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A59562 A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Wednesday the 21th of May, 1690, being the day of the monthly-fast by John Sharpe ... Sharp, John, 1645-1714. 1690 (1690) Wing S2990; ESTC R10685 17,059 41

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we trust God's Lenity and Forbearance and Mercy is as great to Publick Societies and Kingdoms as it is to Private Persons And that we may apply those expressions to our Nation which David uttered with reference to himself O Lord if thou shouldst be extream to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it But there is Mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared When the Iniquities of a People are at the full God will not fail to punish them But whether ours be so or no He only knows We hope though they be very grievous and crying they have not yet exceeded the measure of God's Patience and that there is yet left a place for Repentance This is indeed the only Plank we have to trust to that can save us from Shipwrack and therefore we ought to lay hold upon it Let us therefore this day every one of us If we have any kindness for our Native Country If we have any respect to that dear Place where we and our Ancestors and all our Relations and Kindred for many Generations have lived so happily If we have any Zeal for or regard to that excellent Church and that Holy Religion that God did in so extraordinary a manner plant among us and for the preserving of which in our Land His Care and Providence hath so often and so wonderfully appear'd If we have any Concernment for many thousands of innocent Souls who without their own fault may deeply suffer for the Nations Sins Lastly If we have any Bowels of Compassion to those dear Children of ours that God hath given us that we may transmit to them and their Children after them that Birth-right and those Priviledges and that excellent Religion we received from our Fathers I say if we have any sense of these things let every one of us this day most sincerely apply our selves to the Service of God in all the ways of a serious Virtue and Piety Or if we have been careless of this matter heretofore or which is worse have been lewd or wicked in our lives yet let us now at last heartily repent of it And with Prayers and Tears and the most solemn Resolutions of Amendment prostrate our selves before the Throne of Grace imploring and beseeching God's Pardon and Forgiveness and if it be possible a lengthening of our Tranquillity O let us not refuse this Opportunity of doing the greatest Kindness and the best service to our Country that we possibly can And therefore let us not only heartily bewail our own Sins but the reigning Impieties and Wickedness that our Nation stands accountable for Now is the time if ever that we are all concerned to be importunate with God for our selves and our Country And a fitter Prayer for this purpose cannot be composed for us than that which Daniel put up to God for his Nation and that at such a solemn time as this when as he tells us he had set himself to seek God for his People by Prayer and Supplication with Fasting and Sackcloth and Ashes The Prayer is in the 9 th Chapter of his Prophecy and I shall conclude with it and I earnestly beg of you all to join with me in it O Lord the great and dreadful God that keepest the Covenant and shewest mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments We have sinned and done wickedly and have committed Iniquity and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Iudgments O Lord Righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day to the Men of Judah and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem because we have sinned against thee But unto the Lord our God belongeth Mercy and Forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his Laws which he set before us O Lord according to all thy Righteousness we beseech thee let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy City Jerusalem thy holy Mountain Because for our sins and the iniquities of our Fathers Jerusalem and thy People are become a reproach to all that are about us Now therefore O God hear the Prayer of thy Servants and cause thy Face to shine upon thy Sanctuary O God incline thine ear and hear Open thine Eyes and behold the City which is called by thy Name O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do Defer not for thy own sake O our God For thy City and thy People are called by thy Name And whilst Daniel was thus praying and confessing his sins and the sins of his People unto the Lord and supplicating for his City Ierusalem Behold the Angel Gabriel was sent unto him from the Lord with the glad tidings that God had heard his Prayer for Ierusalem and that it should be built and the Lord would dwell in it O may we all thus fast and pray as Daniel did and may God Almighty give us such a return of our Prayers Amen O God for Iesus Christ his sake to whom c. FINIS Books Written by the same Authour and Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard A Discourse concerning Conscience the first Part wherein an account is given of the Nature and Rule and Obligation of it And the case of those who separate from the Communion of the Church of England as by Law established upon this pretence that it is against their Conscience to join i● it is stated and discussed A discourse of Conscience The second Part concerning a doubting Conscience A Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons April 11. 1679. on Revel ii 5 The Duty and Happiness of doing good in two Sermons the former Preached at the Yorkshire Feast Feb. 17. 1679 on Eccl. iii. 10 the other before the Lord Mayor at the Spittle Apr. 14. 1680. on 1 Tim vi 17 18 19. A Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor Sept. 29. 1680. on Psal. cxli. 4 A Lent-Sermon at Whitehal March 20. 1684. 〈◊〉 Luke xvi 31 A Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall Apr. 1● 1690. on Gal. v. 13 Mat. 6.26.30 1 Cor. 9.9 Amos 3.6 Is. 28.21 Mic. 7.18 Lam. 3.33 Is. 26.9 Mat. 6.34 Prov. 19.21 2 Kings 19.34 Eccles. 9.11 Ps. 33.16 Josh. 6.20 2 Kings 7. ch