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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02735	Dies nefastus; or A sermon preached on the publick fast day, for the cruell murther of our late soveraign, upon that unfortunate day January 30. / By Andrew Dominick, D.D. ...		1662 (1662)	Wing D1842A; ESTC R175969	9,106	24

I may say with David 2 Sam. 3.38 Know ye not that a great Prince fell on this day in Israel Nay I have to observe farther That the Church of God may be sometimes deprived of such heads as would have been very much for her behoofe to have retained for what greater Prince then Ioshua for whom God fought at whose prayer the Sunne and Moon stood still unto whom God sent an Auxiliarie of Haile from heaven to vanquish his enemies Josh 20. for whose sake the water of Jordan gave place fox him to go over yet this Joshua was taken away and the people of God lost so good a Prince which would have been in all likelihood much for their behoof to have k●pt What shall I say of David of Abraham and Sampson they are all dead and which is more yet Aliquando tristi aliqua morte extinguuntur they are sometimes taken off with untimely and to be extreamly lamented deaths and yet very good Kings too As for example Iosias whose heart was tender and trembled at the word of God and rent his clothes 2 Kings 22.11 of whom it is said 2 Kings 23.25 That there was no King before or after him that turned so his heart to the Lord his God yet was he untimely sl●in at Megiddo and by an uncircumcised hand of Pharoah Necho King of Aegypt Wherefore beloved let it not suggest evil thoughts of God or our Prince unto us that this hapned as on this day God hath his reasons for it and he would humble us we had sinned questionless and therefore God suffered us to be robbed of so great riches we had in our late King that we might be punished in the loss let us not then presume any evil of him for otherwise must we suspect evil of good Josias whom the Scripture highly commends and yet so untimely slain Let us then mourn for our sins and that will please God I am sure Let us lament and say with the Prophet Jeremiah in the 5th of his Lamentations vers 16. The Crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have sinned And as at the 40 verse Let us search and try our wayes and turn again unto the Lord Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in the heavens We were deeply wounded through our Soveraign but he * Co●nelius me evasit said the Tyrant Nero. Tacit. escaped through the losse of him lay groaning under heavie oppressions due punishments for our sins But now it hath pleased Almighty God blessed be his holy name to restore agen as much as may be our gracious and desired Soveraign in his beloved Son our present and good King the best of Princes But let us not forget the dutie of this day to weep to mourn to be afflicted to lament the fall of our former dear Soveraign and to be able to say with the Prophet Lamentations the 3. v. 48. Mine eyes runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people And with the Prophet Let us wish for a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain O let us mourn this day as 't is said of Joseph and his brethren for his Father Israel that they mourned with a very great and sore lamentation that even those Canaanites amongst us may say This is a very grievous mourning to the Loyalists And let us beloved give thanks to God for our Dear Soveraign that now is who as out of the Ashes of that Phoenix happily is returned to raign agen his Father over us and to deliver us from innumerable evils and to restore us all the blessings of peace for which the Lord blesse him as Solomon prayeth for himself with wisdom and prudence And the Lord blesse him moreover as he added unto his Solomons desire with riches and honour and the Lord be with him in his going forth and comming in And let it repent us in particular this day let it repent us of our Sins let us resolve upon amendment of 〈◊〉 and let us not consecrate such dayes to Bacchus and delights but to God let not those miscreants gather encouragement from their * T is said of Satan be can turn himself into an Angel of Light Devillish holiness for that any of us seem to have none but let us all be as really religious as they would seem to be l●t us indeavour to grow in faith and all spiritual graces and be constant in hope and persevere in obedience and be Zealous in good works which make for the Worship and Glory of God And the Lord grant we may induce him by our prayers this day to turn away his wrath and just displeasure from us Amen Amen FINIS

death Here I could speak of the Apostles and other Saints believing in Christ how some of them were beheaded and others crucified others hanged on a tree others killed with the swords most sad stories all yet even to be paralleld by these times in our memorie Eusebius tells us of a persecution under those monsters of Men Dioclesian and Maximinian wherein 17000 Christians were slain with the sword * V. D Johan Pappas in Epist Hist Eccles And an other tells of 900000. in the space of 30. years from 1550. to 1580. in the Low Countries England Italy and Spaine that were miserably butchered for the Religion we now profess * D. Saccus 2 part post Doni 8. Tr. But what is this to the cruelties our eyes have seen or might have seen in a lesser space both of ground and time Oh how many thousands beloved yea who is able to number them that went to wrack by the means of that unnatural Rebellion of late years amongst us Nay men of principallest quality and best fashion amongst us * Here think up●n the Nobles Knights Gent. Nay our dearl highly honoured and beloved King compassed by those Bulls of Bashan and destroyed in open sight at his own Doors his poor loyal people sighing and helplesse Spectators O horrid and unheard of cruelty O bloudy Catalines Could no bloud satisfie after so many noble streams your cruel hands had made but the blood of your Sovereign what vipers what tygers what bulls of Bashan were these certainly David could not more bitterly entitle his malicious enemies then we may justly those of the late King many are the adversaries which rose up against him may Israel now say many are the adversaries and they fought against me with cruel hatred may Israel also say and who were those adversaries that rose up so violently against David not strangers but his own Subjects his own vassalls and servants this aggravated the matter had it been a stranger as he said elsewhere he could have borne it with much more patience but our late Sovereign was afflicted by his own people insolently handled by rebells most barbarously murthered yet bore it with unheard of patience sweetly counselling and advising as if he had been not so much to die by them as for them Oh beloved let us bewaile that wicked fact let us lament that ever English-man should prove so unnatural so cruel so inhumane as to rise up against his own own own natural Prince What a disgrace by that barbarous fact did those vipers bring upon the Nation 't is storied of vipers that grown to maturity in their dams belly they gnaw a hole and so those serpents come forth into the world just so did those Rebells of old grown up to some strength gnaw a hole thorow the bowels of those that bred them and destroyed the Patrem Patriae and had well nigh murthered their Countrey beloved for this should we mourn this day for this lament abhorring all thought of the least refreshment For know ye not that a great prince fell in Israel this day let us therefore mourn let us express and shew our sadness before God and man and let this be Dies Nefastus an unlucky day a day of darkness for ever a day of blackness and gloominess let no joy or gladness be heard in our streets but rather paleness in our faces and sorrow perceived in our hearts on this day for ever Let us also by prayers and godly readings humble our minds at the footstool of Divine Majesty that he may be intreated concerning the blood of our gracious Sovereign that some of the chief actors having been hung up before the Lord the kingdom may be guiltless before the Lord for ever Oh hear us we beseech thee O Lord and make not inquisition upon the guiltlesse for blood but let the blood of those which spilt that most pretious blood satisfie thy sore displeasure for shedding of that blood Austin tells us de Civit. 26. there sha●● be ●owards the end of the world such Persecutions as never was and truly such dayes had we within these few years past when those Bulls of Bashan were got loose what swarms then of Locusts and Caterpillars were every where upon every green thing Zozomen and Theodoret tell us That the Persecutions were not alwayes with present death to hang or shoot them forthwith but sometimes to macerate them first in Prisons and to afflict them there with expectation of death more intollerable then death it self So was the Church afflicted in the Primitive times and when those Bulls of Bashan were loose who ever escaped the Clergy ever went to wrack in the Primitive Persecution John the Baptist was B●headed Peter and John we read were Imprisoned Acts 4.3 S● Peter and Andrew were Crucified St. Bartholomew Skin'd alive St. Luke Hanged Ignatius cast to Lions the Prophet Michael fed with bread and water others spoyled of their Goods and Estates and sent away into Banishment But with us many thousands of the poor Commonalty were sold into perpetual sl●very to Digge under ground in Mines all the dayes of their Lives Many were deprived Zozom saith oft times of their civil Honours and the Churches in many places shut up the Ministers proscribed and turned out Church Revenues scamled amongst needy and bankrupt people to encourage others such like to rise up and accuse their Godly Ministers and now I beseech you doth not this seem like the History of our times saving that we had something yet worse which grew out of thes● ev●s and that was the damnable mask of Religion and Godlinesse then which there can be nothing more desireable when true and sincere For it is not my thoughts I blesse God for it to speake or hint the least in way of discountenancing of true Religion and Godlinesse or to discourage or balke any in the sincere practice thereof no it were better I profess● th●t my tongue should cleave to the roofe of my mouth No my beloved Brethren go on I beseech you in all Sinceritie and Truth both to professe and practice also not in words onely but in deeds also f●r there is nothing more beneficiall nothing more comfortable in the end then to be able to say with the Holy Father Egredere meâ anima go forth my soul go forth with chearfulnesse to meet thy gratious Lord whom thou hast through his grace served so many years Then nothing is more desireable then Religion but then I mean to note it also that nothing is more mischievous when feigned and counterfeited and what was more frequent 't was that great Mask the prime Contrivers of our Ruine walked in themselves and it was that they loved to see their Imps to imitate them in so that if the common'st * So it was with my self Strumpet in fame could but scruple at the word Temple or Church or Altar she was Godly enough to accuse her Minister for a Scandalous Person Oh the Hypocrisie of