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A45690	Threni Hybernici, or, Ireland sympathizing 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 funeral solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector / by Dr. Harrison ...	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916; ESTC R7212	14,766	24

Privy Seal Exempla heroica sunt supra Regulam Nor may the Magistrate kill an Innocent Person but when he puts a Malefactor to death according to God's order 'ts not Man but God that kills him Now to lose such a Magistrate who bare not the Sword in vain but durst draw it against the greatest Transgressor and who durst not touch the poorest innocent with the least of his Fingers as God himself is impotent as to the doing of the least evil Who could do nothing against the Truth as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 13.8 and could not but do his utmost for the Truth this is a great loss unto a Pleople Fourthly As he is Custos salutis publicae the Vigilant Sentinel of Publick Safety Rom. 13.6 for they are God's Ministers attending continually upon this very thing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} watching by the just punishment of the wicked to preserve and protect the Just as Grotius expounds it and hereupon the Apostle makes one Inference ver. 7. Let them have their due and all their their Ministers under them Custom Tribute Fear and Honour 'T is a sin against all Equity and Conscience to deny or with hold any of these from them seeing they are always watching for our Good And let me make another Inference It is a duty which every Man owes the Magistrate in all Proposals Overtures and Endeavours whether relating to Matters Civil or Spiritual to carry it with all possible Simplicity and Integrity otherwise to bring in Evils under painted Vizards and specious pretences what is it but to surprize these Sentinels and to elude their Vigilance and that 's the practice and part of an Enemy such a Watchman of Israel was Josiah such a Watchman was our Josiah it was no easy matter to surprize him How securely did we sleep while he watched over us Bene dormivi quia Antipater vigi avit I slept well to Night said Alexander because I knew a careful Man was in the Watch But what shall become of us now that this Watchman is fallen asleep If he who keepeth Israel who neither slumbers nor sleep watch not over us and over our Rulers and help them to watch for us I and all the World may say of him that 's now gone from us as one said of Mucianus the Roman Consul He did Vim Principis complecti nomen remittere He had all the Power and performed all the part of a good King though he refused the Title Cause have we therefore to take up a woful Lamentation when such a Prince when such a great Man is fallen in our Israel who in all these respects had so benign an Influence into the Vitals of our State And that 's the first ground of the Lamentation A second may be the rarity and scarcity of such as might supply such Decays fill up such a breach such an Hiatus Where shall a Man be found to stand in this Gap He only who hath the residence of the Spirit can supply us And blessed be his Name that he hath made this Noble Vine fruitful and full of Branches that there are strong Rods for the Scepters of them that bear Rule where there is no strong Rod to be a Scepter to Rule whatever some Men think this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation in Ezekiel's Judgment Chap. 19. ult. O let us pray that the Lord would strengthen these Branches that they may not be broken off that no East-wind of Invasion from abroad may wither them no fire of Contention at home consume them as the Prophet speaks in that Chapter Thirdly this is an usual Honour that God puts on his Eminent and Faithful Servants when they are gone their removal is bewailed and lamented Men may marvell as the Disciples did to see a fruitless Fig-tree suddenly withered away Matth. 21.20 but there 's no moan made there 's no mourning But when an usefull Vine dies which affords both Shade and Fruit that 's a loss much more then that of Jonah's Gourd to be lamented the most serviceable shall always me the most Honourable They that live much desired cannot dye but much lamented as for the wicked and worthless Person it shall be nothing so they shall not lament for him saying Ah my Brother Ah Lord or Ah his Glory He shall be buried with the burial of an Ass drawn and cast forth beyond the Gates of the City The loss then of a gracious Prince of a pious Governor is very lamentable The second Point will lead us to look into the Cause thereof and that 's this Observ. 2. The sins of God's people are the fall of their Crown These Traytors pull it from the head of a State or Government and there was a double sin at that time most remarkable in that people First They went about to pluck the Crown of Soveraignty from God's Head They would not hearken to him nor obey him see this in Jer. 25.2 3 c. From the thirteenth year of Josiah and that was the next year after he began the publick Reformation for it is said in the 2 Chron. 34.3 In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem From the very beginning of the Reformation saith Jeremy even unto this day for ten years space together The word of the Lord came unto me and it died not with me But I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye have not hearkned And the Lord hath sent unto you all his Servants the Prophets rising early and sending them but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear to hear They said turn ye again now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and yet ye have not hearkned unto me saith the Lord that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt Thus even in a time of Reformation they fell to Apostacy Idolatry and Profaness they first sunk into Apostacy and then into Calamity and the Crown dropt from their head that was the beginning of it see this further in Zeph. 1.1 The word of the Lord came unto him in the days of Josiah I will utterly consume all saith the Lord Why what was his Controversy ver. 5. They did worship and swear by the Lord and by Malcham they made a hotch-potch a mingle-mangle of Religion they began to curdle and turn by degrees ver. 6. And them that are turned back from the Lord and those that have not sought the Lord nor enquired for him but fell to looseness and leudness as it is there described particularly in all sorts of Persons from the Prince to the Prentice Secondly They did what in them lay to pluck the Crown from Josiah's head the fairest Flower in his Garland studiousness of Reformation there was none like him for that 2 Kings 23 25. and they did what they could to weaken his heart and hands in it they would not bear it they loathed it and

it for us then will he increase us with men like a flock we shall then live and not die neither shall our men be few Fourthly when there 's a quiet resignation of our selves and our affairs to the Lord not limiting him but leaving him to his liberty to take away what Instruments he pleaseth and use what Instruments he pleaseth He will be Master over the Sons of men and when we are willing he should be so all things then shall work together for our good When we can choose God and let him choose all the rest David could not miscarry when his heart was once wrought over to this resignment 2 Sam. 15.25 26. Lastly When the Spirit of Faith is up in our hearts when through the discoveries of his Grace in Jesus Christ we are enabled still to trust in him hang on him expect good from him so that he cannot shake us off Generous Spirits scorn to fail those that depend on them poor sinful creatures have no other way to engage the great God to stand their friend but by this dependance And saith the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 26.3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee When an Hawk pursued a Sparrow so close that it flew into Xenocrates his Bosome Non oportet supplicem prodere was his word and shall God give up his Turtle that flies into his Bosome pursued by Birds of Prey No he will never do it Psal. 74.19 20. Now what hopes have ye Christians what expectations Can ye wait upon the Lord that hideth his Face from the House of Jacob can ye resolve to look for him Isa. 8.17 Can ye believe for these poor Nations these wounded wofully wounded Nations to have slight thoughts of this wound is the way never to be healed But what grounds of Faith or Hope can you shew us to fix our feet upon at such a time as this Suppose I could shew ye none yet 't is a duty in the sincere people of God with their Father Abraham even against Hope to believe in Hope and to give glory to God in believing Rom. 4.18 20. But yet God hath not left us without visible grounds to support our sinking expectations concerning these Nations For first our grand Enemies have had all the advantages against us they could wish for and yet have not prevailed all Campanella's projects have been accomplished Monarchy turned into a Free State out of which they hoped to fish some notable advantages the Dutch engaged in a War against the English to weaken both these States in their Shipping wherein they were most powerful and formidable A Rebellion in Ireland an horrid one as that Popeling Polititian could have wished Philosophy mingled with our Divinity and what not and yet the Spaniards Universal Monarchy not affected Our English Roses not yet blasted nor yet over-topped by the Lillies of France nor our British Crosses become Perches to the Austrian Eagles As if God had said from Heaven You shall have fair play all that ye can propound to your selves and yet come short of your Reckoning This speaks as if God had no mind to cast us away to abandon and give us up as a Prey to the Teeth of our Adversaries Let us bless the Lord for this and still believe on him Our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowlers the Snare is broken and we are escaped Our help is in the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth Psal. 124.7 8. Surely when God thus encamps about his House 't is a sign that no Oppressor shall pass through them any more if they fall not off from Him Zech. 9.8 Secondly Are we not a People redeemed with so high an hand and such an out-stretched Arm as never People was since the days of Israel And hath the Lord been working so many Miracles of Mercy for so many years together and will he now undo us and all his own great Works together What will he do unto his great Name What will the Nations say It was not he it was a chance that hapned to them What will his and our Enemies say and do There is a stupendious expression in Deut. 32 26 27. I said I would scatter them into Corners I would make the Remembrance of them to cease from among Men I would pay them I wou'd smoak them they have deserved it at my hands were it not that I feared the wrath of the Enemy least their Adversaries should behave themselves strangely and least they should say Our hand is high the Lord hath not done all this Can the great God fear any thing Yes God himself tells us that he fears on the behalf of his poor people that desire to fear his Name and what need they to fear Enemies that have a God to fear for them Only let us sanctify him in our hearts and let him be our fear and our dread and we need fear nothing else Thirdly What spot of Earth to the praise of Free-grace be it spoken not to boast of our selves carnally What spot of ground in the World bears so many real Saints upon it as our Island and some sprinklings here also that cry Day and Night unto him Souls Sealed and Marked in the Forehead not to be touched by the Destroyer Might Sodom have stood if there had been but ten righteous Persons there and shall not these Nations escape who have so many Thousands to stand in the Gap Are not the holy Seed the Sap and Substance of our Robur Anglicanum our English Oak as an Oak whose Substance is in it when it casteth its Leaves The holy Seed shall be the Substance thereof Isa. 6.13 Thus saith the Lord as the New Wine is found in the Cluster and one saith destroy it not for a Blessing is in it so will I do for my Servants sake that I may not destroy them all Isa. 65.8 And surely we have Governors who say in their heart The Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be our strength in the Lord of Hosts their God Zech. 12.5 Fourthly After all the Wind-falls in God's Orchard so many top-heavy tall Oaks and Cedars laid along those that are Trees of Richteousness indeed and kept their standing are more deeply rooted by all these shakings Professors were never so Sober since the times of Persecution never so in love with old Truths they see plainly the pretended new light was an Ignis fatuus that misled poor benighted Souls yea many that erred now come to understanding and they that murmured are better instructed according to that sweet Promise Isa. 29 24. We shall not therefore be ashamed of our hope neither shall our faces wax pale For as the prevailing of the Spirit of Error was the Herald of Misery so is the returning of a Spirit of Sobriety the welcome Harbinger of Mercy Fifthly so many hopeful young Men coming on to the Ministry which is the Observation of our Brethren in

England in their Ordinations their Parts more raised their Lives more reformed the Councel of God more clearly revealed then formerly even this bespeaks a continuance of Mercy Surely the great Husbandman hath yet some Harvest to Inn seeing he makes such provision and preparation of Labourers Luke 10.1 2. After these things the Lord appointed other Seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every City and place whither he himself would come Where Christ sends his Disciples before him he himself means to follow after the Treaty of Peace holds whilst his Leiger-Embassadors are not recalled Sixthly the general sense of this heavy stroke is a good sign among us Indeed when the righteous is taken away and no man layeth it to heart then there 's evil to come Isa. 57.1 But I am perswaded no stroke these thousand years hath been more felt by the best people of these Nations the mourning is universal like that in Zech. 12.12 c. not only amongst the Rulers the Families of David and Nathan not only amongst the Ministers the Family of Levi but even the Family of Shimei who was of the house of Saul a Male-content a Reviler that comes along in the Train of the Mourners We read indeed of others of that name who were of the house of Levi but that cannot be here meant because it was before-mentioned by name It 's strange indeed to find the Family of Shimei mourning for the loss of the House of David yet the Lord can bring this to pass and hath done so at this time If I be rightly informed 't is said of Galba that he left but few willing to live under his Government but many mourning for his death How many do now confess they were unworthy of such a Ruler they knew not how to prise how to improve such a mercy and when we cut our Fingers with Swords 't is time they should be laid up Seventhly that the great Plot of Firing London raising the Countreys betraying the Ports and Garrisons was utterly broken before this Blow was given that this Man of War should die himself in Peace contrary to the prophesyings of many and leave us in Peace this speaks much tenderness in our God towards us that such a storm should be blown over and a day of Thanksgiving kept throughout the three Nations for it before this skilful Pilot was called from the Helm Indeed when the Pilot is cast over Board in a storm it fore-speaks a Shipwrack But now that the Lord hath thus in measure debated with us notwithstanding all our Luxuriances and stayed the rough wind in the day of the blasting East-wind well may we hope that by This shall the Iniquity of Jacob be purged and that this shall be the Fruit to take away our sin Isa. 27.8 9. that his design is to purge and prune us not to root us up Eighthly That we should slide so quietly so naturally into a Settlement I think far beyond all our expectations this is a wonderful mercy Sol occubuis nox nulla secuta est Our Sun is set and yet no Night ensued Now for Light to rise when the Sun sets that at Evening time it should be light according to that promise in Zech. 14.7 this is not only a sign of mercy but a miracle of mercy it self Ninthly That we now have Magistrates the Legallity of whose Call to their present Office and Station is beyond all dispute all settled by Authority of Parliament The Scepter put into his Highness's Hand that now is according to the Sanction of Parliament The Sword put into his Excellency's Hand here after his late Highness's Establishment by Parliament even this may give us a rational ground of hope of quietness and submission even in the most unquiet Spirits at least they will have a less reason to pretend for their unquietness though unquiet persons never want pretences Tenthly We enjoy Magistrates to whom the Interest of Religion is so endeared so incorporated by a principle of Grace in themselves that they can no more forsake or abandon it than their own souls and so intwisted by the hand of Providence with their own Interest that they cannot be safe if they quit it their Authority their Safety is Embarqued in the same bottom with it they must swim or sink together Now God promis'd it of old as a Favour to his People that their Nobles should be of themselves and that their Governors should proceed out of the midst of them Let not us despise ours because they do so And I will cause him to draw neer and he shall approach unto me for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me ' saith the Lord Jer. 30.21 It is an admirable thing when Rulers and Governors engage their hearts to approach unto God God himself seems to be taken with it and to wonder at it Let us help them with our Prayers to engage more and more with and for God for this also speaks establishment ver. 20. and prosperity ver. 19. And out of them shall proceed Thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry and I will multiply them and they shall not be few I will also glorify them and they shall not be small Their Children also shall be as afore-time and their Congregation shall be established before me and I will punish all that oppress them And their Nobles shall be of themselves and their Governor shall proceed from the midst of them and I will cause him to draw neer and he shall approach unto me c. Again The late success of the Swede and our own success in Flanders putting a Curb and a Bridle upon the Jaws of our ill Neighbours these look like the Pledges and Fore-runners of more mercy Lastly And especially some beginnings of real Reformation and breathings after more in Persons Families Congregations Towns Cities Countreys these where-ever they are to be discerned look very smilingly and promisingly upon us Indeed if Reformation be neglected all our other grounds of hope will fail us and float away If the people turneth not to him that smiteth them neither do seek the Lord of Hosts then will he set up their Adversaries against them and joyn their Enemies together and they shall devour Israel with open mouth Isa 9.11 12 13. And thou whoever thou art that hatest to be reformed mayst be one of the first that shall be so devoured But if Reformation be cordially endeavoured by us according to our places this will make us precious in the sight of the Lord and he will make us honourable Isa. 43.4 if this be pursued I am not affraid to affirm it as Sin hath pluckt the Crown from our Head so Reformation will restore it and set it again upon the Head of our State and Government yea the Lord will redeem our life from destruction and as David speaks Psal. 103.4 Crown us with loving kindness and tender mercies Without Reformation we are a lost people but if the Lord make us a reforming people we shall certainly be a preserved people that will restore our Ornament our Glory to us Come therefore and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up FINIS