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A61862 A sermon preached at the assizes at Hertford, Jvly viii, 1689 by John Strype ... Strype, John, 1643-1737. 1689 (1689) Wing S6025; ESTC R685 13,242 36

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A SERMON Preached at the ASSIZES AT HERTFORD IVLY viii 1689. By IOHN STRYPE M. A. Vicar of Low-Leyton in Essex IMPRIMATUR Iulii 22. 1689. C. ALSTON LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIX To the Right Worshipful Richard Hutchinson Esq HIGH-SHERIFF of the County of HERTFORD SIR I Acknowledge it a Satisfaction to me that this plain SERMON preached at the late Assizes found such a general good Acceptation both from the Iudges and Gentry insomuch that many of them put you upon obliging me to make it publick But it added much to the satisfaction that the subject matter of the Discourse was so well approved by so great a Body of Honour and Quality as then appeared Nor does it a little tend to the Reputation of that County that the Magistrates and Gentry thereof allow so well of Discourses of this nature shewing hereby their True Affection to the Protestant Religion and to Christian Peace and Love and how sensible they are of the singular Mercies and Deliverances vouchsafed by God to this Nation both in former times and of late especially Sir You have the honour to be reserved for the First Sheriff of Hertford-shire under the Auspicious Reign of KING WILLIAM and QUEEN MARY And it was your Happiness as well as your Honour that you were laid aside from serving that Office the last Year after you were pricked and published in the Gazette in the List of the High Sheriffs as being judged no doubt too good an English man and too true a Protestant to serue the Turn that was then driving on I have you see in compliance with your desire exposed what I preached to publick view praying God it may be of some benefit to you and all others that shall take the pains to read it for the promoting of Christian Wisdom and Sobriety and then I have my end I am SIR Your very much obliged humble Servant IOHN STRYPE A SERMON Preached at the Assizes at Hertford IVLY viii 1689. I SAM XII vii Now therefore stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous Acts of the Lord which he did to you and to your Fathers I Come not here to instruct Judges not to teach Magistrates their Duty As this would not become me to do so neither I presume do they need it whose great Wisdom And Gravity is able to direct them in the Businesses that lie before them Their Office indeed is as Weighty as 't is Honourable to distribute Justice to see good Laws well executed to right oppressed Innocence to bring Wickedness to Shame in a Word to maintain the Kings Peace and the Churches Peace a Great and Divine Employment But where there be Principles of Loyalty and a Love of Iustice planted in the mind accompanied with Piety to God and a grave Iudgment and many Years Experience these are far better Monitors than the best Preachers can be And I am persuaded I have Men enriched with such Endowments to be my Auditors at this Time. That I may not therefore seem to misdoubt your Integrities or Abilities Right Honourable and Right Worshipful nor expose my self to the Censure of too much Assurance and Presumption and yet that I may speak in some proportion to this present occasion I have chosen these Words which are part of the Charge of a great Judg in Israel of whom the Scripture gives this Character That he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Miz●●h and judged Israel in all those places And so you see the Words may be suitable in respect of the Person that spake them And they were delivered at a very great and solemn Convention of People as yours now is and so they are suitable in regard of the Auditory that heard them And the Matter of them being a serious Exhortation to reflect upon God's Goodness and their own Ingratitude can neither now not at any time else be unsuitable for Ministers to preach nor Christians to hear Here then we have Samuel the Judge beginning his Charge Now therefore stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous Acts of the Lord which he did to you and to your fathers The Word which we translate Let me reason with you is a Law Term among the Hebrews signifies To plead and contend in Iudgment for some wrong done And is as much as if the should have said Let me plead on God's side against you A good Judg is alwaies an Advocate on God's behalf and zealous in his Cause Israel had wronged God dealt unjustly with him How so By sinning against him For every Sin is an Injury done to God. Samuel now stands and takes God's Part against them by shewing them how gracious God had been to them and how well he had deserved at their Hands by his Mercies and Favours expressed towards them for so the Word which we render Righteous Acts often signifies And by shewing them withal how illy they had requited the Lord disobeyed his Commandments and rebelled against their Heavenly King. And that his Expostulation with them from the Topic of God's Goodness might make the deeper impression upon them he descends in the following Verses to enumerate the Righteous Acts of God towards them When Iacob was come into Egypt and your Fathers cried unto the Lord then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron which brought forth your Fathers out of Egypt So that their Escape out of Egypt was one of these Righteous or Merciful Acts of God to them And then it follows And made them dwell in this place This place that is The Land of Canaan where they now were That was another of these eminent Favours or Righteous Acts of the Lord. And when they forgat the Lord be sold them into the hand of Sisera Captain of the Host of Hazor and into the hand of the Philistins and into the hand of the King of Moab and they fought against them And they cried unto the Lord c. And the Lord sent Ierubbeal and Bedan and Iephtbah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your Enemies on every side and ye dwelled safe They had Enemies it seems round about them that plotted and combined to destroy them but GOD alwaies interposed for their safety This is a Third Mercy of GOD vouchsafed them And upon these three signal Manifestations of GOD's Goodness to them the Prophet Samuel grounds his reasoning with them For indeed they were Favours of that nature that the Iews could not think of them but they must needs have been touched with a quick sense of the Distinguishing Love of GOD to them and under what mighty Obligations they were to Him as namely to review them again I. That GOD had brought them away from Egypt where they were a poor miserable oppressed People under intolerable Slavery crouching to an insulting proud Tyrant who laid