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A45690	Threni Hybernici, or, Ireland sympathizing with England and Scotland in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah represented in a sermon at Christ-Church in Dublin before His Excellency the Lord Deputy, with divers of the nobility, gentry, and commonality there assembled, to celebrate a funeral solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector / by Dr. Harrison ...	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916; ESTC R7212	14,766	24

waxed weary of it Jer. 1.2 The word of the Lord came unto him in the thirteenth year of Josiah in the time of Reformation mark that and then hear how the Lord chargeth them Chap. 3.10 They turned not unto me with their whole heart but feignedly saith the Lord they made a shew and talked and took the Covenant but they would not stand to it they had no heart to a Reformation but hankered still after their former evils 'T was time now to rack them from off their Lees to empty them from Vessel to Vessel to turn them out of Jerusalem the Vision of Peace into Babylon whose very Name speaks Confusion The Lord help us to see our Faces in this Glass I appeal to your Consciences how much of our State and Story is told over in these particulars And yet if there be any hope in our Israel concerning this thing the last Observation must help us to it and it is this Obs. 3. The sincere People of God take up a woful Mourning not so much for the fall of their Crown as for the sins that caused it they point the finger at this they place the Wo upon this Wo unto us that we have sinned Thus Daniel in the 9. of his Book complains not of Misery save only of the Desolation of the Sanctuary but of Sin ver. 5.6 We have sinned and committed Iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgments Neither have we hearkned unto thy Servants the Prophets which speak in thy Name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and to all the People of the Land This pierced his heart in the midst of all his Personal Preferment So was it with good Nehemiah Chap. 1.6.7 Let thine Ear now be attentive and thine Eyes open that thou mayst hear the Prayer of thy Servant which I pray'd before thee now day and night for the Children of Israel thy Servants and confess the sins of the Children of Israel which we have sinned against thee both I and my Fathers House have sinned We have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept thy Commandments nor the Statutes nor the Judgments which thou commandest thy Servant Moses Sin sin that lay more heavy upon the hearts of these good Men then all their sufferings And its clear it must be so First from the Nature of sincere Repentance which is never to be so affected with grief lying on our Spirits as for our grieving the spirit of God Zech. 12.10 They shall mourn for him and be in bitterness for him And so it was Acts 2.37 When they heard this that they had Crucified the Lord of Life and Glory this went to their hearts and this the Prophet bewails that they rebelled against one who had been so tender so indulgent and compassionate towards them Isa. 63.4.10 In all their affliction he was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pitty he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old But they rebelled and vexed his holy spirit Therefore he was turned to be their Enemy and he fought against them So David Psal. 51.3.4 Secondly Whenever God intends good to a Person or a People he leads forth their Spirits this way makes the stream of their sorrows run forth in this Channel for this is the principal if not the only way to redress and remove their Calamities felt or feared when Sinners mourn for sin as sin then God pardons sin and when God pardons Iniquity he heals Infirmity Psal. 103.3 If this then be our present posture tho' we are made weak by such a loss yet he will strengthen us and give us Healers that 's the Magistrates Charity Isa. 3.7 yea this ruine shall be under his own hand and this is the right course to lodge it there Now briefly to put all these Truths together to Use Vse Doth not the Lord call his people in these Nations to a serious and sensible apprehension of such a stroke May I not say to the Common-wealth of England as this Prophet did to the Common-wealth of Israel Lament. 2.13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee what thing shall I liken to thee O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I equal to thee that I may comfort thee O Virgin Daughter of Zion for thy breach is great like the Sea who can heal thee Our Bank is now broken down who can repair it who can heal it that can he alone who made both the Bank and the Breach Who at first gave a decree to the Sea and shut it up as with Doo●s and Bars saying Hitherto shalt thou go and no further and here shalt thy proud Waves stay He can keep the Sea from breaking in upon us at such a time as this and repair our Bank and Bulwark again But will he do it That cannot I tell but I can tell you of several Symptoms and Indications of approaching mercy even in times of greatest Calamity do you look if you can find them upon your own spirits and they are these First when a person or people are troubled more for sin than for suffering either incumbent or approaching When they look on sin as the greatest the only evil when they mostly bewail that that 's a sure sign of escaping Ezek. 7.16 But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the Mountains as Doves of the Valleys all of them mourning every one for his Iniquity Now is the Voice of this Turtle heard in our Land at this day When sin sits heavy suffering sits light said Mr. Greneham And God will make it so to be indeed not to Faith only but to Sence also Secondly when we are laid low in the sight and sence of this vileness judging our selves worthy of the greatest punishment unworthy of the least refreshment when we see cause to submit in case of Reprobation much more in case of Affliction when we are thus abject it is the custom of our Gracious God and from thence his Character to be a Comforter of such 2 Cor. 7.6 God that comforteth those that are cast down When Jacob was in his own eyes not worthy of the least of all God's mercies then he escapes all the misery so nigh unto him and so much dreaded by him the thing that he feared came not upon him Gen. 32.10 c. Thirdly When the Spirit of Prayer is kept warm in our hearts or rather our hearts kept warm by the spirit of Prayer for our selves and for others that 's a token for good unto us when Job prayed for his Friends then God turned his Captivity Job 42.10 How do ye feel your hearts Christians frozen or flaming cold or burning within you can you pray for your Rulers for the Publick for your selves and your posterities after you Doth the House of Israel enquire of the Lord for this thing Ezek. 36.37 then will he do

Threm Hybernici OR IRELAND Sympathizing with England and Scotland In a sad Lamentation for loss of their Josiah REPRESENTED In a SERMON at Christ-Church in DUBLIN before His Excellency the LORD DEPUTY with divers of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty there Assembled to Celebrate a Funeral Solemnity upon the death of the late LORD PROTECTOR By Dr. Harrison Chief Chaplain to his said Excellency And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Him 2 Chron. 25.24 This is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation Ezek. 19.14 4 Reg. 13 14. Pater mî Pater mî Currus Israel auriga ejus 4 Reg. 2.12 Cicero som Scip. Omnibus qui patriam conservarint adjuverint auxerint certus est in Coelo ac definitus locus ubi beati aevo sempiterno fruentur Seneca Nunquam stygias fertur ad umbras inclita virtus LONDON Printed by E. Cotes and are to be Sold by John North Bookseller in Castle-Street at Dublin in Ireland 1659. To the Most Illustrious RICHARD Lord-Protector of England Scotland and Ireland And the Dominions thereunto belonging May it please your Highness IT was the saying of David Psal. 112.6 The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance And of Solomon Prov. 10.7 The memorial of the Just shall be blessed Divine Providence made it my Lot to hear this Sermon pathetically delivered by that Pious Divine Dr. Harrison in a full and fluent manner extracting Tears from the Eyes and Sighs from the Hearts of the Hearers I moved the Doctor for the Printing thereof being so precious a piece touching so unparallel'd a Person that it was more fit to be made Publick then to perish in Oblivion who in a modest manner termed it A sudden imperfect and unpolisht Collection of scattering Thoughts and Notes which brevity of time and burthen of Spirit wou'd not permit him more compleatly to Compile yet upon my Importunity he was pleased to Condescend to my Motion and deliver'd me this Copy now Printed written with his own Hand The usefulness of the Piece repleat with so many rare Observations together with the desire of erecting all lasting Monuments that might tend to the Eternizing of the Blessed Memory of that thrice Renowned Patron and Pattern of Piety your Royal Father whose pious Life is his never-perishing Pyramide Every Man's Heart being his Tomb and every good Man's Tongue an Epitaph hath emboldened me in all Humility to present it to your Highness as a lively Effigies to mind you of his matchless Vertues And as the Learned Author intended it not so much for the Eye or Ear as for the Heart not for Reading only but Practice principally So may your Highness please to make use thereof as a Pattern of Imitation for Piety and Reformation in the Nations that your Highness may become a successful successor of such a peerless Predecessor to inherit his Goodness with his Greatness that out of his Ashes you may spring another Phoenix as an Honey-Comb out of the strong Lyon a Roy Branch of that rare Root a strong Rod to be a Scepter to Rule So shall your Highness holy and vertuous Progress be a new Crown of Comfort to the Three Nations filling the Peoples Hearts with joyful hopes of Happiness and a firm well grounded Peace that they may sit safely under their own Vines and Fig-Trees freed from the Terrors and Turmoils of tumultuous bloody Broils And that your Highness may obtain and enjoy the Continual Protection of the Omnipotent Protector to Crown your Highness and the Nations with Loving Kindness and tender Mercies shall be the Constant Gordial Prayer of Your Highness Most Humble And Faithfully devoted Edward Matthews Ireland's Lamentation For loss of their JOSIAH LAMENT. V. 16. The Crown is faln from our Head Wo unto us that we have sinned THese words put forth themselves into these three Branches First Here is the Calamity of the people of God the Crown was faln from their Head Secondly the Cause of it We have sinned Thirdly the Effect of both they take up a woful Lamentation upon both these Considerations the latter especially Wo unto us that we have sinned Let me a little open the Words Our Head The Head spiritual is Christ and he cannot fall nor his Crown from him but they speak here of the Civil the outward and visible Head of the State as in Isa. 9.15 The Ancient and Honourable he is the Head The Crown that is The Emblem of Pre-eminence and Authority and an Ornament in them that have no Authority as in Prov. 12.4 A Vertuous Woman is a Crown to her Husband Not a Ring for his Finger or a Chain for his Nek but a Crown for his Head a choice and chief Ornament So here they are speaking of Josiah who was the Glory and chief Ornament of their State and so the Hebrew Doctors expound it I know the Seventy say it was written in the time of their Captivity and upon that occasion only and this is embraced generally by our Expositers But why might not Jeremy look upon it as then present though thirty years before they did go into Captivity and four Princes Reigns between And that passage in the 2 Chron. 35.25 warrants this Interpretation And Jeremiah lamented for Jo●ah 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 Wo is sometimes put for a word of Threatning or Prophetical Denunciation as in Matth. 11.21 Wo unto thee Chorazin wo unto thee Bethsaida c. And in Matth. 23. from the 13th to the 17th Verse Wo unto you Scribes and Pharises Hypocrites Sometimes 't is used as a word of Pitty of Commiseration as in Jer. 13.27 Wo unto thee or Alas for thee O Jerusalem Wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Sometimes for a word of Confession or acknowledgment of our sad and calamitous Estate as in Psal. 120.5 Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar amongst these spiritual Black-moors so in 2 Sam. 1.26 Wo is me or I am distressed or in anguish for thee my Brother Jonathan c. And here it may be taken in all these senses Wo unto us Now for Now is in the Original our wo is Now begun and it will multiply they selt and foresaw misery coming on their present sorrow was great and their expectation was far worse they saw the Consequents in the Antecedents they saw the Effects in their Causes And so may we unless through infinite mercy those Causes be timely removed The words thus explained will yield us three Observations Observ. 1. It is a matter of woful lamentation to God's people when God causeth the Crown to fall from their heads when the Glory the chief Ornament falls from their State from their Government When a Jacob dies though as a Rick of ripe Corn he be gathered into the Barn yet even