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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55552	The death of good Josiah lamented a sermon occasioned by the death of our late most gracious soveraign Queen Mary, of ever blessed memory, preach'd at Balsham in Cambridgshire, March 3, 1695 / Joseph Powell ...	Powell, Joseph, d. 1698.	1695 (1695)	Wing P3063; ESTC R3155	12,894	33

2 Chron. 34.19 rent his clothes which was a receiv'd sign of great sorrow and concern and calling his people together exhorted them to a Reformation and engag'd them to enter with him into a covenant v. 31. before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and with all their soul to perform the words of the covenant which were written in the book and to render this more awful the better to fix it upon their minds that they might remember to do it all the days of their life and to begin the work of diligently observing the Law he appoints a solemn Passover such a one as had not been from the days of Samuel 2 Kings 23.22 nor in all the days of the Kings of Judah to that time this was the work only of one year He lived after this thirteen years but all the remaining account left of him is only in the general that he applied his time and his power to the perfecting that good work he had began and this remembrance of him stands upon the Sacred Record when his Life was clos'd that like him There was no King before him 2 Kings 23.24.25 neither after him arose there any like him It is hard to be conceiv'd what a Blessing a Prince of so much piety and goodness is to a people what a wonderful influence his authority when thus used has upon reforming a Nation what is the force of his example and how strange a change and alteration it soon works in the manners of a people who will ever be disposed to imitate and follow the pattern set them by those who rule over them The holy Books have noted it of Josiah's example that it provoked all Israel to serve 2 Chron. 34.33 even to serve the Lord their God so that all his days they departed not from following the Lord the God of their fathers I might add to this a consideration of the eminent favours and unusual kindnesses God sometimes shews a Nation with respect to the piety and goodness of those who have had the rule over them so God is said to have done great things for Judah Isay 37.35 for his servant David's sake and this a long time after David was dead But behold a dark veil overspreading all this glory the scene is shifted and that which now appears strikes with horror and amazement the heavens darken the Inhabitants of the earth are fill'd with trembling and astonishment and all faces gather blackness This Prince of all their hopes was snatcht away by a violent and immature death in the flower of his age being but thirty nine years old and at a time too when they had reason to promise themselves the greatest blessings and advantages from his government There is still a more dismal thought he was snatch'd away in Judgment a very terrible and severe Judgment to the Kingdom of Judah God was angry with them and upon executing often denounc'd threatnings against them but good Josiah was first to be gathered to his fathers 2 Kings 22.20 that his eyes might not see the evil God was bringing upon them Of him those words of Isaiah are supposed to be spoken The Righteous perisheth c. 57.1 and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous are taken away from the evil to come Jeremiah began to prophesie of this in the days of Josiah and when he fell he mentions it as near approaching that incomparable Prince whose Piety and Vertue had kept it off in his days being removed and the certainty of his Prophesie was proved by the event For soon after his death all things ran into confusion and evil hastned apace upon them and their long captivity in Babylon was at hand His immediate Successor had but a short reign of two months and was carried into Egypt and there dyed The next after eleven years was bound in Fetters and carried to Babylon The third came to the Crown at eight years of Age and left it again after three months and ten days when his Brother was plac'd in the Throne in whose time the Wall of Jerusalem was broken down and all the Palaces thereof with the house of God burnt with fire his Sons slain in his sight his own eyes after this put out and he bound with Fetters of Brass and carried into that long captivity which that Nation endur'd in Babylon There is but one thing more to be observ'd in the Death of this excellent Prince though his death was sudden and violent and in the vigor of his age yet the holy books speak of him as one who came to his grave in peace the same phrase is used in the mention of Abraham his death Gen. 15.15 who died in a good old age This phrase therefore of coming to his grave in peace used concerning Josiah notwithstanding the manner and circumstances of his death learns us that Death at whatever time he approaches cannot be untimely to a good man and though it may be a severe Judgment to others to himself it is a great blessing Well then may we allow them to be concern'd for the loss of such a Prince 2. They mourned for Josiah Mourning for the dead is very agreeable to the softest and most tender passions in our nature and some outward solemn significations of this have been in use and practice in all Nations Solomon speaks of it as a known and constant Funeral usage Man goeth to his long home Eccles 12.5 and the mourners go about the streets This being by custom limited to a certain time the Scripture calls the days of Mourning This was especially observ'd towards those who had been in eminent stations in the world whose Funerals were ever attended with mournful lamentations with regard to that power and authority they once had So David appointed a solemn lamentation for Saul and for Jonathan his Son 2 Sam. 1. and compos'd a Funeral Song on this occasion they took care also to deposit the earthly remains of their dead in their proper Sepulchres which places were always accounted sacred and not to be violated Abraham had such a regard to this that whilst he was yet a stranger in Canaan Gen. 23. he purchased a place to bury his dead in Where he himself and Sarah his Wise were afterward buried Jer. 22.19 and the Prophet pronounces it as a Judement upon Jehoiachim that he should be deny'd that solemn burial used to persons of his quality they did not grutch any cost expended upon their interments as appears by the account we have of Asa's Funeral 2 Chron. 16.14 and did all that was in their power to express an honourable regard to the memory of the deceased as we find done to Hezekiah at his death 2 Chron. 32.33 When great and good were in conjunction when the person was as