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A70654	Threnodia, the churches lamentation for the good man his losse delivered in a sermon to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament and the reverend Assembly of Divines at the funerall of that excellent man John Pym, Esquire, late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons : preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster / by Stephen Marshall ...	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M794; ESTC R17869	27,959	53

The Churches sensiblenesse of her present condition Woe is me for it The words need no great explication only let us enquire what is meant by the good man Secondly what by the good mans perishing By a good man in the largest sense is meant a godly man a holy man a righteous man but more strictly here a good man is an usefull man such are instruments of good to others such as are good Magistrates the pillars of a State who execute judgement and justice in the gate a Mordecai who seeks the wealth of his people and procures peace to all his seed Or good Ministers such an one as Jehojada who did good in Israell such an one as Barnabas a good man and full of the holy Ghost by whose Ministrie much people were added unto the Lord A good Father in a Family as Abraham who teaches all his children the feare of the Lord Thus some interpret that place Rom. 5. 7. Scarcely for a righteous man will one dye yet per adventure for a good man some would even dare to die that though they would hardly die to excuse an ordinary man though godly yet some eminent usefull man they would not onely with the Galathians pluck out their eyes but lay downe their lives for them Secondly what by perishing how the good man may be said to perish You know to perish in the common acceptation is taken in the worst sense to be cut off from the Land of the living by the hand of God in wrath and fury and their soules cast for ever into the pit of Hell but thus the good man perisheth not though the wicked be driven away to Hell in his wickednesse yet the righteous hath hope in his death But here to perish and elsewhere is to dye immaturely unseasonably to bee cut off from the place where they were usefull and could ill be spared Many excellent lessons doe these words hold forth unto us As first The Prophet makes the Churches condition his own with Aaron bearing them on his shoulders on his brest-plate yea in his very heart If it be ill with the Church you may discerne it in his countenance heare it by his speech If well by the cheerefullnesse of his spirit If they be afflicted he mournes if they rejoyce he is cheerefull with them Secondly the Prophet observes all his people whose faces stand towards heaven who looke another way who are Saints who are Children of Belial is diligent to know the state of his flock Thirdly that it is no new thing to find in the Church of God many evill and few good in Gods field many tares little good Corne in his Barne floar much chaffe and little Wheat in his great house many Vessels of dishonour and few of honour many stones few precious stones in his drag Net abundance of weeds many bad Fishes and few good ones in his Vineyard many wilde grapes and few right Grapes Fourthly And this also that even those few Godly men which are the Churches Treasure are subject to Death even immature and untimely death as well as others But I passe over all these with a bare mention of them and confine my selfe to these two Observations as most cleerly held forth in the Text and suitable to this sad meeting First that the most excellent and usefull men are often taken away when the Church could ill spare them The Church at this time did abound as wee also now doe with Sons of Belial compassed about with many Enemies and therefore needed the first ripe fruits many choise Instruments and yet those very few Shee had were now taken away the good man is perished out of the Earth Secondly that when God doth this it is a matter of sad lamentation Woe is mee the good Man is perished c. The first of these that God often takes away choisest men Men more precious then Gold then the fine Gold of Ophir When the Church hath greatest need of them hath alasse abundance of sad evidence A whole Cloud of Witnesses might easily be brought in A large Catalogue of Examples Abel the first Flower that ever grew in the Lords Garden cropt off as soone as blowne and in him all the seed of the Woman devoured by the seed of the Serpent slain by the eldest sonne of reprobation So Moses and Aaron when the Israelites were to take possession of the Land of Canaan to root out thirtie Kingdomes to set up both Church and Common-wealth these long experienced and able Leaders Prince and Priest taken off in the very beginning of the work and all seem to be left to raw heads and hands that know not how to manage it so Elisha the man of God fell sick and died when in the judgement even of a wicked King he was all the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel all the strength they had left So Iosiah that rare and excellent Prince who seemed to be created as a new Star purposely to shine in those darksome times cut off in the midst of his work for whose death Jeremiah composed the whole book of the Lamentations And in the Christian Church in the beginning of it when all the World was to be subdued to the faith of Christ The Harvest very great and the Labourers but few Iohn the Baptist a greater Prophet then whom was never borne of a woman comming in the spirit and power of Elias to turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers and the disobedient to the instruction of the wise taken away violently after but two or three years work whiles he was making ready a people for the Lord James the brother of Iohn one of the Pillars one of the chief Apostles cut off by the sword and Stephen a rare man full of the Holy Ghost whose wisdom and spirit the enemie was not able to resist exceedingly fitted to convince the Iewes and to prove that Iesus was the very Christ suddenly taken off and knocked on the head in a popular tumult and commotion And now of late our Edward the sixth another Iosiah when this Land had been long in bondage unto Antichrist overwhelmed with the darknesse of Idolatry and Superstition and seemed to be purposely raised up to bring light and salvation to this desolate Land while he was preparing this wildernes to be the Lords fruitfull Vineyard planting it with the choisest Vines and setting up a Wine Presse in the midst of it walling it and fencing it about after five or sixe years labours suddenly snatched away So the incomparable King of Sweden brought over the Baltick Sea by the hand of God to restore the ruines of Germanie travelling in the greatnesse of his strength and working little lesse then wonders for two or three yeares together and drawing the eyes of all men towards him as the man that should undoubtfully have delivered that woefull Countrey in a moment this bright Sun set soon

ΘΡΗΝΩΔΙΑ THE CHURCHES LAMENTATION FOR THE Good Man his losse Delivered in a Sermon To the Right honourable the two Houses of Parliament and the Reverend Assembly of Divines at the Funerall of that Excellent Man JOHN PYM Esquire late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons Preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster by Stephen Marshall B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex Published by Order of the House of Commons Esa. 57. 1. The righteous perisheth no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come London Printed for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes head Alley 1644. To the Right honourable THE Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Right Honourable THis plaine piece which were it worthy should bee sacred to this excellent Man memory comes now also devoted to your service It should have been his picture but becomes your possession and let it be inter {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and that by your fourfold interest 1. In himselfe whilest he lived every one of you deservedly esteeming him as a Friend a Brother if not a Father 2. In his losse ●or rather yours of him which because I cannot describe 〈…〉 vaile over with silence 3. In the worke wherein hee lived and by which he dyed which was not so much his as yours or yours as your Countries your Gods in which he laboured so much that he died the sooner that you might have his better helpe toward the finishing of it who through the mercy of God live longer 4. In this meane Sermon which by your command comes to publike view and therfore craves patronage in your favourable acceptance The Lord make it yours by a greater right even by making the commands delivered in it to be so ingrafted in your hearts that you may all not onely with him be cast into the same mold but that his Spirit may be so doubled upon you all that you chearfully and without fainting may beare whatever remaining heat and burden of the day and at last come to the same blessed evenings-reckoning rest and reward in everlasting life So prayeth daily Your most unworthy Servant in and for Christ Iesus Stephen Marshall Die Veneris 15 Decembr 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Master Sollicitor doe returne thankes to Master Marshall for the great paines he tooke in his Sermon preached at the Funerall of Master Pym a worthy Member of the House of Commons and to desire him to print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man presume to print this Sermon but whom the said Master Marshall shall authorise under his hand-writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I doe authorise Stephen Bowtell to print this Sermon Stephen Marshall A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE Right Honourable the LORDS and COMMONS and the Reverend Assembly of Divines at the Funerall of JOHN PYM ESQUIRE RIght Honourable and beloved Should a stranger behold the face of this Assembly and see the Honourable Houses of Parliament and the Reverend Assembly of Divines and such a great confluence of persons of all ranks and qualities in this mournefull posture they would say as the Inhabitants of Canaan did when they saw the mourning for old Jacob in the floare of Arad This is a grievous mourning to England and would certainly enquire What Prince what great man is this day fallenin our Israell But you who knew the worth of this excellent person whose shadow lies here before you doe rather wonder that all faces are not covered with blacknesse and all bodies with sackcloth and come hither so fully prepared to mourne that you even long till something bee spoken of him that you may ease your hearts a little though it bee with weeping But stay a while I beseech you till I first deliver an errand from God the ground whereof you shall find Micah the seventh the first and second verses MICAH 7. 1 2. Wo is me for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits as the grape gleanings of the vintage There is no clusterto eat my soule desireth the first ripe fruit The good man is perished out of the Earth THis Text and two or three verses following containes a sad complaint of the Prophet in the Churches name of the small number of the good and the great multitude of evill men in the dayes wherein he lived The paucity of goodmen is set downe in an elegant comparison they are as the scatterings after the In-gatherings of the summer fruit as the grape gleanings after the Vintage here and there a berry in the top of a bough not an whole cluster anywhere left to eat She needed full clusters the worke she had to doe required many able hands and gratious hearts There were clusters enough of vile ones whole boughes whole trees whole hedge rowes of such were to be found every where Every Family every street Town and City abounded with them There were Princes that were oppressours Iudges who received bribes great men uttering their mischievous desires a world of people who lay in wait for bloud who could hunt every man his brother with a net that could doe evill with both hands earnestly the best of them as a briar the most upright sharper then a thorne hedge but such a thin scattering of men willing and fit for the service of God and his Church that if one searched as diligently as Diogenes did in Athens at noon day for an honest man hee was hardly to be found But how comes the Church to be thus empty had she never any better store O yes she had precious Sonnes comparable to fine Gold She had Nazarites purer then Snow whiter then Milke At the first she had her Iudges that were upright and wise her Prophets that taught them the feare of the Lord her Priests and Levites pure who bore the Vessells of the Sanctuarie she had her mighty men and the men of warre the honourable man and the Counsellor the cunning Artificer and the eloquent Oratour She had every place furnished with men of renown the Throne the Campe the Senate the Colledge the City but in her greatest need they were well nigh all gone How gone Were they apostatised had they voluntarily left her No neither but even perished cut off before their time and for these things she weeps her eyes run downe with teares and she cries out Woe is mee because the comforters which should refresh her soul are removed farre from her O England England I see thy woefull face in this Glasse this Text holds out a type of thy sad condition But I proceed to the words Woe is me the good man is perished out of the earth Wherein observe these two things First The state and condition of the Church in this Prophets daies The good man is perished out of the earth Secondly