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A66715 A sermon preached at East Dearham in Norf. Jan. 30, 1661 being the day of the most horrid murther of that most pious and incomparable prince, King Charles the First of England &c. / by John Winter ... Winter, John, 1621?-1698? 1661 (1661) Wing W3083; ESTC R35262 13,115 23

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A SERMON PREACHED At East Dearham in Norf. Jan. 30. 1661. BEING The day of the most horrid MURTHER of that most PIOUS and INCOMPARABLE PRINCE King CHARLES the First of England c. By John Winter Curate Ibid. Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares Jerem. 9.1 Illa tantum demonstrare est destruere Tertul. Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor Ovid. Tris LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. 2 Chron. 35.24 And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah AND who can blame their mourning or who can forbear to mourn in such a case Judah was Gods people Jerusalem his holy City Josiah the best of the Kings of Judah and taken away by an untimely death Hìnc illae lachrimae hence these salt waves and sable weeds And all Judah c. Kings be the best of the best people under God the glory and safety of Churches and Nations whose felicity holds in capite Gen. 3.15 Even the Kingdom of Christ had long since been overthrown could the old Serpent have wounded the head as well as he can bruise the heel Howbeit his implacable spight declares whereat he doth aim who seeing his sting too short to reach Christ in Person persecutes him in effigie He cannot simite the annointed Lord of life and therefore strikes at the life of the Lords annointed He most labours to deface the glory of them who most eminently bear Gods Image and because the Lord hath done Princes the honour to call them Gods he envyes them the happiness to dye like men Psal 82. He knows right-well that the fall alone of the Royal Oake and Princely Cedar will break down the undergrowing Plants and expose the poor Shrubs to all disasters And this was the cause of Gods Lebanon Judah and Jerusalem of which when it was too late the people became sensible Whilst Josiah lived perhaps like other Nations since they thought his Office and Dignity unnecessary troublesome and burthensome But by the waters of Babylon they best understood the worth of their late King under whose gracious Reign they saw peace and truth in Sion And then all Judah and Jerusalem c. In which words are the Person mourned for and the Persons mourning Or here is Josiahs death and His peoples grief The person here lamented is Josiah who is considerable in three respects 1. As a good man 2. As a good King And 3. As being both an excellent man and an admirable King cut off in the midst of his years by a bloudy death And by that time it will be no wonder that all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And first Josiah was a good man His name promised no less and he performed no less than his name promimised that is to be a burning and shining Lord. God frequently gives significant names to his most eminent servants Jacob for wrestling with God is named Israel Gen. 32.28 The famous Prophet who was true to his God in sacred things and yet faithfull to his idolatrous Prince in civil matters Mark 3.17 had to his name Daniel that is the judgment of God The two brethren Apostles who were to be a terrour to sinners and a light to the Church are named by Christ Boanerges the Sons of thunder And this Josiah designed by God for an eternal monument of piety had his name given long before his being 1 Kings 13.2 being in this respect like unto the King of Kings whose name was given before he was conceived in the womb Luke 2.21 Of this Josiah may we say what Christ said of John the Baptist John 5.35 He was a burning and a shining light burning in faith shining in charity burning in zeal towards God shining in goodness among men And pity it were might God think so that such a man should dye the world having so small a number and so great a need of them When Sauls blind zeal for his rash oath brought Jonathans life in hazard the whole Army interposed for his rescue Shall Jonathan dye said they who hath wrought this great salvation God forbid 1 Sam. 14.45 pity that Jonathan one that doth good in Israel should dye at all more pity it is that he should dye by the Sword of the wicked One good mans death is every good mans wound So that for a goad man as the Apostle saith somke would even dare to dye Rom. 5.7 And therefore when the righteous perish and no man lays it to heart it is a most certain sign of greater evil to come Isal 57.1 So soon as righteous Lot was secured in Zoar fire and brimstone from Heaven fell upon Sodom Gen. 19.24 Joash and his people had no sooner murthered holy Zechariah but God delivered them into the hands of the host of Syria Good men are as tutelary Angels in their several stations the wicked world which cannot endure them cannot indure without them Such was Josiah unto Judah and Jerusalem A good man so the story of his life recordeth To him Jobs character aptly squareth Job 1. Persect and upright one that feared God and eschewed evil So that had he been a private person his vertues must have made him publick his goodness made him beloved and therefore his loss the more to be lamented And all Judah c. But secondly Look upon Josiah King of Judah and King in Jerusalem and then common reason will teach nature to pay more than an ordinary tribute of sighs and tears at his last obsequies Publick persons Herses may justly challenge the distilliation of private persons eyes All rivulets and little torrents empty themselves into the main Ocean Can any man forbid or fault this holy water Dethroned and enthralled Princes have had this paid them by their enslaved Subjects Cum nil nisì flere relictum when they were able to do no more and could do no less The Church of God in all ages hath bewailed the loss of eminent Persons though drop'd away with age and gathered to their fathers with the Long Rake of silent time The death of old father Jacob was bewailed by his sons seven dayes with a great and very sore lamentation Gen. last 10. And the Canaanites called it a grievous mourning vers 11. It made an impression even in the Aliens and Insidels Thus when Moses the faithfull Prince and Ruler was dead all Israel mourned for him thirty dayes in the plains of Moab Deut. last vers 8. So great a loss hath a whole Nation in one Moses that they may prosecute his assumptions as Elisha did Elijah saying My father my father the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof 2 King 2.12 Chariots are both for War and Peace and in both good Princes are Israels chariots Without them Nations may have Jehu-drivers for a time who Phaeton-like may set the world on fire and with the Aegyptians drown all in a red Sea of bloud violence and destruction so by wofull experience teaching all Judah and Jerusalem to mourn for one Josiah All