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A37279 A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor and aldermen at Guild-Hall chappel on Sunday the 11th of April being the anniversary of His Majesties coronation microform / by Sir William Dawes, Baronet ... Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724. 1697 (1697) Wing D457; ESTC R17840 12,505 40

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which is their best and truest way of expressing their Love and Loyalty towards their Prince and Country If they desire to see these in a happy and flourishing condition let them endeavour as far as possibly they can to put them into it by their Righteousness let them prove the sincerity of their desires by the goodness of their lives and take this certain way to make their Country as great and happy as they pretend to wish it may be Let but every Man of them be so kind to his Nation as to forsake the evil of his ways and return unto the Lord and from the instant of their becoming an Holy they shall they must become a Happy People As long as Jonah continu'd in the Ship contrary to God's will the Sea was Stormy and Tempestuous but as soon as ever he was thrown out the Sea ceas'd from her raging A true and lively emblem this of the Fate which Nations may expect from Providence as long as they cherish any thing among them which God hates they will be an Unhappy and an Unsuccessful People but no sooner shall they have purg'd themselves of every thing that is displeasing in his sight but the Blessings of Heaven shall descend upon them and the Favour of the Most High shall overshadow them In vain do we talk of Securing our Government against Conspirators and Plotters whilst we our selves betray it by the Immorality of our Lives and do our Enemies business more effectually for them than they can possibly do it for themselves Never alas is any Nation in so much danger from any thing as from the General Corruption of the Lives and Manners of its Inhabitants for besides that this doth by a natural efficiency disable and unfit Men for the Service of the Common-wealth in which they live it doth likewise stop the Blessings of Heaven from descending upon it nay and which is infinitely worse sometimes turns them into Curses against it Let us then beware of this worst sort of Treason and by that True Loyalty the goodness of our Lives not onely render our selves useful Servants to our Country but likewise draw down the Blessings of God upon it More particularly now when our Enemies seem to have laid aside all hopes of prevailing against us and the Divine Providence seems in infinite Love and Condescension to be reconciling it self to us and designing great things for us let us be careful not to live our selves back again into God's displeasure and our Enemies contempt I mean not to live so as by the dissoluteness and factiousness of our lives to give our Enemies new hope and courage against us not so as to provoke God Levit. 26.25 Deut. 28.25.48 to bring a Sword upon us that shall avenge the quarrel of his Covenant and so cause us to be smitten before our Enemies and to serve them in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things But let us all unite in one common bond of Love and Charity and in one stedfast resolution to amend our Lives and become better for the future that so we may become a Terrour to our Enemies and a Blessing to our selves the darlings and favourites of Heaven and the praise and glory of all the Earth In a word let us be exhorted Levit. 26.3 in the words of Moses to the Children of Israel to walk in God's statutes and to keep his Commandments and do them and then we shall most certainly inherit those Blessings which he promised them upon condition of their Obedience vers 6. Deut. 28.11 12 13. Then will the Lord give Peace in our Land and we shall lye down and none shall make us afraid He will make us plenteous in Goods in the fruit of our Bodies in the fruit of our Cattel and in the Fruit of our Ground He will open unto us his good Treasures the Heaven to give the Rain unto our Land in his season and to bless all the Work of our hands and we shall lend unto many Nations and shall not borrow Then will he make us the head and not the tail and we shall be above onely and shall not be beneath And when can we more properly begin such a glorious and noble work as this a work of such publick and universal concernment than on this Auspicious day on which the brow of our Illustrious Soveraign first grac'd the Crown of these Realms When can we more properly resolve upon exalting our Nation than on this promising and encouraging day on which she first receiv'd him for her Guardian who has for those many years many if computed by the blessings which we have enjoy'd in them but few exceeding few if compar'd with those which we still wish and pray for has under God been the Lifter up of her head When more properly begin to think of procuring the Blessings of Heaven upon us than on this happy happy day which brought us one of it's first and greatest Blessings O may every individual man of us so entirely and sincerely dedicate himself to God's service for the future so strictly and conscientiously observe and live up to the precepts of his most Holy Religion that the name of our God may be well spoken of the Reign of our King made long and prosperous our Nation set up on high above all Nations and every particular Member of it render'd happy both in this World and that which is to come Grant this O Merciful Father for the sake of thy Dear Son Christ Jesus to whom with thee and the Holy Spirit be all Honour and Glory Might Majesty and Dominion from henceforth and for evermore Amen Some BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Thomas Speed 1. THE Duties of the Closet being an Earnest Exhortation to Private Devotion Price 1 s. 6 d. 2. A Sermon Preach'd before the King at White-Hall November the 5th 96. By Sir William Dawes Baronet D.D. And Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty The Second Edition Price 6 d. 3. Conversation in Heaven in two Parts The first being Devotions consisting of Meditations and Prayers on several considerable Subjects in Practical Divinity Written for raising the Decay'd Spirit of Piety Part the Second being Sacramental Devotions consisting of Meditations and Prayers Preparatory unto a Worthy Receiving of the Holy Communion As also Meditations and Prayers suited to every part of Administring and Receiving it By Dr. Lawrence Smith Rector of South-Warnborough in Hampshire The Second Edition Price 3 s. 4. Of the Happiness of the Saints in Heaven A Sermon Preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall October the 12th 90. By William Beveridge D. D. Rector of St. Peters Cornhil The Second Edition Price 6 d. 5. A short Discourse on the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Wherein its Primitive Practice with the Reasons of its Disuse and Neglect are fully set forth What are meant by Eating and Drinking Vnworthily and Eating and Drinking our own Damnation are made plain to the meanest Capacity Also all the most Material Scruples and Objections commonly urged for not Receiving the Blessed Sacrament are fully Answer'd To which are added a Serious Exhortation with Directions and Forms of Prayer for Receiving of the Lord's Supper By John Shank late Lecturer of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in Southwark The second Edition Price 1 s. 6. Religion the only Happiness A Poem In a Letter to a Friend Price 6 d.