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Jericho's downfal, in a sermon preached upon Jan. 31, 1688/89 being a day of publick thanksgiving to God for our deliverance from popery and arbitrary power / by Samuel Peck, Minister of Popler.
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Peck, Samuel.
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them in the grounds of Divinity and Principles of Christian Religion The Seduction of many in this Nation to Popery hath risen from hence their not being well seasoned with the grounds of true Religion 4. Encourage Learning what you can For Popery is a Kingdom of darkness and ignorance nothing Ruines it like knowledge It first fell in this Nation with the beginning of good learning and the continuance and encrease of this will keep it down and therefore amongst the rest of the Contrivances of Jericho's builders this was one of the chief to poyson our Colledges to propagate Popery in our most famous Schools of Learning and by a Malicious and Illegal Prosecution to have extinguished the brightest Luminaries of the English Church to the end that the benighted people might the more easily have been misled into the pitfalls of Superstition and Slavery 5. And because they Love to fish in troubled Waters and gain ground by divisions therefore let us labour to promote Peace and Union amongst our selves let us not differ and quarrel tear and devour one another for small matters but unite be of one heart of one mind and love one another leading Holy and Religious Conversations as becomes our Profession Popery ever thrives best in a Land of prophaneness debauchery always did and always will help forward Popery 6. Lastly one special means to prevent the rise of Jericho is that which this day occasions thankfulness to God for the downfal of it or a thankful remembrance of the great things God hath done for us When we call to mind their attempts against us and how God hath crossed and cursed them it will make us love our own Religion which God hath witnessed by so many deliverances the better and to hate theirs the more Therefore let our Souls and all that is within us this day praise the Psal 10. 3. Lord for all his mercies of this kind vouchsafed to us and in an especial manner for the glorious deliverance we this day commemorate It is his doings and it is marvellous in our Eyes Not unto us therefore not unto us but to him be all the glory of it But if we shall be unthankful for this and the like gracious preservations if the wonders of Gods Love do not melt our hearts and work in them a sincere gratitude to God an hearty Love to Religion and an universal holiness in our Conversations if all the favours of our God towards us do not win us to a most constant and Chearful Obedience to his holy commands it will be just with God that those adversaries should still prove goads in our Sides and thorns in our Eyes Just with God to lay us open again to their enraged Malice and Hatred and when we stand in need of deliverance to say to us as he did to Israel in distress I will deliver you no Judg. 10. 13. more Stir up your Souls therefore to thankfulness and testify your gratitude not only by words but deeds not only by the fruits of holiness but also by works of Charity and Mercy Your labour shall not be lost your cost not cast away for God will reward you Thus honour him and he will honour you thus bless him and he will bless you give him his praises due on Earth and he will give you immortal renown in Heaven 3. And in the last place to our praises for Jericho's fall let us add our prayers that it may rise no more in our days or in the days of our posterity In order to this let us pray 1. That God would more and more discover and make known the abominations of Romish Jericho both in respect of their Religion and practice That he would give all men amongst us a more clear understanding of the errors of their Religion of the Falsity Idolatry and Superstition of it which consists of unwritten Traditions diabolical Revelations and Illusions In fruitless Penances and Pilgrimages in antiscriptural merits praying to Saints and worshiping of Images in unlawful Vows Masses indulgences and Dispensations that seeing the Errors of their Religion we may abhor it and Shun the Society of those that profess it and seek the Propagation of it 2. Pray that God would lay open to the view and observance of all men their ungodly practices their promoting Discord and Division in all Places and Societies their imposing new Articles of Faith as necessary to Salvation their absolving some from lawful Oaths and Vows and obliging others to themselves and their cause by Vows and Oaths unlawful That the all-seeing Eye which beholds men in their most secret acts would detect their barbarous Homicides and private Murders and hear the cries of that innocent Blood which hath been shed both formerly and lately to enlarge the borders of their Jericho a discovery of which would do the cause of God this Service to take off the hearts of many from them and to lessen their strength and number amongst us And let us conclude our prayers as our Church hath taught us That God would scatter our Enemies that delight in blood infatuate and defeat their Counsels asswage their malice and confound their devices and strengthen the hands of all that are in Authority with Judgment and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may never prevail against us or triumph in the Ruines of his Church amongst us That Babylon may never tread down Zion nor Jericho boast her self a Conqueror over Jerusalem but that we being preserved in the true Religion may all our days serve him and give him thanks in his holy Congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS