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A46627 A sermon preached at Guildhall-Chappel Decemb. 24, 1682 before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor &c. by John James. James, John, b. 1649. 1683 (1683) Wing J428; ESTC R28735 23,041 39

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Prichard Mayor Cur. Special tent die Dominico vii o die Januarii 1682. Annoque Regis Caroli secundi Angliae c. xxxiiiio. THis Court doth desire Mr. James to print his Sermon lately preached at the Guildhall-Chappel before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe A SERMON Preached at Guildhall-Chappel Decemb. 24. 1682. BEFORE The Right Honourable THE Lord Mayor c. By JOHN JAMES M. A. Rector of Latimers in the County of Bucks LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1683. To the Right Honourable Sir Will. Prichard Knight LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON Right Honourable AMong the many that justly admire your Lordships Worth and seriously bless God for the Happiness of London in that the management of the Affairs of so great a Body next under our Soveraign Lord the King is committed into the hands of a Person of such known Integrity and eminent Loyalty the Author of this Discourse doth cheerfully and heartily profess himself to be one That this Discourse was acceptable to your Lordship when delivered in the Pulpit I must needs impute to that Candour and Goodness which seems innate and connatural to your Lordships disposition as is readily acknowledged by all that have but the least knowledge of your Lordships Wisdom and Prudence so conspicuous in the good conduct and auspicious government of that great City for though the Matter of it be incomparably great yet the Manner of handling it falls infinitely short of the worth and excellency of so divine a Subject which ought to be highly esteemed by all Christians and had in everlasting remembrance by the Sons of Men. For 't was a designe highly becoming the Son of God to oppose the Devil that grand Enemy of all Goodness and to confront the powers of Darkness to deliver Men from the dominion of Sin and to secure them from the Vengeance of Almighty God Indeed a designe of this nature required a Person of such excellent and extraordinary Worth such divine Wisdom and infinite Power such exact Holiness and Almighty Goodness to destroy the Works of the Devil and to bring everlasting Righteousness into the World And if the World had not been strangely infatuated when the Son of God became Man neither the Jews would have required a Signe nor the Greeks sought after Wisdom when he did so miraculously manifest his power to the ruine and destruction of the Devil the most malicious and implacable Enemy of Mankind whose insulting Tyranny was far more severe and arbitrary over the Jews than the cruellest opposition of the Roman Empire and his Policy infinitely above the Philosophical Wits and Reasonings of the Gentiles that if the one had not trusted too much to their humane Wisdom and the other longed too affectionately for a temporal deliverance and a secular happiness they must needs have celebrated the Nativity of the Son of God with the most solemn Hallelujahs and Hosanna's have admired him as the great Power of God and the Wisdom of God who was made Man that he might become unto men Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption But the Men of this Generation are most of all without excuse that believe him to be the Son of God and his coming into the World on purpose to destroy the Works of the Devil and to take away the Sins of the World and shall yet remain in slavery and subjection to the God of this World and so do despite to the Holy One of God and deny the Lord that bought them I hope therefore no eye will look with envy upon this Discourse wherein no Dispute is commenced no Controversie promoted but with the great Impostor and deceiver of Souls against whom every Christian ought to employ his utmost knowledge and skill and exert his greatest vigour and zeal being by the solemnity of an Oath the Sacrament of Baptism engaged thereto And since this was the grand designe of Christ's coming into the World I conceived an Argument of this nature very proper and seasonable at this time wherein we were to celebrate the Nativity of Christ the Incarnation of the Son of God And because your Lordship hath commanded that this Discourse whatever it be should become publick which else had remained as private as the Author as I have ever esteemed Obedience the best Sacrifice and a ready submission to the pleasure of our Governours in all things lawful a most excellent Duty and extreamly becoming all Christian Professors so in compliance with your Lordships Command it is now sent forth into the World and I hope under the Patronage of so honourable a Person may be received with the like kindness and good affection as it was by your Lordship And God grant that by the influence of his Grace it may be some way useful to those that read it to carry on that great end and designe for which it is intended I mean to encourage men against the Wiles and Temptations of the Devil and to perswade them to the works of Righteousness and Goodness of Piety and Devotion of Justice and Charity of Humility and Obedience of Sobriety and Temperance God Almighty direct and assist your Lordship in the management of those great Affairs committed to your charge and continue you long in that famous City to the Glory of his Name the Credit of true Religion the Honour of our Soveraign and the happiness of the People at present under your Government that you may reap in this World satisfaction of Mind in the discharge of a good Conscience and in the World to come everlasting Life Which is the hearty Prayer of him who is MY LORD Jan. 1. 1682 1. Your Lordship 's Very humble and most Obedient Servant John James A SERMON Preached before the Lord Mayor c. Decemb. 24. 1682. 1 JOH 3.8 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil NO sooner were the Apostate Angels banished the Court of Heaven and by the just Judgment of God cast into the bottomless Pit to undergo the vengeance of eternal fire but the sense of their torments exasperated their malice and caused them to envy the felicity of Man which stayed not long within the breasts of those accursed Spirits but like a sudden and unexpected Floud that overflows its banks and breaks down all resistance they were restless in contriving the misery of their fellow-creatures and active as the flames of fire till they had accomplisht this their horrid designe in tempting Man to apostatize from his Maker that his Posterity might become obnoxious to the same everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his Angels And such was the unwearied activity together with the subtilty of that cunning Serpent that his hellish Plot soon took effect in seducing our first Parents to hearken too attentively to his Enchantments and through his treacherous suggestions to question the truth of what God had spoken and soon after