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A25200	A sermon preached at sea, before the Honourable Sir Robert Robinson, Knight, principal commander of His Majestie's squadron of ships, now riding at Spitt-Head, November the 24th, 1678 before the administration of the Holy Sacrament, and oaths of allegiance and supremacy to the several commanders and officers of that squadron, in obedience to the King's command / by George Alsop ...	Alsop, George, b. 1638.	1679 (1679)	Wing A2903; ESTC R5430	14,734	38

A SERMON Preached at Sea Before the Honourable Sir ROBERT ROBINSON Knight Principal Commander of His MAJESTIE' 's Squadron of SHIPS now Riding at Spitt-Head November the 24 th 1678. Before the Administration of the Holy SACRAMENT and Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the several Commanders and Officers of that SQUADRON in Obedience to the KING's Command By GEORGE ALSOP M. A. Chaplain to Sir Robert Robinson By His Majestie 's Special Order London Printed for Langley Curtis in Goat-Court upon Ludgate-Hill 1679. To the Honourable Sir ROBERT ROBINSON Knight Principal Commander of His Majestie 's Squadron of Ships now Riding at Spitt-Head SIR WHen I Consider what you are by Place and then Consider what you are by Grace it makes me stand Amaz'd To see a Man whose Education springs from Noise and Tumults Wounds and Slaughters Religious Upon Grounds of holy Circumstance To see A Man whose Dealing is in Blood and Waves becalm'd with Pious Thoughts for Churches good To see A Man that fears not Devils if he meets them in a Fleet at Sea To lay his Roughness by and meekly fall upon his Knees to Invocate his GOD for King and Kingdoms good Bespeaks Religion in the Soul of War This is a Lesson you have Learn'd and Practic'd long That none with Courage brave can serve his King without he first with Pious Care Obey his God Can he be fit to Fight and Die that knowes his wicked life is such that when he leaves this World he must to Hell The Christian Cause though e're so good must sink if Christians Lives be bad Can he be trusted to subdue a Foe that cannot subdue his Sin and quarrel strength that is a Slave and Captive to his Lust Sir Your Life proclaims you Christian and your Courage Man And where I see these meet in one I may be bold to dedicate a Piece for Churches good to such a Man without a Frown or Scorn It was your Pious Faithful Care this Sermon should be Preached and so it was your Zealous Care to Acquaint His Majestie with what was done that so it might be made Publick And now I hope your Wishes will succeed that Heaven may be Honour'd more and Christians Better'd still when e're it comes abroad shall be the Prayers of him who with his Soul doth Love the King and Churche's Peace Your most Obedient Servant and Chaplain Geo. Alsop A SERMON Preach'd at SEA Matth. Chap. XXII Vers 11. And when the King came in to see his Guests he saw there a man which had not on a Wedding Garment DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ these words that I have read unto you are part of the Parable that our Saviour delivered concerning a King who Marrying his Son invited divers Guests unto the Wedding The King who invited the Guests is the Infinite and Eternal God above King of all Kings Lord of all Lords who hath Power and Mightiness in himself to do what he pleaseth in Heaven in Earth and in Hell the bottomless Pit of Eternal Vengeance beneath He is a King in Heaven by his Grandeur and Majestie in the World by his Grace tender Love and Goodness in Hell among the Damned by his Justice and Severity Now the Bridegroom is his Blessed Son Jesus Christ by Eternal generation the Lord and Saviour of us all The Bride that he Marrieth his Son to is his Pure Spotless Holy Catholick Church The time of the Marriage was at Christ's Incarnation when the Divinity and the Humanity were United for as we observe the best way to reconcile two Disagreeing Families is to make some Marriage between them Even so the Word became Flesh and dwelt amongst us in the World that he might hereby make our Peace Reconciling God to Man and Man to God The Banquet the Guests were invited to was no Ordinary Entertainment but Wonderful the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God slain from the Beginning of the World preached in hi● Word and presented in his holy Sacraments the next was Remission of Sins Everlasting Life Peace of Conscience Joy in the Holy Ghost oh Admirable Oh Sacred oh Comfortable Feast for poor Miserable Sinners to be invited to The persons appointed to invite the Guests were the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets in old time The Blessed Evangelists and Apostles in Christ's time The Divine Pastors and Preachers in our time These are Messengers of the great God who have done and still invite poor distressed penitent Sinners that are in the high-way to destruction to Come and Sup with him The Persons more particular that are Invited are both Jews and Gentiles for although the Jews were specially called these glad Tydings coming first unto them as being the Select Peculiar People of God yet when they refused and rejected the same one going to see his Farm and another to try his Oxen a third having married a Wife and so could not come God upon their Rude and Dis-ingenuous refusal rejects them and sends and invites the Gentiles Aliens from the Common-Wealth of Israel Go into the High-wayes c. And when these who were invited were come there was one intruding Guest found at the Table without a Wedding Garment And when the King came in to see his Guests he saw there a man which had not on a Wedding Garment Now these words will allow us these two Parts First The Author of the man's discovery and that was the King When the King came in c. Secondly The Fault he is Charged with is want of a Wedding Garment First The Author of the man's discovery and that was the King We read but of one among so many that was without this Wedding Garment the Messengers let him pass for currant but when the King came in he makes a second Survey and Scrutiny and finds out this one who had not on his Wedding Garment he discovers this Unworthy Guest which the Messengers could find no fault with Friend how camest thou in hither Beloved so true it is that our Eternal God that dwelleth in Light that no man can approach sees not as man sees We read in the 1 st of the Revelation and 14 Verse that the Eyes of the Lord are like a flame of fire they search into the secret Apartments of the Heart not a Corner nor part but the Lord sees and discovers it But alas poor short-sighted man reacheth no further than the outward appearance if that be regular and smooth to the eye his search is at an end he hath discovered as much as he can but the Eyes of God go down deeper into the very Soul and fathom the Bottom of the Reins View and Discover how all stands there We read in 1 Sam. Chap. 16. Vers 7. that the Lord Commanded Samuel not to look on his Countenance nor on the height of his Stature for the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart We may deceive men with our Countenance

our Grave Gesture Pageantry and Shews but these can't deceive God or put a trick upon the Almighty St. Paul tells us in the 4th of the Hebrewes 13 Verse that all things are open and naked to the Eyes of him we have to do with That is God hath a full prospect upon all Men and Women in the World let them creep under what Mask Disguize Canopie of Secrecy they will Thou may'st lye dissemble and cozen so closely and cunningly that no Man nor Angel can detect thee thou may'st commit Adultery in the dark and no man privy to it Thou may'st steal when no Eye sees thee Thou may'st have Treason in thy Soul Rebellion in thy Heart and yet thy outward seeming Conformity may Screen this from Man Thou may'st with Judas eat of the Sop drink of the Cup receive the Blessed Sacrament swallow the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy do all what the Law requires and yet thou may'st have corrupt Popish Reservations in thy heart to betray thy Master But all this while remember that thou standest Naked before the All-searching Eye of an Omnipresent God who knowes what thou art and sees what thou do'st intend Totus Auris c saith St. Ciril c. God he is all an Ear all an Eye all an Hand He hears all he sees all and hath a hand that can reach all where ever we be God Almighty the Searcher of all hearts takes up his standing at the door of our Souls and with his Curious All-seeing Eye views all our actions and resolutions how secret soever Holy David saith That God looks down from Heaven and beholds all the Sons of men as well those in the deepest darkness as those in the brightest light Whither saith David can we flie from thy presence if we take the wings of the Morning and flie to the uttermost parts of the Earth thou art there if we go up to Heaven thou art there if I go down into the thick smoak of Hell thou art there Is it not a madness then to say when thou art a going about wickedness peradventure the Night shall hide me when the day and the Night are both alike to God God sees thee when thou goest out early in the Morning God sees thee when thou comest home in the Evening late God sees thee when the Candle burns God sees thee when the Candle is out God sees thee when thou Conversest with thy heart and sittest in Council with thy thoughts What can we do but God sees it and whither can we go but God will discover us And though this Doctrine be as true as God is true yet is it not strange and full of Astonishing wonder to see how Adam and all the Sons of Adam labour to hide themselves and their sins from God Adam after his great Transgression in Eden hid himself behind the Bushes and Trees of the Garden as if they could have secur'd him from the All-seeing Eye of his Maker but he was soon sensible of his folly for God in the Cool of the Evening came to the very Bush where he lay Adam where art thou Alas poor wretch nothing could hide thee from the Discovery of thy God And did not Cain Adam's Son tread in the footsteps of his Father for when he had Inhumanely Murdered his poor Innocent Brother Abel how did he labour to cover the blood with the dust of the Ground to hide and conceal his wickedness For then God called from Heaven VVhere is thy Brother Abel how Morose and Angry doth he answer God as if he knew nothing of it Am I my Brother's Keeper Yet this would not do God saw it when no Eye else saw it and punished him soundly for it Sarah thought none did see her laugh when she seem'd to mistrust God's promising her a Son yet God saw it though as the Holy Text saith She only laughed within her self God saw Zeeb behind the Wine-Press God saw Saul when he hid himself under the Stuff Who would ever have thought that the Babylonish Garment the 200 shekels of Silver and 50 shekels of Gold that Achan conveyed away would ever have been discovered No Eye saw him when he brought them out of the Camp he Intombed them under his own Tent all safe and secure as he thought and yet God discovers this fact of his and layes it open to all Israel How did God openly manifest and display the Abominable Idolatry of the Israelites together with their Idols and Images when they had got themselves between two Walls from all appearance of sight and yet see how God brings the Prophet Ezekiel to the very Entring-place of the Door that led into the Chamber of their Imagery Ezekiel Chap. 8. Verse 8 9 10. Then said he unto me Son of Man digg now in the wall and when I had digged in the wall behold a Door And he said unto me Go in and behold the wicked Abominations that they do here So I went in and saw and behold every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the Idols of the house of Israel pourtrayed upon the wall round about The Devillish Plotting Powder-Traytors met together in the Vault they thought themselves secure shadowed from the eye of Notice and fenced from the hand of Justice But as Dark as the Vault was and as Close as they went to work the All-seeing God descry'd their Abomination and destroy'd them and their habitation The Obscurity of their Cell Thickness of Walls Closeness of Windows with the Cloak of a holy Catholick Profession thrown over all this could not make their Notorious Wickedness Dark to the Eye of Heaven Little did this late Brood of Romish Villains ever think that their horrid Intended Treason to Butcher the King and Subvert the whole Kingdom should have been so manifested and laid open as blessed be our Gratious God it is at this day How long was the Pope the Cardinals the Jesuits the Monks the Friers Hatching this Bloody Mischief and just when they thought to have brought forth their Inhumane Design that God that View'd all their Meetings saw all their Doings read all their Letters Pardons Bulls Commissions Crusht the Cockatrice in the shell If Elisha who was but a man could espy all the Design and Contrivances of the Assyrian King which he concluded of in his secret Chamber what then can escape the Eye the Ear the Knowledg of the God of Elisha The Use that I will make of this Point shall be that of Saint Ber. de convers ad Cler. C. 16. Cautè Ambula Te Videt Angelus Malus videt te Bonus videt Bonis Malis Major Angelis Deus Our Impieties are not without witness the good Angels and the bad Angels and he that 's better than the Angels far above all Principalities even the great God of Heaven and Earth sees us cautè igitur ambula It behoveth us therefore to walk Circumspectly and Sincerely for though we may seem for a time to hide our selves