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A69701 A sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London at Bow-Church on the 29th of May 1682. Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686. 1682 (1682) Wing C216; ESTC R5415 18,725 40

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Church that do really most endanger both that weaken our side and encourage and harden our Adversaries Let this be but your task to wipe off this stain to answer this Objection to remove this scandal from the Loyal Party and I say it again we need not be concerned at what either Papists or Fanaticks can say or do against us Oh let not our heinous and crying sins a second time ruine and lose so just and glorious a Cause destroy so flourishing a Kingdom and Monarchy overturn the purest and best constituted Church in the World Let not our selves prove our own greatest Enemies and Betrayers It is not believe me wild huffing and hectoring extravagant Swearing and Drinking for the King and the Church it is not our damning to the Pit of Hell either Papists or Fanaticks that doth us any service or them any harm We could e'en wish all such men from amongst us but that we still hope at last they may be brought to a better mind Though they add to our numbers yet we lose and sink in our reputation by reason of them besides that they provoke God against us We cannot wish worse to the Kings Enemies than that all such as hate to be reformed would go over to their side and credit their Party We have already seen by woful experience how far the mask and disguise of Religion only prevailed and succeeded What would the effect be if so good a Cause were maintained and defended only by good men Lastly Let us all add our constant and devout Prayers for the King for the preservation of his Life the prosperity of his Affairs and for a blessing upon his Government In doing of this we only pray most effectually for our selves this is a short compendious way of wishing all good and happiness to our selves and Country earnestly praying for the Kings Life These words Let the King live or God save the King comprize in them all the outward publick blessings we can want we can wish for Then we pray for the maintenance of our Religion the defence of our Church the enjoyment of our just Rights and Liberties We pray for the common welfare and safety when we thus zealously recommend our most gracious King to Gods most especial Protection This is a way by which the meanest subject may oblige his Prince benefit his King who may truly stand indebted for his Peace and Prosperity in some measure to the Prayers of his poorest Vassal Thus though our Station be never so low and mean our interest and influence small and narrow our Authority inconsiderable yet we may prove great Benefactors to the publick and do great good to three Kingdoms by our faithful Intercessions at the Throne of Grace for his most Excellent Majesty That God would preserve his Royal Person from all outward Violence or any inward Diseases that he would continue his Strength and Health would keep and guard him from all Dangers would Cloath all his Enemies with Shame whilst on his Head his Crown doth flourish that he would inspire him more and more with Wisdom and Knowledge to Rule and Govern this great People that he would direct and bless his Counsels and prosper all that he takes in Hand that after a long and happy Reign here he may late very late be translated into the Immortal and Invisible Kingdom And as we pray to God on his behalf so ought we most especially this day to praise God for him and those manifold Blessings which he hath been the happy Instrument under God of transmitting down to us Blessed be the Day wherein he was born and the Night when it was said there is a Manchild conceived Blessed be God that saved him from those Bloody Hands that so cruelly used his Blessed Father that covered his Head in the Day of Battel that conveighed him safe through Crowds of his Enemies when his precious Life was put to sale and after innumerable Dangers by a miraculous Escape landed him safe on a Foreign Shore Blessed be God that preserved him all along during a tedious Exile that provided for him in the Wilderness that kept him constant to that Religion and Church which his Royal Father died in notwithstanding great offers and temptations to change it Blessed be God that upon this day brought him back again to his desolate People and hath hitherto continued him a publick Blessing to this Nation Blessed be God that hath given the King the Hearts and Affections of all his People God be praised for his merciful Disposition for the unparallel'd sweetness and benignity of his Temper for the Mildness and Equity of his Government his Love to the Church his Constancy to the Protestant Interest his Fatherly Care of his People For all which and all other Blessings let there be ascribed by us and all men to God Almighty the Father the Son and Holy Ghost all possible Praise Thanksgiving Adoration and Obedience for evermore Amen FINIS