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A43460 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at the Church of St. Mary le Bow, on September the 9th being the day of thanksgiving for the discovery of the late treasonable conspiracy against His Majesties person and government / by H. Hesketh ... Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710. 1684 (1684) Wing H1619; ESTC R12083 19,863 38

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Prichard Mayor Martis xj die Septembris 1683. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi Angliae c. Tricesimo Quinto THis Court doth desire Mr. Hesketh to Print his Sermon Preached on Sunday last being the Day of Thanksgiving Appointed by His Majesty for the Discovery of the late Treasonable Conspiracy against His Majesties Person and Government at the Parish Church of St. Mary le Bow before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this City Wagstaffe A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor And ALDERMEN of LONDON At the Church of St. Mary le Bow On September the 9th being the Day of Thanksgiving for the Discovery of the late Treasonable Conspiracy against His Majesties Person and Government By H. HESKETH Minister of St. Hellens London And Chaplain to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by T. M and J. A. for Henry Bonwicke at the Red-Lyon in ●t Paul's Cburch-Yard 1684. To the Right Honourable Sir WILLIAM PRICHARD Lord Mayor of LONDON And the Honourable Court of ALDERMEN My LORD I Would not contradict the purpose of my Sermon in disputing your Commands for the Printing of it Whatever it is in it self you have render'd it considerable by making it your own and Publishing it as the Expression of your Gratitude and Praise to God upon so great an Occasion For my self I am not much concern'd nor greatly care what Interpretation some make of this Discourse I have the Innocency of my own Thoughts to acquit me which I regard more then a Thousand Censures from unthinking Men. I am sure I meant well and am not Sensible of having Transgressed any of the great Measures of the Gospel and therefore apprehend no Cause of being troubled at any thing but that I failed I Fear of Corresponding with the other great Solemnities of that August Festival And yet in that you are pleased to Releive me by your Favorable and kind acceptance of my Endeavours I do not know that I ought to Apollogize for the plainness or as some I hear are pleased to speak the sharpness of the Discourse My Lord This is a time that requires and warrants plain dealing Our Adversaries have been pleased to pull off their Visors appear bare-faced and tell us in plain English what they would be at and I think it high time for us to be plain with them and Mince the matter no longer they have superceeded a great deal of Pains that we were at before in perswading Men what their Doctrines and Principles are They have outdone us in this themselves and exposed both beyond all Arts of Concealment or Disguise I have no By-Designs of Passion or Revenge in any thing I have said much less to Incense Authority against any Mens Persons But I think I can never be too severe in Reflecting upon or too earnest in cautioning against such Principles and Practises as are so directly destructive to our Peace So greatly dangerous to our King So Dishonourable to the Reformed Religion and so Fatal to every thing that can be dear to Christian Men. But my Lord While I approve my self to your Lordship and your Honourable Brethren I know not that I ought much to regard Men so far below you from whom I expect no kind Treatment when I consider how they Treat those so far above me and Ridicule the whole Service of the Day as Hipocrisie and Trick I Heartily Pray for the Happiness of this City and of your Lordship and your great Brethren that have so happily steer'd it through its late Storms to its present Measure of Peace and Order I Congratulate the Honour that it begins to regain by its Loyalty and Love to so good a King I rejoyce and Bless God for your great Care and unwearied Pains in R●oting out the Seminaries of Sedition in Suppressing Irreligion and Profaneness and doing what lies in Men to the recovering Vnity and Concord once more among us In which worthy deeds that you may ever proceed and be succeeded by the Blessing and Concourse of the Divine Providence is and shall be the Daily Prayer of Right Honourable Your most Obedient and most Humble Servant Henry Hesketh 1 Pet. II. 15. For so is the Will of God that with Well-doing you may put to silence the Ignorance of Foolish-Men WE are Summon'd together Honourable and Beloved by the Providence of a Gracious God and the Command of a Religious King to double the Devotions of this Day and to add to our common Eucharist the most Affectionate and Cordial the most Intense and Signal Praises of our Souls for the Deliverance of our King and our Selves our Church and Government and what ever can be dear unto Christian Men from a Barbarous and Bloody Design to Rob us of all at Once by a Violence and Treason which though Papists have been counted Infamous for yet some that call themselves Protestants have been pleased to Transcribe from them and not only Rival'd but Excelled them in As if it were a Glory to exceed in Wickedness or that henceforth none should be Infamous for Conspiracy and Rebellion for Perjury and Treason but themselves only I do not think it a meet Entertainment for this Audience to play the Oratour upon the Foulness of the thing before those who know the whole Story of it as well as my self Nor to spend this time in Signallizing the Mercy of our Deliverance and striving to Enhanse and Raise our Praises for it the bare recollecting the Bloody Design of it will supersede all Art and Argument in both these Interest here will mingle and combine with our Devotion and our Respect not only to the Publick but to our Selves call loudly on us Most of you that sit there it seems were Marked out for Destruction and some of you intended to be made Barbarous and Lasting Examples of their Fury But you have been entertain'd already I doubt not with these Preludes and therefore I have Resolv'd upon another Method at this time And that is to offer such an Instancing your Gratitude as will signifie the Truth of it and put you upon such an Expression thereof as will infallibly assure its Acceptance with that God to whom you Offer it For as we then most truly Honour God when we express a great Sense of His Power and Soveraignty over us in our Lives So we then only Glorifie and Acceptably Praise Him when we Live according to his Commandments acknowledg the Reasonableness and Goodness of his Laws and Chearfully do those things that are Pleasing unto Him Among these there cannot well be a higher Instance then to Live up to the Principles of that Excellent Religion that He has appointed to be the Measure of all our Actions When we strive to gain Credit and Reputation to it and upon all occasions express a great Concern for the Honour of that which was Purchased at the Expence of His own Son's Blood And to bring us close to the purpose of this Day 's Service we shall then most