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A87060	Lacrymæ Ecclesiæ; or The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah. Delivered in two sermons, Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn fasting and humiliation, for the martyrdom and horrid murder of our late gracious King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory. In the church of the borough of Blechingley in the county of Surry. / By Wil. Hampton rector of the said church.	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing H634; Thomason E1086_9; ESTC R202530	24,674	40

sight as I have removed Israel and will cast off this City Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I have said my name shall be there 2 King 23.26.27 So that for the great sin of the Land was this blessed King snatched from his People by untimely death as a punishment not of his but of their iniquity According as Huldah the Prophetesse had informed the Messenger sent to her by him 2 King 22. from ver 15. to 20. Thus saith the Lord Tell the man that sent you to me Thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon this place and upon the Inhabitants thereof even all the words of the book which the King of Judah hath read because they have forsaken me and have burnt Incense to other gods to provoke me to anger Therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched But to the King of Judah that sent you Thus shall you say to him Thus saith the Lord God of Israel as touching the word which thou hast heard because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy selfe before me when thou heardest what I said against this place and against the Inhabitants thereof to make it a desolation and a curse and hast rent thy clothes and hath wept before me I have also heard thee saith the Lord Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy Fathers and thou shalt be gathered unto thy Grave in peace and thy eies shall not see all the evill that I will bring upon this Land Now that this judgement pronounced might be accomplished upon the Nation This godly and religious King was unhappily drawn into a destructive War Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt going to War against Carchemish King of Assyria to the river Euphrates Iosiah is drawn in to aid the Assyrians Necho sends Ambassadours to disswade him from it what have I to do with thee thou King of Iudah I come not against thee this day but against the House wherewith I have war for God commanded me to make hast for bear thee from medling with God who is with me that he destroy thee not Nevertheless Iosiah would not turn his face from him but disguised himself that he might fight with him and hearkned not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God and came to fight with him in the valley of Megidd● And in this battel he lost his life Vers 23. And the Archers shot at King Josiah and the King said to his Servants have me away for I am sore wounded His Servants therefore took him out of that Chariot and put him into the second Chariot that he had and they brought him to Jerusalem and he dyed and was buried in one of the Sepulchres of his Futhers And then followes my mournful Text And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah and Jeremiah lamented for Josiah c. Jusiah dyed by a fatall arrow as our Iosiah by a dismall blow to the unexpressible griefe of his People the Church of God decay of Religion and damage of the State which the Nation being sensible of betake themselves as our Nation now doth to a generall lamentation and a bitter mourning And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned c. and Jeremiah c. Wherein we have 1. The Person lamented and mourned for and that was Iosiah a godly and religious King yet slain by cruell hand The Archers shot him wounded him sore and he dyed 2. The sad lamentations made for him where we have 1. The generality of the mourners The whole Land mourned the whole Church and Nation of the Jews All Iudah and Ierusalem Jeremiah the Prophet all the singing men and singing women all the People both City and Country Prophets and others This was the greatest mourning that we read of Therefore the very quintessence of mourning is set forth by this Zach. 12.11 In that day there shal be a great mourning in Ierusalem like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Magiddon And that not without cause whether the worth of the man the good that he did or the evill that followed upon his death be considered 2. The continuation of this mourning It was not only for a time for a day or two or a week or two a month or two and no more but it was continued from time to time from year to year by an Ordinance made for it in Israel It was a custom amonst the Iews to have publick mourners at their Funerals both men and women who used to make lamentations in dolefull Tunes at the death of Persons of worth as appeares Eccl. 12.5 Man goeth to his long home and the Mourners go about the streets In these lamentations they used to make mention of the parties deceased and to mourn for them Thus they did for Iosiah in their solemn mournings for others making mention of the great losse of him Insomuch that it became a constant custom and as it were a setled Law or Ordinance to make mention of the sad loss of Josiah in their dolefull Elegies Or it may be that by reason of the losse of so worthy a King a speciall Law was enacted for it as our Nation and State hath now piously and prudently done that at all other solemn mournings there should be mourning for Josiah and that publike Mourners observed the same This is meant when 't is said And made them an Ordinance in Israel 3. The Record for the commemoration of this holy man in the continued mourning for him And behold they are written in the Lamentations Some conceive the Lamentations of Jeremiah registred in sacred Scripture to be here meant which seemes to them to be hinted Lam. 4.20 The breath of our nostrils the anoynted of the Lord is taken in their Pits c. But the most reject this and think there might be some other Lamentations remaining then upon record and wherein the losse of Josiah was set down And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah and Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah c. I shall not now by reason of my very short warning exactly handle every branch of the text but only gather for you from hence three generall observations wherin I shall comprise and bind up together as with a threefold cord the whole sum and substance of the Text. 1. That the child the dearest child of God may undergo a violent death and this I gather from the Person lamented Iosiah a good and godly King a blessed Saint yet slain by cruell hands The Archers shot him 2. That it hath been an ancient custom among the people of God to mourn for the dead And this I gather from the mourners in the Text The Church of God Iudah and Ierusalem Ieremiah the prophet All betaking themselves to sad and solemn mourning for Josiahs death 3. That the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of a great mourning to all good people Good Iosiah being so unhappily slain Iudah and

nature it self is apt enough to shew it self upon all occasions of this nature In mourning for our near relations we are more apt to erre in the excess then in the defect to mourn immoderately then to faile in mourning for our friends deceased Therefore let us take heed that we do not exceed nor give too much way to our passion The Apostle doth not forbid all sorrow for the dead but immoderate sorrow That we should not grieve and take on like the Gentiles who were ignorant of the blessed state of the dead that die in the Lord and had no hope of ever seing them again because they were not perswaded of the Resurrection and so mourned out of measure 1 Thes 4.13 I would not have you ignorant brethren of them that are asleep as ye sorrow not even as others that have no hope for if we beleeve that Jesus dyed and arose again even them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him There are four cordials let me give you to moderate and mitigate this sorrow regulate this passion 1. Because it is our common condition death is no new or strange thing but the lot and portion of every child of Adam As by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin so death passed upon all men for that all men have sinned Rom. 5.12 Do we see some friend go before us let us not be too much troubled nothing hath hapned to them but what must happen to us yea to all it is the case of all to die Our Fathers are gone before us and we must follow after them and our children after us one generation passeth and another succeedeth all things are here in a mutable condition and so are we Omnia peribunt sic ibimus ibitis ibunt Demonax the Philosopher seeing one make great lamentation for a friend departed wished him to make enquiry among all that company being very numerous and see if he could find any one who by death had not been deprived of some friend or other which when he did and could find none with the community of the case he comforted himselfe and bridled his sorrow So if by death we have been deprived of Parents or Brethren Husbands or Wives children and Friends let us remember nothing comes to us but that which is common to all and let this restrain us from moderate mourning With this thought David put an end to that sorrow for his child which he so dearly loved But now he is dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return to me 2 Sam. 12.23 As if he had said death is common to all I shall die as well as he I must follow him in the way of death the way of all the earth from which there is no returning hither Therefore why should I afflict my selfe any more 2. Because death comes by Gods appointment and determination with him are the issues of death he hath fixed and appointed our time here All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite till my change come saith Job So that God hath set down how long every ones time shall be The number of our moneths years and dayes is with him he hath set us our bounds which we cannot pass Job 14. Indeed to our apprehension many times some are taken away untimely unseasonably suddenly husbands from the wives and wives from their husbands children from their parents and parents from their children some in their youth and sull strength when their breasts are full of milk and their bones full of marrow but let it not seem strange to us Their appointed times were come the will of God is done and we must be content and with patience submit to it 3. Because by death the faithful go to a better mansion and mend their condition they make a happy change they change their mortall for immortality this corruption this earthly house for an heavenly house They are freed from their labours sorrows troubles miseries afflictions molestations of this present evill-world and brought to the desired home of true aest of blisse rnd perfect happiness ut non tam plangendus sit qui hac luce caruerit quam gratisicandum ei quod de tantis malis eraserit saith the Father That he which departed hence in the Lord is not so much to be lamented for because he is deprived of this light as to be rejoyced for in that he is escaped out of such a Sea of misery and landed safely in the sure harbour of endless felicity taken up to the true light 4. Because we have assurance of a joyful Resurrection they that dye in the Lord are not lost or gone from us for ever but only gone before us they are fallen into a sweet sleep and shall for certain awake again rise again at that great day when the Lord Iesus shall shew himself from heaven and change our vile body and make it like unto his own glorious body when we shall enjoy the company and society of our Christian friends in body and soul for ever therefore as the Apostle exhorteth comfort your selves and one another with these words The second Sermon And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah c. 2 Chron. 35.24 25. THe third observation which I gave you from this Text which I chiefly intended and aimed at for this day as being most suitable to our present occasion and meeting and which follows now to be spoken of was this That the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of great mourning to all good people Iosiah a good religious zealous King being slain in battel the Church and good people among the Jews yea the whole Nation City and Country Prophets and others all the Inhabitants of the Land fall to sad mourning and doleful lamentation This truth is so apparent that it needs not much proof yet it may be further made out upon these accounts 1. The death of any friend doth occasion sorrow and mourning much more the death of a choice friend of a chief friend of a common friend especially if he fall into the hands of merciless thieves and murderers and come to a barbarous and bloody end this must needs be a cause of great mourning to all that did bear any loving respect to him And is not a King a good King a friend a chief and choice friend a common friend to all his good people being the Minister and Vicegerent of God for the punishmen of evil doers but for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2.14 Must not then his death a violent and bloody death unmercifully and unjustly brought upon him occasion sad hearts and great mourning among those who had any spark of goodness and affection towards him 2. A good King is not only a friend but a Father Pater Patriae the Father of his Country and of the

LACRYMAE ECCLESIAE OR The mourning OF HADADRIMMON For Englands IOSIAH Delivered in two Sermons Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn Fasting and Humiliation for the Martyrdom and horrid Murder of our late gracious King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory In the Church of the Borough of Blechingley in the County of Sury By Wil. Hampton Rector of the said Church In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Zach. 12.11 Nunc requiescit in sinu Abrahae dulcis amicus noster nam quis alius tali animae locus Aug. de Nebridio LONDON Printed for VVil. Hope at the sign of the blew Anchor on the North side of the Royall Exchange 1661. To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cokaine Viscount Cullen Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed Right Honourable and my very good Lord As you have been a great sufferer in your Person and Estate to the loss of more then thirty thousand pounds for your fidelity and loyalty to his late Majesty of blissed memory and yet were cheared more with the continuall feast of a good and a quiet Conscience as I have heard you confesse then you could have been had you saved your estate and gained ten times that sum by engaging on the other side for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anoynted and be guildesse 1 Sam. 26.9 So no less sorrow for his sad sufferings and chiefly that last fatall blow brought upon his sacred Person by the furious rage of merciless and bloody men when a sword did even pierce through your heart as your Lordship hath often expressed in my hearing in my house whither you were pleased to retire your self aster your releasment from Oxford and at other times and to honour me with your presence when we did in private poure forth our souls together in utter detestation of that horrid Fact and in bitter lamentation for it Therefore upon this account I think not these Sermons more due to any one then your self as also for the many obligations that lie upon me for your manifold favours and respects to me even from your youth up till now It is framed in a low and plain stile sitted for a Country Auditory and it hath alwaies been my desire and endeavour to condescend to the meanest capacity My warning was very short for such a work having scarce two dayes to prepare by notice given me by a worshipfull Neighbour one of our late Burgesses in the late healing Parliament of such a day to be kept of which I knew nothing before And although the short warning the exhaustion of my Spirits in Preaching twice the Lords day preceding together with my age might have pleaded my excuse for such a task and confind me to praying and weeping Yet as nothing seemes hard to a willing mind my cordial affection to the duty for I have in my secret prayers long wished I might live to see such a day as this wherein we might in publick as wel express our detestation of as lamentation for that monstrous and bloody Act put me on with the assistance of the Divine Spirit to a performance beyond my strength and expectation The dead Letter cannot be answerable to the lively Delivery which was to the content of my Auditory which that day was great many of the adjoyning Parishes where no notice was given of the day repairing to my Church And which was to my content as it drew teares from mine so from the eyes of a great part of my hearers which is the best commendation of a Preacher The Lord grant it may work upon their Souls to whose sight it shall come whose hearts or hands or fingers were defiled with that innocent blood that they may be deeply humbled and moved to repentance for such a crimson scarlet sin and find Mercy and obtain Pardon from Heaven by having their hearts sprinkled with that blood which speakes better things then the blood of Abel And that it may blunt and alleviate the asperity of their Spirits who have great thoughts of heart and those evill too against this blessed Change a work even of Omnipotency And against our dear and gracious Soveraign whom God long preserve a King of such asweet Christian temper for Wisdom Discretion Meekness Gentleness Pitty Piety Mercy as is too good for such a churlish and unthankful People Thus commending this poor labour to the blessing of God and your Lordship and family to his grace and safe protection I humbly take my leave and remain Your Honours humble Servant in the work of Christ W. Hampton From my Study in Blechingley February 12 1660. The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Josiah The Text. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations 2 Cron. 35.4 25. THis day is a day of blackness and gloominess a day of clouds thick darkness a day of mourning for a good and a religious King cut off by untimely violent death to the unexpressible griefe of all good Christians by the trayterous heads trecherous hearts and bloody hands of wicked and ungodly men yet great pretenders to holiness above all other Now I say this being a black day a day of mourning I have chosen a Text of mourning of mourning for a godly and a religious King Josiah the fittest parallel I can find in the whole sacred book for our Martyred Soveraign Josiah was one of the best of all the Kings of Iudah whose History you may read at large in the foregoing Chapter and in the former part of this Chapter and also in the 22 and 23. book of the Kings He came to the Crown young at eight yeares old and sought the Lord while he was yet young in the eight year of his raign and the twelfth year began the great work for advancing Religion and Piety He purged Ierusalem of Idolatry reformed abuses repaired Gods House restored his worship regarded his Ministers kept such a Passeover as had not been kept before since the dayes of Samuel the Prophet neither did all the Kings of Israel keep such a Passeover as Iosiah kept Vers 18. Like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses neither after arose there any like him 2 King 23.25 And though he was thus good and zealous yet for the peoples sin was he taken away by a violent death as it followeth Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath where with his anger was kindled against Iudah because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withall And the Lord said I will remove Jerusalem out of my