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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50342	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on January the 30th, 1681 by Henry Maurice ...	Maurice, Henry, 1648-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing M1370; ESTC R3724	13,058	37

more obstinate Tears The Heathen were so sensible of this Trouble that to relieve themselves they ran headlong into Idolatry and chang'd their Allegiance into Adoration Nor would they be perswaded that the best of their Kings did Die like one of the Common People but that Death made them Invisible and Divine neither would they be comforted otherwise than by this perswasion That they still remained under the Government and Protection of their belov'd Princes Thus Assyria Egypt and almost all the Nations of the Earth were first distracted into Superstition and the People of Rome would not be satisfied for the loss of their first King before the Senate had decreed Worship for him they were suspected to have destroy'd Nay sometimes this Trouble grew too strong for all the amusements of Superstition and Osyris notwithstanding the Opinion of his Divinity was remembred with perpetual Lamentations But be this the Extravagance and Madness of Heathen Zeal Even the People of God himself were not above the reach of this Trouble and though they were taught that the same Providence did always watch over them under all the differences of Government yet they could not sustain the loss of a good Prince without some jealousie that God was going to desert them at leastwise not without singular Trouble and Affliction When Moses the Great Prince of Israel whose mighty Scepter commanded the Sea and made it a Bulwark and Defence for his People on the Right hand and on the Left in whose time plenty came down from Heaven in Bread and Flesh and Rivers ran in dry places Moses the prodigy of Wisdom and Modesty of great Vnderstanding and greater Mistrust of it slow indeed of Speech but wonderful in his Writings Moses the Meekest Man upon Earth easie to forgive Injuries and happy were it if the same Vertue that is so forward to pardon could as easily reclaim the Offender easie in the Concession of his own Prerogatives and sharing his Authority with the Elders of the Congregation Such a Prince in short whose Government had more in it of the Father than the King When he came to take his leave of the People in order to go to the place where he must die with how sad a Countenance with what discontented Murmuring was he answer'd He found their Affection now more querulous and ungovernable than all their former Seditions And tho Corah and his Faction had represented him odiously as one that affected Arbitrary Dominion yet when he came to Die such was the Peoples resentments of that Loss that God seem'd to grow Jealous and to mistrust their Affections towards Himself and therefore thought fit to conceal him by a private Interment at some distance from the Camp on a high Hill from whence is the fairest Prospect over all the Land of Canaan Nor could all this prevent the Grief and Lamentation of Israel for so great a Loss for notwithstanding they were upon the point of taking possession of the Promis'd Land yet they deserred to accept the fruit of Forty years labour and expectation till they had paid a Sorrowful Duty to the Memory of Moses whom they bewayl'd Thirty Days in an extraordinary manner and Josephus adds that they were never so much afflicted for any loss JOSIAH the good but unfortunate King of Judah who had repayr'd the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem and restor'd the neglected and prophan'd Service of God into its ancient Purity and Splendor having been unhappily slain in Megiddo was lamented in an Unusual manner by the Inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem nor was the Mourning ended within the accustomed time but transmitted to Posterity Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the Singing Men and Singing Women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations unto this day and made it an Ordinance in Israel And after the Return of the Captivity from Babylon when one would think that all their former Sorrows had been forgot yet this Grief was still fresh and undiminish'd and the Prophet Zachary when he would have described the Mourning of the Children of the Bride-Chamber when Christ their Bridgroom should be taken from them could not find a greater Instance than that for Josiah It shall be like the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo But this is the least part of our present Trouble nor would it be just to remember that Loss with so much Affliction which God hath long since so gloriously repair'd Had our late Sovereign therefore dy'd the death of Moses or Josiah and the course of Nature or the chance of War or any thing else than our own Sin and Madness depriv'd us of so great a Blessing the Trouble of this Day might have ceas'd before this time but when we consider the Manner and the Hands by which He fell His Blood like that of Murder'd Persons upon the approach of the Murderer seems to run still afresh and to fly in the face of this Guilty Nation threatning it with yet more severe Judgments For if the Sin of Corah which proceeded no farther than Insolent Expressions against Moses and Aaron the lowest step of this days guilt and scarcely to be reckon'd in the Computation of it was punish'd with Fire and Pestilence How much sorer Punishments shall we expect whose oblique Contempt of Authority was soon improv'd into open Insolence and since no Faction did ever Insult a Prince they did not mean to destroy that Insolence was asserted by Rebellion and this carried on through Rapin and Devastation and Blood And the success of that Rebellion rendring it still more daring and wicked the Guilt grew up with wonderful Increase and exceeded all Computation and the Power of Discourse for who can express the succeeding Treatment of Captiv'd Majesty the Indignities of His Imprisonment of His Trial of His Death but with Tears unless the greatness of the Trouble intercept even those Expressions Who can reflect upon so barbarous a Fact without the greatest disorder and tumult of Thoughts And now if we yet retain any thing of English Nature and Affections How can we look upon this Land thus defil'd with Royal Blood and laden with such crying Aggravations and not weep over it How can we reflect upon the Singularity of this Guilt and not be troubled with the apprehension of some Exemplary Vengeance as new and singular as the Crime But why are We concern'd in this Trouble who have no share in the Guilt For how many here present may justly boast their Services to that Excellent Prince and the honour of Suffering with him How many here present are the Noble Off-spring of that brave but unfortunate Loyalty that contended so long with a Prosperous Rebellion with unequal Force How many more are wholly unconcerned in the Sin who were yet unborn when this accursed thing was committed Yet none above the reach of this Trouble none beyond the necessity of this Humiliation For Publick Sins of such Example and Scandal as this like the first Rebellion of Man may remain

Inheritance It is no Common Event it is no Casual concourse of things but by the Common Consent of Mankind it is the manifest Rebuke and Judgment of God The Heathen fancy'd sometimes that they had fix'd their gods so surely to the Temples and Altars dedicated to their Honour that it was not in their power to forsake those Places of Sacrifice and Incense But yet when the Temples themselves were destroy'd by Lightning and the Altars and Images were struck from Heaven they began to apprehend that the Indignation of the gods against the Wickedness of the Worshippers might prevail over all their affection and fondness to the Place and Rites of their Worship And the Jews thought God so wedded to their Church and Nation that it was not possible for him utterly to forsake them For how could he relinquish his People whom he had Chosen the Seed of Abraham his Friend How could he forsake the Ark of the Covenant and the Law written with his own hands How could he cast away the Crown of David which he had promis'd to preserve to his Posterity in a perpetual Succession How could he abandon the House called by his own Name the most happy Magnificent Habitation he had upon Earth Or could he forget all these things yet surely he could not forget Himself his Honour was so far engag'd he must for his own sake preserve what he had establish'd But if all these Considerations are neglected and this People together with their Religion come to fall under the Feet of Heathen Oppressors and all those Holy Things in which they trusted come to be carried away to adorn the Triumphs of Assyrian or Roman Idols the Judgment is then as manifest as the Calamity and the Wrath of God becomes a bright and shining as well as a Consuming Fire Nor can the Provocation be ordinary when God takes such Extreme Resolutions as these against all the Reluctance and Contradiction of his own Goodness Thou art Gilead unto me and the top of Lebanon but I will make thee a Wilderness and Cities without Inhabitant and in another place Tho the King of Judah were the Signet on my Right hand yet would I pluck him off Yet all former Instances of Divine Judgments seem to be surpass'd by the Rebuke of this Day when the World that was grown Old under the Tautologies of Sin and the Circulations of repeated Judgments was surpriz'd with a New thing which it could not have imagin'd either that Men should ever be so wicked as to Attempt or God so angry as to Permit For this Day a holier Religion than that reveal'd to Moses was expos'd to Contempt and Derision and a Church more dear to God than that of the Jews given up to Sacriledge and Oppression a Church honour'd with the first Royal Defender of the Christian Faith preserv'd amidst the Corruptions of the World and the Contradictions of Heresie and Schism a Church lately Rescu'd from the Rust of a tedious Superstition and the Tyranny of an Insolent and Powerful Impostor And what is more singular both in the Punishment and the Sin the Head the Mortal and Earthly Head of this Church an Orthodox and Holy Prince whose Vertues rais'd him higher above the People than his Throne and the least of whose Titles was that of a KING Such a King such a Man was this day given up a Sacrifice to a prevailing Rebellion and as a Sacrifice led in Procession thrô pretended Courts and the formalities of a Process thrô infinite Indignities to a Solemn and Ceremonious Slaughter Pass over to the Isles of Chittim and see go unto Kedar and consider diligently and see whether there be any such thing And we may Answer in the words of Joel There never was any such thing nor ever shall be And as the first part is sufficiently verifi'd in the Singularity of this Judgment so We beseech God the Promise may belong to us too That there never may be any such thing and that God would put his Bow in the Clouds and declare That he would never destroy us after this manner any more And now tho the Loss may be Repair'd and the Guilt done away by Repentance and Pardon tho Judgment may turn again into Mercy and the Terrors of this Rebuke cease yet who can wash away the Reproach and Infamy who can silence the Blasphemy of this Day which is the Last Part of the Character of the Day It is a Day of Blasphemy The English Nation had been long held in singular Reputation for good Natur'd and Loyal Courage and not only the Neighbouring Nations but the more remote Parts of the Earth have been Witnesses of Their Dutiful Affection to their Kings whom they follow'd in their Expeditions with forward and unwearied Duty But alas the Blasphemy of this Day has silenc'd all our Ancient Praise and the Stains of this Royal Blood has Blemish'd all the Glories of our former Loyalty and that Name which was once the Praise and the Dread of the Nations by this Act became a Proverb of Reproach a Detestation and a Hissing among all People Nay We our selves were almost asham'd of it nor could we own the Name of English without Distinction or Excuse without Diffidence and Blushing And what was there once left of the Name that we could own the Honour and Majesty of it had been Ignominiously put to Death with our Martyr'd Sovereign and the Sordid name of Common Wealth had defac'd the Royal Image and Inscription of our Ancient Monarchy nor could we tell our selves whose the Vile Superscription was and could not but be amaz'd with our own Blasphemy and Degradation of our selves Pontius Pilate willing to give some check to the Importunate Malice of the Jews who demanded the Crucifixion of our Lord puts this harsh and dishonourable Question to them Shall I Crucisie your King That Name contains if not always the whole Power and Authority yet at leastwise all the Honour and Dignity of a People He cannot be Crucifi'd but Your Name must be Crucifi'd with him in the Inscription of his Titles This was a Wickedness too great for the tender Consciences of Scribes and Pharisees directly to own This was a Dishonour Jews could not digest then and ever since the most Vile and Abject Race of Human Kind Wherefore they first Disown him and then desire he should be Crucifi'd We have no King but Caesar and therefore cannot be concern'd in the Disgrace of this Person And their Ignorance was their Excuse They had never submitted to the Government of Christ they never understood his Title But the Blasphemy of this Day receives none of these Excuses here can be no plea of Ignorance or Mistake The Superscription of the Cross is here own'd as well as the Crucifixion and the Treason was grown too Impudent and Vainglorious to dissemble or extenuate And now all that we can answer to this Blasphemy is but Repentance and Restitution or rather the Mercy and Compassion of