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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53969	A sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, at St. Mary le Bow, on Nov. 5, 1683 being the commemoration-day of our deliverance from a popish conspiracy / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1095; ESTC R1882	18,522	46

A SERMON Preached before the Lord Mayor AND COURT of ALDERMEN At St. Mary le Bow on Nov. 5. 1683. BEING THE Commemoration-Day Of our Deliverance from a Popish Conspiracy By Edward Pelling Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Somerset LONDON Printed for Will. Abington next the Wonder Tavern in Ludgate-street 1683. To the Right Honorable Sir Henry Tulce Lord Mayor of the City of London and to the Honourable Court of Aldermen My Lord WHen your Lordship and your Brethren were pleased to pitch upon me for your Preacher on the late Solemn Occasion I had reason to conclude that knowing my Principles and Way you might expect from me a Discourse like unto the Author Blunt and Plain and as I hope your Lordship doth believe Loyal and Honest And truly had I had no other Tye upon me but Good Manners that was enough to oblige me not to defraud your Lordship wholly of your expectations But I have this to say more that by my Experience I have found that the Delivering of plain Truths after a plain manner however some may call it Intemperate Zeal is in this Age the most Effectual way of Instructing People especially the ordinary sort of Men who are most apt to run away with mistakes and who need the most of our Care and Instructions because they are the Hands and Tools which Politick Male-contents imploy to Disturb the Peace and Establisht Government I had therefore a particular regard to the necessities of these especially in the Practical part of this Discourse which I thought necessary to adapt to our present Circumstances as a more profitable course than either to enter into Controversie or to tell a Story of the Fifth of November My Lord I did hope that your Lordship and the Court would have gratified my Desires by Excusing me from Publishing these Papers to an Vncharitable and Censorious World But since you have been pleased to determine it otherwise I Submit to your Pleasure being ever ready to pay all due Obedience to my Governours and particularly to your Lordship whose Endeavours for the Good of the Government in Church and State I beseech God to bless with Successes suitable to your Zeal for both I am My Lord Your Lordships most Bounden and Obedient Servant Edw. Pelling Luke XIX 42. If thou hadst known even Thou at least in this Thy day the things which belong unto thy Peace THE Fore-casting of Events and the Prudent Providing against the Worst as it is a Necessary Course for us all to take in the Management of our Private and Particular Concernments so 't is a most Useful Course in the Governmet of Publick and National Affairs especially in Lowring Weather and Threatning Times when a Nation seems to be brought under an absolute Necessity either of being Wise in Time or of being undone for ever 'T is plain that this was the Case of Jerusalem when our Saviour Lamented over her and was a Mourner at her Funerals before-hand her Days were numbred out unto her her last Hours were spending apace and She was limited to a certain Time which the purpose of a Patient and Just God had fixt her so that one of these two things She was bound to Resolve upon either to bethink her self of her Follies while the Sands were yet in her Glass or to Perish and be Destroyed without any Remedy or Controul That Merciful Jesus who came into the World not to Destroy Mens Lives but to Save them and to Retrieve and Succour that which was Lost not only told her her sad Doom if She persisted still in her wonted course of Obstinacy and Rebellion notwithstanding so many Meroies God had shewed her and so many Deliverances he had wrought for her but moreover he Courted her with the most Passionate Expressions of Tenderness and Goodness that now at the last after that the Patience of God had waited for her so long she would be True to her own Interest and be Merciful to her self for the Particle If is an Optative in this place a note of Desire and Earnest Longing as if our Blessed Saviour had said O that thou hadst known would to God thou wouldst consider and do the things which belong unto thy Peace These words I have chosen to Discourse of now because they contain that Vse and Improvement which every Provident Nation should make of the Divine Goodness and espceially we of This Nation who have had such Ample and Wonderful Experience of the Mercies of God and particularly in that Signal and Miraculous Instance of it which we Commemorate this Day that one would think Louder warnings could not well be given to Any People under Heaven than what hath been given to Vs To know the things which belong unto our Peace For though One end of our Meeting be to Praise and Bless the Keeper of our Israel for this Days Astonishing Deliverance of our King of the whole Family Royal of the Three Estates of the Realm and of our whole Church and Nation from the Barbarous Designs of our old good Friends at Rome with whom Treason and Villany is Meritorious yet this is not the whole nor indeed the greatest part of our Business For Dangers of Destruction are Indications and Arguments of mens Demerits and a Scourge though it be not Felt yet is a Monitor from Heaven that tells us what we shall feel in the end if we be not Tractable and if in Time we be not Disciplin'd into that Wisdom which is Peaceable and Pure So that every Deliverance being but a Summoning of us to our Duty we are not only to look Backward upon it nor barely to Read it as a Story of Gods Providence but we are chiefly to look Forward to the thing that it Points at to the Amendment of our Lives and to the Practice of the things which belong unto our Peace while it is yet Our day Ingratitude though it be the Basest and most Odious Sin yet 't is the Great and Epidemical Guilt of this Nation that when no People under Heaven are so deeply Indebted to Gods Providence as We are Men nevertheless suffer if not the Memory vet the Sense of his Goodness to slide so easily away from them as if they had nothing to do but still to be trying Conclusions with Heaven and to make fresh Experiments of Gods Mercy how Long and how Far 't is Possible for it to Last What have we learnt from this Days Mercy but to fling Invectives at the Papists though I confess the greatest Invectives cannot be too much what other use have many made of the King's Restauration but This onely to try whether they could Rout him again out of his Kingdome or dispatch him quite out of the World Nay if I may have Liberty to ask it what have they learnt from the Dangers of a late Popish Plot but to Form a Fanatick Conspiracy and to Mock God Solemnly by Studying Treason Themselves after a Day of Humiliation for the very same Horrid