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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78766	The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing C228A; Thomason E1676_2; ESTC R208432	25,502	90

conjunction of holiness and righteousness blessed is that Land and blessed is that City which is in such a condition happy London if a Minister could rationally pray Jeremies prayer over it The Lord blesse thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness 1. You must be just in your words and actions towards men There is a great complaint throughout the whole Nation against divers men professing godlinesse in this City that they are false to their trust unfaithful in their promises unjust in their buying and selling That they are very religious in the publique Congregation but very unconscienceable in their private Shops That the faithful City is become an Harlot It was full of judgement and righteousness lodged in it but now her silver is become drosse and her wine mixt with water Now it is full of unrighteousness and unâ—ustice This is a bloudy charge and if true renders yâ—u Traytors and Rebels to the City of your Nativity Remember this day that God hates holinesse if it be not joyned with righteousnesse That an unjust holy man is an abomination to the Lord That holinesse without righteousnesse is not holiness but hypocrisie 2. You must be holy in your carriage towards God you must not onely give man his due but God his due you must not only have the Gospel but obey the Gospel you must not onely be good Citizens but good Christians Justice without holiness may make you good Heathens but will never make you good Christians An unholy justice is as odious to God as an unjust holiness Remember the words of the Apostle Without holiness no man shall see God Though you be never so just towards your Neighbours if you be not also holy towards God you shall never go to heaven Let us sincerely desire and earnestly endeavour and seek the good of the City wherein we were born This was the great commendation of Mordecah Fster 10. 3. He sought the wealth of his people Not his own wealth but the wealth of his people Such another was Nehemiah he sought the welfare of the children of Israel he was a man of a publique spirit he did not Monopolize and ingrosse all to himself he was a true Common-wealth's man not a Private-wealth's man he sought the good of the people of God more than his own Such another was Augustus Caesar It is said of him That he found the City of Rome weak and in rubbish and left it adamantine and invincible such must you be you must seek the good of the place of your nativity you must not onely labour to enrich enoble and greaten your selves to make your selves happy But you must labour to enrich enoble greaten and make London happy and blessed this you must do six manner of waies 1. By your prayers you must pray for the peace of this our Jerusalem that peace may be within her Walls and prosperity within her Palaces For your Brethren and Companions sake you must say and pray peace be within thee For in the peace of London is your peace wrapt up in the happiness of London your happiness is involved Pray that the name of London from this day may be Jehovah Shammai the Lord is there that the Lord would make it an habitation of Justice and a Mountain of Holiness Pray that the Sun of the Gospel may not set in our daies but that it may be continued to us and our posterities for evermore 2. By living together in love and union behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity it is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the skirts of his garments as the dew of Hermâ—n and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Sion for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life for ever As long as Ierusalem was a City compact together and at unity within it self so long it prospered But when it came to be divided into two sticks into Iudah and Ephraim the two Tribes and the Ten Tribes these two sticks never left beating one another till they were at last both of them destroyed It is observed by Learned men That all Englands enemies from without were brought into the Land by divisions from within Intestine divisions brought in the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Tacitus saith that the Britains when Caesar came in factionibus trahebantur dunt singuli pugnabant universi vincuntur c. The divisions of London at this day are very many and very great O that this dayes meeting might be some wayes instrumentall for the healing of them That our feasting together may not onely in name but in reality prove to be a Love-Feast That heâ—â—eforth we would cease striving one against another and strive together for the Faith of the Gospel That wee would abstain from all dividing names principles and practices That Magistrates and Ministers would joyn together for the publick good That Aaron and Huz would hold up not weaken the hands of Moses Alwayes remembring that sad speech of Jesus Christ Mat. 12. 25. Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self shall not stand Thirdly By your holy lives and conversations For Holiness will not only preserve your own persons from Hell but the City wherein you live from ruine and destruction Here are assembled this day at least a thousand persons born in London Now if all you were really holy what a wall of Brass would it be for the defence of the City For if God would have spared five Cities if there had been but ten righteous persons in them How much more will he spare one City wherein there are a thousand righteous men Sin and iniquity brings down the judgements of God upon Cities and Kingdoms There is a story of two men riding through a Town in Germany burnt down by Souldiers The one said to the other Hic fuit hostilitas Here the enemy hath been but the other wisely and Christianly answered Hic fuit iniquitas Here sin hath been It was the sin of this place which made way for the Souldiers to come to destroy it When Phocas the Murderer of the Emperor Mauritius had built a high and strong Wall for his safety and defence he heard a voyce from heaven saying to him Though thou buildest thy Wall as high as Heaven sin is within and this will easily expose it to destruction It is sin which causeth God to burn up Cities and therefore you must by a holy life seek the good of this City Fourthly By your love to the godly learned and painfull Ministry of the City Contempt of the Ministry is a City-ruinating-sin It is a sin which brings destruction without remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. They mocked the Messengers of God and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of God arose against

his people till there was no remedy When Hanun the Ammonite abused Davids Ambassadors this affront made him to stink before David as it is expresly said 2 Sam. 10. 6. and brought destruction upon him and all his people Ministers rightly called and ordained are the Ambassadors of Jesus Christ when you despise them you despise Christ when you starve them for want of maintenance Christ takes it as an injury against himself and he will revenge their quarrel One great reason why God destroyed Jerusalem was because she killed the Prophets and stoned them that were sent to her And the reason why Heidelberg that famous City was laid wast was as I was told by a Reverend and learned Minister there dwelling for the contempt of the Ministry O Let not this be your sin lest you also perish as they have done 5. By your constancy in the faith in these Apostatizing dayes It will not it cannot be denied but that London is miserably infected and beleapred with errors and heresies And what is said of Poland and Amsterdam may be as truly said of this City That if a man had lost his Religion he should be sure to find it be it what it will be amongst as here We are a Cage of unclean Birds A receptacle for Hereticks of all kinds Heresie is gone forth from London into all parts of the Land Now you must know That Heresie will quickly bring ruine upon a City Pezelius upon Sleidan tells us that the dissentions of the Christians in the East brought in the Saracens and Mahumetans They were divided into ten severall Religions and their divisions did armare Saracenos in ecclesiae perniciem did Arm the Saracens to destroy the Christians and therefore if you would seek the good of the place of your Nativity you must be valiant for the truth you must indeavour according to the station in which God hath set you to purge the City of these Augaean stables to hinder the growth of Heresie You must not be like Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrin You must in malice be children but in understanding be men You must be stedfast and immoveable in the truth that so at last God who is a God of truth may delight to dwell in the midst of us and this City may be called as Jerusalem was A City of Truth 6. By your Charity and Liberality This doth especially concern such of you upon whom God hath bestowed the Riches of this World A poor Citizen may do good to his native-City by his prayers and holy life but you must also do good to it by your bounty and liberality Charity is the Queen of Graces without which all other graces are but cyphers and shadows Faith without charity is nothing worth if a man gives his body to be burnt and hath not charity it profiteth him nothing The Protestant Religion as it teacheth us not to trust to good works so also it teacheth us to be full of good works you have often heard us say that though faith alone justifieth yet the faith that justifieth is never alone though faith justifieth separatim Ã bonis operibus yet not separata Ã bonis operibus though good works be not necessary in the act of justification yet they are necessary in the person justified though good works be not the cause why we go to heaven yet they are the way to heaven Thus wee Preach Let it appear this day that you are real Protestants by practâ—sing this Doctrine Let the proud Papists trust to the merit of their works but let us Protestants trust in Christ onely and his righteousness and let us manifest the truth of our faith in Christ by our good works to the members of Christ alwaies remembring that laying of Christ Whatsoever you do to any of the least of my Brethren you do unto me You have many glorious precedents and put ternes left you by your predecessors whose hearts God hath stirred up to build many famous Hospitalls and to endow them with large revenews and to erect Free-Schools for the education of Youth and herein they become examples to you to follow their steps and as you inherit their Estates so also to inherit their vertues But I shall not press you any farther to charity in general I shall confine my Discourse to one little piece and parcel of charity towards your fellow-Citizens that are in want and necessity You are this day to dine together my hearts desire is that this dinner may be a Feast of Charity In the Primitive times the Christians had their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} their Love-feasts on purpose to maintain Brotherly love these Feasts Jude calls according to our translation Feasts of Charity because in such Feasts the poor were alwaies remembred my humble sute is that this dinner may be a Feast of Love and Charity that some real good may be done at it that you may not onely feast as good Citizens but as good Christians and therefore you have a Sermon here this morning on purpose to prepare you for this Feast that so it may not onely be a civil but a religious meeting The Apostle Jude tells us of spots that were in the Primitive Feasts of Charity these spots were certain wicked and heretical persons which crept into their Feasts and defiled and polluted them I hope their will be no such spots amongst us this day The last year there were spots in our Feast of Charity mistake me not I do not mean it in Judes sense I am far from thinking that there were wicked and heretical men amongst us my meaning onely is that there were defects and blemishes in our last years meeting The Reverend Brother that Preach'd here the last year hath told the World thus much in Print But he addes very wisely and discreetly and I hope truly that this was not for want of affection but of contrivance not for want of liquor but vent not matter but method not conception but obstetrication you did not want a fountain of charity but onely a chanel cut out wherein your charity might stream it self This channel is now cut out for you there are indeed four chanels four glorious designes proposed by the Stewards for to draw out your charity and liberality towards your fellow-Citizens give me leave to read them to you as they were sent me in writing 1. For the relief of Ministers in distresse born in the freedom ofLondon 2. For relief of Ministers Widdows in want whose husbands were born in the freedom of London 3. For putting forth of poor Children to be Apprentises whose Fathers are or were freemen and which Children were born in the City of London or Liberties thereof 4. That relief may be made for poor Scholars Students in the Vniversity and there resident who are unable to subsist of themselves and who were Sons of freemen

us here assembled not onely that we are Englishmen but Englishmen born in the Noble and famous City of London That we are Citizens of no mean City If any here desire to be farther informed of the excellency of this City let me intreat him to peruse a Booke printed this year composed by Mr. James Howel called Londinopolis Thus you have the PropositioÌ„ explained in all the four Branches of it But now I must adde That though the things forementioned be considerable Privileges yet they are but outward and temporal privileges common to the worst as well as the best of men Cateline was born in Rome as well as Caesar Caligula and Nero as well as Augustus and Trajan They are but fleshly and carnal prerogatives which a man may enjoy and yet be under the wrath of God and guilt of eternal damnation They are the Privileges of Paul a Pharisee and of Paul a Persecutor they are such Privileges which after he was converted he accounted but as dung and dross in comparison of and competition with the Lord Jesus Christ But yet howsoever they are privileges passages of Divine Providence not to be sleighted And therefore in the Application I shall first improve this PropositioÌ„ as it is a desirable privilege secondly as it is but an outward common and temporal privilege First As it is a considerable and desirable privilege and upon this account alone it will afford us three profitable and seasonable Exhortations Let us this day bless the Lord for this mercy that we are Englishmen and Londoners born and especially that we were born in England since it became Christian and since it was reformed from Popish Superstition There was a time when Britain was tristissimum superstitionum chaos when London was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Paul saith of Athens a City wholly given to idolatry when we offered our sons and daughters alive in Sacrifice to those that were no Gods non ad honorem sed ad injuriaâ—s religionis not as an honour but as a shame to Religion The time was when we were drowned in popish superstition when England was the Popes Vassail and the Popes Asse as it was called to bear all his burdens but God out of his infinite mercy hath freed us of those burdens and we have enjoyed the Protestant reformed Religion for an hundred years together O let us bless God that we were born in England since it was reformed from Heathenism and Popery that we were born not in Egypt but in Goshen not in a valley of darkness but in a valley of vision not in Babylon but in Sion as you heard excellently the last year Leâ— us bless God that we were born in London not onely because of the excellency of the situation of it and the many outward accommodations to be found in it above other Cities but because of the abundance of the Gospel of salvation herein dispensed It is said of the Isle of Rhodes that it is fo happy an Island that there is not one day in the year in which the Sun doth not shine upon it this is true of London in a spiritual sense there is not one day in the year in which you do not enjoy the sunâ—shine of the Gospel This is the glory of London without this London is no more than Ligorn or Constantinople or Paris or any other City And this is one main end of our meeting this day to praise the Lord for this happy providence that we were born in London where we enjoy more of the purity plenty power and liberty of the Gospel than any other City in the world Besides this Let us this day bless God that London is yet a City and that it hath not long ago been made like unto Sodom and Gomorrha It is most certain that we are a sinfull City a City laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers children that are corrupters that are miserably apostatised both in doctrine worship and conversation as the sinnes of Niniveh cried aloud to God for vengeance so do the sins of London the pride the hypocrisie the covetousness the injustice the contempt of the Gospel the profanation of the Sabbath the drunkenness perjury whoredoms of London these and such like sins cry to God for vengeance Now that God should not onely not destroy us but multiply his blessings upon us as appears by our meeting this day That God should preserve us so many years from the man devouring plague that in all the time of the late unhappy wars God should preserve us from being plundered from popular tumults and insurrections from being burnt with fire and turned into an heap of ashes this heightens the mercy of God and makes it a blessing in folio Let us praise God exceedingly for it This is a Duty belonging to all that live in the City but more especially to us who are Native Citizens 2. Let us labour to be a credit and an ornament to the place where we were born as we are Citizens of no mean City so let not our conversation be low and mean but holy and honorable this was Paul's commendation he was a greater credit to Tarsus than Tarsus was to him Therefore Ignatius writing in one of his Epistles to the Tarsenses calls them Pauli cines discipulos Pauls fellow-Citizens and Disciples as accounting it a great honor to them that so famous a man as Paul was born in their City Thus Austin was a greater credit to Hippo than Hippo was to him and Hippocrates was a greater blessing to the Island Coâ— where he was born than the Island was to him I here are some men who are curses and Plague soars to the places where they receive their first breath who Viper like tear in pieces the bowels of the Mother that bare them such a one was Nero who set his own City on fire and rejoyced to behold the flames of it such another was Caligula who wished that all Rome had but one neck that he might cut it off at once Many such Monsters there are in most Cities who are vomicae carcinomata civitatis diseases impostumations stains and blemishes to the places where they are born who are Citizens but drunken Citizens Citizens but adulterous Citizens Citizens but covetous and oppressing Citizens but I hope better things of you here present this day What must we do that we may be ornaments to the place where we were born You must do two things You must be just in your words and actions towards men and holy in your carriage towards God these are the two Poles upon which the happiness of London turns then is a City happy when Justice and holiness meet together when the men thereof make Conscience of their duty to God as well as to their Neighbour and of their duty to their Neighbour as well as of their duty towards God when there is a

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