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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35184	Two sermons preached in the cathedral-church of Bristol, January the 30th 1679/80 and January the 31th 1680/81 being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles the first / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7271; ESTC R17923	25,553	48

the same sad story tells us all Israel is smitten in another We may humourously attempt to divide but in all History they live or die together While the Prophet thus weeps over the Calamities of Gods Zion and Jerusalem Graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens he breaks forth into this of the Text as a memorial of sorrow never to be forgotten by him The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord c. In the verse we have to consider 1. The person spoken of who it is the Prophet here means 2. The Calamity into which he fell he was taken in their pits 3. The honorary Character here given him the Anointed of the Lord. 4. The Jews concern in his weal or woe he was the breath of their nostrils under whose shadow they might have liv'd among the heathen I. The person spoken of who that should be I answer Not Josiah as some have conceiv'd he was already gathered to his fathers in peace honourably interr'd amongst the royal Sepulchres of his Ancestors his eyes clos'd with all due Funeral-rites some time before these tragick evils so fatally broke forth Our several seasons of life and death when we enter the Stage and when we go off they are all in Gods hands Three Kings had now successively reigned after Josiah Zedekiah the third in whose time all these amazing miseries so pathetically here described befel Jerusalem Whatever personal failures might be in Zedekiah Rex tamen typus Christi says one no great favourer otherwise of Monarchy Zedekiah was nevertheless a crowned Head and Type of Christ Soveraign of the true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the City of the great King the Imperial Princess among the Provinces Such was the Person no Plebeian but one of Royal Extraction of the true House and Linage of David and now raised though in a tempestuous conjuncture of Affairs to sit on the Throne of his pious Father Josiah And has our Prophet such tears of Loyalty wherewith to condole this Princes Fall Certainly my Brethren our eyes must not be dry 1. If Israels Zedekiah fell 't was not without great personal blemishes in himself He did says the Text that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. But our late Soveraign a person of that stupendious exemplariness so amiable in whatever might become him as a Christian in whatever might adorn him as a Prince that his Piety became at last his Crime his Love to Gods Church the ground of his Hatred with the Rabble He is ston'd for his good works He is invidiously aspers'd as affected to Popery yet dies in the professed Communion of this Reformed Church The Defender of it a Martyr for it He is odiously upbraided as designing Arbitrary ways of Empire and Tyranny yet dies because he could not in conscience give up those great things of Church and State Religion and Law our true Magna Charta the Body of our ancient English Government to the tumultuous wills of violent and unreasonable men 2. If Zedekiah fell 't was at Babylon above six hundred miles from his own Kingdom The very place was no less than Exile and the distance a most certain exposure to all inevitable dangers But lo here though under different circumstances a far sadder story Our Soveraign after an Iliad of other preceding indignities is murdered at his own Royal Gates in the very face of his Court and Palace He is first barbarously driven away by rude Tumults after that forcibly brought back again by bloody Souldiers full often as himself so lively expresseth it did he change his Keepers and Prison but not his Captive condition And at last the woful upshot proves as David said concerning Ishbosheth Wicked men came upon this righteous person and slew him even in his own house the walls and windows being the sad Spectators both of his Fall and our Treason 3. If Zedekiah fell 't was by the hands of prophane Pagans Nebuchadnezzar's unruly Janizaries not by his own Subjects Zedekiah's Murderers their very temper was Cruelty their nature Rage verifying the sowre character Gods Prophet gives of them A bitter and hasty nation They breath'd out no better than Blood and Slaughter In this case the utmost Inhumanities could be no Surprize all manner of Misery and Death it self the fairest Quarter that could be expected where the Turtle was amongst such ravening Vultures and the Lamb in the midst of such savage Lions But lo here horresco referens our Soveraign falls under far other hands With civiliz'd Nations the mildness of their Education is accounted security enough against the irruptions of Violence where Government is receiv'd the Laws yield Protection where the sacred profession of Christian Religion takes place we are still bound to a far better behaviour of the quietest peacefulness in our places But alas all these divine Bands were here contemptuously broken asunder and then of course upon the violation of them this execrable and horrible thing became committed in our Land 'T was not an Enemy that did it 't would then have been more easily born 'T was the servant who had eat of his Masters bread that here lift up his heel 't was the Subject who had solemnly sworn to bear true Homage and Fealty that now Zimri-like conspir'd and slew his Soveraign Oh what Declarations and Protestations as the language of those times then went that they would make him a most glorious Prince What solemn Appeals to God and the world touching the Loyalty and Integrity of their hearts Now what danger can possibly be suspected where so much kindness is pretended In ipso sceleris molimine Tereus creditur esse pius No such Friends in words yet no such Foes in deeds Oh how wretchedly did we then dissemble both with God and man staining as well our holy Profession as our own Names to all Posterity But no words can express these Villanies so lively as his who suffered them I die says his sacred Majesty a King by the hands of my own Subjects a violent sudden and barbarous death in the strength of my years in the midst of my Kingdom my Friends and loving Subjects being helpless Spectators my Enemies insolent Revilers and Triumphers over me His comfort was as himself so composedly relates it If he thus died a violent death with his Saviour the sequele would be happily this Mortality would be thereby crown'd with Martyrdom 4. If Zedekiah fell yet we read not of any indecent measures used toward him in matters of Religion When the King of Assyria had carried away Israel not long before captive and had transplanted another people into the Holy Land we finde he gave express order that a Priest from among the Captives should go and dwell at Bethel to teach and observe the stated Rites of Religion formerly used amongst them But with us the case strangely alters Many can impetuously demand liberty of Conscience for themselves as the immediate Redress to all our