVAS CLIFTON Of Clifton in the County of Nottingham Knight and Baronet my most noble Patrone Noble SIR HOW much J stand obliged to your loue and bounty should I be silent others would testifie to conceale it were to call witnesses and to denie it to proclayme ingratitude Neither hath your respect come single or alone For those excellent Ladies of pious memorie which successiuely made your bed happy and I hope your house prosperous as they were to you most deare so to me most noble neuer stranger found either more encouragement in his labors or more ample remonstrance of an honourable loue But there is no earthly contentment but hath interruption or intermixtion wee must leaue it or it must leaue vs. I onely now instance in this that God hath taken those ornaments of their sex as fit for heauen too goo● for earth to both which liuing I was indebted and for both dead by your election the sad membrancer Others might haue set out their perfections better none more mournfully or more truely In which the rarenesse of the subiects haue had the power to make my weaknesse not onely to passe without censure but the publishing to bee importuned with an earnest zeale both by your selfe and others of their and your honorable friends The first long since went out in written copies this last it seemeth must not be restrained within so narrow bounds nor the desire of many satisfied without more ample notice Which sithence it must come to publique view to whom should I present it but your selfe who haue the losse and knowe the truth from whom I haue receiued my meanes and to whom I shall euer remaine thankfull and faithfull in all Christian duties William Fuller ZACHARIE 11. 2. Vlula abies quia cecidit Cedrus c. Howle thou firre tree for the Cedar is fallen ALl the former Prophets one only excepted did see or foresee the Temples desolation the holy Cities widowhood how she that was so great among the nations the princesse among the prouinces was become tributary weeping continually euen in the night and the teares running downe her cheekes whilest the people sigh and seeke their bread abroad the elders sit vpon the ground and keepe silence cast dust vpon their heads and gird themselues with sackcloth whilest the virgins hang downe their heads all crying the ioy of our hearts is gone our daunce is turned into mourning the crowne of our head is fallen woe now vnto vs that we haue sinned But Haggai Zacharie and Malachie are raysed as messengers of glad tidings to tell the comfort of a blessed deliuerance that the gold should be no more so dimme nor the fine gold so changed that the stones of the sanctuary should no longer bee so scattered in the corner of euery street But it is the nature of all earthly hopes to be like sicke mens pulses full of intermissions there being rarely seene sperate miseri in the superscription hope ye wretched but it is subscribed with cauete foelices beware ye happy No day so fayre without some cloud nor life so successefull without some crosses the ioyfullest feast the Iewes had was eaten with sowre herbes and the blessed Euangelists themselues as they preach Christ and his mercies so his crosse and our afflictions And this our Prophet sent to proclayme restauration to the people to his exulta satis filia Zion c. reioyce greatly O daughter Zion shout for ioy O daughter Ierusalem behold thy king commeth vnto thee c. in prescience of that aduent which wee are within so few dayes to celebrate annexeth an interruption in my text and some verses following Vlula abies quia cecidit Cedrus howle thou firre tree for the Cedar is fallen I may terme my text the mourning of mount Libanon a hill replenished with firres and cedars or the temples teares for it was builded of that wood fetched from that mountayne and Hector Pintus interpreting the 17. of Ezekiel and the 3. verse where an Eagle is said to come vnto Libanon and take the highest branch of the Cedar maketh Libanon to bee the Temple and prooueth it out of the Chaldee paraphrast which readeth the former verse to my text Open thy doores O Libanon thus Open thy doores O temple and the fire shall deuour thy Cedars some meane the holy City some the land of promise but all agree that it may insinuate the lamentation of Gods people for some great one fallen And God we know doth often cloath his will in parables vt noua minùs fastidiat variet as that variety may delight and make a deepe impression in him that heareth Nathans tale of the poore mans sheepe that was his whole flocke went to the quicke with Dauid nor is there a more piercing passage in the whole booke of God then Iothams parable of the trees choosing their king and all refused the troublesome honour but onely the ambitious bramble meaning Abimelech the vsurper Omnis homo arbor inuersa euery man they say is a tree with the root vpward and the armes downeward Suppose mee then to be this houre vpon mount Libanon condoling with the firre trees because a Cedar is fallen In the words of the Prophet are three probleme questions as parts obseruable to be both discussed and resolued 1. Why it is sayd Vlula howle a signe of sorrow without measure 2. Quare abies why the firre tree should howle it being the hieroglyphicke of a childe of God who is in no case to sorrow as a man without hope 3. Quare quia cecidit Cedrus why for the Cedars fall Sithence it is cut down only for the building of the Sanctuary and to its owne increase of glory This is the compasse I am to sayle by vntill I land vpon the shore I steere to which is the sad occasion of this dayes meeting A wise-man should not vse much passion nor a good man perswade it for the one argueth weakenesse of iudgement the other wickednesse of minde Affections being those vnruly beasts which reason and religion striue to bridle But there is a great difference betwixt quid agitur and quid deletur what