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A35184	Two sermons preached in the cathedral-church of Bristol, January the 30th 1679/80 and January the 31th 1680/81 being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles the first / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7271; ESTC R17923	25,553	48

TWO SERMONS Preached in the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF BRISTOL JANVARY the 30th 168079. AND JANVARY the 31th 1680 1. BEING The days of Publick HUMILIATION FOR The EXECRABLE MURDER OF King CHARLES the First accipe nostro Dira quod exemplum seritas produxerit aevo Juven Sat. 15. By SAMVEL CROSSMAN B.D. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome and to be sold by Charles Allen in Bristol 1681. To the Right Worshipful Sir RICHARD HART Kt. MAYOR of the City of Bristol SIR YOur own and the joynt-desires of others having rendred these Melancholy Discourses thus publick you must now be pleased in course to accept of them The prodigious Discomposures of our Times cannot but occasion great thoughts of heart with all sober persons and it were a most amazing Infelicity if we who might live together with so much mutual Comfort should quarrel our selves into common Misery These solemn Fasts may serve as sad Remembrancers to shew us where we lost our way that we wander so wretchedly no more The ways of Faction in the State they are as one hath well observed of Separation in the Church A Labyrinth wherein men tire themselves and grow giddy as in a maze but when all is done there is no way out but that whereby they entered in Now if Monarchy be as our greatest Writers tell us the best of Governments and Popularity the very dregs and worst our Peace and Welfare bound up in the one our War and Calamities brought in by the other we may then fairly hope all wise men will reflect with the deeper sorrow upon our late Confusions and hold themselves greatly concern'd to consist the more steadily with that happy Restauration which God in so much mercy hath vouchsafed to us God hath granted it and every true English-man will be highly thank-ful for it Sir I cannot but heartily acknowledge your worthy conduct of Affairs in that great Trust committed to you God Almighty enable you to continue therein with that Integrity and Vprightness that Prudence and Resolution which becomes a good Christian a good Magistrate and a good Subject Which is the dayly affectionate desire and prayer of Right Worshipful Your very humble and truely respectful Servant Samuel Crossman Bristol Feb. 28. 1680 1. TWO SERMONS Preached in the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF BRISTOL JANVARY the 30th 1679 80. AND JANVARY the 31th 1680 1. BEING Days of HUMILIATION FOR The EXECRABLE MURDER Of our late Soveraign King Charles I. By SAMVEL CROSSMAN B. D. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome and to be sold by Charles Allen in Bristol 1681. The first SERMON LAMENTATIONS 4. 20. The breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live among the heathen OUR Sorrows should always bear some due proportion to the just magnitude of their causes In most of the troubles incident to humane life a Sigh may suffice We should weep as if we wept not with a bridle of Restraint and Moderation wisely laid upon our Affections But some Calamities being of a far deeper nature every good man may be allowed in reference to them to say as the Prophet Look away from me for I will weep bitterly because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people Both Humanity and Piety oblige us to hang up our Harps and to sit down as persons astonisht whose grief is very great The mourning of this day 't is upon divers accounts as they said of the Patriarck Jacob's Funeral a grievous mourning England's Sorrow and England's Shame As to the Sanction of it 't is like that of Nineve by the decree of the King and his Nobles blowing the Trumpet in Zion proclaiming this Fast calling these solemn Assemblies that the Inhabitants of the whole Land might tremble As to the grounds of it 't is an Humiliation for the barbarous shedding of Royal Blood the inhumane parricide of the sacred Father of our Country An offence so hainous in the just aggravations of it that we might say as once Daniel in another case Vnder the whole heavens hath not been done as hath been done here in England We have risen up the Feet against the Head the Servants against the Lord of the Vineyard rebelliously saying as those wretches in the Gospel We will not have this man to reign over us We have been open fighters against God and his Anointed too far verifying that sad story Tot de Diis quot de gentibus triumphi So many Battels so many Attempts against God himself so many Victories so many Triumphs over the Ark and Religion Lord we beseech thee let us see no more of these Triumphs no more of these joyless Thanksgivings in our Land 'T was then written in Characters of Blood Atrocius sub Sancti nominis professione peccatur We call our selves Saints and then take leave to play the Devils A specious Profession becomes villainously usurped to patronize the most horrid actions In this case we must not think hardly of our Governours if they deal by us as Moses by the Children of Israel when they had in that popular tumultuous fit of impatience made that golden Calf 't is said He burnt it in the fire he grownd it to powder he strew'd it upon the water and made the Children of Israel drink of it And this he did upon great deliberation ut majorem eis peccati nauseam induceret that they might hereby become the more asham'd and sick of their sin The like penance have our Moses's enjoyn'd us this day These Anniversary Humiliations they do as it were lay the Royal Body of our late slaughtered Soveraign bleeding afresh before us accusing us as the Betrayers and Murderers of it We read of God he took a far greater notice of Abel's murder than the Murderer himself was willing to do The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto me God hears what Cain it seems would not Guilt is a sullen froward thing I am sorry at the angry Objections of many against these solemn Fasts as if they were a needless Reproach continued upon the Land I hope for our parts we shall rather from year to year as becoming good Christians and good Subjects more ingenuously accept this punishment of our iniquity acknowledge our sin and renew the firmest Resolutions that we will offend no more This whole Book is stil'd A book of Lamentations Our ancient Poets Tragedies seem but Comical Plays compar'd with the unparallel'd mournfulness of this Scene A weeping Jeremy a person skilful in Lamentations is chosen to be the Pen-man to these divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these pathetick Elegies He proves the best Orator for God that speaks from the very heart that draws the life of his Eloquence from his own internal sense of what he delivers unto others The Church and State Prince and Priest Throne and Altar they are all brought in by the Prophet as cloth'd in mourning If the Ark be taken in one verse