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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30218	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the natives of St. Martins in the Fields, at their own parochial church, on May 29, 1684 by Richard Burd, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord President, and lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury ; published at the request of the stewards.	Burd, Richard.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5616; ESTC R34772	15,233	51

A SERMON Preached at the ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE NATIVES OF St. MARTINS in the Fields At their Own Parochial Church on May 29. 1684. BY RICHARD BVRD A. M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord President and Lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury Published at the request of the Stewards LONDON Printed for Samuel Keble at the Turks-Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street 1684. A SERMON Preached May 29th 1684. ON St. Matt. 21.42 The Stone which the Builders rejected the same is become the Head of the corner BY the Stone which was here discarded and thrown aside is certainly typified and prefigured the rejection of our blessed Saviour the casting off and renouncing of the Messias who was sent into the world to be a light unto the Gentiles and to be the glory of the people Israel And the Builders that thus despised his domination and rule over them were the Scribes and Pharisees those hypocritical and Sanctimonious Zealots who all along most despitefully treated him and at length glutted their malice and revenge by putting him to death And after all his deep humility rejection and sufferings God raised him from the dead advanced him to his Kingdom at his own right hand and so made him tho once a stone rejected by the builders the chief and Head of the Corner uniting both Jews and Gentiles into one Spiritual-building And St. Peter proves as much in the audience of many thousands of the Jews Nemine contradicente Acts 4.11 Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified this is the stone that was set at nought of you builders which is now exalted into Heaven and become Head of the Church as well Triumpant as Militant here upon Earth So that the Text as it is legible in the Gospels undoubtedly points at the Crucifixion of the Messias by the Scribes and Pharisees But if we turn to the 118. Psalm whence the words are quoted than they may refer to the Psalmist himself and the Jewish Rabbins universally so applied them and that with good season provided the Psalm be interpreted only as a song of thanksgiving and not as a Prophesie for it exactly corresponds to the condition and circumstances of David who had been long exercised with many potent enemies and afflictions on every side and had been opposed and rejected by the House of Saul and the Chieftains of Israel in reference to his Kingdom and had lain for some time under proscription and banishment Yet God at length stood up in his defence hearing him in all his troubles redressing his grievances helping him to subdue and discomfit all the various hosts of his enemies and maugre all difficulties and oppositions bringing him back from exile and establishing him on the Throne of his Kingdom over Israel as well as Judah making him tho at first a stone rejected by the builders yet at last Head of the corner Then did holy David pen this Psalm as t is conjectur'd and afterwards Hymn it in the praise and glorification of God And as I doubt not but all the Loyal Hearts of Judah and Jerusalem did congratulate David when he enter'd into the Royal City and afterwards went into the Sanctuary to offer up unto God their sacrifice of praise and thanksgivings for returning their King home again So now let every member of this Loyal Assembly according to the design and occasion of this solem Anniversary Festival pour out in the presence of God all imaginable praise and glory for a deliverance as stupendious and amazing for number weight and measure as ever God in his wise Providence dispensed unto the men of Judah or any other people since the inchoation of the world I appeal to the Chronicles of the most early times and challenge all Registers of whatsoever Age to instance in any Kingdom or Republick that has been reduced to so low an ebb to such sad extremities and so perfectly unable to emerge from the calamity That were of such implacable enmities and discord within themselves and so mortally cursed and hated by all neighbouring Provinces and at last to be so miraculously redeemed out of every straight and difficulty and that without the lest drop of blood to the unspeakable joy of all our hearts and the amazement of all about us and at a time when no Soul alive could ever hope for or imagin such a sudden and prosperous turn of affairs in these Kingdoms We were along time like the Captive Jews in Babylon a grievous and afflicted people and had our Country depopulated by the inroads of mercyless and imperious Tyrants its strength and sinews enervated by civil and intestine broils our rights and liberties all infringed our estates and fortunes confiscated our lives exposed to insuperable hazards whole families extinct and buried in ruins the State and Government quite inverted and changed all order and peacedissolved and broken up the Scepter and Royal Throne usurp'd the late King of ever blessed memory executed at his own door his Sons and all the Royal Line proscribed out of the Kingdom Several of the prime Nobility hastily dispatch'd to attend the Funerals of their Royal Master and thousands of other inferiour Subjects Ecclesiastical as well as Civil had all their necks crush'd to peices by the Chariot-wheels of insulting Pharaoh Yea Gods holy Vineyard too miserably laid wast and troden under foot and that very Church which was once so remarkable for its Orthodox faith good discipline wholesome Canons modest and decent way of worship all brought to nought and nothing but loose Doctrines and most damnable heresies succeeding in the room of them To such an amazing height of misery and confusion was this Nation reduced and such as this was our lamentable state and condition And after those many attempts that were made and all honest and ingenious minds had strove their utmost to stop this impetuous torrent and retreive their Country from such a Sea of miseries when there was no hopes left and the Nation just a sinking under its own burden When the waters had almost drowned us and the streams had gone e'ne over our Souls Then did the Almighty lift up his voice out of the deep and the floods strait obeyed and drive back again then did God speak peace to this British Island and wrought our delivery in a trice infatuating all the Counsels of the Mighty undermining all their projects and secret Machinations strangely scattering all the bands and Militia of the Nation and by an extraordinary act of grace and mercy above our hopes and beyond our merits and with wonderful ease and safety restoring our most gracious Soveraign to all his Kingdoms and his Loving Subjects to their just rights and liberties and withal bringing the Ark and our Religion home again and establishing it on the same basis with all its Episcopal constitutions together with a profound peace and plenty and an universal joy and gladsomeness on every brow accompanying the return of so indulgent and merciful a Prince even to