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A93792	Three sermons preached in the Cathedral Church of Winchester The first on Sunday, August. 19. 1660. at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that church, after the restauration of His Majesty. The second on Jan. 30. 1661. being the anniversary of King Charles the first, of glorious memory. The third at the general assize held there, Feb. 25. 1661. By Edward Stanley, D.D. Prebendary of the church.	Stanley, Edward, 1597 or 8-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing S5233D; ESTC R229852	48,452	164

was if the inward Clothing of the Mind be of any value The Kings Daughter is all glorious within and so was the King himself a true Son of that Mother the Spouse of Christ And therefore He was cloathed like her glorious within howsoever the wrought Gold in His outward cloathing was taken from Him Et hinc lachrymae here the Lamentation begins When once they begin to unking Him and to take His Purple and His Royal Authority from Him 't was no hard matter to prophecy what would be the end of the Tragedy Dead men they say have no Teeth or cannot Bite and though they had Him safe enough in their Nets yet they did not think him so nor themselves neither till He was past Biting The Chaldeans were satisfied with lesse Barbarity then this and yet here 's matter enough for a Lamentation though it were but Captus in Laqueis and there be no Murther of a King mentioned The breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their Nets of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen In this Text then we have the Prophets Lamentation for the sad condition of a King And yet who this King was Interpreters agree not whether it were Josiah or Zedekiah or whether it were Christ himself He that was the King of Kings and Lord of Lords But a King it was for here we have all the Characters of Him spiritus Or is nostri and Christus Domini and In umbra tua vivemus the breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord and under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen of whom but a King can this be said It matters not what King for even the worst of Kings is sacred and the losse of Him to be lamented Suppose Him to be Zedekiah and He was none of the best as indeed the Chronology and the rest of the matter of this Book seems to point at Him But if it were Josiah as St. Jerome and the Hebrew Interpreters think or if it were Christ as most Interpreters say what Mourning could be sufficient Mary stood by the Sepulchre weeping and well she might for such a losse But we will not restrain it to any particular because 't is proper enough to all and we may apply it to one whom the Prophet never Dream't of even spiritus Oris nostri He that was the breath of our nostrils Ours of this Nation who breathed by him and dyed with him First then we will observe the Characters of him as they are given here in the Text that you may learne to esteem of him as he deserved Secondly the calamity that befell him that you may lament the losse of him The Characters of him are three 1. Spiritus Oris nostri he was the breath of our nostrils and that 's an endearing expression of him 2. Christus Domini that 's a sacred expression of him he was the Anointed of the Lord. 3. In umbra tua vivemus that will make us know the benefit we had by him and what we suffer by the loss of him under his shadow we shall or we will live among the heathen And this last hath been acknowledged by our selves We have it Ex ore tuo out of our own mouths and out of theirs too who it may be afterwards would have denied it Cui diximus to whom or of whom we our selves have said and acknowledged this And when we have said that I wish we had no more to say of it But there is that behind which cannot be concealed and we must all of us lament according to the tenour of the Text and the duty of the Day Captus est in laque is ipsorum He was taken in their nets I begin with the first Character of him an endearing Expression as I told you he was the breath of our nostrils And what can be dearer to us then that If our life be dear to us our breath must needs be so for we live no longer then we breath God Almighty when he made Man He breathed into him the breath of life and Man became a living soul Gen. 2.7 Inspiravit in faciem ejus spiraculum vitae there 's the breath of life and this God breathed into him but before that he was not a living soul but a lump of dead earth 'T is the breath of life that distinguisheth us from the Clay that lies in the streets Ex meliore luto 'T is true some men may be made of better Clay then others but 't is all Clay till the breath of life be breathed into us Why then learn to value this breath for then 't is a living soul straight And this God inspires not onely into the first man but into every man that comes into the World And in this that he might make Kings like himself Dixi Dii estis he is pleased to impart this honour to them that either they inspire souls or at least they are the souls of their Subjects for here he gives them such an Attribute Spiritus or is nostri they are the breath of our nostrils 'T is said of himself In illo vivimus In him we live move and have our being Acts 17. and if Kings be the breath of our nostrils we live in them too That they are so the Prophet acknowledgeth it here in behalf of all the People who lived and breathed no otherwise but by him Quod spiro tuum est We are beholding to him that we live for it would not be vita vitalis without him We were better be dead then to live in slavery or misery and I appeal to all that hear me what manner of life we lived after he was taken from us But would any man be guilty of his own death a Felo de se No man ever hated his own flesh Eph. 5.29 saith St. Paul and therefore one would think no man should hate his own Spirit his Soul much less Why the King is the Soul of every man and would any man hate or hurt that would he sin against his own Soul so much as to entertain the thought of any hurt toward him If he do it he sins so First because the King is his Soul here the very breath of his nostrils And Secondly because his soul shall be sure to be punished for it hereafter both body and soul in Hell-fire And yet for all this Kings are not secured from violence though they are as near to us and should be as dear to us as our souls If we mark the Expression one would wonder how this should come to pass To catch a Spirit in a Net as 't is here in the Text Captus est in laqueis a man can hardly conceive it One may as soon paint a Voice Pinge sonum as lay hold on a Spirit or a Breath The Nets must be very fine and artificially made as the Poets feign of Vulcans Nets and commonly there wants no Art in making of them in

These were our Tabulae votivae such Vows we have made or at least should have made every one of us let us be careful to perform them and express our thankfulness that way Those be the best Trophies we can set up in the Reformation of our Lives as old Zachary said in his Song and 't was a Song of Triumph too Luk. 1.74 Ut liberati serviamus That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of our life 'T is a great happiness to serve God without fear we have not done so for many years together but as Christ came to his Disciples so did we to him the doors being shut Et aperto vivere voto Every body could not do it not that they were ashamed of their Petitions for they were such as were allowed by Authority but for fear of their Enemies And now that this fear is removed let the Service I pray you be performed with more Reverence with Reverence and Fear still of God though not of Men. But let 's remember the Service the Service of the Church not to neglect that as formerly we have done and the Service of God especially that we pay him that Obedience in our Lives which is due to him That the World may not condemn us of unthankfulness that it be not said of us as it was of his own People Psal 78. Yet for all this they sinned more against him 't is repeated twice in that Psalm and one sin of unthankfulness is too many But I will not suspect it in a People so obliged as we are Being so delivered as it is our duty so I doubt not but it shall be our business to serve him even to serve him all the dayes of our Lives Now to God the Father c. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Winchester on Jan. 30. 1661. being the Anniversary of the Death of the late King Charles I. of glorious memory LAMENT 4.20 The breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their nets of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen THis Book is a Book of Lamentations and so is this Day a Day wherein to lament the loss of a King a dumb man would speak as one did in Herodotus to save a Kings life But this Book is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeremy's Lamentations the Prophet wrote it in tears so 't is said in the Vulgar Translation Sedit Jeremias flens planxit Jeremy wept and lamented when he wrote it And well he might for the occasion of it was very sad even the Captivity of Jerusalem the People were carried to Babylon and the City and Temple destroyed and among the spoils there was Spiritus oris nostri even he that was The breath of their nostrils the Anointed of the Lord. And therefore if the Prophet breath out nothing but Lamentations and Sighs upon such an occasion 't is no wonder We are indeed this day upon the like subject a day of Lamentations it is Let the Priest weep between the Porch and the Altar and so let the People too for when the breath of our nostrils is gone the People and Priests are both alike no better then dead trunks every one of us Did I say A Day of Lamentations Indeed it should not be called a Day wherein the Sun never shined 'T is said There was darkness over all the Land untill the ninth hour when they crucified Christ A man might suppose it so over this Land of ours when they murthered the King and that they came with Lanthorns and Torches as they did to apprehend Christ though 't were at high Noon For sure the Sun would not own the action nor see the murther of Gods Anointed and therefore let it not be numbred amongst the dayes any longer But Mira cano sol occubuit 'T is a sad story to remember the Sun sate at high Noon I cannot say Nox nulla sequuta est as 't was said of the death of another Prince for after the death of this there was a continued night amongst us no day-light for so many years together till at last the Sun returned the same Sun or a brighter his Fathers own Son it was and now God be thanked for it 't is day-light again with us But for the day of the Kings death I would have it wiped out of the Calendar as there is a day put into the Calendar sometimes in February Dies intercalaris 't is called so I would have the Thirtieth of January put out for it will be a reproach to us Titulumque effeminat anni 'T is pity it should be remembred but that the wisdom of our Superiours will have it so let it be a day of blackness and darkness for ever And yet we remember the deaths of other Martyrs the dayes of their deaths are in the Martyrologies of the Church instead of their Birth-dayes in which they were born to Immortality and therefore the death of this blessed Saint and Martyr deserves to be remembred too To be remembred for those Princely Vertues that shined in him that day more then in any other of his life How glorious was the King of Israel this day Micah said it of David in a scoff but 't was true in earnest among the many scoffs that were put upon that glorious Saint this might be one too but 't was a sad truth nevertheless How glorious was he in his Meekness in his Patience in his Magnanimity in his Charity in his Contempt of the world and all the Glory of it For he had more Tentations to love it then all his Subjects besides and therefore how glorious was he in the despising of it how glorious was the King of England this day as 't was said of the Proto-Martyr St. Stephen so it might be said of this Royal Martyr too All that sate in the Council saw his face as it had been the face of an Angel But that their eyes were holden that they could not know him as 't was said of Christ Certainly they could not have condemned him But I say unto you That even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of These not like an ordinary flower and therefore not like this flower This Lilly of the Vallies this Lilly among Thorns as 't is said of Christ there And certainly if any Lilly besides Christ were planted so this was he● Among the Thorns indeed that pricked him and did him all the injuries they could Like the Rose in Sharon as 't is in that Verse Cant. 2.1 there are Prickles enough too and the Lilly of the vallies Never any Lilly stood lower in the Valley and was clothed with more humility and therefore the more glorious in that respect and therefore the more fit to be taken notice of this day 'T is Solomon in his glory in all his glory most richly apparelled he