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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02735	Dies nefastus; or A sermon preached on the publick fast day, for the cruell murther of our late soveraign, upon that unfortunate day January 30. / By Andrew Dominick, D.D. ...		1662 (1662)	Wing D1842A; ESTC R175969	9,106	24

those times that Religion and Godlinesse it self should be so abused to be made the Stalking-horse for Sacrilege Robbery and Theft and that the exquisitenesse of Villany should grow to that strength as to infect the World for many years after if it be not lustily observed by us and the World made sometimes ashamed Quis tulerit Gracchos Juven●● Satyr 10. said the Poet who is able with tollerable patience to see men such proficients in Villany that they can shift the Scene and be Knaves on both sides grow as confident with whom they have new●y insinuated to do mischief by them as ever they did or threatned heretofore by the contrary These be pure youths indeed and would be uncased a little to appear in their own colours these be those Bulls of Bashan that can breed disquiets and through all bounds of Law and Right pasture up●n men at their pleasure Certainly Davids Persecution was very great but our Davids much more it we consider the Hostility of it either to Himself Church or Loyal people or if we consider the Plurality thereof David complained of many Bulls 't was not any one that could have compassed him but they were many he speaketh of many of all his Persecutors Many Bulls of Bashan yea strong Bulls compassed me so it is usually the State is like a Ship and the unruly Multitude like the Sea which if by any means a leake be sprung will pour in to the endangering of all After David was opposed with an Army the very abjects could shake their heads at him and many troubles followed one upon another so beloved when our bewailed King was compassed on every side how did the mischiefs on every hand increase the Reverend Fathers pulled down and Canting false Prophets set up petty Tyrants like young sprouts started up every where out of the great root of Tyranny above many but to domineer over their Clergy and have of his livelihood as they pleased had their wayes they gloried in to do him mischief at pleasure and if Aristotle's rule in moral Philosophy be true Quicquid per amicos aliqualitèr per nos that what we do by friends we may be said to do in some sort our selves then were some and of such fashion too as ought to have scorned such things no honester then they should be and yet beloved these were not half the evils of those dayes which came upon us without all question through the untimely loss of our gracious Sovereign then did they slander and reproach the foot-steps of the Lords Annointed then was the Orthodox faith exploded the gravest Ministers proscribed and many of the Rable yet for the contempt was poured out on Church men can scarce yet entertain a just respect but the servant is not above his Lord there were who said Christ had a devil Joh. 8.48 and in the time of Constantine the Emperour the truly Orthodox were called of the Arrians Homousians Theod. lib. 1.4 Austin was called of the Palagians a Manichee and as Ruffin lib. 1.17 Athenatius was called a Conjurer that they might deprive him of his Bishoprick nay they Excommunicated the most Orthodox partie and denyed them Christian burial when they were dead Lord whither will not the petulant rage and madnesse of men carry them when once let loose Government is a precious thing that distinguisheth us from beasts and makes us to live like men nay like honest and good men which if let loose our late times shew what beasts men will become Bulls of Bashan and ravening Lions the holy Ghost thinks fit expressions to intimate their purposes and practices that once set themselves against Law and Supreme authority The Leaders and instigators unto that evil are in Gods account and all reason shews in a Common-weal as wilde Bulls and ravening Lions drawing a world of evils after them if not timely prevented and discreetly avoided by all For as Lawes are the proper fences and bounds of our properties and rights so is the Soveraign power the shelter and preservation of the Law As therefore is the losse of Law such is the utimely destroying of the rightfull Soveraign which must needs draw after it as we not many years since w●●fully experienced multitude of evils So that we may this day weep for our selves as Christ told the people of the Jewes Weep not for mee but weep for your selves that God may avert the judgement due unto this land for that most horrid and wicked fact committed on this day Weep ye that so much i●nocencie uprightnesse and justice should fall by such guilty and treacherous hands Neither may ye wonder Beloved that God would let loose those bulls of Bashan upon his David upon so good a King his best Servants ate fittest to make greatest Champions as ablest through greatest graces to stand out most nobly in the causes of God And beside Christ himself went this way to heaven and it behoveth those who are mostly his members to be made most conformable unto him and was not Christ betrayed too and sold and are there not many who have betrayed him over again in his members an have gone like Judas unto the persecutors and said What will ye give me and I will deliver him unto you And now beloved Observe agen who is it in the text that saith have compassed me mee was it not David Holy David a King and a Prophet a man after Gods own heart 1 Sam. 13 14 16 13. to whom was promised the blessing Acts 13.23 who spake by the holy Ghost yet so it was that God suffers him to be in that manner compassed with Bulls and Lyons Many Bulls have compassed me strong Bulls of Bashan beset me round about Whence we may observe That the afflictions of good men are notes rather of love then displeasure of the Almighty for whom the Lord loveth he afflicteth and so he doth the wicked too but in a different manner and to a different end they find not that comfort in it nor that amendment by it as do Gods Servants wicked men are seldom the better for any cross or at best of no long continuance 'T is true 't is said of Ahab Seest thou not how Ahab humbleth himself But yet a little after we read him threatning and scouling at Gods Prophet for telling him the truth but gracious hearts are highly every way improved by troubles Before I was afflicted I went astray saith David but now I have kept thy word So then afflictions as they are arguments in Gods Servants of more goodness so are they of more love and therefore are they to be the more condoled and lamented in their sufferings by how much their translation hence what way soever may be for their own joy and comfort above but our misery in their losse or manner of losse here below Then I lay you down this doctrine That it is most meet according to command that we mourn this day for the untimely death of our late King for

I may say with David 2 Sam. 3.38 Know ye not that a great Prince fell on this day in Israel Nay I have to observe farther That the Church of God may be sometimes deprived of such heads as would have been very much for her behoofe to have retained for what greater Prince then Ioshua for whom God fought at whose prayer the Sunne and Moon stood still unto whom God sent an Auxiliarie of Haile from heaven to vanquish his enemies Josh 20. for whose sake the water of Jordan gave place fox him to go over yet this Joshua was taken away and the people of God lost so good a Prince which would have been in all likelihood much for their behoof to have k●pt What shall I say of David of Abraham and Sampson they are all dead and which is more yet Aliquando tristi aliqua morte extinguuntur they are sometimes taken off with untimely and to be extreamly lamented deaths and yet very good Kings too As for example Iosias whose heart was tender and trembled at the word of God and rent his clothes 2 Kings 22.11 of whom it is said 2 Kings 23.25 That there was no King before or after him that turned so his heart to the Lord his God yet was he untimely sl●in at Megiddo and by an uncircumcised hand of Pharoah Necho King of Aegypt Wherefore beloved let it not suggest evil thoughts of God or our Prince unto us that this hapned as on this day God hath his reasons for it and he would humble us we had sinned questionless and therefore God suffered us to be robbed of so great riches we had in our late King that we might be punished in the loss let us not then presume any evil of him for otherwise must we suspect evil of good Josias whom the Scripture highly commends and yet so untimely slain Let us then mourn for our sins and that will please God I am sure Let us lament and say with the Prophet Jeremiah in the 5th of his Lamentations vers 16. The Crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have sinned And as at the 40 verse Let us search and try our wayes and turn again unto the Lord Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in the heavens We were deeply wounded through our Soveraign but he * Co●nelius me evasit said the Tyrant Nero. Tacit. escaped through the losse of him lay groaning under heavie oppressions due punishments for our sins But now it hath pleased Almighty God blessed be his holy name to restore agen as much as may be our gracious and desired Soveraign in his beloved Son our present and good King the best of Princes But let us not forget the dutie of this day to weep to mourn to be afflicted to lament the fall of our former dear Soveraign and to be able to say with the Prophet Lamentations the 3. v. 48. Mine eyes runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people And with the Prophet Let us wish for a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain O let us mourn this day as 't is said of Joseph and his brethren for his Father Israel that they mourned with a very great and sore lamentation that even those Canaanites amongst us may say This is a very grievous mourning to the Loyalists And let us beloved give thanks to God for our Dear Soveraign that now is who as out of the Ashes of that Phoenix happily is returned to raign agen his Father over us and to deliver us from innumerable evils and to restore us all the blessings of peace for which the Lord blesse him as Solomon prayeth for himself with wisdom and prudence And the Lord blesse him moreover as he added unto his Solomons desire with riches and honour and the Lord be with him in his going forth and comming in And let it repent us in particular this day let it repent us of our Sins let us resolve upon amendment of 〈◊〉 and let us not consecrate such dayes to Bacchus and delights but to God let not those miscreants gather encouragement from their * T is said of Satan be can turn himself into an Angel of Light Devillish holiness for that any of us seem to have none but let us all be as really religious as they would seem to be l●t us indeavour to grow in faith and all spiritual graces and be constant in hope and persevere in obedience and be Zealous in good works which make for the Worship and Glory of God And the Lord grant we may induce him by our prayers this day to turn away his wrath and just displeasure from us Amen Amen FINIS