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A31009	A just lamentation for the irrecoverable loss of the nation by the doleful death of the late Queen Mary of blessed memory delivered in a sermon preached at Daventry March 5, 1694/5 [i.e. 1695] / by Andrew Barnett.	Barnett, Andrew, 17th cent.	1695 (1695)	Wing B875A; ESTC R30713	7,779	36

fears The destruction of the foundations is a frightful dispensation and raiseth grievous storms of great fears in the Souls of the Righteous Now think they Alas alas What can the Righteous do The Church of God is upon the ruin our Visions we fear will fail our Teachers be driven into Corners our day of Salvation is like to be turned into a Night of Darkness and what shall we do Now to suppress these fears this they must do they must consider that God is still in Heaven Eccles 7.14 In the day of Adversity Consider that the cause is sin and we must be humbled for it and that the end of the Adversity is to try prove and purge us and that the hand from which the Adversity comes is God who sits in his Holy Temple and orders all adversities with regard to his own Glory and the good of his Church and People 2. To strengthen Faith When humane hope fails hoping in God is to be supported When there is no help to be had on Earth there is help enough in Heaven Means in sight and means out of sight are all one with God And therefore when the righteous are thus cast down then they must look up as the Psalmist here doth The fore-thoughts of the destruction of the foundations daunted him but under this discouragement he turns his Eyes upward and his confidence was thereby revived and he concludes v. 7. That the Righteous God loves Righteousness and his Eyes behold the upright viz. with a favourable aspect and smiling countenance and with great regard and Lam. 3.21 22. This I recall to mind says the Church therefore have I hope I recal to mind that God is still in Heaven and his compassions fail not and his faithfulness is great and therefore have I hope This was the consequence of these considerations and they are the necessary consequence and the natural fruit that they produce For the consideration of God sitting in his Holy Temple and having his Throne in the Heavens doth demonstrate 1. The readiness of God to help the righteous He sits on his Throne in the Temple of Heaven to receive the complaints of the oppressed and to relieve them Eccles 5.8 If thou seest the violent perverting of judgment in a Province marvel not at it for he that is higher than the highest regardeth it and there be higher than they The oppressed have a higher Court to appeal to than the highest Courts of men where their grievances shall be heard without costly attendance and they shall certainly be righted by the great God that is higher than the highest and hath those imployed in his service who are higher than the Judges of the Earth to wit his Angels Upon this consideration it was that Job durst not turn his back upon the just cause of one of his Servants whom he might have trampled under his feet Job 31.13 14. Did I despise the cause of my Man-servant what then shall I do when God riseth up He is no respecter of persons The Cause of the Servant shall be heard before him as well as the Cause of the Master And the injuries that imperious Masters do to their poor Servants he will revenge and rise up for that end and purpose And sits upon his Throne in his Holy Temple of Heaven in constant readiness to hear the complaints of his oppressed Subjects and this doth further demonstrate the righteousness of God in doing justice his Throne is in his holy Temple of Heaven where no injustice can enter There is a vast difference betwixt the proceedings of that Court and the proceedings of the Courts on Earth There is no bribing no tilting of the Ballance no carrying of unjust causes by forgery false witness or tricks in law He lays righteousness to the Plummet Isa 28.17 So exact in Justice that he erreth not a hairs breadth therein And when transactions here came to be reviewed there and Causes called over-again in that Court then the destroyers of our good foundations will be justly condemned for the worst of Traytors This also demonstrates The irresistableness of his power in executing justice He is in Heaven out of the reach of his Enemies and from Heaven he poureth down his judgments upon the heads of such as undermine the foundations And a judgment from Heaven is unavoidable Rom. 1.18 Wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness The endeavours of men to destroy the foundation are acts of unrighteousness and very injurious to the righteous and the righteous God will not bear long with such ungodly and unrighteous persons that seek to destroy the foundations And when he falls upon such and revealeth his wrath from Heaven against them then wo unto them Their policy and power will nothing avail them for their Wisdom compared to his is Folly and their Power compared to his is Weakness And they are no more to him than a straw in the hand of a Giant or a little Chaff before the Wind Ps 2.4 he laughs them to scorn Their great Armies to him are but like a bubble upon the Water that dance a little and quickly burst and disappear and vanish away And lastly this demonstrates the regard that he hath to the righteous under the saddest circumstances that befal them When supter-refuges fail and the foundations are destroyed he sits in his Holy Temple beholding and pittying their case and waiting for a meet opportunity to arise and save them And if he delay their deliverance it 's but to time it so as it may be more splendid and glorious Under our Lamentations for the destruction of the foundations you see it 's our wisdom to support our Spirits with the serious consideration of our relation to God and of his sitting on his Throne in Heaven Yea if God should go on in plucking up our foundations which God forbid yet we must not sit down in despair but in all such cases bear up our Spirit and strengthen our Faith by minding that God's Throne is in Heaven and God as high as ever and as ready to shew mercy as ever And when we are lamenting the loss of the Foundations and crying out What shall the Righteous do We must then imitate upright David and check our distrustful hearts and look up to the Lord who sits in his Holy Temple and whose Throne is in Heaven A Prayer for the Preservation of the Foundations O Most Merciful Father who laidst the foundation of the Earth and whose Throne is in Heaven and hast founded these famous Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland upon most excellent foundations be pleased for the sake of the Righteous and for the sake of thy beloved Son and our Advocate to glorifie thy own name in the preservation of our foundations Thou hast made us happy above others in our foundations we have many righteous Laws a Matchless fundamental Constitution and faithful Governors and live at Ease and Peace under them and we thankfully acknowledge that herein thou hast commended thy love to us and humbly beg thy pardon for our unthankfulness and the dishonour we have done to thy name under these mercies whereby we have justly provoked thee to pluck away a chief Corner-stone out of the foundation and to cause us to tremble and fear the effects of thy displeasure Just art thou in thy proceedings and mayst justly proceed in pulling down the famous structure that thou hast built for us But if the foundations be destroyed Lord what shall the righteous do Oh be thou reconciled to us and take away our iniquities and receive us into favour and secure for us our foundations pluck up no more of the Corner-stones thereof but make our good foundations lasting foundations and help all the inhabitants of the land in the due discharge of their duty to serve thee in fear that we being true to thee and to our own Interest thou mayst delight in us and establish our foundations for us and be glorified both by us and in us For thine is the Kingdom the Power and Glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS Advertisement THere is lately published by the same Author The Helmet of Hope distinguished from the Hope of Hypocrites And published to prevent the danger of False Hope and to promote the Duty of Living in true Hope of Glory With an Appendix of the Grounds of Hope Collected in a Caralogue of Promises and Experiences

A Just Lamentation FOR THE Irrecoverable Loss OF THE NATION BY The Doleful Death of the Late Queen Mary Of Blessed Memory Delivered in a Sermon Preached at Daventry March 5. 1694 5. By Andrew Barnett Minister of the Gospel Lam. 2.1 How hath the Lord covered the Daughter of Sion with a Cloud in his anger and cast down from Heaven unto the Earth the beauty of Israel and remembred not his footstool in the day of his anger LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1695. PSAL. ii 3 4. If the Foundations be Destroyed what can the Righteous do The Lord is in his Temple The Lord's Throne is in Heaven WE are now before the Lord to Commemorate the Death of the Renowned Late Queen Queen Mary by which the Glory of the Nation is Ecclipsed and one great ground of our Humane hopes Buried in the Dust Such a Character is given of her as few justly attain to in this censorious World So cordial in her conjugal Affections so constant in prudent Resolutions so compassionate to needy Subjects so concerned for the Publick-Good so considerate in weighty affairs so confirmed in the Principles of Religion so accommodated with moral vertues so conscientious in pious practices and so rarely qualified for her state of honour that she became to others an eminent example and her Name will be both Titulary and truly of blessed memory to all Posterity She was one of the Chief Corner Stones that supported the famous Structure of this Common-wealth and if the Foundation be destroyed what can the Righteous do What God will do with us we cannot certainly presage but this we know that when God boxeth up his pretious Jewels and Inneth his Wheat it tells us that a Storm is at hand And when sin groweth rampant and the Righteous are taken away it is a sign that Evil is a coming God hath made England a Sanctuary for the Righteous and hither poor Fugitive Christians that suffer for righteousness sake fly and find refuge But if the Foundations be destroyed what can the Righteous do Lament they may and will but alas alas what can they do 1. Note then the supposition contained in the Text if the Foundations be destroyed and innocent Persons come thereby to have their outward security taken away and have nothing left them to build their humane hope upon If this come to be their Case 2. Note then the sad conclusion What can the Righteous do Alas they can do just nothing in order to their own relief their case is become forlorn and deplorable and they are left without any visible remedy They must then will they nill they sit down under their oppressions and endeavour to bear them with Patience for they have no way to help themselves What can they do Can they raise up new Foundations No Can they dwell in safety in the building that wants good foundations No What then can they do All that they can do is to lament the Case and lay it open before the Lord and support their sinking hearts with this That the Lord sits still in his Holy Temple and his Throne is in Heaven Let us then here observe 1. That the Loss of the Foundations puts the righteous into a most forlorn condition and is matter of just lamentation 2. That when the Righteous are lamenting the loss of the Foundations they ought to look up to God for refuge and to call to remembrance that God sits in his Holy Temple and that his Throne is in Heaven 1. The loss of the Foundation is a lamentable loss and puts the Righteous into a most forlorn and deplorable condition By Foundations we are to understand all such things on which the welfare of the Nation doth depend and on which the Inhabitants thereof do use to build their humane hope of their safety and outward prosperity The Metaphor includes all the things that do support and uphold the Structures of the Church and Kingdom in which we live As The fundamental constitution the firm and righteous Laws and the faithful Governors thereof and the last of these is particularly pointed at in the Text All these belong to the Foundation but the supreme powers and the faithfulness of such as Govern the Nation are the chief Corner-stones in the Foundation And are called the Foundation in Psal 82.5 All the Foundations of the Earth are out of Course It is spoken of Judges and they are called Gods 1. Because they stand in God's stead and are to judge righteously that the Sentence may be God's Sentence and not their own And when Judges are corrupt and partial then the foundations are out of Course and all goes to confusion fiat justitia aut periat Mundus But when the Foundations are destroyed the matter is much more deplorable For the Foundations to be out of Course is sad but when the foundations are destroyed it 's much worse for Anarchy is worse than Tyranny and leads to utter ruine So that the destruction of the foundation is a lamentable loss to a Nation especially to all the Righteous in the Nation And this I further prove thus 1. The Destruction of the foundations Hazards the Superstructure and brings down the whole building upon the heads of the Inhabitants and such of them as are righteous are in great danger thereby of destruction for in a common calamity there is no particular safety Destroying the foundations is the same with laying the Axe to the root of the Tree spoken of in Mat. 3.10 which threatneth utter destruction both to the body and branches thereof yea irrecoverable destruction 2. The destruction of the Foundations Heightens the enmity of the common Enemy and promotes their designs against the Nation They wait an opportunity to revenge themselves upon the righteous in the Nation that have stuck close to the interest of the Nation and the destruction of the Foundations put such an opportunity into their bloody hands and lays the righteous open to their rage and Malice The Foundations are the security of the righteous from the violence of these unreasonable men and destroying the Foundations destroys this security and so exposeth them to the Mercy of their Barbarous and Cruel Enemies 3. The destruction of the foundations hinders the prosperity of the Church whereof the righteous are Members There is a great dispute amongst the Learned whether the Commonweal be in the Church or the Church be in the Commonweal I take it for granted that the Church is in the Commonweal and if so then when the Foundations of the Commonweal are destroyed the Church and her Members are thereby wounded and bruised and she lying in the bowels of the Commonweal must unavoidably be thereby infringed in her Liberties disturbed in her peace and deprived of her faithful guides 4. The destruction of the foundations holds forth the displeasure of God against the righteous themselves That he is not only angry with the wicked