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A62604	A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 16th of April, a day appointed by Their Majesties, for a solemn monthly fast by John Tillotson ...	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1690 (1690)	Wing T1241; ESTC R16574	15,352	41

pleas'd to give a remarkable check to great Power and Violence and to One that vainly gives out himself not unequal to the whole World by very weak and conttemptible means and as the Apostle elegantly expresseth it by the things which are not to bring to nought the things that are And to say to Him as God once did to the proud King of Assyria Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high even against the Holy one of Israel Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it and of ancient times that I have formed it Now have I brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay wast defenced Cities into ruinous heaps Therefore their Inhabitants were of small power they were dismayed and confounded c. But I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore will I put my hook into thy nose and my bridle into thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest The zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this But more especially in vindication of his oppressed Truth and Religion and in the great and signal Deliverances of his Church and People God is wont to take the conduct of affairs into his own hands and not to proceed by humane rules and measures He then bids second Causes to stand by that his own Arm may be seen and his Salvation may appear He raiseth the spirits of men above their natural pitch and giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength as the Prophet expresseth it Thus hath the Providence of God very visibly appear'd in our late Deliverance in such a manner as I know not whether He ever did for any other Nation except the People of Israel when He delivered them from the House of Bondage by so mighty a hand and so outstretched an arm And yet too many among us I speak it this day to our shame do not seem to have the least sense of this great Deliverance or of the hand of God which was so visible in it but like the Children of Israel when they were brought out of Egypt we are full of murmurings and discontent against God the Author and his Servant the happy Instrument under God of this our Deliverance What the Prophet sayes of that People may I fear be too justly apply'd to us Let favour be shewn to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the Land of uprightness he will deal unjustly and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord Lord When thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed And I hope I may add that which follows in the next verse Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works for us What God hath already done for our deliverance is I hope an earnest that He will carry it on to a perfect peace and settlement and this notwithstanding our high provocations and horrible ingratitude to the God of our Life and of our Salvation And when ever the Providence of God thinks fit thus to interpose in humane affairs the race is not to the swift nor the battel to the strong For which reason their Majesties in their great Piety and Wisdom and from a just sense of the Providence of Almighty God which rules in the Kingdoms of men have thought fit to set apart this Day for solemn repentance and humiliation That the many and heinous Sins which we in this Nation have been and still are guilty of and which are of all other our greatest and most dangerous Enemies may not separate between God and us and hinder good things from us and cover us with confusion in the day of our danger and distress And likewise earnestly to implore the favour and blessing of Almighty God upon their Majesties Forces and Preparations by Sea an Land And more particularly for the preservation of his Majesties sacred Person upon whom so much depends and who is contented again to hazard Himself to save us To conclude There is no such way to engage the Providence of God for us as by real Repentance and Reformation and by doing all we can in our several Places from the highest to the lowest by the provision of wise and effectual Laws for the discountenancing and suppressing of Profaneness and Vice and by the careful and due execution of them and by the more kindly and powerful influence of a good Example to retrieve the ancient Piety and Virtue of the Nation For without this what ever we may think of the firmness of our present settlement we cannot long be upon good terms with Almighty God upon whose favour depends the prosperity and stability of the present and future Times I have but one thing more to mind you of and that is to stir up your charity towards the poor which is likewise a great part of the Duty of this Day and which ought alwayes to accompany our Prayers and Fastings Thy Prayers and thine Almes saith the Angel to Cornelius are come up before God And therefore if we desire that our Prayers should reach Heaven and receive a gracious answer from God we must send up our Almes along with them And instead of all other arguments to this purpose I shall only recite to you the plain and persuasive words of God Himself in which He declares what kind of Fast is acceptable to Him Is it such a Fast as I have chosen a Day for a man to afflict his soul Is it to bow down his head as a bullrush to spread sackcloth and ashes under him Wilt thou call this a Fast and an acceptable Day to the Lord Is not this the Fast that I have chosen To loose the bands of wickedness and to undo the heavy burthens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thine house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thy salvation shall spring forth speedily thy righteousnes or thine Alms shall go before thee and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rere-ward Then shalt thou call and I will answer thee thou shalt cry and He shall say here I am Now to Him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb that was slain To God even our Father and to our Lord Jesus Christ the first begotten from the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the earth Unto Him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father To Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen And the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS Books Published by the Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of St. Pauls THirty Sermons and Discourses upon several Occasions in three Volumes in Octavo The Rule of Faith or an Answer to the Treatise of Mr. J. Serjeant by Dr. Tillotson To which is adjoyned A Reply to Mr. J. S. his third Appendix c. by Edw. Stillingfleet D. D. late Dean of St. Paul's now the Right Reverend Bishop of Worcester Octavo A Discourse against Transubstantiation in 80. Price 3d. A Persuasive to frequent Communion in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in 80. Price 3d. A Sermon Preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel on the 31st of January 1688. being appointed for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange the Glorious Instrment of the great Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power 4to A Sermon Preached before the Queen at Whitehall 4to A Sermon Preached before the King and Queen at Hampton-Court 4to A Sermon Preached before the Queen March 9th Printed for B. Aylmer and W. Rogers A Practical Discourse concerning Death by VVilliam Sherlock D. D. Master of the Temple The Third Edition 80. Printed for VV. Rogers ● Chr. 14. 11. Psal. 33. 16. Psal. 44. 6. Prov. 21. 30 31. II. III. Prov. 3. 5 6. Deut. 23. 9. Isa. 37. 23 26 27 28 29 32. Isa. 26. 10 11. Isai. 58. 5 6 c.