A sermon preached at Bow-Church, before the court of aldermen, on March 12, 1689/90 being the fast-day appointed by Their Majesties / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1690 Approx. 67 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 21 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A30433 Wing B5891 ESTC R21653 12683292 ocm 12683292 65712 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Church of England -- Sermons. Repentance. Fast-day sermons. Sermons, English -- 17th century. 2003-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-12 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2003-12 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE Bishop of SALISBURY's SERMON Preached at BOW-CHURCH , ON THE FAST-DAY . MARCH 12. 1689 / 90. PILKINGTON Mayor . Martis xviiio. Martii 1689 / 90. Annoque Regni Regis & Reginae Willielmi & Mariae , Angliae , &c. Secundo . THIS Court doth desire the Right Reverend Father in God , the Lord Bishop of Sarum , to Print his Sermon Preached at St. Mary le Bow , on Wednesday the 12th Instant , before the Aldermen and Citizens of this City . Wagstaffe . A SERMON Preached at BOW-CHURCH , Before the Court of Aldermen , On March 12. 1689 / 90. Being the FAST-DAY Appointed by Their MAJESTIES . By the Right Reverend Father in God , GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARUM . LONDON : Printed for Richard Chiswell , at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard . MDCXC . LUKE xix . 41 , 42. And when he was come near , he beheld the City , and wept over it , Saying , If thou hadst known , even thou , at least in this thy day , the things which concern thy peace . OBJECTS that raise Compassion , and beget Sorrow , cannot be look'd on with indifferent eyes by those who have a right Prospect , and a just Sense of things . To an ordinary Spectator , Ierusalem must have appeared one of the Glories of the World , especially as it was beautified and fortified by Herod . It s Temple standing on an Eminence , was so August in it Self , and so Sacred in its Use , as being dedicated to the Service of the Living God , that the very sight of it must have begot a Reverence ; and to a born Iew must have given all the Pride which the Native of any Countrey may be apt to feel in himself , when he sees the Capital City full both of People and of Wealth , shining with a fresh Lustre , and adorned with all the Beauties of Art , as well as hallowed by the special marks of the Favour and Presence of God. But all this must have appeared as a vain Pageant to one that could see through that false varnish , and that likewise by reason of the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledg that were in him , saw their approaching Fate ; he saw that Misery , which tho it fell not on them till almost Forty Years after this yet did then to him represent Ierusalem as a heap of Stones , the Temple on Fire , and the Inhabitants destroyed by Famine , or by the Sword ; nor could so Divine a Mind find any ease in so dismal a prospect , from this , That the Iews rejecting of him , and the cruel Treatment that he was to reeeive from them , was to be revenged in so terrible a manner . This to a spiteful mind would have afforded some content ; but he that was so full of Universal Love and Goodness , could not entertain such ill-natur'd thoughts . Nor could , on the other hand , all the Glory to which he himself was to be advanced long before the effusion of the Wrath of God upon this City , make him less sensible of this Misery , because neither he nor his Followers were to share in it . It was true Pity and Compassion that were his Motives , which both drew tears from his eyes , and also the sad wish that follows . His sense of their sins was from the same pure and disinteressed Motives , for he had none of his own to return into his mind , when he considered theirs , to make the Sorrow more melting . And tho that bloody Scene which he himself was so soon to go through , might , according to such measures as we act by , have so entirely possessed his thoughts , that no room should have been left for the compassionating others ; yet even in this nearness to that bitter Cup which he was so soon to drink , he considered their miseries that were more remote , with all the tendernesses of hearty Sorrow and Compassion . In imitation then of the Author of our Faith , it does much more become us to look on this great City that has risen out of its ashes with so much Glory , that is now the Treasure as well as the Pride of the Nation , that has so many characters of Greatness , as well as Wealth in every corner of it ; but that at the same time has contracted so much guilt , is covered with so much Defilement , Luxury , and Excess ; is agitated with such Factions , and these acted with so much animosity ; but not to view all this without feeling a tenderness run through all our Powers , and give us many sad and melting thoughts , which ought to affect us so much the more sensibly , when we find how great a share we our selves have in these sins , which we lament in others ; so that the Words of our Saviour , Weep not for me , but weep for your selves , may be applied to us in another sense , since upon strict enquiry , we shall find that we are not pure enough our selves , to be capable of such a disinteressed sorrow , while we weep over London : We must first begin and lament our selves , while we remember in how many places of this City , and in how many several ways we have dishonoured God , and contributed our proportion towards the kindling the Wrath of God against us . Our melancholly thoughts also must have another mixture in them , since if this place is to be made as great a scene of the Judgments of God , as it has been hitherto of his Mercies , we must be all involved in it . This thought does indeed render our Compassion for the Publick , less generous ; but it will perhaps make it more sensible to us . In a word , as there is nothing that shews that a man has truly repented of his own sins , more than a tender sense of the Wrath of God ; so nothing proves a man to be possessed with a spirit of Love and Charity , more than a feeling sense of the sins and miseries of others ; and to weep over ones Countrey or City , as it is the most important service that can be done the Publick , which may delay , if not quite divert the Judgments of God ; so this is that which is in every ones Power to do : Wealth is not necessary for this aid ; yet perhaps there is scarce any one duty that is more universally neglected , than this is ; ill men do not so much as once think of it ; men of a low degree of Goodness , have not elevation of soul enough for it ; and the only men that are capable of doing this service to their Countrey , have so much Modesty and Humility , and are so depressed with the sense of their own sins , that they are tempted to think it is an over valuing themselves , and a sort of a Presumption for them to intercede for others , or for their Countrey . But we are Members of one Political Body , and must all bear a share in the Prosperity , or the Misfortunes of the Nation ; so that if a nobler Principle does not engage us to this Duty , yet at least Self-love should work on us ; since we cannot flatter our selves so far , as to fancy , that if any general Calamity should overtake the Land , or City , that we our selves should be exempted from it . We are also joined into a nearer Relation as we are become Members of one Body , of which Christ is the Head ; and by this Union the same Spirit of Love and Charity will be spread over the whole Body ; so that we will rejoice with them that do rejoice , and weep with them that weep . Since then the present state of things , and the Commands of Authority , our common Interests , as well as our Christian Charity , do all concur to engage us , first of all to weep for our sins , and then to look over our Countrey , and this the City of our Solemnities , and mourn over them ; let us go over the several branches of the moving and emphatical words of our Saviour , and apply them as far as the parallel goes , to the present state of things : in which let us consider , 1. The Importance of this redoubling the word , thou , even thou . 2. The Importance of these words , at least in this thy day . 3. What are the things that concern the peace of a Nation , and how they may be known . And 4thly , what are the happy effects of a Nation 's knowing them : This , tho not expressed , yet is implied in the wish in which the period is laid , without being regularly closed . I have not read the last words of this Verse , neither will I speak to them , for they might seem to carry too dismal a sound with them ; yet , I hope , all that hear me , will so seriously reflect on them , that by their so doing , they may come not to belong to us . For though perhaps in the present unhappy posture in which we are , it is but too true that now they are hid from our eyes ; yet if we will seriously attend to those things of which I am to treat , then we shall be delivered from so heavy a Sentence as is imported in them . To return . 1. If thou , even thou ; the words carry plainly a weight in them , which to comprehend aright , we must consider the state in which Ierusalem was at that time , and that with respect to both the good and bad of it . It was the Capital of that Nation , that God had chosen out of all the Families of the Earth to be his own Inheritance : it was the place where his Name was called upon , and to which the Worship of God was appropriated . It was now so enriched by Herod , who having heaped up Treasures like another Solomon , had laid them out in the rebuilding the Temple , which in a course of 46 years was carried on to so vast a Magnificence , that it was become indeed one of the Wonders of the World : It was also so well fortified , and had within it such a number of Inhabitants , who had such a violent love to their Countrey , and so much zeal for it , that one might have thought they were in no danger of being besieged ; but that they were strong enough to have gone out and fought any Enemy that could have gone against them : and that no Siege could have signified any thing , but to have ruined the Army that should have attempted it : so that by this thou , even thou , in one view we may understand a City dedicated to God , and under his Protection ; a City well fortified , full of Wealth , and full of People , and yet to such a City it was necessary to know the things that belonged to their peace . Here , before we go farther , Reflections offer themselves to us in abundance : This our City has been under signal Characters of the Protection of God ; it has been preserved from violent Concussions , and from the hand of an Enemy , when all the rest of the Nation has had their turns in the Accidents of War : It is true , two signal strokes from Heaven that came one after another , a wasting Pestilence , and a devouring Fire that seemed to threaten it with ruine , shewed that God corrected them , tho he would not deliver them over to the will of their Enemies ; The quick recovery of the City , carries the marks of a particular car of Heaven ; and the haste that has been made to raise up so many of these holy and beautiful Houses , in which God is worshipped , may be reckoned among the Glories , and the Defences of this place . It s vast Wealth , the increase of the Inhabitants , the prodigious extent of it , and the zeal with which all seem to be heated for preserving the Honour of the City , bring us so near a Parallel to Ierusalem , that in this , thou , even thou , we may find the Characters of a City , hitherto highly blessed of God , and full of the Good things of this life ; yet in the midst of all this Wealth , and Abundance , there is great need of preparing for a Storm . 2dly , If we consider the state of Ierusalem with relation to Religion ; the Iews who had shewed so violent an Inclination to Idolatry before they were carried Captives to Babylon , were there so absolutely cured of that , that ever after they expressed the strictest Zeal possible against every step towards Idolatry , or the least appearance of it . We see how they resisted the Kings of Syria in their Attempts for profaning the Temple , and defiling their Worship : and not long after our Saviour's death , when Caligula ordered his Statue to be set up in the Temple , they were all in so great a commotion upon it , that an Embassy was sent to him , to shew that they could not bear any thing that looked like a departure from the God of their Fathers , which was urged by Philo that went on the Embassy , in terms full of zeal , that expressed a firm resolution of suffering every thing , rather than endure such an affront to be done to their Religion . To this Zeal against Idolatry , they added a most punctual observation of all the Rituals of their Religion ; and not satisfied with those which Moses had appointed , they had added many new ones , which they reckoned the setting a hedge about the Law ; securing the observance of the commanded Rites by those , which , according to the Tradition of the Elders , had been for some Ages observed among them ; so here was a City that was both free from Idolatry , and exact in obeying the Laws of God , that yet is warned of a great danger in these words , Thou , even thou . I do not know whether our conformity to them , as to these particulars , goes so high , or is so Universal , yet something like it we have . Great Zeal has appeared against the Idolatry of the Church of Rome , with a constancy in the Matters of Religion , that has amazed all the World : the steps made towards that , alarmed the Nation , and this City in particular : and it appeared that you could not bear those who called themselves the Church of God , but that are the Synagogue of Satan . You have shewed also such firmness to the Church of England , and to the Established Religion , as not to bear any thing that declined from it , either to the right hand , or to the left . Yet after all this , we may have cause to apprehend the Wrath of God , notwithstanding it all , if our Religion goes no farther , than the cleansing the outside , or the tything the mint and anise . If we have Idols in our hearts , tho we have purged our Churches of them ; if we forget God at the same time , that we do not worship Images ; and if while we are zealous in lesser matters , we neglect the great things , of righteousness , mercy and faith , then all our Negative Religion , our No Popery , and all our zeal for the Church , when it does not oblige us to conform our selves to her Dictates , and Rules , as well as to be hot and eager in her defence , will not secure us , but that this Thou , even thou , may belong to us . 3dly , The Iews at this time had so fallen from all the true Principles of Religion , that even their Religion had embittered their Spirits , so that they were rather the worse for it , than the better . The Pried and Affectation of the Pharisees , that had no real worth under it to support it , set them on all the methods of Slander and Injustice , of Falshood and Cruelty : so that when they found they could not stand before the true worth of our Saviour , and his Apostles , they then fell upon the blackest Calumnies , and most violent Rage for destroying those before whom they could not maintain their ground upon an equal foot : their Morals were universally depraved , and their Tempers so vitiated , that under the appearance of an adhering strictly to their Religion , there never was a Nation that did more totally fall from the power and life of Godliness , than they did : they were both cruel and barbarous , and not satisfied with shedding the Blood of Christ , they filled up the measure of their Iniquities by persecuting his Followers every-where : so that under a shew of preserving their Law , they had entirely lost all the true and good Principles of Religion ; and so had contracted a vast guilt , besides that heavy load of the Blood of him that was the Heir of the Vineyard , whom they killed , that the Inheritance might be their own . And thus the view of a Nation that was both so corrupted , and that lay under so heavy a load of guilt , leads us to the full importance of this , If thou , even thou ; that even after all their Sins , and all their guilt , there was still room for Repentance . If this Nation has brought it self into the like state of having the knowledge of the Truth , and seeming zealous about it , and yet falling from all that is pure and excellent in Religion , into a fierceness about some Inconsiderable Matters ; if while we seem to have a great concern for our Religion , we have none at all for our Morals ; if Malice and ill-nature , if Fury and Cruelty , do not only transport us to all excesses , but make us cover and justify them with pretexts of Religion ; if our Cities and Countrey have been defiled with all the brutalities that humane Nature is capable of ; If , instead of mutual Love and Forgiveness , we hate , and study to destroy one another ; If , instead of Truth , there is nothing but Injustice ; and instead of Righteousness , there is nothig but Violence and Deceit , then we will find our selves under the worst part of that which is intimated in this , If thou , even thou . Yet after all , there is somewhat that gives comfort in this ; for if a City charged with all the blood that was shed from Abel down to Zacharias , was even after all that , admitted to a possibility of escaping the Judgments of God , by a true Repentance , then we see that we who have reason to hope that we are not near so guilty as they were , are not yet quite desperate . 2. From this , I go next to consider the Importance of these words , at least in this thy day . In Scripture this word of the day , or time of a Nation , stands in a double sense : sometimes for a time of mercy and kindness , an acceptable time , and day of Salvation : sometimes for a day of trial , or visitation , as it is in the following words . The meaning of the first is , that when God receives Nations into his Protection and Favour , he not being as a Man , inconstant and changeable , does not easily repent of the good that he shews them , nor change his Methods towards them : and therefore till their Sins become so high , and crying , that it does not agree with the honour of his Providence not to shew his anger against them , he bears with their Offences ; or , if he corrects them for them , he does it not in anger ; he will chastise them , as he said with relation to David's Posterity , If they sin against him , but he will not quite cast them off ; he will visit their Transgressions with the rod , and their Iniquity with stripes ; Nevertheless he will not take his loving kindness utterly from them . And thus we find it was often said of the Iewish Nation in the Old Testament , that God would have cast them off , if he had not remembred Abraham , Israel and Iacob ; so in this sense the Iews were still God's People , and in Covenant with him . To them were the first offers of the Messias to be made ; and therefore if while that Covenant lasted , and they were still under the Privileges of it , they could have applied themselves to know the things that belonged to their Peace , they might still have maintain'd their Title to his Favour . The second sense of this thy day , imports that there is a time of Trial and Repentance granted by God , even to guilty Nations , in order to their preventing the last strokes of his Wrath , and the final Calamity that is threatned . When God was provoked by the sins of the old World to bring a flood upon the whole Earth , he gave them the space of 120 years for a time of warning , in which Noah continued as a Preacher of Righteousness , denouncing to them the Judgments that were to be poured out upon them : Even Niniveh had 40 days given to them for a time of Repentance , by which their final destruction might be respited , as in fact it proved to be . We find upon three great occasions , that God granted to the people of the Iews a time of 40 Years : When they rebelled against him at Kadesh-barnea , and would not go in and possess the Land ; he declared that none of them except two , should enter into it , but that they should fall in the Wilderness ; yet they were to wander in it 40 Years ; for so long does the Psalm say , that he was grieved with that generation . Next , when Manasses had so defiled Ierusalem with both Idolatry and Bloodshed , that it is said that God would not pardon it ; yet upon Iosiah's serious Repentance , and purging the Temple , which he began in the 12th Year of his Reign , God granted to the Iews 40 Years Reprieve ; for it was just so long between the 12th of Iosiah , and Zedekiah's Captivity : And the third 40 Years was from the first year of our Saviours Preaching , to the final Destruction of Ierusalem : they were then in the day of their Visitation , which grew gradually upon them ; the Roman Yoke becoming every day more and more intolerable , and their humors growing more and more boisterous . Towards the conclusion of this time of their Trial , the alarms grew higher ; many Prodigies , and other extraordinary things appearing , that seemed to warn them of the Wrath to come . Cestius Gallus came with an Army against them four Years before their Destruction , and took the lower City ; and tho he did retreat with some loss , yet they had all reason to conclude that the Romans could not bear such a Repulse : After this , Galilee was conquer'd and destroy'd : All these were warnings to Ierusalem , and were the last immediate Forerunners of its final Destruction . This being then the full extent of the meaning of these Words , In this thy day , it will not be uneasie to see how they may belong to us . It is still with us a day of mercy ; and when we consider the whole state of Christendom , particularly of many parts of it , ever since the Reformation was established , we must acknowledg that it has been of a very long continuance ; we had 80 years of Peace and Plenty , Prosperity and Victory , as well as of the Purity of the Gospel , from the year 1558 , to the year 1638 ; a thing without example in Modern History . In all that time , unless it were a few months Plague at two several times , we had not any one National stroke , to be set against the many publick Blessings we enjoyed ; but when we were so happy that we had no Enemies that could hurt us , we became our own Enemies , and then the Sword raged among us ; but even that was so allayed , that we fell not under the Fury that commonly attends Civil Wars . And both Sides in their mutual Heats , did yet so far remember that they were Englishmen , that neither of them brought over Strangers , nor gave them footing among us . We have now enjoyed an Age of Peace and Plenty , and with that have had the Gospel among us , with that clearness and fulness , that no Age has produced more Light , better Explanations of Divine Matters , and fuller Proofs of their Truth . And though we have seen many Storms gathering thick and black over our Heads , so that we had reason to look for most terrible Confusions ; yet all these have gone over us in so inoffensive a manner , that perhaps many do not enough feel the Blessings of our Deliverance , because we only saw , but did not feel what our Enemies had designed against us ; and this being a thing which some had not Opportunities , and others had not Capacity enough to apprehend ; we despise , or perhaps even loath our Deliverance ; because we neither value the Gospel which is preserved among us , nor understand how near we were the losing it . The Quiet we now enjoy , and the Security we live in while , all the World about us is on fire , is no ordinary Indication of a particular favour of Heaven to us ; and after so long a course of Goodness , we have reason to conclude that God will not change his Methods , if our Sins do not call aloud for it . We have likewise reason to think we are now in a Day of Visitation , and that terrible Calamities are not far from us , if in this our Day , we are not wise nor good enough to prevent it . We have seen the Cup of God's Wrath , going round all the Protestant Churches , which having fallen from their first Love , and forsaken their first Purity , mixing into the Vanities of the World , and corrupting their Manners notwithstanding the Purity of their Doctrine and Worship , have been severely visited by God : Some fatally broken and extirpated , as the Churches of France and Piedmont ; others brought near utter ruin , as the Churches of Hungary and the Palatinate , and others ; though not visited so heavily , yet were brought very low ; so were the Churches of the Netherlands 18 Years ago , and many Churches in Germany . But when all these things have been set before our Eyes , and when the Visitation is brought into our Galile , if I may so speak , I mean into Ireland , and has cast that Island , and all its Inhabitants , into such Convulsions , that we cannot yet form a clear Judgment how far they may be consumed by this Fire , which now devours them , before they come out of it ; While these things have gone round about us , why should we think that we can escape ? Are we better than the others who have suffered ? Or , can we think that God is partial to us ? And when God suffered them so far to break in upon us , that we saw an Idolatrous Worship openly , and in contempt of the Laws both of God and of the Land , set up among us ; and an open Treaty set on foot for bringing us under the Tyranny of Rome : When we were under the Ministry of a Jesuit , and the Influences of France ; when we saw Breaches made upon the most sacred of our Laws , and the Subversion of the whole attempted : This was certainly such a Day of Visitation , as Cestius Gallus his shewing the Roman Army was to Ierusalem . The Iews did not any more fear that Enemy , because they had strength enough once to stand it out against so faint an Attempt ; but the next return of the Romans was more formidable , and proved in Conclusion fatal to them . If we either grow to have milder Thoughts of our Enemies the modern Romans , and fancy they are not quite so bad as our Fears may have Pictured them to us ; or if we despise their Forces , and fancy that we have not so considerable an Enemy in them as we were made believe ; we may be soon undeceived of both Errours , when it will be too late for us upon the discovery to correct them . In Sum , We must not think that such extraordinary Providences as have of late occurred both at home and abroad , are Matters that deserve no Reflections to be made upon them : They are Essays , and perhaps the last Essays that are to be made upon us , to try if our Dangers , or our Neighbours Fates , can make us wiser or better . III. And this leads me to the third Particular , What are those things which concern the Peace of a Nation , and how they may be known . The obvious Division of this is unto those things that belong to our Peace with God , those things that may preserve the whole Nation , and its Peace as it is a complicated Body ; and the things which belong to our Peace among our selves , one with another . We cannot make any Reflections on our Condition with relation to God , without observing that he has been offended in a most eminent manner ; while Religion has been so visibly neglected by those who have pretended the most to it ; while not only Vices of all Sorts have abounded among us , and have been acted with so high a Hand , as if the Actors had equally despised the Judgments of God and the Reproaches of Men ; but what do I say , Reproaches ! Men have been so far from being out of countenance for their Sins , that they have valued themselves upon them , and gloried in them . How loud is the Cry of the Luxury , the Injustice , the Fraud , the Violence , and the Impieties of this Place ? How have they gone up into the Ears of the Lord of Hosts ? And will he bear with us for ever ? But as if the Abominations of others Age and Countries had not been enough to provoke him to Anger , we have found out and added new ones to those of past Times . Perhaps in no Age or Nation the Religion that Men pretend to believe , has been so openly not only attacked and questioned , but laughed at and rejected with all the Indignities of impious Scorn , as it has been among us : Others who had more Modesty and Decency in their Natures , and so could not rise up to that pitch of Insolence , yet have been generally corrupted into Infidelity ; so that perhaps scarce any Nation now under Heaven believe less of the Religion that is professed in it , than we do . Now this is as much beyond all other Sins , as High Treason is beyond all other legal Offences . This strikes at the Majesty and Authority of God , and at every Article of Religion , since it overturns the Foundation upon which all is built . And to what a height is the Cry of our Iniquities risen , when there is scarce a leud Company that get together , that do not make the most solemn and sacred things in the World , the Subjects of their Mirth and Diversion ? Shall not I visit for these things , saith the Lord ? shall not my Soul be avenged on such a People as this is ? Besides this that dissolves all Sense of Religion , this Age has produced another that has as much dissolved all Morality , which is the open affronting the State of Marriage : Other Ages have perhaps produced high Offences against it , and publick Breaches of that Faith ; but to see an open and avowed Contempt of it done in the Sight of the Sun , and as it were in spite of that State , is what no Christian Nation has so publickly owned as ours has done . Whilst God has been so highly provoked , and when we saw our selves in such a desperate State , as that under which we lately groaned , who were then repenting of their Sins , and turning to God ? Who were putting from them the Evil of their Ways ? Who were cleansing themselves from their Impieties and Impurities , from their Injustice and Oppression ? Such a Preparation as this had made us both more fit for a Deliverance , and more capable of improving it to all those Ends for which God had bless'd us with it , If this great Work sticks in the Birth so long , it is because Men have not repented of their Sins , but have returned to them , or rather have openly continued in them : and while our Divisions make us sharp-sighted to find out one anothers Faults , we make no other use of the Discovery , but to reproach others for them , and to represent them more odious to our selves and others , upon that Account . But who considers these things as a Christian ought to do , who animated with the Spirit of Christ , mourns over them , and humbles himself before God for them ? as Ezra did , who finding that the People of the Iews after their Return out of the Captivity , were beginning to fall back into their old Disorders , Rent his Clothes , and sat astonished ; he was ashamed , and blushed to lift up his Face to God : and in Words full of tender sense , he laments their Sins . Now for a little space Grace hath been shewed us , to give us a little reviving . And now Lord , what shall we say after this ? for we have forsaken thy Commandments . And after all that is come upon us for our our evil Deeds , seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our Iniquities deserve , and hast given us such a Deliverance as this , should we again break thy Commandments , wouldst not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us , so that there should be no Remnant nor escaping ? O Lord God of Israel , thou art righteous : for we remain yet escaped , as it is this day : Behold , we are before thee in our Trespasses , for we cannot stand before thee , because of this . Such Acts of Sorrow as these , rising from a sense of the Dishonour done to God , and of the Danger the Nation is in by it , were a Service to the Publick , beyond all that can ever rise from that false Heat , with which any of us may be animated . Other Services require good Heads , or great Credit , and much Wealth ; but this is that which every Person of a pure & devout Mind can offer up for their Country . But alas , can it be expected that those who do not mourn for their own Sins , should mourn for the Sins of others ? which will perhaps appear an unreasonable piece of Melancholy to those who do not consider that we being all one Body in Christ , the Communion of the Saints , of which this is a main part , is established by God , by which we are obliged to mix our Tears and Prayers together as one Body , not doubting but that these have their Effect before God ; at least they shall return into our own Bosom , and our Charity shall not want its Reward ; for though the Sins of a Nation were grown to that height , that though Noah , Iob , and Daniel , were among them , and interceding for them , they could only deliver their own Souls , by their Righteousness , yet still that is a happy Reserve . Those who mourn in Sion , shall be marked on their Fore-heads : and when the destroying Calamity shall have a Commission to march over the Land , beginning even at the Sanctuary , at that Order of Men , who should have been the Intercessors for others , but that have rather heightned the Provocation by their Sins , than those who carry that Mark , shall be exempted , and either be quite preserved from the common Calamity , or at least shall have a distinguished Fate in it , for they may hope for an easier Fall and gentler Circumstances . This is then the chief thing that belongs to our Peace , our Reconciliation with God ; so that he turns from the Fierceness of his Anger , and lifts up upon us the Light of his Countenance . The 2d thing that concerns our Peace , is the falling upon proper and effectual Means for preserving our selves , and the Nation , for this is our Peace . We who have been accustomed to ease and fulness , who cannot bear the lessening any one Article either of our Luxury or of our Vanity , have mean Notions of what belongs to our Peace , if we think that any thing is too much which secures it to us . We have an Enemy in head of us , who has ever looked on the Prosperity and Plenty of this Island , as that which stood most in the way of his Glory : and though he could more easily bear with it , when our Princes were under his Conduct , and guided by the Measures that he gave them , yet now Prince and People are both equally odious to him . If we have any Regard either to our Selves , our Families or Posterities , to our Religion or our Country , to the present or the succeeding Generations , we must now unite our whole Strength , and turn our whole Forces against those Enemies of Humane Nature , who wheresoever they come , turn the richest Soil to a barren Wilderness ; and after they have gratified their Revenges with unheard-of and studied Cruelties , their Appetites with the most defiling Rapes , their Avarice with the most exquisite Plunder , finally destroy all that cannot be any way serviceable to themselves . These are things which we cannot easily believe ; since Warrs formerly were managed by Rules , and a Faith that was held sacred even in the hottest Rages of War ; but those Beasts of Prey gave themselves no Restraints ; or if they themselves were capable of any , yet the terrible Orders that are given them , of executing whole Nations and Provinces , leave no room for any Remnant of Humanity that is perhaps not quite extinguished in them . Men of gentle and peaceful Natures cannot form to themselves a just Idea of the Miseries which must follow on our falling under such an Enemy . If while things are in this State , every one will look on , and fancy , That this lies on the Government , and not on himself ; if Men will neither with their Persons nor their Purses contribute what is in them to our preservation , if some small Distastes do alienate them from one another , and from the publick ; this gives us yet a more terrible Prospect than the Jews had . For tho' they had whetted their Spirits one against another beyond Imagination , yet all agreed in opposing the Romans . And when they attacked them , they went all to their common Defence : But if we will throw up all , because we cannot carry every things , if because we cannot revenge or subdue those who differ from us , or because some things do not please us , we come to have softer Thoughts of our Enemies , and imagine that we can make Terms with them and trust them ; and if some fancy that by reason of some Managements they have been in , their Fate will be milder , not to say better , this is an Error , that they will not perhaps ever see , because they are not like to outlive it . To such as can so deceive themselves , I will only tell what the Pope's Legate , that commanded the Army that besieged Beziers , said ▪ When , as they were going to storm the Town , some told him , That there were many good Catholicks among the Hereticks or Albigenses , and therefore askt orders what to do with them . Kill all , said he , God knows them that are his : being resolved that what share soever , they might have in the Mercies of God , they should have none of his . Under the Price of our being both Papists and Slaves , there can be no Redemption ; and when they have destroyed with so much unrelenting and treacherous Fury whole Countries of their own Religion , not sparing neither Churches nor Monasteries , for which even savage Nations have had some regard ; What can Hereticks expect from him who has vowed their destruction , and reckons the Persecution that he has set on foot against them , the top of his Glory ? If after all this , Men will not apprehend their danger , or will fancy that they can secure themselves by acting in a different Interest , let these see if among the Protestants of France , those that shewed at all times the most submissive Compliances with all the Inclinations of the Court , found when the fatal Decree was given , any other Distinction than that a very few of them were suffered to go out of the Kingdom ; and even this Cruelty was to be magnified , as an extraordinary Favour and Gratitude of the Court. We are now upon the greatest Crisis of any Age : The greatest that is in our History , and much the greatest that has been since the Reformation began : If we can get through this War with Success and Victory , we have before us the happiest Prospect that any Nation can have in view ; of securing our own Peace and Happiness , our Religion and our Government : And of being the Nation that shall give a Deliverance to Europe , and a Security to the Procestant Religion , and of setting Bounds to the great Abaddon the Destroyer and Enemy to Mankind . If we value either our own Happiness or the Honour of our Country , will we think it a heavy thing to lessen our Expence , to cut off from Prodigality and Luxury , and reduce our selves to a narrow compass ; that we may preserve the whole , when a few Years frugality may support a chargeable War ; and bring us into Habits that may make the succeeding Peace prove a double Blessing to us ? Can we think any thing is too much when our Religion , our Countrey , our Lives and Liberties are the price that is to be fought for : And when the Issue of the present Scene and War must be our Being , either the happiest or the miserablest Nation upon Earth . The Fate of Constantinople was terrible , and ought to be set before us : They were besieged by the Turks , whom they knew to be a most cruel Enemy , and a most barbarous Master . They could hope for nothing if they fell into their Hands , but to become a prey to them : Yet they would neither assist their unfortunate Emperor with their persons nor their Purses . He had none to preserve both him and them , but some hired Troops , who for want of pay were mutinying upon all occasions , he coined all his own plate , even the sacred Vessels were not spared ; He went in person among the rich Citizens , and with Tears in his Eyes , desired their Assistance towards the preservation of the Empire and City ; but by a fatal stupidity , they either did not see their danger , or took no care to prevent it : For though there was an inconceivable treasure found among them in the sack of Constantinople , yet they seemed to take care to preserve it all for the Enemy ; and would imploy none of it for their own defence . This was such a degree of Infatuation , that if the Historian who relates it , had not lived in the time , and had his Information from Eyewitnesses , we could scarce give credit to it . God grant such Examples may make us wise . The poor Emperor resolved not to outlive his Glory , and so in a desperate sally that he made he fell before the Enemy , who after that found so faint a Resistance , that they quickly carried the place and became Masters of all that Wealth , which its former owners had so carefully preserved for them . If we had a sute for our whole Estate with one that spared no cost , we should not out of an ill timed Frugality let him carry it , rather than be at the charge of maintaining our Right ; we should rather save it , out of every thing else , than let all go . Our Enemy leaves his subjects as well as his Enemies nothing : so he finds spoil enough to support his Ambition and Lust of Conquest . When then all is struck at , all must concur in so just and so necessary a cause . But I come in the last place to those things that belong to our mutual Peace , among our selves : The common Peace and Safety will be ill preserved , if we are biting and devouring one another ; we shall need no Enemy to destroy us , if this continues , for we shall be consumed one of another . We have nothing so conspicuous in the History of the Destruction of the Iews , as their cruel intestine Feuds and Wars , which made them an easie Prey to the Romans . They were at first divided into three great Sects , that of the Sadduces , who were plain Atheists and Libertines , that denied the being of Spirits , and a future state , and that by consequence could lie under no Restraints from their Religion . They struck in to Herod , and afterwards fell under so general an Odium , that they grew more inconsiderable towards the end of that State. The second Sect was that of the Essens , who were men of excellent Morals , and of a sublime Piety , who retained their ancient Simplicity , they retired from the World , lived in common , at work , and in constant Devotion : These did likewise disappear , and probably they became Christians , to which their holy Dispositions and their strict Lives did so much prepare them , that it is scarce possible to think that Men of such Tempers could resist such a Religion . But the third Sect , that swallowed all the rest up , was that of the Pharisees , of whom so much is said in the Gospels , that it is not necessary to enlarge upon their Character : They were a sort of People that under an outward appearance of great strictness were the falsest , the violentest , the cruellest , and the most revengeful ; they were the least moral , and the most hypocritical and diabolical Sect that ever was : These , by the appearance of Exactness and of Zeal , had so possessed themselves of the Opinion and the Affections of the People , that they could turn them which way they pleased ; but among them there were Subdivisions . The Zealots were those who from the Example and the Rewards of Phinehas , came to think , that when Magistrates were too slack in punishing Offenders , private persons might do it . St. Paul had been one of these , and as such , he not only persecuted the Church from House to House , but having got a company of Men of the same fury to follow him , he went to persecute them even to strange Cities . Now , towards the end of the History of the Iews , we see this became a matter of meer Rage ; and Companies assuming this name , got together , and run about executing whatsoever their own Fury inspired them with , as a revenge of Sin , in the Name of God. These first murdered all the Romans every where , and so engaged themselves in a War with them , that required either a most mighty resistance , or that must in conclusion end in their own utter ruin : They also murdered all that inclined or moved at any time to treat with the Romans . But men of this sort seldom agree long together : So these were soon subdivided into those who were headed by Eleazar , who were the Masters of the Inner Courts of the Temple ; and those who were headed by Iohn , that possessed themselves of the Outer Courts : And when those within opened the Gates at the Feast of the Passover , that so the People might come in and offer their Lambs , some of Iohn's party went in and killed Eleazar , and so he became Master of the whole Temple . But this was not all : for there was another party among them that were called the Robbers , that did the same thing that the Zealots did , for it is scarce possible to think they could do worse : But it seems they did not cover it with the pretence of Zeal for the Law , and so were the more honest Robbers of the two ; who owned that they robbed for robbing sake . These were at first commanded by Minahem the Son of Iudas of Galilee ; but he being killed by Eleazar's means , they were after that headed by one Simon , who being called into Ierusalem , drove Iohn out of the City , and had many Engagements with him and his Zealots , in one of which they burnt the common store of Provisions , which if preserved , would have served to maintain a long Siege . Thus were they fighting with one another ; when Titus came before them with an Army that consisted only of four Legions , besides Auxiliaries : a small force against so vast a multitude of Men , of an enraged Courage , and a City of such extent and defence . In this Extremity it was plain , that they must either treat and submit , or unite and resist vigorously : There was but one thing that was both desperate and foolish , to perish within their Walls by Hunger , and to be destroying one another as oft as the Enemy gave them leisure to go about it : And this was precisely the course they took . If any spake of treating with the Romans , he was presently the Object of the common fury ; yet they did not sally out upon them till it was too late . From the 14. of April that Titus sate down before them , the account of those that died by Famine was kept by Mannoeus , who had the charge of carrying out the dead Bodies to the 1st . of Iuly , and it swelled up to an hundred and fifteen thousand and eight hundred : This was besides those who were carried out by their Friends . After that he fled to the Romans , and those who were appointed still to take care of the Dead , told that the number was grown up to Six hundred thousand . And thus the greatest , and once the best , but then the worst City in the World , perished in so terrible a manner , that the History of it would pass for a melancholy aggravating of matters beyond the possibilities of truth , if he that wrote it had not been an Eye-witness , and a person of so true a judgment , of so much probity , and so full of affection to his Country , that there is no reason to suspect the Relation that he has made of it ; which as it is by much the saddest piece of History , so it is that which can never be enough read ; for it will alwaies leave a very good Impression upon the Reader 's mind . But this is not to be read meerly as a signal Transaction that pass'd 1600 years ago , but as a standing Monument of the severity of the Justice of God against an Impenitent and Rebellious Nation : and if these things were done in the green tree , what shall be done in the dry ? If the Seed of Abraham , Isaac , and Iacob were so used , why should others hope to escape , if they become guilty of the like Ingratitude ? And since the immediate cause of their ruin was that mutual fury that transported them into the most extravagant Excesses , and which blinded them in all they did , and made them neglect the most obvious and certain methods for their preservation , either in the way of treaty or of defence ; what a melancholly Prospect does this set before us , who have such a mighty Enemy to deal with , that all our Heads , Hands , and Purses united against him , will find work enough , and yet are reviving with the old and once extinguished names our old animosities , to so high a degree , that this puts every thing to a stand , even the Thoughts of good and wise men . It was once hoped , that all past Errors had been forgot , especially in those who in a time of danger , when they saw the tendency of some steps into which they had been engaged , made so generous a resistance , and stand against the common Enemy , which shewed the sincerity of their Hearts , and their firmness to the Religion and Laws of England ; and that former Errors had been the effects of a too great easiness to believe and to think well of others . But when this City was so much united in so noble a resistance to barefac'd Popery and Tyranny ; who could have thought that upon such a Deliverance as we have been blest with , we should not have improved it much further than we have done , for those great ends for which we have reason to believe , that God has sent it to us . If some years agoe , when all were under those fears , out of which God has brought us , and were joyned together in that struggle for our most holy Faith , out of which if we had not all escaped , we must all have perished together ; any one had said , that either differences of Opinion , or any former Errours would have made us fall out again , if God should again have blest us with the return of Religion , and of our Laws in their Ancient force ; he would have been looked on by all as a Melancholy Presager of evil things . But we are now just in this , or rather in a worse condition : a violent Aversion , and a mortal Jealousie appears on all hands , we fancy we are not safe from one another ; and by our fancying it , we render our selves indeed unsafe . If this should have come upon us after we had got entirely out of all our difficulties and dangers , it had been bad enough ; but in a state of calm we could have better born such Concussions , and should have had time to look out for proper Remedies ; but while we are yet in so much danger , while Union is so necessary to all our common preservation , that we should now embroil our selves , and the Publick ; as it is just that very madness which our Enemies would wish to us , so it carries in it so terrible a Character of God's casting us off , and giving us up to the Counsels of our own hearts , that if by the earnest Prayers of those who mourn in secret , and the hearty endeavours of such as are fitted for such healing work , we cannot cure this Disease , we must give our selves for a lost Nation . If Attempts this way prove unsuccessful , then every man must prepare himself the best he can , to bear the share that he himself must expect in the Miseries of his Countrey . And if through our Passions and Follies , God does deliver us up into the hands of our Implacable Enemies , as we must expect that they will take care , that we shall never be in a condition to shake off the yoke again : so to every one whose passions have transported him into those Excesses which are like to be fatal to us , the remembrance of this will be one of the most insupportable Ingredients in his misery , that he had procured it to himself . O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self ! will carry in it a terrible sound , when the Application will be so just . Suffer me then in the words of St. Paul , to say , Is there not a wise man among you ? I speak this to your reproach . Is every Man so soured with the leaven of a Party , that he cannot see himself , or make others observe the tendency of all this ? Were the wrongs done so great that they cannot be forgiven ? Are the differences so wide that they cannot be healed ? Is there no Balm in Gilead , and is there no Physician there ? Have we no sense of all that God has done for us ? Will we quite defeat , and disappoint it ? Have we no sense of God's forgiving us our many hainous sins ? Have we no regard to the great Example of the Holy Jesus , who here mourned over that City , which was in a few days to cry out against him , Crucifie , Crucifie ? And do we not consider the unexampled gentleness of him whom God has set over us , whom perhaps some may think merciful to an excess : But it is a happy state for Subjects when this is one of their chief Complaints . He to whom under GOD we owe our present peace and happiness , does both by his own practice , and his advices recommend this temper so earnestly to us , that if none of all these Considerations of Religion , Reason , Example and Interest can work upon us , we must conclude , that this is one of the heavy Judgments of God , which is already poured out upon us ; that is not only heavy in it self , but is chiefly heavy on this account , because it will most certainly draw a great many heavier ones than it self after it . If our differences were of so strange a nature , that no Expedient could be offered that were proper to compose them , nothing in such a case should remain , but to cry out , The wound of the Daughter of my People is greater than that it can be healed . But as it is a strange reproach to a Physician , if one should die under his hand , of one of the slightest evils that could possibly affect the Body of Man ; so to see the Peace of a City , or of a Nation disturbed , not to say lost , upon such matters , must prove either that the Humours are very bad , or that the Wound has been but slightly cured , by those who perhaps instead of using Lenitives to allay the heat , do rather inflame it . Upon the whole matter , the right way of procuring fit Remedies to all our evils , is to search and try our ways and to turn again unto the Lord , to lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens , and to acknowledge that we have transgressed and rebelled : and that hither to God has not pardoned : That he covered us with his anger , and himself with a cloud : That Fear and a snare is come upon us , that therefore our eye should run down without any intermission , till God look down and behold from heaven : And then we might see that God would hear our voice , and not hide his ears from our cry ; that he would draw near to us in those days that we call upon him , and say unto us , fear not : That he would plead our cause and redeem our life who sees the vengeance of our Enemies , and all their imaginations against us ; and would render them a recompence according to the works of their hands , and persecute and destroy them in his anger from under the heavens . There remains little to be said to the last particular that I proposed , which is that which is implied in this period , that is in the form of a wish , or rather supposition : If thou hadst known , and so it is broken off abruptly , without adding any words , that import what should have followed upon it . But this is a figure natural enough to every Language , without going to search for a Hebraism : There being something in this way of expression , that is so tender and languishing that it exceeds any thing that could have come to give it a more regular conclusion . In a word , it imports that all that is great or good , all that they could wish for or desire , either with relation to the publick , or in their own particular , all the Preservations and Deliverances , all the Felicities and Prosperity of a Nation , might be justly expected from so happy a discovery , and such a change in their tempers ; as first to find out , and know , and then to seek after the things that belonged to their peace . They could not indeed have continued to have been as they had been formerly the People of God , with the exclusion of all others ; but they would still have retained this priviledge that the Gospel was to be offered to the Jew first , and then to the Gentiles ; so that they would have been always the First-born of the Churches of God : and if they had received the Messias , they might have continued to be the head of all Nations . But it was otherwise appointed in the wise and holy Councils of God , for reasons which we do not now perfectly understand . This only we know , that God's rejecting them was the calling of the Gentiles . And indeed the tenderness of the expression here used , seems to import this that there was no hope of this supposition 's proving real : so the words that follow may be considered as the closing the period . I need not here enlarge to set before you the blessings that without flattering our selves too much , we may reasonably expect upon our setting our selves to find out , and to pursue the things that belong to our peace : They are both so visible in the Natural Consequences of things , and so eminent and great in themselves , that I cannot imagine how any one that loves his Religion or Countrey , himself , or his Posterity , can think of them without feeling in himself all the emotions of joy , and all the fervency of desire upon so glorious and so amiable a prospect , that we shall be blessed in the City and blessed in the Country , that the Lord shall cause our Enemies that rise up against us to be smitten before our face : And that he shall bless us in all that we set our hand to , and shall establish us to be a holy people to himself ; so that all the people of the earth shall see that we are called by the name of the Lord , and shall be afraid of us , and that we shall lend to many Nations , and not borrow . I will not offer to you the dismal reverse of all this , in the Curses that are denounced upon a people that shall not hearken to the Voice of the Lord , nor observe his Commandments to do them . I hope for better things from you , and such as accompany Salvation , for which let us look up to him who can give us Grace both to will and to do , to whom be Glory and Honour for evermore . Amen . FINIS . Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell . THE Fifteen Notes of the Church , as laid downby Cardinal Bellarmin , examined and confuted , by several London Divines , 4o. With a Table to the whole , and the Authors Names . An Exposition of the Ten Commandments , By Dr. Simon Patrick , now Lord Bishop of Chichester . The Christians's Obligation to read the Holy Scriptures , by Dr. Stratford now Lord Bishop of Chester . The Texts which the Papists cite out of the Bible for proof of the points of their Religion , Examined , and shew'd to be alledged without Ground . 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By a Divine of the Church of England . A Dialogue betwixt two Friends , a Iacobite and a Williamite ; occasioned by the late Revolution of Affairs , and the Oath of Allegiance . The Case of Oaths Stated . 4o. Markam's perfect Horseman , in fifty years practice , 8º Hodder's Arithmetick , 12o. An Account of the Reasons which induced Charles the Second , King of England , to declare War against the States-General of the United Provinces in 1672. A Letter from a French Lawyer to an English Gentleman , upon the present Revolution . 4o. The Advantages of the present Settlement , and the great danger of a Relapse . The Interest of England in the preservation of Ireland . A short View of the Unfortunate Reigns of these Kings , William the 2d . Henry the 2d . Edward the 2d . Richard the 2d . Charles the 2d . and Iames the 2d . Dr. Sherlock's Summary of the Controversies between the Church of England and Church of Rome . The Plain Man s Reply to the Catholick Missionaries . Dr. Wake 's Preparation for Death . — His Tracts and Discourses against Popery , in 2 Vol. 4o. — His twelve Sermons and Discourses , on several Occasions . 8o. The Devout Communicant , assisted with Rules for the worthy Receiving : Together with Meditations , Prayers , Anthems , for every Day in the Holy Week . Valentine's private Devotions , digested into six Litanies , with Directions and Prayers for the Lord's-day , Sacrament , day of Death and Judgment . Bishop Burnet's Sermon before the King and Queen on Christmas-day , 1689. — His Sermon of Peace and Union , Nov. 26. 1689. Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont . By P. Allix . DD. 4o. Geologia : Or , A Discourse concerning the Earth before the Deluge . wherein the Form and Properties ascribed to it , in a Book intituled [ The Theory of the Earth ] are excepted against : And it is made appear , That the dissolution of that Earth was not the Cause of the Universal Flood . Also a new Explication of that Flood is attempted . By Erasmus Warren , Rector of Worlington in Suffolk . A Private Prayer to be used in difficult Times . A Thanksgiving for our late Wonderful Deliverance : [ recommended chiefly to those who have made use of the prayer in the late Difficult Times ] A Prayer for perfecting our late Deliverance by the Happy success of their Majesties Forces by Sea and Land. A Prayer for Charity , Peace and Unity , to be used in Lent. Dr. Tenisou's Sermon of discretion in giving Alms , 12o. His Sermon concerning doing Good to Posterity . Preached before Their Majesties at Whitehall , on Feb. 16. 1689 / 90. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A30433-e280 23 Luk. 28 Isa. 49. 8. Vers. 43. Psal. 89. 30 , 31 , 32 , 33. 6. Gen. 3. 3. Jonas 4. 14. Numb . 33 , 34. 2 Kings 24. 4. Ierem. 5. 29. Ezrah 9. 3 , 4. Ver. 8. Ver. 10. Ver. 13. Ver. 14 , 15. Ezek. 14. 16. Ezek. 9. 4 , 7. Ranaldus's continuation of Baronius . Gal. 5. 15. 2 Cor. 6. 5. Lam. 3. 40. V. 56 , 57 , 58. v. 64. 66. Rom ; 11. Deut. 28. 3 , 7 , 9 , 10 , 1● .