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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61282	Four sermons preached upon solemne occasions I. The troubler of Israel. II. The righteous mans concern for the churches misery. Preached before the judges. III. Cæsars due honour, preached before the mayor and aldermen of Leicester, May 29. 1669. IV. Davids work and rest, preached before the election of the mayor. By Tho. Stanhope A.M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester.	Stanhope, Thomas.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5233B; ESTC R221868	48,189	101

vindicate him True he is a patient in every Crime as all sins strike against his law but more especially in some than in others and in none more than this of Sacriledge A word of as large a comprehension as the thing is of a pestilent nature It is usually reckoned of three sorts with relation to things to places and to persons The last Ages have had Wide throats and greedily swallowed many holy Morsels What is past lies not within your power to remedy but if any ravenous Harpie be fastening upon that which remains be so just to God to beat him off and pluck it out of his Claws Secure his Portion and rest satisfied he will secure your estates Cast an eye upon the Holy places and let them partake a little of your care suffer not our Churches to be excommunicated nor our Congregations to be gathered into Barns whilst the Houses of God stand too too empty Certainly there is a relative holiness in them by their solemn dedication to Gods service if so this offence is Sacriledge unless Aquinas was mistaken by whom it is defined Sacrae rei violati● Aquin. 2. 2. Q. 99 Art 1. resp ad arg 3. Gravius peccatum est sacrilegium quò peccatur contra personam sacram quam quò peccatur contra locum sacrum Aquin. 2. 2 qu. 99. Art 3. Exod. 15.11 and that violatio interpreted by quaecuncue irreverentia But the Schools agree the hainousest Sacriledge is against a Person and what person greater than God All holy things challenge a reverence by Vertue of their holiness He most of all who hath stiled himself glorious in holiness Do not thou overlook any thing which may reflect upon Him If you find that his Name be blasphemed that his word be profaned that his Ordinances be contemned that his day be unhallowed and alas these sins are too common among us for Gods sake let them not escape an especiall remark from you nor the offenders some serious rebukes from your Lordships Pardon my zeal in these passionate wishes Gods honour must be regarded if ever we expect to be happy I fear being tedious and therefore will contract May all who are concerned in the affairs of these days either as Jurors or Witnesses beware of Achars faults If once forsworn you are guilty of them both In case you are employed between party and party you rob your neighbour of his goods either by procuring or confirming an unjust title If between the King and the prisoners you either rob your Soveraign of a subject by condemning the innocent or you steal from justice by acquitting the guilty Besides God hath stamped holiness upon an Oath Therein men use his name they call him to witness the truth of their words therefore Perjury is a branch of Sacriledge Exod. 20.7 and as such it shall be rewarded for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Once more I return to your Lordships and present Achar not as standing at the Bar but as lying in his Prison Places of that nature were certainly designed to be houses of instructions as well as of correction that however the body might suffer the soul might be bettered that however the guilty might smart for their faults before men they might be drawn to repentance before God That if the Crimes they committed deserved death helps might not be wanting to prepare them for it and if through the laws clemency they came off with life their former restraint might be a dayly Monitor to warn them against such ungodly courses But experience proves Goals are Goals in a double sense fellons are held as fast in the fetters of sin as in the fetters of Iron and it is hard for a man to enter the Prison a child of hell but he leaves it ten times worse It might not be unworthy of your Lordships to think of this particular along your Circuit Here God be blessed through the charity of Benefactors a provision is made for teaching the prisoners in some other places I am sure it is not where at this time it needs sufficiently D●yl● Be pleased therfore to consider the condition of those poor creatures that your sentence from the bench speak not death both to body and soul It will certainly be an act of the highest compassion and an imitating the example of that good Joshua who endeavoured to work so effectually with Achar that the same stones might not kill him and damn him Let them suffer under your justice here so they meet not with Divine vengeance hereafter The sum of all is God must not be dishonoured Israel must not be troubled Laws must not be infringed Achars must not be spared And then will our land enjoy peace and tranquility the blessing of the Almighty will rest upon our heads we shall partake of his present favour and in due time of his future Glory Which God grant we way all do through Jesus Christ our Lord. To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be Honour Praise and Dominion henceforth and for evermore Amen THE Righteous Man's Concern FOR THE Churches Misery A SERMON Preached before the Judges at St. Maries Church in Leicester July 22. 1669. By Tho. Stanhope A.M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester The Righteous Mans Concern for the Churches Misery Psalm 11.3 If the foundations be destroyed what can the Righteous do HOly Men have usually met with their share of troubles The way to heaven is paved with flints and strawed with Roses Our world is a Sea and the best sail through it with the wind in their faces That Royall Prophet to whose composure this psalm pretends though by the infallible spirit declared a man after Gods heart Acts. 13.22 18 am 26.20 was sufficiently sensible how dear a rate his piety cost him with a wicked Saul who sought his life and endeavoured his destruction Hunted he was like a Patridge and then no marvell his enemies should say flee as a 〈◊〉 to your Mountain V. 1. Saul and his Parasites had knit their brows and then no wonder if they bent their bows they shot forth their bitter words a sign they made ready their Arrows upon the string and all this preparation was to wound that good man and those who were like him privily to shoot at the upright in heart V. 2. Yet as pious souls preferr the publick concernes before their private interests he values not what related to himself in respect of what referred to the Church of God If she fared ill he could not fare well And apprehending her foundations in danger of being overturned he breaks forth into the question before us if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do In which words you may please to observe two general parts 1. A Supposition 2. An Interrogation A Supposition if the foundations be destroyed An interrogation What can the righteous do In the Supposition there is the matter and the form or the Suppositum

for fear of losing their estates some of their lives notwithstanding the several attempts for his restauration which had proved fruitless and the various projects which had been dis-appointed yet God wrought his own work in his own way at his own time He stirred up a Noble-Hearted Subject our renowned Generall whom God long bless for bringing such a blessing to us directed him in the management of his affairs made him successfull in his enterprizes by whose wisdom courage and faithfulness our King was brought home quietly and peaceably without the shedding one drop of blood 1 Kings 6.7 I was going to say his return was like the building of Solomons Temple without noise but that the Solemnities of this day proved it otherwise when the Canons in the Tower the Bells in the Churches and the acclamations of the people vied one with another which should loudliest proclaim his welcome to London Certainly God did herein out-do our very expectations It is a day we have reason to remember it brought us a mercy we have reason to prize To sum up all Let us be sure to honour that King whom God by such a miraculous preservation hath honoured Psal 118.24 And since this is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it blessing and praising the great worker of wonders for this his wonderfull mercy vouchsafed unto us For which and all other benefits bestowed upon us To the Eternall and Glorious Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost be continually ascribed Glory Praise Dominion and Thanksgiving now henceforth and for evermore Amen Davids WORK AND REST. A SERMON Preached at St. Martins Church in Leicester September 21. 1669. Before the Election of the Mayor By Tho. Stanhope A. M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester TO THE Right VVorshipful The Mayor and Aldermen of the Borough of Leicester Right Worshipful I Here present to your Eyes what formerly was delivered to your Ears God grant it may make a deep impression upon your Hearts It is a Sermon preached by Command and was at the preaching favourably entertained by the persons principally concerned in it To prevent the trouble of giving several Copies desired by some good Friends which I thought might be attended with sundry Inconveniencies I have chosen this way of publishing it in Print that it may be ready at hand to do God his Church and your selves a further service I must ever thankfully remember the kindness received by an unanimous vote in your Hall at my first settlement among you and the continuance of a fair Respect which as I still experience so I desire to declare it to the World My capacity will not reach to a better acknowledgement than the offering this Token of Gratitude into your hands God Almighty bless it to the good end for which it was designed that by following Davids example in serving your Generations His Holy Name may receive due Honour you may be Instrumental to do much good and your Corporation being Governed with Care and Conscience may flourish in Peace and Plenty while the Sun and Moon endure This is and shall be the fervent Prayer of Your Humble Servant in Christ Jesus Tho. Stanhope Leicester Novem. 9. 1669. DAVIDS Work and Rest Acts 13.36 For David after he had served his own Generation by the Will of God fell on sleep IT is no new thing in Scripture to meet with Articles of Faith confirmed by force of Argument Rational proofes make the deepest impression upon rational creatures Thus St. Paul spends a whole Chapter in proving the Resurrection of our bodies 1 Cor 15. And here great part of a Sermon in proving the resurrection of Christs body The medium he useth is a passage of Davids which that Prophetick Psalmist had long before sung in his name upon a foresight of his triumph over death Psal 16.10 Thou wilt not leave my soul in bell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption Now that these words were a praediction concerning Christ the Apostle makes out Syllogistically one part of the Argument being implied the other part expressed That implied is the ground or foundation of the rest and may thus be formed Either this place must be understood of David or of Christ But it cannot be understood of David Therefore it must be understood of Christ Where the Minor being only lyable to exception is strengthened by that which we find expressed The two propositions are in two verses David after he had served his own generation by the Will of God fell on sleep and saw corruption in this But he whom God raised up meaning Christ saw no corruption in the next Whence the conclusion naturally follows Therefore the Psalmists words of not seeing corruption must be understood not of David but of Christ And thus the Text stands in its relative consideration as it respects the business our Apostle was then managing and the Article of faith he was then confirming But I pass from that to take it absolutely as it neither looks backward nor forward yet contains in it self those truths which may be seasonable for this occasion for this Auditory For David after he had served c. To entertain you with any tedious discourse of Davids person or Criticisones upon his Name would be ill husbandry both of your patience and my time His Character is so exactly given by the Spirit of truth and his life so largely written in the Scriptures of truth that he who runs may read and he who reads may understand them I shall confine my self to what is here mentioned After he had served 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Substantive whence the Verb comes properly signifies an Vnder-rewer ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sub remige qui remum in navi agit he that tugs at the oare in the Ship a Work of constant and extraordinary pains And it is commonly if not alwayes in the New Testament used of serving in Publick Employments a sign that men when called to the Management of great Offices are called to a great deal of trouble The Mace and the Scarlet doe not more naturally bring bonour and respect than care and toile along with them No marvel then that honos and onus sound so like or the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated honour should be derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to be burdensome Men will scarce believe that King spake his thoughts when he told the Woman applauding his happiness Knewest thou what cares are wrapt up in a Crown ne ex luto quidem thou wouldst not take it up out of the dirt but he that wore it felt how heavy it sat upon him and made both his head and shoulders to ake That by the way After he had served his own Generation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To understand this word aright you must know that Generation is especially taken two wayes either for the whole time one lives the duration of a