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heaven_n	bless_v	lord_n	star_n	2,155	5	10.0592	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45868	A sermon preached at the assizes held in Warwick, August the first, 1681 by John Inett ...	Inett, John, 1647-1717.	1681 (1681)	Wing I159; ESTC R9088	12,154	33

from every true English man and every Orthodox Protestant Who is not sensible of that cloud which hangs over our heads and is ready to dissolve in showres of vengeance How the Conclave contrives and what active emissaries it imploys to ruine and undo us How our home bred quarrels lay us open to their malice and prepare a way to the Romans to take our place and our Nation from us and how much danger we are in of their entrance at that gap which we have opened by our own divisions This is that we are all sensible of and the cry of the Kingdom is that of the disciples in the storm we perish we perish and yet whilst with them we own nothing but the Lord can save us whose Piety stands in the Gap whose Repentance invites the Salvation of our God But on the contrary whilst we behold Church and State ready to be sacrificed how generally do we forget that iniquity is the ruine of a people and make no other use of our danger but maliciously to reflect on the conduct of our Governours Thus Isaac like we carry the fewel though marked out our selves to be the sacrifice and by a conjunction of sin and folly prepare a Funeral pile for our selves the best Religion and the most excellent frame of Government We like David are in a strait seem to have nothing but choice of Plagues laid before us either to give up our Necks to the Roman Yoak which our Fathers were not able to bear or else let the Kirk bore our ears to mark us for her slaves and with a solemn League fasten us to the stool of Repentance and our sins have brought us to such a pass that there seems a fatal necessity of the one or other or else to be ground betwixt them both Though all this be come upon us we may add with the Prophet who lays it to heart Good God! what shall we then doe or whither shall we fly will thy goodness deliver which we have so much abused or thy hand save that is justly stretched forth to punish us is not vengeance thine and wilt not thou repay can our sins that are before thy Throne to cry for vengeance come down unanswered or our horrid impieties escape thy hand wilt not thou visit us for our sins and will not thy Soul be avenged upon such a people as this That use thy forbearance thy mercies and deliverances to encourage and heighten our sins and perpetuate our Rebellion against thee that despise dominion and speak evil of dignities that use the clemency of a Prince to libel and reproach him and fly in the face of Government plenty to fat themselves for the day of slaughter and peace but to gain time to prepare for war and make the sword sharper for the day of battel Is this the way to make a Kingdom flourish to invite Forreigners to say we are a wise and understanding people or buoy up the sinking Credit of our Countrey Is this the way to invite the Papist to forsake his errours to bring him to the embraces of the Protestant faith and confess there is no Religion that has Statutes and Judgments so righteous as ours And is this the Righteousness that will exalt our Nation No! 't is these impieties that are a reproach to the name of Protestant 't is these provoke the Gallick cruelty to attempt to root out that Name from under Heaven and affronts we daily see put upon our Government certainly help to kindle the rage of France against our Brethren there 'T is these are a shame to the truth we own a dishonour to our God and our Countrey and unless repented of will certainly be the ruine of our Souls our Religion and our Nation What made Israel captive in Babylon what gave them up to the Conquest of Pompey and to a final decision by the hand of Titus what brought that miserable bondage the poor Christians of the East labour under and submitted those once flourishing Churches to the Turkish power If it were their sins we have as strong grounds to believe it just with God to take away his Gospel from us to permit Superstition to invade and Idolatry once more to overrun us and as often as we contemplate how fatal sins have been to other people and with an impartial eye look upon our own we must with our Saviour cry out that except we repent we shall all likewise perish I must therefore beseech you Brethren by all that 's Sacred by all that 's dear to wise and good men for your Souls your Religion and your Countries sake that your light may shine before men that with good works and holy lives you may adorn the Protestant faith and name that you forsake your sins and turn unto the Lord your God 't is this must stop the wrath which is gone out against us stay the hand of the destroying Angel and prevail with God that neither our Religion our King nor our selves may perish Let us fore set our selves to live up to that Religion which God has planted and by a series of miracles has preserved amongst us Let us confute the Papist by living better lives manifest that we have a better Religion by being better Christians and better Subjects Let us put on the Armour of God and not only name the Name of Christ but depart from all iniquity Thus God will fight against those that fight against us and our Religion will stand impregnable notwithstanding all the designs of men Let me therefore beseech you Brethren in this day of tryal when ruine impends and judgment threatens not to think as the practice of too many is to excuse your neglect of Piety and Repentance by imputing all our dangers to the ill conduct of our Governours do not think your love or zeal to your Religion or your Country consists in reviling of authority or speaking evil of the Rulers of the people but let us look at home correct the sins that lodge within our own walls strive whose life shall be the greatest ornament to our Religion who shall be first in the way to Heaven and who fittest for the Crown of Glory and Immortality and the ineffable felicities of the Saints in light thus at once you 'l serve your god your Religion your Countrey and your selves and by the same methods promote the honour of the former and the interest and felicity of the latter Thus Heaven and Earth your Present and your Eternal interest unite to command your utmost industry to make Righteousness beloved and practis'd Vertue sacred and Religion obeyed and honoured Thus shall we be the people in the happy case who have the Lord for our God Thus may we be happy here and blessed hereafter Thus that Righteousness which makes this Kingdom and our Religion flourish will make us shine at last like Stars in Glory and that which exalts our Nation will exalt us all at last to Heaven FINIS