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A87060	Lacrymæ Ecclesiæ; or The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah. Delivered in two sermons, Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn fasting and humiliation, for the martyrdom and horrid murder of our late gracious King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory. In the church of the borough of Blechingley in the county of Surry. / By Wil. Hampton rector of the said church.	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing H634; Thomason E1086_9; ESTC R202530	24,674	40

LACRYMAE ECCLESIAE OR The mourning OF HADADRIMMON For Englands IOSIAH Delivered in two Sermons Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn Fasting and Humiliation for the Martyrdom and horrid Murder of our late gracious King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory In the Church of the Borough of Blechingley in the County of Sury By Wil. Hampton Rector of the said Church In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Zach. 12.11 Nunc requiescit in sinu Abrahae dulcis amicus noster nam quis alius tali animae locus Aug. de Nebridio LONDON Printed for VVil. Hope at the sign of the blew Anchor on the North side of the Royall Exchange 1661. To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cokaine Viscount Cullen Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed Right Honourable and my very good Lord As you have been a great sufferer in your Person and Estate to the loss of more then thirty thousand pounds for your fidelity and loyalty to his late Majesty of blissed memory and yet were cheared more with the continuall feast of a good and a quiet Conscience as I have heard you confesse then you could have been had you saved your estate and gained ten times that sum by engaging on the other side for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anoynted and be guildesse 1 Sam. 26.9 So no less sorrow for his sad sufferings and chiefly that last fatall blow brought upon his sacred Person by the furious rage of merciless and bloody men when a sword did even pierce through your heart as your Lordship hath often expressed in my hearing in my house whither you were pleased to retire your self aster your releasment from Oxford and at other times and to honour me with your presence when we did in private poure forth our souls together in utter detestation of that horrid Fact and in bitter lamentation for it Therefore upon this account I think not these Sermons more due to any one then your self as also for the many obligations that lie upon me for your manifold favours and respects to me even from your youth up till now It is framed in a low and plain stile sitted for a Country Auditory and it hath alwaies been my desire and endeavour to condescend to the meanest capacity My warning was very short for such a work having scarce two dayes to prepare by notice given me by a worshipfull Neighbour one of our late Burgesses in the late healing Parliament of such a day to be kept of which I knew nothing before And although the short warning the exhaustion of my Spirits in Preaching twice the Lords day preceding together with my age might have pleaded my excuse for such a task and confind me to praying and weeping Yet as nothing seemes hard to a willing mind my cordial affection to the duty for I have in my secret prayers long wished I might live to see such a day as this wherein we might in publick as wel express our detestation of as lamentation for that monstrous and bloody Act put me on with the assistance of the Divine Spirit to a performance beyond my strength and expectation The dead Letter cannot be answerable to the lively Delivery which was to the content of my Auditory which that day was great many of the adjoyning Parishes where no notice was given of the day repairing to my Church And which was to my content as it drew teares from mine so from the eyes of a great part of my hearers which is the best commendation of a Preacher The Lord grant it may work upon their Souls to whose sight it shall come whose hearts or hands or fingers were defiled with that innocent blood that they may be deeply humbled and moved to repentance for such a crimson scarlet sin and find Mercy and obtain Pardon from Heaven by having their hearts sprinkled with that blood which speakes better things then the blood of Abel And that it may blunt and alleviate the asperity of their Spirits who have great thoughts of heart and those evill too against this blessed Change a work even of Omnipotency And against our dear and gracious Soveraign whom God long preserve a King of such asweet Christian temper for Wisdom Discretion Meekness Gentleness Pitty Piety Mercy as is too good for such a churlish and unthankful People Thus commending this poor labour to the blessing of God and your Lordship and family to his grace and safe protection I humbly take my leave and remain Your Honours humble Servant in the work of Christ W. Hampton From my Study in Blechingley February 12 1660. The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Josiah The Text. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations 2 Cron. 35.4 25. THis day is a day of blackness and gloominess a day of clouds thick darkness a day of mourning for a good and a religious King cut off by untimely violent death to the unexpressible griefe of all good Christians by the trayterous heads trecherous hearts and bloody hands of wicked and ungodly men yet great pretenders to holiness above all other Now I say this being a black day a day of mourning I have chosen a Text of mourning of mourning for a godly and a religious King Josiah the fittest parallel I can find in the whole sacred book for our Martyred Soveraign Josiah was one of the best of all the Kings of Iudah whose History you may read at large in the foregoing Chapter and in the former part of this Chapter and also in the 22 and 23. book of the Kings He came to the Crown young at eight yeares old and sought the Lord while he was yet young in the eight year of his raign and the twelfth year began the great work for advancing Religion and Piety He purged Ierusalem of Idolatry reformed abuses repaired Gods House restored his worship regarded his Ministers kept such a Passeover as had not been kept before since the dayes of Samuel the Prophet neither did all the Kings of Israel keep such a Passeover as Iosiah kept Vers 18. 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 arose there any like him 2 King 23.25 And though he was thus good and zealous yet for the peoples sin was he taken away by a violent death as it followeth Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath where with his anger was kindled against Iudah because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withall And the Lord said I will remove Jerusalem out of my

nature it self is apt enough to shew it self upon all occasions of this nature In mourning for our near relations we are more apt to erre in the excess then in the defect to mourn immoderately then to faile in mourning for our friends deceased Therefore let us take heed that we do not exceed nor give too much way to our passion The Apostle doth not forbid all sorrow for the dead but immoderate sorrow That we should not grieve and take on like the Gentiles who were ignorant of the blessed state of the dead that die in the Lord and had no hope of ever seing them again because they were not perswaded of the Resurrection and so mourned out of measure 1 Thes 4.13 I would not have you ignorant brethren of them that are asleep as ye sorrow not even as others that have no hope for if we beleeve that Jesus dyed and arose again even them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him There are four cordials let me give you to moderate and mitigate this sorrow regulate this passion 1. Because it is our common condition death is no new or strange thing but the lot and portion of every child of Adam As by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin so death passed upon all men for that all men have sinned Rom. 5.12 Do we see some friend go before us let us not be too much troubled nothing hath hapned to them but what must happen to us yea to all it is the case of all to die Our Fathers are gone before us and we must follow after them and our children after us one generation passeth and another succeedeth all things are here in a mutable condition and so are we Omnia peribunt sic ibimus ibitis ibunt Demonax the Philosopher seeing one make great lamentation for a friend departed wished him to make enquiry among all that company being very numerous and see if he could find any one who by death had not been deprived of some friend or other which when he did and could find none with the community of the case he comforted himselfe and bridled his sorrow So if by death we have been deprived of Parents or Brethren Husbands or Wives children and Friends let us remember nothing comes to us but that which is common to all and let this restrain us from moderate mourning With this thought David put an end to that sorrow for his child which he so dearly loved But now he is dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return to me 2 Sam. 12.23 As if he had said death is common to all I shall die as well as he I must follow him in the way of death the way of all the earth from which there is no returning hither Therefore why should I afflict my selfe any more 2. Because death comes by Gods appointment and determination with him are the issues of death he hath fixed and appointed our time here All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite till my change come saith Job So that God hath set down how long every ones time shall be The number of our moneths years and dayes is with him he hath set us our bounds which we cannot pass Job 14. Indeed to our apprehension many times some are taken away untimely unseasonably suddenly husbands from the wives and wives from their husbands children from their parents and parents from their children some in their youth and sull strength when their breasts are full of milk and their bones full of marrow but let it not seem strange to us Their appointed times were come the will of God is done and we must be content and with patience submit to it 3. Because by death the faithful go to a better mansion and mend their condition they make a happy change they change their mortall for immortality this corruption this earthly house for an heavenly house They are freed from their labours sorrows troubles miseries afflictions molestations of this present evill-world and brought to the desired home of true aest of blisse rnd perfect happiness ut non tam plangendus sit qui hac luce caruerit quam gratisicandum ei quod de tantis malis eraserit saith the Father That he which departed hence in the Lord is not so much to be lamented for because he is deprived of this light as to be rejoyced for in that he is escaped out of such a Sea of misery and landed safely in the sure harbour of endless felicity taken up to the true light 4. Because we have assurance of a joyful Resurrection they that dye in the Lord are not lost or gone from us for ever but only gone before us they are fallen into a sweet sleep and shall for certain awake again rise again at that great day when the Lord Iesus shall shew himself from heaven and change our vile body and make it like unto his own glorious body when we shall enjoy the company and society of our Christian friends in body and soul for ever therefore as the Apostle exhorteth comfort your selves and one another with these words The second Sermon And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah c. 2 Chron. 35.24 25. THe third observation which I gave you from this Text which I chiefly intended and aimed at for this day as being most suitable to our present occasion and meeting and which follows now to be spoken of was this That the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of great mourning to all good people Iosiah a good religious zealous King being slain in battel the Church and good people among the Jews yea the whole Nation City and Country Prophets and others all the Inhabitants of the Land fall to sad mourning and doleful lamentation This truth is so apparent that it needs not much proof yet it may be further made out upon these accounts 1. The death of any friend doth occasion sorrow and mourning much more the death of a choice friend of a chief friend of a common friend especially if he fall into the hands of merciless thieves and murderers and come to a barbarous and bloody end this must needs be a cause of great mourning to all that did bear any loving respect to him And is not a King a good King a friend a chief and choice friend a common friend to all his good people being the Minister and Vicegerent of God for the punishmen of evil doers but for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2.14 Must not then his death a violent and bloody death unmercifully and unjustly brought upon him occasion sad hearts and great mourning among those who had any spark of goodness and affection towards him 2. A good King is not only a friend but a Father Pater Patriae the Father of his Country and of the

and gracelesse persons though they have a huge weight of sin upon them yet they feel it not their consciences are not pressed nor troubled with it because it is in its proper place But the child of God is sensible of the least sin even the appearance of evill and trembles under the weight of it because there it is out of his own place and proper Element A soft heart a tender conscience checking of sin argues a divine impression upon it if the true fear of God and of his dreadfull Majesty 7. Iosiah was a King as devout to God so devoted to his peoples good good to his people full of goodnesse to his people In the verse following my text there is mention of the acts of Josiah and his goodness Now the rest of the Acts of Josiah and his goodness or kindness ver 26. His Acts and his goodness or kindness are joyned together because he did many Acts of goodness and kindness to his people what an Act of bounty and kindnesse to his people was it to be at that vast charge in the Passe over feast for their ease and benefit before mentioned So our Iosiah did many good Acts in relation to his people In the beginning of the long Parliament he passed sundry Acts of grace and goodness for the ease and comfort of his people as for taking away ship mony for taking away all illegall taxes for the taking down the Star-Chamber Court and the high Commission Court which were found to be oppressive to his people for a trienniall Parliament and other enough to have made abundant and ample reparations for any former miscarriages of his Officers and Ministers had he been to deal with reasonable and moderate men and more he would have done and more he intended to do yea more then could in reason be required had his precious life been spared But the greedy appetite of some could not be satisfied without innocent blood royall blood as the Jews would rest in nothing but our Saviours crucifige crucifige crucifie him crucifie him though they pull'd the horrid guilt of it upon themselves and upon their children Thus you have heard what a King what a good King we had and what a blessing in him Now to have such a Iosiah taken from us is it not a sad losse and by a violent and bloody death is it not a sad case He was slain not as Iosiah in my text by strangers of another Nation and in the hear of battell but murdered in cold blood and that by some of his own Subjects and Servants who had sworn allegeance and fidelity to him who had declared promised professed protested vowed covenanted to protect preserve and defend him and to make him a glorious King O damnable Hypocrisie for these to murder him and that not in private as other Traytors have dealt with their Princes but to do it openly with great pomp and artifice as men solemnly wicked and under pretence and shew of Justice Oh hellish mockery of justice added to cruelty and malice as it were in defiance of Heaven in the sight of all Israel and in the sight of the Sun in opposition to all Laws both of God and man against the light of their own consciences This was a sad and a black fact The Powder-plotters were a great deal more modest they did their work under ground and in darkness as being ashamed of it But these played a game above board in the open light with an harlots face without shame or blushing so that all circumstances and aggravations considered that might be named it was the most daring and horrid act of immanity and iniquity that was ever perpetrated under the Sun next to the crucifying of the Lord of Life an act not to be equalized in any history not only of Holy Writ but also of prophane and heathen Authors For such a King to be thus murthered is the faddest ground of mourning that ever the good people of this Nation had therefore for this O England gird thee with sackcloth lament and howl Ier. 4.8 yea wallow and rowl thy self in ashes make thee mourning as for an only son yea bitter lamentation Ier. 6.26 and as it is Zach. 11.2 howl firre tree for the Cedar is fallen And let us everyone wish with the Prophet O that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain the Ruler of the people Ier. 9.1 or as it is Ier. 14.17 Let mine eyes run down night and day and let them not cease for the Virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach and with a very grievous blow O that blow that very grievous blow made the greatest breach upon the sons and daughters of Sion upon all true children of this Church that ever was made to the piercing of their hearts and wounding of their spirits and bleeding of their very souls therefore weep and mourn for this let our hearts be filled with bitter grief and our eyes with brinish tears And as for the loss of such a King so much more let us mourn for that wonderful and horrid sin which was this day committed in the Land the shedding of his innocent blood a sin over passing the deeds of the wicked a sin that no Nation no people ever committed Let us beseech the Lord to pardon it to acquit the Land of it that it may no longer cry for vengeance and call for judgements to be continued upon us and cause him to poure out his fury upon us in blood Let the blood of sprinkling the blood of Christ speak better things then the blood of Abel Abel's blood cryed for vengeance and so may the blood of this righteous one but the blood of Christ cryes for mercy Holy Father let that blood of thy dear Son out-cry the other and bring down mercy upon the Land O deliver us and be merciful to us in regard of that crying sin for it was great Lord lay not the guilt of that blood this day shed upon the whole Nation for thou hast many among us who having neither hands not hearts defiled in it did with abhorrency of soul detest and loath and in much bitterness of spirit mourn for that odious fact Thou who art the searcher of hearts and knowest our thoughts knowest this to be true Lay it home to their consciences who had a hand in it and are yet living that they may see the greatness of their sin and be moved to great sorrow and bitter repentance and obtain pardon out of thy great and abundant mercies in Christ that the innocency of thy blessed Martyr may be cleared our Religion vindicated from the scandal and out Nation cleared from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the conversion of so great sinners And as for this horrid fact so for all our other sins and provocations let us mourn which helped forward this judgment for our personal sins