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A30734 A sermon preached at St. Mary-le-Bow before the Lord Mayor, and court of aldermen, and citizens of London, on Wednesday the 28th of April, a day appointed by His Majesty's proclamation for a general and publick fast by Lilly Butler ... Butler, Lilly. 1697 (1697) Wing B6283; ESTC R14783 15,229 32

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and began to wash his Feet with Tears And of St. Peter that when he began his Repentance he went out and wept bitterly And of those Converts he made Act. 2. That they were pricked in their Heart at the mention of their great Sin in crucifying the Lord Jesus Repentance as it is often described in Scripture is a turning from Sin and a turning to the Lord a turning from Sin in the Judgment Will and Resolutions and in the Affections likewise the love of it is turned into Hatred and delight in it into Shame and Sorrow for it And this inward turning from Sin goes before and produceth the turning from it in the outward Conversation and Practice Therefore St. Paul tells us that Godly Sorrow worketh Repentance not to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 10. We first grieve for Sin and then forsake it We feel the remembrance of it lie heavy upon our Minds and then and therefore set our selves to shake off the uneasy Burden Secondly The Necessity of this Sorrow and Humiliation will be farther manifest if we consider that without this there cannot be that Love of God which the first and great Commandment requires of us If we love God with all our Heart we cannot but look with great displeasure upon that which is most contrary to his Nature and Will which his Soul hates and his Honour suffers so much by Can we see him most highly provoked and injur'd whom our Soul dearly loves and not be afflicted at it He that can reflect upon his Rebellion and Disobedience that can remember how often and how many ways he hath grieved and offended God and not mourn and be ashamed at the thoughts of what he hath done How dwells the love of God in him How absurd are all his pretences to it Thirdly The Necessity of this Sorrow and Humiliation will be yet farther manifest if we consider that without this there can be no true Love of our Neighbour without which we cannot be Christ's Disciples Love will not suffer us to be unconcerned at the Calamities of those who are the Objects of it We cannot but grieve to see their Bodies in pain their Minds distracted their Goods rifled and their Enemies executing their bloody Designs against them and are we not ashamed to pretend in any sense to love our Neighbours as Christ hath loved us if we can see them under far greater Miseries than all these and yet be little affected with them If we can see them diseased in their Souls dead in Trespasses and Sins inslaved by the Devil pulling down the Wrath of God upon them and ready to fall with their Souls and Bodies into unquenchable Flames and not have our Bowels moved and our Hearts pained within us Fourthly Without this Sorrow and Humiliation there can be no true Faith without which it is impossible to please God or to be justified in his sight How can we believe that God is our Maker and Preserver and the giver of every good Gift and yet offend him daily without Remorse How can we believe that he hates all the Workers of Iniquity that he is angry with the Wicked every Day and will by no means acquit the Guilty and yet be easy under all the great and provoking Transgressions we have committed against Him How can we believe that the Son of God came down from Heaven and suffered all the Shame and Torment of the Cross for our Salvation and feel no wounds in our Spirits no shame in our Faces for all the ungrateful Returns we have made to his tender Love How can we believe that he gave himself for us to save us from our Sins whilst we cherish and embrace them with pleasure and will not be delivered from them How can we believe that Glory Honour and Immortality are the certain Reward of those that work Righteousness and yet remember with little concern how carelesly we have neglected so great Salvation How can we believe that Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish eternal Death and Misery will be the undoubted Portion of every Soul of Man that doth Evil and not look with Horror and Bitterness of Spirit upon our sinful Lives What brutish Folly and Ingratitude doth the unrelenting Sinner accuse himself of whenever he is so absurd as to call himself a Christian I proceed III. To shew the Seasonableness of this Duty of Sorrow and Humiliation God doth sometimes more loudly call to Weeping and Fasting and Mourning and the Sins and Circumstances of a Church and Nation increase their Obligations to them as with us at this Day Had ever any Age or People more or greater Sins to mourn for than we have Is not the whole Head sick and the whole Heart faint and the whole Body full of Wounds and Bruises and putrifying Sores Have not all sorts of Men corrupted their Ways Are they not altogether become abominable Are not Atheism and Infidelity Rioting and Drunkenness Chambering and Wantonness Strife and Envying Pride and Covetousness the prophanation of God's Sacred Name in horrid Oaths and Curses and the contempt of Divine Worship the most notorious things we can any where observe And can sorrow for Sin ever be more seasonable than now now that it is so general so impudent and so exceedingly multiplied in all its Kinds Is it not a most proper Season to mourn for our Sins when we have already smarted so much for them and the Rod is still upon us when they have brought us into so many Difficulties afflicted us with so many Losses shed so much English Blood and made so many Orphans and Widows and Childless amongst us Is it not high time to humble our selves under that mighty Hand of God we have felt so heavy upon us is still so visibly lifted up against us and from whence alone we can expect that Success and Peace and Settlement our Sins have hitherto withheld from us But that nothing may be wanting to perswade us to concern our selves effectually for the discharge of the Duty of the Text I shall shew IV. The great Benefit of our performing this Duty intimated to us in these Words and he shall lift you up First We might comfortably hope that if we were generally or but some good Numbers of us thus humbled God would lift us up above all our Difficulties and above all our Enemies that we should dwell on high and our place of Defence should be the Munition of Rocks secure from all those Storms and Tempests our Sins have raised against us The great End of God's sending his Judgments upon a People is to humble and afflict their Souls with the remembrance of those Sins whereby they have provoked him And therefore we may reasonably hope that he who doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men will take off his Rod when the Design of his Correcting is in some good measure accomplished God had expresly threatned to destroy Niniveh within fourty Days Yet when they fasted and cried