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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

doctrine manner of worship and Divine Ordination as if all had been nought and a boundless toleration given for a monstrous many headed new Religion and Priests start up of the meanest and lowest of the people many boldly intruded upon that holy work to administer the Word and Sacraments without a lawful call and separation to it they climbed up and crept in the wrong way like thieves and robbers Iohn 10. they consecrated themselves with audacious and sacrilegious presumption rushing upon that sacred Function and came not in by the door of Divine Ordination which none ever durst presume to do since the Apostles time till these daies of confusion and these were the Priests of the high places these these the only men in those disorderly times who having never taken holy Orders were thought most worthy to be mounted to the high places of preferment 2. A Chaos of confusion follows also in the state They which kill the Heir to gain the inheritance and stone Naboth to seize his Vineyard must maintain with a vast expence of blood and treasure what they have unjustly gotten by which means the poor people are oppressed and squeezed harrowed and peeled to the very bones We have found and felt this true what sore oppressions unsupportable taxes and over-heavy burthens besides devouring free-quarter when our Lord-Danes boasted that all was theirs and that they had more to do in our houses and with our goods expertus loquor then we our selves have we undergone since the oppression and murder of our good King Besides there is a vast confusion after such a fact by reason of contestations between Competitors as was in the Roman Empire upon Caesars death between Octavius Lepidus Marcus Antonius and others there is a furious busling and strugling who shall be Master and Supreme now one strives for it and now another now one hath it and then another now one Government is up and then another and so the oppressed people in this time of confusion are the greatest sufferers pelted and buffeted between both tumbled and tossed and emptied from one vessel to another till their purses are as empty of money as their hearts of content or their lives of comfort Now then seeing such a Chaos of confusion both in Church and State follows upon the murder or violent death of a good King as we all alas can too feelingly and knowingly speak is not the point clear that the death especially the violent death of a good King is a ground of great mourning to all good people for I am sure none will grant them to be good people unless themselves may be Judges and their own mouths praise them who applaud a Chaos of confusion in Church and State and delight like Sharks Harpies and Cormorants to fish in troubled waters or like Tories to live upon spoil and rapine because there out they have formerly sucked no small advantage I hasten on to the application of this truth to all our souls Vse 1. First then see here what great cause we have of sad mourning and of great lamentation who have seen a Iosiah a good and religious King our great our chief friend our common Father our Bridegroom our dear Husband snatched from us by bloody hands and by a violent death well may this day be called a bitter day as the mourning for one only son or the mourning of Hadadrimmon for Englands Iosiah Let us a little parallel Iosiah in my Text with our Iosiah that so seeing his excellent worth we may be the more sensible of this exceeding loss and find what cause we have for great mourning 1. Iosiah was a very pious and religious Prince well affected to Religion to the true Religion the reformed Religion as it was by his care reformed and restored according to the Law of God found in the Temple by Hilkiah the High-Priest to this he adhered cleaving to the Lord with all his heart and walking in all the wayes of David his father and turned not aside to the right hand or to the lest 2 King 22.2 So our Iosiah was very pious and zealously affected to Religion to the true reformed Protestant Religion which he firmly professed and cleaved to And though his adversaries in the beginning of our troubles blasted him with Popery as if he had been a Papist a slander as false as the Father of Lies could invent and one of their most cunning Engines whereby Absalem-like they stole away the hearts of his people and brought him so low yet he continued constant in it to his last breath and sealed it with his blood and that unparallell'd book which he wrote and left behinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein he commends that Religion to his son our now gracious Soveraign to be constantly imbraced and professed by him which he found by proof to be the best of all Religions and neerest to the Apostolical primity and purity I say this shall stand as a lasting monument to all posterity to the perpetual shame of those malitious Traducers Out of that divine book so I may call it for much of a divinely inspir'd spirit appears in it give me leave to add some of his own sweet words to the Prince of Wales If you never see my face again I do require and entreat you as your Father and your King that you never suffer your heart to receive the least check against or disaffection from the true Religion established in the Church of England I tell you I have tryed it and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the world not only in the community as Christian but also in the special notion as reformed keeping the middle way between the pomp of superstitious tyranny and the meanness of fantastick Anarchy And a little after The scandal of the late troubles which some may object and urge to you against the Protestant Religion established in England is easily answered to them or your own thoughts in this that scarce any one who hath been a beginner or an active prosecutor of this late War against the Church the Law and me either was or is a true lover imbracer or practiser of the Protestant Religion established in England which neither gives such rule nor ever before set such examples 2. Iosiah was very zealous for Gods house he took great care for the repairing of the Temple and the beautifying of it 2 King 22.3.1 Chron. 35.20 So our Iosiah was zealous for the houses of God in the year of his raign he took order that the Temples and Churches through the Kingdome should be repaired and beautified and attempted and to a good degree brought on the reparation of that great Mother-Church the old Ornament of our Metropolis or great City famous for the antiquity of it and for its great bulk being reputed for its building the greatest pile in the Christian world great part of which charge he took upon himselfe which with his fall is falling