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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31107	Mercy in the midst of judgment by a gracious discovery of a certain remedy for London's languishing trade : in a sermon preached before the right honourable, the lord mayor and the citizens of London, on September 12, 1669, at the new repaired chappel at Guild-Hall / by D. Barton ...	Barton, William, 1598?-1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing B989; ESTC R37078	21,906	62

MERCY In the midst of JUDGMENT By a gracious discovery of a certain Remedy for LONDON'S Languishing TRADE In a Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Citizens of London on September 12. 1669. at the new repaired Chappel at Guild-Hall By D. BARTON M. A. and Rector of Saint Margarets New Fish-street London LONDON Printed for James Allestry at the Rose and Crown in S. Paul's Church-Yard 1670. To the Right Honourable Sir SAMVEL STARLING Knight Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON AND THE Court of ALDERMEN Right Honourable THIS Sermon savouring of the Countrey in which it was conceived and brought forth without the Midwifry of a Library my own perishing in the same Flames with your City and the place of my now residence not affording an assistant was intended onely for your religious ears in them to have both its birth and buriall but since it hath pleased you to reprieve it to a longer and more publick life where should it be more justly laid than at your doors who for your able parts and endowments have been fitted for the publick imployment and intrusted with the weightiest affairs of this City and who by your Favour and Countenance are able to cover the rawness and rudeness or what other defects in my weake and unworthy handling so necessary a subject I have in publishing it regarded more your Opinion than my own conceipt and I hope because you think so that the matter will not be altogether unprofitable or unseasonable although it be not handled so artificially and rhetorically as it ought my main study being to be plain and to apply the things delivered to the present times whatever it be and I wish it much better it is now no more mine but yours and if under the beames of your goodness it shall so thrive as to become an Instrument for the furthering that important Work mentioned in it next under God your Honour and your worshipful assessors are to have the Praise and I therein shall receive a sufficient reward of my labour accounting it my greatest happiness on earth to have been able to performe any acceptable service to that Royal City to which for many yeares past and my whole life for the future I have dedicated all my endeavours I will not detain your Honour c. any longer from your more publick and serious affaires but only beseech the Almighty and All-wise God that he would give you understanding and valiant hearts to manage them Couragiously and Prudently that you may be instruments in Gods hand for the making up the breaches in our Syon and Jerusalem which is and shall be the dayly Prayer of Your Honours and Worships unfainedly devoted in all Christian duty and Observance DAV BARTON Haggai I. 9. Ye looked for much and loe it came to little and when ye brought it home I did blow upon it Why saith the Lord of Hosts Because of mine House that is waste and ye run every Man unto his owne House SOme Geographers have observed that there is no Land so placed in the World but from that Land a man may veiw some other Land though between Land and Land you may see Seas enraged with stormes and tempests yet land is still within ken An observation perhaps of more curiosity than verity in the material Sea of this World yet most certain if it be applyed to the mistical Sea of Gods Judgments which the Royal Prophet compares to a great deep and the dry land of his mercy though between mercy and mercy God interposeth a raging Ocean of trouble and calamity raised by the storme of his indignation so that men seeme to be in the condition of the material world Gen. 7. When the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hils that were under the whole Heaven were covered Omnia pontus erant deerant quoque littora Ponto All was a Sea and that Sea had no shores yet if they looke but onward they cannot miss of a prospect of dry land of Mercy The Almighty God hath so interwoven these two in the dispensation of his providence that the one is never discernable without the other When God landeth his people in the Haven of prosperity he would have them look back on the tempestuous Sea from which they are escaped and fear his Justice when he lancheth them forth into the depth of misery he carries them not out of sight of land that there may be hope of mercy Thus doth the most Gracious God in the midst of Judgment remember Mercy and giveth even the vally of Achor the vally of trouble for a door of hope and in the deepest Ocean of his Judgments discovers a little Island of Mercy to repaire to And thus did he of old deal with his People the Jewes He caused the King of Babylon to arise like waters out of the North and to become an overflowing flood and to overflow the land and all that was therein whereby they were swept away into Captivity yet then when these waters did so overflow their heads that they said they were cut off the all-merciful God lifted up their heads and shewed them a prospect of mercy by a faithful promise of deliverance after seventy years at which harbour they are no sooner arrived but their sins provoke God to bring them back into the Sea of his Judgments and he afflicts them with famine ye have sown much and bring in little ye eat but have not enough ye drinke but ye are not filled with drinke c. vers 6. of this Chapter Yet even here though the Sea roared and the Heaven was black with Clouds that God which gave to the Sea his decree saying Thus far shalt thou go and no farther and there thy proud waves shall be staied not only discovers a Cape of good Hope and makes a path in that mighty water for his ransomed to pass to it Go up to the Mountain and bring wood and build the House and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified saith the Lord vers 8 but also gives them a faithful representation of their present state and condition with the by-path that brought them into it that so they might be induced to consider their waies and leave them and return into the way of peace and this he doth in the words of my Text Ye looked for much and loe it comes to little c. So that my Text is made up of the two parts of Davids Song Psalm 101. 1. Mercy and Judgment which in God are alwayes twisted together Gracious and righteous is the Lord Psal. 25. 8. and all his pathes are mercy and truth v. 10 Not one path of mercy and another of truth but every path mercy and truth both The red Cross of his Justice as in your City Armes is born on the white Field of his mercy as these therefore were the burden of David's Ditty so they must be the support of my