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A48723 The churches peace asserted upon a civil account as it was (great part of it) deliver'd in a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in Guild-Hall-Chappel July 4 / by Ad. Littleton, presbyter. Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694. 1669 (1669) Wing L2560; ESTC R37938 36,810 50

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like zeal for Gods House and the cause of Religion we may say as he did Arcem perdimus dum castella defendimus We have lost the main sort of our happiness the Churches Peace while we take care of the out-works things less considerable Pardon me 'T is not flattery will uphold a Government I speak it out of hearty affection to my Countrey and a due respect to this famous City My heart bleeds within me and my bowels earn to think in what a posture our Ierusalem now stands You are very now building in the Flames they have seiz'd your Suburbs and are got within your Gates and are smothering in the midst of your Ruines Let us do as is usual when a Fire breaks out every one bring his Bucket and help to quench unless such a Stupor and unactive astonishment hath overtaken us as did in the late Conflagration and we tamely give up all to the Fury of the Merciless Element And this sure is the far more deplorable Fire of the two as laying wast the Consciences of men and burning up our main strengths and greatest ornaments and laying us open to dismal expectations I pray read the 28. of Deuteronomy and apply it to our case that if they did not observe the Commandments and Statutes God appointed them to walk in by which was not meant the Moral Law alone for that has an equal obligation upon all mankind but those National rules and institutions by which they were made a People and a Church they should be cursed in the City and cursed in the Field they should build Houses and not dwell in them they should be pursu'd with Plagues and at last given up to the insolence of Forreiners and pluckt off from the Laud of their Nativity What then can we look for at last after so many methods God has lost upon us after so many praeludia of his displeasure but some determining exterminating Judgment But God forbid I have some hopes still of Gods mercy to this our Ierusalem and his pity to her as she lies in her dust Nor is the thing it self I am perswaded past remedy were it apply'd to and we would take Saint Iude's advice Iude 19 20 21 22 23. verses where he tells us of those that separate themselves that for all their pretences have not the Spirit But ye Beloved says he building up your selves on your most holy Faith praying in the Holy Ghost which may most certainly be done in the publick wholsome forms of Church-Devotion Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ unto eternal life And of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear his meaning i● by rugged means pulling them out of the Fire This Schism then and Separation is a Fire in the Apostles Language and some are to be pull'd out of it by force The ingenuous will be sham'd the meek will be convinc'd the considering will be reason'd out of it but some there are it seems must be roughly dealt with and aw'd by Authority Let us like Brethren and Companions take up the business between our selves Come We are Men. 'T is the priviledge of the blessed Angels to be free from errour but the infirmity of humane nature to commit mistakes to persist in errours though even to publick mischief is the character of the Devil's pride and malice but to return and repent is the glory of the Saints of God Why should any one of us be asham'd of that which is his glory and will be his Eternal comfort We are Brethren and Friends we live under the same Laws and profess the same Gospel of Peace why should we disagree and fall out in our greatest concern and quarrel one another into common Ruine Ierusalem is the mother of us all let not us by our Divisions make her a Samaria a Seminary of Sects and Factions let us not make our Mother a harlot What have we to do with the Statutes of Omri and Ahab and the sin of usurping Ieroboam which he caused Israel to sin They are dead and gone and let their Statutes dye with them You are Citizens of London a People of great Credit and Reputation all the World over for your Prudence and good Government for your vast Trade and Dealings and you are allied to most of the considerable Families of the Kingdom let it not be said of you that you are grown weak and mean a fluttering and unsteady People that you have quit your establishments and are perpetually to seek for your Religion and are ready like Children in your streets to be caught up by every Spirit and to run after any one that pretends to be a Guide London an Ancient and Noble Mart long talkt of in the world before ever there was Dam or Dike in Holland let it not truckle under Amsterdam and be made a Magazine of Opinions and new fangled Religions For shame do not justifie that advantage the Enemies of our Church have taken from 666. to clap the name of Babylon upon your City but wipe off the reproach and fling it back into the face of them as they deserve it by uniting all as one man in the service and worship of God and in the common defence of the Protestant cause And then when you are thus agreed when your minds are as uniform as your buildings are like to be then shall ye be blessed in the City and blessed shall ye be in the Field blessed shall be your Basket and your Store then the Lord shall establish you a holy people unto himself and all people shall see that ye are call'd by his name and they shall be afraid of you Then the Lord shall open unto you his good treasure and shall make you plenteous in goods and he shall command the blessing upon you in your Store-houses and in all that you set your hands unto And then when your Example has prevail'd with the rest of the Nation as it will in a very short time that having our hearts united in God's fear and laying aside all animosities and unnecessary quarrels we may serve him with one heart and with one shoulder and with one voice confess his holy name and his word and being like-minded we may unanimously seek those things which tend to publick peace and to the good of community Then when we are thus united all other disorders will easily be regulated all grievances redrest and all scandals remov'd to the honour of the Government and the welfare of the People Then shall the Earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing Then shall we see both Church and State once more in a flourishing condition when God shall make all our Officers righteousness and with his favour shall encompass us as with a shield Then shall this floating Island be setled upon sure and lasting grounds Then shall Albion again be the praise and terrour of the Nations nor shall her white cliffs or her wooden walls or the embraces of her beloved Ocean so much secure her as the Divine protection and agreement of her Inhabitants Which God in his good time of his Infinite Mercy grant for his Churches and for our Brethren and Companions sake Amen Amen ERRATA PAge 3. Line 13. read of community p. 13. l. 18. will r. would p. 20. l. 18. form r. forms p. 22. l. 22. r. of the Land in Civil affairs and leave out in Civil affairs in the next line p. 25. l. 12. r. persecution p. 27. l. 31. indispensible r. indispensable p. 28. l. 38. sunk r. slunk p. 30. l. 7. ●ok r. look FINIS