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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48853	A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, March the twelfth, 1689/90, being the fast-day by the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Almoner to Their Majesties.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1690 (1690)	Wing L2714; ESTC R20282	16,122	36

a wise Heathen Writer Plutarch observes is an Effect of the Long-suffering of God Dion saith he that basely killed his Friend if for that he had been cut off presently would not have died so well as he did a long while after when another Friend kill'd him with the same Dagger then every one said there is a God that avenges such things Adonibezek Jud. 1. 7. having treated so many of the petty Princes about him with that barbarous Insolence of cutting off their Thumbs and great Toes at last when his own Thumbs and Toes came to be cut off in like manner then he could not but acknowledg Gods Justice As I have done saith he so God hath requited me It were easie to abound in such Examples of Persons that have been by the patience and long-suffering of God to use the Apostles word fitted for destruction and then it hath justly come upon them to the great satisfaction of all Men and to the greater Glory of God But of Persons whoever reads History will meet with enough of these Instances and whoever takes notice will daily add to them by his own Observation Perhaps every one may not observe it in National Judgments I mean final Judgments for they happen not in every Age and therefore I shall name some few of the most remarkable of them and deliver you the Sense of Men that were then living to shew you what they thought that suffer'd under those Judgments of God They confest upon abundant Conviction the great Patience and Long-suffering of God before he brought things to the extremity and they confess'd the Wickedness of their Nations that run on in known Sins till they even forc't God to these Extremities These things being considered together have tended much to the magnifying of his Glory and it has been acknowledged by them that writ whole Books to this purpose So namely for the Jews in their first Captivity it was seen and confest by Jeremy in his Lamentations in their second Captivity by Josephus in his last Book of the Jewish Wars For the Roman Empire which consisted of many Provinces when all those were given up to the barbarous Nations the just Judgment of God in it was acknowledged by Jerom by Austin by Salvian and divers others in those Books which they wrote of God's Judgments on their several Nations Here particularly in this Island when the Britains were over-run with the Saxons Gildas gives God the Glory of it in his Book of the Ruin of Britain Likewise when those Saxons were over-run by the Danes the crying Sins that even forc't that Vengeance from God were acknowledged and bewail'd by Lupus in his Book of Saxon Homilies And lastly to name no more when Constantinople was taken by the Turks both Franzes and others that bewail'd the Calamity ascrib'd it to the desperate Folly of their People who between a sordid and a seditious Humour refus'd to serve their Prince either with their Purses or in their Persons He had but a few hired Men to fight for him and his Kingdom Yet they were more than he was able to pay So that having quite exhausted himself having coin'd out his Altar-Plate and at last gone from House to House to beg Money when his Soldiers mutinied for want of it he was feign to venture his own Person against the Enemy And so when he fell as he did under the Feet of the Enemy when over his Body the Turks entred the City they were amazed at the incredible Wealth they found in it they had such a Spoil that it grew a Proverb among them if any grew rich on a sudden they us'd to say he had been at the Sacking of Constantinople It was so sottish a thing for a People to lose themselves for want of Money when their Wealth was at the highest as if they feared not to perish but to be a less Prey to their Enemy It was such an Infatuation from God that they that knew how vile a People they were could not but applaud the Divine Justice in it they could not but acknowledge it was the just Reward of their Sins In all the Cases before us if these Nations had perished sooner or otherwise God had lost so much of the Glory of his Justice It had not been so Illustrated as it was by his great Patience and Long-suffering But Secondly beside the Glory of his Justice God shews forth his Mercy in it likewise There is some kind of Mercy in it whenever he punishes in his Judgment he remembers Mercy saith the Prophet 'T is a Riddle to us now but hereafter we shall see it God never cuts off a Sinner betimes but even in that Judgment there is Mercy though we see it not in this World But God shews forth his Mercy in this World in Long-suffering in forbearing of Sinners He shews his Mercy all the while he forbeareth When it is so long before he strikes he shews how unwilling he is to strike at all He would not do it if Men would take any warning He looks upon us as his own Creatures Creatures that cannot live without him no not one Minute of our Lives Good God! do we say he forbears us He not only lets us live but he keeps us he maintains us all the while in our Being All the while he waits to be friends with us he would not have us dye in his displeasure Every bit that we eat every wink that we sleep every thing we take to do us good all are Witnesses on his side all do as it were attest to the Sincerity of his Protestations As I live saith the Lord I will not the death of a Sinner Why will you dye Yet turn your selves and live Without turning from Sin there is no Living to God we must dye that is we must perish Salvation it self cannot save us The Law saith with great strictness the soul that sinneth it shall dye The Gospel hath but one way to relieve him that is by Repentance unto life It is that which Christ came for to call Sinners to Repentance It was that which he Preached Repent ye and believe the Gospel It was that for which he died that God might forgive us upon our Repentance This being therefore so indispensably necessary the Apostle thought fit to express it in my Text as the Condition on which we are to be saved and no otherwise This is it which I am next to shew as to our Repentance in what manner we are helpt and assisted by the Long-suffering of God 'T is first the most likely way to bring Men to Repentance Secondly in Fact it is that which oftentimes has prevail'd Thirdly 't is the last the only way it can be done When this is gone all is gone there is no hope for them that have out-sinned the Patience and Long-suffering of God First it is a Rational way the most likely to bring us to Repentance because it giveth us divers things which are necessary for it