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A94101	The subjects sorrow: or, Lamentations upon the death of Britains Josiah, King Charles most unjustly and cruelly put to death by His own people, before His Royal Palace White-Hall, Jan. the 30. 1648. Expressed in a sermon upon Lam. 4. 20. Wherein the divine and royal prerogatives, personall vertues, and theologicall graces of His late Majesty are briefly delivered: and that His Majesty was taken away in Gods mercy unto Himselfe, and for the certain punishment of these Kingdoms, from the parallel is clearly proved.	Brown, Robert, fl. 1668, attributed name.; Juxon, William, 1582-1663, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing S6106B; ESTC R206110	26,786	95

which never was theirs to deny God which God gave them him to acknowledge and worship him These must needs be sorrowes and sufferings as beyond expression so above our conception most terrible tests and trials of all his virtues certainly no man had ever more and more strict examinations of Gods graces in him all which he fully answered with a learned and invincible piety for in all these who ever heard him murmure repine or charge God foolishly who ever heard him accuse raile at or threaten his most confirmed Foes with Job Job 16.20 his eyes still powred out tears unto God whose justice in their greatest injustice he acknowledged and although he vindicated his owne Innocency having wherwith to justisie homselfe before man from theirs yet not before God he cleared the equity of his judgement upon him for acting against his Conscience in the Earle of Straffords death But it was the great and crying guilt of these Nations sinnes Englands principally which made this righteous man fall into the pits of his Adversaries to ripen Gods judgment upon this Nation by that great addition of guilt the shedding of his innocent bloud who had so many characters of Gods supreme power and spirituall graces upon him as must needs make this Crime committed against God draw his speedy and unavoidable vengeance upon them for it God usually punisheth one sinne by suffering Sinners to fall into others and those customary sinnes accompanied with senslessnesse and impenitency which fills up the measure of sin brim-full for judgment to take it off so that this pious Prince fell in the very corruption of Christianity which is of farre more maligne aspect and hath a more malicious influence of impiety upon the actions of men then Atheisme it selfe for then men professe that they know God yet in their works they deny him using the name of God and Religion as Conjurers in their Incantations to perpetrate those things are most contrary unto God and destructive unto Religion for as the Devill never doth more hurt then when he appeares in the likenesse of an Angel of light so are men never so mischievous as when they drive on wicked designes under the shew of Godlinesse Englands former sins which caused this Gods just dereliction the abandoning them up unto greater were their exceeding luxury in turning the grace of God temporal favours into wantonnes the long continuance of their peace the increase of their Trade riches and plenty begot in them a generall insolency and pride so that whē they waxed fat like Jesurun they kicked against God in the Authority and regard due unto his principall Officers the Prince and the Priest Hence the people of England in their generality became self-willed heady high-minded and incorrigible they slandered the footsteps of Gods Anointed smote him with the tongue contended with Gods Priests and usurped that sacred Jurisdiction which God had delegated unto them as those Conspirators did Ye take too much upon you ye Sonnes of Levi since all the people of the Lord are holy under pretence of the Ambition of the Clergy and being like Elihu's new bottels ready to burst with that liquor of flatuous and superficiall knowledge instilled into them by the giddy preachments and undigested swelling and tedious prayers of their Lecturers who reduced all Religion unto lip-worship and canting Scriptures Hence came it to passe that contemning the old paths the truth of the reformation in the Protestant Religion they contended unto bloud to corrupt by their phanatick Alterations the pure Doctrine Evangelical discipline established in the Church of England to effect which with the more ease they adventure upon sacriledge to carry on that they must pull down Episcopacy the fence of the Church and here the King as a nursing Father interposing they render Him unable by encroaching upon his Prerogatives quarrelling him seize upō his Strenghs Arme fight against him imprison and then Murther Him which last Act of Rebellion though the greatest part of the first Engagers may be thought never to have intended yet they may see the first violation of their Obedience due unto His Majesty punished by a guilt thus farre of his Innocent bloud that that power which they raised spilt it So dangerous it is to vary from a Christian Principle or to do evil that good may come of it God onely having power to direct limit and determine any evill action so that look over the pedigree of Englands sins through the severall descents thereof and you will find it thus Peace begot wealth that plenty that pride that vanity that curiosity that contention that hate of the Clergy that Sacriledge that the downfall of Bishops that the contempt of the KING that War that imprisonment and that the murther of the King a murther the most horrid murther that ever the Sun saw for Subjects to take away their King's life without the prescription of a single example or a law nay even against all laws divine and humane to Try him after the form of a Judiciary proceeding this is to entitle God unto the greatest sin to establish iniquity by a Law Joh. 19.7 and to make God such as themselves Thus the Jews dealt with our Saviour We have a Law and by that Law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God although there was no such Law but a new-made Law a Juncto-law Straffords law Canterburies law the King's law consequent Laws Laws without names or cognizance made because he was KING Neither doth their power any more prove the equity of this Fact the great scandal of the Christian name and height of Anabaptistical fury than the Devils power which is from God doth justifie his malice which is from himself They have now indeed made King Charles a glorious King prov'd him glorious in his personal Vertues glorious in his divine Graces but most glorious in the Christian Constancy of his glorious Sufferings for Gods Cause the true Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of the three Kingdomes thus hath God extorted a truth from them for this spake they not of themselves but God forceing their testimony they prophesied As we have seen His Majesties sufferings and their causes our sins so let us reflect upon their punishments as the Springs from which our sorrows should arise The exceeding avarice and hypocrisie two noted Court-sins with which the greatest Christian Prince Constantine was abused of the State-Grandees Vit. Const l. 4. c. 29. the deep pits wherein they laid the fatall snares into which pious King CHARLES fell will be visibly punished for God will not be mocked The pride vanity sacriledge rebellion and the cruel murther of His Majesty will have particular judgments levell'd against these sins every mans sin even of those who have fought for His Majesty who have yet fought against him by their sins hath given force unto this great stroke and wound given unto these Kingdoms in His Majesties death

and therefore ought every man to proportion his sorrow unto his sins As King Josiah from Judah so the strong Baricado King Charles is taken away betwixt Gods judgments and this Kingdom the great and wide In-let of all misery is made by his death could our sorrows answer them like a Torrent it would overflow all the banks of Reason and grow too big to be carried away by the channels of our senses behold every spring of Jeremiah and Judahs sorrow open to send forth these flowing streams of affliction upon us and all arise from the same head The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Those heavy judgments which the Prophet Jeremiah foresaw impending and after came to pass by King Josiahs death are in a great part by King Charles his death already come upon us Gods House his beautiful house is laid waste Lam. 1.10 2.7 the Heathen have entred into the Sanctuary they have made a noise in the House of the Lord as in the day of a solemn Feast So that they who in the beginning pretended God Religion the Church their Cause have dealt with us as that Faction among the Jews Jos Bell. Jud. l. 2. C●● 2. who called themselves The Zealous in the war with Titus did under pretence of defending Religion and the Law they possessed themselves of the Temple yet were themselves the first who put fire with their own hands into the holy places How hath the avarice and carnall interests of the Teachers of these times corrupted the purity of our Religion as Judahs so Englands onely Prophets have seen vain and foolish things for her Lam. 2.14 4.13 and they have not discovered her iniquity to turn away her captivity but have seen for her false burthens and causes of banishment they have shed the bloud of the just K. Charles in the midst of her Englands greatest Adversaries are chief 1.5 and her Enemies prosper 5.8 Servants do bear rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hand 4.5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghils 5.12 Princes are hanged by their hands and the faces of the Elders are not honoured War desolation and famine with their sad effects foretold in these Lamentations appear in our Horizon already like Elihu's little Cloud which will shortly overspread our whole English firmament and all these calamities have and will fall upon us because the Crown is fallen from our Head the British Josiah 5.16 King Charles is taken from us 1.9 and we have no comforter and how great and just causes of our sorrows are all these Calamities But let this sorrow have the full advantage in its fall to adde motion unto all the turning wheels of our afflicting griefs the fall from our great happiness in his Majesties Government Let London let England let Scotland let Ireland let every of them Remember as Jerusalem did in the dayes of her afflictions and her miseries 1.7 all the pleasant things that she had in the dayes of old All the pleasant things they had in the blessed dayes of King Charles his blessed Reign the glory and truth of her Religion the just execution of her Laws her peace her riches her plenty her liberty at home and her protection and honour abroad 2.15 England was the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth The Kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the Adversary and Enemy should have entred into the Gates of our Jerusalem London that Churches should be turned into stables Gods Houses made Courts of Guards the Royall Palaces made Garrisons the Tythes the portion of Gods Ministers made the Souldiers salary that the Law should be turned into wormwood our Religion and Liberty measured out unto us by the Pikes length the decisions of the Sword become the Principles of Faith and that which is the cause of all this mechanick persons Trades-men who will certainly marr never can mend so great concernments they never before handled or were acquainted with the sole Moderators of Publick affairs and the chief Princes and Potentates of our Kingdom But now The glory is departed from our Israel 1.1 the Arke of God is taken and how is England become a Widow made a prey unto cruel people and skilful to destroy who daily force and prostitute her unto their wicked purposes for these things let England and every true-hearted Englishman say I weep 1.16 mine eye mine eye runneth down with wa●er because the Comforter King CHARLES that should relieve my soul is far from me The breath of our Nestrils the Anointed of the Lord c. The life of our Religion of our Laws of our Liberties is taken from us the Image of Gods power in supreme Authority Indemnity Inviolability is taken from us our Physition our nursing Father our Comforter our Protectour is taken from us for our sins was taken in their pits so that now we want the wings of his protection among these Heathen among whom we live we are now made very Slaves unto the worst of Heathen a people without God without Faith without Law without Rule without Reason without Humanity without all these and whose unruly will onely is unto them all these These calamities are all fallen upon us because The breath of our Nostrils c. pious King Charles is taken from us like Elias in a fiery Charriot Vi. Const l. 4. c. 73. or as Constantine the Great after his death was impressed on a Coyn pluck'd up by a divine hand into Heaven that his eyes might not see nor his righteous soul be afficted with all the evil which is come upon us to consume us wo unto us for we have sinned These are but the contracted heads of those miseries which we shall all read over in the vast Volumes of our approching woes and justly bespeaks such sorrows as might transform us into Niobes make our heads Rivers of sorrows and our eyes Fountains for continual tears The Lord in mercy look upon us and wipe away these tears from our eyes and their causes our sins from our souls and since the bloud of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church in mercy unto his Church restore the seed of his Martyr King Charles the First unto the Government of these Kingdoms that Religion Peace and Liberty may be restored unto us I conclude these ours as the Prophet doth his Lamentations Turn thou unto us O Lord Lam. 5.21 22. and we shall be turned renew our dayes as of old if thou hast not utterly dejected us Hear our prayers O Lord for thy Sons sake unto whom with the Holy Ghost be ascribed c. FINIS

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causab Exc. 16. the Minister of God an august denomination implying him the chief Officer for the exercise of sacred Jurisdiction great in regard both of the Author thereof God and the end thereof Mans good This royal Jurisdiction consisting in the Legislative and Executive power of Kings to make and execute Laws for regulating the actions of men as well in the outward and religious worship of God as in civil conversation that as the Soul is the fountain of corporal motion and rational action so the Laws divine and humane of which the King is the proper Custos are the beginning and rule of all civil and religious actions and as to make Laws is the life of authority so the execution of them is the life of the Law Herein a pious Prince being eminently the representer of his God and may be said the breath of his Subjects as unto their civil and religious life in making and executing such Laws as may dispose them in order unto God and salvation But this divinely alluding and cryptick similitude appropriate unto a pious Prince to be the breath of our Nostrils hath not a more lively feature of divine resemblance then the vigorous exemplarity of personal piety in the Prince himself his example giving life reputation and lustre unto Religion in which sense is it that a King is tearmed 2 Sam. 14.17 2 Sam. 21.17 An Angel of God the light or Candle of his people from all these Considerations good K. Josiah was justly acknowledged the breath of their Nostrils he restored the Law even lost punished extirpated Idolatry setled the Church restored Religion encouraged the Priests judiciously ordered the whole service of Gods houses and for his personal sanctimony besides these Acts of royal prudence and zeal the Holy Ghost affords him this great and gracious testimony 2. Chro. 34.27 that his heart was tender and that he did humble himself before God his chief care solicitude was to decline those things that would offend God and preserve his Conscience a clear and unspotted glasse wherein the glorious Image of divine holinesse did shew it self transparent in the whole conduct of his actions yet this great and royal pattern of piety the life of their Religion and Law was taken in their pits for the sins of his Subjects he fell into the fatall snares of his Adversaries yea notwithstanding he bare yet a more visible cognizance and livery of Gods own divine and supream Authority being The Anointed of the Lord Gods Christ sacred by holy Unction unto God Unto no materiall thing hath God fastned such significations of his Graces unto mankind as unto Oyle the whole influence of Gods jurisdiction over man being as the most lasting pieces are drawn in Oyle represented unto us by a mysterious application thereof through Unction therewith of those unto whom God hath by a deputation conferred the great and chief Places of Trust for the exercise of his supreme power over mankind as the Kingly Priestly and Prophetick Offices they whom God had delegated unto these subservient Offices of Supreme Authority and constituted his own under-Officers having the Warrant for the execution of their Places signed by the outward Act of sacred Unction Euseb Ecc. Hist l. 1. c. 3. The Title Anointed sayes Eusebius is of great reverence and glorious delivering types and symbols of heavenly things and secret images and representations full of mystery But whereas Priests and Prophets in Scripture are barely called Vncti Anointed for Kings the style alwayes runs Vncti Domini the Lords Anointed God having given unto Kings by a more immediate consignation greater relations and proportions of his power than unto either the Priest or the Prophet Kings were by divine instinct of God Euseb ubi supra unto his Prophet anointed with Oyl and made Christs or anointed that they should resemble Christ because they by themselves resemble the image and figure of regal and principal power which is seen in the onely and true Christ So Saint Augustine speaking of Saul's Unction Civ Dei l. 17. c. 6. which made David fear even to touch him saith Oleum illud c. mysticè accipiendum magnum Sacramentum intelligendum est That Oyl with which Saul was anointed and from that Crisme or Unction was termed Anoinned is to be understood mystically and is a great Sacrament so the Ancients usually termed the representations of things holy When Sylvester the Bishop of Rome anointed Constantine Consignationem Spiritus Sancti adhibuit sancti Chrismatis Vnctione dicens signet te Deus sigillo fidei In nomine c. saith the Author He gave a Consignation of the Holy Ghost Lib. Vet. Concil by the Unction of the holy Oyle saying Almighty God imprint in thee the seal and character of his faith In the name of the Father c. Now the plenitude of the Regall power derived from Unction is visible in these proportions of similitude 1. Unction conferred upon them Vim supereminentis Domini the power of absolute and supreme Authority † Oleum magnum aliquid significat omnibus enim humoribus supereminet Aug. de verb. D. ser 23. Eccle. 8.4 1 Pet. 2.13 Oyle denoting Soveraignty in that being mixed with any Liquor it maintains a superiority in the supernatation appearing still uppermost the Exercise of which supreme Authority consisted in the making and abrogating of Laws Civill and Ecclesiasticall which in matters indifferent and not against the clear evidence of Gods word should bind the Conscience David Solomon Hezekiah Socrat proae l. 5. Josiah ordered the Affaires of the Jewish Church and Socrates tells us that after the Emperours became Christians matters of the Church wholly depended upon them and that it was by their summons and pleasures that the greatest Counsels were called and therefore Constantine the Great would usually say unto the Bishops Vos intra Euseb de vit Const m. l. 4. c. 24. ego extra Ecclesiam Episcopus à Deo sum constitutus ye are Bishops within the Church and without the Church I am a Bishop appointed by God he was Communis Episcopus the common and ecumenicall Bishop in his Empire Rom. 13.4 Psal 47.9 Cont. Faust Manic l. 22. c. 75. It gave them power to denounce Warre the merum Imperium and absolute power of the Sword being his from God Ordo ille naturalis mortalium paci accommodus hoc poscit ut suscipiendi belli authoritas atque Concilium penes principem sit even natural order accommodate unto the peace of mankind requiring this that the power of making War remains wholly in the Prince which when the people usurped we see they were punished Numb 14.44 3. To conclude peace and make Confederations and Leagues as King David and King Solomon did 2 Sam. 10.19 1 Kings 4.24 1 Kings 5.12 1 Kings 2.5 6. the Olive from which Oyle comes is the Embleme of Peace and Unction notably

general and distant survey of this blessed circuit flowing with milk and honey King Charles his Celestial gifts and graces As Jove principium His religious piety renders it self glorious in his great love fear and honour of God His zeal and devout frequency in prayer receiving the Sacraments and reading the holy Scriptures his reverence in Gods House his attention unto Gods word preached the esteem he had of Gods Messengers his hatred of Heresie and the zealous care he had as it was consistent with charity to propagate the true worship of God the Protestant Religion this in the purity thereof he established by his Laws enlarged with his Regall Authority cleansed from that Rust it had contracted through the Atheism and ignorance of the Times by the contemptibleness of the outward worship adorned with Decency and Order in the publique service and with cost upon the places dedicate unto that service but chiefly he beautified it with the glorious example of his holy life and encouragement of the Officers thereof whom he rewarded with the rewards of Honour and Maintenance His Royall Palace as Theodosius Juniors was a constant Receipt for learned and pious Prelats whom he entertained and cherished as the Servants of the great God Socrat. l. 7. c. 22. and Dispensers of the mysteries and means of Grace which as it was an especiall and infallible mark of the sincerity of his humble piety so through the supercilious irreligion of the times did that which should have most endeared him unto Christians draw neglect and contempt upon him from them and those Great ones too who love nothing of Christianity but the naked name he knew that Church-maintenance was the best Nurse of Religion and therefore no weight of difficulties could so press upon him to alien Gods portion the Patrimony of the Church to preserve which from the sacrilegious invasion of the first movers of these Troubles who thought the best way to shake off Government was to destroy Religion and the most effectuall and quick course to destroy Religion to take away Church-maintenance He tendred the sale of so much Crown-land as would amount unto the value of the Church-land That great and strict care he took to keep the Throne and Kingdom of God in his Soul His Conscience inviolable shews that although he made his abode among Men yet his Conversation was in Heaven The continuall acknowledged remorse he was seized with for consenting against the dictate of his Conscience unto the Earl of Strafford's death speaks him another David and A Man after Gods own heart such were the tender impressions that Act ever left in him 1 Kings 1.1 as David when he cut off the skirt of Sauls garment his heart smote him and indeed his Majesty found that fate which the Rabbins assigne unto David's fact that he found no heat in his cloaths afterwards So His Majesty found not that comforting warmth in the advices of others which he did in the solid Counsels of that ever to be honoured Earl How many invincible Arguments have we of his Majesties singular sanctimony How in that his great Tryall of his afflictions did the abundance of his joy the riches of his graces and the absolute and compleat contentation of piety shine forth in all his speeches and actions as that first great Patron of Christianity Constantine the Great would have his Effigies kneeling engraven on his Coyne Euseb vit Const m. l. 4. c. 15. with his hands spread and his eyes advanced towards Heaven the posture of an humble suppliant at the Throne of Grace so did our late most Religious KING desire that unto that his Golden Manuall might be prefixed his Representation kneeling contemning a Temporall holding our blessed Saviours Crown of Thorns and aspiring unto an eternall Crown of Happiness which clears unto us that his large Soule was not possessed with narrow and temporall considerations but with the regards of lasting and eternal Interests so that of all the Christian Kings of this Isle he may be positively said the most Christian From his piety let us pass over unto his prudence which although it be fairly measured out unto us in his great piety the practise whereof is the supreme prudence and best evidence of a good Understanding yet morally considered as it is an habit acting in humane affairs by the ordered rules of Reason we shall find his Majesty nobly accomplished with this Vertue furnished with a strong memory of things past with a sound judgment in their reference and relation unto things present with a clear and quick apprehension to discern the operations and tendencies of Occurrents and with a singular providence and wise disposition of things fit to attain unto his ends which were ever honourable and worthy of so great a Prince who ever judged a Christian simplicity the best policy With the gravest Nation of Europe the Spaniard he gained in his younger years the reputation of A sober grave wise Prince which will fully appear if we look upon him in his particular relations His Majesty was a most kind Husband religiously observant of the holy ties of Wedlock a tender and indulgent Father unto his Children unto whom he paid the due of Paternall care in their religious and royall Education His Kingly bounty unto his Servants shew him a liberall and good Master and his good affection unto his People whose welfare he ever prized above his owne and unto the last minute was much more afflicted from the sence of theirs than his own sufferings shew him a most gracious Soveraign And however he was by those who long since took away his Civill life and destroyed his royall reputation with his Subjects to set up themselves and drive on their own ends represented a Prince of mean and contemptible endowments and unfit for Government the whole World now sees their gross falshood and their Confessions give the Lie unto their loud and lewd Calumnies for since his solitary and close Confinement when he could have no Counsell but what he fetched from Heaven all rationall and unprejudiced men see His sober wise satisfactory and resolute Answers unto all their arrogant dull destructive dissolute Propositions so that it is a positive and measur'd judgment made from the whole carriage of his transactions with this Parliament that he was incomparably the wisest Prince in Christendome and better understood the Constitution and affairs of his Kingdomes than any man now living Neither may we here as the constant Attendant and sworn Servant unto his princely prudence but with wonder reflect upon his Kingly Eloquence his flowing and as Tacitus speaks of Augustus King-becoming stile sweet pure acurate perspicuous grave full of copious facility and elegant felicity without strained affectation or servile and forced imitation so that had he not some naturall difficulties in Pronuntiation he would have been approved the best Oratour and perfect Master of Language as he was of Reason that ever Britain yet bred but who ever