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land_n	egypt_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	2,863	5	10.3611	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45691	Threni Hybernici: or, Ireland sympathising with England and Scotland, in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah Represented in a sermon at Christ-Church in Dublin before His Excellency the Lord Deputy, with divers of the nobility, gentry, and commonality there assembled, to celebrate a funerall solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector. By Dr. Harrison, chief chaplain to his said Excellency.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916A; ESTC R221279	14,781	29

him and that with a grievous mourning Gen. 50.3.11 And shall not the Israelites then mourne for a Moses sahll not wee mourne for our Moses of whom I am perswaded after-Ages will say as they of him Deut. 34.10 And there arose not a Protector since in England how many soever we may have like unto him whom the Lord knew face to face who had such intimate Communion with him In all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the Land of Aegypt to Pharoah and to all his Servants and to all his Land And in all that mighty hand and in all the great terrour which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel And yet you may observe that the Aegyptians mourned longer Jacob then the Israelites for Moses they seventy dayes these but thirty both because the people of God are and ought to be more moderate in their Mournings then others which have no hope 1 Thes 4 13. either as to them that are departed or as to themselves or the Publick and because the Lord had before-hand prepared a hopefull Successor Deut. 34.8 9. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended And Joshua the Son of Nun was full of the spirit of Wisdome for Moses had layd his hands upon him and solemnly designed him for the Government and the Children of Israel hearkened unto him and did as the Lord commanded Moses Let me give you the grounds of the Point They lament first Because of the strong Influence that a good Governour hath into the Vitals of a State Lament 4.20 they call Josiah The Breath of their Nostrils so the Chaldee Paraphrast expounds it Josiah who was as dear to us as the breath of our Nostrils under whose shadow we said we shall live I know that Grotius Diodati and others in their Annotations upon the place do apply in to Zedekiah who was indeed taken in the Pits of the Enemies but if Zedekiah much more might Josiah be termed The breath of their Nostrils and that you know is a great matter 't is all in all to the naturall body the heart soon slakens without it when it can no longer breath out its warmth nor fetch in cool Aire to allay its heat The Spirit of Reformation died with him the State never breathed after Reformation more till after the Captivity No wonder therefore that Prophet Zechary Ch. 12.10 c. alluded to their mourning for him telling them the day should come when their mourning for the Messiah should be as vehement as universall as that for Josiah all the Land should mourn in publick Humiliations Families in private meetings every Family apart and the Leaders of the Families apart Like to the mourning in the Valley of Megiddo there Josiah fell and there they mourned 2 Chron. 35.22 And such a mourning is suitable to the loss of One who hath an eminent Influence into the Welfare of a State first as He is Pater Patriae a common Father carefull to protect and provide for all especially for those of the Houshold of Faith whom the Ministers of Christ by his blessing upon his Word have begotten through the Gospel 1 Cor. 4.15 To these is the Magistrate a Nursing Father Isa 149.23 to carry them in his Bosome as God said to Moses As a Nursing Father beareth the sucking Children Numb 11.12 notwithstanding all their frowardness doubtless such an One was Josiah Our Iosiah and 't is no small loss to the poor people of God to part with such a Friend such a Father if we be not sensible of it now we shall feel it to our cost hereafter but if we feel it now and it work kindly with us there is hope that through a supply and a Succession of the same Spirit we shall feel it the less hereafter Secondly As he is Custos utriusque tabulae The Keeper of both Tables which is clear out of the old Testament and the chief Magistrates Duty is not so particularly layd down in the New as is that of Subjects and other Relations because no such new Members of the visible Church in the Apostles dayes nor for a long time after it must then be fetched from the old Testament or no where And this is so necessary even his looking to the Duties of the first Table that some have ventured to say that a Persecuting Magistrate as in the Primitive Church were ten times rather to be wished then one careless and neglecting to set up Ordinances suffering all to run into Irreligion and Heathenisme For either by persecuting or commending and countenancing the Worship of God the Magistrate causeth Religion to flourish by doing neither He takes the way utterly to abolish it as Iulian the Apostate was about to do had not God cut him off the sooner Better a Persecuter then a Neuter better a Domitian a Nero then a Gallio Who careth for none of those things But what a mercy is it to have a Iosiah indeed a Prince cordially studious of Religion and Reformation whose heart akes and trembles for the Ark of God as Elie's did 1 Sam. 4.13 And who prefers Ierusalem before his chiefest joyes as David did Psalm 137.6 And what a calamity is it to have such an one taken away before Reformation be perfected 2 Chron. 35.20 After all this when Iosiah had prepared the Temple then Necho King of Aegypt comes and cuts him off when the Church had most need of him For Israel to lose a Moses when they are yet in the Wilderness which is our case at this day this is a Lamentation and ought to be unto us for a Lamentation Thirdly As he is Custos utriusque Gladii The Keeper of both Swords Martiall and Civil First of the Military Sword He is the great Arbiter of Peace and War and in time of War he is the chief Leader so was Iosiah so our Iosiah We might all say to him as the Israelites to David 2 Sam. 5.2 Thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel with safety and Victory How often did he offer himself willingly Judg. 5.9 and jeoparded his life in the high places of the Field for Courage and Conduct for Prudence Piety and Success in War our Leader was Incomparable This Land all these three Nations will afford him everlasting Monuments The God of Peace grant we never feel the want of this great Leader in this particular Secondly He beareth the Civil Sword also He is the Guardian of all Vindictive Power God hath put his own Sword of Justice into the Magistrates hand He is Gods Sword-bearer Rom. 13.4 none may usurp it nor resist it There are two things that legitimate the Magistrates Vindictive Administrations First That he acts by Gods Authority and secondly According to his Justice both must concur a private man may not of his own head kill a Malefactor Ehues slaying Eglon Moses the Aegyptian are no patterns for us unless we have the same Commission or privy Seal Exempla heroica