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A03795	The saints losse and lamentation A sermon preached at the funerall of the VVorshipfull Captaine Henry Waller, the worthy commander of the renowned martial band of the honourable city of London, exercising armes in the Artillery Garden. Octob. 31. 1631. By George Hughes Mr. of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Alhallowes Breadstreet in London.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1632 (1632)	STC 13913; ESTC S104275	22,663	58

35.24 25. yea such a 〈…〉 it is that unto it the Prophet makes 〈◊〉 al o● the Convents mourning It 〈…〉 us the mourning of 〈…〉 in the ●●●ley of Megiddo Ze●h 12.11 where that good King I●●ah was slaine When Hananiah 〈◊〉 Amaziah false Prophets die all is stil 〈◊〉 is no wailing for them nor mention 〈◊〉 them unlesse to curse them for the 〈◊〉 is eased of a tedious burthen with them but when Samuel Eltiah or Elisha 〈◊〉 taken away 1 Sam. 25.1 2 King 1.12 2 Kin. 13.14 heaven heareth the sighes and sobs and groanes of mourners all 〈◊〉 bemoane the losse of these oh our father our father Once more when a curs●● Shimei or a wicked Shebua or a churli●● Nabal are cut off there is no misse of them nor weeping for them But when an innocent Abuer or good Barzillas or a faithfull Imathan depart their funeralls hat● troupes of mourners and many sad cryes after them Ah woe is me 2 Lam 3.33.38 Dei● Abner 〈…〉 dyeth Alas there is a great man 〈◊〉 this day in Israel Or els 2 Sam. ●●5 26. O Ionathan 〈…〉 the high places I am distres●●●● 〈◊〉 my brother Jonathan All this depends upon the succeeding matter the 〈◊〉 of the lamentation about which 〈◊〉 all these cryes are not about nothing but there is a father or a charet or horsemen fallen for which these pitifull exclamations are doubled In the text the whole matter of the lamentation fell under a twofold consideration Good Elisha ●ither as a father to Ioash or els as the charet and horsemen of all Israel the losse of these may deserve a woefull lamentation and because they lie in this subordination to the precedent mourning Flebat loas de lens se ac regula suum tanto patrono privend● tan●●●●●●iliari● auxiliarie destituendum tam sanctissimo fidilissimo mox cariturum tutore prophetae ac patre Carthus in tex● I shall lay them downe in their order the sufficient grounds thereof and then close up al with a usefull application O my father my father Blame not the mourner if you heare him passionate it is his father whom he bewaileth the neerer the relation the more sensible the losse and more heavy needs must the lamentation be 〈…〉 Whilest I 〈…〉 father 〈…〉 or brother or friend 〈…〉 it may touch my 〈◊〉 and perhaps my heart too so farre as to bid my 〈…〉 I am sorry for it and 〈…〉 over but when my friend my brother my father it taken off my head I the● 〈◊〉 the stroake and 〈◊〉 mourne 〈…〉 was Shiah to Elisha and Elisha to 〈…〉 blow which cuts off the father cannot but make the childs heart doe no 〈◊〉 then Doctrine 3 if it cry O my father my father 〈◊〉 are the righteous even fathers 〈◊〉 Cities and places of their abode needs must the City then 〈◊〉 that fatall stroak which cuts them a sunder and when they smart it is likely we shall heare them cry and weepe bitterly Isa 57.1 unlesse that heavy 〈◊〉 have befallen them that no man 〈◊〉 to heart when the righteous perisheth But upon what ground hath Ioash this relation to Elisha was it not from his calling that he was a Prophet rather then from his righteousnesse that hee was so good whence then is this relation given to the righteous or he might be a father to Ioash onely how then ariseth it that the righteous are such to then Cities To answer these quaeries and to cleare the truth First that Prophets had the appellation of fathers it is not doubted false as well as true might be so called by their bastard brats as the Romish ghostly fathers are at this day by those whom they have begotten to be limbes of Antichrist and children of perdition and yet be such fathers whom the children may bee bound to curse for the inheritance which they have left them but have little or no cause to weepe and bemoane the losse of them Gray heads also are fathers and a crown of glory much to bee honoured if it be found in the way of righteousnes Prev 16.31 Righteousnes onely addeth this to the Prophet that it maketh him a desired father Kings Prophets and Magistrates that speak and rule in righteousnes are more properly indeed the nursing fathers of Kingdomes and Churches yet can it not be denyed but a poore wise man also may proove the foster father of the City and so all the generation of the righteous if not so properly called fathers yet are they in very 〈◊〉 relation brothers and faithfull 〈◊〉 friends and brothers may be in 〈◊〉 of fathers and a friend 〈…〉 ●●ther Prov. 18.24 whose losse cannot 〈◊〉 heavily afflict the City and make them mourne Againe though Elisha 〈…〉 called father of Ioash yet of Ioash as a king who should be the father of his subject nay of Iaosh as a wicked king and therefore Elisha father of his kingdome also and such are the righteous to their habitations yea to the very wicked also But how doth Elisha proove himselfe to been father Surely in these three particulars though not in all to Ioash himselfe yet to some soules in Israel 1. In Generation 2. In Counsell 3. In Providence as the righteous also doe unto their neighbours First he was a father in generation I meane not naturall but spirituall by which he begat though not Ioash yet others doubtles to be the sonnes of God and these sticke so close that when God strikes their father off their head they weepe bitterly indeed and are hardly comforted This honour God doth to his Saints on earth that though the Spirit onely beget again to God yet the instrument is called the father It is Saint Paul that claimeth this of his Corinthians Though ye have 10000 instructers in Christ yet have ye not many fathers 1 Cor ● 15 for in Christ Iesus have I begotten you through the Gospel Primarily God thus honoureth his Prophets and ministers of the Gospel yet not exempting any Christian from this instrumentall begetting againe to God viz. by their private Christian admonitions and instructions their godly life which doubtlesse maketh a most neere tye betweene the soule begetting and the soule begotten that will not bee loosed without bitter mourning Secondly he was a father in counsell and that to Ioash though it tooke but little effect with such an ungracious sonne yet he leaveth not to do it upon his dying bed He adviseth Ioash to shoote the arrow of the Lords deliverance and hee shootes to smite the Syrians and hee smites but very foolishly onely 〈…〉 and the man of God was 〈◊〉 with him Gen 45.8 Such a father did God 〈◊〉 Ioseph to Pharaoh and such maketh he●●● righteous to their neighbours they 〈◊〉 counsellers for the peace and good of them among whom they live and this maketh a knot not easily broken without groanes Thirdly he was a father in his carefull providence for his sonnes safety

from them brinish teares have besmeared all faces Israel Gods Church sitteth as a desolate widdow and heavy burdens are sounded in all her coasts woe is us how is the glory of Israel this day decayed how are her charets and her horsemen confounded how is her strength become feeble for thou art taken from us O my father my father a Melioripsi Israel eratin cratione sua curribus equitibus Calv paraph. who wert a greater safeguard unto us then all the charets of Israel or the horsemen thereof Oh thou strength of Israel our bowells are turned within us we are sorely grieved for thee That wee may yet speake more profitably from the text it will be good to ranke these out-cries into some method though indeed griefe be so unruly that it is no easie matter to keepe it in order neverthelesse we will tye it up a little and if we can looke with dry eyes upon the text these two things are obvious to our consideration 1 The persō produced in this mournfull scene 1 The mourner Ioas● King of Israel 2 The bemoaned Elisha the Prophet now a dying man 2. The lamentation it self made over him wherof we read 2 The manner of it in the doubled broken and distracted repetition O my father my father 1 The matter of it which was a 2. fold losse 2 Of a father ô my father Of the stay and str●gth of Israel ● the Charet c. First the persons here presented in this mournefull act are Ioash the mourner and Elisha the sicke dying and lamented father as we looke upon them and eye them more narrowly wee will forget them in their more speciall callings eyther Ioash to be a king or Elisha to bee a Prophet this will be of no great use unto us more profit we may expect in the diligent view of their generall conditions according to the description which the Spirit giveth of them Of Ioash who commeth downe to weepe over the face of this departing Prophet we read 2 Kin. 1 3.11 He did that which was evill in the ssght of the Lord he departed not from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat who made Israel sinne but he walked therein What could bee said worse of a man He was as wicked as any it was his trade to sinne nay more he was as bad as the worst a conspiratour with that Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat the most abominable idolater that ever breathed on the earth Of Elisha againe who lay now sicke unto death and is here lamented we read 1 Kin. 19 16. he was the anointed of the Lord on whom the Spirit of Eliiah was doubled after his departure 2 Kin. 2.9 10. hee was a zealous champion for the Lord of Hosts a righteous soule an heavenly Saint and a deadly enemy to Ieroboams sinne and his idolatrous brood yet this Ioash commeth to this Elisha in his last sicknesse weepeth over his face a● now departing and cryeth after him i● this pittifull lamentation O my father my father Mat 11 19● It is true that wisedome is iustified of her children and as true th●● God maketh her to be iustified of her adversaries also even of them that hate her Doctrine 1 The righteous soule departeth lamented desired honoured by the very enemies of righte●●snesse It is a strange sight to see the same man a murderer and a mourner at the same funerall or any one to lament that person upon the biere whom he hated to the death and was ever restlesse untill hee had layd him there yet nothing more common between the righteous and the wicked It is the crie of the ungodly against the inst while he liveth kill him stone him away with him from the earth he is not worthy to live but when hee is dead indeed the same mouth desireth him iustifieth him surely this man was the Son God 2 Sam. 3.27 31 3● Looke upon Ioab but in his treachery hee hated Abner in his soule he sendeth good greetings unto him taketh him aside at his returne smites him and kills him can yet expect him now before Abners hearse renting his cloathes clad in sack cloath lamenting and whining as a mourner yet thus wee finde him Who would thinke that Ioash should be a mourner at Eliah's funerall he a conspirator with Ieroboam this a righteous Prophet of the Lord of Hosts yet here he is and weeps and cryes with a bitter mourning oh my father my father But why weepeth he and how is it that hee commeth to doe the Prophet this honour at his death Is it because he loved him as Christ wept over Lazarus I dare not say so no not so much as thinke so that a man of Belial could so sincerely affect a Sonne of God and should not question it but for some who are yet contrary minded An hic anime st●cere honoreus illum prophetae detulerit aliqui in quaestiouem vocant c. Mihi vero frustra videtur queri quandonen erat causa qus moveretur ad estentandum Ioh. Wolph in tex It is therefore commented by one thus Some doubt whether Ioash did this honour to the Prophet in his lamentation with sincere affection c. But it seemeth to me not worth the questioning when now hee could bee moved by no cause to flattery Yet with good leave it seemeth otherwise to other pious and learned iudgments and I thinke upon better reason Had Ioash beene in Elisha's stead a dying man I should think as the Author do●● there were then no cause of flattering but Elisha was now dying and Ioash lustie lively and I doubt not but an ungracious sonne for a blessing or a portion may flatter his father upon his bed of death nay sooner then when most unlikely to bee discovered But not desire his life as Ioash did yea earnestly desire it and bitterly bemoane the losse of it if his safety and peace depend upon it as the health of Ioash and his kingdome upon Elisha did there was then cause enough of flattery The desperate patient careth not for the mannay perhaps doth truely hate him yet heartily desireth his Physitian loveth his physicke and his skill and bemoaneth himselfe when he wanteth them he loveth not the man then but he loves his owne life Let Ioash looke upon Elisha as a righteous Prophet crying down his sin and beating downe Ierob●ams altars and he cannot endure him he hateth him to the death yet when hee seeth him as a father on whom all his dependance is he earnestly desireth him he loveth not Elisha then but he loveth his father scarcely can I beleeve he weepeth for him because he loveth him or that this lamen cation is from sincere affection Why then doth he thus bemoane him and doe him this honour as to weepe over his face but at the thought of his funerall while hee was yet alive Negatively wee have answered it was not because he so intirely loved him