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A47122	A sermon, preached before Sir Marmadvke Langdale at his entrance into Barvvick by I.K., a native of the same place, sometimes preacher of Gods word there.	I. K., Native of the same place, sometimes preacher of Gods word there.	1648 (1648)	Wing K14; ESTC R19010	20,717	29

departing from them pro Christo Domini ac pro Christo Domino Wherefore the Spirit of God who enrolled in the booke of Jasher and bad teach the children of Judah the staves of Sauls funerall song called the Bow hath also eternized among his owne dictated manuscripts Jeremiahs lamentations for Iosiah In which Lamentations that particular or rather generall verse Lament 4.20 The breath of our nostrills the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits may be called the nave of the wheele whose severall beames integrate that whole booke Calvin upon this place taunts the reverend Hierom with grosse errour for saying that this booke of Lamentations was Ieremiahs funerall song for Iosiah and addes that the cited verse is wrested to Iosiah And yet the same Calvin himselfe in another place of his Comments saith in 12 Zach. 11. and justifies it against his owne exposition upon the place from Scripture that Jeremias in hoc lugubri carmine respexit propriè ad Josiam sicuti testatur sacra historia in this mournefull song did ayme properly at Iosiah as the holy History of the Bible testifieth Then coting particularly the foresaid verse he adds after Iosiahs death in cujus animâ vivebat anima populi in whose soule the one soule of the people lived that people was a meere carcase and the taking away of Iosiah was an evident signe of Gods wrath against them and that Gods favour was extinct with that King quia felicitas populi because the happinesse of the people depended upon the King Regia dignitas and the Regall Dignity was a sure pledge of Gods favour to them Thus this word Josiah is dead was to Iudah another Ichabod where is the glory The beauty of Israel is stayned by thy waters O Megiddo with Iosiah vale Lex vale Moses farewell the Arke farewell the milke and honey of the promised Land upon the setting of this Sunne the Manna in the pot melts the blossomes on Aarons red blast and the Almonds become bitter Almonds From Iosiahs death the Prophet dates the fall of Hierusalem By the violation of Iosiahs head Hierusalem her selfe is become sacrum caput and her Epitaphe is prepared in this word Iosiah is dead that is as Chrysostome expoundes that of the Angel to the blessed Virgine Luke 1.31 They shall call his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the people and the successe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall finde and verifie that Iosiah is dead O Ieremy would thou hadst been onely a mourner here and not a Prophet but I finde thee no where more a Prophet then in mourning heere The Prophet knew that in Gods purpose Hierusalem was now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 devoted to ruine that the Temple was already demolished in her patterne in the Mount that the Angels had deserted the Sanctuary and the people were casheered in the High Counsell in Heaven yet was it enough for deploring Hierusalē Temple Sanctuary people all to lament one Iosiah even divine providence so disposing that so pretious an head should not be violate till God had rejected the whole body Luke 23.31 si haec in viridi quid fiet in aridâ if this be done in the greene tree what shall become of the dry one Needes must the people be outlawed when their King is thus rapt from them in whom they had truely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Plato said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose arme was a measure and whose religious minde was a Law to them and what but epidemicall death could be expected when the devotion of so zealous an head could kindle no fire in the paraliticall body He that delivered Abrahams Couzen vexed with the filthy conversation of the Sodomites 2 Pet. 2.7 knew how to deliver Davids owne and reserve a rebellious Generation to emminent judgement Wherefore to the soule of Iosiah the Angel called as once to Lot the husband Gen. 19 22. Escape thou and flye away to bright Zoar the mountaine of the vision of God and leave thy unbelieving wife who of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made to all Nations a monument of rejecting the Law and not hearkning to her King and husband what panegiriques would the heathen who knew not God onely had naturall love of loyalty and vertue have made had they had a King that would have suffered losse of power estate glory liberty wife and children yea whatsoever stupified Subjects prefer before a King rather then consent to the prophaning of Gods service and the enslaving the persons and estates of his people nothing could make their misery more miserable nor more convict them of their rebellion then that their best King was made their last Indeed this honour was due to Iosiahs piety and this solace to his Funerals that none should succeed him whom none could second and that by the sequell of Iosiahs death all Kingdomes might learne how much the weale of a State depends upon the life and how close the ruine of it followes upon the want of a religious King All were defective saith the sonne of Syrach but David Hezechiah and Iosiah Our Posterity will reade a Chronicle of England not Apocryphall that will make them as much wonder at us as admire the story till this day all were defective but Elizabeth Iames and Charles when of three vertuous and religious Kings the third is untimely taken away the people that by having the two first would not learne to appretiate a King are by the losse of the third taught what it is to have none Daughters of Hierusalem Ieremy weepes not for Iosiah but weepes for you and your children for sinne the Mother and desolation the broode lest the dayes come lest the lamentable dayes come in which they shall say blessed are the Inhabitants that have no possessions and the parents that are not indebted to children for education The Spirit of God testifieth heere the blood of Iosiah and the teares of Ieremiah to the end that the people should trace the teares of the Prophet through the bloud of the King first to their owne impending punishment and thence to their past sinnes For if you looke O Daughtet of Iudah to the acts of Jeremiah himselfe he had already lived long if to your owne aggravation of wrath too long if to your neede of such a King to stand in the gap he dyed too soone if to the honour of his owne remembrance he shall never dye but all Posterities shall copie out from Josiah Compositum vis fasque animi sanctosque recessus Mentis in●octum generoso pectus honesto And the remembrance of Josiah shall be like the composition of the perfume made by the art of the Apothecary sweet as honey in all mouthes as musick at a banquet of wine Eccles 49.1 For that name that entred before his mortall life goes not out with it and that which attended not for his birth will not waite on his death But as it was imposed by

A SERMON Preached before Sir MARMADVKE LANGDALE At his entrance into BARVVICK By I. K. a Native of the same place sometimes Preacher of Gods word there Hosea Chap. 3. vers 5. Afterward shall the children of Israel returne and seeke the Lord their God and David their King and shall feare the Lord and his goodnesse in the latter dayes Printed in the Yeare 1648. And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah 2 Cron. 35.25 THE sphere of this Text is Lamentation the Poles whereon it mov●●● Iosiah and Ieremiah In the upper the etheriall part of this sphere w●●● see the bloud of Iosiah in the nether the watry hemisphere wee have the teares of Ieremiah And as the caelestiall Spheres have their first moover above them So is there in this Text a third person the Spirit of God who onely being above the King and the Prophet placed them heere in the Firmament of his word and by this his Testimony hath consolidated the blood of Iosiah and the teares of Jeremiah into fixt Starres wherein all men may reade their common condition and Kingdomes calculate their owne Nativities and dissolutions So in this darke Sphere of Lamentation Iosiah dying Ieremiah crying wee finde yet the Spirit of God testifying though in the cold Region of the revolting Iudah both King and Prophet be eclypsed the one by death the other by sorrow yet are they heere caught up into the cleere Orbe of the Scripture torres eruti deigne and there memorated to all Posterities by the uncloudeable testimony of the spirit of God Zach. 3.2 in whose sight since the death of his Saints is precious Psal 116.13.56.8 and he puts all their teares into his bottle therfore are these things noted in his booke therefore are Iosiah and Ieremiah recorded heere as Monuments and their bloud and teares turned into Rubies and Pearles to make Bracelets to adorne the Spouse of Christ Heere first wee see in Mourning and dying the condition of us all in this world sorrow and death play all our game Lugemus aut lugemur omnes in vicem It is an hard question whether at our entring wee begin sooner to weepe or to dye But in our progresse whereas dying hath no intervals sorrow seemes to admit some interludes but in a wise mans apprehension they are but delusions Looke into the Stage of the world you shall see two serious Actors the Dyer and the Mourner All the rest play the foole or the counterfeit whereupon the judicious spectator Eccle. 2.2 Solomon called out to laughter in●anis thou art mad and to mirth Quid frustra deciperis And the great Iob sayd of himselfe Job 29.24.31.23 if I laughed on them they beleeved it not so seldome did he so little could he laugh qui semper quasi tumentes super se fluctus timuit Deum who thought continually he heard God like the mighty billowes of the Sea rowling over his head But the Sonne of God quoties ve●ò elle Isai 53 3. Psal 88.15 how oft did he impropriate the Title of vir dolorum the man of sorrowes From my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde Luke 17 50. and againe I have a Baptisme to be baptized withall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and how am I straightened till this be fulfilled For well knew the Sonne it was the will of the Father that sorrow should be the dyet and viands of man in the course of this life where the feathers and downe wee rest upon have their quills and thistles the Rose wee smell her pricks the meate on our Tables cryes out to us Mors in ollâ there is death in the pot This habituall sorrow for the fits of worldly mirth quamvis non intempestivis amaenitatibus are but recesses from it and I neither condemne every act of joy Gen. 35.18 nor justifie every motion of sorrow this habituall sorrow from which Bennoni the sonne of sorrow was called Benjamin the sonne of strength and by which the sorrowfull Iabez became more honourable then all his brethren 1. Cron. 4 9. this habituall sorrow I say this commanding sadnesse this mastred and well rayned pensivenesse is wisdome in the minde valour in the heart salt in the wit discipline to the flesh from whence there breakes forth a Majesty in the very countenance It is indeed the ballance of the soule without which a light and empty heart like an unpoysed Barke danceth aloft to the flattry of the windes which will quickly lay her low But we have every where so many causes of the one of these two sorrow that the other death might be jealous we forget him and surprize us suddenly if with the statue of sorrow in Jeremiah the spirit of God had not erected also a monument of death in Iosiah and justly for the same which David calls the valley of the shadow of death in the 23. Psalme he calls the valey of Baca in the 84. for sorrow is saith Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the shadow of sinne and mortality now as if a man were placed so high aboue the earth that night the shadow of it could not reach to him he should have continuall day so those soules onely that have wrought so high that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the last point of this shadow of sin Mortality is below their feete those have no sorrow unlesse it be to looke downe upon us and see quantâ sub nocte jaceret nost ●a dies in what a true night of lamentablenesse we walke here on earth which yet we thicken with grosse conceits of false mirth the best use then of naturall life is the thinking on death O that they were wise saith Moses Deut. 32.29 that they would consider their latter end Sion remembered not her later end therefore she came down wonderfully Lam. 1.9 saith our Ieremie in this Lamentation yea in spirituall life Paul desired to know nothing here but Jesus Christ and him dying 1. Cor. 2.2 sleepe like a Publican takes excise of our life onely the rest of it is our owne he that thinkes not on death is asleepe what wee deny to the one Brother the other takes away O how I love thee thou meditation on death since not time but thou measurest life and makest it mine Through this narrow dark optick of the meditation on death our eyes help'd with the watry spectacles of teares pierce through the chrystalline Heaven and looke to eternall life Iohn confesseth of Peter and himselfe Jo. 20.10 who ran to the Sepulchre and presently returned home that they missed of that dignation which was afforded to Mary who stayed there looking into the tombe and weeping her constant adhering to the Sepulchre had the honour to see the vision of the Angels and her weeping the grace to heare the first salutation of her glorified saviour who appoints saith Esai to them that mourne Esay 61.3 and gives them beauty for ashes the oile of joy for