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The teares of Sion upon the death of Josiah, distilled in some country sermon notes on Febr. 4. and 11th, 1649. Being the quinquagesima and sexagesima Sundayes for that yeare.
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the true worship of God and as little in his blessing Secondly Gradus intensionis The greatest sorrow that ever was in Judah for its Vehemencie mourning lamenting speaking ordaining writing not words enough to expresse this Lamentation Therefore is that for the death of Christ compared to it and expressed by it Zach. 12. 11. To shew that not words but onely tears can speak it Those silent orators make least noise but greatest moan Christ answers the tears of the weeping Woman when he would not answer the words of the insolent Judge I hope he will so answer us and in mercie look back upon us as he did upon them Luk. 23. 28. Bewayling and lamenting our sins that brought death both upon him and upon our Josiah we have no other Balme to afford him at his Buriall but what grows in our heads and drops from our eyes Joseph is acquitted from consenting to the counsell of them that killed Christ by providing a Tomb to bury him Luk. 23. 51. Let us acquit our selves too by providing tears to embalm him And notwithstanding the outcry of the people in their generall Petition for Justice against the Lords anointed for Christ is so both to Heaven and Earth as against one that had injured God and Caesar the Text seems to speak favourably of them who smote their breasts and returned Luk. 23. 48. for such did certainly either shew their innocencie or wish themselves innocent Let us earnestly follow after such an innocencie which what it wants in Righteousnesse hath in Repentance Necho himself though he opened that dismal Urine of Bloud yet cared not to stop this milder Vein of water Hee had filled their hearts too full to denie them to fill their eyes And that man would professe himself worse then an Egyptian Tyrant who should goe about to forbid such mourning for a dead King as testifies sorrow for the sinne that killed Him for that were all one as to forbid Repentance and to encourage an impenitent course of sinning No Conquerour may expect to exercise his conquest over the affections And least of all should he desire to exercise it over that of sorrow because that most plainly though unwillingly acknowledgeth his Conquest But if Necho should have desired this he would have desired it in vain for none can take away tears from the eyes but he that made them to be there It was an easier taske for him to gain a conquest over the mens hands then over womens eyes nay in this respect hee had made the most couragious and stout-hearted men of Judah to become women that whom by their Swords they could not preserve from falling him being fallen they might bewaile with their tears thinking it more honourable to pay the tribute of women to their dead King then the tribute of men to a living Tyrant And yet indeed those teares were not so much the expresions of duty to their dead Lord as of Piety to their living God Teares of Repentance and remorse of conscience The man of Judah highly disdaining to become tributary to Egypt before they had been tributary to Heaven and therefore they first pay God tribute of their teares then Pharaoh of their money first God the tribute of their soules by a hearty sorrow then Necho the tribute of their bodies by a constrained Captivity Thirdly Gradus Protentionis The greatest sorrow that ever was in Judah for its continuance For To this day saith the Text and an Ordinance in Israel and written in the Lamentations Till this day id est till Ezra's time after the Captivity of Babylon nay indeed till our time till all time if not in the sorrow it selfe which is too too certain yet in the Records of it The Booke of the Lamentations 'T was happily a practise for some few but sure 't was a Patterne for all Ages An Ordinance in Israel for in all publick lamentations ever after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Jarchie They took an occasion to rub up this sore to make mention of this bitter weeping It seems they had a Remembrance of this in all their great mournings as they had of worshipping Aarons Calfe in all their great Repentances And as in all their Epidemical miseries and calamities after their Idolatrie they supposed they saw a Dramme of Aarons Calfe which made them still bewaile that sinne So in all the bloudshed that ever after came upon Jerusalem they might well suppose they did behold some one drop of Josiahs Bloud and that made them multiply those tears which though they could not wipe away their guilt yet could weep out their sorrow O God put thy Jerusalems tears into thine own bottle who diddest first put them into her eyes Let thy hand wipe them away from thence because thy Spirit first put them there And lest passing through so muddie a channel of sinfull earth they should defile thy Hand to touch them Wash we beseech thee both our Bodies and Soules in the Bloud of thy Sonne that though we mourne for a season in this life yet we may be everlastingly comforted in the life to come even in the blessed Vision and fruition of God the Father the Sonne and the holy Gost world without end Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whom God hath crowned whom God hath ever taught For him God would not have deliverance wrought And is he gone may flames earth overthrow And gloomy darknesse Heavens overgrow It was not Inke but Teares that fill'd my Penne When I did write King CHARLES is crown'd in Heav'n Thus did I sigh this was my hearty Groane Who lov'd my Kings life better then mine owne FINIS
THE TEARES OF SION Vpon the Death of JOSIAH Distilled in some Country Sermon notes on Febr. 4 and 11 th 1649. Being the Quinquagesima and SexagesimaSundayes for that yeare Gloriosius esse pro Christo mori quà m Regnare in hoc seculo Quid enim praestantius quà m fieri Christi Hostiam Ambros de bono mortis cap. 3. Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousnesse sake for theirs is the kingdome of Heaven Mat. 5.10 Printed in the Yeare 1649. To the Reader REader I present to you those Teares which if you be truly Christian were once in your own eyes and the cause of which can never be out of your heart for you ought to think your life spared awhile onely to lament his Death whose life was given in exchange for yours and not to be spared long because his was not spared at all you have nothing left you now but to live and Mourne or to Pray and Dye For which cause you may well give us also in the Countrey leave to be as dutifull as others though not as Court-like as Affectionate though not as Eloquent 'T is not Ostentation that after so long Reluctancie brings these sad Drops to be drawne out into publike lines but meer Duty to the Dead King and Charity to the Living Subjects those especially whom it most deeply concernes to be heartily sorry yet care not to come to the Place where this was first published to know so much And to them as Servants I as a minister of Christ must give this Admonition They take not too little but too much of Christ upon them to be good Christians They are taught to learne of Christ in his Humiliation to bee meeke and lowly pittifull and Patient But they do assume the state of his Exaltation to bee Judges of the Quick and Dead I dare not judge their persons for my selfe a sinner feare to be judged of God but I must condemne their presumption if they measure their Religion by their successe why doe they not advance Turcisme above Christianitie If by themselves why come they so farre short of the worst Christians For in Gouernment they know no Charitie and under it they know no Patience A character which belong◠onely to those that live within the Torrid Zone of a Furious Zeale which if it cannot call down fire from Heaven will fetch up fire from Hell rather then not set the whole world in a combustion Believe it men of this Temper or rather of this Distemper had need either invent or bespeake a new Christianitie for the Old will not endure much lesse maintaine them I must likewise say in behalfe of the Woman persecuted by the Dragon Apoc. 12. And of the Man persecuted for the Woman that though at present driven into the Wildernesse they are still both on the better ground Not the more unhappy or sinfull because the lesse outwardly successefull And in this respect doth the Disciple of the Centurists judiciously castigate Salvian for Defending Gods providence when he suffered the Westerne Churches to be trampled upon by Goths and Vandals onely with this Argument That the said Churches had been very sinfull Debebat autem non tantum Christianorum Peccata accusare sed propter pios innocentis hominis etiam docere Deum immittere etiam sanctis suis gravis afflictiones aerumnas ut Jobo Jeremiae Johanni Baptistae aliis ut conformes fiant imagini Filii Dei saith Osiander Cent. 5. lib. 4. cap. 11. Salvian should not onely have blamed the bad Christians for their sinnes but for some very pious and innocent mens sakes have also taught That God did often inflict great temporall punishments even upon his best and dearest children as he brought Job to the dunghill Jeremie to the dungeon John Baptist to the Block we may adde And King CHARLES to all three to make them exactly conformable to the Image of his onely Son that as by their doings they had borne the image of the living so by their sufferings they might beare the image of the Dying Christ But I intend no new discourse onely the rehearsall of an old complaint yet certainly this present Age may blush to thinke and all future Ages will blush not to say That never a more Pious a more noble Prince swayed the Scepter Never a more impious a more ignoble People snatcht the Sword And therefore I may not blush to say that I was at first but Dumb in speaking and still am but maime in writing this sorrow Better one hand had been on my mouth to stop my Voyce th' other on my Heart to stop my Penne For as no sorrow is like Sions sorrow so no sorrow of Sion was ever like to this for her dearest Josiah As no mourning like the mourning of a Dove so no mourning of the Dove like that of Haddadrimmon And therefore 't is confessed without shame but not without cause that this expression of Sions sorrow is too dry to make your eye now water at the Reading though happily your heart did even bleed at the first hearing of the Dismal Tragedie but sure the affection made the Authors eye water at the writing of it And you must needs have a drop in your eye too otherwise you will see more cleerly to spie out faults then the Author could to mend them Who verily hopes for this reason to be justly offensive to none because he intended not to burden any guiltlesse heart but to ease his own And those that are guilty were better feele their burden here then hereafter The Devout man that carried the Martyr Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him Acts 8. 2. Burdened their shoulders by the carriage but eased their hearts by the Lamentation Nor would the Jewes that found so many stones to force St. Stephens death find one to throw at him that so openly bewayled it The reason was sure they were overcome by his Incomparable Patience which spent his living spirits in converting his persecutors But much more by his Divine charitie which poured out his dying spirit in praying for them And so did our lately deceased Soveraigne which melted the eyes if not the heart of that Officer of warre who guarded him to his Death And much more should it pierce the very soule of a Sonne of Peace who now Preacheth the Gospel of Peace and never stretched out his hand against the Kings life to harden his Heart but for the Kings Bread to strengthen it which was the staffe of his Life at Westminster and the Universitie above twenty yeares and bound him by the pietie of Education not to study or play not to eat or drinke not to sleep or wake without praying for a Blessing upon the King as well as upon himselfe And though he hath these two last Olympiads of the bloudie Game for sure some men like Abner 2 Sam. 2. 14. made it but a Pastime been wholly trained up in the severe Schoole of conscience not onely