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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of the Nation but also with the righteous therein for swimming down the stream of the Times and partaking with the wicked in their wickedness as in their pride of Apparel and Intemperance And therefore destroys the foundations that as the righteous have been partakers with the wicked in their sins so they may partake with them in their punishments Sin is more inexcusable in the righteous than in the wicked and therefore shall not pass unpunished Amos 3.2 The Inferences hence 1. The Lamentation then of this day for the death of her Majesty Queen Mary is a just and ought to be a sad and great Lamentation By the death of her Royal Person there is such a breach made in the foundation that gives such a terrible shake to the building that makes all the inhabitants to tremble perhaps some may be so stupid or so intoxicated with folly as to be unsensible but it 's no wonder to see the righteous so much concerned If the Foundation be destroyed what can the Righteous do Is not the life of their safety lost and the loss irrecoverable Was it not her Majesties just right to the Crown destroyed by a cheat that gave life to the late happy revolution and revived a dying Nation Was it not her presence in the King 's necessary absence that quieted our home-bred Enemies and made the Government both safe and easie And what Englishman that hath any Brains in his Head or Sense in his Spirit can do less than lament so publick a Loss that makes all the Foundations to tremble Is not this the day in which the surviving Foundations are crying out A Corner-stone is taken from amongst us and we tremble at the shake it gives to the Building Was she not a well polished Stone as well as a chief Corner-stone and not only a Strength but also a Grace and Beauty to the Building And is not he now in Mourning that was the great instrument under God that saved our Lives and Fortunes our Laws and our Religion Is not he crying out oh what shall I do And are there not multitudes of righteous persons crying out A part of the Foundation is destroyed and what shall we do And shall we here that are met before the Lord to Lament be unconcerned No no let us take up that lamentation Lam 5.15 16. The Joy of our Hearts is ceased our Dance is turned into Mourning The Crown is fallen from our Head Wo to us that we have sinned and sinn'd away such a choice mercy 2. The Lamentation then of this day for the death of her Majesty ought not only to be a sad lamentation but also a solemn serious and religious lamentation We must not only lament it as a National loss of a most dreadful consequence but as the bitter fruit of our own sins and as a sad token of God's great displeasure It doth argue beloved that God is angry even to Indignation and that if his anger be not appeased by a speedy and sincere repentance we have just cause to fear that he will make an utter riddance of us See what is said in Jer. 45.4 5. Behold that which I have Built I will pull down God built up our Ruines with a high hand but now he is pulling down what he built up He hath pulled down many of the Pillars both of our Church and State He hath taken away many of our Nobles whose noble Hearts and Hands had been happy Instruments in our late wonderful deliverance And he hath extinguished many of our burning and shining lights and now he is plucking up the very foundation of the building and oh how dreadful is this Surely it calls aloud upon all in General to take to mind and penitently to lament our great unthankfulness for and gross abuse of the great deliverance of these Nations from Popery and Tyranny lest God be provoked to go on in pulling down the foundations till the building fall upon our Heads And it calls upon our King and our Parliament to consider what they have done for God that hath done so much for them and hath waited patiently several years for returns from them suitable to their receipts from him and wherein they have fallen short herein to endeavour to make up lest God still proceed in pulling down and they themselves perish in the downfal Alas who can stand before the Lord when he is angry 3. The Lamentation then of this day for the death of her Majesty ought to be seconded with double diligence in securing the Foundations A breach in the foundations is not to be neglected but speedily and carefully to be made up And it highly concerns our Master-builders that are intrusted with the Work to look well after the foundations and to keep a vigilant Eye upon such as are no well-wishers to the foundations and to check their notorious insolencies and to cherish and promote a firmer Union amongst our selves and to exercise their wisdom to the utmost in securing our foundations And each one in his place should put his helping hand to this great work of securing the foundations How chearfully and willingly should we part with such Mony as we pay towards the defence and support of the foundations And how earnestly should we pray for the preservation of the foundations That God that laid the foundations of the Earth hath blessed be his name provided for us good foundations and though he hath pulled away one of the Corner-stones yet he hath left us enough to support the building oh pray hard for the security of our foundations their security is much more desirable than our own personal security for they are National Foundations and their security of universal concern to the three Nations yea to all Protestant Nations 4. The Lamentation of this day for the Death of her Majesty ought to be supported with a serious remembrance that God sits still in his Temple and his Throne is in Heaven It tells us that the choicest of our outward blessings are but fading comforts and that Kings and Queens that are cloathed with Majesty and admired for their Splendor and Grandure though adorned with the Wisdom of Solomon and the uprightness of David yet are but men and have their Breath in their Nostrils and are but fair Flowers that do flourish a whie and then wither and hang down the head and drop into the portion of the Weeds But that God is an everlasting portion to his People and affords his Subjects protection from generation to generation And that when the foundation fail and the Thrones of the Earth are vacant he still sits in his Temple and on his Throne in the Heaven and therefore when the Righteous are mourning for the loss of their foundations they are not to mourn as without hope but to moderate their sorrows with this consideration that God is still in his Holy Temple And this they must do to stifle their fears and to strengthen their faith 1. To stifle their

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