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death_n	aaron_n	child_n	house_n	16	3	5.1859	4	false

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

Zech. 12.11 Acts 2.37 6. The Arabick renders the Text thus All the people of Judah and Citizens of Jerusalem were sadned with vehement grief for King Josiah Whence observe That the deaths of publick persons are to be attended with the publick lamentations of the people Numb 20.19 Proof All the Congregation mourned for dead Aaron thirty dayes even all the house of Israel Deut. 34.8 The children of Israel wept for Moses when he died thirty days 1 Sam. 25.1 When Samuel died all the Israelites were gathered together and lamented him and buried him in his house at Ramah Acts 8.2 Devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him Holy men saith Beza Invocat autem nem● lamented dead Stephen and buried him with a singular example of charity and faith but no man prayed Gen. 50.3 The Egyptians lamented Jacob seventy dayes and Joseph with his brethren and fathers house accompanied with Charets and Horse-men a very great company mourned with a great and very sore lamentation seven dayes Ver. 8.9 10. 2 Sam. 3.31 32. David said to Joab and all the people that were with him Rent your cloaths and gird you with sack-cloth and mourn before Abner And King David himself followed the Biere And they buried Abner in Hebron and the King lift up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner and All the People wept 2 Sam. 1.17 24. David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his sonne saying Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparrel * L. 1. de gentium moribus c. 5. de Aegypticrum ritu Joannes Boemus of the Egyptian Rites thus speaks they bewail the death of a beloved King seventy two dayes renting their garments abstaining from the Market Feasts and Wives casting dirt on their heads having two or three hundred men and women walking about and twice a day renewing their grief in a song renumerating the vertue of the King grieving all those dayes as for the death of a sonne and upon the last day inclosing the Corps in a Coffin did place it at the entrance of the Sepulchre where the multitude did applaud his worthy actions And in * Theb. l. 6. Statius Pampinius describes the funeral fire wherein the body of Archemorus was consumed with gold silver gems and much Artillery attending Tunc septem numero Turmas centenus ubique Surgit eques versis ducunt Insignibus ipsi Grajugenae Reges Lustrantque ex more sinistro Orbe Rogum stantes inclinant pulvere flammas Ter curvos egere sinus illisaque telis Tela son an t quater horrendum pepulere fragorem Arma quater mollem famularum brachia planctum And * Aeneid 11. Virgil brings in Aeneas and his company deploring the death of Pallas thus Spargitur tellus lachrymis sparguntur Arma It caelo clamorque virum clangorque tubarum The very light of nature taught this and therefore Funerals were called Justa Rites Naturâ insitum est saith one non enim trunci sumus aut lapides The live Pismires bury the dead ones magnâ in suam speciem charitate saith Textor with a great deal of charity shewn to their own kinde and so the Storkes and Mr. Sandy's in his Travels relates of the Virginians that having covered the Corps with dust besmut their faces with coal and oyle and howle at the grave twenty four houres Abraham bewails Sarah's death Jacob Rachels Christ Lazarus and a great company of people and women bewailed and lamented Jesus Christ Luk. 23.27 The reasons of the doctrine we shall draw from a three fold spring and all in the Text. 1. From the person dead 2. The Mourners 3. The act of Mourning 1. Taken from the person deceased 1. A King a publick person Josiah 2. His Excellency and Worth And 3. The manner of his death 1. A King a publick person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The chief Magistrate one exalted above others by the head and shoulders a Vice-god Moses had Gods Name lent him Exod. 4.16 cap. 7.1 a god 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Politicus non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not substantially but by way of appellation A King is the living Image of God he is as the Sunne amongst the planets the Coryphaeus saith Keckerman Him who imitateth the wise man we call King saith Plato saith Seneca what is an imprudent King but a Marmoset on the house top The head of Caligula was ill set on Jupiters body The wisest we call King hence King Quasi Kunning Now when the chief shall fail it must cause sinking it is as when a standard-bearer fainteth Esay 10.18 When the Sunne is either eclipsed or set or knock't out of its orbe there must needs be horrible darknesse The people prized David worth ten thousand of them unwilling that he should jeopardize his life 2 Sam. 18.3 Unus mihi Cato pro centum millibus This struck deep on Davids heart when he bewailed Abner 2 Sam. 3.38 saying to his servants Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen in Israel There was so much publick grief in the death of Titus Vespasian that all grieved as if every one had lost a sonne And the people said of Octavian would he had either not been borne or never died A King is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the peoples Basis Among the eight kinde of foundations said * Novemb. 5. 1608. ●n Psal 11.2 3 4. p 30. the King of Preachers before King James this was one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vices successi ons supplies Father and son res et spes must drink of the deadly cup of desolation Now if the foundation be destroyed what hath the righteous done or what shall the righteous do 2. His worth and excellency 1. In his equity and justice 1. He did right in the sight of God 2. Followed the example of David his father 2 Chr. 34.2 2. Religion 1. In his diligent seeking after God betimes when he was young as in ver 3. 2. In destroying of Idolatry ver 4. foretold 1 Kings 13.2 3. Repairing of the Temple ver 8. 4. A tender heart trembling at Gods Word ver 27. 5. Renewing the Covenant ver 30 31. 6. Solemn and unexampled Passeover chap. 35.18 3. Bounty kindnesses and goodnesse ver 26. 4. Valour and undanted courage though he failed in the last act by an act of rashnesse 3. The manner of death The Shepherd being smitten the sheep are suddenly scattered as in Goliah 1 Sam. 17.51 and Abimelech Judges 9.55 The sudden death of Eli and Phineas ashonished his wife that she travailed and died 1 Sam. 4.19 Nil subitum est sem●●● migrare par●tis jus●●s si ●●orte pra●●●●patus 〈…〉 Refri●●ris crit And though it be true that nothing is sudden to them who are alwayes prepared to die and that if a