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A61268 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at the Guild-Hall Chappel, Jan. 20, 1683 by John Standish ... Standish, John, d. 1686. 1684 (1684) Wing S5218; ESTC R13597 15,137 29

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directive Rules how we may best reduce it to Practice I begin with the First And 1. To forget the LORD imports in general to contemn the power of Religion and with that old Fool to say in ones heart there is no GOD no Judge or Judgment to come at least to deny Him that Honour and Worship due to His Holy and Reverend Name and give it to Another to put ones trust and confidence in Creatures or Idols the works of God's or of Mens hands more then the Creator and cast his Commandments behind ones back as if he owed no duty either to God or Man It implies a stupid habitual neglect of Gods Service which is the great business and chief end of our Creation when a Man immerseth himself so deep in the fruitless cares the frothy Vanities of this World and the sinful Lusts of the Flesh that GOD is not in all his ferious thoughts that is not in one of them All but he lives and dies an Atheist Epicure Idolater or ungodly Infidel and so plungeth himself headlong into that dreadful Doom in the Psalm The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget GOD. 2. To forget the LORD signifies here more especially not to recount and value not to be duly sensible of and truly thankful for his past or present Mercies and Deliverances not to lay them to heart and call them to mind not to suffer them to have their proper effect upon us when his own beloved and of late distressed People forget GOD their SAVIOUR who brought them out of Aegypt with a high Hand and stretched out Arm who led them through the Wilderness and fought all their battels for them drowning some of their Enemies in the depth of the Sea and routing all others at Land and planted them in a good Land in another Paradice even the Land of Promise a Land of Corn Wine and Oyl a Land flowing with Rivers of Milk and Brooks of Honey For them to Rebel and lift up their heel against Him merely out of wantonness and too much Peace and Plenty were beyond all Parallel if not all Pardon also for as the Royal Prophet observes the merciful and gracious LORD hath so done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in Remembrance And therefore 3. And Lastly To discover the full strength and force of the Caution we must fly to that usual figure in Rhetorick whereby much more is implied then is expressed like that of the Prophet Can a Woman forget her sucking Child and not have compassion on the Son of her Womb It is impossible in Nature That of St. Paul I am not ashamed of that is I glory in the Gospel and Cross of CHRIST albeit the wise Greeks account it Foolishness or that of the holy Psalmist If I forget thee ô Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning if I do not remember thee then let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth the sweet singer of Israel wisheth his curious right hand useless and his graceful Tongue disabled from chanting any more Hallelujahs to his Harp if instead of forgetting He doth not prefer Jerusalem's distress above his own chiefest Delight and Joy Then beware lest thou forget the LORD That is be sure that thou remember to love and honour him in the day of thy Prosperity for then thou hast all the reason in the world and the strongest obligations imaginable to praise and glorifie his holy Name and that not in Word and Tongue only saying GOD be thanked the LORD be praised though that sounds well but indeed and in Truth also as that dying Roman said to his Friend Quae voluerit meminisse quae mandaverit exequi To remember his Will and Pleasure and do all his Commands For to be truly thankful to GOD is certainly to love him and if ye love me keep my Commandments saith the LORD And yet after all that Jeshurun waxing fat in her fresh Pasture grew sturdy and restiff and Kicked against her Feeder and most shamefully forgot the Lord her Redemer appears by the Writings of the Prophets as a Cloud of Witnesses as also by those stupendious Showers of Judgments which fell upon them according to the Predictions of those Prophets and lastly by their utter Extirpation and Destruction their being Blotted out of the List of Nations for Crucifying the Lord of Life and Killing their only Lord and Saviour For to this day they are under a Curse they are Vagabonds over all the Earth they are no People they have no Laws or Government no King in Israel neither God nor Man Which things happened unto them for Ensamples says St. Paul and are written that is left upon Record Chiefly for our Admonition upon whom the Ends of the World are come And therefore lest we should tread in their Ungracious Steps and forget the Lord when we are full fed with his Manifold Mercies lest we should tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and be Destroyed of the Destroyer lest our Iniquity also should be our Ruine I proceed 2ly To back and Inforce this seasonable Caution with some proper Arguments or Confiderations that it may make the deeper Impression upon all our Spirits And 1. Consider we that by forgetting GOD and growing careless of his Laws in the midst of our temporal Felicities we provoke the best Friend we have to become our professed Enemy For they draw not GODS Attributes to the Life and Truth who allow him only Mercy for a Penitent and no Justice at all for a Presumptuous Sinner They are more False Prophets then Balaam himself who would stretch the Words of his Parable to signifie that GOD doth not behold but Connive at all manner of Iniquity in the beloved Jacob because he saw none there at that time that cried loud enough for Speedy and Publick Vengeance which is the undoubted meaning of that Place No GOD is not so fond of any of his Servants as to be in love with their Follies The dearest Child he hath must tast of the Rod if he deserve it David was indeed a Man after GODS own heart in other things but yet his Murder and Adultery were Damnable Sins for all that as he had found by woful Experience if he had not carefully washed them away with his own Penitent Tears more Richly Influenced with his Redeemers Blood St. Peter was a Man of Undaunted Courage and most forward Faith at other times but yet there is no excuse to be made for his denying his Lord and Master and that with an Oath saying I know not the Man Israel was once GODS Elect peculiar People of all others Engraven upon the Palms of his Hands and kept as the Apple of his Eye so tender he was of them but all this while their Sins were written with a Pen of Iron and the point of a Diamond saith the Prophet to shew that the Memory of them was lasting and they so far from being winked at