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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29333	Faith in the just victorious over the world a sermon preached at the Savoy in the French Church, on Sunday Octob. 10, 1669 / by D. Brevall ... ; translated into English by Dr. Du-Moulin ...; Foy victorieuse du monde dans les justes. English	Bréval, Monsieur de (François Durant), d. 1707.; Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4402; ESTC R2130	23,314	40

FAITH IN THE JUST Victorious over the WORLD A SERMON Preached at the SAVOY in the French Church on Sunday Octob. 10. 1669. By Dr. BREVALL heretofore Preacher to the the Queen-Mother Translated into English by Dr. Du-Moulin Canon of Canterbury LONDON Printed for Will. Nott and are to be sold at the Queens-Arms the Pell-mell 1670. TO THE READERS YOu are not obliged to me for the Sermon I give you because it is a Present which I give unwillingly There are so many Preached every day that are so much better and are not Printed as it would have seemed to me a Crime if any thing less then Necessity had made me do mine that Honour I had no other reason to excuse my self to many people that desired it of me and I had been firm in this refusal but for the occasion I am about to tell The Superiour of the Capuchins at Somerset-house meeting me in the Street the Sunday after my Sermon as I went to the French Church in the Savoy with one of the Elders stopped me most uncivilly and told me I might have been ashamed to have preached the last Sunday so many foul so many infamous things so many Crimes and Abominations which had so horribly scandalized all the World I confess this Language did surprize and move me because till then I had had nothing but Praises and Acclamations as well from the one Partie as the other yet I only told him he did more wrong to himself then to me by so unjust a reproach and that he did oblige me to make my Sermon publick that so I might have more Witnesses and Judges then I had Auditors though they were as many as the Church could hold But before I did it I asked counsel of the Wisest the most Vertuous and Illustrious Persons that I could reasonably consult with Their Advice was that I ought with speed to clear my self publickly from so wicked a Calumnie that so by the falshood of this which I should make apparent to all the Impostures of my Enemies in other ill stories that they make of me might be known I obeyed this Counsel or rather this Order that was given me without other design then to justifie my Doctrine It concerns me not much what they say or believe of me one thing excepted which I cannot suffer without complaining of my Persecutors who durst say that in the last Wars I offered my service to the King of England against the King of France I have a good Witness to the contrarie who knows that the passion I then expressed for this Kingdom was without prejudice to the Loyaltie I owe to that wherein I was born To shew you in few words the unsinceritie of those people that persecute me You must know that soon after my Conversion they would have it that I had been a Spie for England against France to draw upon me the Hatred of the French that are here I give God thanks who hath always kept me in the Duties I owe to both these Kingdoms I look on them both as my Countrie since I was born in the one and prepare my self to die in the other Doubtless this is more then enough to take away all credit from my Enemies in the rest of the Accusations which from time to time they frame against me they are so unlikely and the World is alreadie so far disabused that my Defence is needless Themselves begin not to dare to publish them so boldly and are almost reduced to reproach me with nothing but my Marriage and I am verie happie that people who hate me so much have nothing to say against me but that which is so innocent and so lawful would to God they could everie where be reproched with the same thing it might save them from other more heinous Accusations I am sure the libertie of one Sacrament as they call it would hinder the commerce of many Sacrileges I will take some more seasonable time to explain my self further when I shall come to answer for mine own Person and not for a Sermon Besides if my Behaviour were ill my Doctrine may be good for all that and I defie the precisest Critick so he be a Christian to find one word amiss in it or if it be true that I am deceived in any thing they will do me a pleasure to rectifie me for I am of Saint Augustines mind I may he in an Errour but I would not be THE PRAYER Before the SERMON LOrd whose MAJESTY covers the Heavens and whose Mercies the Earth we come with souls full of devotion and humble confidence to render our duties and implore thy favour we beg it generally for all men and particularly for Christians but more especially for those that worship and serve thee in the Purity of the Gospel comfort and assist their Churches where they are in oppression preserve and increase their splendor and tranquillity where they are flourishing principally in these Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland O good God! Poure thy choicest Blessings on the KING whom thou hast given them to defend them against their enemies establish his Throne more and more and since thou hast established him to be immediately under thee and thy Christ universal Governor in all his Estates and Defender of the Faith Raise his vertue as high as thou hast raised his Glory Bless the Queen his Consort their Royal Highness's the Duke and Dutchess of York with all the Royal Family the Lords of the Council the Nobility with all the Orders of the Kingdom But O God pour thy double spirit upon their Pastors the Arch Bishops the Bishops and all other Ministers and Dispensers of thy Sacraments of thy Mysteries and of thy Word let them sustain the weight and dignity of their charge with such doctrine zeal and good life as is requisite Thou seest O Lord the need I have of this grace for my self and since thou hast made me by thy mercy one of the Preachers of thy Gospel by the same mercy make me worthily to answer the end and sublimity of thy Ministry Enlighten my spirit warm my heart purifie my lips and generally give me that which thou wilt I should dispense to thy people dispose their minds to profit by my instructions and that they and I may go from hence better then we came hither O Lord these are the mercies that we crave of thee this day and since the acknowledgement of thy benefits never fails to bring new mercies upon us we praise thee O God for the infinite excesses of thy bounties to us in general and in particular chiefly that thou hast redeemed us by thy Son and that thou dost daily instruct us by his Example and by that of all the Saints which have followed him O Lord the thanks we can give are too little we offer Christ himself unto thee for our duties as well as for our sins and as it is by him only that we owe thee all things so it is by him