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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87060	Lacrymæ Ecclesiæ; or The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah. Delivered in two sermons, Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn fasting and humiliation, for the martyrdom and horrid murder of our late gracious King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory. In the church of the borough of Blechingley in the county of Surry. / By Wil. Hampton rector of the said church.	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing H634; Thomason E1086_9; ESTC R202530	24,674	40

nature it self is apt enough to shew it self upon all occasions of this nature In mourning for our near relations we are more apt to erre in the excess then in the defect to mourn immoderately then to faile in mourning for our friends deceased Therefore let us take heed that we do not exceed nor give too much way to our passion The Apostle doth not forbid all sorrow for the dead but immoderate sorrow That we should not grieve and take on like the Gentiles who were ignorant of the blessed state of the dead that die in the Lord and had no hope of ever seing them again because they were not perswaded of the Resurrection and so mourned out of measure 1 Thes 4.13 I would not have you ignorant brethren of them that are asleep as ye sorrow not even as others that have no hope for if we beleeve that Jesus dyed and arose again even them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him There are four cordials let me give you to moderate and mitigate this sorrow regulate this passion 1. Because it is our common condition death is no new or strange thing but the lot and portion of every child of Adam As by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin so death passed upon all men for that all men have sinned Rom. 5.12 Do we see some friend go before us let us not be too much troubled nothing hath hapned to them but what must happen to us yea to all it is the case of all to die Our Fathers are gone before us and we must follow after them and our children after us one generation passeth and another succeedeth all things are here in a mutable condition and so are we Omnia peribunt sic ibimus ibitis ibunt Demonax the Philosopher seeing one make great lamentation for a friend departed wished him to make enquiry among all that company being very numerous and see if he could find any one who by death had not been deprived of some friend or other which when he did and could find none with the community of the case he comforted himselfe and bridled his sorrow So if by death we have been deprived of Parents or Brethren Husbands or Wives children and Friends let us remember nothing comes to us but that which is common to all and let this restrain us from moderate mourning With this thought David put an end to that sorrow for his child which he so dearly loved But now he is dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return to me 2 Sam. 12.23 As if he had said death is common to all I shall die as well as he I must follow him in the way of death the way of all the earth from which there is no returning hither Therefore why should I afflict my selfe any more 2. Because death comes by Gods appointment and determination with him are the issues of death he hath fixed and appointed our time here All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite till my change come saith Job So that God hath set down how long every ones time shall be The number of our moneths years and dayes is with him he hath set us our bounds which we cannot pass Job 14. Indeed to our apprehension many times some are taken away untimely unseasonably suddenly husbands from the wives and wives from their husbands children from their parents and parents from their children some in their youth and sull strength when their breasts are full of milk and their bones full of marrow but let it not seem strange to us Their appointed times were come the will of God is done and we must be content and with patience submit to it 3. Because by death the faithful go to a better mansion and mend their condition they make a happy change they change their mortall for immortality this corruption this earthly house for an heavenly house They are freed from their labours sorrows troubles miseries afflictions molestations of this present evill-world and brought to the desired home of true aest of blisse rnd perfect happiness ut non tam plangendus sit qui hac luce caruerit quam gratisicandum ei quod de tantis malis eraserit saith the Father That he which departed hence in the Lord is not so much to be lamented for because he is deprived of this light as to be rejoyced for in that he is escaped out of such a Sea of misery and landed safely in the sure harbour of endless felicity taken up to the true light 4. Because we have assurance of a joyful Resurrection they that dye in the Lord are not lost or gone from us for ever but only gone before us they are fallen into a sweet sleep and shall for certain awake again rise again at that great day when the Lord Iesus shall shew himself from heaven and change our vile body and make it like unto his own glorious body when we shall enjoy the company and society of our Christian friends in body and soul for ever therefore as the Apostle exhorteth comfort your selves and one another with these words The second Sermon And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah c. 2 Chron. 35.24 25. THe third observation which I gave you from this Text which I chiefly intended and aimed at for this day as being most suitable to our present occasion and meeting and which follows now to be spoken of was this That the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of great mourning to all good people Iosiah a good religious zealous King being slain in battel the Church and good people among the Jews yea the whole Nation City and Country Prophets and others all the Inhabitants of the Land fall to sad mourning and doleful lamentation This truth is so apparent that it needs not much proof yet it may be further made out upon these accounts 1. The death of any friend doth occasion sorrow and mourning much more the death of a choice friend of a chief friend of a common friend especially if he fall into the hands of merciless thieves and murderers and come to a barbarous and bloody end this must needs be a cause of great mourning to all that did bear any loving respect to him And is not a King a good King a friend a chief and choice friend a common friend to all his good people being the Minister and Vicegerent of God for the punishmen of evil doers but for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2.14 Must not then his death a violent and bloody death unmercifully and unjustly brought upon him occasion sad hearts and great mourning among those who had any spark of goodness and affection towards him 2. A good King is not only a friend but a Father Pater Patriae the Father of his Country and of the

Ierusalem all the good people in that Church and Nation betake themselves to dolefull lamentations And all Judah and Jerusalem c. 1. Of the first of these That the child the dearest child of God may undergo a violent death As a child of God may be exposed in this world to any tempration that is common to the Nature of man to the sorest and sharpest affliction so to the sharpest kind of death The reason is because death by the decree of God by the desert of man is the inseparable sequel of sin to all the sons of Adam aswel to the godly as to the wicked forasmuch as all have sinned all must dye whatsoever may conduce to or bring on death whether it be corruption from within in these our earthly Tabernacles our bodies breeding some noysome or grivous disease or force and violence from without by wounds hurts and bruises may befal the the one God permitting aswel as the other As death is common to all so the same causes procurers and producers of death are incident and alike common to all As the the undergoing any sore affliction or a violent death is no sure argument that a man is the child of God so the undergoing the like is no certain evidence that he is not the child of God we cannot conclude any one to be a reprobate simply from any kind of suffering or from any kind of death because Gods dear child may be exposed to the one or the other The Donatists of old who were the forefathers of our Anabaptisticall fanatique Section separating brood vainly supposed that the undergoing of sore afflictions and violent death was the most ready way to bring them to heaven and a sure character of eminent Saints and therfore would willfully and needlesly expose themselves to grievous sufferings and sometimes to cruell death As Venner the Sectarian Preacher or rather prater the Wine-cooper and his cursed crue lately gloried to shed their blood in fighting for King Jesus Thus do they blasphemously abuse that good sweet and precious name though in open and horrid Treason and Rebellion against the lawfull powers ordained by God and in plain opposition to the laws of God and of the Land as if Christ who foretold by his Prophets as a great blessing to his Church and People under the Gospell That Kings should be their nursing Fathers and Queens their nursing Mothers would have these nurses all killed and murthered by their own children And not remember what he hath said They that take the sword upon such false grounds shall perish by the sword St. Austin Epist 50. ad Bonifacium speaketh of three kinds of death wherewith the said Donatists desired to be killed or rather indeed killed themselves Some of them would make request unto the worshippers and keepers of Idols to destroy them others would offer themselves to armed men robbers and spoylers lying by the high-way side to be slain of them and there wanted not such among them as delighted to cast themselves headlong from high places into the water and into the fire In this last age some Fanatick people have traced their steps Gualterus that famous Preacher of Zurich who lived about an hundred years since Hom. 209. in Mat. cap. 16. Relateth that he himself saw a woman after she had lived many years honestly with her husband and among her neighbours being instructed or rather seducted by the Anabaptists ran away from her husband and forsook her seven little children nothing pittying the youngest though a sucking babe and being asked why so unnaturall and unlike Mother she forsooke her children she had that pretence which the rest of the Anabaptists have Christ exhorts us to bear the Cross But though he exhort to bear the Crosse yet he requireth not that we should put needless crosses upon our selves but only to bear them patiently when he is pleased to send them and when he cals to suffer As for those who rashly expose themselves to troubles and cast themselves into wilful dangers or death it self without warrant of Gods word their actions are so far from pleasing that they are very displeasing to him As Saint Austin very well affirmeth Tract 11. in 3. Iohn Let Marculus saith he fling himselfe downe headlong from a rock and let Donatus in like sort cast himself into a pit both with intent to end their lives yet shall they not be called Martyrs or at most as he speakes in another place they are but Martyrs of a foolish Philosophy mad Fanatick Martyrs Now as these or like sufferings were no evidence to them of their salvation because it is not the meet suffering or the kind of death but the cause that makes a Martyr So the like being undergone are no argument that a man is not in Gods favour The dearest child of God may undergo a violent death The Prophet the man of God that came from Iudah to cry out against Iereboams Idolatrous Altar at Bethel in his return homeward was slain by a Lyon yet all agree though his body suffered yet his soul was saved he was the dear child of God so esteemed by the old Prophet who took care for his decent burial and laid him in his own Sepulchre and they mourned over him saying alas my brother and laid a charge upon his sons to lay him in the same Sepuchre lay my bones besides his bones 1 Kin. 13.31 So this good King Iosiah esteemed him for when in accomplishment of that Prophesie he brake down the Altar of Bethel and burnt many bones upon it digging up the bones of the Idolatrous Priests and burned them when he came to the Sepulchre of this man of God and undertood by the title whose it was he gave charge to let him alone Let no man move his bones deeming him the servant of God 2 Kin. 23.18 And all those Worthies of the Old Testament spoken of Heb. 11.36 37 48. Being too good to live in this world received hard measure from the world And had tryall of cruell hands and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned they were sawen asunder were tempted were slain with the sword Blessed Steven the Proto-martyr of the New Testament was pelted knockt to death with stones and many of the best of Gods Saints and Servants pledg'd him in the cup of Martyrdom which was very bitter and bloody The holy Baptists head was chopt off to satisfie the appetite of a lustful and luxurious woman and served up to her in a Charger And Gods holy child Jesus that just and religious one taking our sins upon him and standing in that place underwent a violent death the painful shameful and accursed death of Cross yet still most dear in his Fathers favour Iosiah here a good and a religious King yet slain by cruell hands The Archers shot him and he dyed now briefly for Application Vse 1. Learn here first That neither goodnesse nor greatness can exempt man from the saddest