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A thanksgiving-sermon for the peace: preach'd at St Michael Crookedlane, December the 2d, 1697. By James Gardiner, M.A. rector of the said parish.
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Gardiner, James, 1637-1705.
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of this Nation abhor that Age that shall pretend to outdo ours in any Crime whatever not that of Ingratitude excepted Very worthy deeds are done unto this Nation We owe the correction of our Evil Fate our Quiet and Peaceable Lives to the King's Providence at the peril of his Life and Blood which justly deserves the tribute of our most Thankful Acknowledgments But instead of reverencing him for his Work 's sake there are risen up a Race of sinful Men that will never forgive him but are mad they have lost the happiness to be Papists and Slaves and are resolved to be peevish without Reason rebellious without Cause and troublesome without End The very Heathen World will rise up in Judgment against such a Generation and condemn it For they not only paid their Wise and Gracious Princes their Highest Honours during their Lives but worshipped them too after their Deaths They could not imagine that those who either by the Invention of Vseful Arts or the Institution of an Excellent Government or by many Noble Exploits and Deliverances had in an high degree obliged their Countries dy'd like other men they reckon'd they became Divine and were translated among the GODS and so changed their Allegiance into Adoration I confess to you this ought not to be done but then neither must the other be left undone If it was but for this One Christian Reason that we might discover to the world the honour that we entertain for the Almighty himself who is the King of Kings For in a proportion to that of 1 John 4.20 If we render not the Dues to these GODS whom we do see a strain of Speech that if Divine Authority did not warrant it Psal 8â— â— would pass for impudent and blasphemous Flattery how shall we to Him whom we have not seen How can we acknowledge the Supr am that disown the Subordinate Deities Since therefore GOD hath setled us under such an Auspicious Monarch who has so signally recommended himself to us as he has done long ago to all the World beside at all times let us Congratulate our own Happiness and endeavour to make him happy too Let us Obey him humbly if he be the Minister of GOD for our good we ought to be Servants to him for his good Let us honour him Conscienciously be Loyal upon Principles and for Conscience sake not for hopes of Preserment not by Chance or good Fortune not because it may come into the Fashion to be so but because GOD hath positively required it and made it one special part of his unchangeable Law Let us Love him Affectionately that there be no Strise amongst his Subjects but to outvy each other in pious Loyalty that the Hearts of his People may be his Throne Lastly Let us Pray for him as we would do for our own Souls That GOD would add many Years to his Life yea take from ours who would most gladly spare them to add to his That GOD would give 〈…〉 a Faithful Council a Royal People 〈…〉 omit nothing in our Prayers that 〈…〉 give him his Hearts desire and not withhold the request of his Lips that when be hath reigned many and many Years with all Prosperity and Honour he may receive an Immortal Crown and leave Flourishing King oms to his Successor and Peaceful Times to his Subjects 3. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Psal 122.6 Jerusalem signifies the Vision of Peace at first it was only called Salem Peace Melchisedech King of Salem that is King of Peace but afterward when Abraham's Jâ—ireh was prefixed to Melchisedech's Salem it became Jerusalem a Vision of Peace then pray for the Peace of this Vision of Peace Blessed be GOD Our Jerusalem is become a Vision of Peace then Pray for the Peace of this Vision of Peace i. e. pray for the Continuance of it The effectual Fervent Prayer of a Righteous Man availeth much engages the Almighty and calls in an Omnipotent Arm to Settle Strengthen and Secure our Peace Such Pious Lips drop Balm upon the Countries and Places where they live and such healing Tongues as Solomon calls them are a Tree of Life Prov. 15.4 but as for those Tongues that cry concerning Jerusalem Down with it down with it even to the ground may they cleave to the Roof of all their Mouths that at the Hour of Death they may not so much as say Miserere Domine Lastly As GOD hath done great things for Vs so it is necessary we do something again for Him as he hath Given to Vs so are we to Give to Him Alas How can that be Since our goods reach not to him He needs them not true indeed but His do The Poor need and by them our Goods reach even to Him too We relieve Him in the Poor and cloathe Him in the Naked Matth. 25.45 and no Time so seasonable to do it in none fitter than this it 's a proper Sacrifice for a Thanksgiving let us make our Indigent Neighbours rejoice with us That which would feed our Gluttony and prove a provocation being put into the Bellies of the Poor and a Lazarus lies at every door may plead our Pardon and procure Mercy for Mercy Let us break off our Sins by Righteousness and our Iniquities by shewing Mercy to the Poor it may be the lengthning of our Tranquility Therefore having Refreshed our selves let us Cheer others and deliver them from Distress and Want Those especially who have suffered in the Battel the Sick Lame Maimed the desolate Widows and Children of such as fell in the Service Is there not all the reason in the World we should Relieve them who with so much Alacrity have hazarded their Lives to preserve ours To whose Valour and Magnanimity we owe in part our Liberties and Religion nay and for ought we know the Life of the KING I Conclude all Mutato Nomine with that Acclamation of Joy which the People of Rome gave Charles the Great at his Coronation GULIELMO Tertio à DEO Coronato Magno Pacifico Britannorum Imperatori Vita Victoria To WILLIAM the Third Crowned of GOD the Great and Peaceable Emperor of Great Britain be Life and Victory and let the Three Nations say Amen FINIS