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A30218	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the natives of St. Martins in the Fields, at their own parochial church, on May 29, 1684 by Richard Burd, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord President, and lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury ; published at the request of the stewards.	Burd, Richard.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5616; ESTC R34772	15,233	51

sometimes pleased to dispense with the non performance of his own Laws but never those that relate to the good and benefit of mankind But notwithstanding the Scribes and Pharisees of old had a mind to be more civil to God than he would have them and were resolved to give his Laws the preeminence and ne're matter all the other commandments so they did but observe what belonged to the service of God and therefore they stood up mightily for his Worship and Glory and were strict observers of the Sabbath and very zealous in defence of their Religion and cryed up every where the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord and all the while neglected every other duty of equal moment and concern lived in open rebellion to their Rulers proved annoyance to the state had no bowels of mercy and compassion but devoured Widows houses and were greatly injurious to their Neighbours interest And I am afraid we have many such now a days who are great Champions for the Church and are very forward to maintain the cause of God and think themselves highly obliged to observe his Laws and Ordinances but ne're matter how negligent and remiss they are of others Who take great care to discharge their duty of the first table and yet can freely indulge themselves in a manifest violation of those of the second as if Religion was designed to be a supersedeas to common honesty and if we did but often invoke God in our prayers we might afterwards go lye cheat and abuse our neighbour I have the charity to believe that many of them are not given to prophane the Sabbath to cursing or swearing to drunkenness or fornication nor to any such gross and sensual immoralities but none more guilty of Spiritual and Pharisaical vices than they there are none so proud and cenforious so covetous and worldly minded so false and hypocritical so factious and seditious and so disobedient unto Princes and Governours as they are And if these be not mortal and damning sins what are and yet all this is pretended to be done out of pure zeal to God and Religion but if we trace out the first Authors and abettor of this surious and misguided zeal we shall quickly find them to be the Jesuits For there is no footsteps of this in the records of very early times but just upon the breaking out of the Reformation then this active fiery zeal began first to blaze and kindle and embroil the whole nation out of zeal to their Idolatrous rites and ceremonies and before our Island could be throughly purged from all the Jesuits and Seminary Priests that swarmed amongst us they they rubbed their leprofie upon some of our honest Country men and e'ne left the infection behind them So that this ardent zeal for Religion was an old Jesuitical Church engin tho now moved about and played by other hands And this Andreas Ab Haberfeild in his Letter to Sir William Bosewell plainly declares But thirdly and lastly whether we will be obedient to our Governours or not yet God will have his ends served in the world Sayes Solomon there are many devices in the heart of man Prov. 19.21 nevertheless the Counsel of the Lord that shall stand How void of sense and reason is it then for such mortal creatures as we are to pretend to have our wills fulfilled before Gods and to order all things in the world as we would have them are we able to baffle the counsels and purposes of the Almighty or to invert and change the course of his Providence can we cancel the sacred ordinances of Heaven and make the everlasting decrees of none effect no! the divine appointments must stand for ever and are fixed and unalterable as the center of the earth and what from all eternity was preordained must so happen out and come to pass tho it be never so contrariant to the humors and fancies of unquiet men Why then will any interpose and grapple with the Almighty turn Rebels and affront his Viceroys and study to dismount those whom he hath appointed to rule over us if God should suspend his providence and suffer Rebellion to ride triumphant and grow prosperous yet alas it is but for a while and then the Scene changes and a new face of things strait appears So that altho God may a little procrastinate and adjourn the execution of his designs yet they shall take place when he sees it fitting and convenient and then must all Rebels be debased and punished and them that should preside over us again exalted Wherefore let this rally up the Spirits of every wise and Religious Prince seeing there is a God above who beholds all the struglings of their enemies and and knows how hard they bare against the curb and fain would trample them underfoot And altho the affairs of their Kingdoms may be sometimes in a sad plight and look towards a change Yet God can work miracles and make the wind tack about and in an instant rescue them out of every straight and difficulty Who could have thought when Joseph was betrayed by his Bretheren and fold into Aegypt a slave should at last be Lord over Pharaohs household When Jonas was cast into the Sea and swallowed up by a Whale to have met him afterwards preaching at Nineveh When Nebuchadnezar was grazing in the forest among the Beasts to see him again governing in Babel When the Jews were so totally routed by the Chaldees who sackt Jerusalem burnt their Temple and carried them Captive into Babylon should at last be restored and set at liberty by that heathen Persian Monarch Cyrus When that same Jesus who was so reproachfully handled and so barbarously crucified by the Jews should after his death be adored by Kings and Emperours and his Cross an Ornament to Crowns and Scepters When our most gracious Soveraign who was so long depulsed from his Trone discarded by his subjects proscribed out of the Land should at last be installed Soveraign Lord over England Scotland and Ireland Thus you see God is able to set all things to rights again and tho he sometimes stands by and suffers wicked Men to act their pleasure yet after a while the counsel of the Lord that shall stand which ought to be a support and encouragement to all Governours and a terrour to the obstinate and Rebellious for whether men will be obedient to them or not or whether they discard and lay them aside or whatever they are pleased to do with them yet Gods ends must be served in the world his Will shall be done be the Earth never so impatient and that very Stone which the builders rejected shall in his good time be made Head of the Corner Having thus dispatcht the chief matters I designed at the beginning I will only now give some short and modest reflexions upon the day and so conclude If all the Topicks that I have now urged for obedience unto the King and Government we

live under be not sufficient I hope the memory and experience of our late unhappy troubles will abundantly prevail upon the most stif necked amongst us Let any of our sectaries look back and consider the sad posture of affairs in the year 41. and recount if they can all the evils and mischiefs that gushed in upon the Nation during the Civil Wars I say let any of them that survived the calamity and had been for sometime under the hatches confess if they would pay so dear for Rebellion once more whether they could ever find in their hearts to set one foot towards the introducing again such dolorous and bloody times in these Kingdoms which I can parallel to nothing but a kind of Interregnum where after the death of the Alcade or chief Governour the people are allowed to do all manner of villanies until another is chosen Or to that sad time among the Jews when there was no King in Israel in the which every man did that which was lawful and right in his own eyes The old civilized Romans had such an opinion of the augustness of their City that to be proscribed or banished was counted a capital punishment and a civil death thought equal to a natural O that I could perswade all of you to be such brave spirited Romans and to have such a regard for this Royal City the Metropolis of our Nation never to commit any base or disloyal action as to merit proscription from it but be as constant and true to the King as we are fully convinced the Natives of this place are by this solemn anniversary Festival and if several Countries heretofore strove which should have the honour of Homers birth sure it is no small addition to our happiness seeing this very Parish is honoured with so good a Kings Nativity as well as ours And if we enjoy not now all the rights and priviledges which hath been long since continued to this our Imperial City we may e'ne thank some of its Pharisaical members who by their open Rebellions have forfeited the great Seal and Charter of it I pray God then we may all lay it to heart and let our Rebellion terminate here and every man sit down content and eat the fruit of his labour under his own Vine and under his own fig-Tree For what can any expect by disturbing and thwartning the Government but abundance of evils and calamities must ensue And then how deep will their guilt be and what a great deal of blood must be Spilt and how many lives lost in such wild heats and combustions Xerxes when he beheld his army pass before him it drew tears from his eyes that a hundred years hence there would not be a man of them left Here was something of good nature but we strive as fast as we can by our fierce debates and quarrellings to destroy and be the death of as many and to imbrue our hands one in anothers blood These are strange and preposterous doings and very ill-timed and most unchristian breaches and heartily to be lamented and sorrowed for and do much weaken our Nation and fit us for a final overthrow I remember Josephus sayes the unhappy divisions that were among the Jews in the time of their Siege did more shake the foundations of their City than Titus his whole Army without the Walls And in another place he has most impartially related that there was no care of Religion no zeal for the Law amongst them because there was nothing but bandings and factions in their Synagogues And I am afraid that our zeal for small and indifferent matters for circumstantials only hath quite eaten up the very Spirit and life of our Religion and well may we be bore down by the common enemy when we do all we can by our devilish and inhumane breaches to prepare the way and accelerate his coming in And besides this there is such a surplusage of Atheism and prophanness of irreligion and ungodliness abounding every where that notwithstanding what Juvenal remark long ago omne in praecipiti vitium Stetit all vice was at the height Yet if it be possible the times we now live in are worse And albeit some would insinuate that it is the humour of every age to cry down their own times yet iniquity is now grown so bare faced and rife in our streets that there is not the lest umbrage or colour for such a pretext And was there nothing more his is enough to throw us out of the protection of the Almighty and to make us the fag-end and refuse of Gods Creation For what saies Solomon righteousness exalteth a Nation but sin is the reproach and confusion of any people And to use the words of a great man the experience of every age has made this good All along the history of the old Testament we find the interchangeable providences of God towards the people of Israel always suited to their manners they were either prosperous or afflicted according as virtue and piety florished or declined amongst them And God did not only exercise this Providence towards his own people but he dealt thus with other Nations The Roman Empire whilst the virtue of that people continued firm was strong as iron as t is represented in the prophesie of Daniel but upon the dissolution of their manners the iron began to be mixt with miry clay and the feet upon which the Empire stood to be broken in pieces No doubt than but it was our own exceeding guilt and sinfulness that destroyed the nation and plunged us into such an abyss of misery and confusion But seeing this happy day hath given us a blessed resurrection to life again and turned all our heaviness into joy and rejoycing O sing therefore unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things Psal 98. with his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a Psalm of thanksgiving with trumpets and Shawms O shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let the sea make a noise and all that there in is the round world and they that dwell therein Let the stoods clap their hands and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord. For this Nation was sunk deep into the earth but now it hath lift up his head again The people all lived under bondage and thraldom but now are at perfect liberty and enjoy their own Oppression and Tyranny before infested the land but now mercy and truth are met together and righteousness and peace have kissed each other The hinges of the Government that were all disjonted and broken are now redintegrated and turn upon the same axle Our most gracious Soveraign who had been so long banished on a foreign shore is now landed again and become the delight and glory of three Kingdoms That very Sun which before was shrowded and set is now stept from behind the cloud and shines upon us with all his heavenly and benign influences In a word Seeing this day then hath put a final period to all our grievences Oh let us study to be peaceable and quiet and not Physick our distemper to a worse but learn the lesson of obedience better for the time to come and mind the peace and prosperity of our Nation and the preservation of his Majesties most sacred Person who after several years hazards and turmoils by his own Country-men and by Foreigners and after all those attempts and offers that were made by the Priests while he was beyond sea to pervert him from the true Religion blessed be God yea thrice blessed be God who preserved him all along through the Wilderness and at length brought him back in the same faith and profession as he went out And let us all now implore the continuance of Gods mercy towards him that his Reign may be long and prosperous and his years many that he would bless him both in body and Soul and give him the hearts and love of all his Subjects that he would make him wise as an Angel of light and a faithful Minister of justice among his people that he would give him the victory over all his enemies at home and abroad and let them be driven back and put to confusion that wish him evil that he would set a Crown of pure gold upon his own head and so make him for ever happy in this life and when that dismal night draweth near in which we must part with him Crown him everlastingly in the world to come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS