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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61248	A sermon preached in the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St. Peter in York, January 30th, 1688/9, and published at the request of the auditors by William Stainforth ...	Stainforth, William, d. 1713.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5173; ESTC R13543	15,374	42

and to reade in it all his days that he might learn to fear the Lord his God and to keep all the words of this Law and these Statutes to doe them Now Josiah out of a just regard to the Authority of God and a tender respect to the Welfare of his People contains himself in the exercise of his Sovereign Power within those bounds which God had set him and administers his Government according to those Laws which God appointed to be the constant 2 Kings 23. 25. and fixed rules of it for so we are told that like unto him was there no King before him that turned unto the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him Where by all the Law of Moses must be meant the judicial as well as the moral and ceremonial Laws and consequently this noble Character of Josiah must imply his exact and punctual Observance of that in matters civil and political as well as his strict Conformity to the other in things of a moral and ceremonial nature And what greater Blessing could a Nation enjoy or wish for than such a King who was so admirably qualified and fitted for Government and who in his Government kept punctually to the legal constitution of it and inviolably observ'd all the publick Rules which either related to the Worship of God and the duties of Religion or to the civil Rights and Properties of the People And therefore the Death of such a King could not be reckon'd any otherwise than a publick Loss nor could the Notice of it be received by any thinking person without such a passionate and affective Grief as was suitable to the nature and moment of the Consequences which depended on it And accordingly when good Josiah dyed the whole Nation was ready to dye with Grief too ready to faint and sink under the sense of their Loss and the weight of their Affliction for as their Loss was extraordinary so their Grief was so excessive and so much beyond the ordinary rate of Mourners that it became proverbial and the Prophet Zachary could not find a more proper instance of Grief to represent the greatness of that Mourning which the Children of the Bride-chamber would express when Christ their Bridegroom should be taken from them than this wherewith the Death of Josiah was lamented for thus he describes it It shall be like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo And indeed all Judah and Jerusalem had extraordinary reason to mourn at that extraordinary rate for Josiah not onely because he dyed but because he dyed in that surprising and astonishing manner Which brings me to consider III. What peculiar and additional Reason they had besides the general one to grieve and mourn for the Death of Josiah If good Josiah had dyed according to the ordinary course of Nature and gone to his Sepulchre and been gathered to his Fathers as a shock of corn fully ripened and in its proper Season as Eliphaz elegantly compares it though his Job 5. 26. death even under such circumstances had been a loss and an infelicity yet the consideration that he had lived so long and as long as the forces of humane Nature could hold out might have been a just abatement of their grief and disposed them to have born the Calamity with less Trouble and more temper of Mind But alas the case was quite otherwise for he not onely dyed in the prime of his Age in his full strength and vigour but he dyed too by the hands of Violence for he was slain in the day of Battel as he was endeavouring to oppose the King of Egypt and to stop his march towards the river Euphrates For an unlucky Egyptian drew his mischievous Bow and shot a fatal Arrow which gave him his mortal wound and soon put an end to his Life and to all the joys and delights of his people for they could not bear the death the untimely and violent Death of such an excellent King without being extremely concern'd at it and almost overwhelm'd with a deluge of grief and sorrow for it And indeed the manner of his death was a just occasion for so great a grief because it was so plain an indication of God's displeasure against them and so clear a Prognostick of Calamities and Miseries which would follow upon it For though Kings must dye like other men and though there seems nothing extraordinary in the untimely and violent death of a good King when we consider onely that they are made up of the same frail perishing materials with our selves and with the rest of mortal men are equally susceptive of the fatal impressions of a destructive Violence yet when we consider farther that the Providence of God does in an especial manner superintend and watch over good men and in a more particular manner over good Kings then we cannot reflect on the untimely and violent death of a Wise Holy and Just King without being convinced that Heaven is highly offended and has a dreadfull controversie with the Nation and has removed this great instrument of its Blessing out of the way that so its wrath may break in with greater liberty and fall down upon it with all the dispatch and execution imaginable And the Jews had a more than ordinary reason to make such a judgment on the untimely and violent death of their good King Josiah and to interpret God's permission of it as the effect of his sore wrath and heavy displeasure which he now seemed resolved to pour down upon them in such National Calamities and Miseries as should bear proportion to their own and their Ancestours provocations For they had been assured by Huldah the Prophetess that the Idolatries and Impieties of their Forefathers had kindled and blown up the wrath of God against them to such a degree that it should not be quenched but should flame out upon them in Judgments as signal as their Crimes and as extraordinary as their Offences which deserv'd it But notwithstanding for the sake of Josiah whose heart was tender and who 2. King. 22. humbled himself before the Lord God would defer the Execution of his wrath and not bring it upon them in his days And therefore as the Jews were warranted by this Prophecy to esteem the life of their King as the surest preservative of their own and to look upon his Person as an happy Skrene which interposed between them and the dismal terrours of God's justice and kept off his destroying hand from seizing and laying hold on their guilty Nation so they had reason to conclude from the manner of his death that God was quite wearied out with their provocations That his Patience and Long-suffering were utterly exhausted and that he was now sending down upon them all those tremendous judgments which their Prophets had so clearly foretold and their sins so loudly called