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A67019	Sodom's vices destructive to other cities and states a sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor of the city of London, at the chappel of Guild-Hall, on Sunday August 1, 1697 / by Josiah Woodward ...	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3521; ESTC R38321	15,595	32

Mr. Woodward's SERMON Preach'd before the LORD MAYOR At Guildhall Chappel August 1 1697. Clarke Mayor Jovis xxiii die Septembris 1697. Annoque Regni Regis WILLIELMI Tertii Angliae c. Nono THIS Court doth desire Mr. Woodward to print his Sermon preached at the Guildhall-Chappel on Sunday the First Day of August last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Goodfellow Sodom 's Vices destructive to other Cities and States A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor OF THE CITY of LONDON At the Chappel of GVILD-HALL On Sunday August 1. 1697. By JOSIAH WOODWARD Minister of Popler LONDON Printed by J. D. for Ra. Simpson at the Harp in St. Paul's Church-yard M DC XC VII To the Right Honourable Sir EDWARD CLARKE Lord Mayor of the City of London My Lord SInce it has pleased your Lordship to introduce the following Sermon into further Light I crave leave to prosecute the Subject of it so far as to intimate that since the Idleness which the Text condemns is usually the Parent or at least the Nurse of the other Vices therein mention'd it seems very natural to conclude that a general Engagement of the many idle Hands among us in sutable Employments would be a most direct means to suppress our other pestilent Enormities We could scarcely be imagined liable to be over-run with Sodom's Pride Luxury and Uncleanness if we did not give way to Sodom's Idleness The setting up of Publick Work-Houses for the Encouragement of the Diligent the Relief of the Poor the Employment of the Idle and the Correction of the Criminal is a Noble and Excellent Design which has been long in the Thoughts and Wishes of many Great Men and Brave Spirits amongst us And it is hoped that it may now be seasonably and successfully proposed to that August Assembly which superintends the grand Interests of this Nation For a greater National Good can hardly be imagined than this would soon appear to be it being undoubtedly a much greater Chari●● to any poor Person that is able to labour to supply ●im with constant Work to get his Living than to afford him a constant Maintenance in Idleness for as much as Idleness would naturally mourish many Diseases in his Body and Vices in his Soul which an habitual Employment would be apt to prevent And in this Opinion my Lord if I may not call it a Demonstration I am supported by that Great Philosopher of ours the Lord Verulam who advised 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 to R. James I. Hern's Dom. C●rthus that all Houses of Charity should be Houses of convenient Employment and Industry which would at once enlarge the extent of the Charity and make it of greater Benefit to the Partakers of it besides those great Advantages which would accrue to the Publick by a general Employment of all Hands in the increase of our Manufacture Trade and Navigation which are none of the least Interests of this famous Island And now since the Advantages of a general Employment are so very great and so evident to every considering Person it is very strange that in such a trading wealthy and populous City as this which is honoured by the Residence and Government of so many Wise and Industrious Persons there is not yet any effectual Provision made to set and keep those Idle People to work who now perplex the Business of the more Diligent disturb their Quiet pilfer their Goods and who are in truth the Sin and Shame the Burden and Annoyance of this Opulent and Magnificent City And since the Sequel of my Discourse leads me to it I crave your Lordship's leave to suggest further that it is I humbly conceive a fundamental Error which the Industry of a Neighbouring Country may teach us to correct that we inure not our Youth to diligent and constant Labour by which they would be brought to account Idleness a Torment in their adult Age. And by this Expedient our Commonalty would be brought to better Behaviour in time of Peace and be rendered more obedient to Orders and more able to endure Toils and Fatigues in time of War For the Nature of Men is in this respect very like that of Waters the purest of them gather Filth by standing still and therefore that coarse and drossy part of Mankind which never had any Refinement by Learning Education or Religion will be apt to degenerate into the very Dregs of corrupt Manners if their peccant Humours be not carried off by wholesom Labour and Exercise These Hands My Lord must be kept close to commendable Employments or they will tear and undermine the State that breeds them And therefore it is the Hope and Expectation of all good People that since our Renowned Soveraign has by the great Blessing of God reduced our Foreign Enemies to Reason He will now apply the Thoughtfulness of his Royal Mind to correct our Domestick Enormities and Impieties which will otherwise most certainly destroy our Peace and Hope our Prosperity and Renown and will in a word be the Bane of all our Interests and Blessings Now since we have been often told that the Calm of Peace is the only proper Scene of such a Reformation the good God grant that we may make a due Improvement of the present Opportunity and that we abuse it not after that ingrateful sort that we have many others In these Noble and Divine Enterprizes would the Great Soul of our Dread Soveraign be shewn in its matchless Glory when his Royal Breast shall appear to glow with a Zeal for the good Manners of his People sutable to that Martial Prowess whereby he has asserted their Liberties and Rights Then will He shine with a brightness of Majesty that will be conspicuous to all Mankind beloved of the Good dreaded by the Evil admired and honoured of All. And finally then shall we indeed render a meet Thank-Offering to the God of our Mercies who has by an extraordinary Hand of Providence supported us these many Years who has marvelously succoured and delivered us in the most extreme Dangers and in fine who has mercifully setled us as we now hope on the Basis of a good and honourable Peace which that God would vouchsafe to sanctify to us that it may in Mercy be continued with us is the earnest Prayer of My Lord Your Lordship 's Very respectful Humble Servant JOSIAH WOODWARD EZEK XVI 49. Behold This was the Iniquity of thy Sister Sodom Pride fulness of Bread and abundance of Idleness was in her and in her Daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the Poor and Needy THE Mission of Ezekiel into the Prophetick Office Ezek. 1. per totum was very extraordinary as we find it described in the beginning of his Prophecy and truly he Ezek. 2. 1. was raised up in a very extraordinary Juncture even when the Sins of the Jews were ripe and their Destruction Ver. 6. at the door God had already pour'd out some Vials of his

that he deserves any Rebuke or Correction but he is rather perswaded that the greatest Mercies of God are due to his Merit And this makes him grudg at the Enjoyments and Promotions of others as if the whole World were made for him alone and every Gift of God to others were a Robbery committed upon him And for the same Reason he is impatient of Reproof and very apt to scoff especially at such as even in despight of his Pride he must needs perceive to be better than himself He carries it with a domineering Severity towards his Inferiours so that like his Brother Nabal there 's scarcely any one that dares to speak to him and the least Affront tho undesign'd moves him to revenge it even with Blood As for Superiours he scarcely thinks he has any but like a true Son of Belial he is without Yoke and is not to be brought under due Government being ever apt to mutiny and to breed disorder Not only saying with Nabal Who is David but with Pharaoh Who is the Lord that I should serve him It is one chief Study of proud People to endeavour to bring others to admire them as much as they do themselves And to this end when better accomplishments fail they affect to plume themselves with the richest Ornaments they can purchase or invent And here alas Pride will so overdo the business that it cannot but move Contempt in every sensible Person to behold with what ridiculous Forms and Modes they attempt to set forth themselves They fancy a sort of Comeliness in Deformity and that it adds a beauty to the Face to represent it under diseases and blemishes tho God has given them an unspotted soundness God has not given to the Children of Men a party-colour'd Skin like the motly Brutes nor has he markt them as he does many venomous Creatures and pestilential Diseases with dark Spots and yet how unseemly soever this appears to all impartial and vertuous Minds whom Custom and vain Notions have not blinded it is hidden from their own eyes Now this Vice of Pride manifestly tends to Destruction several ways First In that it produces a multitude of other Sins as its natural Off-spring and Effect as you have already heard And Secondly As it hardens the Heart under all the Guilt it brings upon it For it always runs in the direct Diameter to Repentance Proud Persons are great Admirers of what themselves do and are hardly brought to acknowledg that they have done amiss But like Saul they avow that they have done the Will of the Lord tho every Beast in his Herd had a Mouth to refute it And Thirdly Pride leads to Ruin as it is a Sin which leavens the very Prayers of Men and renders all their religious Performances unsavoury in the Nostrils of God The Pharisee mentioned by our Saviour was rather pufft Luk. 18. 11. up than humbled in his very Prayer and so was rather condemned by it than justified in the sight of God For Pride is a thing which God hates Yea which he will Prov. 6. 17. glorify himself in debasing And therefore he will surely Isa 2. 11. set himself to it and go through with it And upon all these accounts the proud Person is so exposed to the Wrath of God that the inspired Wiseman has recorded it as a certain Mark of Destruction Pride goeth before Destruction Prov. 16. 18. and a haughty Spirit before a fall And indeed it cannot be otherwise since the proud Person renounces his Trust in God to place it in himself which is to remove his Building from a Rock to found it on the Sand. And so I pass on to consider the second Vice which is represented in the Text as of a like destructive Nature which is II. Fulness of Bread This Expression denotes that Luxury and Excess which is usually produced by great Plenty when it falls into ill Hands The Sodomites it seems made a very ill use of their plentiful Land which is described Gen. 13. 10. to be so beautifully situated and so plentifully stored that it was even as the Garden of the Lord. A second Eden for plenty of pleasant Fruits and other commodious Product But these alas served their Bestial Lusts and nursed them to a very monstrous Growth till at last their Incontinence transgress'd the very Laws of Nature and became very crying in the Ears of God Now this brutal feeding of our Bodies or as the Apostle calls it feasting our selves without Fear is contrary to the very Nature of our Christian Warfare For it administers indecent Flames to the sensitive Appetite and at the same time dulls the accuracy of Reason and lays the Conscience asleep And we may easily guess what the End of that Person will be who lies open to his Enemies and binds the hands of his Friends But the prudent Christian does otherwise and says with St. Paul tho he was sufficiently macerated by his continual Labours and Afflictions I keep under my Body and bring it into subjection lest by any means when I have preacht to others I my self should be a Cast-away 1 Cor. 9. 27. He that would be a solid and serious Christian yea that would but be a grave and decent Moralist must observe due Moderation in Meats and Drinks and all corporal Pleasures Yea he must accustom his Appetite to submit to the self-denying Rules of Abstinence and Mortification in their Season and by these and other Divine Expedients he must maintain a regular Government over the Concupiscible Appetite Which is a thing very agreeable to the Flesh-denying Nature of our Divine Religion and is both an Ornament and Help to the serious Practice of many parts of it And therefore it is no wonder if the contrary tends to Ruin III. The next destructive Sin is that of Idleness which it seems abounded greatly in Sodom before its Destruction For it is said Abundance of Idleness was in her and in her Daughters or especially amongst their Women Idleness consists either in doing Nothing or Nothing of use that a Person might and ought to have done in his Place and Capacity Now to be of such a negligent sluggish and torpid temper is to contradict the very End and Nature of Life To live without activity and liveliness is in a manner to live if I may so speak without Life like People asleep or dead And to all ingenious Minds this is a most intolerable penance it is contrary to the Nature of brave and generous Spirits and therefore they ever treat the dronish Sluggard with just Disdain And it is the Apostle's Rule that the Sluggard should be starved out of his idle way of Life and not be suffered to eat till he applies himself to work 2 Thess 3. 10. Idleness is a Sin not only against God but against one's Generation yea against one's own Health Interests and Posterity There ought not to be any Person Male or Female idle in the World For