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A97136	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late monethly fast, being on Wednesday, June 30. 1647. / By Nathaniel Ward Minister of Gods Word.	Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652.	1647 (1647)	Wing W784; Thomason E394_20; ESTC R201633	18,356	34

second part What such a collaps'd State should doe which shall stand for Application This is a lamentation and shall be for lamentation for this very calamity the Lord commands this Prophet into these passions Sigh Cap. ●1 thou Sonne of man with the breaking of thy Loynes sigh with bitternesse before the people cry and houle sonne of man because it is a tryall a tryall indeed thou therefore sonne of man smite thy hands together and lament There is a time to rejoyce wee have had such times long I wish wee had better improoved them there is also a time to mourne into which time our Sinnes and Gods righteous Judgements have now brought us Let us first Mourn and Lament for our Royall Scepter that he is thus weakned and unfitted to Rule Royal let us lament his Personall sorrows pity should be showne to him that is in affliction let us lament that he is deprived of his Royall Consort and Children the supports and delights of nature the sweet Objects of humane affection deprived of his wonted honour and attendance his Nobility and Compeers deprived of his wonted Meniall Servants and attended with Military guards unwelcome and ungracefull to him deprived of his wonted liberty these things must needs make him a man of sorrows howsoever his heart is supported hee cannot but looke upon himselfe as a man under Gods black rodde if God would soften our hearts to lament him as wee should it is probable he would soften his heart to lament his Subjects as he ought God commands both this Prophet and this state to take up a lamentation for the Princes of Israel Princes that were wicked enough and more then enough instrumentall to the ruine of that Common wealth and their owne houses let their demerits be what they will it is Gods mind and Subjects duty to lament them They are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh and as men ought to be pittyed David a man after Gods own heart thinks it good Religion to lament Saul Gods and his professed Enemy I much feare that that man is much wanting in Grace and loyalty which hath not shed teares in the behalfe of our King or done that in part of griefe which amounts to teares If he laments himselfe too little let us be waile him so much the more Let us also lament him in respect of his Political sorrows Jer. 48.17 God saith of Moab all that are about him bemoane him and all that know his name say how is the strong staffe and beautifull Rod broken blessed be God our staffe and Rodde is not yet utterly broken but greatly warped and weakened The Lord in his mercy restore him and bind him up again Cap. 32.2 The Lord chargeth this Prophet to take up a Lamentation for Pharaoh King of Egypt taken in a net though he had formerly taken one of these Kings of Israell in his Net much more for the Kings of Israell as bad as they were Lam 4.20 The Prophet Jeremiah Lamenting Zedcahiah this finfull and miserable Prince saith the breath of our Nostrills is taken in their Net Of whom we said under his shaddow we should live A naturall Body hath vitall parts as Heart and Lungs c. Yet if the breath be not in the Nostrills all the wheeles of life move not but are suspended from their functions so it is with a Politicall body The Prince puts life into all Authority and gives the Fiat to all Lawes and Ordinances in an ordinary course If in an Extraordinary a State wants this breath it breaths but faintly Authority is not in the full but much Eclipsed at least in the thoughts of Subjects Jet 6.26 It becomes the Daughter of Gods people in such a Case to Gird her selfe with Sack-Cloth to wallow her selfe in Ashes to take up a Mourning and a bitter Lamentation as for her only Son for so is our King during his Reigne I will cause the Sun to go downe at Noone saith God and I will darken the Earth in the cleer day Amos 8.9 10. and I will turne your Feasts into Mourning and all your Songs into Lamentation and I will bring up Sack-Cloth upon all loynes and baldnesse upon every head and I will make it as the mourning of an only Son and the end thereof as a bitter day I verily beleeve this frame of Spirit would at this time be farre more pleasing to God then our slightnesse and Jollity Isa 28.5 God saith of Christ hee shall be for a Crown of Glory and for a Crown of beauty to his people so are all Kings in their Measure or should bee All Common Societies yea every good Subject hath a subordinate Crowne or Coronet upon his head while our King and his Crown are distanced in this sort every Subject stands bare and the whole Land uncovered which is a great abatement of Honour Let us therefore lament him for his sake and our owne Let us also here Lament a Branch of our Royall Scepter Jer. ●8 2 O Vine of Sybnah I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer thy Plants are gone over the Sea the Lord keep him there without infection and returne him in safety The Prophet Ieremiah bewayling Jerusalem in her comfortles Condition saith There is none to guide her of all the Sons she hath brought forth neither is there any to take her by the Hand of all the Sons she hath brought up our Case is not altogether so but too neer it Let us in the next place sadly lament our Nationall Scepter Nationall this present Parliament Our State may be compared to the Theater of the Philistines which was supported by two Grand Pillars so are we by our King and this Honourable Parliament If these two faile Our Theater will hardly avoyd falling so may much more harme be don to our Lords and People at the latter end then in all our former late troubles Howle yee Fir-trees saith the Prophet Zachari for the Cedar is fallen the mighty are spoyled Howle ye Oakes of Bashin Zach. 11.2 a voyce of Howling of the shepheards for their Glory is spoyled a voyce of roaring of young Lyons for the pride of Jordan is spoiled you are our Fir-trees our Cedars our mighty men our Oakes our shepherds If you be falne we cannot stand if you be spoyled we are undone If our shepherds be smitten we your flock are scattered lost You know how it was with Rome in Anthonies time and in the Reigne of Valentinian the third and Placidia his Mother how with the State of Germany when the Empire was translated to Charles the fifth If the whole head be sick and the whole heart faint there will be no soundnesse from the sole of the foot to the Crowne of the Head but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores which can neither bee closed nor bound up nor Mollified Lament your constitution Constitution that it is so Heterogeneus dissimular and contramixt