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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31846	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London at the Church of St. Mary le Bow, September the second, 1684, being the anniversary fast for the dreadful fire in the year 1666 by Benjamin Calamy ...	Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686.	1685 (1685)	Wing C219; ESTC R5723	17,267	37

Tulse Mayor Martis decimo sexto die Septemb. 1684. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi Angliae c. trigesimo sexto THis Court doth desire Dr. Calamy to Print his Sermon Preached at Bow-Church on the Second of September Instant being the Day of Humiliation for the Great Fire in the Year 1666. before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Citizens of this City WAGSTAFFE A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor ALDERMEN AND CITIZENS of LONDON At the Church of St. Mary le Bow September the Second 1684. BEING THE Anniversary Fast FOR THE DREADFUL FIRE In the Year 1666. By BENJAMIN CALAMY D. D. Vicar of St. Laurence Jewry and one of His MAJESTY's Chaplains in Ordinary LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1685. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Tulse LORD MAYOR OF THE City of London And to the Honourable COURT of ALDERMEN Right Honourable IN Obedience to Your Lordships Commands I have published this following Sermon and now humbly present it to Your favourable Acceptance The Discourse was suited to the Day plain and serious the Subject Matter of it ordinary and common but highly useful and seasonable And if any of the Inhabitants of this great City are by the reading of it persuaded to or better established in the strict Practise of their Religion in all its several Duties which respect either God or Man I have obtained my whole Design both in the Preaching and Printing of it I beg Your Lordships Pardon if I take this Opportunity to renew my most thankful Acknowledgments of those many particular Favours I have received from Your Lordship by which I am bound ever to remain Your most Obedient and Humble Servant Benjamin Calamy A SERMON Preached before The Lord Mayor On September the Second 1684. ISAIAH LVII 21. There is no peace saith my God to the wicked IT is not to be imagined that the Design of this Anniversary Fast is barely to call to mind those dismal Days wherein this Famous City was laid in Ashes and to hear the doleful Relation of that amazing Providence but it was intended as an Opportunity for the Exercise of serious Repentance and to that purpose we are now met to lament our Sins and humble our Souls in God's presence and to renew our Resolutions against all those Courses which once plucked down such remarkable Judgments upon this Place and will unless we reform them at last prove our utter Ruine And to improve the Consideration of that dreadful Calamity to the same pious purposes is my present Design from the Words now read unto you In the Verses immediately foregoing my Text the Prophet endeavours to revive the drooping Spirits of those amongst the Jews now in Babylonish Captivity who were truly penitent for their past Sins and therefore called v. 15. the humble and contrite ones with the Promise of God's Mercy to them in bringing them back at last to their Native Country assuring those who put their trust in God that tho' now far banished from it yet they should again possess their land and inherit the holy Mountain For God will not contend for ever v. 16. neither will he be always wroth He knoweth our weakness and how unable we are to stand before him when he is angry He observed therefore their Repentance v. 18. and how they amended their ways and would heal them and conduct them safely to their own Land with abundance of Joy and Peace But if after so signal deliverance they should again fall back to their old Courses if forgetful both of those sore Evils God had inflicted on them for their Disobedience and of his wonderful Mercy shewn in redeeming them from their Captivity they should wantonly return when restored to their former Provocations he tells them that they should by sad Experience find that the same Effects would still follow the same Causes that Sin and Irreligion would again destroy their Peace and bring down God's severer Vengeance against them so that they should be like the troubled sea which cannot rest v. 20. always unquiet and unsetled in continual distraction and confusion And now that they might not in the least doubt of the truth of all this he confirms it by the Authority of God himself There is no peace saith my God to the wicked They must never look to be an happy flourishing People as long as their Lives and Manners were so corrupt and degenerate This some Learned Men take to be the strict meaning of the Words and thus I shall now understand them Under this Word Peace in Scripture is often comprehended all manner of outward Happiness and Prosperity and taking it in this large sense the Words do not then respect wicked men considered singly by themselves but as they are joyned together in Society and Community to whom the Prophet declares from the Mouth of God That there is nothing so destructive of the Political Happiness or Welfare of any People as prevailing Vice and Wickedness Religion doth not onely secure the inward Peace and Tranquillity of our Minds and provide for our future Felicity in the other World but doth mightily promote the temporal Prosperity of any Kingdom or City in this And on the contrary Vice and Wickedness especially where it abounds and is become fashionable and creditable and hath infected all Sorts and Ranks of Men doth certainly undermine and will by degrees overthrow the Peace and Happiness of any Society or Community There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Many and weighty are the Arguments by which men may be moved to Repentance and Amendment of Life There is no Capacity we can be consider'd in no Relation we can stand in but Religion is of mighty use and advantage to us in it and on the contrary Sin and Wickedness infinitely prejudicial and mischievous But I cannot think any Consideration more proper to this Assembly or to the Occasion of this Solemnity than what my Text suggests to us viz. the serviceableness of True Religion to the Publick Good and Interest and the malign Influence that Vice and Impiety hath upon any Kingdom City or Body Politick whence we may learn to what Causes ought to be imputed that dreadful Judgment of Fire which once laid this City waste as also what is the most successful Expedient to preserve this City and the whole Kingdom from any such Publick Calamity for the time to come In the prosecution of this Subject I shall first demonstrate the Truth of what is here affirmed and then make such particular Application to our selves as may be most suitable to the Occasion of our meeting at this day In order to the proving of this That Wickedness doth obstruct the Peace and Happiness of any People or Society I shall insist on these three Arguments 1. The natural tendency of Vice and Wickedness 2. The Consideration of God's Providence and his righteous Government of the World 3. The Experience of