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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43457	A sermon preached before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Guild-Hall Chappel, upon the second of September, 1679 being the day of their humiliation in memory of the late dreadful fire / by Henry Hesketh ...	Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing H1616; ESTC R18213	13,713	44

to be Virtues and Merits But therefore I think these Doctrines and consonant Practices condemnation enough of that Religion and sufficient warrants for all that either love their Souls or their Safety to be watchful against all those that are bigotted into a mad Zeal for it Those Men that can Fire Cities and dance in the Light of their Flames are I am sure far enough from the Spirit of JESUS whose Name they usurp and had better derive themselves from Nero that Monster of Men or incarnate Devil But I would not be accounted severe to any If these things were but accidental Miscarriages and not the natural Issues of some Mens Principles Or were not we I do not know for what reason sliding insensibly into a good Opinion and Belief of their Innocency ready to acquit them from their Crimes and to think kindly of them I had wholly waved this reflective Period But since it is quite otherwise I think it not amiss nor very excentrick to my Duty to give a Caution against them and only say if we warm that Viper again in that Bosom which it hath formerly several times so dangerously wounded we become Accessaries to our own Ruin and must be pitied only with that compassion that belongs to silly and incredulous Fools I am for Mercy and Compassion Kindness and Charity to all but I do not know how to commend it then when it shall be made advantage of to effect our own Ruin IV. But fourthly I have greater Enemies to caution against and more dangerous for wicked Men could have no advantage against us did not we our selves give it them nor would God permit this Sword of his to wound us did not we by our Sins incense and provoke him to do so It is these that put the Sword into our Enemies Hand and it is these that arm evil Men against us And certainly when God not only threatens but lets us actually feel the sad and bitter Effects of these we have mighty great Arguments against them and shall make a sad Use of God's Methods and our own Experiences if yet we retain a Kindness for them It was our Saviours advice to the Man recovered from his sad Infirmity Joh. 5.14 Go and Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee and it was mighty proper and like to take effect For they that have felt by a true Experience what an evil and bitter thing it is to sin against God one would think were in a fair way to conversion but they that severely suffer for their Sins and yet go and sin again their Salvation is next to impossible And methinks these things might easily be applied to us and our present Circumstances That our former Sins have occasioned that Punishment which we come now to remember we have been told and would we believe our own selves might be assured May we not then nay should we not take heed of that whose Consequences we have experienced to be so tremendous If we would have the same Judgment repeated we know the Method and may pursue it but certainly if we be wise shall not do so If we dread the one we ought to hate the other If we deprecate the like Punishment we ought to abominate that which caused it If we execrate the Instruments that immediately inflicted the Destruction sure we ought to do so too to those Sins that enabled them to do so And if we lament our Sins and bewail our Misery this Day to any real Purposes of Religion or Acceptance this will be the Effect of so doing without which this Day and the Service of it will be but Pageantry and Hypocrisie which will expose us to God's Fury and not entitle us to his Mercy cause us to fear we shall be consumed instead of praising him that we are not as we now may as the Second General of the Text intimates to us I confess this is not so pertinent to the Design of this Day but blessed be God it is proper for us and therefore I shall for a Close consider it Three Things I have proposed on this Head and I beg patience while I speak to them The Theme is grateful and I hope we shall not grow weary to hear our own Blessings I. The first is to consider our Rescue from these Flames we are not consumed and blessed be God we can speak it upon better Reasons than the Prophet in the Text could That we are not consumed our own happy Experiences tell us and this Religious Convention effectually attests We are yet alive to praise God as I hope we shall this Day But this is too little for us to say It is too mean a Recognition to say we are not consumed we can say also we are happily recovered not only escaped from Death but restored to the happy strength and vigour of our former Life Our City is recovered to its former Grandeur nay as it commonly happens in Resurrections to greater Glory No Man that hath seen our former Temples needs to weep now upon the sight of our latter nor lament that our present Emporium is short of the first For our Buildings are risen to a more glorious Pile and our City to a much more beautiful Frame than formerly And we need not be told this we see it daily and it is equally our wonder and our joy It will be a more seasonable Consideration to impress our Thoughts with the Author of this blessed Preservation that we may pay him sutable Recognitions for it and that is plainly enough intimated in the Text to be the Lord it is of the Lord's Mercies that we are not consumed I. That God is indeed the Author of such signal Preservations as ours and this Peoples too were is a Truth so very evident upon the Principles of Natural Religion that I must not be so rude as to go about gaining a Belief of it in this Audience All Men that have any Belief of the Being of God or his Providence in Governing the World or that have any sense of Religion and the Reasons of it cannot but have entertained a Belief of this Truth If we believe a God we must believe him to be the first great Cause which doth influence and move all the rest which neither can act without him nor contrary to his determination So that he that admits the fatal Chain and lays a necessary Train of Causes for all things that are must either drive that Chain to its first Original or he speaks nonsence and doth not understand his own Hypothesis And if we believe Divine Providence to superintend and order the Affairs of the World we must acknowledge this upon that Reason too I do not go to prove the Being of Providence in this place nor to give Reputation to that idle Epicurean Fancy upon which a Mistrust of this is founded by confuting of it It is founded upon a gross Mistake of God and degrading him to the Imperfections of Man who because he