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land_n	egypt_n	hand_n	stretch_v	1,308	5	10.4202	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59878	A sermon preached at White-Hall, before the Queen, on the 17th of June, 1691 being the fast-day / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3349; ESTC R15763	14,452	35

A SERMON PREACHED at White-Hall Before the QUEEN On the 17th of June 1691 BEING THE FAST-DAY By WILLIAM SHERLOCK D. D. Dean of St. Paul's and Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties London Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street 1691. LXXVII Psalm 10 11 12. And I said This is my infirmity but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy works and talk of thy doings THE Psalmist at the penning of this Psalm was oppressed with very black and desponding Thoughts The state of the Church seems to have been very calamitous they had been so long and so grievously afflicted that he began to question whether God would ever be merciful to them again Will the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail for evermore Hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies But in my Text he recollects himself confesses his Wickedness and Sin in giving the least entertainment to such unworthy Thoughts of God as if he could forget his Promise and Covenant which he had made to their Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob This is my infirmity want of Faith and Trust in God's Promises and to cure this Diffidence to revive his dying Hopes and to confirm his Faith in God he calls to mind those glorious Deliverances which God had wrought for his Church and his People Israel in former Ages I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High those days when God did so visibly deliver Israel with his own right hand as it follows 14 15 Verses Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph And instances in those miraculous Deliverances in Aegypt the Red Sea and the Wilderness as a reason and foundation of a firm Faith and Trust in God in all Ages these are those Works of the Lord and Wonders of Old which he will remember which he will meditate and talk of with which he will support his Spirit whatever Dangers seem to threaten the final Ruin and Desolation of the Church which is the Argument of the 80 Psalm 14 15. Return we beseech thee O God of hosts look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest strong for thy self That God had made a Covenant with Abraham and chose his Seed and Posterity for his peculiar People that he had delivered them out of Aegypt by a mighty hand and an out stretched arm that he had given them passage through the Red Sea and fed them in the Wilderness forty Years that he had fought their Battles for them and given them possession of the Land of Canaan as he had promised to their Fathers that he had in all succeeding Ages protected them by a visible Providence raised up Judges and Saviours to deliver them out of the hands of their Enemies when they cried to him this was a sure foundation of their Faith and Hope that God would not utterly cast off his People but though for their sins he might deliver them into the hands of their Enemies yet when they repented of their Evil Ways and returned unto God God also would return and be merciful unto them And this is the wisest course we can take whatever Troubles we suffer whatever we fear whatever our Sins have deserved whatever our Enemies threaten To remember the works of the Lord and his wonders of old to meditate of all his works and to talk of his doings And this is what I at present intend to make such Remarks on the Providence of God towards the Jewish Church not omitting the experience the Christian Church has had of the same kind and watchful Providence as may be of present use to us both to direct us what we must do and to give us a firm Hope and Trust in God's Mercy for God is always the same under all the Dispensations of his Grace and Providence and as the Jewish Church was a Type of the Christian so God's Providence towards them assures us what we may expect in like Circumstances or else the Scriptures of the Old Testament would be of very little use to us now whereas St. Paul tells us That these things happened to them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10 11. But what difference there is between their State and ours and how far we are concerned in the Examples I shall distinctly observe under the several Particulars as there is occasion for it I. First then I observe as St. Paul did That the gifts and calling of God are without repentance 11. Rom. 29. God having made a Covenant with Abraham and chosen his Seed for his peculiar People whatever their Provocations were he would never wholly cast them off he many times very severely punished them delivered them into the hands of their Enemies who oppressed them the Aramites and Moabites and Aegyptians and Assyrians and at last into the hands of Nebucadnezar who destroyed their City and Temple and carried them captive into Babylon where they continued seventy Years and then they returned into their own Country and rebuilt their Temple and City and so continued till in punishment of their great Sin in crucifying their Messias and for their obstinate Infidelity they were finally destroyed by the Romans and dispersed into all Nations and have never been a Nation since that is till Christ came who was the promised Seed in whom all the Nations of the World are blessed as St. Paul proves 3 Gal. 16. To Abraham and his seed were the promises made He saith not Vnto seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed which is Christ. I say till Christ who was the promised Seed and typified by Isaac came the carnal Posterity of Abraham descending from Isaac and Jacob were the Typical Israel and God's peculiar People and visible Church on Earth and all this while God never wholly cast them off but when Christ came then the Promise was established to the spiritual seed of Abraham those who are the Children of Abraham by Faith in Christ as the Apostle proves in the same place 6 7 8 9. and in several other places And this is the Answer which the Apostle gives to that terrible Objection against Christ's being the Messias and God's owning the Christian Church for his peculiar and elect People as formerly he did the Jews that then God's Promise to Abraham and his Seed fails His answer is That the Promise to Abraham and his Seed was meant of