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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

became neither good Rulers nor good persons Trebell Apoll. like Saturninus who told his own souldiers that advanced him and they soon found his words true that they had spoiled a good Captain and made an evil Prince Little hope can be of that Kings Raign to whom popular confusion gives right and title No King is like to him that cometh to the Scepter in the Name of God and holds it according to his Commission Such a one was good Josiah descended from David of the Royall Tribe of Judah Such a Kings death may well force tears to flow from all Judah and Jerusalem But then thirdly look upon this best of Kings taken away by an untimely death cut off in the midst of his dayes the thirty ninth of his age and by the hand of an uncircumcised Egyptian And who but such a black Infidel would have aimed to kill so fair a King But oh what makes Josiah expose his sacred Person to their black darts and venemous malice In this alone setting humane frailty aside was Josiah to be blamed of all that we read of him Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt came up to the River Euphrates to fight with the King of Assyria and Josiah not interessed in the quarrell engaged against the King of Egypt prompted perhaps by State-policy to remove so bad a neighbour but God had a further purpose in it that Josiah being taken away Judah and Jerusalem might smart for their transgressions committed in the dayes of King Manasseh So mcuh the Word of God informeth us 2 King 23.26 27. Thus deep are Gods judgements Manasseh the Grandfather and his people fill Jerusalem with bloud and abominations and Josiah the Grandchild a pious and tender-hearted Prince must be slain in battell by the hand of a cursed Infidel and made the Prologue to the Nations tragedy This may seem to call in question Gods providence or at least his promise for how doth Josiah go to his grave in peace when he is slain in battell The answer is this here in one act doth God shew mercy and severity mercy to Josiah severity against Judah It was a mercy to him that he lived not to see the evil which they lived to feel They that understand not how he died in peace let them know he died in peace with God and that peace passeth all understanding Whoso hath that peace need not fear Egyptian arrows but he that hath it not dies untimely though he live long and dies unhappily though a naturall death What an arrow did to Josiah a feaver or any other disease might have done and of necessity something must do The arrow that slew him wounded all Judah and Jerusalem It was to him the arrow of Gods deliverance to them the arrow of Gods vengeance it was to him but a single death but to them a manifold judgement Not the Sun but the sublunary creatures suffer by the Suns eclipse Josiah was delivered from a rebellious people to keep a perpetuall holy day with Saints and Angels whilest they have leave to sigh and groan under a long Babylonish servitude And then all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And so come we to the persons mourning And all Judah c. Judah was Jacobs fourth son by Leah and predicted to be the head of that stock whence Christ lineally was to be derived according to the flesh Gen. 49.8 The whole Tribe is here put in the name of their great Progenitour So all Judah all the Princes and Nobles were perfect Royallists None of them attempted none conspired none rejoyced but all lamented at the death of good King Josiah It would have been an eternall blot to the Tribe had not the branches cast their leaves when the stock was so cut down They must have been bastard imps and degenerate plants that had been otherwise affected for Josiah And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned c. Jerusalem was the Royall City and residence of Kings the Metropolis Psal 122. the joy of the whole earth There were the liverly Oracles the Courts Civil and Ecclesiasticall the Priests and Levites the Judges and Elders There was Mount Sion whose gates God loved more than all the dwellings of Jacob Psal 87.1 This Jerusalem this great and glorious City All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah As then Judas the traitor was not born nor had the Priests learned to betray or to buy and sell their King in the Temple Though bad they were yet so bad they were not They did not then rejoyce but mourn for the untimely death of Princes To this all Judah and Jerusalem by their noble extraction and by their civil and sacred education held themselves obliged being far unlike to some great Cities which prodigiously have rebelled against those good Kings under the shadow of whose wings they have grown warm in wealth and cold in obedience But Jerusalem held firm to Josiah in his life and they most heartily bewail his death And all Judah c. And a poor All they were God knoweth but his one only Tribe of Judah was now free from bondage En quò discordia cives perduxit miseros See whither civil discord brings the wretched people They first disunited in the dayes of Ieroboam from which time corruption upon corruption followed untill all Israel for their sins were carried captive by the King of Assyria and none left but this Tribe of Judah only And now even the glass of Judah was fast running out and to hasten it was much shaken by the sad fall of their Josiah This judgement was their passing Bell. Now he was gone that stood in the gap and there was no sence for Heavens thunderclaps And now all Judah c. Grande doloris ingenium sorrow maketh men truly ingenious want puts the best esteem upon Gods mercies When Israel had enjoyed Samuel from his infancy to his old age though they could not find a fault in him yet they grew weary of him but when he was dead they all lamented him 1 Sam. 25.1 It is one of the vulgar errours and may be put in our English Calendar Praesentem odimus amissum querimur whom we hate present we bewail when gone Perhaps Josiah when with them pleased not all parties Qui multitudini praeest multis displiceat He that rules over the multitude must displease many Probably to the favourers of Idolatry Josiah seemed sacrilegious to the sacrilegious to be superstitious and to the lazy Israelite to be too severe and zealous Benè facere malè pati Regium To do well and hear illis Kingly Howbeit whatsoever they thought of him in his life they all bemoan his death All Judah and Jerusalem mourned c. Now began their sorrow never more were they to see such another King in that Nation that they might know the difference between a Native Prince and a Babylonish Tyrant No sect nor sex escaped the Caldeans rod. So generall the misery so generall the mourning From the Prince on the

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