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A30434	A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, on the 16th day of July, 1690, being the monthly-fast by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5892; ESTC R21629	20,709	42

And that either there is no God nor Maker of all Things or if there is one that he has abandoned the Works of his Hands that he does not see through the thick Cloud that it is in vain to serve him and that his Wrath is but a Word made use of by crafty Men to frighten Fools This is the Language of Scoffers and a degree of Folly beyond all others even the venturing upon Eternal Misery upon the maddest set of Principles that ever were put together These are the Follies that we must guard against lest if after God has delivered us once more we should again relapse into them and that then our latter End should prove worse than the Beginning If God should now according to the Riches of his Grace deliver us from all our Enemies and from the hand of all that hate us and should establish that which he has wrought for us and add to the Settlement of his true Religion and the happy Constitution both of Church and State among us a secure and honourable Peace a fullness of Plenty and a freedom of Trade and should carry the Glory of our Soveraigns so high as to make them the Arbiters of Christendom and the Protectors of all Protestants If I say after so great an accession of Wealth and Prosperity of Success and Glory to us we should then give our selves up to our Vices as if all our Blessings were only intended to furnish out our Luxury with all the variety of Entertainments if we should grow proud of the Ancient Valour of our Nation while we degenerate from it our selves and by despising our Neighbours should both make them stronger and our selves weaker if we should take up our Animosities as if we had only made a Truce with one another while we had a mighty Enemy to deal with and so would revive these Follies which God has by an Interposition of so many Providences called on us to forget if we of the Church should forget all our promises and resolve to yield nothing for the gaining of our Brethren but should let our Minds rather be soured with the old Leaven of bitterness and malice If those who depart from us should rather study to strengthen their Party than to hearken to the Counsels of Peace if those of a higher Rank should become swell'd with Pride or softned with Voluptuousness If the Clergy should become Lazy Covetous and Ambitious and the whole Nation should again break loose into open Vice and divide into Parties and Factions But above all if Impiety and Blasphemy Scoffing and Atheism should again be in vogue and pass for Wit and Spirit then upon so fatal an abuse of God's Mercies we should have reason to look for Judgments as eminent as such our Ingratitude should be and that the return of Wrath should be so heavy that our Portion should be to perish with an everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power But if we become so wise and so good as to improve the Deliverance that is already come to us and those which we have in prospect to the Noble ends for which they are design'd by God then we may expect to see an accomplishment of all the other Blessings which David promises to himself and to his people in this Psalm That Mercy and Truth should meet together and Righteousness and Peace should kiss each other That a Spirit of Truth and Honesty and Love and Charity should run through the whole Nation and knit it altogether in one Body that Truth should become so natural to them that like the growth of the Earth it should spring up of it self and that Righteousness should like a dew from Heaven cover the whole Land that God should bless them with every good thing and that they should have a rich Soil and fruitful Seasons and that Deliverances should be near or present at every return of Danger for preserving those that fear God and the top of all that Glory should dwell in their Land By which is to be understood that Cloud of Glory which was between the Cherubins and was the Symbol of God's Presence among them that is That the True Religion with all the happy Characters of God's Favour should be still continued among them by which they were the Glory of all Lands and all the Nations of the Earth were to be blest in them This as applied to us is that God may establish and continue his True Religion among us that he may watch over and preserve those whom he has set over us and that as their Lives have been hitherto a Series of Wonders so he may perfect that which concerns them and bless the Work of their Hands and that the whole Nation may return to its Ancient Honesty and Vertue and that all Differences and Divisions may be composed we being animated with one Heart and one Spirit and that to all this the Blessings of Peace and Plenty may be joined which God of his Infinite Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell BIshop Burnet's Sermon before the King and Queen on Christmass-day 1689. on 1 Tim. 3. 16. His Sermon of Peace and Union Nov. 26. 1689. on Acts 7. 26. His Fast Sermon at Bow-Church March 12. 1689 90. on Luke 19. 41 42. Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont By P. Allix D. D. 4o. Geologia Or A Discourse concerning the Earth before the Deluge wherein the Form and Properties ascribed to it in a Book intituled The Theory of the Earth are excepted against And it is made appear That the Dissolution of that Earth was not the Cause of the Universal Flood Also a new Explication of that Flood is attempted By Erasmus Warren Rector of Worlington in Suffolk A Private Prayer to be used in Difficult Times A Thanksgiving for our late wonderful Deliverance recommended chiefly to those who have made use of the Prayer in the late Difficult Times A Prayer for perfecting our late Deliverance by the happy Success of their Majesties Forces by Sea and Land A Prayer for Charity Peace and Unity chiefly to be used in Lent Dr. Tennison's Sermon of Discretion in giving Alms 12o. on Psal. 112. 5. His Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons Iune 5. 1689. His Sermon concerning doing Good to Posterity Preached before Their Majesties at Whitehall on Feb. 16. 1689 90. on Psal. 78. 5 6. Dr. Wake 's Lent-Sermon before the Queen April 2. 1690. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. His Easter-Sermon before the Lord Mayor 1690. on Gal. 6. 10. His Sermon before the King and Queen May 4. 1690. on Luk. 16. 25. Bishop of Chichester's Fast-Sermon before the King and Queen April 16. 1690. on Prov. 13. 34. A new History of the Succession of the Crown of England And more particularly from the Time of King Egbert till Henry the 8th Collected generally from those Historians who wrote of their own Times and who consequently were the best Witnesses and Relators of the Actions done therein Father Parsons the Jesuit's Memorial for the intended Reformation of England or Destruction of Her Established Church under their first Popish Prince Published from the very Manuscript Copy that was presented to the late King Iames II. and found in his Closet With an Introduction and some Animadversions by Edward Gee Chaplain in Ordinary to their present Majesties 8o. A Prayer for His Majesties Success in Isis great Undertaking for Ireland ADVERTISEMENTS THere is newly Printed A Large Folio Bible of a fair new Roman Letter with Annotations and Parallel Scriptures or References some Thousands more than are in the Cambridg Oxford or any London Bibles yet Extant To which is annexed The Harmony of the Gospels As also a Reduction of the Iewish Weights Coins and Measures to our English Standards And a Table of the Promises in Scripture In One intire Volume containing Three hundred twenty five Sheets in good Demy Paper Proposed by the Booksellers undermentioned on these Terms viz. I. He that Buys only one Book to pay Twenty five Shillings Unbound II. He that Buys Six Books shall have a Seventh Gratis which reduces the Price to a Guinea Unbound Which Terms are to continue until the first of September next But after that no Seventh Book will be allowed nor a single Book sold under Twenty seven Shillings Unbound Richard Chiswell Ionathan Robinson both in St. Paul ' s Church-yard Brabazon Aylmer against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill There is also newly Published a Book Intituled CENSVRA CELEBRIORVM AVTHORVM Sive TRACTATUS in quo varia Virorum Doctorum de Clarissimis cujusque Saeculi Scriptoribus judicia traduntur Vnde-facillimo negotio Lector dignoscere queat quid in singulis quibusque istorum Authorum maximè memorabile sit quonam in pretio apud Eruditos semper habiti fuerint OMNIA in Studiosorum gratiam collegit in ordinem digessit secundum seriem Temporis quo ipsi Authores flornerunt THOMAS POPE-BLOUNT Anglo-Britannus Baronettus Cum Indice Locupletissimo Containing near Two hundred Sheets in Folio of a fair Character and Paper the same as Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum lately Published Printed for RICHARD CHISWELL at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard By whom for the Benefit and Encouragement of Gentlemen it is propounded as followeth I. That whereas the Book is now sold for 18 s. in Sheets whoever will come in as a Subscriber and pay to the said Richard Chiswell 16 s. and 4 d. shall receive One perfect Book in Sheets II. Whoever shall Subscribe or procure Subscriptions for Six shall have a Seventh Book Gratis So that he that takes this Advantage will have every Book for 14 s. in Sheets III. That this Subscription-price shall continue to the first day of Michaelmas-Term next and no longer And after that what remains of the Impression shall not be sold under 18 s. in Sheets 1. The Impression is but small no more than Five hundred Printed 2. The Book is now compleatly finished and ready to be delivered in She●●● or Bound Binding Two Shillings Plain 3. Book-sellers shall have the same Allowance for their Collecting Subscr●●tions as was made in the Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum Psal. 3. 6. Psal. 4. 8. 1 Sam. 30. 6. Psal. 14. 1. Jer. 5. 21. 10. 8. 23. 13.

Corruption that this brought on the Church Then came the last Persecution which continued Ten Years with very little intermission and with so excessive a Fury that in the succession of the Persecutors every one studied to out-do all that had gone before him Yet these repeated Fires of their Martyrs kindling another Fire in the Minds of the Christians and setting them on to Fastings and Prayers God did at last arise and sent them a Deliverer from this Island Constantine who first gave them Quiet and Liberty and then Protection and Favour and then the Christian Religion shined with a new Lustre of Wealth and Prosperity But alas this was not so happy to it as that which the Fires of the Martyrs had given it The Church did soon degenerate and the Bishops of the chief Sees fell into Factions The History of that Time gives us but a sad viow of the governing Men of the Church But yet even there we have a Witness in favour of that Religion that is beyond Exception I mean Iulian who tells his Heathen Priests in his Zeal for the restoring of Paganism how both Priests and People ought to imitate the Lives the Temperance the Gravity and above all the Charity that was among the Christians But insensibly in the course of an Age Christianity did so degenerate that scarce any thing of the first Purity and Simplicity was left Great Disorders Irreconcileable Heats and Differences and Disputes even about Authority and precedence tore the Church and exposed it to the Reproaches of its Enemies And after that God had suffered that Apostacy for a whole Age it drew at last a Series of Plagues upon them that amazes every one that reads it The Western Empire was over-run with an Inundation of Northern Nations that came so thick one after another that whatsoever one had spared seem to be only reserved to be destroyed by the next that came In a word the Goths and Vandals and the Hunns brought an unheard-of Destruction along with them that was followed by Plagues and Famines to so high a degree that whole Countries were almost dispeopled The Eastern Empire was also long wasted by the Goths and Avares and then by the Saracens and finally destroyed by the Turks In this Island we received the Christian Religion very early We had our Martyrs as well as the other Churches and a particular simplicity of Manners which is remarked as the peculiar Ornament of our Clergy But this did not last long for there followed a vast Corruption among all sorts of People which is set forth very sincerely and pathetically by a very good Man that saw it and lamented it I mean Gildas after that we lost both our Religion and Liberty and fell under the Saxon Tyranny than Christianity got footing again among us within an Age and an half after that but it was much allayed and debased yet such as it was it made a great progress and produced some very good Men if we may believe Bede But the Nation became rather more corrupt than ever and then we were delivered over to the Depredations the Burnings and Cruelty of the Danes which continued at several Reprises for near two hundred Years to be the Plague of England At last all was melted into one Government but then the Nation became a Scene of Blood what during the Competitions to the Crown the Barons Wars the Wars with France and those of the Houses of York and Lancaster But to take a narrower view of the State of the Protestant Religion both abroad in the World and here in England we shall find how often God for the Sins of those who carried that worthy Name of Reformed Churches but that were not worthy of it has brought them very low and what sudden and unlook'd-for Deliverances have again recover'd and restored them Upon the first opening of the Reformation all the World run into it The Corruptions and Ignorance of Popery were things of which all Men were so weary that they with joy welcomed the Light and the Purity of the Gospel but in the multitudes that embraced it there was a great mixture many came in only for the Spoil and threw off the Yoke of all Religion as well as that of Popery But God punished this severely for though they were by much the superior force in Germany which was then the Scene and were secretly favoured both by England and France yet all their Strength did melt away and they dividing their Forces became an easy Prey to Charles the 5th who got both their Heads the Elector of Sax and the Landgrave of Hesse into his Power and made all the rest bend under him only the Town of Magdeburgh stood out against him And in a course of five Years Success the Protestant Interest was brought so low that it was every where given for lost when of a sudden Maurice of Saxe that had been the chief Instrument of dividing the Party and of delivering it up to the Emperor gave Matters so quick a turn that the Emperor was forced to run out of Germany and he soon saw he could not hope ever to return to it without granting the Edict of Passaw under which Security the Protestant Religion has subsisted there ever since Not many years after that a second Storm arose King Edward died and while Queen Mary persecuted and burnt the Protestants here in England France and Spain fell under the Ministry of two Cardinals who seeing that the way which they called Heresy was gaining ground every-where under the shelter of the Wars they projected and effected a Peace in order to the Extirpating of Heresy but while this was in agitation Queen Mary died and soon after the King of France was killed and left that Kingdom under the feebleness of a long Minority a Deliverance sprung up also in Holland after many unsuccessful Attempts by a small company of Fishermen who seized on the Brill and from inconsiderable beginnings falling happily under the Conduct of a Family of Heroes have grown up to be one of the Powerfullest Nations that any Age has seen Here was the second Crisis carried off A Third was when the League of France was formed for the Extirpation of Protestants and that Spain at the same time designed the Conquest of England upon which they reckon'd that the War in the Low-Countries would soon come to an end but all this was blasted the Armada of Eighty eight was scattered and lost the Heads of the League were killed and Spain became so feeble that those were its last efforts In this Age from the Year 1620 for ten Years together the whole Protestant Interest was every-where sinking The Revolution of Bohemia and the Reduction of Hungary raised the House of Austria so high that every thing that stood in their way fell before them and all the Attempts made to preserve Germany proved fatal to those who undertook it then Holland was brought very low by the loss of Breda and the