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A52727	The right way to promote reformation in a sermon preached at Warrington upon the 18th of Octob. 1698, at the appointment of the ministers there met, and at the request of some, published for the use of others / by James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1699 (1699)	Wing N333; ESTC R31711	24,280	60

The Right Way To Promote Reformation In A SERMON Preached at Warrington Upon the 18th of Octob. 1698. At the Appointment of the Ministers there Met. And at the Request of Some Published for the use of Others By J. NAYLOR Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkburst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside 1699. A SERMON Preached at Warrington MAT. VII V. Thou Hypocrite first cast out the Beam out of thine own Eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the Mote out of thy Brothers Eye THE Divine Dispensations of late both in a way of Mercy and Judgment have so loud a Voice in this Kingdom as cannot but awaken a just sense of a Necessity of Reformation in all that are not lul'd asleep upon the lap of Pleasure by the Syren Songs of these sensual Sublunary things God is trying this Nation in both these Methods and surely none so Ignorant as not to know that both these ways do strongly oblige to an holy and Reformed course If God do set us up as a mark at which he intends to shoot the Arrows of his Displeasure it highly concerns us to meet him in the ways of his Judgments by a speedy and sincere Repentance And if he unstring his Bow and put up into his Quiver the impoysoned Arrows that were prepared for our destruction He expects so signal a Mercy should soften and melt our hearts and bring them into an Holy and Heavenly frame and Temper Do I need to tell you how lately God was graciously pleased to Remove the Judgment of a long and expensive War and how desireable a Peace was before it was concluded And surely now the Enjoyment of Liberty and Property and the setling Peace within our Borders under the favourable Influences of good Rulers is not the least of Temporal Blessings God hath husht away Wars from amongst us and wonderfully scattered our fears And shall not so merciful a dispensation excite us to a vigorous prosecution of an Holy War proclaimed between us and our Sins A War in which we were very early engaged for in our Baptism we were listed under Christ as the Generalissimo of all who draw the Sword to Sacrifice their Lusts and to fight against the World the Flesh and the Devil And surely as the consummation of a long desired Peace with our Forreign Enemies affords a favourable Juncture for the advancement of this great Work so it is a powerful Obligation upon us to set to it in good earnest No sooner were the Children of Israel come out of Egyptian Bondage but they were called to renew their Covenant with God and what cause have we to take up the Words of * Ezra 9. 13 14. Ezra Seeing that thou our God hast given us such a deliverance as this Should we again break thy Commandements and joyn in affinity with a People of these Abominations wouldst not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping But tho' the Sword be put up and the War ended yet for our Unfruitfulness under and Unthankfulness for so great a Mercy God hath been threatning us in these Northern parts with another Judgment nothing less or Inferior to that which he hath lately removed viz. a Judgment of Famine The Holy God for those vile Abominations and gross Prophaneness committed amongst us hath been threatning to break the Staff of Bread and to send cleanness into our Teeth How hath God been punishing us with Immoderate Wet and Rain and with a late and thin Harvest So that our former Deliverances will not secure us from future Ruin if we harden our selves in a sinful way and wicked course If we slight God's Mercies we cannot think to escape the smart of Judgments For they that will not learn Righteousness by the mild and gentle methods of Divine Patience and Kindness must expect to be taught as the Men of * Judg. 8. 16. Succoth With the Thorns and Briars of the Wilderness We Read that the Men of † Gen. 14. 12 13 14. Sodom were Rescued from Captivity by Abraham's Sword not long before they were consumed by Fire and Brimstone from Heaven And ungrateful Israel perished in the Wilderness after their miraculous deliverance from Egyptian Bondage and servitude Now God forbid that all our great Deliverances and Signal Mercies should be attended with so sad a consequent as to harden us in Sin and ripen us for Destruction And as this is a Juncture wherein God is thus calling upon us to put away our Sins and to endeavour the Reformation both of our selves and others * Psal 82. 6. That Iniquity may not be our Ruin So our Terrestrial Gods as Magistrates are sometimes called have vigourously set themselves to the Advancement of this so necessary a Work How many Pious Proclamations have been issued out within the space of Eight or Nine years Requiring all Magistrates Civil and Ecclesiastical in their Respective Stations to execute the Laws of this Realm against Prophaneness and Immorality as they would Answer it to Allmighty God and upon pain of their Majesty's and now of his Majesty's highest Displeasure complaining that by a long continued neglect and connivance of the Magistrates and Officers concern'd these disolute Enormities had universally spread themselves to the great dishonour of God and the scandal of our holy Religion These Proclamations have been seconded by several Learned and Pious Biships in their Letters to their Clergy of their several and Respective Diocesses enjoyning them to Preach against the Sins of the Day and Place wherein they live and take care they go before their Flocks in an holy and exemplary way of Living And for the more effectual suppressing of all Immorality and Prophaneness and curbing the Exorbitances of this Age I need not surely number up the particular Acts and Laws that have been made by the late Parliament against Drunkenness Whoredome Prophane Swearing and Cursing and the notorious Prophanation of the Holy Sabbath And tho' it hath been an old saying that few Nations have better Laws and worse executed then we have yet for the retrieving the honour of the English Nation for averting God's Anger preventing of Impending Judgments and for the Reviveing of Religion and the power of Godliness which hath been so long dead and so greatly traduc'd among us there are not a few at this day of all Ranks and Qualities of Men throughout the Nation that are willing to help forward this Blessed Work of a Reformation And through the blessing of God upon the endeavours of some holy Lots of this Age who have been vexed with the filthy Conversation of the Wicked there hath been a considerable check and stop put to the Impetuous torrent of Impiety and Prophaneness where before it used to overflow the Banks Surely then it highly concerns us all in our Respective places and Capacities to purge out the old Leaven of Sin and Wickedness and to