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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71251	A sermon preached upon the XXXth of January S.V. 1684/5, at Paris in the chappel of the Right Honourable the Lord Vicount Preston, His Majestie's envoy extraordinary in the court of France	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1685 (1685)	Wing W262; ESTC R4537	16,931	58

of Their sins prevent the Effect we so much desire of our present Offerings we must then beg leave to go on with Our Text to another address to secure our selves The third particular now to be spoken to And give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over Them 3. That our own sins at least may never bring us to the like ruin either of our Church or State nor Evermore permit these men as they have heretofore done to prevail against us And this too is a Petition no less proper to our present Circumstances than the preceding requests have been but too applicable to the memory of our past Evils Our sins which called down that last Vengeance upon us are still as hainous and universal to provoke a new one Our Divisions are yet greater and and that fertile Brood of Factions which that unnatural War produced and which no Country or Antiquity ever heard of before still continue more fatally and more dangerously to distract us We have again seen the Government divided against it self The People have been blown up into a new Ferment The Bishops and Councellours have again been Resolved to be Popishly affected Nay the very Militia has been once more attempted and they were no doubt Confiding men too into whose hands it should have again been put And when all this would not do New designs have been laid to seize that Government by Violence they could not gain by Petition How was his Sacred Majesty almost caught in their traps The destruction so well laid that it had been impossible to have escaped it and Providence was forced to act almost a Miracle to prevent it And now when our danger has again so nigh overtaken us certainly He must be very unsensible of the former Evils that can think Himself unconcerned at such a time as this to pray against the Future Let the Miseries that we suffered and the sins that were committed in those days when the Heathen i. e. these Enemies to our Church and State ruled over us be remembred Was there Ever Sorrow like unto our Sorrow wherewith the Lord afflicted us in those days of his fierce Anger I have before given you some general Prospect of our Calamities at this time and your own Knowledge will save me the regret of repeating to you any more How did our Cities become Solitary that were full of people Our Country Once great among the Nations How did she become Tributary even to her own Vassals Our King the Anointed of the Lord fell by their hand Our Princes were led into Captivity Our Churches the Places of our Assemblies were profaned The solemn Feasts and days were forgotten in our Zion and God in the Indignation of his anger despised both the King and the Priest And all this we have had but too great cause to fear may again return upon us Yet since it has pleased the Almighty to stop the Vengeance and command the destroying Angel to suspend the Blow if not to sheath his Sword and give us still longer respite to repent and secure our selves Let the Consideration of this danger provoke us not to neglect the Opportunity Let our Repentance at this time be so sincere that it may not only obtain our pardon for Past Offences but prevail with Heaven to prevent our Impending dangers Let us no more give our Enemies this advantage against us to force the Almighty to withdraw his presence from amongst us and leave us again to engage them upon equal Terms But let our lives and our prayers both join in the Request to save and to defend us Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the People Where is there God This is the last Consideration which the Method of our Text now calls us to conclude with 4. That neither the miseries we have suffered nor the dangers and confusions we yet labour under may by the Censures of wicked men ever turn to the reproach of God's Providence any more than of our own Church or Cause Wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God It is not to be doubted but that this sarcastick Exprobration was that reproach which Joel had before pray'd that God would not suffer his Heritage to be exposed to He had promised in his Law to supply them with plenty of Food and to bless their Victuals with Increase That their houses should be full of all manner of store their Fields also should stand so thick with Corn that they should laugh and sing Well therefore might they fear the reproach of the Heathen when instead of this plenty they should be forced to go and seek for necessary nourishment of them whom they excluded from these promises who no doubt would be forward enough to make a By-word of them and insult over their pretences as if their God either could not or would not relieve them Is this the People that hath the Lord for their God Behold Is not the meat cut off before their Eyes Their Vine laid waste and the Branches of their figtree made white Their seed is rotten under their clods their Garners are made desolate the Barns broken down because the corn is withered How do the beasts groan because they have no pasture for the rivers of Water are dried up and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness Where is now their God to pity them And where is the Lord to be jealous for his Inheritance This was their Reproach the Scandal of themselves and their Religion which the Prophet so much feared and so earnestly exhorted them to pray against and would to God we our selves this day had not too great cause to fear the like Witness O ye pious and excellent Souls what scornings and reviling to your selves and your Religion did ye then bear when being forced from that plenty and tranquility you once enjoyed you become scattered abroad among the Heathenand underwent their reproaches more grievous and sensible than all the other miseries and calamities of your cruel exile But what need I look back to the times that are past when our own continue to afford us so plain an Application How far both our late calamities and our present destractions have given occasion to the Enemy to triumph in our misfortunes as if they were not only the mark of our own sins but even an argument of the common illness of our Cause too this alone may be sufficient to shew that the Romanists not only hope from them to see this Ferment one day settle among us into down right Popery again but even at this day make this the great and indeed it must be confessed the strongest prejudice against the Reformation that since we have thrown off our Obedience to that Church we have run so many and different ways of Errour and are yet at such distance