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A54855 A sermon preached at St. Margarets in Westminster before the Honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled, upon the 29th day of May, being the anniversary day of the King's and kingdomes restauration by Thomas Pierce ... Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. 1661 (1661) Wing P2198; ESTC R11580 14,298 44

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A SERMON PREACHED At St. MARGARETS in WESTMINSTER before the Honourable the House OF COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT Assembled Upon the 29th Day of MAY being the Anniversary Day of the KING' 's and Kingdomes Restauration BY THOMAS PIERCE D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait at the Little North-door of St. Paul's Church 1661. DEUT. 6. 12. Then beware lest thou forget the Lord who brought thee out of the Land of AEgypt WHen I look back upon the Church in all her motions out of the East observing how Monarchy and Learning have been at once the two Shoulders to bear her up and withall the two Legs to bring her hither And when again I do reflect upon our twenty years sins which were the complicated Cause of our twelve years sufferings I mean our drunkenness and luxury which were deservedly prescribed so long a Fast the rashness and vanity of our oathes which gave us a miserable option betwixt a perjury and an undoing our profanation of the Quire which turn'd us out of the Cathedral our gross neglect of Gods Service which helpt to vote down our publick Liturgie our general idleness and sloth which often cast us out of our Houses and as it were set us to eat our Bread in the sweat of our brows or of our brains our unprofitable walking under all God's methods and means of Grace which left us nothing but his Iudgements for many sad years to work upon us And yet again when I consider That God hath turn'd our Captivity as the Rivers of the South and cast the Locusts out of our Vineyards that we may sit under our Vines injoying our Iudges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the Beginning And that the use we are to make of so miraculous a Recovery is to be sedulous in providing against the Danger of a Relapse To sin no more after pardon for fear a worse thing happen unto us I think I cannot be transported with a more innocent Ambition because I cannot be ambitious of a more profitable attempt then that of bringing down the Heads of certain Hearers into their Hearts that what is now no more than Light may by that means become Fire That we may All in this sense be like the Baptist not only shining but burning Lamps not only beautified with the knowledge of Christian duties but zealous too in the discharge as unaffectedly punctual in all our carriage as the greatest Enemies of Godliness are hypocritically precise And though Heresies are to be hated as things which lead unto destruction yet that Vice may be reckon'd the worst of Heresies by how much the error of a mans practise is worse then that of his bare opinion Last of all when I consider That though Peace is a blessing and the greatest in its kind yet many consequences of Peace are but glittering Snares and that the things which are given us as helps to memory are apt to make us forgetful of Him that gave them I cannot think of a fitter Text for the giving advantage to my Design then This Remarkable Caveat to the People of God against forgetfulness and ingratitude amidst the pleasant Effects of a Restauration When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the Land to give thee great and goodly Cities and Houses full of all good things when thou shalt have eaten and art Full THEN beware that thou forget not the Lord who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt AT the very first view of which holy Caveat there are five particulars of Remarque which presently meet my observation As first the Downfal of a Nation 2ly the Deliverance 3ly the Author of that Deliverance 4ly the Duty by him injoyn'd and lastly the Iuncture of affairs wherein this Duty is most in season And of all these Particulars each is the greatest in its kind too For First behold the greatest Curse that any poor Nation can struggle under A yoke of Bondage and Captivity impos'd by the hardest and worst of men A yoke so insupportable to some mens Necks that I remember Hegesistratus a captive Souldier in Herodotus would rather cut off his legs then indure his Fetters that by the loss of his Feet he might be enabled to run away So insufferable a thing is the state of Thraldome very significantly imply'd in the Land of Egypt and exegetically express'd by the House of Bondage But yet the Curse is so set like Shadows in a Picture or Foyles with Diamonds as to commend and illustrate the greatest Blessing A Deliverance brought about by such a miraculous complication that nothing but the experience that so it is can extenuate the wonder that so it should be A People groaning under the pressures of several Centuries of years and so accustom'd unto the yoke as to have made it a kind of acquired Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Galen speaks de Terrâ AEgypti eductus est is now at last brought out of the land of Egypt And yet the wonder begins to cease Because The Author of this Deliverance is so much the greatest to be imagin'd that he is Dominus the Lord the Lord that stretcheth out the heavens the Lord that layeth the foundations of the earth the Lord that formeth the spirit of man within him The Lord in whose Hand are the hearts of all men who turneth man to Destruction and again who saith Come again ye children of men In a word It is the Lord to whom Miracles are natural and by whom impossibilities are done with ease 'T is He that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt And therefore The Duty in proportion must be superlatively great too however hid in this place by a little Meiosis of expression Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God that is Remember what he hath done and thank him for it by thy obedience Let thy gratitude be seen in thy conversation Be sure to love him and to serve him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Forget him if thou canst unless thou canst forget thou wert Pharaoh's Bondman Nay forget him if thou dar'st unless thou art so stout that thou dar'st be damn'd And yet beware lest thou forget him whilest thou art swimming in prosperity the stream of which may either drown thee or make thee drunk if thou art not fore-arm'd with circumspection And therefore beware that thou forget not the Lord that brought thee out of Egypt And that thou mayst not forget him write the Favours which he hath done thee upon the posts of thine House and place them as Frontlets between thine eyes tell them out unto thy children as thou walkest by the way at thy lying down and thy rising up Let them be as a Signet upon thine Arm and as a Seal upon thine Heart That the pleasures of thy Deliverance may not make thee forgetful of thy Deliverer forgetful