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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28910	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Swithin, London, March 10th, 1694/5, upon the much lamented death of our most gracious Queen by Tho. Bowber ...	Bowber, Thomas, b. 1662 or 3.	1695 (1695)	Wing B3866; ESTC R17575	11,149	34

Stars that did ever Shine on the Throne of Israel or Judah There are some special remarks of his Piety In the Eighth Year of his Reign that is the Sixteenth Year of his Age for he was eight years old when he began to Reign whilst he was yet young he began to seek after the Lord Solomon also sought the Lord God of his Fathers whilst he was young but his Piety was strangely Clouded and Eclipsed in his elder years for it came to pass when Solomon was old that his Wives turned away his heart after other Gods 1 Kings 11. v. 4. But Josiah's Seeking of the Lord was as clear as the Morning as bright as the Sun it knew no Declension His Piety did surpass that of all the Kings of Israel and Judah which were before him The Holy Ghost gives this High and Honourable Character of him that like unto him there was no King before him that turned to 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 Other Kings there were in Israel and Judah of very high Elevations in Gifts and Graces whose Hearts were sincere and perfect with the Lord and lifted up in his Ways yet they had some foiles their Beauty was sullied with some spots and blemishes But this good King was unspotted in his Reputation and so innocent in his Life that we cannot charge him with any thing unbecoming his Profession Secondly He was a very Zealous Prince a Burning Lamp of Zeal for the Glory of God and Purity of his Worship the most Zealous of the Kings that did ever sit on the Throne of Israel or Judah in rooting out Idolatry In the twelfth year of his Reign he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the carved Images and the molten Images and they brake down the Altars of Baalim in his Presence and the Images that were on high above them he cut down and the Groves and the carved Images and the molten Images he brake in pieces and made dust of them and strewed it upon the Graves of them that had Sacrificed unto them and he burnt the bones of the Priests upon their Altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem 2 Chron. 34. v. 3 4 5. Of other Reforming Kings 't is noted That they took away the Altars of the strange Gods the high places brake down the Images and cut down the Groves Howbeit the High Places were not taken away they took away some but not all but this good King destroyed all the Monuments all the Reliques of Idolatry as you may read at large in the 2 Kings chap. 23. from the 4th to the end of the 20th verse Thirdly He was of a very publick Spirit for when he understood by the words of the Law That great was the Wrath of the Lord that was to be poured out upon Judah and Jerusalem because their Fathers kept not the Word of the Lord he commanded Hilkiah the Priest and others saying go enquire of the Lord for me and for them them that are left in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the book that is found And he endeavoured partly by Penitential Tears and deep Humblings of himself to allay the Divine Wrath and Indignation for his heart was tender and he did humble himself before God and partly by entering into a Covenant with God the sum and tenor of which was to walk after the Lord and to keep his Commandments and his Statutes with all his Heart and with all his Soul and to perform the words of the Covenant which are written in the Book of Moses And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin to enter into the Covenant and to stand to it and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the Covenant of God the God of their Fathers as you may find it written 2 Cron. 34. verses 31 32. All this did this good King to avert were it possible imminent Judgments and threatned Desolations but he came to the Throne in such an ill time when they had so highly offended the Majesty of Heaven and so increased his Anger through their many Sins and repeated Provocations that notwithstanding all this great Reformation and the keeping of such a Passover as never was kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the Prophet yet the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kinled against Judah because of all the provocations that Manasses had provoked him withal Fourthly Josiah was taken away when their Hopes and Expectations of some lasting Prosperity both in Church and State were advanced to the highest pitch Therefore Jeremiah thus Laments his Death The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Lam. 4. v. 20. I am apt to think that this was not spoken of Zedekiah as some would have it for under such a Wicked and Idolatrous Prince they could not promise themselves any safety and when Josiah Dyed all their swelling hopes of future Prosperity expired and dyed with him then the Godly amongst them expected nothing but a Deluge of Sin and Misery to break in upon them For their splendid Reformation was only superficial a meer veil of Hypocrisie as Jeremiah who Prophesied in Josiah's Days complains Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to the Lord with her whole heart but feignedly or in falshood Jer. 3. v. 10. Having given some Account of the Jews great and universal Mourning for the Death of Josiah I come Thirdly To set before you the reasons of our Mourning for the Death of our late most Excellent Princess which well weighed are of force to dissolve three Kingdoms into Tears For First She was a Princess of most Illustriand Singular Piety She Sacrificed the Flower of Her Age and Time to the Service of the Great God from whom She had Her Being No Person had a greater sense of Religion or was more sincere in Her Devotions in which she was as constant as the returns of Day and Night the lofty Elevations of her Soul and her daily flights to Heaven did plainly show that Her Conversation was there also and that She had Communion and Fellowship with God the Father and with Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant Her Life was so exactly Correspondent to Her Profession that She became the greatest Ornament and Example of true Piety that these later Ages have produced That Honourable Character given Josiah that like unto him there was no King before him may in some respect well become Her For She was the first of all the Kings and Queens that sate upon the British Throne who appointed After-noon Sermons to be Preached every Sunday at her Chapel in White-hall which She was pleased to Honour and Countenance with Her Royal Presence