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A59559 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, in Bow-Church, on the feast of St. Michael, 1680 at the election of the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing / by John Sharpe ... Sharp, John, 1645-1714. 1680 (1680) Wing S2987; ESTC R17019 16,263 40

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of which in short is this That whoever walks Uprightly and makes a conscience of his ways such a man shall be always under the watchfull care and protection of the Divine Providence And never will God suffer him to fall into any grievous distress but he shall always have such a portion of the good things of this world afforded to him as will be sufficient not onely to make his life supportable but easy And in truth The experience of the world generally makes this good Honest and Upright men for the most part in the most publick calamities fare well at least much better than those that are not so In their greatest extremities when they have no prospect of deliverance from any humane means strange extraordinary unexpected succour and relief doth arrive to them In a word that care of the special Providence of God attends them that they are never miserable however they may be now and then cut short in their outward fortunes But it must be acknowledged that though Piety and Uprightness hath the promise of security in this Life and that promise for the most part and in general speaking is made good Yet there are a great many exempt cases God may see it fit now and then to suffer an Upright man to be opprest and to perish in a common ruin and this without any violation of his Promises of this kind which do indeed respect no more than the ordinary common events and successes of things But yet even in this case still there will To the Vpright arise Light in the Darkness that is Light in the third sence we have given of the word viz. taking Light for Peace and Joy and Comfort And this is that which the Psalmist tells us in another place Light is sown for the Righteous and Gladness for the Vpright in heart Whatever Afflictions come upon the Upright man yet he hath this advantage of other men that he bears them infinitely more lightly than they do They are really no great disturbance to him for he injoys the same calmness and serenity of mind the same peace and quiet and contentment that ever he did His present sufferings are rather matter of rejoycing and triumph to him than of discontent and repining for he knows that they come upon him by the Counsel and Disposal of the great Governour of the World And he knows that he hath so sincerely approved himself to God and is so well beloved by him that he should not have been ordered into these circumstances had it not been really for his good And this consideration doth so effectually support him under all the difficulties that he hath to conflict with that he not onely sits down easily and quietly but is very well pleased with the dispensations of the Divine Providence towards him how ingratefull soever they may be to flesh and bloud Let what will happen to him he is full of Peace and Joy For he hath met with no disappointment of his designs His great aim was to please God and his Conscience from Gods word assures him that he has done it and he hath nothing to doe farther but to wait for the happy time when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed and every mans Counsels and Actions shall be made manifest and then he doubts not to receive approbation and praise and a great Reward in that Day of the Lord Jesus And so much the rather because this light affliction wherewith he is now exercised he is assured will work for him a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory To conclude Whatever his sufferings be he will live and die in a profound peace perfectly satisfied with all Gods dealings towards him And his Life and Death will verify to all that know him that advice and observation of the Psalmist Mark the Perfect man and behold the Vpright for the end of that man is Peace THE END 1 Tim. 4. 8. Prov. 14. ● Matt. 23. 23. Dionys. Alex. in Euseb. Job 29. 14 c. Prov. 11. 3. cap. 4. 18. Psal. 111. 10. Prov. 10. 9. Prov. 11. 11. Psal. 37. v. 6 19 24 40 41. Cap. 15. v. 16. Psal. 97. 11. 2 Cor. 4. 17. Psal. 37. 37.