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A63119	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, of the city of London, at St. Mary le Bow, on the 29th of May, 1694 by John Trenchard ...	Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing T2114; ESTC R23483	18,711	37

Mr. TRENCHARD's SERMON Before the LORD-MAYOR AT St. Mary-le-Bow on May 29. 1694. Ashhurst Mayor Martis Quinto die Junii 1694. Annoque RRs Reginae Willielmi Mariae Angl. c. Sexto THis Court doth desire Mr. Trenchard to Print his Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this City at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow on Tuesday the Nine and twentieth of May last GOODFELLOW A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE the LORD-MAYOR AND Court of Aldermen Of the City of LONDON AT St. Mary le Bow on the 29th of May 1694. By John Trenchard M. A. Rector of Wraxhall in the County of Somerset and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Manchester LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane MDCXCIV TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir William Ashhurst LORD-MAYOR OF THE CITY of LONDON And to the Worshipful the Court of ALDERMEN My Lord WERE there no other motive besides the common Principles of Gratitude to induce me to it this present Dedication of my Sermon to your Lordship would be but a just discharge of that Obligation which your many distinguishing Favours have made me a Debtor for But since the narrow Confines of an Epistle Dedicatory and the equally-insufficient Capacities of my Pen are utterly unable either to contain or express the grateful Sense of your Lordship's manifold Obligations I shall therefore assign another Reason for flying to the Asylum and Protection of your Great Name and Authority in this very Censorious and Vngrateful Age that we now live in My Lord 'T is the apparent danger of Calumny and Misrepresentation for speaking my Thoughts so freely nay I will be bold to say so like an Orthodox Churchman and a True Englishman on the late Anniversary Occasion that puts me under a necessity of giving your Lordship this further Trouble I need not repeat the Occasion nor shall I recriminate as I might fairly and justly do on those that are now become my declared Enemies and open Revilers for speaking the Truth for 't is enough that I have your Lordship's Approbation of my weak but well meant Performance 'T is your Lordship's Judgment alone and known Integrity which I value beyond a Thousand of those Jacobite Animadverters who as I am too too sensible of it would gladly take advantage of the Freedom and Sincerity of my following Discourse in order to prejudice that Interest and to frustrate those Hopes which I might otherwise reasonably pretend to with such as were signally Instrumental in the late blessed Revolution and are still well affected to the present Establishment of their Most Excellent Majesty's Happy Government over us Give me leave My Lord to observe That the Impatience and Sowreness of some men those especially whose Heats and Violences in the late Reigns were like to have brought us into inextricable Difficulties and Confusions are at present such as will not suffer them to be contradicted tho their own Practices and Compliances have been a Publick Confutation of and a notorious Contradiction to All that they have either wrote or said on the following Subject And by these very men am I threatned with a very severe Censure and no question were it in their power to inflict it so great is their want of Charity and so much are their Tempers sowred I should receive at their hands a more severe Persecution But thanks be to God for the Settlement of that Government over us which at this time is mine and every other honest Mans security against so uncharitable and bigotted a Party And what shall I say more in my own Vindication When the Government it self and the best Princes that ever sway'd a Scepter together are not sufficiently priviledg'd against the unhandsome and scurrilous Reflections of these Men 't is not to be expected that I who have endeavour'd and am still ready on any further occasion to justify the late Revolution should pass by uncensured or uncondemn'd by ' em When the sharp point of that Rigid Doctrine of their own Passive Obedience was directed to them they grew Vneasy and Seditious 't is their own word as well as other People and made no scruple to speak evil of Dignities nay and to kick against the Pricks tho as I am well assured they are now highly offended at and very angry with me for giving a more true and agreeable Explanation of that Doctrine Those Men could afford to speak well of and to desire the Prince of Orange above all things at a time when their own turn was to be serv'd nay they could sit quiet wishing him Success in all his Vndertakings when he Landed upon the Late King and they could Address him to take the Administration of the Government upon him tho all this was notoriously contrary to their own so often avow'd Passive Fidelity And yet now so monstrous is their Ingratitude as they cannot bear with a fair Vindication of the Deliverance it self which most of them were either directly or indirectly Accessary to so likewise they cannot forbear to slight and revile our Glorious Deliverer for preserving their Religion Lives and Liberties But may the Justice of our Government exert it self in due time against these ungrateful and self-will'd People And may it make some Eminent Distinction as of late it has begun to do in the Promotions that have been made between its real and pretended Friends in order to the better Establishment of things on a right bottom and to the Settlement of a lasting Peace and Vnion amongst us May Their Majesties have a long and prosperous Reign over us notwithstanding all the trifling Exceptions and Evil Surmises of these Men. To conclude May Your Lordship still continue by the wise and just Administration of that Trust which is reposed in You to be a Terror to all Evil-doers And may all Your Successors take their Measures from that Exact Pattern which You have prescribed in seeing Justice strictly and impartially executed on all Offenders My Lord You have the Just Encomium's of all Honest and Good Men for Your great Zeal and Interity to the Present Establishment and for the Vpright and Conscientious Discharge of Your Great Office in this Famous City And may the Rewards and Blessings of a Gracious and Bountiful God be still pour'd forth on Your Self and Family for the same My LORD Your LORDSHIP' 's Most Obliged Grateful and Obedient Servant JOHN TRENCHARD A SERMON Preach'd before the LORD-MAYOR c. MAY the 29th 1694. PSALM CXVIII 22 23 and 24 verses The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner This was the Lord's doing and it was marvellous in our eyes This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoice and be glad in it THIS Psalm is generally thought to have been compos'd by that great Master of Poetry and Devotion King David and it further appears both from the matter and stile thereof to have been a Pious and Gratulatory