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A45554	A loud call to great mourning in a sermon preached on the 30th of January 1661, being the anniversary fast for the execrable murther of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory, before the Honourable Knights, citizens, & burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, in the parish-church of Saint Margarets Westminster / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing H730; ESTC R9601	30,912	58

A LOUD CALL TO Great Mourning IN A SERMON PREACHED On the 30 th of January 1661. BEING The ANNIVERSARY FAST for the Execrable MURTHER of our Late SOVERAIGN LORD KING CHARLES the First of Glorious Memory BEFORE The Honourable Knights Citizens Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament In the Parish-Church of Saint Margarets Westminster By Nath. Hardy D. D. D. R. Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majesty and Vicar of S t Martins in the Fields LONDON Printed by Abraham Miller for Joseph Cranford at the Gun in Saint Pauls Church-yard 1662. Veneris 31 die Januarij Anno Regni Caroli Secundi Regis 13. ORDERED THat the Thankes of this House be returned to Mr. Dean Hardy and Mr. Alsop for the Sermons by them Preached yesterday before this House at St. Margarets Westminster and they are desired to Print their Sermons And Sr. Thomas Meeres is desired to return the thanks of this House to Mr. Dean Hardy and my Lord Richardson to Mr. Alsop Will. Goldesbrough Cler. Dom. Com. To the Honourable and Loyal Knights Citizens Burgesses OF THE COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT THere were some dayes which were called by the Romans Atri infansti black and omnious dayes dayes not to be reckoned with a white stone but marked with a black coale Such was and no doubt will be for ever accounted the 30 th of January 1648. by the inhabitants of England Scotland and Ireland as being a day wherein one King and three Kingdomes were beheaded at one blow The King deprived of his natural and the Kingdoms of their political Head Before that dismall Day came I thought my self many wayes oblieged to be among the small number of those who did in their Pulpits earnestly deprecate and vehemently declaim against that villanous attempt Since that time at the yearly Returne either upon or near the day I adventured to become a remembrancer To God be it spoken with reverence of vengeance To the people of penitence for that bloudy fact a fact indeed which though it is not to be mentioned without abhorrency yet cannot be forgotten without stupidity I have now lived to see an Yearly Fast enjoyned upon that dolefull Day to be kept throughout all Generations and by your favour Worthy Senators had the honour to be one of your servants in that solemne Work this last Anniversary I knew not any Subject more proper for such a Day than Mourning and God knoweth my designe and desire was to make all sorry but none angry If because of my impartial reprehension any instead of being pricked to the heart with sorrow were cut to the heart with anger I am heartily sorry I was so much disappointed of my aime My hope is that if they who heard with a left eare will be pleased to read with a right eye they will find nothing but what may very well admit of a Candid construction However I blesse God that my faithfull though slender performance met with your favourable acceptance In obedience chiefly to your desire and partly for my own vindication I have made the Discourse publick which without any wilfull omissions and with very few additions I humbly tender to your review and patronage above all commending it to divine benediction I cannot passe by that remarkable passage of providence which so directed the Preachers Discourses that by the discord of their Notes they made the sweeter Harmony whilst the one excited you to great Mourning the other to exceeding Joy So that I may very fitly invert the Psalmists words Heaviness endured for the morning but joy came in the evening Nor were the Texts upon this account more opposite one to the other than both apposite to the Day on which there was cause at once both of grief for the peoples vices and joy in the Kings vertues sadnesse for the sinnes which brought him thither and gladnesse that he behaved himself so well there And blessed be God that as even on that Day of Mourning there was cause of Rejoycing in the Magnanimity of Charles the First so that after many years of Mourning we have at length great cause of Rejoyceing in the Prosperity of Charles the Second Nor is it a small addition to our joy I speak without flattery that under our Gracious Soveraigne we have at this day an House of Commons made up of Gentlemen and those both faithfull Subjects to their King and zealous Friends to the Church so that we assure our selves Unde periculum inde remedium as an House of Commons was the source of our former miscry so an House of Commons will be the happy means of our future tranquility I shall only crave leave to inculcate in the close of this Epistle what was insinuated in the close of the Sermon That what was heretofore fondly mistaken nay falsely pretended may by you be effectually endeavoured namely a thorough Reformation not of our Religion which though I will not say it is not at all defective yet I cannot say wherein it is corrupt nay I dare say is exceeding good but of the manners and lives of people which are excessively bad That your impartial zeal would purge the Land at once of that faction and prophanenesse which still threaten our ruine Finally That you would go on as you have begun and improve your power to the utmost for promoting the honour of God his name his worship his dayes stablishing the Kings Throne confirming the Churches Rights and setling the Kingdoms peace That in order to these excellent ends the Spirit of the Lord may rest upon you the spirit of wisdome and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledg and the fear of the Lord to guide and direct you in all your Consultations and that your labour of love to God the King the Church the Kingdomes may be recompensed an hundred-fold upon you and your Posterity is and shall be the fervent prayer of Your humble Servant Nath. Hardy A LOUD CALL TO Great Mourning Zachariah 12. 11. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon MOurning is the principal word in the Text and it is the chief work of the day The Hebrew word for mourning signifieth sunebri ritu lugere a Funeral mourning and that this day calls for Finally the mourning of the Text is for the death of a Royal Person and that is the dismall occasion of this dayes lamentation Lace befits not a mourning Suit nor flourishes of Rhetorick a mourning Sermon On such a day and Text as this the Preachers words should be sighs his accents groans and the Auditors tears are the best commendation of the Sermon For this end I am come this day though not as my Saviour saith in another case to send fire yet to draw water that this place may now become like that where the Angel of the Lord delivered his sad message to the Israelites Bochin a

place of Weepers and happy will it be if as when all Israel were gathered together at Mizpeh so the Representatives of our Israel if that word may be used which hath been so much abused being assembled together in the house of God may draw water and pour forth their tears before the Lord for the Royal blood which as on this day was poured out and spilt as water upon the ground that so that may be fulfilled in us which was here foretold concerning the Jewes In that day shall there be a great mourning as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon I shall need no other division of the Text than that which the repetition of the word mourning prompts me to since a twofold mourning is the double stream into which the well-head of this Scripture parts it self Here is a mourning in Jerusalem and a mourning of Hadadrimmon The former is set down by way of praediction In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem The latter is brought in by way of allusion as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon of both which with your patience by Gods assistance I begin with the praediction In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem in which there are four circumstances expressed namely the Quid that there shall be a mourning the Quantus that it shall be a great mourning the Ubi that this great mourning shall be in Jerusalem and the Quando that it shall be in that day But there are other circumstances such as though not expressed must be supplyed for the right understanding of this Prophesie namely the Quare and the Qualis the occasion and the kind of this mourning 1. We need not go far to find out the occasion of this mourning the preceding Verse will informe us in the last clause where it is said they shall mourn for him by which it appeareth to be for some person the clause before that saith They shall look upon me whom they have pierced by which is evident that it was the piercing of some person which should occasion this mourning in them who did it and if you would know whom the him and the me intends the first clause of that Verse tells you it is the I who saith He will pour his spirit upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and he as the foregoing words expresse is the Lord Jehovah so that the meaning of these words is that there should come a time when the Jews should bitterly bewaile their hainous sinnes by which they had not only offended but grieved grieved but vexed vexed but as much as in them lay also pierced the holy one of Israel And if you please further to cast your eyes on that passage in St. Johns Gospel whence you have a Quotation of those words in the former Verse They shall look upon him whom they have pierced and an application of them to Christ upon the occasion of the Souldiers piercing him with a speare we thereby learn that the particular sinne of piercing and crucifying the Messiah shall be the occasion of this mourning 2. But further whereas First The prophesies in holy Writ are of two sorts namely threats and promises both which are fitly signified by those two words burden and vision though sometimes promiscuously used threats being burdens of wrath and promises visions of peace Secondly There is a double mourning for sinne penal and penitential the one whereof is forced and involuntary the other free and voluntary the one a mourning of desperation and the other of contrition It is to be enquired which of these mournings is here intended the answer to which is returned by Expositors both wayes and accordingly this prediction may be looked upon either as a threat or as a promise 1. The Ancients seem to incline to the former construction as if the meaning of the words were In that day that is Die vindictae divinae in the day of Gods vengeance upon them for their sinnes and especially for that sinne of piercing Christ there shall be a mourning in Jerusalem by reason of the calamities which should overwhelme them To this purpose Theodoret where he saith speaking of Christs-crucifiers when they shall not long after see him coming with Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They shall though too late bemoan their own folly and madnesse and not unlike is that of St. Jerome Tunc dolebunt à se crucifixum cum viderint in claritate regnantem They shall then bewaile him whom they crucified through envy when they shall behold him reigning in glory This prophecy in this sense is the same with that of our Saviour Then shall appear the sign of the Sonne of man in the Heavens and all the Tribes of the earth shall mourn and with that of Saint John Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also that pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wayle because of him This prediction began to be accomplished in that day when Christ came in power to execute vengeance on Jerusalem by the Romane Army at which time no doubt they sadly experienced the fatall ruine which they had imprecated upon themselves His blood be upon us Though the finall accomplishment shall not be till the last and great day of judgement when he shall come in person to inflict that heavy doome of condemnation not only upon those who crucified but all who reject him at which time it is impossible to imagine what weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth what howling roaring and wringing of hands what despaire horrour and astonishment what a bitter mourning and lamentation there shall be I would to God this were seriously speedily and sadly thought on by all sorts of impenitent sinners That as they have their day of sinning God will sooner or later have his day of punishing and as the day of a sinners impenitency is a day of carnal rejoycing so the day of Gods vengeance shall be a day of bitter mourning Woe unto you saith our blessed Saviour who now laugh for you shall mourn and weep Upon which words St. Augustine occasionally thus glosseth Quod in gaudio videntur serere necesse est illis in luctu lachrimis recipere It is impossible but that wicked men though they seem to sow with joy should reape in sorrow and however sinne may be sweet as honey in the mouth it shall be bitter as gall and wormwood in the helly The Author of the Book of Wisdome passionately sets forth the despairing language which the wicked utter at such a time Groaning for anguish of spirit they shall say within themselves we wearied our selves in the way of wickednesse and destruction yea we have gone through deserts where there is no way ● for as for the way of the Lord we have not known it What hath pride profited us or what good hath riches with our

vaunting brought us all these things are passed away as a shadow c. I the pleasure of sinne passeth away but the sting remaineth to torture the sinner to eternity Believe me brethren sin is big with sorrow and shame which it must bring forth at the appointed time In that day there shall be a great mourning 2. But though this be an usefull meditation I conceive the other to be the most genuine Interpretation which construeth the mourning here spoken of to be penitentiall Indeed some Expositors glance at the mourning of the women which was in die passionis in the day of our Saviours passion when beholding his sorrowes their bowels yearned and their eyes melted with tears at which time also others of the spectators smote their breasts and were astonied But this mourning in Jerusalem was to be as appeareth by the former Verse not by the spectators but the actors in that cruell Tragedy those who pierced him and since it is set down as an effect of the Spirit of grace and supplication or as some read it lamentation which was to be poured out upon them it cannot rationally be expounded any otherwise than to intend that godly sorrow which shall in that day that is die conversionis eorum in the day of their conversion be expressed by them for so hainous a crime As it is here foretold it was afterwards accomplished On the day of Pentecost the Spirit of God did in a visible and glorious manner decend upon the Apostles to furnish them with gifts and fill them with courage for preaching the Gospel At that time one of the Apostles S t Peter preached to the Jews and set before them them the hainousnesse of the fact which they had committed and when they heard this saith the Pen-man of the Acts they were pricked in their hearts and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and brethren what shall we do Whilest they heard S t Peters Sermon the Spirit of grace was poured upon them and so at once their ears their eyes and hearts were opened to hear reproof and see and bewail their wickednesse Nor was it a slight and superficiall sorrow but a great and deep mourning so deep that it went to their heart and so great that according to the Emphasis of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there used it was as if the sharpest points of many poisoned Daggers and Scorpions stings had been all at once fastned in their hearts And of the word here used by the Septuagint it was such a sorrow as did cut and vexe and wound their spirits nor yet was their sorrow confined to their hearts but it breaketh out at their lips and no doubt testified it self in their gesture for the Hebrew word in the Text properly refers ad externum gestum to the outward behaviour They that had shed the bloud of Christ by the instigation of the Devil shed tears by the effusion of the holy Ghost and as they had cruelly wounded him to the death they are penitently mercifully by his Word and Spirit themselves wounded with repentance unto life From this part of my Text thus unfolded give me leave to present you with these five Meditations 1. The day of a sinners Turning is a day of mourning true conversion is ever attended with contrition Man is described by the Philosopher to be animal rationale risible a reasonable living creature endued with the power of laughing but the new man is described by the Divine to be animal spirituale flebile a spiritually living creature endued with the grace of weeping When God doth inspirare breath in his Spirit the sinner cannot but suspirare breath forth sighs when he doth infundere pour in his grace the sinner begins effundere to pour out tears Turn you unto me saith the Lord with all your heart with weeping and mourning rent your hearts and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God where you may observe that turning to God must be accompanied with weeping mourning and renting the heart with sorrow for our sins whereby we have turned from him and which seemeth a riddle but is an undoubted truth we must at once turn to God with all our hearts and with a broken heart yea that we may turn to God with our whose heart we must rent our hearts Indeed on the one hand conversion could it be without contrition will not serve Non sufficit mores in melius commutare saith St. Angustine nisi etiam de his quae facta satisfiat deo per penitentiae dolorem humilitatis gemitum contritionis sacrificium It is not enough to amend our manners for the time to come unlesse we make satisfaction for what is past by the sorrow of repentance groans of humility and sacrifice of contrition But on the other hand it is impossible true conversion should be without contrition Wash you make you clean saith God by the Prophet Isaiah to the Jews to intimate that we cannot be made clean unlesse we first wash our selves with the tears of penitential grief Godly sorrow saith St. Paul worketh repentance as the sharp needle maketh way for the thred Conversion is a Regeneration a new Birth which cannot be without pangs though not in all alike yet in all some the building which is raised high must be laid low so must that reformation which is to salvation be founded in a sincere humiliation 2. Mourning for sinne must not onely be internal but external True the Prophet Joel saith Rent your hearts and not your garments but that must be taken as a comparative not an absolute negation In that day saith the Prophet Isaiah did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and mourning to baldnesse and to girding with sackeloth where every word refers to external expression weeping to the eye baldnesse to the head sackcloth to the body and the Hebrew word for mourning the same with this in the Text to the behaviour of the outward man We see in natural mourning when the heart is grieved it will find a vent We observe in civil mourning what correspondency there is in the habit and think we that religious mourning ought not to shew it self as well as either such I mean as the Text intends not closet sorrow for secret but publick for open sinnes This I am sure was the practice of the people of God of old who at the times of their solemn humiliation were wont to rend their garments sprinkle ashes upon their heads put on sackcloath and the like And if we reflect upon the practice of the primitive Christians we shall find penetents prostrate at the Church doore with neglected haire hollow eyes withered faces bare feet begging the prayers of Saints washing the feet of Lazars never thinking they could abase themselves sufficiently But alas how is the face of Christendome especially in our parts altered Repentance is grown stately and even upon such dayes