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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30218	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the natives of St. Martins in the Fields, at their own parochial church, on May 29, 1684 by Richard Burd, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord President, and lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury ; published at the request of the stewards.	Burd, Richard.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5616; ESTC R34772	15,233	51

sometimes pleased to dispense with the non performance of his own Laws but never those that relate to the good and benefit of mankind But notwithstanding the Scribes and Pharisees of old had a mind to be more civil to God than he would have them and were resolved to give his Laws the preeminence and ne're matter all the other commandments so they did but observe what belonged to the service of God and therefore they stood up mightily for his Worship and Glory and were strict observers of the Sabbath and very zealous in defence of their Religion and cryed up every where the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord and all the while neglected every other duty of equal moment and concern lived in open rebellion to their Rulers proved annoyance to the state had no bowels of mercy and compassion but devoured Widows houses and were greatly injurious to their Neighbours interest And I am afraid we have many such now a days who are great Champions for the Church and are very forward to maintain the cause of God and think themselves highly obliged to observe his Laws and Ordinances but ne're matter how negligent and remiss they are of others Who take great care to discharge their duty of the first table and yet can freely indulge themselves in a manifest violation of those of the second as if Religion was designed to be a supersedeas to common honesty and if we did but often invoke God in our prayers we might afterwards go lye cheat and abuse our neighbour I have the charity to believe that many of them are not given to prophane the Sabbath to cursing or swearing to drunkenness or fornication nor to any such gross and sensual immoralities but none more guilty of Spiritual and Pharisaical vices than they there are none so proud and cenforious so covetous and worldly minded so false and hypocritical so factious and seditious and so disobedient unto Princes and Governours as they are And if these be not mortal and damning sins what are and yet all this is pretended to be done out of pure zeal to God and Religion but if we trace out the first Authors and abettor of this surious and misguided zeal we shall quickly find them to be the Jesuits For there is no footsteps of this in the records of very early times but just upon the breaking out of the Reformation then this active fiery zeal began first to blaze and kindle and embroil the whole nation out of zeal to their Idolatrous rites and ceremonies and before our Island could be throughly purged from all the Jesuits and Seminary Priests that swarmed amongst us they they rubbed their leprofie upon some of our honest Country men and e'ne left the infection behind them So that this ardent zeal for Religion was an old Jesuitical Church engin tho now moved about and played by other hands And this Andreas Ab Haberfeild in his Letter to Sir William Bosewell plainly declares But thirdly and lastly whether we will be obedient to our Governours or not yet God will have his ends served in the world Sayes Solomon there are many devices in the heart of man Prov. 19.21 nevertheless the Counsel of the Lord that shall stand How void of sense and reason is it then for such mortal creatures as we are to pretend to have our wills fulfilled before Gods and to order all things in the world as we would have them are we able to baffle the counsels and purposes of the Almighty or to invert and change the course of his Providence can we cancel the sacred ordinances of Heaven and make the everlasting decrees of none effect no! the divine appointments must stand for ever and are fixed and unalterable as the center of the earth and what from all eternity was preordained must so happen out and come to pass tho it be never so contrariant to the humors and fancies of unquiet men Why then will any interpose and grapple with the Almighty turn Rebels and affront his Viceroys and study to dismount those whom he hath appointed to rule over us if God should suspend his providence and suffer Rebellion to ride triumphant and grow prosperous yet alas it is but for a while and then the Scene changes and a new face of things strait appears So that altho God may a little procrastinate and adjourn the execution of his designs yet they shall take place when he sees it fitting and convenient and then must all Rebels be debased and punished and them that should preside over us again exalted Wherefore let this rally up the Spirits of every wise and Religious Prince seeing there is a God above who beholds all the struglings of their enemies and and knows how hard they bare against the curb and fain would trample them underfoot And altho the affairs of their Kingdoms may be sometimes in a sad plight and look towards a change Yet God can work miracles and make the wind tack about and in an instant rescue them out of every straight and difficulty Who could have thought when Joseph was betrayed by his Bretheren and fold into Aegypt a slave should at last be Lord over Pharaohs household When Jonas was cast into the Sea and swallowed up by a Whale to have met him afterwards preaching at Nineveh When Nebuchadnezar was grazing in the forest among the Beasts to see him again governing in Babel When the Jews were so totally routed by the Chaldees who sackt Jerusalem burnt their Temple and carried them Captive into Babylon should at last be restored and set at liberty by that heathen Persian Monarch Cyrus When that same Jesus who was so reproachfully handled and so barbarously crucified by the Jews should after his death be adored by Kings and Emperours and his Cross an Ornament to Crowns and Scepters When our most gracious Soveraign who was so long depulsed from his Trone discarded by his subjects proscribed out of the Land should at last be installed Soveraign Lord over England Scotland and Ireland Thus you see God is able to set all things to rights again and tho he sometimes stands by and suffers wicked Men to act their pleasure yet after a while the counsel of the Lord that shall stand which ought to be a support and encouragement to all Governours and a terrour to the obstinate and Rebellious for whether men will be obedient to them or not or whether they discard and lay them aside or whatever they are pleased to do with them yet Gods ends must be served in the world his Will shall be done be the Earth never so impatient and that very Stone which the builders rejected shall in his good time be made Head of the Corner Having thus dispatcht the chief matters I designed at the beginning I will only now give some short and modest reflexions upon the day and so conclude If all the Topicks that I have now urged for obedience unto the King and Government we