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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81847	A sermon at the funerall of the truely vertuous, honourable, valiant, in fame, never-dying, Sir Simon Harcourt, one of his Majesties most honourable privie councell in the realme of Ireland, and colonell over some of His Majesties forces there. Preached in Christ-Church in Dublin, Mar. 31. 1642. Before the Lords Justices, and the rest of His Majesties most honourable privie councell, his Majesties commanders and souldiers for that present service. By Edward Dunstervill, Batchelour of Divinitie. Now published by command of the House of Parliament.	Dunstervill, Edward.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing D2618; Thomason E125_1; ESTC R15434	11,217	24

treat of The first is of Iosiahs death The second is of the peoples lamentation for him Certaine it is that there was not a King after David over Iudah and Israel like unto Iosiah who so reades the Bible History shall finde most glorious things recorded of him It is said of Goliah 1 Sam. 17.33 That he was a man of Warre from his youth but of this Josiah that from his youth hee did seeke after the God of David and in the twelfth yeare he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places c. 2 Chron. 34 4.5 6. Hee did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left 2 King 22.2 In a word such was his zeale against Idolatry and to the service of the Lord that hee remaines on sacred record without parallell and yet for all this you see that Iosiah was shot Iosiah was sore wounded and taken away with a stroake of an enemy in the Field as well as others Whence we may observe this conclusion that The events occurrencies and stroaks of Warre they may betide the good as well as the bad the best as well as the worst of the Lords people 1 Sam. 17. In the great battaile betwixt the Philistines and Israel God by Davids hand with a sling stone stroke nocent Goliah and 2 Sam. 7. Thus in a hot b●ttaile was innocent Vriah smitten also 1 Sam. 31.3 Disobedient Saul was shot and sayes the Text sore wounded ●nd so was godly and obedient Ionathan in the same field on the same day againe 2 Chron. 18. ●● A certaine man drew a Bow at a venture and smote wicked Ahab betweene the joynts of the armes so that hee called to his Chariot man hast me away for I am sore wounded And you see here that the like occurrence betides this most godly Prince Iosiah So that as it is said concerning the Duke of Alua's sword that it knew no difference betwixt the Protestant or Papist so may I say of the adventurous shots and stroakes of Warre it makes no difference twixt the godly man and the sinner Justly therefore are those to bee judged who will take upon them to judge men by these events for certainely there is no rule more uncertaine See Eccles 9.2 All things come alike to all viz. all outward things there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked to the good and cleane and unto the uncleane to him that sweares and to him that feares an oath in Luke 13.1 2 3. Our Saviour reasons this case with certaine who conceived that they were more righteous than others because that they escaped the hands of bloud shedding Pilate Others because they escaped the fall of the Tower of Siloe which slew eighteene persons but our Saviour tells them Nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish It is true somtimes God in judgment to destroy wicked men sends outward evills sometimes in the field sometimes in their families sometimes in their beds sometime in battell as he did Abner and Ahab and Absolom and Shebah with many of the rebellious and provoking among the people of Israel of old and in Histories as he did Olimpius the Arrian Heretike Anno 510. and as hee did Iulian the Apostate who was slaine with an Arrow having intended upon his returne from Persia to have slaine all the Christians to root out the name of the Galileans and as he did the wicked Emperour Dioclesian of whom it is reported that hee was strooke with madnesse and as he did that wicked late persecuting Gardiner who was suddenly taken and destroyed by a strange strong burning Feaver Notwithstanding to conclude that all who have suffered these or the like outward evils are greater sinners then others because they suffered such things is no divinity The grounds of the points are two 1. Ground The first is taken from the cruell disposition of the wicked it is certain the wicked hate the just and their mercies towards them are cruell as wee may see in Ahab and Amaziah and Iezabel and Pashur and Saul and in the Primitive and later perfecutors as Domitian Dioclesian Valentinian Le● Garnet Gardiner and others * Heb. 11. and that which wee now know by woefull experience of this bitter and hasty Nation who Caldean like * Hab. 1.6 have not onely marched through the breadth of our Land and possessed the dwelling places which are theirs but have most despitefully reproached our Nation and most holy profession branding both with as foule opprobrious obloquies as could be devised either against Iewes or Mahumetans neither have the rested herein but like so many evening Wolves have torne in peeces poore innocent babes stripped as well Aged as others in the coldest season both men and women starke naked and now wee heare as in the Parsian massacre under that cruell Duke of Guise he cut off all yea as in the Sicilian slaughter of the French rip up the bellyes of our Protestant women Besides the more holy from the beginning of the rebellion when their mindes were best difposed the more holy any man any Minister had b●en the worse it fared with him such have been fure to bee stigmatized to bee sore wounded to bee slaine or hanged So that if in an Army they could discover such a one a Puritan as they terme such surely they would give charge as the King of Syria in another case neither fight with small or great but against him The second ground is taken from Gods permission Ground 2. God is able to guide the instruments of Warre as he pleases either with Jonathan to shoot beyond or on either side his gifts 1 Kings 19. Dan. 6.22 Dan. 3 25. as he was able to keepe Elijah from the fury of Ahab and his wicked Wife Daniel from the fury of the Lions the three Children from the fury of the fire as hee did Jehosaphat and David who were frequent in hot services yet were kept from the strokes and yet the Lord in wsdome findes cause sometimes to permit the righteous to be smitt●n sore wounded and fall in the battaile as well as the unrighteous sinner Neither yet may we conceive that this is for evill Causes 1. but first sometimes to prevent evill Isa 57.1 The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evill to come and for this cause it is plain that God took away this godly Prince in the Text thus suddenly 2 King 22 20. When God hath had a purpose to bring a lingring heavie calamity upon a Land it hath been usuall with him to call and cull out to himselfe such as are his deerely beloved as Lot to Zoar these with himselfe Gen. 1● safe and free from the discomfort thereof Even as a carefull mother who seeing her Children in the way when she beholds a