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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44568	The safety of Jerusalem exprest in a sermon to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, with the Aldermen and Common-Councill of London in the parish-church of Laurence Jury, on Tuesday the XXIV of March, MDCLVI, being the day of their solemne thanks-giving for the health and safety of the city, in its preservation from pestilence, fire, and other calamities / by Thomas Horton ...	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2880; ESTC R8361	28,531	47

THE SAFETY OF JERUSALEM EXPREST In a SERMON to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor with the Aldermen and Common-Councill of LONDON In the Parish-Church of Laurence Jury On Tuesday the XXIV of March MDCLVI Being the day of Their Solemne THANKS-GIVING For the Health and Safety of the City In its Preservation from Pestilence Fire and other Calamities By THOMAS HORTON D. D. ESAY 68.18 Thou shalt call thy Walls SALVATION and thy Gates PRAISE REVEL 21.26 They shall bring the GLORY and HONOVR of the Nation into it LONDON Printed for John Clarke at Mercers-Chappell in Cheapside neere the great Conduit 1657. The Epistle Dedicatory TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir ROBERT TICHBOURN Knight Lord Mayor with the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen And the rest of the Common-Councill of the Famous City of LONDON RIGHT HONOURABLE c. I WAS in good hope when this Sermon was once preached that I had no further worke about it except it were onely to work it upon my owne heart and to pray for a Blessing upon it in the hearts of those that heard it Whereas now since some weekes after I received an Order from your Court for the commending it to publique view But it took me at such a time when I was very little at leasure for it From whence it is now come forth both too soone and too late Too soone in regard of it selfe which deserves not this Publication Too late in regard of the Occasion which is now so long time past as that I feare it is almost forgotten in the minds of many men although it be such as hath cause to be alwayes remembred I doe so much the willinglyer close with the impartment of this Discourse as it may serve to revive the memory of that mercy which is the subject of it and may conferre something to the renewall of our Thankfulnesse for it The more and greater Blessings we doe professe to have received from God the more and greater doe we consequently declare our Ingagements to be to Him which are to run out in answerable Fruitfulnesse and Activity for Him That this may be the Generall Improvement of the mercy which is here proclaim'd is the hearty wish and Prayer of Your Honour 's most humble Servant for the Truth 's sake THOMAS HORTON THE SAFETY OF JERUSALEM ESAY XXXVII VER XXXV For I will defend this City to save it for mine owne sake and for my servant Davids sake IT is the great care and tendernesse of God towards his Church and people not only to keep them from Evill but likewise from the Feare of evill which sometimes is a great deale more then the Evill it selfe The former to provide for their safety the latter to provide for their security and tranquillity of mind Look as on the one side the Enemy he does not only persecute but threaten nor he does not only project and designe mischief but often braggs and boasts of it aforehand thereby to daunt the courage and to allay the Spirits of the people of God So on the other side God himselfe he does not only protect The Coherence but comfort nor he does not only purpose and intend preservation but gives some hints and predictions of it that so thereby he may the better strengthen and incourage his peoples hearts This we may observe him to doe in the drift of this present Scripture which we have now in hand Senacherib the King of Assyria had in the foregoing chapter and this sent his servant Rebshakeh with an insolent and reviling message to Hezekiah and the rest of Judah threatning them what great matters he would doe against them and their City This Hezekiah and his people were very much affrighted at and affected with and accordingly spread their case and condition before the Lord. Now the Lord hereupon undertakes the satisfying and comforting of them tells them what ever threats their enemy might make against them he should not once come neer unto them nor enter amongst them and in the Verse which I have now read unto you gives an account and reason of it whence it should be so not from any change in the enemy as if his mind were bettered towards them but rather from Gods own constancy of affection to them and care for them For I will defend this City to save it for mine own sake c. This is the Cohaerence of the words The Text as you see points at the safety and preservation of a City the City of Jerusalem and so very well sutes with the occasion of our coming together at this time which is the safety and preservation of our own the City of LONDON And though not every way just in the same Circumstances of deliverance yet perhaps if we consider all not altogether different from them and besides with some what more joyned and super-added unto them not onely from the sword of the Enemy but also from the sword of the Angell nor onely from the combustions of warr but from the fires of Peace In the Text it selfe there are two generall parts observable First the Mercy signified The Division And Secondly the Ground or Motive for the bestowing of it The Mercy signified that we have in these words For I will defend this City to save it The ground or Motive of it in these For my owne sake and for my servant Davids sake We begin with the first generall viz. The first Generall The mercy signified wherein two Particulars more First The Specification And secondly The Amplification The Specification or mercy it selfe which is exprest I will defend this City The Amplification or extent of the mercy To save it First To speak of the former viz. The Specification of the mercy The Specification of the mercy or the mercy it selfe which is here signified it is Divine protection and defence I will defend this City 1 Who is that Namely God himselfe who here sends this message by his Prophet it is he that takes this businesse of defence and protection upon him one who was able enough to doe it and to goe through with it And this City which was that Namely Jerusalem the City of God where his name and worship was celebrated That 's the City which is here promised the benefit of Gods defence and preservation of it so that there are two things here now considerable The Defended and the Defendant The Defended that 's this City The Defendant that 's the God of Israell Himselfe For the First The Defended The place defended it was Jerusalem the City of God This was that which was the object of this defence and which this protection extended unto which accordingly shewes unto us the state and condition of the Church in all succeding ages and generations This promise it is not to be limited or restrained to this present time or occasion whereupon it was made but in the force and efficacy of it does reach to all periods of time throughout the World