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A67018	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and Aldermen of the city of London, at St. Mary Le Bow on Wednesday the 19th of June, 1695, a day appointed for a solemn fast, for supplicating Almighty God for the pardon of our sins, and imploring his protection of His Majestie's person, by Josiah Woodward ...	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing W3520; ESTC R23478	15,685	41

Mr. Woodward's SERMON before the Lord-Mayor On the Fast-Day June the 19 th 1695. Lane Mayor Jovis 20 die Junij 1695. Annoque Dom. Reg. Gulielmi tertij Ang. c. Septimo THis Court doth desire Mr. Woodward to Print his Sermon Preached yesterday at the Parish-Church of St. Mary Le Bow before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this City Goodfellow A SERMON Preached before The Right Honourable the lord-Lord-Mayor AND ALDERMEN OF THE City of London At St. Mary Le BOW On Wednesday the 19th of June 1695. A Day appointed for a Solemn Fast for Supplicating Almighty God for the Pardon of our Sins and imploring his Protection of His Majestie 's Person and the Prosperity of His Arms by Sea and Land By Order of the Lords Justices By Josiah Woodward Minister of Poplar LONDON Printed for Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St. Paul's Church-yard 1695. TO THE Right Honourable Sir Thomas Lane Lord Mayor of the City of London AND THE Court of ALDERMEN My Lord SINCE nothing in the following Discourse can be supposed to have recommended it to the Hearers but those serious and seasonable Truths whereby it recommends it self to every Man's Conscience It must be look'd on as a Specimen of your Lordship's and your Worshipful Brethren's Integrity towards God and Fidelity to the present Government in a time when some so easily shake hands with both together That you desire to review what was humbly offered upon our late Fast-Day on those two Topicks of Duty to God and the King which the Nature of the Things and the Duty of the Day entwisted together And may these Heaven-born Twinns never be devided upon Earth For indeed they are but half-Friends if we may not call them Enemies to any Civil Government who are impatient of the Government of God by whose Blessing alone Kingdoms Flourish The sins of such Persons hurt the side they take more than their Assistance helps it And therefore when all is done unfeigned Holiness how lightly soever esteemed in these filthy dreggs of time is surely the most Honourable and useful accomplishment of Humane Nature The real Servant of God is the true Person of Quality being one of the Household of God And till any Empire can be found equal to that of God no Title or Employment can be of equivalent Honour to that of belonging to the Court of Heaven Yet we see the World laughs at this And according to the Notions of some there is Glory in the service of the Devil And the most like him in Pride Falsehood Revenge and Blasphemy are the finest Men. But are not these very horrible and very perverse Sentiments Has Bedlam it self any such reverse to common sense as this And will not insupportable shame succeed this Phrenzy when once they come to see things in a true light And this they will see to the purpose within a little while either in their Conversion or Condemnation God Almighty grant it them in the first Method not in the last It is not more evident that the Sun guilds and cheers this lower World than that Religion is the Light Glory and Advancement of the Intellectual part of it Happy are its Votaries yea blessed are its very Martyrs It is a very light thing to bear the mockery and Affronts of this World if we do but pass on directly to the Glory of the other Those that are blind will be apt to jostle those they meet in the streets But it is the Duty of such as see to endeavour to put them into the right way And therefore there is no Post beneath the Clouds so honourable as that of a Person in great Power employing it to reclaim and reform the Community to which it belongs It is like the Good Angel's leading Lot and his Family out of the reach of the descending Flames The comforts of which here is almost as inexpressible as it's Reward hereafter Vpon the whole if there be any such Great and Blessed Man or set of Men upon Earth by whose Piety Prudence and Power under God Christianity is to retrieve its Credit and God his Honour in the World Blessed is He or They above the common rate of Mortals All the sober part of Mankind will kiss their feet and the most remote Posterity will bless their Memory I confide My Lord That your just indignation to the wretched Atheism of this prophane Age will incline your Lordship to excuse the Prolixity of this Address to you to which shall now put a speedy Period so soon as I have implored this one mercy of God viz. That your Lordship and your Worshipful Brethren may by your pious and prudent Conduct establish the Peace restore the Piety and advance the Prosperity and Renown of this Great and Famous City And hereby ascertain to your selves abiding Mansions in that City which has Divine Foundations which is the unfeigned Desire of My Lord your Lordship 's very Respectful Humble Servant Joshiah Woodward Deut. IX 26. I Prayed therefore unto the Lord and said O Lord God destroy not thy People and thine Inheritance which thou hast redeemed thro' thy greatness which thou hast brought forth of Egypt with a mighty hand THE Solemn Duty of every Soul of us this Day but more especially of all Publick Persons is the same with that of Moses in the Text viz Humbly to importune our offended God for mercy to a sinful People And this in the method of Fasting and Prayer as Moses here did Yea the Parallel runs further in that about this time the Armies of Israel were to Attack their Enemies in their Entrenchments and Fenced Cities as we read at the beginning of this Chapter Hear O Israel thou art to pass over Jordan this day to go in to possess Nations greater and mightier than thy self Cities great and fenced up to Heaven v. 1. i. e. Very strongly Fortified so as to be impregnable by any Forces but such as were led on by the Lord of Hosts And therefore he takes this occasion to shew them the absolute necessity of making their peace with God and securing his powerful Alliance And may we in a like juncture prudently take the Hint But here the Parallel discontinues viz. In that Moses here had but one single Enormity of Israel tho' a very great one to lament before God and that too was happily nipt in the bud by an impartial execution of Justice on the known Offenders Exod. 32. 27. But our Sins alas are prodigiously many as well as great And these too are fatally ripen'd by long indulgence and impunity So that our Breach is very wide and we need many such as Moses to stand in the Gap and fill it up which I pray God raise up to us in this important Juncture in which the very Being of our Church and Nation lies at stake May the good God pour out a Spirit of Contrition and Supplication on us that every Soul this day may put it self out