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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88808	Three sermons viz. Davids tears for his rebellious son Absalom, Israels tears for Abners fall by bloudy Joab, infants tears for Athaliahs treason, / preached by S.L. a true lover of the church, his king, and country, in his country-cure.	S. L.; T. L.	1660 (1660)	Wing L66; Thomason E2129_2; ESTC R210253	75,004	185

our father our nursing father It is observed that the love of Parents descends and flows with a greater stream to their children than childrens love ascends upwards to their Parents and this God shews Isaiah 49. 15. Can a father forget his child or a woman not have compassion on the son of her womb but he saith not Can a child forget his father as if that were too frequent too common and lay at every mans door but spero meliora de vobis I hope better things of you and that ye have learned better things and your duty better than to set light by your father Deut. 67. 16. We take much notice of those whose consciences are so seared and hearts hardened that have not a tear at their fathers grave and God and angels will take notice of us for stupidity and blockishnesse if we will not weep for our Abner our Prince and great man that is fallen 3ly If prayers and Supplications ought to be made for all men but especially for Kings and all that are in authority 1 Tim. 2. 1. then consequently it must follow that their deaths ought to be lamented more than other mens and if so then Vse 2. Is for reproof 1. If those that rejoice and glory in their shame Phil. 3. 19. whose end without great Repentance will be their damnation One boasteth that he subscribed to the lions death another that he tried the lion another that he sentenced the lions damme another that he slew the lion another that he shared of the lions skin but if there be a wo unto them that speak good of evil and evil of good which put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for sowre Isa 5. 20. then as Jacob said of Simeon and Levi Brethren in iniquity Gen. 49. 6. Let not my soul enter into their secret and my glory be not joyned with their Assembly for an horrible curse and wo like the sin of Cain lieth at their door 2ly Of those that had the least hand in or approved of Abners fall Certes many men with Pilate will seem to wash their hands clean from his blood because they were no principal actors in it but qui non vetat peccare quum potest iubet saith Seneca He that is not with me saith Christ is against me or he that hinders not a foul fact but approves of it is as guilty as the principal in it Abner is fallen by whom and whose means the scruple is resolved verse 30. of this Chapter so Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner Abishai being privy to the murther and not preventing it is counted by the Spirit of God as deep in blood as the bloody executioner of the Treason Joab himself David killed not Vriah but the men of Rabbab yet because he plotted and conspired against his life and was well pleased with his death Nathan tells him point-blank and in plain terms 2 Sam. 12 9. Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house Ahab was not accessary unto Naboth's stoning but his wife Jezabel who made use of his Seal unto the Elders and Nobles that were in his City that they might deprive him of life and Vineyard yet he approving of what was done and rejoycing in his spoil and prey that he had taken Elijah the Tishbite meets him and upbraids him of cruelty covetousnesse and blood 1 Kings 21. 19. Hast thon killed and also taken possession therefore in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs even lick thy blood also And in this sence Saul bewailed his sad condition and acknowledged his unworthinesse and unfitnesse to be a Minister of the Gospel to the Gentiles because he persecuted the Church of God and had a hand in Stevens death not as one that murthered him as a cut-throat but allowed and applauded them that acted that villany as his own words best speak it Acts 22. 20. Lord when the blood of thy Martyr Steven was shed I also stood by and consented to his death and kept the clothes of them that slew him Now the Marginal Note saith this is properly spoken for Steven was murthered of a sort of rude rakehels not by order of Justice but by open force and he liking of what was done and lulling and spurring them forward unto it accounts himself a chief instrument in the conspiracy of robbing God of a Saint the Church of a pillar and the world of a bright shining light which would have enlightened them that fit in darkness to the true light Iohn 1. 9. and so to the light of heaven As the intruders into other mens Rectories plead for themselves that they thrust them not out when they are contented to inherit their possessions and eat up the bread that should feed the right owners and their children approving of the Sequestration even so there be that plead not guilty of Abners fall when in their hearts they cryed C●ucifige let him die and stroked the contrivers of his ruine but how one or the other can answer their juggle before God who judgeth righteously taketh the affection and will for the deed I am ignorant unlesse it be with speechlesness like to him that came to the wedding feast without a wedding garment Matth. 22. 1● and so partake of his portion and bitter potion 3ly Those that reviled Abner living and detract from him much more being fallen their greatest religion is ill byassed which is to speak evil of their Prince He that is most foul mouthed like Shimei is held fitest to be a States-man and have a hand in reformation When Paul had called Ananias whited wall and the standers by check'd him for reviling Gods high Priest he acknowledged his errour saying I knew not that he was the High Priest for it is written thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people Acts 23. 5. from whence may be inferred that to calumniate him is sin 4ly This highly reproves those Servants of this Prince this great man that helped to pull him down Gravior inimicus qui latet sub pectore a bosome enemie is of all the worst When Caesar was stabbed in the Senate house and seeing Brutus acting his part amongst the Conspirators it cut him to the heart using these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what and thou too my son Brutus then fall Caesar even so for a Prince to bring up birds to pick out his own eyes and breed vipers to sting him to death it cannot but much adde to the bitternesse of his fall and this made David to complain so sadly Psal 41. 9. That his friend his familiar friend whom he trusted which did eat of his bread lifted up his heel against him that is like a wild horse to kick at him and trample him under his seet Of all injuries there are none stick