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A sermon preached in the Cathedral & Metropolitical Church of St. Peter in York, on Sunday, Novemb. 17. 1695 by George Halley ...
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Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.
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A SERMON Preached in the Cathedral Metropolitical Church OF St. Peter in York On Sunday Novemb. 17. 1695. By George Halley M. A. and Rector of St. Cuthberts in York In his days shall the Righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth Psalm 72. He shall have dominion also from Sea to Sea V. 7 8 9. Jerusalem is built as a City that is at Vnity in it self Psalm 122. LONDON Printed for Rob. Clark in the Minster-Yard in York 1695. To His GRACE THE Duke of LEEDS Lord President of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council May it please your Grace WHen I reflect upon the many Great Services you have done to this Church and Nation and the vast obligations they both owe to your Grace for their Peace and Prosperity it raises in me not only an admiration of your Person but a grateful sence of them and fills my heart with wishes for your Health and Happiness It is upon this consideration My Lord that I humbly presume to dedicate to Your Grace this ensuing discourse which I hope out of the known candor and goodness of your Nature you will be pleas'd not only to pardon but accept of as a small tribute of thankfulness and to give it your Noble Patronage and Protection It is a Sermon which tho mean enough in its composure yet sincerely exhorts my Fellow Subjects to pray for the welfare of His Sacred Majesty and to serve him with their Lives and Fortunes Now at whose Feet can I better lay it than at Yours who have hazarded all that is near and dear to you in this world for his Present Majesty's Interest for the Support of Monarchical Government and the Protestant Religion for which Your Illustrious Name ought to be had in everlasting Remembrance It is true indeed some Pamphlets have of late appear'd abroad with a full design to blacken Your Grace and injure your Reputation Such things as these have been in all ages and will be still incident to Great Men for such as move in High Spheres and with a vigorous lustre must needs as the Sun raise many envious Exhalations But God be thanked Your Graces merit and integrity are so well known your Glorious Name and reputation shine so bright in the English Horizon as makes it beyond the power and capacity of a Pamphleteer to eclipse or blemish them Alas we live in an Vngrateful Age The King himself tho the Author of the greatest happiness to this Nation yet hath his Enemies How many have we amongst us whose Madness and Stupidity make them desire to exchange a golden Sceptre for an iron Rod of French Cruelty and Popish Revenge Who repine and murmur complain and conspire against the best of Princes Some long for troubl'd waters to fish for an Estate in impatiently wait for the moving of the water to repair their broken or heal their lame fortunes so great is the Vice and Immorality of some that they hate such a Governor as enlightens the sublime Orb he moves in with the bright lustre of an exact and an exemplary Conversation and studies nothing more than a general Reformation of Life and Manners and so endeavours as much as in him lies to make His People happy by having the Lord for their God All I have to add is my hearty prayers that nothing may undermine our State or shake King William's Throne that nothing may disturb our Happiness and Tranquillity that God may preserve Your Grace and Noble Family and give a Blessing to all your faithful Endeavors for the Peace and Prosperity both of this Church and Nation I humbly beg leave My Lord to subscribe my self Your Graces most humble and obedient Servant George Halley PSALM CXXII 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem THis Psalm was compos'd by the Royal Prophet King David after his translation of the Ark of the Lord to Jerusalem the place which God had appointed for his solemn worship and adoration and whither all the Jews wheresoever inhabiting were oblig'd by the testimony or law given to Israel to go up thrice every year to commemorate the mercies of God towards them and to offer up unto him the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving Thither the Tribes go up even the tribes of the Lord according to the testimony or commandment to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord v. 4. there also are set thrones of judgment even the throne of the house of David v. 5. that is there is the supreme judicature of the Nation there is the administration of justice and judgment the great Court for the decision of the highest matters for the conduct and management of the most important affairs Thus at the time of this Psalms composure there was a re-establishment of Piety and Religion Justice and Judgment Liberty and Property the Sun had once again dazled the rays of prosperity upon the Jewish Church and State and for this in the beginning of the Psalm we find Holy David in a transport of joy and exultation I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Jerusalem v. 1 2. and here in the Text he passionately excites and calls upon his subjects upon all good men to express an ardent love a sincere affection for Jerusalem to pray to God for its happiness for a continuance of the great blessings of the many precious advantages which it then enjoy'd and as an argument to influence and perswade them so to do he assures them that it tended to their own inexpressible interest and advantage to their temporal and eternal felicity that in the peace thereof they should have peace that upon the peace of Jerusalem depended the peace and prosperity of the whole Kingdom O pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee And here what thus concern'd the people of the Jews doth no less concern us Christians We of this Church and Nation have as strong reasons as nervous arguments as powerful motives to pray now for the peace of our Jerusalem Praised be the Lord great and inestimable are the blessings which we enjoy We have the true Religion established amongst us a pure an easie and substantial Religion which infinitely transcends that of the Jews We have the blissful prerogative of peaceable publick Assemblies we are not debarr'd from coming into the Courts of the Lord. We have liberty and ease justice and judgment plenty and abundance peace and tranquillity in a great measure here at home and the Almighty hath lately made us victorious and triumphant abroad thro the incomparable conduct and heroic valour of our Glorious Prince whose hands God hath taught to war and his fingers to fight Now all this great happiness lies at stake now seems to be the Crisis of our affairs both Ecclesiastical and Civil the peace and prosperity both of this Church and State seeins to depend upon the peace and unity upon