the Tribes of the Lord and shall worship in his House with a holy and united Worship The Throne of Judgement shall be established even the Throne of the House of David for Ever and Ever Thus shall we render this great Solemnity truly such a Fast as the Lord hath chosen Our weeping and our mourning shall come up before him as the Incense acceptable in his sight he will receive our Confessions with Favour and mercy and answer our requests with Peace and security I shall say no more to the Second particular The Preparation with which we ought to sanctify the Fast Our last Business now to be considered is III. Being thus prepared How we ought to keep the Fast. And for this it is certainly impossible to pursue any better method than that form of Confession the Prophet Joel has here proposed to the Jews viz. To implore the favour and mercies of Heaven 1. For the forgiveness of this great sin Spare thy People O Lord. 2. That our miseries may never be turned by the Application of wicked men either 1. To the Scandal of God's People And give not thine Heritage to reproach Or 2. To the ruin of our Church or State That the Heathen should rule over them Or 3. Finally To the Reproach of God's Providence Wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God 1. We must implore the Favours and mercy of Heaven for the forgiveness of this great sin Spare thy people O Lord. And here we are arrived at the proper business of this day to implore the pardon of a crime which my soul trembles to remember and which I should doubt had exceeded the power of any Repentance to expiate had not the Apostles left us an Example by exhorting the Jews to labour for a forgiveness even of their crucifying the Lord of Glory For indeed What flouds of tears can ever be sufficient to wash off the stain of so much Innocent and Royal Blood as our late civil confusions have brought upon us Is it possible for our sorrow ever to equal those Violences and Oppressions those Ruines and Devastations the Murders the Sacrileges those Sins which our Eyes have seen and which it may be our Hands have acted How shall I recount the most flourishing of States brought to Desolation A Church the Envy and Hatred of Hell the Delight of its Friends and Terrour of its Enemies So pure and orthodox its Canons and Confession so learned the Pens so exemplary the Lives of its Professors and when the fiery tryal came on so firm and constant their Sufferings that the most Primitive Christians could not have desired any thing more conformable to their own Piety persecuted profaned thrown down by Enthusiastick Zeal and a thorough Reformation In a word a King so Primitive too that He seem'd to have revived some Constantine or Theodosius or Marcian again among us so just and brave that he was worthy to have ruled though he had not been born to Empire Cut off by the villainy of his own Subjects a Martyr to his Religion a Sacrifice to his Country and the Everlasting reproach as well as guilt of both This is but a light description of that sin which we are here assembled to commemorate and to lament and I must beg leave to add yet more For however it will easily be imagined that all this wickedness could not be accomplished but through innumerable Crimes which neither can any tongue express nor any thoughts conceive yet such unusual Villainies then acted us which Antiquity never knew nor will Posterity believe that we might well be esteemed to fail in that duty which this Fast requires should we not make some more solemn and particular remembrance of them Through what treachery did our Anointed first fall into their nets When those perfidious men to whose trust he had committed his Sacred Person contrary to all the Laws of Nature and Nations as themselves whilst not yet Villains enough to commit so black a treachery confess'd contrary to all the sentiments of Honour and dictates of Religion sold him into the hands of his Enemies who even then design'd his destruction With a supplication indeed for his security but such as a Popish Inquisitor uses when he delivers the poor Heretick to the secular power intreats for a life which he both desires may not and which he infallibly knows shall not be granted And accordingly How soon did all things conspire to his destruction When the violence of the Faction broke off those Treaties that had almost restored us to our peace The lower House that had usurped the power of the Government it self before now becomes its self reformed And to accomplish a Villainy which an ordinary Malignant's conscience was not thought proof enough to go through with only a few confiding men were to be trusted with so desperate a design A Court of Justice was erected and Majesty arraigned to answer for treason committed against his own Rebels How shall I recount the wickedness of their process A tryal only to make the condemnation the more grievous for being the more solemn and publick In which their King was not allowed that liberty of defence which every ordinary Subject claims as his right and which they themselves enjoyed for this notorious this undeniable Conspiracy Nay in which their President durst plainly tell his Sacred Majesty That he was now in a Court where reason was not to be heard With what Noise and Insults was all the action carried on When the clamours of the people for Justice first and then for Execution was the only voice that was heard in our Streets And as if with our Loyalty all sence both of Religion and Humanity had been lost too Some spit in his Royal Face as he past by Others press'd upon Him with the smoak of their Tabaco for which they knew he had a particular aversion and even threw their Pipes in his way The least expression of Reverence to Him was punished with all the Violence a populer fury could execute And One who more compassionate than the rest only wish'd him well was kill'd upon the place for his unseasonable piety When at last the fatal Sentence was pronounced How hardly were they brought to allow him any Assistance to prepare him for his death His prayers continually disturbed by the Rudeness of those Guards that intruded upon his most secret retirements His last thoughts diverted with Propositions to save his Life which they knew neither Honour nor Conscience would permit him to receive What Shouts what Acclamations when the cruel stroke was given that finished the Tragedy How greedily did they thirst after his Blood when some plunged their hands into his wound Others dipt their staves in it The very block on which he rested his Sacred Head cut in pieces that every one might satisfie his cruelty with some memorial of their villainy and even the very boards and Earth Stain'd with his blood distributed as a mark
of Their sins prevent the Effect we so much desire of our present Offerings we must then beg leave to go on with Our Text to another address to secure our selves The third particular now to be spoken to And give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over Them 3. That our own sins at least may never bring us to the like ruin either of our Church or State nor Evermore permit these men as they have heretofore done to prevail against us And this too is a Petition no less proper to our present Circumstances than the preceding requests have been but too applicable to the memory of our past Evils Our sins which called down that last Vengeance upon us are still as hainous and universal to provoke a new one Our Divisions are yet greater and and that fertile Brood of Factions which that unnatural War produced and which no Country or Antiquity ever heard of before still continue more fatally and more dangerously to distract us We have again seen the Government divided against it self The People have been blown up into a new Ferment The Bishops and Councellours have again been Resolved to be Popishly affected Nay the very Militia has been once more attempted and they were no doubt Confiding men too into whose hands it should have again been put And when all this would not do New designs have been laid to seize that Government by Violence they could not gain by Petition How was his Sacred Majesty almost caught in their traps The destruction so well laid that it had been impossible to have escaped it and Providence was forced to act almost a Miracle to prevent it And now when our danger has again so nigh overtaken us certainly He must be very unsensible of the former Evils that can think Himself unconcerned at such a time as this to pray against the Future Let the Miseries that we suffered and the sins that were committed in those days when the Heathen i. e. these Enemies to our Church and State ruled over us be remembred Was there Ever Sorrow like unto our Sorrow wherewith the Lord afflicted us in those days of his fierce Anger I have before given you some general Prospect of our Calamities at this time and your own Knowledge will save me the regret of repeating to you any more How did our Cities become Solitary that were full of people Our Country Once great among the Nations How did she become Tributary even to her own Vassals Our King the Anointed of the Lord fell by their hand Our Princes were led into Captivity Our Churches the Places of our Assemblies were profaned The solemn Feasts and days were forgotten in our Zion and God in the Indignation of his anger despised both the King and the Priest And all this we have had but too great cause to fear may again return upon us Yet since it has pleased the Almighty to stop the Vengeance and command the destroying Angel to suspend the Blow if not to sheath his Sword and give us still longer respite to repent and secure our selves Let the Consideration of this danger provoke us not to neglect the Opportunity Let our Repentance at this time be so sincere that it may not only obtain our pardon for Past Offences but prevail with Heaven to prevent our Impending dangers Let us no more give our Enemies this advantage against us to force the Almighty to withdraw his presence from amongst us and leave us again to engage them upon equal Terms But let our lives and our prayers both join in the Request to save and to defend us Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the People Where is there God This is the last Consideration which the Method of our Text now calls us to conclude with 4. That neither the miseries we have suffered nor the dangers and confusions we yet labour under may by the Censures of wicked men ever turn to the reproach of God's Providence any more than of our own Church or Cause Wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God It is not to be doubted but that this sarcastick Exprobration was that reproach which Joel had before pray'd that God would not suffer his Heritage to be exposed to He had promised in his Law to supply them with plenty of Food and to bless their Victuals with Increase That their houses should be full of all manner of store their Fields also should stand so thick with Corn that they should laugh and sing Well therefore might they fear the reproach of the Heathen when instead of this plenty they should be forced to go and seek for necessary nourishment of them whom they excluded from these promises who no doubt would be forward enough to make a By-word of them and insult over their pretences as if their God either could not or would not relieve them Is this the People that hath the Lord for their God Behold Is not the meat cut off before their Eyes Their Vine laid waste and the Branches of their figtree made white Their seed is rotten under their clods their Garners are made desolate the Barns broken down because the corn is withered How do the beasts groan because they have no pasture for the rivers of Water are dried up and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness Where is now their God to pity them And where is the Lord to be jealous for his Inheritance This was their Reproach the Scandal of themselves and their Religion which the Prophet so much feared and so earnestly exhorted them to pray against and would to God we our selves this day had not too great cause to fear the like Witness O ye pious and excellent Souls what scornings and reviling to your selves and your Religion did ye then bear when being forced from that plenty and tranquility you once enjoyed you become scattered abroad among the Heathenand underwent their reproaches more grievous and sensible than all the other miseries and calamities of your cruel exile But what need I look back to the times that are past when our own continue to afford us so plain an Application How far both our late calamities and our present destractions have given occasion to the Enemy to triumph in our misfortunes as if they were not only the mark of our own sins but even an argument of the common illness of our Cause too this alone may be sufficient to shew that the Romanists not only hope from them to see this Ferment one day settle among us into down right Popery again but even at this day make this the great and indeed it must be confessed the strongest prejudice against the Reformation that since we have thrown off our Obedience to that Church we have run so many and different ways of Errour and are yet at such distance
from one another as plainly shew there is no truth nor certainty to be found for us but only in our return to them again I shall not here enquire into the Goodness of the Consequence but must needs say I could wish there were not too much Truth and scandal in the Premises And who can tell whether since any lesser Judgements have been ineffectual to reclaim us God may not at last punish us with this Blindness and whilst we refuse to submit to the easie and lawful power of his Church and his Anointed bring us once more under the intolerable Yoke of that usurped authority from whose Slavery both our Country and our Consciences are now so happily asserted This I am sure we have too much deserved and may therefore justly have but too great Cause to fear Only my hope is that whatever our own demerits are yet the Innocence of our Church shall still provoke God's providence to defend her And that our deliverance as at this time from our Enemies shall always disappoint such fatal expectations and convince them that though we have sinned yet are we his People That he chastises us as Children not punishes us as his Enemies and is still our God though angry and provoked How great is the demonstration of his mercy and loving-kindness that we even now continue a Church and People as at this day What Miracles did he work to turn again the Captivity of our Zion and deliver both us and our King from those Usurpers that so long had triumphed over both Has not the Almighty shewn himself in our defence who but so lately has delivered us both from Popish and Fanatick Conspiracies Let them ask where is their God that have not known by what singular and unexspected means these designs were both Discover'd and Disappointed And though it pleases God still to leave these men like the Canaanites in the Land to try and to prove us and which indeed but too much fulfil their character of being scourges to our sides and thornes in our Eyes Yet has he set bounds to their designs which they have not been able to pass and which we trust they never shall exceed to ruine and destroy us Yet since both our peace and security are still in such danger through their rage and their devices Let us endeavour not less by our Piety than our Policies to countermine them Let us engage the Assistance of Heaven by the excellency of our Lives as well as the justice of our Cause to oppose their attempts Let us exceed them as much in the Sincerity of our Righteousness as they have done all others in the outward Pretences and Hypocrisie of theirs Let us keep this day the fast which the Lord hath chosen to break the bonds of wickedness to have pity on the distressed and to execute judgement and justice in the gates Let us turn unto the Lord our God with all our hearts with weeping and with fasting and with mourning and let us rent our hearts and not our garments and let us say Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the people Where is their God Then will the Lord be jealous for his People and awake for his Inheritance He will restore us our Judges as at the first and our Councellours as at the beginning Zion shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with righteousness They shall be ashamed and confounded that seek her destruction but for his Church and his Anointed they shall be preserved for evermore Which God of his Infinite mercy grant for his dear Son Jesus Christ's Sake Amen Books sold by Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard In FOLIO BIble for Churches with Cronology and an Index The English Atlas Vol. 1st containing the description of the North-Pole as also Muscovy Poland Sweden and Denmark The Second Vol. of the Atlas containing half the Empire of Germany The third Vol. containing the other half of the Empire of Germany The fourth Vol. containing the 17 Provinces Catalogus Impressorum Librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Acad. 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A SERMON PREACHED UPON The XXX th of January S. V. 1684 5. AT PARIS In the Chappel of the Right Honourable the Lord Vicount PRESTON His MAJESTIE' 's Envoy Extraordinary in the Court OF FRANCE LONDON Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1685. TO The Right Honourable RICHARD LORD VICOVNT PRESTON His Majestie 's Envoy Extraordinary in the Court OF FRANCE My Lord HAd I no other consideration in the publishing of this Discourse than to make an open acknowledgment of my duty to your Lordship and not be silent at a time when the Applauses of the most indifferent Persons declare their satisfaction at your continuance of that character which none can better sustain nor has any ever born it with greater Honour and Fidelity than all men must confess your Lordship to have done it I should think it sufficient to outweigh all those Censures which perhaps may pass with security enough both upon me and It. It was not to be doubted but that a Prince so Wise to understand so Gracious to reward the services of the meanest of his Subjects would have a particular regard to a Merit and Loyalty great as your Lordship 's and not so soon part with a Minister whom he knows to have been such as others promise they will be It is the Vanity of most men to speak great things it is your Lordship's Honour that you do them And I may without danger of any censure but your own truly say That in a Station which affords if any other tryals and opportunities to exercise the highest abilities you have exceeded not only your own Promises but even our Hopes and given us an Assurance that there is nothing now remaining that can equal the greatness of your Mind Permit me my Lord to render this short testimony to your Vertues so far from flattery that those who know your Lordship will confess it to be hardly the truth and if you please pardon my presumption in this address I believe as unexpected to your Lordship as I can justly say it was undesigned by me But my Lord it has been thought fit to give your Lordship this satisfaction that whilst you are rendring your Obedience to his Majestie 's Commands in England we have not been less careful both to shew our selves and to exhort others to be as firm to their Loyalty here and since we could not have the Honour of your presence to compleat the utmost Solemnity of this Day amongst us by this Address at least to joyn you in our service and return our acknowledgments for that Opportunity we have had under your protection to remember the captivity of Zion in a strange Land The only thing that might justly have deterr'd me from this attempt was the meanness of the performance did I not consider that Saints and Martyrs like that God before whom they stand are not so much taken with the Elegant composures of their Votaries as with their Piety and Sincerity and accept him who brings an honest heart rather than an accurate Discourse to their Memories And this my Lord were the Sermon it self silent yet the Honour I have to belong to your Lordship would undoubtedly confirm to as many as have ever known your character May your Lordship long have the happiness to continue your services to his Sacred Majesty and the Royal Family and encrease every day those applauses that are so justly paid to your great Vertues whilst I still endeavour by all the duties of my employ more and more to deserve that Title I most desire of being with all humble duty and respect My Lord Your Lordship 's Most faithful and most devoted Chaplain and Servant W. W. ECCL JOEâ— II. 15 16 17. Blow the Trumpet in Zion sanctifie a Fast call a solemn Assembly Gather the People sanctifie the Congregation assemble the Elders gather the Children and those that suck the Breasts let the Bridegroom go forth of his Chamber and the Bride out of her Closet Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weep between the Porch and the Altar and let them say Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God SO contrary is the mournful Appearance of this day to those Triumphs and rejoycings wherewith our Primitive Predecessors were wont to celebrate the Memories of their Martyrs that either the Spirit of Christianity seems very much decayed in Us or something must be thought to have been defective in that Saint whose death we thus Lament instead of magnifying his Conflicts and glorying in his Victory Indeed had we only to commemorate the Merits of the Martyr the Innocence and Piety wherein he lived and the Constancy and Magnanimity with which he died these funeral Obsequies would be very unbecoming the Solemnity of out Remembrance and we might esteem it a Crime to let our Hymns and our Praises fall any thing short of the most celebrated Festivals of the Saints of old when both the Excellence of the Cause and the Resolution of the Person and the Barbarity of his Sufferings so far exceeded the most of theirs And this Perhaps the Generations to come may think themselves obliged to do But alass the return of this day brings with it another and sadder Remembrance to us and when our Tongues would speak the Glories of this Martyr our Consciences confound us with horror to consider that we our selves were his Persecutors Had the death he suffered been the Sin of some other hand had an Infidel Nation risen up against him or had the Chance of War cut him off in our own we might have regretted the loss of so Royal a defender but should soon have turned our Sorrow into Joy and have giving him a name Superiour to the chiefest of those Hero 's that Fabulous Antiquity can boast of But that we who were obliged by all the ties of God and man to obey him should destroy that life for which we ought not to have refused any Hazard of our own that we who were certainly his Subjects and who pretend to be Christians too should violate all the rights of Majesty trample under foot all the Commands of that Gospel by which we are called and imbrue our hands in Royal and Innocent Bloud after so barbarous a manner that no Antiquity can afford a Parrallel This raises those Clouds that obscure so bright a day and instead of appearing at his Monument with Songs of Eucharist for his Victory calls us here between the Porch and the Altar to confess our own sins Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God And here would to God the Sincerity of our Repentance might in some degree answer the heinousness of our sin That out Piety this day might as effectually contribute to the
their Impieties fought so much more powerfully against their Soveraign than all their Arms could do to promote his Cause that even They may too much be charged as the Authors of our Misery and so all of us seem to have conspired to have made the Crime of this day in the utmost Propriety of the Phrase a National Sin Lastly for the Form prescribed wherein to speak forth our Sorrow and to implore our pardon as it was the Piety of our Governours that with one Voice as well as one heart we should all join in this great Rogation so may it appear too no improper manner for the Solemnity of this day above all others that the Priests the Ministers of the Lord should by the Uniformity of a set and well composed Liturgie at one for the Rudeness and irreverence I wish I could not say for the rash and almost blasphemous Offerings of those uncommissioned Teachers who by the unpremeditated Nonsense of their Prayers no less profaned the Honour of God than by the Pulpit Wildfire of their Sermons they ruined both the Peace of his Church and the Majesty of his Anointed And now when such has been the Piety of our Governours to establish the Fast and our own engagements are so great to join in the Observation 't will be time for us next to consider how we are to do it that as they have Blown the Trumpet in Zion so may we provide to sanctifie the Fast. This therefore brings me to the Second part of this discourse II. The manner how we ought to prepare for it Sanctifie the Congregation c. The Word in the Original which our Text twice renders to Sanctifie in its own Nature seems to signifie no more than to Prepare And in that great Passage of Exod. XIX When God commands Moses to sanctifie the People against the third day that he intended to come down among them upon Mount Sinai v. 10. we find by the Execution of his Commission that it implied only a solemn declaration that they should be ready to meet the Lord v. 14 15. And Moses went down from the Mount and sanctified the People and said Be ready against the third day And the same no doubt was the design of the Prophet Joel in this place where addressing himself as is plain to the Elders of the Jews to them to whom the Authority belonged to Blow the Trumpet in Zion call a solemn Assembly i. e. to appoint the Fast that they should Sanctifie the Congregation His meaning must be that they should command the People to be ready against the day of the Solemnity to lay aside all other business and attend the Service of the Lord in the Congregation But though this therefore be the literal import of this phrase and perhaps all that was required of them to whom the Prophet spoke the rulers and Governours of the People yet both the design of this Warning and the particular explication of the Expression almost always understood of that special sort of Preparation which consisted in cleansing and purifying themselves call upon us not only to be ready to assemble our selves on the day of the Fast but so to prepare our selves too that we may be fit for the Celebration It was the great care of God Almighty under the Law that upon all such solemn Assembling as this the People should be Sanctified before they came to the Congregation and then at least be free from any present guilt when they met to implore the Forgiveness of their past sins Hence we find what strict charges they had to purifie themselves to wash or to change their Clothes to abstain even from lawful pleasures in which there might only seem to be a Pollution and when this was done what care the Priests took to sanctifie the Congregation i. e. to reconcile the People by their solemn forms of Expiation to God And sure our care to prepare our selves ought to be no less because we are now no longer under the pedagogy of these Ceremonies And if the Prophet Joel here requires it even of the Jews themselves that they should though not omit the other yet rather be careful to make that preparation of a spiritual Holiness which these shadows typified we certainly much more must resolve at this time to lay aside every accursed thing and rent our hearts and not our garments and turn unto the Lord our God So that here then it will be our business diligently to reflect how we are prepared this day to sanctifie the Fast. Have we seriously repented of those sins that once provoked the Justice of Heaven to appear as on this day to our Confusion and which if our Piety does nothing to prevent it will again return to our greater desolation Is there any one amongst us that by the malignity of his Nature the desperateness of his Fortunes or a misguided Zeal has been actually concern'd in this great guilt or otherwise partaken in the crime of it by assisting or encouraging or even approving the doing it Is there any one now present who though unconcern'd in that black Parricide is yet involved in any of those Principles that led to it Has assisted approved or encouraged those new Rebels the Progeny of the same Old Cause that have again so lately endeavour'd to crown the Son with the like glory their ancestours did the Father Let me beseech them either to sanctifie the fast with us or not to joyn in the Celebration Let them here sacrifice this day all such villainous thoughts these practices and these principles Let them offer up all those interests and resentments that ever have or ever may involve them in so great Impiety And having thus washed their cloths by a Repentance for what is past Let them to compleat the Sanctification here engage themselves for the time to come actually to joyn in the contrary duties of Loyalty and Obedience to their King resolving evermore to disown all such Men and such Principles as shall ever hereafter endeavour to engage them in the like detestable Conspiracies Without this all our Fasting and humiliation will stand us in little stead our Assemblies even this solemn meeting will be so far from appeasing that it will kindle God's anger to a yet higher degree against us In vain shall we cry every man to his God whilest such Jonases are imbarked in the same Cause with us But let us cast out the man for whose sake all these Evils are come upon us Let us examine ours souls that no accursed thing may remain in them then shall the Storms of our Civil Confusions cease when we have sacrificed these Enemies to Heaven and our own Peace Religion and Loyalty shall revive amongst us our Country shall again flourish as a City that is at Unity within it self Peace shall be within our Walls and Righteousness within our Palaces Then shall the Tribes go up