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death_n	day_n	let_v	lord_n	4,658	5	3.8684	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59651	Divine providence, the support of good men under all events a sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, &c. at Guild-Hall Chappel, June 20th, 1680 / by William Shelton, rector of St. James, Colchester.	Shelton, William, d. 1699.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3098; ESTC R37383	13,523	41

malevolent men Instead of taking the advice that was here lately given whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same Rule let us mind the same thing Instead of uniting as far as we can some there are that take a pleasure in reporting us to make advances towards Rome Alas There is another peece of Popery in which the Nation does indeed advance I mean in the Licentiousness of our Morals They by their Doctrines of easie Confessions ready Dispensations and plenary Indulgences tempt men to be securely wicked But how many among us practise as if they believed the same Doctrine Were we as reformed in our Lives as we are in our Established Doctrines for there is no reason the Church of England should be responsible for all that particular men may rashly say But I say were our Lives as sincere and uncorrupt as our Established Doctrines we would fear neither Rome nor Hell The Providence of God would be a wall of fire round about us God would defend this City and this Nation and would save it for his Name 's sake He would hear the Prayer we this day make and would still keep us under the Protection of his good Providence But if neither Plagues nor Fires If neither Wars nor Conspiracies will reform us though religious and holy men may hope well that God will never cast them off but whatever befall them the good hand of God shall be upon them and therefore they rejoyce because the Lord Reigns Yet all wicked men have as much reason to tremble in dread of the displeasure of Almighty God What then remains but that we should search and try our ways What are we and how do we live If we endeavour to serve and please God then will God watch over us for good and then all the Comforts of this World are not comparable to the satisfaction we may take in this that the Lord our God who loves us and has a kindness for us that he Reigns in the World It is a word too big for a Heathen Horat. Carm. lib. 3. Si fractus illabatur Orbis Impavidum feriunt ruinae Nay every pious good Christian cannot reach Saint Paul's triumphant unconcernedness who says None of these things move me neither Acts 20. count I my life dear to my self But this our Religion teaches us to aspire to and as we grow strong in the Faith we shall with the greater Constancy of Mind resign our wills and our enjoyments and our designs to the wise disposals of God and if we be true to our Religion we shall always rejoyce that we are under his care But if our Consciences reproach us that we take no heed to walk in the ways of God then woe be to us that dare contend with the Almighty We are then upon our good behaviour in this matter God will be to us a Friend or an Enemy we shall inherit a Blessing or a Curse according as we obey or as we contemn God Thus I have set before you Life and Death a Blessing and a Curse Chuse you this day whether or no you will serve God but according as you chuse as you do so God will requite you Judg. 1. The Lord Reigns let the Wicked tremble The Lord Reigns let the Righteous rejoyce FINIS The Reverend Author hath lately Published a Treatise Intituled A Discourse of Superstition with respect to the present Times wherein the Church of England is Vindicated from the Imputation and the Charge retorted not only on the Papists but also on men of other Perswasions Sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard