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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47414	A sermon preached the 30th of January at White-Hall, 1664 being the anniversary commemoration of K. Charls the I, martyr'd on that day / by Henry King ...	King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing K507; ESTC R3421	16,534	49

wept at the Grave of Lazarus the Jews look'd on it as a special Evidence of his affection See how he loved him And though Saul deserv'd not such an honour from Samuel having so oft revolted from the command of God sent by that Great Prophet yet was it the demonstration of a scarcely paralleled Love that Samuel mourned for Saul all his Days and this before his Death That the Prophet Jeremiah did no less for Josiah the Threnes and Lamentations by him left to Posterity shew divers whereof were particularly applicable to him telling the VVorld how well this excellent Prince deserv'd Like whom there never was any before neither succeeded any to equal him That the Subject of our Funeral this Day solemnized was as meritorious as Josiah I speak not in the custom of those who in their funeral Sermons oft times bely the Dead atributing Vertues to them whereof whilest they liv'd they were not guilty But my own knowledge confirm'd by an attendance upon him for many years makes me confidently rise to this Superlative The Hebrews make Jeremiah Chief Mourner Maximè lugebat which was partly out of Pitty for that he ran upon a Danger whereof he was forewarn'd indeed forbidden to encounter Pharaoh Necho as Justin Martyr infers But especially in remembrance of His Vertue and Piety His singular love to Gods Service and care of the Temple both in adorning it and ordering the Provision for the Priests That our Gratious Josiah took as great care to preserve the Churches Patrimony and protect the Priestly Office against those Sacrilegious Harpies who made the spoil of both their aim let the charge given to his Treators at Uxbridge testifie with several other expressions in his Declarations Therefore Jeremiah and the Schools of the Prophets had reason to lament Discipulorum inter jubeo plorare catervos And the House of Levi had cause to Mourn Apart And Plorent Sacerdotes Let the Priests weep betwixt the Porch and the Altar Many whereof when He was cut off had neither maintenance from the Altar at which they served nor so much as a Porch to shelter their unhoused heads from the injury of the weather The loss of such a Patron might justly cause the whole Church to Lament To turn the Songs of the Temple into Howlings to change our Anthems into Dirges and Ditties of Lamentation as it did in Josiah's dayes when the Singing Men and Singing Women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations What strange Contrarieties doth Nature and Custom put betwixt our Beginning and our End VVhen we come into the VVorld Tears and Lamentation are our Prologue The first Voice I uttered was Crying as all others use But at our going hence Musick Ushers us to our Grave VVhen I consider the truth of that saying Musica in luctu importuna Musick in a time of mourning is an importunity both unwelcome and unseasonable May I not justly wonder what use the Singing Men and Singing Women had at Funerals Might we not say as God doth Take from me the noise of your Songs I will not hear the Melody c. Sure those who feel the weight and know the apprehension of a just grief raised from a deserving Cause need no Helpers to improve it And yet in all Ages and in all places there have been such The Romans had their Praeficas Tanquàm in hoc ipsum Praefectas saith one who like Counterverse led to the Chorus in their Dirges for the Dead And Jeremy the Prophet bids Call for the Mourning Women Skilful to Lament 'T is true Threnodiae primum à Simonide inventae Their Funeral Songs were first invented by Symonides in Greece But besides these they had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Instruments used at Funerals according to the Quality of the Person who dyed For meaner People Iibias Pipes for the Noble Trumpets VVhen Jairus his Daughter lay dead the Text tells you there were Minstrels who were put out by our Saviour The Reason given by the Jews for coming to those places was that by their sad Tones they might work upon the Affections and encrease the Mourning VVe in our practice have none but Bells for the Common sort and Trumpets for the Prince And surely it is not meerly conceit that though they are the same Bells which Ring at a Coronation and at a Funeral yet our Passion intent upon the Subject believes they sound more sad and heavy for this Last than for the first 'T is just so in the Trumpet whose shril and Lofty Sounds give spirit to a Triumph but at their Masters Hearse their dull and hoarser Accents plainly seem to groan Yet this is not all However the Hebrew reads the Singing Men and Singing Women the Greek hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Nobles of either Sex And justly might they so do Ammianus Marcellinus bewailing the death of the Emperor says Post cujus Lachrimosum interitum unius exitio quisque imaginem periculi sui considerans documento recenti similia formidabat His Fall did warne all those who were in the next station of honour below him That Their condition He was shaken could not be long secure Ululat Abies quià cecidit Cedrus Well might the Firr-tree Lament being of lower growth when the Lofty Cedar fell It was a Prophetick warning given by our excellent Josiah when He found some of His Nobles cool and stagger'd in their Duty towards Him They themselves would one day find the mischief nor must look to retain their Lustre long when He their Great Luminary was Eclipsed Per quem Nobiles Nobiliores facti As when the Fountain of Honour was diminished the Streams deriv'd from it must needs fail He I say gave them This Prophetick warning and some of them found it verified For when the proud Levellers of that time took the confidence to invite the Peers to quit their Station and sit with them in the House of Commons Upon a Contest betwixt a very mean Person and a great Peer one of the most Insolent of the Party to whom Complaint was made scornfully answered He hoped to see the time That a faithful blue Apron should be as good as a Blue Ribbon Therefore most justly Plorent Proceres Let the Peers mourn no less than the Priests Both which have Reason to speak of Josiah to this Day in their Lamentations To perpetuate the Memory of which Solemn Lamentation That neither the Person nor the occasion should be unremembred They made them an Ordinance in Israel VVe have know'n many Ordinances in our late wicked Times to carry on the VVar and prosecute the Life of our Josiah 'T is well we have here one Ordinance to bewail the Facts and Repent our selves The Prophet David calls the Grave the Land of forgetfulness where we forget and are forgotten And elsewhere He Complains I am forgot as a Dead man out of mind But Josiah found a Preservative