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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59878	A sermon preached at White-Hall, before the Queen, on the 17th of June, 1691 being the fast-day / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3349; ESTC R15763	14,452	35

Armies all our other Preparations are vain and how can we expect that when we will not ask it or only mock God with some formal and customary addresses without being concerned whether he hears or no or without expecting or at least without trusting and depending on his help 6thly But to encourage those good men how few soever there are among us who have a great sense of the Divine Providence and a firm Trust and Faith in God to be very importunare in their prayers for this Church and Nation I observe farther That God many times has spared a wicked people at the earnest intercessions of some few good men Thus at the intercession of Abraham God promised to have spared Sodom had there been ten righteous persons found in that great City God spared Israel when they had so provok'd him by their Idolatries that he threatned to destroy them only at the importunity of Moses as the Psalmist observes therefore he said he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them 106 Psalm 23. the Story of which we have 32. Exod. 7 8. at another time when they had provoked God by their Idolatries and Whoredoms with the Daughters of Moab and the Plague broke in among them then stood up Phineas and executed judgment and the plague was stayed 25 Numb And therefore when God declared his resolution to punish them he forbad his Prophet so much as to pray for them 7. Jer. 16. And in 14. Ezek. 14. professes That he would not accept of any Intercessions for them Tho these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it yet they shall deliver but their own souls by their righteousness saith the Lord Which supposes that at another time the Intercessions of these good men would have prevailed and that it is very extraordinary for God to deny it And if the importunate Prayers of a few good men may obtain Victory and Success and save a Church and Nation let every good man at this time cry mightily to God especially as the Prophet Isaiah exhorts Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth 62. Isa. 6 7. 7thly To add no more and it is a very comfortable Consideration God many times saved Israel for his own Names sake when their sins provoked him to destroy them 48. Isa. 9. For my name sake will I defer mine anger and for my praise will I refrain for Thee that I cut Thee not off 11. v. For mine own sake even for mine own sake will I do it for how should my name be polluted and I will not give my glory to another Thus God assigns the reason why he did not destroy Israel in the Wilderness when they so highly provoked him I wrought for my name sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen among whom they were in whose sight I made my self known unto them in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt 20. Ezek. 9. That is they were God's peculiar people the only worshippers of the Lord Jehovah whom he had brought out of Egypt by a mighty hand to make his Name known in the world and though they never so much deserved to be destroyed had he then destroyed them his own great Name would have suffered with them as Moses pleaded with God Wherefore should the Egyptians say For mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth 32. Exod. 12. And thus the Psalmist prays Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy name sake wherefore should the Heathen say Where is their God let him be known among the Heathen in our sight by revenging the blood of thy servants which is shed 79. Psalm 9. 10. And this is matter of hope to us That tho our sins are very great yet God will not utterly destroy us but will send deliverance for his name sake for the sake of that holy Faith which is professed among us lest our Antichristian Enemies should triumph and say Where is now their God When the preservation of a wicked people is for the defence and honour of the true Christian Faith we have reason to hope and good men have a very powerful argument to plead with God That he will save us for his own Names sake FINIS Books Published by the Reverend Dr. SHERLOCK Dean of St. Paul's and Master of the Temple AN Answer to a Discourse Entituled Papists Protesting against Protestant Popery 2d Edition 4to An Answer to the Amicable Accommodation of the Differences between the Representer and the Answerer 4to A Sermon at the Funeral of the Reverend Benjamin Calamy D. D. 4to A Vindication of some Protestant Principles of Church Unity and Catholick Communion from the Charge of Agreement with the Church of Rome 4to A Preservative against Popery Being some plain Directions to unlearned Protestants how to Dispute with Romish Priests First Part 4to 5th Edition A Second Part of the Preservative against Popery 2d Edit 4to A Vindication of both Parts of the Preservative against Popery in Answer to the Cavils of Lewis Sabran Jesuit 4to A Discourse concerning the Nature Unity and Communion of the Catholick Church First Part. 4to A Sermom before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London on Sunday Nov. 4. 1688. 4to A Practical Discourse concerning Death Fifth Edition 8vo A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever-Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God occasioned by the Brief Notes on the Creed of St. Athanasius and the Brief History of the Vnitarians or Socinians and containing an Answer to both 4to The Second Edition The Case of the Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers stated and resolved according to Scripture and Reason and the Principles of the Church of England with a more particular Respect to the Oath lately enjoined of Allegiance to Their present Majesties King William and Queen Mary 4to The Sixth Edition A Vindication of the Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers In Reply to an Answer to a late Pamphlet entituled Obedience and Submission to the present Government demonstrated from Bishop Overall's Convocation-Book with a Postscript in Answer to Dr. Sherlook's Case of Allegiance c. 4to Printed for William Rogers