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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78766	The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing C228A; Thomason E1676_2; ESTC R208432	25,502	90

conjunction of holiness and righteousness blessed is that Land and blessed is that City which is in such a condition happy London if a Minister could rationally pray Jeremies prayer over it The Lord blesse thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness 1. You must be just in your words and actions towards men There is a great complaint throughout the whole Nation against divers men professing godlinesse in this City that they are false to their trust unfaithful in their promises unjust in their buying and selling That they are very religious in the publique Congregation but very unconscienceable in their private Shops That the faithful City is become an Harlot It was full of judgement and righteousness lodged in it but now her silver is become drosse and her wine mixt with water Now it is full of unrighteousness and un●ustice This is a bloudy charge and if true renders y●u Traytors and Rebels to the City of your Nativity Remember this day that God hates holinesse if it be not joyned with righteousnesse That an unjust holy man is an abomination to the Lord That holinesse without righteousnesse is not holiness but hypocrisie 2. You must be holy in your carriage towards God you must not onely give man his due but God his due you must not only have the Gospel but obey the Gospel you must not onely be good Citizens but good Christians Justice without holiness may make you good Heathens but will never make you good Christians An unholy justice is as odious to God as an unjust holiness Remember the words of the Apostle Without holiness no man shall see God Though you be never so just towards your Neighbours if you be not also holy towards God you shall never go to heaven Let us sincerely desire and earnestly endeavour and seek the good of the City wherein we were born This was the great commendation of Mordecah Fster 10. 3. He sought the wealth of his people Not his own wealth but the wealth of his people Such another was Nehemiah he sought the welfare of the children of Israel he was a man of a publique spirit he did not Monopolize and ingrosse all to himself he was a true Common-wealth's man not a Private-wealth's man he sought the good of the people of God more than his own Such another was Augustus Caesar It is said of him That he found the City of Rome weak and in rubbish and left it adamantine and invincible such must you be you must seek the good of the place of your nativity you must not onely labour to enrich enoble and greaten your selves to make your selves happy But you must labour to enrich enoble greaten and make London happy and blessed this you must do six manner of waies 1. By your prayers you must pray for the peace of this our Jerusalem that peace may be within her Walls and prosperity within her Palaces For your Brethren and Companions sake you must say and pray peace be within thee For in the peace of London is your peace wrapt up in the happiness of London your happiness is involved Pray that the name of London from this day may be Jehovah Shammai the Lord is there that the Lord would make it an habitation of Justice and a Mountain of Holiness Pray that the Sun of the Gospel may not set in our daies but that it may be continued to us and our posterities for evermore 2. By living together in love and union behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity it is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the skirts of his garments as the dew of Herm●n and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Sion for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life for ever As long as Ierusalem was a City compact together and at unity within it self so long it prospered But when it came to be divided into two sticks into Iudah and Ephraim the two Tribes and the Ten Tribes these two sticks never left beating one another till they were at last both of them destroyed It is observed by Learned men That all Englands enemies from without were brought into the Land by divisions from within Intestine divisions brought in the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Tacitus saith that the Britains when Caesar came in factionibus trahebantur dunt singuli pugnabant universi vincuntur c. The divisions of London at this day are very many and very great O that this dayes meeting might be some wayes instrumentall for the healing of them That our feasting together may not onely in name but in reality prove to be a Love-Feast That he●●eforth we would cease striving one against another and strive together for the Faith of the Gospel That wee would abstain from all dividing names principles and practices That Magistrates and Ministers would joyn together for the publick good That Aaron and Huz would hold up not weaken the hands of Moses Alwayes remembring that sad speech of Jesus Christ Mat. 12. 25. Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self shall not stand Thirdly By your holy lives and conversations For Holiness will not only preserve your own persons from Hell but the City wherein you live from ruine and destruction Here are assembled this day at least a thousand persons born in London Now if all you were really holy what a wall of Brass would it be for the defence of the City For if God would have spared five Cities if there had been but ten righteous persons in them How much more will he spare one City wherein there are a thousand righteous men Sin and iniquity brings down the judgements of God upon Cities and Kingdoms There is a story of two men riding through a Town in Germany burnt down by Souldiers The one said to the other Hic fuit hostilitas Here the enemy hath been but the other wisely and Christianly answered Hic fuit iniquitas Here sin hath been It was the sin of this place which made way for the Souldiers to come to destroy it When Phocas the Murderer of the Emperor Mauritius had built a high and strong Wall for his safety and defence he heard a voyce from heaven saying to him Though thou buildest thy Wall as high as Heaven sin is within and this will easily expose it to destruction It is sin which causeth God to burn up Cities and therefore you must by a holy life seek the good of this City Fourthly By your love to the godly learned and painfull Ministry of the City Contempt of the Ministry is a City-ruinating-sin It is a sin which brings destruction without remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. They mocked the Messengers of God and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of God arose against