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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48381	A sermon preach'd in the Cathedral-Church at Ely, July the 24th, 1698 on occasion of His Majesty's proclamation against atheism, and profaneness, &c / by Charles Lidgould ...	Lidgold, Charles, d. 1701.	1699 (1699)	Wing L1978; ESTC R15964	16,733	28

A SERMON PREACH'D In the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH AT ELY July the 24th 1698. On Occasion of His Majesty's Proclamation against Atheism and Profaneness c. By Charles Lidgould late Fellow of Clare-Hall and Reader at the Charter-House Now Rector of Dunsby in Lincolnshire LONDON Printed for Joseph Wild at the Elephant at Charing-Cross 1699. A PREFACE THIS Discourse had I been fond of its appearing in Print had been more seasonably Publish'd when it was first brought forth which was soon after the Issuing out His Majesty's Proclamation against Atheism and Profaneness ' Tho indeed the suppression hereof being a new recommended by the King in his late Speech to the farther Consideration of this present Parliament affords no unfit Occasion even now to the Publishing a Discourse of this Nature It was intruth Calculated for the City where some business calling me thither last Year I had Friends who I knew would expect I should give them a Sermon And I might at the same time have prevail'd with some to desire a Publication of it that so it might have come abroad with the Advantage of being Published at their Request and Importunity But waving this I brought it safe off to Ely where I had an opportunity and that but very accidental of Preaching it again All which I thought proper to be here mentioned that nothing of it might appear to be levell'd principally against any of that Auditory wherein it had the Honour to be deliver'd the Lord Bishop of Ely himself heing present Whose Memory to which I thought fit to appeal by submitting it to his Lordship's view before I would commit it to the Press is both able and ready to justifie me that there was nothing then Preach'd that is not here Printed nor any thing here Printed bating what you may find in the Margin that was not then Preached From whom if it had the good fortune to gain any Approbation I am not much concern'd how many it displeas'd beside The good Opinion of so great and worthy a Person being sufficient to clear it among all that are indifferent and unbyass'd from any unseemly or indiscreet Glances Tho' for the sake of several to whom I owe a very just respect I could heartily wish it had appear'd as inoffensive as it was really innocent And to say truth one Reason that now brings it to open View is the hope that it may upon Re-examination be acquitted of any unhandsome Reflections to which Charge the first hearing did it seems expose it How justly I now leave to those who then heard it and all others who shall be at the pains of reading it to judge For my own part I know nothing herein mention'd that gave any Offence which the History I am engaged in did not so plainly suggest that without it I had been unjust to my Subject and left the Parallel imperfect Whether it may prove any otherwise serviceable or not I humbly leave to God Almighty's Blessing Whom I at the same time call to Witness that the first Motive to the forming this Discourse was the concern I had upon me to see and hear how Atheism and Blasphemy have diffus'd and spread themselves throughout the Nation and the chearing hopes I had conceived from His Majesty's Pious Proclamation that such a Discountenancing all that are that way Guilty which he himself has most graciously promised would be the most effectual Means to restrain its Course and put a stop to the Malignity of its Influence Which that it may I beseech God may be not only the earnest desire but hearty endeavour of all that would not undergo the suspicion of having an evil Will to this our Sion A SERMON Preach'd In the Cathedral Church at Ely Jer. Vii 17. Seest thou not what they do in the Cities of Judah and in the Streets of Jerusalem WHEN Solomon says that the Light of the Eyes rejoyceth the heart Pro. 15.30 it can only be understood where the Object is delightful For such a Prospect as Jeremiah had when he saw the Desolation of Jerusalem the Young and the Old lie on the ground in the streets the Virgins and young Men fallen by the Sword when he saw the Children faint for hunger in the top of every street all that had been swadled and brought up consumed by the Enemy when the Lord slew them in the Day of his Anger when he killed and pitied not none escaped nor remained as we find it Pathetically described Lam. 2. Lam. 2.19,21,22 Surely such a Prospect as this could not but have so affected his heart as even to make him cry out in the Language of the same Prophet wherefore came I forth out of the Womb to see labour and sorrow Jer. 20.18 All which if it were so afflicting to the Eye in the event must needs be abundantly more so to see it likewise in its Cause viz. The heigth of wickedness they were arrived at that provoked God to this the shameless and abominable Sins they were guilty of as you see in the 9th and 10th Verses of this Chapter that could Steal Murder commit Adultery Swear falsely and the like and yet come and stand before him in his House whereupon his Name is called and say we are delivered to do all these Abominations Such a careless and stupid security that could from God's forbearance presume upon peace and safety notwithstanding all the terrible examples of Vengeance that befell their Fore-fathers which they are put in mind of in the next Verse but one to rowse them if it be possible out of their deadly Lethargy this dangerous Insensibility Go ye now says he unto my Place that was in Shiloh and behold what I did to that for the wickedness of my People ver 12. And can these hope to escape their punishment who are as deeply guilty of all their Sins So many that it were an endless thing to go about to enumerate or particularize them so great that they are beyond all expression so evident and apparent that it were but lost labour to offer at any Proof of them And therefore has God thought it enough in all reason to call upon the Prophets or indeed any ones Eyes to be Witnesses thereof Seest not thou what they do in the Cities of Judah and in the Streets of Jerusalem An aggravation far above any Description that could have been given of their doings For the handling of which words so as may be most suitable to my Design in chusing them I need but remove the Scene from Jerusalem and the Cities of Judah to this Nation whereunto we belong and imagine the Lord calling to us as he did to his Prophet to take a view of all the Wickedness and Profaneness the Debauchery and Immorality the Atheism and Irreligion that abound among us And this Call have I for my own part the more readily hearken'd to at present since it has pleas'd Almighty God to put it into the heart of our pious Sovereign to consider