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A30731	A sermon preached at St. Mary-le-Bow before the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and citizens of London, on Friday the 26th of June a day appointed by proclamation for a general and publick fast / by Lilly Butler ...	Butler, Lilly.	1696 (1696)	Wing B6280; ESTC R20323	13,686	29

SERMON Preached at St. Mary-le-Bow Before the LORD MAYOR Court of Aldermen AND Citizens of LONDON On Friday the 26th of June A Day appointed by Proclamation for a General and Publick Fast By LILLY BUTLER Minister of St. Mary Aldermanbry LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil 1696. To the Right Honorable Sir JOHN HOUBLON Lord Mayor of the City of London And the Court of Aldermen MY LORD IN Obedience to your Commands I have published this Sermon preached before you on our late General and Publick Fast day I endeavoured to speak those things which were most suitable to the occasion of that our Solemn Assembly and proper to excite only those Affections which became a People humbling themselves before God and supplicating for Pardon and Mercy and Assistance And if the Printing of this plain Discourse may in any measure help to forward that Reformation of our Lives it was designed to convince the hearers of the necessity and advantages of I shall bless God for this opportunity of doing something how little soever it be towards the promoting the Publick Good Which that we may all in our several places zealously endeavour to advance is the hearty Prayer of My Lord Your most obliged and humble Servant Lilly Butler Mr. BUTLER'S Fast-Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen June 26. 1696. Houblon Mayor Martis 30 die Junii 1690. Annoque Regni Regis Willielmi Tertii Angliae c. octavo THis Court doth desire Mr. Butler to Print his Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow on Friday last being a general Fast-day before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this City Goodfellow Nehem. 9. part of the 26 and 27 Verses They wrought great Provocations Therefore thou deliveredst them into the Hand of their Enemies THE Children of Israel being assembled together with Vers 1. fasting upon a day of publick and solemn Humiliation as this is The Levites in the Name of all the People make an humble Acknowledgment to God of their ungrateful and rebellious Behaviour towards him how they had all along defeated the gracious Methods of his Providence to oblige and turn them to him and how justly at length they were punished by him He spared them long and delivered them often and did many great things for them But they dealt proudly Vers 16. 17. and hardned their Necks and refused to obey And though God was slow to Anger and for a great while suffered their Vers 19. Manners and in his manifold Mercies forsook them not yet at length when he saw they obstinately persisted to abuse his Patience and Mercy and had aggravated their Sins to a most intolerable Degree he became weary of forbearing He gave his People to the Sword and was wroth with his Inheritance They wrought great Provocations Therefore he delivered them into the Hand of their Enemies In which Words we may observe First The Character of the Israelites Practice They wrought great Provocations Secondly The Punishment inflicted by God for it He therefore delivered them into the Hand of their Enemies In this manner he did often punish their great Provocations He had told them by Moses Lev. 26. that if they walkt in his Statutes and kept his Commandments he would give Peace in their Land and none should make them afraid Verse 6. They should chase their Enemies and make them fall before them by the Sword Verse 7. But if they should despise his Statutes and abhor his Judgments and break his Covenant Verse 15. then he would set his Face against them they should be slain before their Enemies and they that hated them should reign over them verse 17. And the Prophet Isaiah long after speaks to them to the same purpose Isa 1. 19 20. If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured by the Sword for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it This was to be the standing Method of God's proceeding with them and accordingly we find it observed in abundance of Instances I shall therefore make it my Business at this Time to apply this Account is given of God's Method in dealing with his People Israel as may be most suitable to the Occasion of our present meeting to our own particular Case and Circumstances by shewing First How justly we may be charged as the Jews are in the Text with having wrought great Provocations Secondly That we have great reason to fear that our great Provocations may be punished by God as theirs were that he may therefore give us up into the Hand of our Enemies Thirdly What a dreadful Judgment this would be which our Sins threaten us with Fourthly What is the most effectual means to prevent this Punishment of our great Provocations Fifthly What Particulars are required of us in order to the Discharge of that general Duty which is so effectual a means to prevent this Punishment These are all of them very proper Matter for our present Meditation First I am to shew how justly we may be charged as the Jews were in the Text with having wrought great Provocations This will manifestly appear if we consider these following things First To what a prodigious Height all Kinds of Iniquity are raised amongst us Atheism and Infidelity have strangely improved their Interest in this Age in respect both of the Number and Impudence of their Proselytes And what David chargeth with Folly but to say in our Hearts Men are bold to profess with their Mouths as an Argument of a more discerning Wit and Reason How insolently do many set their Mouths against Heaven disputing the Being and exposing the Oracles of God and deriding all the sacred Mysteries of Religion Are not profane Attempts daily made to propagate the most unchristian Notions with that Zeal and Earnestness with which we are required to contend for the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints With what Loudness and Affectation do Men profane the awful Name of God As if Blasphemy were a sort of Eloqence and Oaths and Curses Wit and Rhetorick as if there were no greater Bravery than for Men to defie God and contemn his Judgments and to curse themselves into Damnation How is the Land overspread with Luxury and Intemperance And what Numbers are there that regard nothing else even now that God so loudly calls for fasting and mourning but to sit down to eat and drink and to rise up to play Chambering and Wantonness are become a Trade and Calling and all the Arts of Solomon's Harlot Prov. 7. have been daily practised in our Streets with the greatest Cunning and Impudence How many Examples doth almost every Day produce of such prodigious Frauds as former Ages were Strangers to How little of that Sense of Honour is left in managing Trade which was wont to give such great Advantage to it Men are now in so much haste to

ingage with us stand by us and avenge us of all our Enemies Let us every one then consider as in the Presence of God what is in our Power to do towards the Reformation of the Lives of Men and what particular Methods of promoting this our several Callings and Places oblige us to and what Account we shall be able to give of our Stewardship when we shall stand before the Tribunal of God if we do not improve our Talents to those Ends for which he hath put them into our Hands This is a Work of too great Importance with respect to God our Country and our selves for any little Considerations to excuse our Neglect of And though after all we can do we should have Cause to complain with the Prophet Isa 49. 4 5. that we have laboured in vain and spent our Strength for nought that the People will not be gathered yet shall we be glorious in the Eyes of the Lord and our God shall be our Strength He will support us under all our Disappointments he will preserve us in publick Calamities as shall be most expedient for us he will make all things work together for our good and at length bring us to that City of God that Heavenly Jerusalem where there are no Fears or Jealousies no Murmurings or Complaints no Factions or Divisions no Wars or Contentions but where all the blessed Inhabitants shall be unspeakably and eternally happy in the Enjoyment of the God of Love and the Prince of Peace and in the most hearty and constant Love of one another For which Blessed Place God Almighty fit us all for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen FINIS Some Books Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil THE Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions Together with the Rule of Faith Being all that were Published by his Grace himself and now Collected into one Volume To which is added an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters Price 20 s. The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow D. D. late Master of Trinity-College in Cambridge The Third Volume Containing Forty Five Sermons upon Several Occasions In Folio Practical Discourses upon the Consideration of our Latter End and the Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance By Dr. Isaac Barrow in Octavo Price 18 d. The Four Last Things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell Practically Considered and Applied By W. Bates D. D. in 12o. Price 2 s. The great Duty of Resignation to the Divine Will in Afflictions Also by Dr. Bates In 8o. Price 18 d. Sermons of the Forgiveness of Sins On Psal 130. v. 4. Also by Dr. Bates Price 18 d. The Bishop of Gloucesters Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the House of Lords April 16. Mr. Stephens of Sutton in Surrey his Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen at Bow Church the same day Mr. John Showers his Thanksgiving Sermon the same day Mr. Strype of Low-Layton in Essex his Thanksgiving Sermon the same day Mr. Gardiner of London his Thanksgiving Sermon the same day The Christian Merchant described in a Sermon Humbly Dedicated to all the Merchants of the City By W. Gostwyke Rector of Purley in Berks. A Sermon concerning Vocal and Instrumental Musick in the Church As it was deliver'd in the Parish Church of St. Andrews Vndershaft upon the 31th of May 1696 being Whitsunday and the Day wherein the Organ there Erected was first made use of And the Hymn which was then Sung By Gabriel Towerson D. D. The Advice of a Father Or Counsel to a Child Directing him how to demean himself in the most important passages of this Life By E. C. Gent. In 12o. Price 12 d. A Conference with an Anabaptist By Dr. Asheton of Beckenham in Kent Price 12 d. A Sermon preached at the Meeting of Protestant Dissenters called Quakers in Turners-Hall London on the 16th of the Second Month 1696. Being the Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of the King and Kingdom By George Keith An Exact Narrative of the Proceedings at Turners-Hall the 11th of the Month called June 1696. Together with the Disputes and Speeches there between G. Keith and other Quakers differing from him in some Religious Principles The Whole Published and Revised by George Keith With an Appendix containing some new Passages to prove his Opponents guilty of Gross Errors and Self-Contradictions