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A42917	Ben horim filius heröum = the son of nobles : set forth in a sermon preached at St Mary's in Cambridge before the university, on Thursday the 24th of May, 1660 : being the day of solemn thanksgiving for the deliverance and settlement of our nation / by Will. Godman ...	Godman, William, b. 1625.	1660 (1660)	Wing G941; ESTC R14547	24,781	48

so hard nor their heads so dry but that they have some few tears to drop upon the Herse of injur'd and abus'd Majesty If you tell me 't was too long ago since 't was done I can give you an example out of Scripture that will silence that objection 'T is in the 2d of Chron. 35.25 And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made it an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations That good King did indeed come to an untimely death but there is this alleviating circumstance in it that he fell not by the malice of his subjects but by the power of his forein enemies But how did our good Josiah fall I cannot express it but with his own prophetick words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 28. He dyed a KING by the hands of his own subjects a violent and barbarous death in the strength of his years in the midst of his Kingdomes nay in that very place where he was wont to appear in the greatest splendour of Majesty and Honour his friends and loving subjects being helpless spectatours his enemies insolent revilers and triumphers over him living dying and dead who that they might be more solemnly cruel added as those did who crucifi'd Christ the mockery of Justice to the cruelty of Malice Mark how every word carries an Emphasis of grief and every syllable is accented with unexpressible sorrow I believe there are none here who are guilty of that Sacred bloud but give me leave to speak to them as if they were present Do ye deal thus ye most ungrateful wretches do ye deal thus with your most gracious and merciful Soveraign who had been able to have trodden you down to the grave and to have hid you in the dust together before you could have laid that load of afflictions upon him Are these your returns of obedience and gratitude to him for all his care and protection over you whom you were bound by all the Laws both of God and man to preserve to the uttermost of your power Is this the way to make him a great and glorious KING 'T is true you that took away his precious life have made him such but no thanks to your malice but to his own divine and incomparable vertues Do ye know do ye consider do ye understand what you have done Whom have you reproached and reviled Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your hands on high Against whom have you exercised your rage and fury Even against the Lord 's Anointed How The Lord 's Anointed There 's thunder and lightning storm and tempest hailstones and coals of fire There 's the revengeful indignation of the Almighty and everlasting God and the unsupportable horrours of death eternal For who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless 1 Sam. 26.9 And they that resist Rom. 13.2 but much more they that destroy shall receive to themselves damnation Such and so great was their Sin which I beseech God they may consider and repent but yet 't was farre less than the glory that attended his sufferings T' has been often seen and 't is easie to imagine how illustrious a KING is when his power and greatness is intire when he flourishes in the height of his authority when he is courted with pomp and honour But 't is much more rare and wonderful to see Majesty shining in its full lustre even when 't is overspread with a cloud of misery Ecce par Deo dignum saith Seneca vir fortis cum malâ fortunâ compositus But this is nothing to that instance that is now before us Here was a great and mighty Prince that in the lowest ebb of his adversity was more than conquerour ●om 8.37 Here you might have seen the rage of men and Devils in vain assaulting undaunted and invincible Constancy Here was one that in the midst of his undeserved sufferings by an admirable temper so exprest the meekness of a Christian that he forgot not the Majesty of a KING In short he liv'd a Saint and he dy'd a Martyr and his death especially was conformable to the Captain of our Salvation the KING of sufferings And to make this evident some have made an exact comparison between them in many circumstances But I shall instance only in his Charity which was in him eminent and remarkable and whereby he most resembled our Blessed Saviour Observe how devoutly how fervently he prays for his bloudy persecutours Thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● 28. O Lord mad'st thy Son a Saviour to many that crucifi'd him while at once he suffer'd violently by them and yet willingly for them O let the voice of his bloud be heard for my murderers louder than the cry of mine against them O deal not with them as bloud-thirsty men but overcome their cruelty with thy compassion and my charity Though they think my Kingdoms on earth too little to entertain at once both them and me yet let the capacious Kingdome of thy infinite mercy at last receive both me and my enemies This is truly a Divine perfection and a God-like excellency 'T is a near approach to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who took upon him the form of a servant who hath sanctifi'd all afflictions and calamities by his blessed example and his glorious victory Who was led as a Lamb to the slaughter Isa 53.7 and as a Sheep before her shearers is dumb so he open'd not his mouth Who endur'd the cross Heb. 12.2 despising the shame and is now sate down at the right hand of God He that well considers this example may easily resolve which is the more happy condition a persecuted innocence or an insulting cruelty But now Divine providence hath made it manifest that no true and durable greatness can ever lay its foundation in sin And we can now certainly and experimentally conclude That there is a reward for the righteous Psal 58.11 and a punishment for the wicked doubtless there is a God that judgeth the earth And so we leave our ROYAL MARTYR whose Name shall ever live and flourish on earth while his peaceful Soul long since deliver'd from a troublesome world rests in the blessed mansions of everlasting peace Let this be sufficient to shew that our KING is the son of NOBLES since from that great glorious Monarch he immediately descends who is our Joy and our Crown our Happiness and our Glory For whatsoever we lov'd reverenc'd or admir'd in his most ROYAL FATHER doth not only remain as he says In aternitate temporum famâ rerum but also in the reall possession of our present SOVERAIGN This is he into whose Princely and Heroick Soul all those excellent graces are transfus'd which no doubt but we shall see hereafter improv'd into more

Families of Christendome in Forain parts or how he is descended both from the Norman and Saxon Kings for above eight hundred years Neither shall I endeavour to make out what Verstegan a late Antiquary says of K. JAMES his Majesties Grandfather of happy memory that he was of the bloud-Royal of all those four Nations that were subject to his Scepter If all this and much more that might be said were at large discoursed it might appear that his Majesty is a Prince as highly and nobly born as any that reigns in the Christian world But to come nearer to the purpose I shall confine what I have to say on this point to his immediate descent from his Royal Father our late most gracious Soveraign Lord K. CHARLES of ever-blessed and most glorious memory We need not go farther nor inquire into the Vertues of his more remote Progenitours 't is a great and high degree of Nobility to descend from him who was the glory of KINGS the mirrour of PRINCES and the honour of MARTYRS but the everlasting shame of those traitours and parricides that conspired his death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 27. This is he to use his own unimitable expressions whom God thought fit to honour not only with the Scepter and Government of three flourishing Kingdomes but also with the suffering many indignities and an untimely death for them while he studied to preserve the rights of the Church the power of the Laws the honour of his Crown the priviledge of Parliaments the liberty of his people and his own conscience which was dearer to him than a thousand Kingdomes His concessions to his last Parliament shew that he had a large heart to do good and I wish he had never had an occasion to demonstrate his invincible patience and constancy in suffering evil But though his name may be among the unfortunate yet withall it will ever remain in the Catalogue of most vertuous PRINCES The good he did and more that he intended is enough to clear up the darkest of his afflictions and to scatter the Cloud of his undeserved misfortunes He was so eminently good and just that I wish all the Kings and Princes of the world were altogether such as he was except those bonds Acts 26.29 except the heavy pressure of his unmerited sufferings Not that I think 't is unworthy of a Prince to be conformable to the Captain of our Salvation Heb. 2.10 who was made perfect through sufferings but because whenever this happens it must needs redound to the misery of his subjects As when the Sun is eclipsed 't is not he but the earth that suffers a diminution of light It may be you may wonder that I lay before you at this time an object of grief and you may think that a discourse that sounds like a Funeral Sermon will stain the joy of this day's solemnity But I desire you to consider that 't is no small part of our joy that we can now securely mourn and express our grief for the untimely death of that incomparable Prince I doubt not but many of you have long since mourned in secret but we never durst before express a publick and solemn lamentation You know that the Tyranny of our oppressours hath been such that our sighs were made our crimes and if we were seen to weep for our infinitely-injur'd SOVERAIGN we were in danger to weep for him over again with tears of bloud 'T was bad enough that some of them had the hypocritical art of counterfeiting tears but to punish tears especially upon such a sad occasion was a more than inhumane cruelty But thanks be unto God that we can now lament that we can securely open the floud-gates of our eyes that we can take our fill of that just and Loyal sorrow from which through violence and oppression we have been so long restrained Expletur lachrymis egeritúrque dolor Ovid. Methinks there is something of sorrow within us which must be vented before we can make room for an intire and unmixed joy At least our joy cannot be innocent till we have mourned for him And then 't will be somewhat pleasing as the Lord Verulam observes in needle-works and embroideries to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground Neither will our joy be only more compleat but our Loyalty also more entire if we begin our duty and allegiance to his Majesty from our publick detestation of that most execrable parricide And herein the Honourable House of Commons hath set before us a worthy example in their excellent Letter to his Majesty And indeed unless we follow them herein we do in vain pretend our selves to be Loyall faithful subjects Therefore finding in Scripture the example of Job cursing his birth-day my just indignation prompts me to make use of those significant and vehement expressions against that day that put a period to the precious life of our late most gracious KING Let that day be darkness let not God regard it from above neither let the light shine upon it Job 3.4 5 6 7 8 9. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrifie it Let it not be joyned unto the days of the year neither let it come into the number of the moneths Let it be solitary and let no joyful voice come therein for ever Let them curse it that curse the day who are ready to raise up their mourning Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark let it look for light but have none neither let it see the dawning of the day Because it deprived us of the best of men and most excellent of Princes Because it shined upon the counsels of the wicked but it quenched the light of Israel 2 Sam. 21.17 it extinguish'd the glory of Great Britain Because it countenanced the most horrid barbarous execrable murder excepting only that of the most Holy Jesus that ever was committed under the Sun Then might you have seen sin and wickedness ride in triumph when Piety and Loyalty Law and Liberty were forced to mourn in secret and to hide themselves from the fury of the oppressour Lam. 5.16 Then did the Crown fall from our heads wo unto us that we had sinned The breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Lam. 4.20 Under his shadow we shall live Then was judgement turned into gall and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock Amos 6.12 Then was judgement turned away backward and justice stood afar off ●sa 59.14 for truth fell down in the streets and equity could not enter Then did the Sun go down at noon-day Amos 8.9 and the whole Land was over-spread with a black and dismall cloud of horrour and amazement If there be any here among you that have not yet bewail'd that execrable fact I hope that now their hearts are not