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England's breath stopp'd being the counter-part of Jvdah's miseries lamented publickly in the New-Church at Westminster on January 30 being the anniversary of the martydom of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by Robert Twisse.
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Twisse, Robert, d. 1674.
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in Askelon not in Rome or Constantinople yet we may proclaim it in Zion and speak of it in Jerusalem We are commanded by Authority to tell it among our selves this day that our hearts being as it were pierced with the remembrance of so lamentable a Story may bleed and mourn for such Disloyalty acted towards our Native Prince such Dishonour done to our English Nation such Scandal and Reproch brought upon our Reformed Protestant Religion That ever any English Subjects and Romish Emissaries should lay their heads so close meet in one Juncto Cabal and Close-Committee that a pretended Act should pass to confirm a Vote first passed in the Conclave at Rome and approve a resolution first taken up in the Congregation De propaganda Fide that ever Religion should be thus wounded in the House of her friends This is a Lamentation Ezek. 19.14 and shall be for a Lamentation Methinks I hear my dead Sovereign expostulating wich his unnatural Children in the words of King David Psal 55.12 13 14. It was not an Enemy that reproched me then I could have born it neither was it he that hated me that did magnifie himself against me then I would have hid my self from him But it was Thou a Man my Guide my Acquaintance We took sweet Counsel together and walked to the House of God in company Had either Turk or Papist attempted to take away the Life of a Christian Prince or Protestant Sovereign it had been no such great wonder We know well enough from what Magazine the Powder was fetched to blow up King and Parliament from what Armory Clement and Pavilliac were furnished with Daggers to sheath them in the Bowells of their liege Lords Henry the III d and IVth of France 'T is no news for Rome to die her Scarlet Robes in grain the bloud of Kings and Saints It hath been her practice to allure the Kings of the Earth to be her paramors to commit Fornication with her and then to stab them whilst she doth embrace them as the two former Kings are sad examples of such cruel Kindness both of them murthered whilst they held Communion with the Church of Rome But for Protestants and such as would be thought to goe beyond others in the strictness of their lives and professions to transcend others in the looseness of their opinions and practices to transcribe an Italian and Roman Copy in Great Red Capital Letters to out-doe Draco in Cruelty who though he wrote his Laws in Bloud yet I never reade his Sovereign's Bloud was mingled with his Ink This this is such an Accumulative Treason as may well fill us all with astonishment and make great Britain and Ireland to become floating Islands this day in a Sea of Sorrow Now that we may have plenty of water this day I have thought good to invite you to sit down by Jeremiah's Rivers as the Jews sometimes sate down by the waters of Babylon and wept in the remembrance of Sion For here in this Book of the Lamentations the Tide of Grief is full and the Spring of Sorrow not onely warm but boiling hot able to thaw the most frozen heart and by way of sympathy dissolve it into a liquid frame Here is a full Quiver from whence you may draw store of Arrows to wound your hearts to the quick and make them bleed over the Bloud of your Sovereign See how passionately he laments both the Fall of CROWN and MITRE The Crown is fallen from our head Woe unto us that we have sinned Chap. 5.16 He hath polluted the Kingdome and the Princes thereof Chap. 2.2 Princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of the Elders were not honoured Chap. 5.12 So for the Church Chap. 2.6 7. He hath violently taken away his Tabernacle as it were of a Garden he hath destroyed the places of Assembly The Lord hath caused the solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and hath despised in the indignation of his Anger the KING and the PRIESTS The Lord hath cast off his Altar he hath abhorred his Sanctuary he hath given up into the hand of the Enemy the walls of her Palaces They have made a noise in the House of the Lord as in the day of a solemn Feast In this 4th Chapter the Prophet doth enumerate several sad Accidents which befell Jerusalem as namely 1 The Destruction of the Temple verse 1. 2 The Contempt of the Jews v. 2. 3 The great Famine in the Land v. 3 4 5. 4 The Destruction and Sack of the City v. 11 12. 5 The Captivity and Banishment of the Priests and Prophets v. 15. 6 And lastly which brings up the Rere of this sad Troup of Calamities the Destruction of the King himself The Breath of our nostrills the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits Now here we are first to enquire of whom the Prophet speaks and what King he intends by these expressions Some have thought Josiah to be the person aimed at who was taken away by a violent Stroke and his untimely death accompanied with an universal Lamentation of all Judah and Jerusalem and of Jeremiah himself 2 Chron. 35.24 25. But the several passages of this Chapter make it appear that it was such a Prince as fell together with the City and Temple which Character can agree to none beside Zedekiah the last Monarch that sate upon the Throne of Judah as may appear by comparing Jerem. 39.4 5. with the verse immediately preceding my Text. There we reade how Zedekiah made an escape by the Gate betwixt the two Walls but being pursued by the Chaldean Army who had notice given thereof was overtook in the plains of Jericho and there made prisoner Now the verse before my Text seems to point at this very accident Our persecutours are swifter then the Eagles of Heaven they pursued us upon the mountains they laid wait for us in the wilderness and then it follows The Breath of our nostrills IN these words the Prophet takes notice of I. The Sacredness of Zedekiah's Person by virtue of his Office in that he calls him The Anointed of the Lord. II. The general and happy Influence of his Government on his people couched under two Metaphors 1. He is compared to the Breath of our nostrils as much as to say our very Soul and Life 2. To a great Tree or Rock that casts a shadow to both which Kings are resembled 1. To a Tree as Dan. 4.20 21 22. The Tree that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his Dream great and tall abounding with fair leaves and much fruit to shelter and nourish the Beasts that came under it was the King himself as Daniel interpreted the meaning thereof 2. To a Rock Isai 32. ver 1 2. Behold a King shall reign in righteousness And he shall be as a great Rock in a weary Land to be as an hiding-place from the winde and a covert from the tempest Or 3. To an Hen as some will have it that gathereth her