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kingdom_n	david_n	king_n	tribe_n	2,061	5	9.5458	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45554	A loud call to great mourning in a sermon preached on the 30th of January 1661, being the anniversary fast for the execrable murther of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory, before the Honourable Knights, citizens, & burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, in the parish-church of Saint Margarets Westminster / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing H730; ESTC R9601	30,912	58

but especially of the first-born of one among many chiefly of an only Son cannot but be matter of exceeding grief and yet as if these were not full enough here is another similitude annexed which therefore doubtlesse was a sorrow exceeding the former and consequently this mourning of Hadadrimmon was very intense 2. Yet further this monrning was great in the extent because a common and publick mourning The mourning might begin at Hadadrimmon but it went through all Judah and Jerusalem Countrey and City rich and poor high and low People and Prophets for Jeremiah is mentioned in particular do all bemoan his death Indeed all were concerned in his death fit it is that all should share in the sorrow a publick losse calls for publick mourning 3. Adde to this that it was a continued mourning It was made an Ordinance in Israel either that every year there should be a sorrowfull commemoration of him or that the singing men and the singing women should upon all mournfull occasions speak of him in their lamentations yea to perpetuate the mourning Jeremiah composed Lamentations which some conceive to be that which is extant those words seeming very apposite to Josiah where it is said The breath of our Nostrils the annointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen But the whole scope of that Book plainly refers to the Captivity which was after Josiahs death and therefore it was some other which Jeremy composed thereby endeavouring that what Venus saith in the Poet concerning her Adonis Luctus monumenta manebunt Semper Adoni mei repetitaque mortis imago Annua plangoris peragent simulamina nostri the mourning for Josiah might be continually renewed No wonder if upon all these considerations in progressu temporis abiit in proverbium as one well observeth it became a Proverb among the Hebrews planctus Hadadrimmon as planctus Adonidis was among the Gentiles and both designed to expresse an exceeding great sorrow 3. But why this great mourning of Hadadrimmon that is the last Question which when answered we shall find that it was not a foolish humour fond passion but a just and rational though a great mourning More particularly there are eight Considerations which did serve to greaten the mourning of Hadadrimmon 1. The occasion of their mourning is Death not a slight wound that might be healed not taking captive for which a ransome might have been accepted but death from which there is no return to life When we mourn for the dead we mourn in this respect as without hope of enjoying their society any more in this world and therefore no wonder if it be in a great measure 2. The death which occasioneth this mourning is of a King Know you not saith David concerning Abner that a great man is this day fallen in Israel yet he was far inferiour to a King Howl ye Firre-trees saith the Prophet for the Cedar a tall and stately Tree is fallen The King is not only superiour but supream in his Kingdome so that when he dieth the Sun as it were sets fit it is a night of sad mourning should follow Thou art worth ten thousand of us say the people to King David not flatteringly but truly as one Sun is worth ten thousand Stars In uno Caesar insunt multi Marij there are many Mariuses in one Caesar so that in mourning for a King we mourne not for a mean but a great Person nay not for one but many thousands at once What heart so hard which will not mourn bitterly to see ten thousand men lye dead in the fields 3. The King whose death is bemoaned was their King who mourned for him it was the King of Judah whom all Judah lamented Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh said the Tribes of Israel to David so may all people say of their own native King can it choose but grieve a man to have his bone broken or flesh mangled yea what the head is to the body that is the King to his Kingdome if any one of the members be in pain the rest are sensible of it but surely all of them cannot but be affected when the head is to be cut off 4. This their King whose death they bemoaned was a good King and that must needs aggravate their mourning The Chaldee paraphrast maketh mention here of a mourning for two Kings Ahab the son of Omri and Josiah the son of Ammon Ahab was a wicked King and yet lamented it seemeth he is a very bad King for whose death the people have not cause to mourn Josiah was a good a very good King how good will appear anon no wonder if there were a great mourning Those characters The light of our eyes and The breath of our nostrils though in some sort they belong to all yet more especially to good Kings well may our eyes weep when their light is put out and we sigh when the breath of our no strils is ready to expire A good King is Pastor populi the Shepheard of the people no wonder if the sheep be scattered when the Shepheard is smitten Pater patniae The Father of his Countrey well may the children grieve when their Father dyeth Sponsus Ecclesiae The Bridegroome of the Church and shall not the Bride mourn when the Bridegroom is taken away 5. The death of this good King of Judah was untimely in the slower and strength of his age Had he dyed as David did when he was old and stricken in years it might justly have been expected but to dye in the midst of his dayes whilst he was young was sadly to be lamented 6. This early death was not by some disease but by slaughter Had he with Asa been diseased in his feet or any other part of his body and dyed in his bed it were not so dolefull but to be snatcht away whilst he was in full vigour and health of body could not but be matter of sad complaint 7. This violent and immature death was that which their sins brought upon him This good King used his utmost endeavour to quench the fire of Gods displeasure but notwithstanding saith the Text The Lord turned not from the fiercenesse of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah and accordingly he began the execution of his wrath in bereaving them of so good a King and had they not reason to mourn for his death whenas it was that which their own sins had accelerated 8. Lastly The fall of this King was a presage of fatal ruine to this Kingdome what the pillar is in the house the corner stone in the building that is a pious King to his people and surely as the removing of the pillar and taking away of the corner stone weakneth the edifice so doth the death of such a King especially shake his Kingdom Besides God had declared by Huldah the Prophetesse to this