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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44456	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of London, in the parish church of S. Mary le Bow, September 3, 1683 being the day of humiliation for the late dreadfull fire / by William Hopkins ...	Hopkins, William, 1647-1700.	1683 (1683)	Wing H2754; ESTC R17537	23,331	39

Pritchard Mayor Jovis sexto die Septembr 1683. Annóque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi Angliae c. XXXV to THis Court doth desire Mr. Hopkins to print his Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Citizens of this City at Bow-Church on Monday last being the day of Humiliation for the Dismal Fire anno 1666. Wagstaffe A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR Aldermen and Citizens Of the CITY of LONDON In the Parish Church of S. Mary le Bow September 3. 1683. Being the day of Humiliation for the late DREADFULL FIRE By William Hopkins B.D. and Prebendary of Worcester Ezra IX 13 14. And after all this is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve and hast given us such DELIVERANCE AS THIS Should we again break thy commandments Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1683. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir WILLIAM PRITCHARD LORD MAYOR Of the CITY of LONDON AND TO THE HONOURABLE COURT of ALDERMEN My LORD I Am sufficiently conscious that there is nothing in this plain Discourse but the honest design it prosecutes worthy of that acceptance it found with the Honourable Audience before whom it was preached Nevertheless since it 's your Lordship's pleasure that I should make it more publick than I ever designed I dare not dispute your commands or doubt your Patronage I am sure I need it in a high degree whether I consider the weakness of the discourse it self or into what an ill-natured and censorious World it adventures But I am little concerned what reception will be given it by curious and critical Readers who reade and hear Sermons as they do Plays merely for entertainment and to shew what Judges they are I was not so sanguine either in the preaching or publishing of it as to expect it should doe much good on that sort of men But to persons of Piety and Candour who receive the Word of God into good and honest hearts I hope it may not be unserviceable And if it may in any measure contribute toward the making us more truly penitent for what is past or a more obedient people for the future I shall think my self happy and thankfully adore him whose strength was made manifest in my weakness To the Divine Protection and Blessing I humbly commend your Lordship your Honourable Brethren and this great City which flourishes under your just and prudent Administration and intreat your acceptance of this poor Testimony that I am in all humility My LORD Your most obedient and faithfull Servant William Hopkins A SERMON Preached before the Lord Mayor c. Sept. 3. 1683. JOHN V. 14. Behold thou art made whole Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee IN the beginning of this chapter S. John relates a memorable passage which is not recorded by any other Historian either Sacred or Profane That there was at Jerusalem a pool called Bethesda whose waters were at some times endued with a medicinal virtue For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the waters whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had v. 4. Vide Light-foot Hor. Heb. in Joan. Tertullian adversus Jude●● cap. 13. sub finem How long those waters had been endued with that miraculous virtue or how long it continued after our Saviour's Ascension is unknown This onely is certain from History that Miracles and the Spirit of Prophecy had ceased in the Jewish Church for several ages before our Saviour's birth and both were restored but a little while before his manifestation in the flesh And it is probable this miraculous water was one of the signs of his coming it being a fit resemblance of that more pretious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or bath his own bloud whose healing efficacy was not confined to a single Patient but redounded to the advantage of the whole world and whose purifying virtue was truly universal and able to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 Joh. 1.9 The silence of the other Evangelists and the Jewish writers as well as Theophylact's hint may have occasioned the Learned Dr. Hammond to suspect that the virtue of this pool was not miraculous but natural And he offers this Philosophical account of the matter Dr. Hammond on Joh. V. Annot. a. That the waters were impregnated with some beneficial qualities derived from the entrails of beasts slain for Sacrifice which he conceives were cast into that pool And that at some set times an Officer or Messenger not one of God's Angels was sent in who had skill to disturb the waters i. e. to stir up and diffuse the particles of the entrails and bloud in which the virtue lay whereupon for some time after till the virtuous particles sank again to the bottom that pool was an healing Bath The Hypothesis is I confess very ingenious and he confirms it with pertinent observations of what benefit in some distempers the Patient hath received by the application of the warm skin or vitals of a beast or by putting him into the belly of a beast newly killed and opened But if we well consider them several circumstances of our Evangelist's Narrative cannot consist with this Hypothesis For though the entrails of beasts may have a suppling and restorative virtue and in the way of a fomentation may relieve pains and weakness in the limbs bruises and withered members yet this is short of the efficacy which S. John ascribes to this bath which seems to have been an universal Medicine Now there are many distempers for which bathing and fomentation are no proper methods of cure and if we must restrain the universal particle whatsoever to the diseases mentioned by S. John V. I conceive the blind who are expresly named very unlikely to receive benefit thereby Again If those cures were wrought by the stirring up and mixing of the virtue of the entrails with the water it might almost constantly have been kept in motion and many more might have enjoyed the benefit of cure than it should seem there did For the waters were troubled onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seldom at a certain season some think but once in the year See Dr. Hammond's Annot at the Passover others at all the three great Feasts and though perhaps several times at each Feast yet at most but once in the day Again Had the cure been wrought by any natural efficacy why should the benefit be limited to him alone who first stepped in after the troubling of the water it's scarce credible that the Pool was no larger than to hold one person if the entrails of all the Paschal Sacrifices † No less than 255600 according