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A29362	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London, at the Church of S. Mary le Bow, the fifth of November, 1684 by Francis Bridge ...	Bridge, Francis, d. 1688.	1685 (1685)	Wing B4444; ESTC R3795	12,825	36

hopes of future Security Let us make God our Friend be fearful only of our selves and our Sins which cry aloud to God for Vengeance make use of no unlawful means either of Perjury or Subornation and think by that to be Secured This is a sure way to appease God's wrath and more required at our hands than all the Revels and Bonfires of the Night or the late over officious and foolish Zeal of some to burn the Pope in Effigie Thus have I done with my Text and show'd you both the Act and the Duty Rejoycing and Acknowledging and Owning God's Providence in our own Preservation and that just Vengeance he executeth upon the Wicked I have but a few words for the Close of this Discourse and so I shall dismiss you THere is a clamor in the mouths of many at this day against Popery nay and to take off the imputation from themselves they charge persons with favouring that Party who publickly and solemnly have disowned all their proceedings I shall not therefore think it amiss briefly to Exhort you to take an estimate of Mens Affections to Popery by their Doctrines and Principles and judge them so qualified by detesting or owning their Opinions especially in the business of Loyalty or Resistance to Government for by their fruits we shall easily know them And I am afraid by that time we have closely examined the several Parties we shall find those who make the greatest noise against them are the nearliest allied to them especially in practices of this Nature for the Subversion of an Established Government and this hath made the Jesuits themselves so often assistant at their Conventicles Cardinal Bellarmin would have the quiet and submission of the Old Christians consist in this That they had not strength enough to resist so hath a late scurrilous Apostate too deserved little thanks from the Primitive Martyrs of the Church in that they were gentle and meek it was neither Allegiance or Conscience in his opinion but want of Strength for else the Emperors had suffered and not They. Such persons as these justly admonish the Government to have a care to keep them from Power and Authority for they publickly Declare they want not Will but Force to Execute their Designs Did not Parsons's Book under the name of Doleman serve the turn of the Papists in the days of Queen Elizabeth it was but Reprinted again in a True Protestant Character and it served the Regicides in the Year 48. and indifferent well since that time in the late Horrid Conspiracy Calvin and Ignatius had their Original much at the same time and the chief of their Followers in their Writings have shown the same disaffection to all Government unless of their own appointment And in the late Rebellion the Popish and Presbyterian Lords were generally observed to combine together The Church of England which is to be destroy'd under the fine Notion of adhering to Popery hath always declared her Reverence and Obedience to Magistracy and therefore hath always been the common Enemy both of Popish and Republican Recusants Our Saviour himself sufficiently testified his Submission to that Government which then presided although he could have commanded twelve Legions of Angels a Power able to encounter and overcome all the Armies in the World None could say the Disciples after him Submitted for want of Force they that could strike Elymas blind Ananias dead and had in a readiness to revenge all Disobedience 2 Cor. 10.6 would certainly if Christ's Kingdom had been of this World have had further Commission to stop the violent proceedings of all their Enemies It is not always the Anointing of the Spirit required for our Subjection Josias a King truly Godly and Religious and Cyrus a meer Heathen are both Recorded by the Prophets of the Lord Isaiah and Jeremy David a good King and Saul one of the worst of Tyrants both Anointed Royal Unctions give no Grace but a just Title only and therefore in Scripture it is not said Touch not mine Anointed while he Rules well in the Preservation of the true Religion while he is endued with extraordinary Vertues and Gifts of the Spirit while he pleases the People but because whatsoever he is He is the Anointed of the Lord Dominion is not founded in Grace neither Priest nor People can pretend any thing in setting up the Lords Anointed The Opinions of these wild Dissenters for the Destruction both of Governours and Government were derived from Muncer Knipperdoling John a Leyden and the rest of their Hairbrain'd Prophets condemned by all sober persons of the Reformation particularly by Luther in a Book written for that very purpose where he plainly shews That Magistracy is of God and necessary for our good and that whatsoever befals us it is the part of a Christian to suffer the Cross Prayers and Tears were the Primitive Christians Arms they embraced the Doctrine of the Bow-String as it is maliciously represented by one scarce worthy the name of a Reformed Christian and we never find them interposing with Sword and Blunderbus or any other Offensive weapon whatsoever I have not time to enlarge upon this Subject and what hath been said is to vindicate the Loyal Sons of the Church of England from all Aspersions of this Nature and that we may be all convinced that all the Stirs and Tumults which have been in our Land have proceeded from the same Principle whether in Papists or Fanaticks and till this be quite rooted out we shall never be free from Rebellion King James was this Day destined for Ruin by the Papists His Son King Charles the First was reserved out of their Hands to suffer Martyrdom by pretended Protestants and our present Sovereign whom God long preserve hath had his Troubles and Plots on all hands But God be praised we are still in a condition to give Thanks to abhor the Practices and Positions of such Men whose only Piety is to make Religion a Cloak for Treason and turn Rebels out of Conscience And let all that fear God rejoyce in his Name in the midst of this and all other his Wonders in our Preservation For the Righteous must Rejoyce when he seeth the Vengeance he will wash his footsteps in the bloud of the Wicked So that a man shall say Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous Verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth So let all the Enemies of thy Truth and thine Anointed perish from thy presence O God even all that have Evil Will at Sion so persecute them with thy Tempest and make them afraid with thy Storm Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy Name O Lord let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish that men may know that thou whose Name alone is Jehovah art the most High over all the Earth But let thy Truth and thy Righteousness flourish let the Throne of our Sovereign be Established all the Plots and wicked Devices of his Enemies brought to nought so shall we always be praising Thee and continually Rejoycing in thy Salvation Amen FINIS Sermons Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard DOctor Hick's Sermon of Temptation before the Lord Mayor 's Sermon at the Act at Oxford 4o. 's Peculium Dei before the Lord Mayor 's True Notion of Persecution 's Moral Shechinah 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor Jan. 30. 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor at the Spittle 's Sermon at Worcester May 29. Dr. Sharp's Sermon at the Yorkshire Feast 's Sermon before the House of Commons 's Duty and Happiness of Doing Good 's Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor Dr. Calamy's Sermon May 29. 1682. before the Lord Mayor 's Sermon Sept. 9. 1683. 's Sermon Sept. 30. 1683. before the Lord Mayor 's Sermon Sept. 2. 1684. before the Lord Mayor Dr. Smith's Sermon Dr. Bisbie's Sermon Prosecution no Persecution Modern Pharisees Two Assize Sermons Dr. Moore 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor 1682. 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor 1684. Mr. Scot's Sermon before the Artillery-Company 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor Decemb. 16. 1683. 's Sermon at Dr. Croun's Funeral Mr. Lamb's Sermon before the King at Windsor 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor 's Sermon wherein the Liberty of Humane Nature is Stated Discuss'd and Limited Mr. Wray's Sermon The Rebellious City Destroy'd Sept. 2. 's Loyalty protesting against Popery and Fanaticism Popishly Affected Mr. Resberry's Sermon at the Charter-house s Sermon at Sir Alan Broderick's Funeral Mr. Payne's Sermon at the Brentwood Feast 's Sermon Sept. 9. Mr. Milbourne's Original of Rebellion Preached January 30. 's Sermon Sept. 9. 1683. Mr. Battels Assize Sermon at Hertford Mr. Leigh's Sermon of the Keeping of Holy Days Preached before the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London Mr. Grail's Four Sermons I. Of True Reformation of Our Selves II. Of Pious Reverence towards God and the King III. Of Just Abhorrence of Usurping Republicans IV. Of Due Affection to the Monarchy Mr. Gascarth's Sermon at Duke Lauderdale's Funeral

prays that he would take from them their Instruments of Cruelty that he would asswage their malice and confound their devices deprive them of the opportunities to do mischief by restraining their wrath and diminishing their Power by keeping them as he doth the Devil 2 Pet. 2.4 in Chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgment This is comprised Verse 6. Break their teeth O God in their mouth break out the great teeth of the young Lions O Lord c. And happy is it for us that God will hear such Petitions that he will grant us Security against the subtle and undermining Adversaries of his Truth whose delight is in mischief who take great pains compass Sea and Land run to and fro over the whole Earth under pretence of making Proselytes but in reality seeking whom they may devour My Text I account the third part of the Psalm wherein is described the good Man's behaviour in such times of Vengeance as are here specified he will rejoyce that God hath vindicated his Honour and secured his Truth that the Dispensations of his Providence are not now so liable to the Cavils and Calumnies of the Scorner Not that we should imagine the Righteous Man here mentioned to be as his Enemies were before described a Person delighting in mischief that hath pleasure and satisfaction in anothers Ruin that will rejoyce at his Neighbours downfal though it contribute nothing to his own rise though he received no benefit or advantage thereby Whatsoever the Jews might pretend to this by that Commission God himself had given them for the total destruction of his Enemies therein mentioned I am sure the Gospel allows no such Spirit no such revengeful Temper no Fire from Heaven to fall upon the obstinate and ungrateful Samaritans therefore in the next words are contained the Reasons of this Joy 1. That there is a Reward for the Righteous that there is a Fruit of Righteousness that it is an advantage and security to be Good and Vertuous that though such Persons be oppressed for a time yet they shall not totally be suppressed but their Enemies shall fall before them by hidden and unaccountable Methods of God's Providence be consumed as Waters which run continually as a Snail which melteth and be suddenly snatched away as with a Whirlwind There will a time come when it shall appear to all Men that the Judge of the whole World shall do Righteously Therefore 2. It is said Verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth we may safely trust in him It is a great temptation to question Providence when we see the wicked prosper and all things in security about them neither are they plagued like other men On the contrary Just and Innocent persons are plagued all the day long and chastened every morning It is natural to infer as the Psalmist did Psal 73.13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency To what purpose is it that I have taken such pains to serve God that I have abandoned my own inclination to promote his Honour that I have obey'd him with so great difficulty Nay the greatest cause of my trouble hath arisen from a strict adhering to his Commandments in that I have not swerved from his Precepts or gone on in a way of wickedness and perverseness as others have done How comes it to pass that I am thus destitute and forlorn The more I endeavour to please God the harder measure I meet with in the World This is very difficult to flesh and bloud and but few can attain the meaning of it The Righteous himself is ready to stumble and his feet to slip when he perceives such unequal distribution of Favours here below and can hardly recover himself till he go into the Sanctuary of God and there understand the end of these Men Verse 18 19 20. of the fore-quoted Psalm Surely thou didst set them in slippery places thou castest them down into destruction How are they brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors As a dream when one awaketh so O Lord when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image This the Poet excellently well expresseth Claudian when he describeth himself doubtful whether there were a Supream Justice as long as Ruffinus a wicked and lewd person was in such prosperity But when he saw his overthrow and was acquainted with his Destruction Abstulit hos tandem Ruffini poena tumultus Absolvitque Deos It takes off the charge of Injustice from Divine Providence and makes the Wicked and Profane with horror and amazement acknowledge that there is a God that judgeth in the Earth that is able to exalt his Servants and be fully avenged of all the implacable Enemies of his Kingdom An easie Application will make out the Parallel I at first intended We have almost every where in the Psalms Prayers against and Thanksgivings for preservation from attempts of this nature David's Enemies were numerous whole Congregations of them and have not ours been so too The best Men have been subject to most Trials the maintenance of the true Religion is a great eye-sore to all its Opposers it causes Mutinies Seditions and Rebellions by those who cannot endure the least sence of Duty David was a Vertuous and Pious Man not only God's Deputy but his Friend too a great Souldier and a gracious Prince and wanted no accomplishment to oblige his Subjects to obedience and respect Yet for all this did he find many Adversaries his troubles were innumerable both from the Enemies of Religion and the ambition of his own Family And have not our Kings been persecuted on every hand ever since the Reformation only because they have been Defenders of the truly Ancient Catholick and Apostolick Faith This makes both Papists and Fanaticks conspire their overthrow and all the mad Sects and Opinions in the World however disagreeing in other things yet concenter in this one Tenent to raise all the Tumults and Disorders they can in a well-setled Commonwealth and endeavour to break down the Hedge that all the Beasts of the Forest might enter in and destroy the Vineyard This is that which only galls them all other pretences are but frivolous and feigned and till this grievance be removed they will never leave Petitioning or Remonstrating against the miscarriages of the Government Give me leave to observe but one thing more before I conclude this point The Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England was that which the Papists this day so wickedly endeavoured to overthrow They knew we alone were able substantially and rationally to oppose them by the Truth and Antiquity of what we maintain Doctrines as Ancient as our Saviour and his Apostles the Government confessedly prevailing in the Church since the first founding of it till some pretences contrary to it were started in the last Age These subtle contrivers of mischief knew all other Structures would fall and like Babels end in the

Truth hath said it and God who is Power is able to perform it Though hand joyn in hand the Wicked shall not go unpunished Prov. 11.21 And who knoweth what their punishment shall be inscrutable as to the beginning it shall come suddenly without observation in the manner we know not what it will be and in the end who knoweth how long it shall last it may reach as far as Hell it self and from thence I am sure there is no redemption Now what is our duty but to rejoyce in this Vengeance which was so great and so remarkable we may as it were wash our Feet in the bloud of those that would have destroyed us 2. We shall acknowledge the Providence of God and the Rewards he affords unto the Righteous 1. It is a pleasant and easie Task required of us to Rejoyce our Duty and Priviledge are so closely joyned together that we cannot perform the one without being made partakers of the other I shall not think it worth my time at present to set forth the lawfulness of appointing set Solemn days of Rejoycing as this is especially when the days of Purim and the Feast of the Dedication which our Saviour honoured with his presence were not of God's immediate appointment And that which may sway most with us all and convince us it is not Conscience but Obstinacy and endeavour to lessen the Magistrates Power that the Dissenters thus Argue when they themselves besides if not contrary to Establishment appoint set times of Humiliation and Thanksgiving as if it were better and more Orthodox from a Disobedient Schismatick than from the hands of a lawful Magistrate whom God hath set over us Taking it therefore for granted that such appointment of Festivals is lawful let us see what we ought to do in them to Commemorate and Rejoyce in God's Works The Sabbath and the Passover were commemorations of those great Works God had done for his People and this Day the Destroyer past over our Dwellings this is a Day of God's own making All days indeed are alike Created by the Lord whether Fair or Dark all alike made by Diespiter the Father of Days though times of anguish and perplexity are looked upon as if they were not Job 3.6 Nights rather than Days as Job said in his hasty fit Yet when the Sun shines clearly and we are under the bright influence of his comfortable Beams this is a Day indeed a Day of Gladness and Rejoycing and such is our Day a Day of God's making to which he hath a peculiar Title We may well say as they in the Gospel Luke 5.26 We have seen strange things this Day Nay Ask of the Days that are past and enquire from one side of the Heaven to the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it Deut. 4.32 Psal 126.1 When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Zion then were we like to them that dream we were in a maze knew not well what to think of it it was none of Man's foresight or contrivance and at such times every Righteous person ought to Rejoyce God by black Days calls us to mourning and lamentation and it would be a Sin as ridiculous as odious in his sight in times of War Famine Pestilence c. to appear with a merry countenance in Feasting and Revelling and all the outward indications of Gladness and Security So here God by these Deliverances calls us to Rejoycing no heavy burthen The word in the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall Rejoyce saith Vatablus may well be turned into an Optative let him Rejoyce which is much at one for here is either the Practice of good Men or the Duty couched in the Exhortation If the Prophet had bid us do some great thing should we not have done it how much rather when he calls us to Triumph and Exult in his Mercies Nehem. 8.9 10. We have a pattern for such exercises This Day is holy unto the Lord your God mourn not nor weep Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared for this Day is holy unto the Lord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the Lord your strength Our Joy must not only be inward but outward too we must show it in our countenances and in our behaviour we must publish it unto the whole World that we Rejoyce in the rock of our Salvation and that 1. By acknowledging and owning of it publickly in the great Congregation constitute a solemn Day in condensis that we may stand so thick in the Church as may fill it from the entry of the Door to the very edge of the Altar for so the Vulgar and S. Hierom's Translation of Psal 118.27 seem to intimate Constituite diem solennem in condensis usque ad cornu Altaris Open therefore to me the gates of Righteousness I will go into them and I will praise the Lord. It is not every Rejoycing will serve the turn it must be a Spiritual Rejoycing we come unto the Sanctuary that is the first place we ought to appear in and give publick testimonies of our Joy 2. We are appointed not only a place where to meet in but a Practice what we are to do when we are there that is Trust in the Lord that judgeth in the Earth and be assured there is a Reward for the Righteous if we do well it shall be well with us he that hath done such marvellous things for us already will doubtless compleat his Mercy in our future preservation We may be well assured the Daughters of the Uncircumcised would have made this a Day of Triumph and we are delivered not only to stand and cry out of the foulness of the Plot or those Devillish Monsters Actors in it or bless our selves for so fair an escape No we ought to serve God in sincerity and persevere in our Duty When we are under the apprehension of danger we are all Godly on a sudden but our Goodness is as the morning cloud as the early dew it goeth away Hos 6.4 is quickly scattered and gone before the Sun be many hours high but by our Obedience alone we shall preserve our selves To day indeed is a joyful day but who knows what the next day may bring forth the implacable Enemies of our Peace are still working the same Designs carrying on our Sins are as many and daring as ever let us therefore pray to God that he may be to us as Jesus is a Saviour yesterday and to day and the same for ever If we can but truly pray as the Church doth O God we have heard with our Ears and our Fathers have declared unto us the noble works thou didst in their days and in the old time before them it may very reasonably follow O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Let us plead God's former Deliverances and by them have