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A32826 A sermon preached on the fast-day, November the xiiith, 1678 being appointed for fasting and prayer / by Benjamin Camfield ... Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693. 1678 (1678) Wing C385; ESTC R1375 24,011 55

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A SERMON PREACHED ON THE Fast-Day NOVEMBER the xiii th 1678. Being appointed for Fasting and Prayer BY BENJAMIN CAMFIELD Rector of Aylston near Leicester LONDON Printed by J. Macock for Henry Brome at the Gun at the West-end of St Pauls MDCLXXVIII Imprimatur Carolus Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris Domesticis A SERMON ON PSALM xviii v. 2. but in the last Translation v. 3. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine Enemies IT is not long since we were Assembled on the fifth of this Month to Bless and Praise God for his wonderful Mercies to this Kingdom in the seasonable Discovery and Defeating of our Romish Enemies most wicked and accursed Powder-Plot which had it taken effect all had been Entomb'd on a suddain in one common Ruine And now upon notice publickly given That the same kind of Agents are at work again in another way to Destroy both His Sacred Majesty and with Him our Liberties and Religion we are by the warrant of Authority met together here this day to call upon that God who alone is able to protect and save us and whose undeserved goodness we have had so much experience of hitherto that he would be pleased graciously to continue yet to defend both our King and Country and bring to light still more and more all secret machinations against his Majesty and the whole Kingdom To which purpose therefore I could not think of any thing more pertinent and agreeable both to Direct us in our present Duty and Encourage us to the same than the words I have read from the Royal Psalmist I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine Enemies This Psalm was a Publick Form of Devotion Composed and appointed by King David for the solemn seasons set apart to Commemorate his manifold Deliverances and Victories for all the dayes wherein God had delivered him as the Chaldee Paraphrast hath it And it hath the Honour to be twice Registred in Holy Writ with very little variation in the words of it For you may read it in the 22d Chap. of the 2d Book of Samuel as well as here in the Book of Psalms From whence we may plainly collect That however some of This Generation quarrel and except against set Forms of Divine Worship and Service to cast dirt upon the established Religion and make way for New-fangled Devices of their own rather than Godly Edifying in Love and Unity yet it was not so in the Church of God from the Beginning but both a publick Form was wont to be prescribed and upon like occasions one and the same Form was without scruple made use of And that by the Counsel and Countenance of no meaner a Person than King David himself who is recommended to us as an eminent Servant of God both in his private and Regal Capacity Acts 13.22 a man after Gods own heart as he himself hath testified of him So much we have sufficiently intimated in the very Title of this Psalm which was inscrib'd to the chief Musician or Prefect of Musick the Master of the Choire to be sung upon publick Solemnities To the chief Musician A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord who spake unto the Lord the words of this Song in the Day that the Lord deliver'd him from the hand of all his Enemies and from the hand of Saul And he said See Dr. H. in loc Viz. as followeth that is A Publick Form of Worship or Religious Acknowledgment indited by David that eminent Servant of the Lord in Commemoration of those many Preservations and Victories which God had vouchsafed him and his now quiet settlement in the Kingdom of Israel and Judah by the interposure of the Divine Providence in subduing the Philistines Syrians Moabites and Ammonites that rose up against him in quieting the Rebellion of Absalom his son Absalom soon after which it is recorded 2 Sam. 22. but especially in rescuing him out of the malicious bloody hands of Saul This he composed and committed to the chief Musician as a suitable service for those solemn Dayes wherein there should be occasion to commemorate his Deliverances and Victories And to that purpose it continues registred in the Book of Psalms among many other as a Pattern and Example unto all Posterities and a Justification as I said beyond all contradiction both of the lawfulness and expediencie of Publick Forms of Devotion and the use or Repetition of the same Forms upon like occasion I shall not now go about to unravel the Contexture of the whole Psalm because I would not divert your attention from that plenty of good and proper Meditations which the Text alone suggests unto us Wherein we have these two principal parts 1. David's holy Resolution or Practice I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised And 2. The Motive he had thereunto from the assured success of it So shall I be saved or safe from mine enemies Of which therefore now by God's help I shall treat in order as they lie And First of the Psalmist's holy Resolution or Practice I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised Wherein we may consider yet more distinctly these three Particulars 1. The Person whose Example we have before our eyes together with the Circumstances of his Condition I King David the Servant of the Lord preserved and deliver'd by him from many potent Enemies already and yet not without the Fear and prospect of others succeeding afresh and growing up in the room of them 2. The Act or Practice it self resolved upon Calling upon the Lord which as I shall take occasion to shew you was all along his most Religious Custom as well as Resolution in like Cases for the Future And then 3. The special Character here annexed unto the Object of his Invocation Worship and Devotion The Lord who is worthy to be praised I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised First The Person here spoken of the I in the Text. That is David a pious and Religious King styled in the Title of the Psalm The Servant of the Lord as I told you Religion we see is not a vile or mean Performance is not a thing below the Highest and most eminent Monarchs of the World no disparagement at all unto their Greatness but that which is indeed the chiefest Ornament in their Diadem and Crown of Glory They have the same Essential Dependence upon God with other men and He the same Right and Title of Soveraignty and Dominion over Them being King of Kings and Lord of Lords Nay They have an Obligation above others to serve and Honour God Almighty not only as his Reasonable Creatures and Dependents like unto others but as his peculiar Ministers and Servants in their Sacred Office as Kings exalted and upheld by him in that their Dignity Again Their Necessity as well as