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A61823 A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and livery-men of the city of London, in the parish-church of St. Lawrence-Jewry, on the feast of St. Michael 1693 at the election of the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing / by William Strengfellow ... Strengfellow, William. 1693 (1693) Wing S5961; ESTC R33814 14,200 30

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Fleet Mayor Martis decimo die Octobr. 1693. Annoque Reg. Regis Regin ' Willielmi Mariae Angliae c. Quinto THis Court doth desire Mr Strengfellow to Print his Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Livery-men of this City at the Parish-Church of St. Lawrence-Jewry before the Election of the Lord Mayor on Michaelmas day last Goodfellow Imprimatur Ra. Barker Lambeth Oct. 17. 1693. A SERMON Preach'd before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor Aldermen and Livery-men OF THE CITY of LONDON IN THE Parish-Church of St. Lawrence-Jewry ON THE Feast of St. Michael 1693. At the Election of the Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing By WILLIAM STRENGFELLOW M. A. Lecturer of St. Dunstan's East LONDON Printed by T. W. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard and Samuel Eddowes under the Piazza at the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill 1693. TO THE Right Honourable Sir JOHN FLEET Lord Mayor OF THE CITY of LONDON And to the COURT of ALDERMEN Right Honourable 'T IS an Observation I have made for now a dozen Years at least wherein I should yet be very glad to find my self mistaken that there is no one thing of more pernicious consequence to the Peace and Tranquillity of this Renowned City than its disorderly Popular Elections whether of Magistrates to Rule or of Ministers to Teach The latter of these Evils I dare say the most considerable Part of the Clergy here do both highly disapprove and very heartily bewail the which I hope will at length meet with a Rebuke as publick as the Scandal it gives from some or other Superiour of that Order whose Gravity and Abilities are most likely to be effectually successful in the reclaiming of it And 't was chiefly because I knew my self to be no fit Match for the former that I did not without some Reluctancy ingage in the Service Your Lordship was pleased to enjoin me upon this peculiar Occasion which I easily foresaw would most naturally induce an Encounter with it For of all the Parts of a Preacher's Duty that of Publick Reproof should be discharged with both Strength and Courage Skill and Authority and is I think generally the least becoming but however the most unrelishable from any of us of the Junior Sort. My Lord 'T is our great Disadvantage in occasional Sermons and especially upon so copious a Subject as fell to my share here that we have seldom time to press home any single Argument without defrauding of all others and so are forc'd rather to pick than collect Materials to say nothing at all upon some Heads and perhaps not enough upon any And among others that 's one considerable Defect of the Instructive Pages of the ensuing Discourse which is scarce any thing more than a Cursory Touch upon many such Particulars as do well deserve a more solid Treatment And though in the few Elenchtical Periods of it 't was my reall Design to act the Plain-Dealer yet I 'm sure I have no where wilfully broke in upon that becoming Deference which I know to be the rightful Due of those Worthy Sages who were chiefly in Nomination in the late Election I have therefore given them the Title of Candidates because I know not by what more proper Term either to express my meaning or to distinguish them from the rest of their Brethren And though I sometimes call them Competitors also yet the indifferent Reader will easily discern I have taken care to charge the blameable Indecencies of the Competition not upon them but upon the undisciplin'd and tumultuary Populace My Lord There is no one more sensible than my self of the numerous Imperfections of the whole And if I have any good Opinion of it 't is purely owing to the kind Acceptance it unexpectedly found from both Your Lordship and the Honourable Court And because I know not what should probably invite so publick an Approbation as you have since been pleased to grace it with unless its Plainness and unaffected Simplicity I have therefore taken care to make You a Tender of it from the Press in the very same homely Dress You had it from the Pulpit save onely that I have added a single Passage or two to prevent the mis-understanding of my meaning in several others In fine My Lord Whatever may be the Effect of this mean Performance I 'm sufficiently conscious 't was sincerely intended for a charitable Effort without all manner of Reflection upon either Person or Party towards the so much to be desir'd Composure of our unhappy Differences And though the farther Publication of it is an Instance of my Obedience to Your Lordship's Commands wherein I had much rather have been excused yet if the Reader will peruse it with the like Candour it met with from that Venerable Audience wherein 't was uttered it can I hope do no harm and may by the Blessing of God do some good My Lord I have nothing more to add but my most grateful Acknowledgment of Your Lordship 's many and signal Favours both before and since Your Advancement to the Chair of Eminence And if 't were not to prove what I believe no one doubts I could my self supply as convincing a Testimony of Your surpassing Private Munificence as the Year of Your Mayoralty hath many of Your Publick But I 'm sensible they no more need the Encomiums of either Tongue or Pen than Your Honour doth the Support of the Praetorial Robe You may now with Satisfaction put off the latter but the former will be the indelible Ornament of Your Name and Memory And 't were Injustice in this great City to grudge You a little Ease in one kind since She hath taken care to burden You in another or to repine at Your Absence at Guild-Hall while You sollicite Her Interest in St. Stephen's Chapel May You long enjoy the fragrant Odours of Your diffusive Beneficence in this World and at length reap the compleat Reward of it in that which is to come And may God Almighty bless this Famous Corporation with a lasting Succession of such Governours is the hearty Prayer of MY LORD Your Lordship 's Highly obliged and most devoted humble Servant W. S. A SERMON Preached at the ELECTION OF THE Lord Mayor Matth. xx 22. former part But Jesus answered and said Ye know not what ye ask THE Disciples of our Lord being big with expectation of their mighty Promotions upon his approaching Investment with the Regal Power they had frequent Jealousies and warm Debates which among them should be the Greatest under him One probably thought his Master 's peculiar * Matth. 16.18 19. Promise was sufficient to give him the best right to that topping Dignity Others that they stood fairest for it upon the score of their * John 13.23 Bosom-intimacy their † Gal. 1. 19. proximity of blond their surpassing ‖ Mark 3.17 endowments and such like instances of their personal merit But amongst 'em all James and John the