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A56695	A sermon preached at St. Pavl Covent-Garden, on the late day of fasting & prayer, Novemb. 13 by Simon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1678 (1678)	Wing P840; ESTC R23234	28,516	39

unto him in better words We acknowledge O Lord our wickedness and the iniquity of our Fathers for we have finned against thee The remembrance of these ought to be very grievous to us and the burden of them intolerable VVhich if we feel sensibly it will dispose us to cry to God with the greater fervency and frequency and to beseech him the more earnestly to spare us saying as Baruch a great Friend of Jeremiah teaches us III. 1 2. O Almighty Lord the soul in anguish the troubled spirit cryeth to thee Hear O Lord and have mercy for thou art merciful have pity upon us for we have sinned against thee And if he do condescend to our request we shall the more magnifie his mercy and his clemency will be the more admirable in our eyes when we have been made thoroughly sensible how little we deserved it nay how justly we had incurred his severest displeasure 3. The sense also of our ill deservings will help another way to make our Prayers effectual because it will move us wholly to depend upon God for our deliverance That 's a third thing necessary to make our supplications prevalent We must in this humble manner apply our selves to God and quitting all confidence in any thing that we can do even in our Prayers desire him to save us merely for his own sake there being nothing in our selves to move him to any thing but only displeasure against us This Jeremiah also teaches us in the next words to those now mentioned v. 21. Do not abhor us though we and our Fathers have been great sinners yet do not abhor us for thy Names sake do not disgrace the Throne of thy glory Which argument he uses also a little before my Text v. 7. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us do thou it for thy Names sake A most excellent Form for us to imitate who may and ought to say as it there follows Our backslidings have been many we have sinned against thee O thou hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble we have provoked thee to resolve that thou wilt save and deliver us no more but do it for thy Names sake do it for thy Truths sake disgrace not thy holy Religion here established among us though we be wicked that is pure though we deserve to be deserted that is worthy of thy defence and protection And may we take the boldness to add as thy Servants heretofore have done thou hast many holy devout Worshippers among us for whose sake we beseech thee to do it O look not upon the sinners of thy people but on them which serve thee in truth 2 Esdras III. 28.31.34 and VIII 26. Are their deeds any better who inhabit Babylon that they should therefore have the dominion over Sion Weigh thou our wickedness now in the ballance and theirs also that dwell in the world and so shall thy Name be found no where as it is in our Israel Psal CXV 1. Not unto us therefore O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give glory for thy mercy and thy truth sake Remember not the iniquities of our Forefathers but think upon thy Power and thy Name now at this time For thou art the Lord our God and thee O Lord will we praise and for this cause hast thou put thy fear in our hearts to the intent that we should call upon thee These last are the words of Baruch III. 5 6. who imitates you see his Friend Jeremiah as they all do the Psalmist with whose words I shall conclude this particular LXXIX 8 c. O remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy Names sake Wherefore should they say where is now their God Let him be known among them in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy Servants which hath been shed That 's the third thing Let us profess our sole dependence on him and expectation meerly from his goodness and for his glory disclaiming all confidence in our selves and let me add in man too that is in all humane help and Counsels For which end let me recommend that Form of Prayer to you for perpetual use Psal LX. 11. Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man I say perpetually 4. For we must pray to God in this manner with perseverance continuing instant in Prayer as the Apostle speaks Rom. XII 12. praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance Ephes VI. 18. That is we must not be discouraged if we obtain not our suits presently but pray still with all prayer secret private publick and in the Spirit with earnestness and fervour watching thereunto i. e. borrowing some time from our sleep or our business rather than neglect this Duty of fervent prayer resolving not to be weary but with all perseverance to cry mightily to him till he have mercy upon us This is our Saviours Doctrine Luke XVIII 1. where he spake a Parable to this end that men ought always to pray and not faint or grow weary For if as he shews an unjust and impious Judge may be moved by importunity to do a poor Widow right shall we think that God will not avenge his Elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily v. 7 8. And this was the course that Jeremy here resolved to take in their great distress for want of Rain ver last of this Chapter Can any of the vanities of the Gentiles give Rain or the Heaven give showers Art not thou he O Lord our God therefore will we wait upon thee And so truly must we praying in the Psalmists words Psal CXXIII 2 3 4. Behold as the Eyes of Servants look unto the hand of their Masters and as the Eyes of a Maiden unto the hand of her Mistress So our Eyes wait upon the Lord our God until that he have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are exceedingly filled with contempt Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease and with the contempt of the proud Let every soul here present put up at least this short petition to God day by day for this Church and Kingdom besides those he makes for himself and Family And as often as you can set apart some time for more solemn importuning of his mercy towards us 5. And let us be sure to take care of one thing more without which all this labour will be lost viz. to make all our supplications with hearty resolutions to reform every thing that we know to be amiss in our hearts and lives This was the course to which the King of Nineveh directed his People by

we think that God will preserve our Religion and maintain it against those that seek to destroy it if we make no other use of it but only to fill us with vain confidences of his love and favour while we continue in our impurities If we have any love to it any value for it let it have its due effect upon us by purging us from those things which disparage it That we may be vessels of honour sanctified and meet for the Masters use and prepared unto every good work 2 Tim. II. 21. And in what work can they that have authority better imploy themselves than in setting themselves to chastise evil doers to reform all abuses in the places where they live to discover all workers of iniquity and to pursue them when they are discovered with a just indignation and bring them to condign punishment They are very useless if they neglect this and have little love to their Master and his Religion which had such power over mens hearts heretofore that even after they had left their first love and declined in their affection to Christianity they had so much zeal remaining as not to be able to bear them which were evil It is our Saviours Character of the Church of Ephesus Rev. II. 2 4. among whose works though short of what they did at first v. 5. he reckons this for one and commends them for trying them which said they were Apostles and were not and for finding them to be liars III. Which will lead me to the last thing I am to press upon you and that is to be zealous for the defence of our Religion Godly zeal I suppose you all know is nothing else but the affection of love to God raised to the pitch of fervency which will not let us endure any hurt or contempt should be offer'd to that which he loves if we can remedy it Now what doth he love more than true Religion which the purer it is the dearer without all doubt it is to him that hates all iniquity And where I beseech you can you find any Religion which in this regard may be compared with that which is by Law here established Which deserves therefore all the zeal you can express for its preservation and at this time calls for all the zeal that it deserves For it is lost in all likelihood without every mans zeal in his place to save it We are undone if we have not a heat activity and courage proportionable to theirs that seek to destroy it And is it not a shame that false Religion should make men more busie and active more bold and undaunted than true Religion doth those who have so long professed it and been instructed in the worth and excellency of it Or do we expect to have it preserved without so much ado Are we such Fools as to imagine that if we defend our selves weakly faintly and timorously when they assault us not only resolutely but boldly and furiously we shall get the Victory No the Magistrates must do all that is in their power to execute his Majesties Command for the finding out and expelling those that oppose it And they that are not Magistrates must give them their assistance and quicken those that are Call upon all your Acquaintance who have any power or interest to be honest and upright to preserve their integrity and not be tempted by any thing in this world to betray their Religion And tell them it is not enough to be upright but they must be diligent and zealous because now is the time for every man to shew himself and to do all that lawfully he may for the honour and safety of his Religion There are no other bounds that I know of which we are to set to our zeal for our Religion but only this that we do nothing contrary to it Whatsoever it allows it now requires that we may not lose it We must not suffer our zeal to be damped by politick considerations respect to our private interest and desire to please Men but waving all these take care only that others be not wronged by it while we suffer perhaps very much in our own concerns For he knows nothing of the nature of holy zeal who doth not feel it transport him to act beyond himself and to make him quite forget his own private concerns which he thinks of no further than as they are included in the publique good There can be no other meaning of that which the Apostles apply to our Saviour The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up Joh. II. 17. than this that he regarded not his own particular interest nor minded what he was likely to suffer but all thoughts of it were swallowed up in his zeal to serve God Who will not be served indeed by our private passions and evil affections but doth expect that we should not consult with the wisdom of this World which is for suffering nothing but avoiding all that may hurt and prejudice us though God may be thereby very much honoured And therefore his wisdom of which we ought to take counsel bids us forget the damage we may suffer and lay aside all thoughts of our selves so we may but promote his glory When we have any hope of that we must hearken to no other advice but that of the Apostle Rom. XII 11. Not slothful in business but fervent in spirit serving the Lord. We would be glad perhaps to follow the other reading of the last part of that Verse serving the time but not in the right sense serving the time by serving the Lord faithfully in our several stations This he expects from us this our Religion and all good men expect from us that at this time when the Zealots of the Romish Church are so outragiously set to destroy us we should pluck up our spirits as the phrase is and imitate or rather excel them not in that cut-throat zeal God forbid which made the Jewish Nation as it doth them so infamous but in a just indignation against such barbarous persons and practises and in a zealous resolution always burning in our breasts to defend our Religion the best we can against their attempts I am bold to speak in this manner without any undue transport because I find God himself expressing his zealous affection for the defence of his Church in far higher terms than these Zach. VIII 2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts I was jealous for Zion with great jealousie and I was jealous for her with great fury Do not you then listen to any motion which may be made to you I will not say to leave your Religion but to be remiss and not so zealous for it Think what a dishonour it will be to you and how it will endanger it if when so many bend their tongues like their bow for lies you should not be valiant for the truth Which was the charge that Jeremy ch IX 3. brought against Jerusalem but I hope will never be your