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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

the body though it seem to nature like the irrecoverable falling drop of raine into the Sea takes not away the naturall relation of the body which is twofold One of the materiall body to it private soule of which Iob sayd Job 19.26 though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my selfe and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reines be consumed within me And Paul this corruptible must put on incorruption Cor. 15.53 this despicable this numericall corruptible arguing from the exemplary cause the second Adam to all the faithfull and againe concluding from the finall cause to all men generally wee must all appeare before the Tribunall of Christ that every one may receive in his body the things he hath done Cor. 5.10 Whereupon as Hierome reports the Church of Aquileia that when they pronounce the beliefe observe that of ancient the beliefe was rehearsed in the Congregations for visible confession of the faith is the forme of the visible Church speake that Article emphatically of this flesh pointing every one to his forehead Of the latter relation of the mysticall body which is the body and soule of the believer to Christ know you not saith Paul 1 Cor. 6.15 that your bodies are the members of Christ And againe this is a great mystery but I speake of Christ and the Church Eph. 5.31 For that two shall be one flesh veriùs intelligitur saith Augustine de Christo Ecclesiâ hath its full truth in Christ and the Church Now the reason why God would suffer this vessell of flesh consigned to glory fall into corruption and not translate it presently as he was able into corruption may be thus gathered from his word It stood with the wisedome and power of the great Maker all whose gifts are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to let that earthen vessell which himselfe had framed in the confines of spirituality and now by the envy of the Devill was blemished to continue ever in that deformity but rather to returne it into the lumpe and mould it over againe and this councell of the Almighty wee reade first foretold in the old Testament Jer. 18.6 then fulfilled in the new God is the Potter and wee the clay saith the same our Ieremy who prophesied of the buying of the Potters field Mat. 27.9 when by the envyer of the Potter this vessell was deformed Iesus Christ overcomming the Malignant defacer purchased of God with the price of his owne bloud the moulding againe of the Vessell which he had redeemed from the enemy Wherefore he gave us a manifest tryall in his owne body which though he suffered to dye to purchase the remaking of all the rest yet it as it needed no new molding for any staine and to be returned into the lumpe so could not be held of death nor see corruption So the grave is the Potters field purchased with Christs bloud and burying the placing of the shivered vessell in Godslimbeck to be new cast when he shall with fire calcine the whole masse of the world carnis aurum è limi sordibus excusato censu eliquabit saith Tertullian alluding to that of Malachy Mal. 3.17 And they shall be mine in the day when I make up my jewels Therefore my beloved Brethren be stedfast unmoveable alwaies abounding in every worke of the Lord and duty of devotion forasmuch as you know your labour is not in vaine in the Lord but what is done herein to the Body is not Bodily but Spirituall and full of glorious hope as if your now departing soule should whisper thus to the Body feare not deare sister our instant seperation nor thy folowing dissolution I know that our Redeemer liveth and I have intrusted him with thee so that he is both a Proprietary and a D●positary and by this my last Testament I bequeath thee to him who with his owne bloud purchased of the great Potter thy reparation and whom the God of Peace brought againe from the dead by the bloud of the everlasting Testament I know whom I have trusted and I am perswaded that he is able to keepe thee whom I have committed unto him against that day Wee have learn'd from the Text that Religious mourning and decent buriall are to be performed to every Christian and that sorrow and death continue after Noah a generall inundation we finde in that J●siah dyed and Jeremiah lamented And Jeremiah lamented Observe how the spirit of God dwels upon and delights in enlarging this Testimony what an honourable Crowne of suffrages encompasseth this Jeremiah lamented First imediately before the Text the tide of teares brake in upon Hierusalem then surrounded Juda then overflowed all Judah and Hierusalem universus Juda Hierusalem luxerunt yet still the floud swells and with it the expression of the spirit of God moving upon the sad face of the waters and Jeremiah lamented as if all the former teares had beene in Jeremiah's teares drown'd crown'd wept over againe Then presently after the Text for like a Sepia Jeremiah deales his black dole round about him first all the singing men and the singing women the whole quire replicant resownd Jeremiah's epicediall anthemes further they made them an ordinance in Israell these pious Homilies are injoyned to both Kingdomes by an Ecclesiasticall constitution can there be any more yet yea Ecce scripta sunt Behold they are written in the Lamentations recorded and acknowledged by the spirit of God as his owne made part of Gods word so that we may say to this day God laments for the King by Jeremiah Jeremiah lamented one of the Priests Jer. 1.1 of the sonnes of Aron sacerdos è sacerdotibus saith Hierome to whose holy order Gods owne word made it a prophanation to mourne for the dead Levit 21.1 upon the death of the King the divine Law admits a prohibition upon such an occasion the head used to sacred unction is bedowed with teares and the water hath got above the oile thus Jeremiah the Priest lamented Jeremiah lamented the Prophet the egregious Prophet Jer. 1.5.10 sanctified in the wombe knowne before formed set over the Nations and Kingdomes to root out and pull downe to build and to plant This Jeremiah the Prophet lamented Ieremiah had oft had just cause to mourne for himselfe v. 8. in the 20 chapter I cryed out I cryed violence and spoile because the word of the Lord was made a reproach to me and a dirision dayly In the 18 chapter they said come let us divise devices against Jeremie let us smite him with the tongue v. 18. In the 37 chapter he was apprehended and accused of treason v. 15. and falling away to the enemies of the State and thereupon smitten and cast into the dungeon yet all this writ him not in the black letter and great charactet of a Lamenter but now some occasion hath presented