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A23768 A sermon preached at Hampton-court on the 29th of May, 1662 being the anniversary of His Sacred Majesty's most happy return / by Richard Allestry ... Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. 1662 (1662) Wing A1164; ESTC R22785 20,182 53

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to fear that goodness But give me leave to say those that despise his goodness do not fear it and they whom it does not lead to repentance do despise it S. Paul saies Rom. 2. 4. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-sufferance not knowing that the goodness of the Lord leads thee to repentance And now ô Lord what sort of men among us hath thy goodness wrought upon and made repent Those whom it was directed to convince and came on purpose to to prove by their own onely argument they had of providential Miracles they were not in the right but that destruction and misery were in their waies yet these chuse rather to deny their own conclusions and resist God's goodness then to be convinc'd and repent for we have seen them as bold Martyrs to their Sin as ever any to Religion signalize their resolv'd impenitence with chearful suffering as if the fire they were condemn'd to were that triumphal Chariot in which the Prophet mounted up to heaven Others that did not go so farre in condemnation nor guilt as they and therefore think they have no reason to repent of that do they repent of what they did contribute to it Of those that lifted up their hands to swear and fight how many are there that have made them fall and smite their own thigh saying What have I done Do not all rather justifie as farre as they themselves proceeded and if all that were well why do not we repent of our Allegiance and Loyalty if all that were well what hath thy goodness done ô Lord that hath reverst it all And for the rest those that do not partake the plenties of thy goodness murmure and repine at it are discontent at having what they pray'd for what they would have dy'd for those that have been partakers of it have turn'd it into wantonness have made it furnish them for base unworthy practices Such as have not the generosity of vice have not a noble manly wickedness are poltron sins have made it raise a cry on the faithfullest party the best Cause and the purest Church in the World While we have debauch'd God's own best Attribute made his Goodness procure for our most wicked or self-ends and the face of things is so vicious in every order and degree and sexe that But the Confession is onely fit for Litanies and we have need to make the burthen of ours be Lord give us some afflictions again send out thy Indignation for we do fear thy goodness it hath almost undone us and truly where it does not better 't is the most fearful of God's Attributes or plagues for it does harden there S. Paul saies so in the fore-cited place and Origen does prove this very thing did Pharaoh's heart indulgence was his induration Now induration is the being put in Hell upon the Earth there is the same impenitence in both and Iudgement is pronounc'd already on the hardned and the life they lead is but the interval betwixt the Sentence and the Execution and all their Sun-shine of Prosperity is but kindled brimstone onely without the stench And then to make the treasures of God's bounty be treasures of wrath to us to make his kindness his long-suffering that is S. Peter sayes salvation condemne us his very goodness be hell to us But sure so great a goodness as this we have tasted cannot have such deadly issues and it was great indeed so perfectly miraculous in such strange and continued successes resisting our contrivances and our sins too overcoming all opposition of our vices and our own policies that do not comport with it and in despight of all still doing us good it was fatality of goodness Now sure that which is so victorious will not be worsted by us But oh have we not reason so much more to fear the goodness The greater and more undeserv'd it is the more suspicious it is as if it were the last blaze of the candle of the Lord when its light gasps its flash of shine before it do goe out the dying struggles and extreme efforts of goodness to see if at the last any thing can be wrought by it And if we did consider how some men menage the present goodness make use of this time of it and rake and catch we would believe they did fear the departure of it but yet 't is in our power to fixe it here If we repent God's gifts then are without repentance but one of us must change bring Piety and Vertue into countenance and fashion and God will dwell among us Nay S. Paul saies Goodness to thee if thou continue in his goodness If we our selves do not forsake it and renounce it not fear it so as to fly from it but with the fears of sinking men that catch and grasp lay fast dead hold upon it if as God promises he so put his fear in our hearts that we never depart from it fear that hath love in it and is as unitive as that then it shall ne're depart from us but we shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living and shall be taken thence to the eternal fulness of it This day shall be the birth-day of immortal life the entring on a Kingdome that cannot be moved A Crown thus beautify'd is a Crown of glory here and shall adde weight and splendour to the Crown hereafter A Church thus furnish'd is a Church triumphant in this World and such a Government is the Kingdome of heaven upon Earth and then we shall all reign with him who is the King of Kings and who wash'd us in his blood to make us Kings and Priests to God and his Father to whom be glory and dominion for ever Amen FINIS Errata Pag. 9. line 8. after build place the semicolon after departure in the line following blot it out Pag. 16. line 18. for farre Uniformity reade for Uniformity Pag. 23. line 9. for David the King read David their King Psal. 44. 19. Luk. 22. 44. Ver. 42. Mat. 27. 46. Mat. 27. 45. a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b Exod. 29. 42 43. c Psal. 42. 4. d Psal. 74. 7. e Psal. 31. 20. f Jer. 17. 12. 14. 21. Psal. 74. Ver. 3. Ver. 7. Ver. 1. Psal. 42. 4. Arist. Pol. l. 7. Joseph l. con Appio 1 Kings 12. 16. Luk. 16. 26. Prov. 28. 2. a R. Simeon the son of Jochai said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and R. Simeon the son of Menasiah said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 33. 5. Exo. 32. 1 5. Judg. 3. 7. ver 12. Ch. 4. 1. Ch. 6. 1. Ch. 10. 6. Ch. 13. 1. a 1 Kings 16. 26. Ch. 21. 22. 22. 52 c. 1 Tim. 2. 2. Ver. 35. 1 Sam. 12. 25. Psal. 89. 49. Isa. 5. 16. 2 Chro. 34. 2. 2 King 14. 3. 2 Chro. 17. 3. Psal. 122. 3 5. Psal. 130. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Judg. 5. 9. 2 Sam. 5. 4. Inter 7 9 Sauli qui regnavit an 20. Vid. Sim Chron. Psal. 120. 5. Psal. 14. Rom. 3. Rom. 16. 17. 1 Kings 19. 11 12. Mat. 23. 27. Mat. 4. Prov. 7. 27. Prov. 5. 5. Phil. 2. 21. Isay 65. 1. Luk. 15 4 5. 2 King 2. 11. Jer. 31. 19. Rom. 2. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 15. Rom. 11. 22. Jer. 32. 40. Apoc. 1. 5 6.