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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62593	A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, upon Friday the 26th of Febr. 1691/2 by W. Talbot ...	Talbot, William, 1658 or 9-1730.	1692 (1692)	Wing T123; ESTC R7001	16,845	34

the wicked shall be made miserable and the good man happy A consideration which does mightily enhance the glorious rewards that attend good men in the other world and therefore may justly raise our expectations of them for from the afflictions which good men labour under here they may well conclude That God who sees and knows them and cannot forget their labours of love will not let the sufferings they undergo for his sake to lose their reward and indeed they have his promise to relie upon that he will not for he assures them by his holy Apostle that their light afflictions that are but for a moment shall work for them not only glory but a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory And as the sufferings of good men so the prosperity of bad men here may justly heighten our apprehensions of those glories that are laid up for good men hereafter For it is very natural to argue If God be so gracious to bad men so bountiful to those that are Bastards and not Sons as to indulge them a liberal share of prosperity and the good things of this life then infinitely great furely are those rewards and inconceiveably glorious is that inheritance which is reserved in Heaven for those good men that are his true Sons by Regeneration and Adoption 4. What I have discoursed should teach us neither to think hardly of God nor to envy wicked men when he permits them to persecute his Church and to triumph in the miseries and ruin of his best Servants The Psalmist when he had recovered himself owns himself to have been Foolish and Ignorant and a Beast for grieving at the flourishing Estate of the ungodly and for entertaining hard and unworthy thoughts of God upon that account he found upon his going into the Sanctuary that the prosperity of these men was but their being mounted higher upon slippery places that they might the more surely and irrecoverably fall and that their end was to be rooted out at the last whereas whatever persecutions good men suffer the end of the upright man would be Peace and therefore he acknowledges that in all these seemingly unaccountable Dispensations truly God is loving unto Israel I am sure we of this Church and Nation have found him to be so and have reason to say with one of the famous Seven Brethren in the Maccabees that though the living God has been angry with us for a while for our chastening and correction yet at last he has been at one again with his servants Though he has shak'd his Rod over us threatned to remove our Candlestick and to permit our Adversaries to lay wast our Sion yet he has put a hook into their Nostrils and sent his Angels to deliver us out of the hands of our enemies and from the expectation of all the people that hate us And though he has not yet so wonderfully appear'd for the rescue of some of our reformed Brethren whether it be that they are not yet meet for such a Deliverance or their enemies not ripe for Destruction that these have not yet filled up the measures of their sins nor the other lain long enough under the scourge for their correction and reformation or for whatever other reason it pleases him still to suffer their persecuting enemies to tyrannize over them yet let us have a care of charging God foolishly for the heavy sufferings of our Brethren or of envying the long success of their Persecutors for God is just in all his dealings and holy and good in all his ways he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men but when he has great reason for it and excellent ends to serve by it And however the prosperity of their persecutors may look to unthinking men yet to envy it is indeed to envy them their Judgment and Reprobation and to suffer the utmost misery the most exquisite torments that the wit or malice of a Missionary can invent or the fury of Dragoons execute is ten thousand times rather to be chosen than to enjoy all the prosperity and success all the pomp and power in the world and at the same time to labour under the guilt of so many sacred Promises and Oaths broken so many solemn Leagues and Treaties violated and under the Tears and Cries of so many miserable Orphans and Widows the unjust Invasions and Desolations of so many Countries and Cities the Blood of so many thousands the Rapes upon so many Souls as well as Bodies as the Greatest Tyrant of this or any Age has to answer for But 5. And Lastly from hence we learn also that all these I have now mentioned and if possible greater impieties and treacheries in our Adversaries will give us no security against them if we by our sins provoke God to give us over unto them Possibly some of over sanguine Complexions and hopes may flatter themselves with great assurances of safety and success meerly from the consideration of the wickedness of those Enemies we are necessarily engaged with who it must be acknowledged are such that if ever the wickedness of enemies alone were a sufficient ground to raise a hope of success against them we might reasonably conceive such hopes But what I have been largely insisting on may be sufficient to arm us against so fatal a delusion For God I have observed does and may make use of what Instruments he pleases the vilest and worst of men for the execution of his Judgments and therefore if we by our provocations have deserved so severe a one as that our glory should be given up into our enemies hands we cannot from their impiety promise our selves impunity We must not then take our measures from them but turn our eyes inwards and see how things stand at home But Blessed God! what a black and affrighting Scene shall we here behold Should I insist upon the greater light and knowledg of our duty that has been afforded us the stricter obligations to it that our holy Religion lays upon us the purer way of worship that we have been bless'd with and all the various endearing methods that God has used to reform and purifie us to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works and then inquire how we have answered these obligations what effects these methods have had upon us whether we have been as much purer than our neighbours in our lives as much more reformed in our manners as our Church and Religion are more pure and reformed than theirs as much better in every respect than they as we have had reason and opportunity to be should I enumerate the particular scandalous vices that are publickly committed and gloried in whether those of our own growth or those we have fetch'd over together with their fashions from foreign Nations and in both outdone our Patterns should I reflect upon the unthinking life of many who are as without God in the world for he is not in all their thoughts who divide their