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A03795	The saints losse and lamentation A sermon preached at the funerall of the VVorshipfull Captaine Henry Waller, the worthy commander of the renowned martial band of the honourable city of London, exercising armes in the Artillery Garden. Octob. 31. 1631. By George Hughes Mr. of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Alhallowes Breadstreet in London.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1632 (1632)	STC 13913; ESTC S104275	22,663	58

THE SAINTS LOSSE AND Lamentation A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FVNERAL of the VVorshipfull Captaine HENRY WALLER the Worthy Commander of the Renowned Martial Band of the Honourable City of London To the Right VVorshipfull the President Captaines and Gentlemen exercising Armes in the Artillerie Garden of LONDON Righteousnes Strength and Peace Renowned Worthies THe honour which I beare you next my God my King my Church by the intreaty of some of you hath now forced this rude peece into publike view I 'le censure it to save others the labour farre unworthy of so many eares and eyes that it had and is like to have and by my owne ●udgement once having the censure of the eare it should never have come to the second of the eye but others have passed it and thus much I dare say for it it is truth The end of its comming to you is twofold 1. To minde you of your weaknes death hath made a shrewd breach among you and set upon you in the very front nor in the reare and stro●ke as the very body not at the flanks your chart is unwheeled and your horsemen throwne 〈◊〉 your Captaine is taken off your ●eads O● 〈◊〉 soule is heavy while I speake it 2. To repa●●● your strength and there is but need of it Mee thinkes I see Micaiahs vision the host of Israel scattered as sheep that have no shepheard Should the host of the Lord 〈◊〉 thus Come and let me counsell you Profanenes Pride and Discension are enough●● scatter an army that lie as thicke at grashoppers as dust into the wind when Holines Humility and Love set 〈◊〉 as walls about them that they feare 〈◊〉 force I 〈…〉 accuse you but as my belo●ed br●th●●● I 〈◊〉 you Take heed that the unholy thing 〈◊〉 not found among you walke humbly towards God and man be not all Captaines and love as brethren keeping the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Then aske ioyntly of God a Captaine and aske in faith hee will appoint a man to goe before you in righteousnes courage and the feare of the Lord. having thus to you I would also were I worthy send a word about this matter t our Honoured Senators Be sure ye iudge for God in this great busines and account it not your smallest Honour if yee something deny your selves for the glory of God your Cities flower and your countries good al which lie ingaged in this designe These might I see effected your Captaine and your strength revived my God in both glorified I should have content enough though many censures For this I come forth though I die yet if the name of that Honoured head may live whose praise with God is farre more glorious though I suffer yet if ye may be the better and the stronger for it it is my great reward The care of this your strength I shall ever commend to the Lord of Hosts he strengthen you in righteousnes guard you with salvation make you victorious by faith and triumphant conquerors in his glory In him I r●st Your hearty Orator and fellow-Souldier in Christs Artillery GEORGE HVGHES THE SAINTS LOSSE AND LAMENTATION 2. King cap. 13. ver 14. O my Father my father the charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof THis dolefull cry I heare but twice repeated in these sacred histories and both times at funeralls First this dying Elisha himselfe singeth this burden of lamentation at the funerall of his father Elijah for it was his funerall an heavy parting from his son and from the earth though with a more glorious transportation in a fiery charet by fiery horses and through a whi●●e-wind into heaven his sonne can doe no lesse at this sudden and admired change than lament him O my father my father the charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof 2 Kin. 2.12 Secondly this honour had the same Elisha at his change when he was now sicke unto death from the mouth of Ioash an idolater indeed but yet a King who acknowledgeth himselfe a sonne also to the dying Prophet and now comming to visit his father in his sicknesse and perceiving that death was sent for him and he must loose him hee weepeth over his face and cryeth bitterly O my father my father the charet of Jsrael and the horsemen thereof Heare it once more and it is the burden of this dayes lamentation neither untimely I hope nor unseemely not untimely for it 's at a funerall nor unseemly it being the funeral of so honored an head by whose death I dare speake it I would we might not feele it there is a charet unwheeled and an horseman throwne this day in Israel It is true here is neither King nor Prophet to be lamented yet a father of many sonnes in as great a right as Eliah of Elisha or Elisha of Ioash such as a fatherly respect hath made children and want of this father hath made lamenting orphans yet a man of God a righteous soule zealous for the Lord of Hosts in whom God had placed not a small part of the Strength of Israel blame us not then if we take up this lamentation and cry O my father my father c. The words are the naturall notes of a burdened soule and the bitter expressions of a mind oppressed laid out by griefes peculiar a Aposiopesis Rhetoricke outcries and broken distracted speeches O my father my father and there he stops O the charet of Israel and the horse men thereof and then he stayes the mind doubtlesse had something else to vent but griefe smothers it and the weeping passion will not let it out My defence is from my text if I●be broken and confused griefe cannot speake otherwise and mournes like such sermons best whose companion and preacher I am at this time Yet if y● desire a fuller sense of these distracted outcryes and a more perfect resolution of these broken speeches thinke my soule now to be in their soules stead and let me personate a while El●shah to E●●ah or I●ash to Elisha not in his wickednesse but his lamentation and me thinkes if geiese would suffer me I could tell you what they would have spoken O my father woo is me my soule is sorely troubled for thee Alas what shall I doe oh my heart my heart aketh and my soules even ready to be powred out I can have no rest for my staffe is broken and my father is quite taken away from me O my father What doe I stay behind for a poore forsaken orphan O how happy should I be if death would doe me that favour as to bring mee now after thee O my father my father or I would I onely had lost a father and were a mourner alone that I might yet finde others to comfort me but on which side soever I looke I see none but mourners oh my heart is almost broken All Israel laments and cryeth bitterly after thee for their charets and horsemen are fallen because thou art departed

O Ioash thou art a mourner at Elish●● death Vse 1. but who thinkst thou will lament at thine The righteous indeed fall and the City is mooved all cry after him and the streets ring with their lamentations but the wicked are cut off and all is still they are neither missed nor desired nor lamented We will not crosse he proverb yet may we limit it Eccl. 2.15 So dyeth the wise man even as the foole so dieth he indeed for the nature of his death his soule is separated from his body but not so for the manner issue and consequents of his death hee dyeth a wise man but this a foole he like a Saint expecting to rise againe gloriously but this as a beast which perisheth for ever he dieth and is lost as a pearl this and is never missed like carrion he is taken away and bitterly lamented but this is cut off and not so much as desired Will ye see how they use him when he is gone It was Iehoiakims case sonne to Iosiah king of Iudah a wicked wretch whom God thus cursed when he was dead Ier. 22.18 19 Non plangent eum vae ob fratrem meum vae ob sororem non plangent eum vae ob regem vae ob regnum eius Sicut proiiciunt cadaver asini sic proiicient cadaver eius lacerabitur proiicietur ultra portas Ierusalem Calv. paraph. They shall not lament for him saying Ah my brother or ah sister they shall not lament for him saying Ah Lord or ah his glory He shall he buried with the buriall of an asse drawne and cast forth beyond the gates of Ierusalem Reade here and see your doome ye generation of evil doers though ye be the sonnes of kings and children of Princes yet your iniquities make you stinke ye die and are dragged and tumbled out like carrion this is your sentence from heauen It is the curse of folly to be buried like an asse Secondly Vse 2. O Israel how art thou beholding to Elisha Thy child indeed yet thy father thy guide thy counsellour thy charet and thy horsemen thy sinewes thy very strength and safety and 〈◊〉 this why doest thou not love him oh how would I weepe over thee with Ierusalems lamentation O Israel Israel thou that keepest the oracles of God and callest thy selfe by the name of his Church why art thou weary of thy righteous Princes thy righteous Prophets thy righteous soldiers and righteous people thou seemest not to regard though they be persecuted killed and stoned oh that thou wouldst consider in this thy day the things which concerne thy peace before they bee taken from thine eyes thy peace thy safety thy strength is in thy righteous members doest thou so slight them while thou now inioyest them Woe is thee thou wilt be feeble when they are gone then shalt thou weepe bitterly and they will not be How is it that thou art become unnaturall thou forsakest thine owne and thou harbourest strange children can salvation be thy walls when unrighteousnes and oppression are among thy rulers profanenes among thy Prophets strange altars in thy temples and idolatry in thy habitatations Alas thy leannesse thy leannesse thou art become weake and feeble and thy destructions are now upon thee Were I worthy to counsell thee yet I may call to thy remembrance Gods counsell unto thee O that righteousnes might abide rule in thy habitations that thou wouldest ingrave it on thy Nobles on thy Iudges on thy Prophets on thy Captaines and on thy Souldiers that in thee might dwell only a people of righteousnes then shouldst thou be as the strong City which the Lord hath founded salvation should be thy wals the name of Iehovah thy tower thy rereward and thine everlasting strength thou shouldest be built as on a rocke that can never be shaken and be established as mount Sion Gods holy place which shall never be remooved Lastly is Elisha among the sicke Vse 3. and maimed and cripples and feeble what doest thou heere Elisha How commest thou thus tyred and weak and faint thou righteous soule thou strength of Israel hast thou bin dallying playing the wāton in the harlots lap are thy locks sho●● oh Sampson and hast thou betrayed thy strength into the hands of thine enemies Hast thou lost thy Captain thy Assistance thy weapons where is faith now where is that Almighty praier that openeth and shuts heaven that calleth for legions of Angels Alas thou hast sinned thy God is hidden from thee and thy confederates dare not come neere thee thou canst not hand before the enemy nor wind a weapon for thy defence thy strength is become weaknes and thou hast made thy selfe a scorne to the adversaries whom thou hast sometimes wounded Shouldst thou thus tempt God and fall this is thy rebuke yet let me advise thee too Come shelter thy selfe a little under the wing of thy redeemer stay there while thy locks are growne thy Captaine will come that way then lay hold on him thy forces goe along with him gather them together draw out thy weapons again and begin to use them let faith pitch it selfe upon thy God through thy Christ tell him thou wilt throw thy selfe upon his power and faithfulnes to preserve thee let thy prayer set upon him mightily and give him no rest untill hee come againe and renew tsty strength like the Eagles Then comfort thy selfe oh thou charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof the eyes of all Israel are upon thee for their strength thou mighty man of God they weepe with bitter lamentation when thou art taken from them and shouldest thou quaile for any adverse power Consider thy strength thou hast power to combat with hell and overthrow it to grapple with death and to defeat it to make the grave tremble and open unto thee that thou maist arise againe come forth a conquerour Death may humme about but it is a drone it hath no sting sinne may make a bluster but it hath no strength hell may belch foorth great words but it is already vanquished to thy hand and the grave may threaten much but it can doe nothing against such a mighty man as thou art thou hast now nothing to doe but resting in Jehovah thine everlasting strength sit downe and sing Death is swallowed up in victory 〈◊〉 death where is thy sting oh grave or 〈◊〉 where is thy victory The sting of death is 〈◊〉 and the strength of sinne is the law But th●nk● be to God who hath given me victory through our Lord Iesus Christ I have now done with my Text. I mistooke I have not yet done I must have one cursory more over it for this heavy and sad occasion then I close up indeed yet the corrupt custome of our dayes maketh mee almost afraid when men of corrupt minds enemies to godlines and children of their father the divell must bee made Saints at their funeralls and though all their life time they