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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64235	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, lord mayor of the city of London at Grocers-Hall, February the 12th, 1687/8 by Nathanael Taylor.	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1688 (1688)	Wing T549; ESTC R34647	25,151	42

A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir JOHN SHORTER Knight Lord Mayor OF THE CITY of LONDON AT GROCERS-HALL February the 12 th 1687 / 8. By Nathanael Taylor Published by his Lordships Command LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockeril at the Three Legs in the Poultry 1688. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN SHORTER Knight Lord Mayor OF THE CITY of LONDON MY LORD HAD I been at liberty to have followed my own Inclinations the ensuing Discourse had been thrown by and lain neglected in my own Study only But having received your Commands for the Publishing as well as the Preaching of it I here present it to your Lordship being resolved there shall be no defects in my Obedience how many soever there may be in my Sermon But it 's not the design of this Dedication to make Apologies or which is another common place usually insisted on write a Panegyric They are generally Hypocrites that blow Trumpets before other Men as well as they that of old did it before themselves If you take care that your Works shall praise you and your own Conscience approve and commend you this will afford you a solid Satisfaction when the good Words of Men only will no more comfort than the Breath wherewith they utter them will nourish you And that your Lordship and your Honourable Brethren may manage your Selves and all your Affairs in that Station wherein Providence hath set you so as to secure this to your selves prevent the Reproaches of Conscience and live down those of malicious Men that this great City and Religion may flourish under your prudent and just Administration is and shall be the Daily Prayer of MY LORD Your most Obedient and Faithful Servant Nathanael Taylor A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor c. LUKE X. 21. In that Hour Jesus rejoyted in Spirit and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight HE that shall seriously consider the many express Prophecies concerning the Messiah the great and incredible Diligence wherewith every Iota and Tittle of them was preserved and the general Expectation among all forts of men in Judaea of his Coming and Kingdom about our Saviour's Time would be apt to think that our Lord would have been as joyfully welcomed and entertained by them as the first Approaches of the Sun are by those that have been buried in Darkness for many Months together in the remoter parts of the Earth And that as he was usher'd into the World with the Hallelujahs of Angels so he would have been received with the Hosannas of the Wisest of Men. But he that is in the least acquainted with the History of our Saviour as recorded by all the Four Evangelists will easily see Joh. 1.11 that tho he came to his Own yet his Own received him not and that tho when he went out of the World the Dead indeed arose as if they would present him with their Sepulchres yet as for the Living while he was in the World they would not afford him a Place wherein to lay his Head. He had indeed approved himself to be a Teacher sent from God for never did any Man speak the Words or do the Things which he had done and yet the Generality reject him and especially the Sons of Wisdom and of Learning did most furiously oppose him He opened the Eyes of the Blind yet the Pharisees would not see the truth of his Doctrine He cured the Dumb but this was his Reward from the Scribes he himself was spoken against He unstopped the Ears of the Deaf but yet the Rulers would not hear him He removed the Diseases of their Bodies with greater ease than the Errors and Prejudices of their Minds The Spiritual Wickednesses in those high places were the only Evil Ones that would not be subject to him Ephes 6.12 Nay as if those raging Devils which he had cast out of others had entred into them they blaspheme and revile him and their Doctors sate in the Chair of Scorners as well as in the seat of Moses Whilst they that followed him were few in number mean and ignorant despicable as well for their understanding as for their quality Both of which things were very popular prejudices and mightily improved against him to discourage men from owning and submitting to him But yet our Blessed Lord was so far from being dejected and troubled in mind at this that on the contrary as the Evangelist tells us in the words I have now read In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit c. wherein we have these five things 1. The inward motion of Christ's Soul and the external effect or expression of it He rejoiced in spirit and such a passion must have some vent makes him break silence and with an audible voice give thanks 2. The time when this happen'd In that hour which calls us to cast our eye back on the foregoing Verses Ver. 1 And therein we find our Saviour sending forth his Seventy Disciples to preach the Gospel and giving them directions how to behave themselves towards those that receiv'd their Message From ver 3 to 11. From v. 12 to 16. and those that rejected it Then he upbraids and threatens the Cities of Corazin Bethsaida and Capernaum for their impenitence under all those means of Grace which they enjoyed And immediately upon this St. Mat. 11.25 26. V. 17 Matthew brings in our Saviour uttering the same words with those in my Text. But St. Luke that gives us an account of our Saviour's using these expressions at a different time from what St. Matthew speaks of inserts an account of the return of the Seventy Disciples and their being puft up with the success of their Ministry because not only V. 17 diseases but Devils themselves were subject to them Our Saviour hereupon corrects that carnal joy and turns this wandring stream into its right channel and directs them to rejoice in that which was a solid reason and foundation of joy viz. because their Names were written in Heaven V. 20 And then he instructs them by his example as he had done by his words for seriously reflecting upon that scorn and contempt wherewith the Scribes and learned Pharisees rejected his Doctrine and the meanness of them that embraced it in that hour he rejoiced in spirit for that revelation of Divine Mysteries that God had made unto them which he denied unto others 3. The subject matter or reason of Christ's joy and thanksgiving Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes These things i.e. the knowledg of thy self and me which he mentions in the next Verse and those Mysteries of thy Kingdom which I have declared V. 22 and on which eternal salvation doth depend Thou hast hid from some revealed to others By considering