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A87060	Lacrymæ Ecclesiæ; or The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah. Delivered in two sermons, Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn fasting and humiliation, for the martyrdom and horrid murder of our late gracious King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory. In the church of the borough of Blechingley in the county of Surry. / By Wil. Hampton rector of the said church.	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing H634; Thomason E1086_9; ESTC R202530	24,674	40

and gracelesse persons though they have a huge weight of sin upon them yet they feel it not their consciences are not pressed nor troubled with it because it is in its proper place But the child of God is sensible of the least sin even the appearance of evill and trembles under the weight of it because there it is out of his own place and proper Element A soft heart a tender conscience checking of sin argues a divine impression upon it if the true fear of God and of his dreadfull Majesty 7. Iosiah was a King as devout to God so devoted to his peoples good good to his people full of goodnesse to his people In the verse following my text there is mention of the acts of Josiah and his goodness Now the rest of the Acts of Josiah and his goodness or kindness ver 26. His Acts and his goodness or kindness are joyned together because he did many Acts of goodness and kindness to his people what an Act of bounty and kindnesse to his people was it to be at that vast charge in the Passe over feast for their ease and benefit before mentioned So our Iosiah did many good Acts in relation to his people In the beginning of the long Parliament he passed sundry Acts of grace and goodness for the ease and comfort of his people as for taking away ship mony for taking away all illegall taxes for the taking down the Star-Chamber Court and the high Commission Court which were found to be oppressive to his people for a trienniall Parliament and other enough to have made abundant and ample reparations for any former miscarriages of his Officers and Ministers had he been to deal with reasonable and moderate men and more he would have done and more he intended to do yea more then could in reason be required had his precious life been spared But the greedy appetite of some could not be satisfied without innocent blood royall blood as the Jews would rest in nothing but our Saviours crucifige crucifige crucifie him crucifie him though they pull'd the horrid guilt of it upon themselves and upon their children Thus you have heard what a King what a good King we had and what a blessing in him Now to have such a Iosiah taken from us is it not a sad losse and by a violent and bloody death is it not a sad case He was slain not as Iosiah in my text by strangers of another Nation and in the hear of battell but murdered in cold blood and that by some of his own Subjects and Servants who had sworn allegeance and fidelity to him who had declared promised professed protested vowed covenanted to protect preserve and defend him and to make him a glorious King O damnable Hypocrisie for these to murder him and that not in private as other Traytors have dealt with their Princes but to do it openly with great pomp and artifice as men solemnly wicked and under pretence and shew of Justice Oh hellish mockery of justice added to cruelty and malice as it were in defiance of Heaven in the sight of all Israel and in the sight of the Sun in opposition to all Laws both of God and man against the light of their own consciences This was a sad and a black fact The Powder-plotters were a great deal more modest they did their work under ground and in darkness as being ashamed of it But these played a game above board in the open light with an harlots face without shame or blushing so that all circumstances and aggravations considered that might be named it was the most daring and horrid act of immanity and iniquity that was ever perpetrated under the Sun next to the crucifying of the Lord of Life an act not to be equalized in any history not only of Holy Writ but also of prophane and heathen Authors For such a King to be thus murthered is the faddest ground of mourning that ever the good people of this Nation had therefore for this O England gird thee with sackcloth lament and howl Ier. 4.8 yea wallow and rowl thy self in ashes make thee mourning as for an only son yea bitter lamentation Ier. 6.26 and as it is Zach. 11.2 howl firre tree for the Cedar is fallen And let us everyone wish with the Prophet O that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain the Ruler of the people Ier. 9.1 or as it is Ier. 14.17 Let mine eyes run down night and day and let them not cease for the Virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach and with a very grievous blow O that blow that very grievous blow made the greatest breach upon the sons and daughters of Sion upon all true children of this Church that ever was made to the piercing of their hearts and wounding of their spirits and bleeding of their very souls therefore weep and mourn for this let our hearts be filled with bitter grief and our eyes with brinish tears And as for the loss of such a King so much more let us mourn for that wonderful and horrid sin which was this day committed in the Land the shedding of his innocent blood a sin over passing the deeds of the wicked a sin that no Nation no people ever committed Let us beseech the Lord to pardon it to acquit the Land of it that it may no longer cry for vengeance and call for judgements to be continued upon us and cause him to poure out his fury upon us in blood Let the blood of sprinkling the blood of Christ speak better things then the blood of Abel Abel's blood cryed for vengeance and so may the blood of this righteous one but the blood of Christ cryes for mercy Holy Father let that blood of thy dear Son out-cry the other and bring down mercy upon the Land O deliver us and be merciful to us in regard of that crying sin for it was great Lord lay not the guilt of that blood this day shed upon the whole Nation for thou hast many among us who having neither hands not hearts defiled in it did with abhorrency of soul detest and loath and in much bitterness of spirit mourn for that odious fact Thou who art the searcher of hearts and knowest our thoughts knowest this to be true Lay it home to their consciences who had a hand in it and are yet living that they may see the greatness of their sin and be moved to great sorrow and bitter repentance and obtain pardon out of thy great and abundant mercies in Christ that the innocency of thy blessed Martyr may be cleared our Religion vindicated from the scandal and out Nation cleared from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the conversion of so great sinners And as for this horrid fact so for all our other sins and provocations let us mourn which helped forward this judgment for our personal sins

LACRYMAE ECCLESIAE OR The mourning OF HADADRIMMON For Englands IOSIAH Delivered in two Sermons Janu. 30. 1660. at the solemn Fasting and Humiliation for the Martyrdom and horrid Murder of our late gracious King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory In the Church of the Borough of Blechingley in the County of Sury By Wil. Hampton Rector of the said Church In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Zach. 12.11 Nunc requiescit in sinu Abrahae dulcis amicus noster nam quis alius tali animae locus Aug. de Nebridio LONDON Printed for VVil. Hope at the sign of the blew Anchor on the North side of the Royall Exchange 1661. To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cokaine Viscount Cullen Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed Right Honourable and my very good Lord As you have been a great sufferer in your Person and Estate to the loss of more then thirty thousand pounds for your fidelity and loyalty to his late Majesty of blissed memory and yet were cheared more with the continuall feast of a good and a quiet Conscience as I have heard you confesse then you could have been had you saved your estate and gained ten times that sum by engaging on the other side for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anoynted and be guildesse 1 Sam. 26.9 So no less sorrow for his sad sufferings and chiefly that last fatall blow brought upon his sacred Person by the furious rage of merciless and bloody men when a sword did even pierce through your heart as your Lordship hath often expressed in my hearing in my house whither you were pleased to retire your self aster your releasment from Oxford and at other times and to honour me with your presence when we did in private poure forth our souls together in utter detestation of that horrid Fact and in bitter lamentation for it Therefore upon this account I think not these Sermons more due to any one then your self as also for the many obligations that lie upon me for your manifold favours and respects to me even from your youth up till now It is framed in a low and plain stile sitted for a Country Auditory and it hath alwaies been my desire and endeavour to condescend to the meanest capacity My warning was very short for such a work having scarce two dayes to prepare by notice given me by a worshipfull Neighbour one of our late Burgesses in the late healing Parliament of such a day to be kept of which I knew nothing before And although the short warning the exhaustion of my Spirits in Preaching twice the Lords day preceding together with my age might have pleaded my excuse for such a task and confind me to praying and weeping Yet as nothing seemes hard to a willing mind my cordial affection to the duty for I have in my secret prayers long wished I might live to see such a day as this wherein we might in publick as wel express our detestation of as lamentation for that monstrous and bloody Act put me on with the assistance of the Divine Spirit to a performance beyond my strength and expectation The dead Letter cannot be answerable to the lively Delivery which was to the content of my Auditory which that day was great many of the adjoyning Parishes where no notice was given of the day repairing to my Church And which was to my content as it drew teares from mine so from the eyes of a great part of my hearers which is the best commendation of a Preacher The Lord grant it may work upon their Souls to whose sight it shall come whose hearts or hands or fingers were defiled with that innocent blood that they may be deeply humbled and moved to repentance for such a crimson scarlet sin and find Mercy and obtain Pardon from Heaven by having their hearts sprinkled with that blood which speakes better things then the blood of Abel And that it may blunt and alleviate the asperity of their Spirits who have great thoughts of heart and those evill too against this blessed Change a work even of Omnipotency And against our dear and gracious Soveraign whom God long preserve a King of such asweet Christian temper for Wisdom Discretion Meekness Gentleness Pitty Piety Mercy as is too good for such a churlish and unthankful People Thus commending this poor labour to the blessing of God and your Lordship and family to his grace and safe protection I humbly take my leave and remain Your Honours humble Servant in the work of Christ W. Hampton From my Study in Blechingley February 12 1660. The mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Josiah The Text. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations 2 Cron. 35.4 25. THis day is a day of blackness and gloominess a day of clouds thick darkness a day of mourning for a good and a religious King cut off by untimely violent death to the unexpressible griefe of all good Christians by the trayterous heads trecherous hearts and bloody hands of wicked and ungodly men yet great pretenders to holiness above all other Now I say this being a black day a day of mourning I have chosen a Text of mourning of mourning for a godly and a religious King Josiah the fittest parallel I can find in the whole sacred book for our Martyred Soveraign Josiah was one of the best of all the Kings of Iudah whose History you may read at large in the foregoing Chapter and in the former part of this Chapter and also in the 22 and 23. book of the Kings He came to the Crown young at eight yeares old and sought the Lord while he was yet young in the eight year of his raign and the twelfth year began the great work for advancing Religion and Piety He purged Ierusalem of Idolatry reformed abuses repaired Gods House restored his worship regarded his Ministers kept such a Passeover as had not been kept before since the dayes of Samuel the Prophet neither did all the Kings of Israel keep such a Passeover as Iosiah kept Vers 18. Like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses neither after arose there any like him 2 King 23.25 And though he was thus good and zealous yet for the peoples sin was he taken away by a violent death as it followeth Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath where with his anger was kindled against Iudah because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withall And the Lord said I will remove Jerusalem out of my

Commonwealth and surely he is no good and dutiful childe that will not mourn for his fathers death especially if he see him slain and murthered by bloody hands in such a case not to shed tears were a sign of a graceless and godless son and certainly they are no good children no loyal or dutiful subjects that mourn not for the horrid slaughter and barbarous assassination of their civil father 3. A good King is the light of our eyes and breath of our nostrils yea the very life of our lives a principal means under God of our temporal weal and being under whose shadow and protection we enjoy our selves and all in safety life goods and estate He is the Minister of God to thee for good Rom. 13.4 And is it not a sad thing to have such a pillar broken down such a one taken away by cruel hands What can be expected to follow but ruine rapine confusion and misery oppression and calamity as we have felt by woful experience and will not all that have any goodness that delight not to live by devouring others lament for the loss of such a one 4. A good King is under God a principal cause of our well-being in relation to spiritual things for our souls benefit it is under him and by his power and Law that we are preserved to live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 therefore the loss of him must needs be deplorable as opening a wide gap to all prophaneness and dissolute living It was a sad time with Israel when there was no King in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes Iudg. 17.6 and to what exorbitances and villanies will not the corrupt nature of man left to its own liberty and actuated by satanical fury break out in such an Anarchy will not this make a good heart mourn 5. A good King is a nursing Father of the Church so called in Scripture phrase it is by his care and providence by his good example and diligence in the service of God and in the holy duties of his worship that Religion is upheld and the practise of it furthered and the Church maintained in a flourishing condition Regis ad exemplum to tus componitur orbis people are much inclined to follow the example of the Prince And can good people that wish well to Sion and are well affected to Religion to the service and worship of God see such a one snatch'd from them by violent death to the great decay of Religion abolishing of the solemn worship of God and the bringing in a Babel-like confusion of hearts and Tongues as we have seen to our reproach to the breaking of our hearts to the joy and derision of our enemies and not be filled with extreme grief and betake themselves to great and bitter mourning 6. A good King is the Bridegroom of the Commonwealth the Husband of his people and hence it hath been an ancient custome at the Inauguration or Coronation of Kings to deliver them a Ring as a pledge or token of wedding them to their people and will not the children of the Bride-chamber mourn when the Bridgeroom is taken away from them Christ himself in the Gospel assures us that they will and shall mourn in that day And here I pray take notice that they are no children of the Bridechamber that mourn not for such a loss what then are they that rejoyce Can the Bride a loving Spouse endure to see her dear Husband assassinated murthered by cruel Butchers and that in the Bridechamber in his own house or at his own gates Can she endure for ever to have him separated from her or to have his head separated from his body before her eyes without shrieking out and wringing hands without bitter tears and doleful lamentations surely no And how then can good people good Christians good Subjects call to mind the murdering of a good King at the door of his own Royal Palace by some of his own people of his own subjects and servants without bleeding hearts weeping eyes and mournful spirits These may stand as so many grounds or arguments to confirm the point in hand that the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of great mourning to all good people To all these I might add the confusion that follows such a black deed The barbarous murder of a good King is commonly attended with a deplorable Chaos of confusion both in Church and State The plotters and actors in such a foul work are none of the best yea they are the very worst and vilest of men men of hard hearts and seared consciences of wild large and loose principles who having swallowed Royal blood do easily glut themselves with the blood of Nobles and other of their fellow subjects and like ravening Wolves having slain the Shepherd sport themselves in tearing and worrying the sheep and to conclude make no bones of the greatest evil so it may promote their wicked designs And must not this needs bring on a rueful confusion 1. There follows a Chaos of confusion in the Church when a good King is murdered if the murderers escape they new-model Religion and fit it to their own Standard and make it a meer Machiavillian politick Engine to prop and boulster up their usurped power When Ieroboam wrested the ten Tribes from the house of David with his new Kingdome he set up a new Religion for fear least if the people kept to their old Religion they would return to their old King 1 King 12.26 27 28. Ieroboam said in his heart Now shall the Kingdome return to the house of David if this people go up to do sacrifice in the House of the Lord at Ierusalem then shall the heart of this people burn again unto their Lord even to Rehoboam King of Iudah and they shall kill me Whereupon he took counsel and made two calves and set the one in Bethel and the other in Dan and pretended all to be done for the good and ease of the people it is too much for you to go up to Ierusalem whereas it was for his own base ends and according to his new Religion he made a new sort of Priests not of the sons of Aaron according to Gods Ordination but whosoever would might be a Priest for that State-Religion and served well enough to serve calves He made of the lowest and meanest of the people Priests of the high places whosoever would he consecrated him and he became one of the Priests of the high places and this thing became a sin unto the house of Ieroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth 1 King 13.33 34. I need not tell you how exactly the late Tyrants our Masters followed his steps the sad thought of it is too fresh in our memories Our old true and established Religion must be thrown down and turned out both for government discipline