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A59562 A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Wednesday the 21th of May, 1690, being the day of the monthly-fast by John Sharpe ... Sharp, John, 1645-1714. 1690 (1690) Wing S2990; ESTC R10685 17,059 41

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we trust God's Lenity and Forbearance and Mercy is as great to Publick Societies and Kingdoms as it is to Private Persons And that we may apply those expressions to our Nation which David uttered with reference to himself O Lord if thou shouldst be extream to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it But there is Mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared When the Iniquities of a People are at the full God will not fail to punish them But whether ours be so or no He only knows We hope though they be very grievous and crying they have not yet exceeded the measure of God's Patience and that there is yet left a place for Repentance This is indeed the only Plank we have to trust to that can save us from Shipwrack and therefore we ought to lay hold upon it Let us therefore this day every one of us If we have any kindness for our Native Country If we have any respect to that dear Place where we and our Ancestors and all our Relations and Kindred for many Generations have lived so happily If we have any Zeal for or regard to that excellent Church and that Holy Religion that God did in so extraordinary a manner plant among us and for the preserving of which in our Land His Care and Providence hath so often and so wonderfully appear'd If we have any Concernment for many thousands of innocent Souls who without their own fault may deeply suffer for the Nations Sins Lastly If we have any Bowels of Compassion to those dear Children of ours that God hath given us that we may transmit to them and their Children after them that Birth-right and those Priviledges and that excellent Religion we received from our Fathers I say if we have any sense of these things let every one of us this day most sincerely apply our selves to the Service of God in all the ways of a serious Virtue and Piety Or if we have been careless of this matter heretofore or which is worse have been lewd or wicked in our lives yet let us now at last heartily repent of it And with Prayers and Tears and the most solemn Resolutions of Amendment prostrate our selves before the Throne of Grace imploring and beseeching God's Pardon and Forgiveness and if it be possible a lengthening of our Tranquillity O let us not refuse this Opportunity of doing the greatest Kindness and the best service to our Country that we possibly can And therefore let us not only heartily bewail our own Sins but the reigning Impieties and Wickedness that our Nation stands accountable for Now is the time if ever that we are all concerned to be importunate with God for our selves and our Country And a fitter Prayer for this purpose cannot be composed for us than that which Daniel put up to God for his Nation and that at such a solemn time as this when as he tells us he had set himself to seek God for his People by Prayer and Supplication with Fasting and Sackcloth and Ashes The Prayer is in the 9 th Chapter of his Prophecy and I shall conclude with it and I earnestly beg of you all to join with me in it O Lord the great and dreadful God that keepest the Covenant and shewest mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments We have sinned and done wickedly and have committed Iniquity and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Iudgments O Lord Righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day to the Men of Judah and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem because we have sinned against thee But unto the Lord our God belongeth Mercy and Forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his Laws which he set before us O Lord according to all thy Righteousness we beseech thee let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy City Jerusalem thy holy Mountain Because for our sins and the iniquities of our Fathers Jerusalem and thy People are become a reproach to all that are about us Now therefore O God hear the Prayer of thy Servants and cause thy Face to shine upon thy Sanctuary O God incline thine ear and hear Open thine Eyes and behold the City which is called by thy Name O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do Defer not for thy own sake O our God For thy City and thy People are called by thy Name And whilst Daniel was thus praying and confessing his sins and the sins of his People unto the Lord and supplicating for his City Ierusalem Behold the Angel Gabriel was sent unto him from the Lord with the glad tidings that God had heard his Prayer for Ierusalem and that it should be built and the Lord would dwell in it O may we all thus fast and pray as Daniel did and may God Almighty give us such a return of our Prayers Amen O God for Iesus Christ his sake to whom c. FINIS Books Written by the same Authour and Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard A Discourse concerning Conscience the first Part wherein an account is given of the Nature and Rule and Obligation of it And the case of those who separate from the Communion of the Church of England as by Law established upon this pretence that it is against their Conscience to join i● it is stated and discussed A discourse of Conscience The second Part concerning a doubting Conscience A Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons April 11. 1679. on Revel ii 5 The Duty and Happiness of doing good in two Sermons the former Preached at the Yorkshire Feast Feb. 17. 1679 on Eccl. iii. 10 the other before the Lord Mayor at the Spittle Apr. 14. 1680. on 1 Tim vi 17 18 19. A Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor Sept. 29. 1680. on Psal. cxli. 4 A Lent-Sermon at Whitehal March 20. 1684. 〈◊〉 Luke xvi 31 A Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall Apr. 1● 1690. on Gal. v. 13 Mat. 6.26.30 1 Cor. 9.9 Amos 3.6 Is. 28.21 Mic. 7.18 Lam. 3.33 Is. 26.9 Mat. 6.34 Prov. 19.21 2 Kings 19.34 Eccles. 9.11 Ps. 33.16 Josh. 6.20 2 Kings 7. ch
Reformation was always rewarded with publick Happiness and Prosperity So that any one that could make a right estimate of the Morals of that Nation and how it stood as to Virtue and Vice might constantly make a judgment likewise how it would fare with them as to their outward temporal affairs I must confess that generally speaking there is little force in those Arguments that are drawn from Examples But in the case I am now upon I think there is a great weight in them For though we cannot argue from God's dealing with one Person that he will just deal in the same manner with another Yet as to Nations and Kingdoms the case is otherwise as I before said For God's dispensations and Providences to them seem all to proceed upon one immutable Foundation which will be the same in all Ages and Countreys namely the expression and vindication of his Justice and Goodness in this World And for my part I have always been of this mind That there is no other difference between the History of God's dealings with his own People the Jews and that of other Nations but this That in other Nations the publick Events that happen'd whether good or bad though they were taken notice of yet they passed without any reflection on the true causes from whence they proceeded The Historians did indeed often lay their Fingers rightly upon the immediate visible outward occasions or means or instruments from whence their good or bad Fortune was derived to them But they searched no further They considered only second Causes and took no great notice of the first and principal Cause of all things God Almighty and his influencing humane affairs They left God in a great measure out of their Hypothesis and out of their History But now that the World might be awaken'd to a more hearty belief and sense of his Providence God took care to single out the Nation of the Jews and in them to give us a true Pattern or Platform of his dealings with all the Nations of the World And for that purpose he ordered that all the great strokes both of their departure from God and of their return to him And likewise both of the good or bad Fortune that did at any time befal that Nation should be faithfully Registred and the true Causes of them faithfully assigned That all Mankind might from thence receive Instruction how they ought to behave themselves towards God and what according to their different behaviours they were to expect To conclude this point By all that hath been said it appears That the State and Condition and Fortune of all Kingdoms and Nations is the very same with that of the Jews as it is represented by Achior the Ammonite in the advice he gave to Holofernes when he came up with an Army against that People You have the passage in Iudith 5.17 Whilst saith he these People sinned not before their God they prospered because the God that hateth iniquity was with them But when they departed from the way that he appointed them they were destroyed in many Battels after a wonderful sort and were led Captives into a land that was not theirs But now they are turned to their God and are come up from their Captivity and have again possessed Jerusalem Now therefore my Lord and Governour if there be any fault in this People so that they have sinned against their God let us consider that this shall be their ruin and let us go up that we may overcome them But if there be no iniquity in this People let my Lord pass by lest their Lord defend them and their God be for them and we become a reproach before all the World Thus it is and will be always with all States and Nations if they notoriously sin against their God this will be their ruin But if there be not found iniquity in them it is in vain for any Enemy to set upon them for God will be for them and their Lord will defend them If this which I have said be not sufficient to satisfy any one about the truth of this point I might bring other Proofs for it I might for instance in the third place insist upon this That Virtue and Piety do in their own nature tend to promote the wellfare and happiness of Peoples and Nations As on the other hand all Vice and Irreligion is destructive of humane Society And this without respect to any appointment or Decree of God that things should be managed in this way but purely in the very nature of the thing It is obvious That Virtue and Religion lay the surest Foundation for all those Blessings wherein the happiness of a Nation doth consist that is possible both by making Magistrates to govern well and by rendring the People easy to be governed And likewise by furnishing both the Governours and the governed with such kind of Principles and Habits as cannot fail with the Blessing of God to produce both Peace and Plenty and Victory and all other sorts of Prosperity in a Nation As on the other hand all Vice and Wickedness and Profaneness and Impiety do sow the worst Seeds in the World for the dissolving and breaking in pieces all Societies or at least for the so enfeebling them that they shall either be in a very low wretched condition among themselves if they have no Enemies or if they have any become an easy prey to the next Invader But I will not enter upon this Argument because I think the matter needs no further proof And I would spend the rest of my time in making some Application of what hath been said upon this point to the business of our present meeting on this day WE are here met together for the solemn Humiliation of our selves with Fasting and Prayer before Almighty God In order to the Supplicating his Divine Majesty for the Pardon of our Sins and the Sins of our Nation And the imploring his Blessing and Protection to the King and Kingdom by continuing those Mercies to us we do enjoy by averting those Judgments from us we have reason to fear and more particularly by giving a Happy Issue to that dangerous War in which his Majesty with the Kingdom is now engaged And very great reason there is that you the Representatives of the People of England should most seriously and solemnly join in this Religious Office since the Fortunes of the Nation you represent did never more lie at stake than at this present You have hitherto been acting and endeavouring for the Happiness and Security of your Nation by Humane Methods and we all put up our daily Prayers that what you have done and what you shall do may be for the Glory of God and the good of his Church and the Safety Honour and Wellfare of their Majesties and their Kingdoms And we hope all will so come to pass But now on this day both You and We are to think of other Methods for the procuring Success to