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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66418	A sermon preached at the Northampton-shire feast, November 8, 1683 being the first general meeting of such citizens and inhabitants in London, as were born within that county / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1684 (1684)	Wing W2725; ESTC R7241	20,162	36

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE Northampton-Shire FEAST NOVEMBER 8. 1683. Being the First General Meeting of such Citizens and Inhabitants in LONDON as were Born within that COUNTY BY JOHN WILLIAMS Rector of St. Mildred's Poultry LONDON Printed by J. G. for Benjamin Alsop at the Sign of the Angel and Bible in the Poultry 1684. To my Honoured Friends Mr. John Tooley Mr. William Foster Mr. Mark Haughton Mr. John Garret Mr. Thomas Cawcott Mr. Charles Miller Mr. Robert Calcot Stewards for the Northamptonshire-Feast WHatever encouragement there may be for Printing Sermons in our Age very fruitful in that kind yet there cannot be much expected for such as are Occasional how pertinent and well-received soever in the Hearing For being ordinarily directed to a particular purpose and Auditory the Publick is the least concerned in them And therefore since what you were entertained with at the late general meeting of our Country-men was of that kind it is the less fit to appear in the World But since you are pleased to desire it it 's not easie for me to deny it and that to you to whom our Country owes so much for the reviving of a useful Society out of a Charitable design and the Society owes so much for the prudent managemment of it To the good order of which if this Sermon did any way contribute as you were pleased to think or may for the future recommend the Duties therein insisted upon to others I shall neither repent of First Preaching nor now of Publishing it at your Request I am Your Affectionate Country-man and Servant JOHN WILLIAMS ERRATA PAg. 4. l. 20. read where p. 16. l 17. del● p. 18. Marg. r. Gamb p. 22 l. 2. r. yet it s A SERMON Preached at the Northamtonshire FEAST November 8. 1683. PSALM LXXXVII 6. The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people that this Man was born there 1. THere is in all Mankind so violent an inclination toward mutual Society that were they set loose from one another and each man might be supposed to stand alone they would be so far from a Posture of War and at the first sight contending for Superiority and Propriety as some have vainly conceived that they would soon strive to associate and contrive ways to bring them to each others acquaintance and Conversation But how forcible soever this propension in Mankind is yet it being antecedent to humane choice and common to bad men as well as good it hath consequently in it nothing truly Glorious and Praise-worthy nor is any man Wise Vertuous or Great for being thus inclin'd or for acting as he is thus naturally inclined Natural dispositions are useful and necessary principles of action by exciting the powers of the Soul and pressing us forward to act and to act in such a way and to such an end as may be for their gratification but the acting according to such inclinations being a following of Nature and in which all men also are alike there must be somewhat else that must distinguish one man from another the Wise from the Foolish the Vicious from the Vertuous herein and that is the prescribing such Laws and Measures to such inclinations the directing them to such Objects and Occasions as may serve to wise and good purposes and which we our selves or others or both may be the better for This is the design of our present meeting and of reviving that Society which for about Thirty Years hath been discontinued that we who are of the same Nation and born in the same Division of it may be by this means the more united among our selves and be rendred more capable of being useful and helpful to others A Design truly Generous and Honourable and in a sincere Prosecution which we shall bring Honour to our selves to our Society to our Country to our Church and to God And shall all of us be in a Capacity of having the Text applied in the benefits of it to us that the Lord shall count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there This Psalm hath both a literal and mystical sence In the latter it respected the State of the Church under the Gospel often Prophetically represented under the name of Sion when all Nations should be brought into the Communion of it and Rahab and Babylon shall be among them that know God Vers. 4. In the former or mystical sence it respected the Church of the Jews and the prosperous state it should be restored to after the Babylonish Captivity and notwithstanding the desolation it thereby sustained According to which Prophetical Scheme we may suppose the City and Temple destroyed and ruin'd the Country wasted and depopulated the people dispersed and Captivated and the Church of God in a seemingly forlorn condition And yet as deplorable as it was better things were not to be despaired of for the Country should be again Inhabited the City and Temple rebuilt Religion and the Church restored and the Nation flourish to the admiration and conviction of their most obstinate Enemies This seems to be the subject of this Divine Psalm written on purpose for the support and encouragement of those that did suffer under that sore and intolerable calamity And it contains 1. A Confirmation of this from the relation which the Church had to God 2. A Declaration of its Priviledges arising from that relation 3. Here is a Duty infer'd from it that they should therefore praise God for it vers 7. As well the Singers as the Players of Instruments both small and great should joyn and say All my Springs are in thee that is this Peace abroad this Prosperity at home doth all proceed from God as the Fountain of it 1. The Confirmation is first that Gods Foundation is in the Holy Mountains vers 1. There was his Temple built the place of his fixed abode 2 dly it was the place he above all delighted in verse 2. The Lord loveth the Gates of Zion that is Jerusalem more than all the dwellings of Jacob therefore it s called the City of God Vers. 3. 3 dly There were glorious things Prophesyed concerning it and yet to be accomplished vers 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee O City of God From all which considerations they might be assured that the Church of God would revive and flourish 2. There is a Declaration of the Priviledges or a further description of the prosperous state of things amongst them 1 st As to what it should be in the Judgement of their Enemies themselves Vers. 4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to or rather among as our former Translation very well renders it them that know or acknowledg me behold Philista and Tyre with Ethiopia this man was Born there that is the greatest Enemies shall acknowledge it Rahab or Egypt their first and Babylon their last Enemy Those that were remote and those that were near even Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia or rather Arabia for of