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A42362	A sermon preach'd before the House of Lords at the Abbey-Church of St. Peters Westminster, on Wednesday, 11th of December, 1695 : being the day appointed for a solemn fast and humiliation / by the Right Reverend Father in God James, Lord Bishop of London.	Gardiner, James, 1637-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing G227; ESTC R8142	11,528	33

reasonably thence infer That it is very disagreeable to the Ends of Government that they who are united for the sake of Preservation should be devoured and consumed by one another that Government should be made an Instrument of Oppression and that one Man should ruin Millions Arbitrarily and wantonly against the stated measures of Justice and the Bounds of Common Humanity We cannot therefore but conceive thus Worthily of God that He who has planted in Men such Appetites of Preservation and allows such Vnion and Confederacy will have Compassion upon the Oppressed and that He will in His own Way and in His own Time punish the Oppressors who do not Rule but Ravage who do not feed but worry and devour Or if we rather approve the Notion of others who found Government upon Divine Institution and Paternal Authority our common Consanguinity and natural Relation will teach us that it is unreasonable and unnatural to destroy and prey upon one another for tho Parents have a Superiority not only by Nature but by Divine Appointment and so likewise the Fathers of many Families and great Collections and Societies of Men it is only a Superiority in order to the Education and Discipline and good Government of Inferiours they have no Authority to destroy and oppress at Pleasure for Paternal Authority Implies Care and Tenderness and Love and Provision which are inconstent with Tyranny and Cruelty so that we may infer from this Notion of Government that God is much displeased with those who mis-use this Fatherly Power if it overflow its Banks it is not a River that fructifies and Cherishes as it slides Smoothly and Gently but a Torrent and Inundation that Spoils and Consumes all where it takes its Course In this case God is Concerned for his own Honour to Interpose and to Rebuke these swelling Waves and the oppressed may very Properly apply themselves to him as their Common Father and humbly beg of him to deliver them from the hands of such men who are his Ministers Indeed but misuse their Ministry and Emply it not to help and defend but to ruin and devour But besides that this Idea of God and these Notions of his Government of the World may convince us that it is agreeable to his Will and for the Honour of his Justice and his Fatherly Love and Compassion to relieve the Injured and Oppressed He has also declared the same by his Messengers and Prophets in his holy Word and Revelation He often makes known Himself under the Stile and Character of a Deliverer a Saviour and Helper and particularly of the Oppressed a Refuge and Defence in time of Trouble These are the Names of God in Scripture and He Delights to be Invocated and Honoured by these Names When He delivered the Children of Israel out of the Iron Furnace as the Prophet Jeremiah terms the Egyptian Bondage He is said to get him a Name as the same Prophet expresses it The Lord that brought them out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of Bondage by which Name He was pleased to be stiled and stiled Himself when He Dictated the Ten Commandments to His Servant Moses And when He delivered them from that other Captivity in Babylon then He got Him a New Name as the same Prophet describes Him saying of Himself in Jer. 16.14 15. But the day is come saith the Lord that it shall no more be said the Lord liveth who brought up the Children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt but the Lord liveth who brought up the Children of Israel from the Land of the North and from all the Lands whither he had driven them So agreeable is it to God to be stiled and to stile Himself by Names of Deliverance and with respect to Oppression particularly And so the Psalmist frequently describes Him Ps 103. The Lord executeth Righteousness and Judgment for all that are Oppressed And in Ps 68.5 He is a Father of the Fatherless and a Judg of the Widow who setteth the solitary in Families and bringeth the Prisoners out of Captivity And in Ps 12.5 he introduces God thus speaking For the Oppression of the Poor and for the sighing of the Needy now will I arise saith the Lord and will set him in safety from him that Puffeth at him Well then may the oppressed and the afflicted call upon God by these Names and move him for the Honour and Glory of his Name of this particular Name of Deliverer especially to help and save them in the time of trouble I shall now in the last place take leave to make some Application of the whole to our selves upon occasion of our Present Meeting 1. Then If Almighty God have such a Respect to the Honour of his Name as to accept the Addresses that are made to him upon that motive it is a great Incouragement to us to make use of it upon all occasions especially upon occasion of using some extraordinary Offices of Devotion The Church of England was so sensible of this that she prescribes it in the Litany Office which is appointed to be performed Three Times in every Week O Lord Arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake And again Help us and deliver us for thy Honour And soon after For the Glory of thy Name turn from us all those Evils that we most righteously have deserved But this is most especially proper to be used upon Emergent and Extraordinary Occasions When a whole Nation is assembled to humble themselves before God to confess their sins to implore Pardon and Forgiveness to deprecate the Wrath and Vengeance of God and to desire His Direction and Blessing upon great Occasions and in great Straits and Difficulties then to use this Motive is very seasonable for the Honours and Dishonours that are reflected upon God by Publick Persons and Publick Bodies affect Him most for a whole Nation therefore the Prince the Nobles and the great Body of the People to apply themselves to him unanimously by Prayer and Suplication for the Honour of his Great Name must needs be acceptable to Him and prevail with Him to hear and to help them But then while they thus affectionately implore His Mercy for the sake of his Honour they must In the 2d Place Be careful that they do not as publickly Dishonour him by their Sins as they pretend publickly to Honour him by their Devotions All Sin which is the Transgression of God's Law tendeth to his Dishonour It is an Affront to his Authority and to the Justice Equity and Reasonableness of his Laws and Government But the Contempt of the Law of God is a greater Wickedness than the bare Violation of it and the Dishonour done to God by it is of greater Aggravation If a Nation or a considerable part of it for it may be no Nation was ever so Universally Depraved but if the greater and the most conspicuous part of it offend notoriously in these two Instances of open Transgression and bold

The Bishop of LINCOLN's SERMON Preach'd before the House of LORDS Die Veneris 13 Decemb. 95 IT is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Thanks of this House be Given to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln for his Sermon Preached before this House in the Abbey-Church at Westminster the 11th instant and he is hereby desired to Print and Publish the same Matth. Johnson Cler. Parl. A SERMON Preach'd before the House of Lords AT THE Abbey-Church of St. Peter's Westminster ON Wednesday the 11th of December 1695. Being the Day appointed for A Solemn Fast and Humiliation By the Right Reverend Father in God James Lord Bishop of Lincoln LONDON Printed for John Everingham at the Star in Ludgate-Street near the West End of St. Pauls 1695. A SERMON Preach'd before the House of Lords Psalm LXXIX v. 9. Which is also in the Hymn for this Day Help us O God of our Salvation for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and purge away our Sins for thy Names sake THIS Psalm is a Passionate Address to God composed for the People of the Jews under some very great Suffering and Calamity either upon the destruction of Jerusalem and the holy Temple at the Time of the last Captivity of the People of Judah as some Interpreters conceive or the Slaughter and Devastation made by Antiochus afterwards as others conjecture The Psalm is full of mournful and melting Expressions and the Psalmist who in the Title is said to be Asaph of which Name there were more than one that were devout Psalmists do's in the Name of the suffering Nation one while expostulate with God very passionately another while petition very earnestly for the Jewish Nation upon whose account this Psalm being composed there are some Particulars in it that relate purely or principally to them But then besides that these Particulars may be applied in parallel cases where any such happen to other people there are others more general which may suit the ordinary Circumstances of any Nation under common Evils and Calamities of which this of the Text I take to be one Help us O God of our Salvation for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and purge away our Sins for thy Names sake And it may serve not only our Devotion in this Nation at this time but our Instruction also and for that purpose I shall now use it In which there may be considered these two general parts 1. The Petition it self in these three instances Help us O God deliver us and purge away our Sins 2. The Motive or Argument used For the Glory of thy Name and for thy Names sake In the first of these two parts the Petition there is a confession of sin implied Purge away our sins So that here we might propose two Observations upon which to discourse 1. From the confession of sin implied we might observe That it is very fit for Nations under heavy Pressures and Calamities to confess their sins to God publickly 2. From the Petition it self exprest we might further observe That it is very proper for such an afflicted Nation to pray earnestly to God for help and deliverance Then from the 2d General the motive upon which the Petition is grounded the Glory of God's Name we may infer That it is proper and acceptable to God for an afflicted People to address to him upon this motive the Glory of his Name or his Names sake I shall not insist upon either of the two Observations inferred from the first General as being Topicks of Discourse frequently handled upon these Occasions but I shall chuse to treat only on the 2d General and the Inference from thence And here I shall 1. Explain these Expressions of the Name of God and the Glory of his Name 2. I shall shew you what particular Reasons the People of the Jews had to petition God upon this motive 3. I shall shew you what general Reason there is that may justifie and encourage the use of this motive by other People 4. I shall enquire so far as we may with Reverence and Humility upon what Occasions and at what Seasons it is proper for any Nation to use this motive in their publick Devotions And lastly I shall make some Application to the present occasion of our meeting First By the Name of God in Scripture is frequently to be understood God himself in all his Excellencies Attributes and Perfections and the Glory of his Name is the rendering those Perfections conspicuous and observable So that to move God for his Names sake or the Glory of his Name is to move him that the Effects of his Divine Attributes may be made visible and illustrious in the sight of men so as that they may be had in just Esteem and Veneration The Attributes of God which afflicted People are prone to desire God to exert on their behalf are principally his Power his Justice and his Mercy When a Nation is enfeebled in its strength when it is humbled and brought into troubles and difficulties by its Enemies when there is no hope of Salvation by any Outward or Visible Assistance then to desire God to shew his Omnipotent Power is to desire him to glorifie and signalize that Attribute When an Enemy is Violent and Cruel Bloody and Insatiable Revengeful and Irreconcilable then to desire God to execute his Just Indignation and Vevgeance upon them is to desire him to let it be seen that there is a God that Judgeth in the Earth When such afflicted People are sensible of their Sins and Provocations and are humbled for them and are resolved to forsake them then to desire God to have mercy is to desire him to glorifie that Attribute of his in which he takes most delight Thus these Attributes of God which are his Name being exerted in a signal and illustrious manner and at a proper and seasonable time are rendred Glorious and Conspicuous in the eyes of Men. 2. I shall shew you what particular Reasons the Jewish Nation had to petition God to Glorify those his Attributes on their behalf And there are two especially First As they were a Nation Selected from the rest of the World and made the peculiar People of God for he provided that People of particular Laws and Institutions and governed them not in General only like the other Nations as the supreme Rector of the World but as their National King who resided amongst them in a particular manner having several Illustrious Symbols of his Presence as the Ark the Tabernacle the Temple and the Shechinah or visible Brightness Termed the Glory which was a Conspicuous and Awful Representation of his Majesty By these it was known not to the Jews only but to the Neighbouring Nations also that they had a peculiar Governour who took especial care of them and fed them and conducted and fought for them and afflicted and punished other Nations for their sakes they knew him by those names of Power the

Contempt of the Law of God the Honour they do to God by publick Fasting and Confession is not so acceptable to Him as the Dishonour they do to his holy Name by Prophanation and Defiance is displeasing and provoking But if like the Inhabitants of the Great City Nineveh they would intirely believe the Revelation of God and sincerely and universally humble themselves and repent as they did at the Preaching of the Prophet Jonas no doubt but God would have Compassion upon them and prevent or Revoke the Sentence of Judgment as He did from that City But when one part of a Nation are unconcerned and Idle and Negligently omit the time appointed for Solemn and Publick Humiliation and another part Expose and Ridicule it and a third that resort indeed to the place of Solemnity yet neither Pray Affectionately nor Hear Attentively nor Repent Seriously nor break off any Evil Custom nor forsake any one Sin nor resist any one Temptation nor show the least Effect of Sorrow in the following part of their Lives how can such a Nation expect that God should be favourable to them Especially if such as these make up the greater Number altho in an other Rank there may be a better sort amongst them who attend the Offices and Ministeries of Repentance with afflicted and broken Hearts and sincere Resolutions of Amendment of Life The devout and serious Addresses of this little Flock altho God will undoubtedly accept and reward them for it cannot attone for the Negligencies the Hyprocrisies the Affronts and Contempts of a far greater Number And if the Performance of the Methods of Reconciliation cannot avail to reconcile them what can become of such a Nation If this be the Case of our own Nation it is very sad and deplorable I do not say it is but rather hope otherwise but it must needs be confess'd that we labour under this ill Indication That our Publick Fasts and Humiliations repeated Yearly for several Years together are not accompanied and compleated with a Visible Amendment and Reformation Shall I instance to you in our Vanity and Luxury in our Intemperance and Vncleanness in our prophane use of the Holy Name of God by Oaths and Imprecations in our Perjuries and Blasphemies in our Injustice and Partiality in our Frauds and uncharitable Circumventions in our Divisions Factions and Animosities Have we not been so far from Reforming these notorious Wickednesses notwithstanding our Fastings Confessions and Humiliations that we have Proceeded to a greater degree of Boldness and Confidence in committing them Nay further upon these Licentious Practices some Men have built Pernicious Doctrines and from denying God in their Works are arriv'd to that Degree of Folly not only to deny Him in their Hearts but with their Tongues I might here not improperly mention the Dishonours that are done to the Eternal Son of God in his Essence in his Doctrine in his Laws and Government in the Ministers and Officers of his Kingdom and the whole Christian Revelation These Practices and these Doctrines grow upon us Daily They are entertained encouraged and propagated more and more to common Observation And if this be our Case that the Means and Ministries of Repentance have no better Effect upon us but that we rather grow worse under the use of them by what other means can we expect to be reconciled to God and procure his Favour and Protection We have nothing to move upon our own account If God be pleased to Save and Prosper us it can be from no other Motive but the Honour of his Name The best that we can say for our selves is that in our puhlick Worship we do not ascribe that Honour to any other which is due to him only we Pray neither to Saint nor Angel we make them neither the Objects of our Worship nor use them as Intercessors on our behalf this may give us some ground of Hope Besides it 's usual with God to concern Himself in Opposing and Humbling Bloody Deceitful and Oppressing Men He delights to Defeat Proud and Presumptuous Vndertakings to Baffle Haughty and Insolent Names and Titles and Disappoint High and Swelling Expectations This he Does when he Pleases and when it is for the Honour of his Name But the Time and Method of doing it must be left to His All-Wise Providence The only thing that might encourage us to hope for it speedily Would be not a National Fast only but a National Reformation This Humbling our selves and Bowing our Heads like a Bullrush for a Day will not Prevail with God who knows the Secrets of all Hearts But if we would Heartily and Thoroughly and Vniversally Amend our Ways and our Doings then we might expect the Light of God's Countenance and the Blessings of Victory and Peace and Safety and Wealth and Good Success in all our Just and Honourable Enterprises Which God of his Mercy Grant for the Sake of Jesus Christ To whom be ascrib'd all Honour and Glory and Praise now hence forward and for ever more Amen FINIS