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A88807	Peplum olivarii, or A good prince bewailed by a good people. Represented in a sermon October 13. 1658. upon the death of Oliver late Lord Protector. By George Lawrence A.M. minister of Crosses Hospital.	Lawrence, George, 1615-1695?	1658 (1658)	Wing L659; Thomason E959_4; ESTC R207645	20,778	41

just man be surprized by death he shall be in heaven yet in respect of Outwards and Relations an unexpected blow brings more than ordinary distraction and it leaves a very sad character of Gods displeasure when men as birds and fishes are caught in the snare and taken in the net Eccles 9.12 13. When the first-born were suddenly slain there was a great cry Exod. 12.29 30. Quis cladem illius noctis Virgil. Aeneid 2. quis funera fand● Explicet aut possit lachrymis aequare dolores 2. Taken from the Mourners themselves 1. The sins of subjects hasten their Princes deaths 1 Sam. 12. ult and especially 1. Idolatry 2. Disobedience to the Word and Dispersers of it 2. The peoples losse and this will appear by what chief Magistrates are represented in Scripture 1. Captains to lead 1 Sam. 9.16 2. Sir John Heyward in the reign of King Edward the sixth Shields Psal 47.9 Hos 4.18 As the Protectour and Admiral were call'd King Edwards Shield and Target 3. Heads Num. 25.15 Judg. 11.8 9 11. 4. Heirs of Restreint Judges 18.7 And Sauls Reigning 1 Sam. 9.17 is called restreining Heb. When these curbs and bits are gone horses turn wilde People are sons of Belial without a yoke when these Sea banks are broken down Libertinisme will break in as a mighty torrent 5 Breath of the peoples nostrils Lam. 4.20 Zedekiah being in prison as Calvin notes his peoples breath is stopt Motions cease when there is a suffocation 6. Healers Esay 3.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chosbesch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chobesch of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chabasch to tie and gird fast tying as a Chyrurgion and Physician a Ruler Iob 34.17 Because Princes bind their Subjects by their Lawes Patients dye when Physicians give them over The good Samaritane did cure when the traveller was wounded Luke 10.34 7. Shepherds Cyrus my Shepherd Esay 44 28. David from a Shepherd of sheep came to be a Shepherd of men Psal 78.72 Homer calls Agamemnon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the King doth rule by feeding Matth. 2.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now Christ speaking of his death and the dispersion of his Disciples said Smite the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered Incustoditae diripiuntur oves which sentence is thrice spoken of in Scripture Zech. 13.7 Matth. 26.31 Mark 14.27 After Pauls departing grievous wolves would enter not sparing the flock Acts 20.19 8. Fathers Agasicles King of the Spartans had this Apothegme That there is no more firme ground of establishment than when a King doth govern his subjects as a father his children and saith Lavater Princes are good parents and if fathers die children should consider the benefits they have enjoyed and the many hardships and pains their parents have sustained for them Wicked Ioash weeping over dying Elisha call'd him O my father my father the Charet of Israel and the Horse-men thereof Yea they are not only fathers but nursing fathers Num. 11.12 Esay 49.23 9. Corner-stayes which binde the main building If these are blown down the house it self will not stay long after Esay 19.13 10. Builders Psal 127.1 11. Watchmen ibid. 12. Eyes Job 29.15 An eye with a Scepter was the Egyptian Hieroglyphick of a Princes Vigilance and Rule If the eye be out or dark how great is that darknesse Matth. 6.23 Such a Land is a meer Polyphemus blinded 13. Saviours Obad. ver 21. to which may be added three more 14. Steers-men A Prince * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Polit. saith Plato is as a Ship-master who alwayes takes care both of the Ship and Sea-men 15. Pilots to conduct safe in the midst of Shelves Rocks Enemies and Tempests 16. Husbands a good Prince is maritus populi Now if it be an Art of Arts and Discipline of Disciplines to rule men as * Ars Artium Disciplina Disciplinarum regere hominem Nazianzen speaks then to lose such a Ruler is a losse of losses not easily expressed or repaired 3. The peoples miseries an inundation of calamities came tumbling in on Josiah's death Jehoahaz his eldest sonne was quickly deposed and the Land fined 2 Chron. 36.3 Iehoiakim his second son was fetter'd ver 5. The Temple was ransackt and the Vessels were carried away ver 7. and Zedekiah his third son was imprisoned and blinded Nebuchadnezzar and the King of the Chaldees crushed all some were killed others taken prisoners Temple City Palaces and all the goodly Vessels were destroyed and the people were carried into captivity and remained in Babylon seventy years The death of a Prince saith Charles the fifth is as the Suns Eclipse which usually portends commotions and perturbations of State some time after and this made Christ turn himself and speech to the daughters of Ierusalem not to weep for him but for themselves and children foreseeing a terrible storme coming on the State after his decease Luke 23.27 28. saith the Prophet Ieremy chap. 50.17 the Pastor being away Israel is a scattered sheep the Lyons have driven him away First the King of Assyria hath devoured him and last this Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon hath broken his bones 3. Taken from the Act of Mourning 1. It testifies love John 11.35 36. Jesus wept at the death of Lazarus then said the Jews behold how he loved him 2. It s restrictive of envy reproach and slander John 11.21 36. The people beholding the sad Tragedy of Christs death in all its Acts smote their breasts Luke 23.48 * Gratia major est cùm hominibus tanta reverentia incutitur ut agnitis criminibus Christum jam colunt quem bactenus irriserunt The grace is greater and more remarkable when so much reverence is struck in men that acknowledging their sins they now love Christ whom before they scorned saith Aretius and indeed the dead move more compassion than when they have been living Lycurgus the great Law-giver more prevailed with the Lacedemonians when he was dead than when he was alive Julius Caesar wept at the sight of dead Alexander and living Alexander startled at the Tombe of Cyrus The Deeds and Trophies of Miltiades did affect Themistocles and of Hercules Theseus and Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester when he had chop 't off the head of Thomas Lord Cromwel Earle of Essex by his own Engine saith Speed yet when he was dead seeing the general Mourning did wish when it was too late that Cromwel were alive again Even such praise the dead which are already dead in the speech of the Royal Preacher Eccles 4.2 3. It is impulsive inducing others to sympathize and condole John 11.16.33 Si vis me flere dolendum tears of friends draw on the tears of enemies and neuters Gen. 50.3 11. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob and the name of the place was called ABEL MIZRAIM the mourning of the Egyptians Even the daughters of the Nations shall lament Ezek. 32.16 The wicked Prophet mourned over the man of God slain by a Lyon 1

PEPLUM OLIVARII OR A good Prince BEWAILED BY A GOOD PEOPLE Represented in a SERMON October 13. 1658. Upon the death of OLIVER Late Lord Protector By George Lawrence A. M. Minister of Crosses Hospital 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homeri Iliad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said Achilles Theodosius tan●us Imperator recessit à nobis Non totus recessit reliquit enim nobis HONORIUM filios suos i● quibus eum debemus agnoscere Ambrosius in Obitu Theodosii When the Inhabitants of the Land saw the mourning in the floor of Arad they said This is a grievous mourning wherefore the name of it was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ABEL MIZRAIM Genesis 50.11 LONDON Printed by E. M. for Samuel Thomson at the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO THE THRICE ILLUSTRIOUS RICHARD LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND AND THE Dominions Thereunto belonging May it please your Highnesse TO accept this poor Oblation as a Testimony of my unspeakable grief and sympathie for the losse of your Renowned father OLIVER LATE LORD PROTECTOR and as a paremphasis and acknowledgment of thankfulnesse for your Highnesse personal undeserved respects to Your most Loyal And Humble Subject George Lawrence PEPLUM OLIVARII OR A good Prince BEWAILED BY A GOOD PEOPLE 2 CHRON. 35.24 All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah IN the twentieth Verse is Described the subsequent manner of Josiah's death The Coherence after he had done so many Glorious Actions and especially his unexampled Preparation of the Temple That we may understand saith Cajetan That Divine Grace even in the time of the Old Testament is granted to the very friends of God not according to life temporal though it be very much desired And the occasion was this Pharaoh Necho or the lame King of Egypt came to fight against the King of Assyria 2 Kings 23.29 Whom some suppose to be Hadadrimmon or Adad the sonne of Tabrimon who was Benhadad 1 Kings 15.18 Josiah's confederate and reigned in Carshemish from whom or the abundance of Pomegranates the City and the battelfield seeme to take their names Which * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 70. place was eminent for the mourning of Ahab slaine at Ramoth Gilead say Jonathan Adrichomius and others and especially for the mourning for Josiah wounded and slaine in the Valley of Megiddo Zech. 12.11 But that Benhadad was at this last fight computers do deny he being dead many years before this engagement of Josias And therefore more probable it was Nebuchadnezzar the elder who was both King of the Assyrians and Babylonians and Carchemish by Euphrates was his present hold which being a Syrian City mentioned in Esay 10.9 and Jerem. 46.2 sent many forces saith Josephus against the Medes and Babylon who had often worsted the Assyrians What was the cause now is not known but it is apparent that there was continual hatred betweene them The Truth and Antiquity of which story as to its substance is attested by Herodotus in his second book called Euterpe Lavater saith That Interpreters write that the King of Assyria had expelled the King of Syria out of Carchemish whom Necho intending to restore brings his forces through Judah the nearest way having received a Commission to make haste and Josiah fearing National troubles withstood this lame yet flying Necho And Albeit Necho sends him Ver. 21. 1. Ambassadours of Peace 2. Informs him of a special Commission from God 3. Disswades him from intermedling 4. And though he tells him of the danger as having received a prophecie from the Prophet Jeremy that he should go to Carchemish and prevaile saith Hierom in his Hebrew Traditions yet notwithstanding all his arguments Josiah provokes Necho and drawes forth to fight in the Valley of Megiddo Note That the best of Gods people have their oversights and failings which many times they cannot see to redresse before it be too late James 3.2 In many things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we stumble all Humanum est errare Homo sum * L. 1. Histor Alieno Imperio felicior qudm sao Tacitus saith of Sulpicius Galba that he was more happy in anothers Kingdome than his own But Josiah was more happy in his own Kingdome than anothers And though some things may plead for Josiah as 1. His zeal against a proud cruel and lofty person 2. His assistance of a Confederate 3. His defending his own Land from Invasion 4. Necho's pretended Commission might have been a meere Collusion though the effect shewed otherwise 5. Expedition and haste to prevent an Incursion yet Josiah was not blamelesse 1. Because hearing of Necho's Commission he was incredulous For God can speak by wicked men as Balaam Caiaphas yea by brutes as by Balaams Asse 2. Because he was self-confident persisting in his resolved course 3. Because he asked not counsel from God saith Cajetan He must be in haste indeed who taking a long journey will not pray a short prayer Whence we may learn 1. That there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 2. That God leaves his many times to try them 2 Chron. 32.31 3. That though God doth punish such yet he moderates his corrections Seen in Asa Jehosaphat Amaziah Uzziah Hezekiah and here Josiah Though he dies in Megiddo yet in the peace of his Kingdome and he lives in heaven 4. That the wisest hath no cause to trust in his own wisdome Eccles 7.16 17 18 Prov. 23 4. Cease from thine own wisdome For though Josiah thirty years was a wise holy and happy Prince yet he erred at last in bringing warre on Egypt Many and great be the errors of wise men which made Cicero himself exclaime against himself O me nunquam sapientem our own wisdome is a weak Reed which will quickly fail 5. Be not Censorious saith Job ch 12.5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a Lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease 6. Beare with the infirmities of the weak Rom. 14.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Receive such as mothers their sick and weak children into your bosome 7. It is our best wisdome to flie to the true Oracle for wisdome and to pray Lord order my steps in thy Word Psal 119.133 and to cry Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not Psalme 17.5 8. Adde watchfulnesse Matth. 26.41 Josiah is now come to the bloody field Verse 22. the Valley of Megiddo taking its name from a Town or Castle near adjoyning for the word generally notes a Town or Castle saith Strigelius Armageddon mentioned in Rev. 16.16 notes the place of cutting in pieces or the destruction of a Troop saith * In his consent of Scripture Broughton of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Eusebius and Mageddon the Mount of Megiddon It was a City whose King Joshua took Josh 12.21 And hence it appears Tunc tua res agitur that Necho marching beyond his bounds moved Josiah to