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A57061 A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen in Guild-hall Chappel, on Sunday the xxi of October, 1688 by Nathanael Resbury ... Resbury, Nathanael, 1643-1711. 1689 (1689) Wing R1131; ESTC R36776 11,824 35

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Chapman Mayor c. Cur. Special tent die Dominica xxi die October 1688. Annoque Regis Jacobi Secundi Angl. c. quarto THis Court doth desire Mr. Resbury to Print his Sermon Preached this Morning in the Guildhall Chappel before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe IMPRIMATUR Octob. 22. 1688. Z. Isham R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris A SERMON Preach'd before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor AND Court of Aldermen IN GUILD-HALL CHAPPEL On Sunday the xxi of October 1688. By NATHANAEL RESBVRY Chaplain to the Right Honourable James Earl of Anglesey LONDON Printed for W. Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1689. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Iohn Chapman Lord Mayor of the City of London And to the Court of Aldermen My Lord I Make bold to Present your Lordship and the Court of Aldermen with a very plain Discourse which should not have adventur'd this review but in entire Obedience to your Lordship's and the Court's Commands for Publishing it I confess it is a Noble Subject and worthy every Man's Nicest Observation and Wisest thoughts And your Lordship with the whole Body of this Great City have become a fresh Instance in the Argument in the late Effects of His Majesty's good will toward you and your re-instatement into your Antient Priviledges and Immunities So that since you have thought fit so to order it be pleas'd to accept this as an humble Congratulation May your Lordship with the whole Body under your Government prove happy Instruments in the Ministries of Providence to promote and further that most Holy Religion in the Life and Practice the Profession and Enjoyment of which it hath hitherto pleas'd the Divine Hand to assert and vindicate against all open or Clandestine Attempts It is the earnest Prayer of Your Lordship's Most Devoted most Humble and most Obedient Servant N. Resbury A SERMON Preach'd before the Lord Mayor Matth. VI. 26. Behold the Fowles of the air they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into Barns yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them are not ye much better than they THese Words are part of that Collection of discourses with which our Saviour entertain'd his Disciples in the Mount wherein after having laid down many and most excellent Instructions about a good life about the nature and manner of performing that great Duty of Prayer c. He enters upon that most encouraging subject of Divine Providence and the immediate Care that God hath over them sufficient to quiet and lay asleep all those Fears and Presages they might have about the great Straits and Dissiculties of Life they might expect to be reduc'd to through the Rage and Spight of their Enemies enflam'd and embitter'd against them upon the account of that New Religion they were then to advance in the World. Therefore I say unto you take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor yet for your Body what you shall put on Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment Behold the Fowles of the air c. In the words we have these three Observables 1. The Concern that Divine Providence hath in the smallest Contingencies in this World. The very Fowles of the air are fed by his hand Behold the Fowles of the air c. 2. Much more the concern it hath in all Humane Affairs Are ye not much better than they 3. Most of all in the Well-being of his Church This I observe by considering those to whom our Saviour directs his discourse not only as men but as his Followers and those whom he design'd to adopt and constitute as his Church Of these as briefly as may be in their Order 1. Consider we that Concern that Divine Providence hath in the smallest Contingencies in this World. Behold the Fowles of the air c. Our Saviour is preaching to them upon the Mount and in the open air and therefore probably took the occasion from things that were in their present view to treat his Audience that by such familiar instances he might render himself more useful and his discourses more impressive upon them Thus in this place he observes from the flight of the Birds over them the influence that Providence hath in feeding them and a little afterward from the prospect of the Fields and Meadows below them he exemplifies upon the same argument and from the verdure and beauty of the Fields and Lillies which the Divine Hand cloaths and adorns he gives them encouragement to expect cloathing from God v. 28.29 Consider the Lillies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his Glory was not array'd like one of these wherefore if God so cloath the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the Oven shall he not much more cloath you O ye of little Faith Here I might undertake the proof of Divine Providence against the Epicureans of old and the Infidels of this present Age but I shall rather chuse to suppose the thing and spend that time I have in illustrating the Argument believing that some useful Meditations upon so comfortable a Subject may in this place where Providence is I hope Universally believ'd and perpetually experimented be more proper and seasonable And thus we may observe throughout the whole Scriptures this ascrib'd to Divine Providence as feeding and supporting the meanest of Creatures that his tender mercies are over all his works Ps 145.9 that he openeth his hand and satisfieth the desire of every living thing v. 16. that he giveth to the Beast his food and to the young Ravens that cry Ps 147.9 That the Snow the Frost the Winds and the Waters are gender'd do melt or flow according to the directions of his Word ibid. v. 16 17 18. Nay our Saviour adds that tho' two Sparrows are sold in the Market for one Farthing yet not one of them falls to the ground without the appointment of Providence and from thence argues the encouragement his Followers might have against all needless and unreasonable fears Mat. 10.29 30. And indeed this the Immensity of that Being to whom we ascribe so Universal a Providence secures us effectually in So immense and boundless is his Nature that he fills all places at the same instant and beholds all things as the Schoolmen express it well enough uno actu intuitu with one act of his Almighty Eye So that as he had the Ideas of all things to which he design'd to give a Being in his own great and comprehensive mind a long Eternity before he suffer'd them to be produc'd and this without any travel or burden upon his thoughts so does he still observe all Things and interpose in all Events without any encumbrance of Business upon himself because he is every where and sees every thing not successively or one space of time after another as