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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55638	Peace and gratitude a sermon preached before the Honourable Society of the Natives of the County of Kent, Novemb. 23, 1697 at St. Mary le Bow, London / by Samuel Prat.	Pratt, Samuel, 1659?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing P3182; ESTC R26212	9,430	32

Power and placing us in a Society whose reciprocal Obligations are Love and Peace In our Duty to our Neighbours by all the Holy Offices of Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Goodness Meekness Patience and the like considering one another as the Image of God as the purchase of our Blessed Saviour's Blood and as Coheirs of the Heavenly promises In our Duty towards our selves by Living in Temperance Soberness and Chastity as those that have possess'd their Souls with an hope of Eternal things that exceeding weight of Glory which is laid up for us in Heaven And then with a Prudent concern for publick good let our own Interest prompt us to Peace and Vnity Let us remember that it was Faction and Rebellion which threw some Angels out of Heaven and that 't is Concord and Obedience which must bring us into their forfeited Places that 't is impossible we should ever be establish'd in Peace unless we are Link'd and United together in the Bonds of Love and Charity De Civitat Dei For as the Humane Spirit saith St. Austin can never animate the Members of the Body unless they are join'd or united together so the Holy Spirit of God doth never animate the Members of the Church unless they are likewise united in Peace and Good-will But above all let a Sense of Gratitude towards God oblige us to this Duty of publick Peace and Concord since he has been so graciously pleased to disperse the dangers of a Foreign Enemy when he might have given us over as a Prey unto 'em Let us take heed that we fall into no Enmities at home and so become a Prey one to another Let the tenderness that God hath shewed to us not only teach but by all the Obligations of Love and Gratitude operate so upon us as to be much more tender of the publick than of our private concerns Let us take heed that we sleight not the late instances of his Mercy but unite our Hearts and Affections to one another by that among other Considerations of our late dangers of falling into Misery or Captivity and let us be speedy in such returns of Gratitude lest mischiefs worse than those we fear put it out of our Capacity or a greater security out of our Thoughts You sure to whom I address my self have the greatest reason of any Tribe or County of this Nation because you lye most expos'd to Foreign Invasions or to any other Insults of an enrag'd Enemy You were within hearing of the Alarm of War and the nearest to Outrage had we been overthrown You would never more have boasted that you are the only People of England that never were Conquer'd for then you would in all probability have been the first you would have found something more formidable than the Arms of Julius Caesar or even of the Norman Conqueror tho' they carried such a terror along with 'em as made the Heart and Spirits as it were of the whole Nation to retire into your invincible Corner of it You would no more have retain'd your ancient Liberties those I mean which your Ancestors had Rescued by unexampled Courage and Conduct out of a general Deflagration All the Riches and Honours and Beauties in which you excel other Counties had made your Captivity or Banishment but the more insupportable Then in such a Case Nos Patriae fines dulcia linquimus Arva Virg. Ecl. 1. had been the sad Palinode to your pretty Motto Sub tegmine Fagi Invicti But instead of that you were the first People that were now lately Blessed with the return of our Triumphant Mouarch The first that strow'd your Ave's under the Beautiful Feet of him that brought Peace And what returns of Gratitude can you make to God and the King but by possessing your Souls with the Peace of God with such a Peaceable disposition as becomes good Christians and good Subjects letting it rule in your Hearts to the which also ye are call'd together this day as it were in one Body You are call'd together not only to the Festivity but to the Duties of the Day And it is my Duty to put you in mind that seeing you now meet together with greater causes of Joy and greater marks of Prosperity than ever that you now make greater returns than ever of Gratitude to God How many Illustrious how many Prudent how many Wealthy how many Active Men will meet this day together with what Mercies received with what Abilities attain'd with what Opportunities of doing good will they come laden and will some little usual or ordinary offering of Praise serve turn will the doing that be an acceptable Sacrifice from so potent a Society which is not above the Ability of one Man Your County indeed can vie in publick Works of Charity with any in the Nation not only of the Deceased but of Living Benefactors too But these publick Works which are the Gifts of private Men should much more excite you methinks now in a publick Capacity to the doing more works of Charity than ever any Body of Men hath yet done for the Relief of private Necessities I am afraid lest you should degenerate from the Character of your Ancestors Caes they almost 2000 Years ago were reputed to have had the greatest Humanity of any People in the World and if the Humanity of Gentiles exceed the Charity of Christians then as to your parts it is as if Christ had Dy'd in vain and tho' you were probably the first Christians of this Isle yet your faith hath been in vain No Let every Man do indeed according as he is disposed in his Heart but he that doth most to the Glory of God will feel the Peace of God in a good Conscience here and everlasting Peace Tranquillity Joy and Pleasure hereafter Wherefore Brethren 2 Cor. 13.11 be perfect be of one Mind live in peace and the God of Love and Peace shall be with you Amen FINIS