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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50342	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on January the 30th, 1681 by Henry Maurice ...	Maurice, Henry, 1648-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing M1370; ESTC R3724	13,058	37

more obstinate Tears The Heathen were so sensible of this Trouble that to relieve themselves they ran headlong into Idolatry and chang'd their Allegiance into Adoration Nor would they be perswaded that the best of their Kings did Die like one of the Common People but that Death made them Invisible and Divine neither would they be comforted otherwise than by this perswasion That they still remained under the Government and Protection of their belov'd Princes Thus Assyria Egypt and almost all the Nations of the Earth were first distracted into Superstition and the People of Rome would not be satisfied for the loss of their first King before the Senate had decreed Worship for him they were suspected to have destroy'd Nay sometimes this Trouble grew too strong for all the amusements of Superstition and Osyris notwithstanding the Opinion of his Divinity was remembred with perpetual Lamentations But be this the Extravagance and Madness of Heathen Zeal Even the People of God himself were not above the reach of this Trouble and though they were taught that the same Providence did always watch over them under all the differences of Government yet they could not sustain the loss of a good Prince without some jealousie that God was going to desert them at leastwise not without singular Trouble and Affliction When Moses the Great Prince of Israel whose mighty Scepter commanded the Sea and made it a Bulwark and Defence for his People on the Right hand and on the Left in whose time plenty came down from Heaven in Bread and Flesh and Rivers ran in dry places Moses the prodigy of Wisdom and Modesty of great Vnderstanding and greater Mistrust of it slow indeed of Speech but wonderful in his Writings Moses the Meekest Man upon Earth easie to forgive Injuries and happy were it if the same Vertue that is so forward to pardon could as easily reclaim the Offender easie in the Concession of his own Prerogatives and sharing his Authority with the Elders of the Congregation Such a Prince in short whose Government had more in it of the Father than the King When he came to take his leave of the People in order to go to the place where he must die with how sad a Countenance with what discontented Murmuring was he answer'd He found their Affection now more querulous and ungovernable than all their former Seditions And tho Corah and his Faction had represented him odiously as one that affected Arbitrary Dominion yet when he came to Die such was the Peoples resentments of that Loss that God seem'd to grow Jealous and to mistrust their Affections towards Himself and therefore thought fit to conceal him by a private Interment at some distance from the Camp on a high Hill from whence is the fairest Prospect over all the Land of Canaan Nor could all this prevent the Grief and Lamentation of Israel for so great a Loss for notwithstanding they were upon the point of taking possession of the Promis'd Land yet they deserred to accept the fruit of Forty years labour and expectation till they had paid a Sorrowful Duty to the Memory of Moses whom they bewayl'd Thirty Days in an extraordinary manner and Josephus adds that they were never so much afflicted for any loss JOSIAH the good but unfortunate King of Judah who had repayr'd the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem and restor'd the neglected and prophan'd Service of God into its ancient Purity and Splendor having been unhappily slain in Megiddo was lamented in an Unusual manner by the Inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem nor was the Mourning ended within the accustomed time but transmitted to Posterity Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the Singing Men and Singing Women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations unto this day and made it an Ordinance in Israel And after the Return of the Captivity from Babylon when one would think that all their former Sorrows had been forgot yet this Grief was still fresh and undiminish'd and the Prophet Zachary when he would have described the Mourning of the Children of the Bride-Chamber when Christ their Bridgroom should be taken from them could not find a greater Instance than that for Josiah It shall be like the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo But this is the least part of our present Trouble nor would it be just to remember that Loss with so much Affliction which God hath long since so gloriously repair'd Had our late Sovereign therefore dy'd the death of Moses or Josiah and the course of Nature or the chance of War or any thing else than our own Sin and Madness depriv'd us of so great a Blessing the Trouble of this Day might have ceas'd before this time but when we consider the Manner and the Hands by which He fell His Blood like that of Murder'd Persons upon the approach of the Murderer seems to run still afresh and to fly in the face of this Guilty Nation threatning it with yet more severe Judgments For if the Sin of Corah which proceeded no farther than Insolent Expressions against Moses and Aaron the lowest step of this days guilt and scarcely to be reckon'd in the Computation of it was punish'd with Fire and Pestilence How much sorer Punishments shall we expect whose oblique Contempt of Authority was soon improv'd into open Insolence and since no Faction did ever Insult a Prince they did not mean to destroy that Insolence was asserted by Rebellion and this carried on through Rapin and Devastation and Blood And the success of that Rebellion rendring it still more daring and wicked the Guilt grew up with wonderful Increase and exceeded all Computation and the Power of Discourse for who can express the succeeding Treatment of Captiv'd Majesty the Indignities of His Imprisonment of His Trial of His Death but with Tears unless the greatness of the Trouble intercept even those Expressions Who can reflect upon so barbarous a Fact without the greatest disorder and tumult of Thoughts And now if we yet retain any thing of English Nature and Affections How can we look upon this Land thus defil'd with Royal Blood and laden with such crying Aggravations and not weep over it How can we reflect upon the Singularity of this Guilt and not be troubled with the apprehension of some Exemplary Vengeance as new and singular as the Crime But why are We concern'd in this Trouble who have no share in the Guilt For how many here present may justly boast their Services to that Excellent Prince and the honour of Suffering with him How many here present are the Noble Off-spring of that brave but unfortunate Loyalty that contended so long with a Prosperous Rebellion with unequal Force How many more are wholly unconcerned in the Sin who were yet unborn when this accursed thing was committed Yet none above the reach of this Trouble none beyond the necessity of this Humiliation For Publick Sins of such Example and Scandal as this like the first Rebellion of Man may remain