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A66354 A sermon preach'd before the Societies for Reformation of Manners, in Dublin July the 18th, 1700 / by Daniel Williams ; published at the desire of the said Societies. Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.; Societies for the Reformation of Manners. 1700 (1700) Wing W2656; ESTC R38620 18,449 30

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which it commandeth for negative Goodness will not suffice to save any person capable of Obedience in what the Statutes of God enjoyn as our Endowment and Employ Therefore let your Habitual Frame and constant Exercise discover that the Affirmative Precepts do as effectually direct your Temper and Practice as the Negative Precepts do restrain them Isa. 1. 17 Learn to do well as carefully as you cease to do evil I shall conclude with a few Motives to excite you both to reform your selves and to endeavour the Reformation of others 1. Remember your late Troubles and retain their Voice Can you forget what you so lately felt as the effect of your former Sins What Poverty accompanied such as fled what Frights Losses and Anguish poffessed them as staid behind You felt much and were in the highest danger of undergoing more Oh! will you not Reform those Immoralities which provoked a Merciful God to disarm you and leave you naked in your Enemies Hands Were their Insults and Threatnings so agreeable as to leave no Impression Had your Dangers no Voice because they are past Know you not that it was owing to Providential Restraints and not to your Power or the good Will of many of your Foes that you were not Butchered and your Infants toffed on Pikes as formerly And can you be so stupid as to think God called you not to Reformation when he exposed you to the Brink of Ruine for former Sins or that your past Calamities do not remain a lively Caution against persisting in those Sins Must not you be Infatuated if you reassume the Crimes you were so lately convinced of and be horridly ungrateful if you repeat them because your dangers are removed by his goodness whom you had provoked Isa. 27. 9. He is profane who acknowledgeth not Gods design by all you felt or feared was to take away your Sin Therefore be so regardful of God and so wise for your selves as to say Ezr. 9. 13. 14. After all that is come upon us for our evil Deeds c. Should we again break thy Commandments wouldst not thou be angry with us till thou hast consumed us so that there should be no Remnant or Escaping Resolve then we will not commit those Evils nor suffer others to repeat those Abominations against which God so plainly testified in the Distresses we lately suffered 2. Consider the Signal Deliverances God hath wrought and the amazing Prosperity to which you are so soon arrived he is blind and base Spirited who owns not that Ireland was saved by the Lord Deut. 33. 29. Review the strength of the Enemy and Disadvantages of your Friends Was it of man that Distressed Feeble exposed London-derry was preserved against so formidable an Host Or that such a multitude of well Equipped Souldiers were Routed by a few undisciplin'd Enniskillen men Was not God seen in the amazing Retreat of those Weak Ill provided Diseased Forces with Duke Schomberg Was it not the Lord 's doing that our King fell not by that Cannon Ball which wounded his Shoulder And that he obtained a Victory under such great disadvantages at the Boyn Was it not our God that Saved this City from being Burnt by the enraged Enemy at his Return How near was all to be lost again at Athlone if God had not Infatuated the Enemy to leave the Works of that Town undemolished and so afford a Defence for our Forces that had passed the River who must otherwise have been cut off by that far superior Strength which the Enemy brought down upon them Who can deny God the Honour of Guiding that Bullet which cut off St. Ruth when he was directing the Guarding of that Advantagious Pass where our Forces without a Miracle must have been destroyed All must see the Arm of God was made bare for your help Isa 52. 10. he dispirited Divided and Infatuated the Enemy and this apparently and often And can you be so vile as to think God did all this that you might commit Abominations that you might return to you Vomit and commence a new Rebellion against himself Moreover you sudden healing is as signally the Lord's doing as your very safety who could imagin you should in so few years be so fully peopled your Stocks so Increased your Houses Built your Trade Revive your Rents Advanced the Ordinances of God Restored and all things flourish so as to make you the Objects of Envy How can you persist in provoking a God so great and sinning against a God so merciful and kind Hath he done all this to make you capable of Offending him more or to oblige you in Gratitude to Reform Sure Rom. 2. 4. his goodness leads to Repentance therefore Magistrates should resolve and all Assist them to do as 2 Chron. 34. 33. Josiah took away all the Abominations out of all the Countries and made all that were present to serve the Lord their God 3. You may Humbly and Mournfully Confess there 's much to be Reformed notwithstanding all the evil you have suffered and the good you receive God might well expect that a people so Smitten and strangely Saved should be very peculiar in their Walk and Devout in their inward Frame But alas is it not far from this with many with most How much open Profaness which the Laws discountenance doth still abound Oaths may be heard and Drunkenness seen in your Streets the Strand and other places witness how Sabbaths are Unsanctified stupid is he that cannot wonder to behold such a return to Sin after such Shakes Desolations Terrors and Deliverances But were Provocations confined to the Mockers at serious Religion the Aggravation were less But alas many who profess strictness and expect Eternal Happiness in Gods Service are corrupted and forsake the Law of our God many such are drowned in the World as if Heaven had not room in your Hearts you Match your Children without regard to Grace as if you cared not tho' the Devil had their Souls you neglect God's Worship in your Families as if your despised the Curse that hangeth over such Jer. 10. 25. You are Proud and Vain as if you would vye with the world in its fashion you are Extravagant as if you had never wanted any thing or were never in danger of loosing all nay as if this were not enough I hear some Professors and Church-Members are grown so loose as to frequent and plead for those Nurseries and Schools of Wickedness the Play-houses places the Devil claimeth as his own by his own account when he was dispossessed of one he entred into there saying What had she to do on my Ground places the Visible Saints of all Sects account scandalous and Ministers of all Professions wrote against What have many ascribed your Debaucheries and Ruin to more than these and can you Encourage such by your presence when your awakened Consciences must tell you at least on your Sick Beds Wretched I that time was unredeemed which I spent there