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A31110 A sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, on Wednesday the 16th of July being the fast day by Samuel Barton. Barton, Samuel, 1647 or 8-1715. 1690 (1690) Wing B991; ESTC R16055 17,246 41

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Mr. BARTON's FAST-SERMON BEFORE THE Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen JULY 16th 1690. Pilkington Mayor Jovis xvii die Julii 1690. Annoque Regni Regis Reginae Willielmi Mariae Angliae c. Secundo THIS Court doth desire Mr. Barton to Print his Sermon Preached on the 16th of this Instant July at St. Mary le Bow before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen per Cur. Aldr. A SERMON Preached at St. Mary le Bow BEFORE THE Right HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor And COURT of ALDERMEN ON Wednesday the 16th of July BEING THE FAST DAY By SAMUEL BARTON B. D. LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1690. The Epistle Dedicatory To the Right Honourable Sir THOMAS PILKINGTON Lord MAYOR of the City of LONDON My Lord WHen I Preach'd this Sermon at your Invitation before your Lordship and the Court of Aldermen whatever fault was in it was imputable wholly to my self But now that I Publish it by your Lordships and their Order you will pardon me if I tell you you have made your selves sharers in the Blame Yet I must needs say had I bin convinc'd there was any thing in it that justly deserv'd Censure I should not easily have bin prevail'd with to expose it to Publick view unalter'd as it is But such is my Unhappiness that though I have bin told that many were offended at it yet I have not met with any one that knew a good Reason why or that was himself perswaded there was any Reason for it The onely Passage I have heard of tho' there may be many more for ought I know that gave so much Offence is that toward the Conclusion wherein I express my detestation of such a Wickedness as the inviting in the French would be in an English-man and a Protestant I am not yet perswaded that the declaring my Abhorrence of it in the manner that I have done is so much as a tacit accusing any Person of it Neither can I think that I have aggravated the Crime in an undue manner when I make it next to the worst that can be imagin'd But if any one will tell me of a greater that ought to come between I shall not be backward to acknowledge such a Mistake Neither lastly can I think it worth my while to answer such a weak and peevish Objection as some I hear have made as if it were Blasphemy forsooth to suppose that wicked men may account the Government of Almighty God a Tyranny And yet if nothing of all this be the Fault that is to be found in that Expression I must needs say I am yet to seek where it lyes In composing of the Sermon it was my real desire to promote as well as I could the great End for which the Day was set apart viz. Repentance and Reformation whereby the Judgments of God might be prevented And I am not out of hope that it may have had and may yet have by virtue of this Publication some little Effect that way And therefore I humbly present it to your Lordship as a Testimony that I am My Lord Your Lordships most Obedient and Humble Servant SAMUEL BARTON AMOS IV. 12. Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel And because I will do this unto thee prepare to meet thy God O Israel IT is an easie matter especially out of the Prophetical books of Scripture to choose out a Text proper enough to the occasion of our present meeting For the people of the Jews in whose place and stead the Christian Church and at this time the Reformed part thereof do's succeed had in their latter time especially before they were carried into Captivity and before God would execute the severest of his Judgments upon them for their Apostacies many Prophets sent unto them to warn them whose Writings and the Messages that they deliver'd it has pleas'd God should be convey'd down to us to the intent that from thence we might learn to take warning also and to understand the Methods of Gods dealing and the Discipline we must expect he should exercise toward those whom he favours with the knowledge of his Will when they behave themselves unthankfully and unworthily toward him We have the History of the Old Testament to let us know what befell the People of God in those early Ages of the World and how he chastiz'd them for their Offences and deliver'd them oft-times upon their Repentance And we have the very words of the Prophets whom God sent among them many times very pungent and penetrating words such as carry a more than ordinary force and spirit in them very applicable in many instances to our own condition These things were written for our Example and Admonition And indeed setting aside the Divine Authority there is no other Book in the whole World containing so many wholesome and useful Instructions such Comforts and Supports in the time of Adversity nor such necessary Directions and useful Cautions for all times as are to be found in Holy Scripture But though the Scripture abound as I said with Directions very useful and applicable to every emergency and to every state and condition we can be in and particularly have many Texts proper enough to a day of Humiliation as this is of which number I take this which I have read to you to be one And though it be not difficult either to explain the meaning of it or to make such Observations and Inferences from it as may be very useful to every one of us yet how to press these things so home and to speak with such force and cogency as the present time and state of things does require and as may cause such necessary Truths to sink deep into every one of our minds is I confess a work that seems too difficult for me However with Gods Assistance I shall apply my self to it in the best manner that I can These words then to begin with an Explanation of them are a plain Declaration of Gods intention to proceed in executing Judgments on his People and chastising them severely for their sins For the Prophet in the Verses before had bin recounting to them what Judgments God had already sent upon them for their Wickedness and that without any good effect He begins this Enumeration at the 6th ver telling them of a Famine that had bin amongst them I have given you cleanness of teeth in all your Cities and want of bread in all your places yet have you not returned unto me saith the Lord. That Chastisement it seems had done them little good He therefore adds farther at the 7. and 8. verses And also I have withholden the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest and this was in such a manner as did plainly shew the finger of God in it for it follows and I caused it to rain upon one City and caused it not to rain upon another city one piece was rained upon