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A67307 A sermon preached in Christ-Church before His Excellency the lord deputy and the honorable House of Peers, October the 8th, 1695 being the day appointed for a solemn thanksgiving for the taking the strong cittadel of Namur, and for the other happy successes of His Majesty's forces, and those of his allies in Flanders this campaign / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Down & Connor. Walkington, Edward. 1695 (1695) Wing W458; ESTC R38411 13,472 20

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A SERMON PREACHED In CHRIST-CHURCH BEFORE His Excellency the Lord Deputy AND THE Honorable House of Peers October the 8th 1695. Being the Day Appointed for a Solemn Thanksgiving for the Taking the Strong Cittadel of NAMUR And for the other happy Successes of His Majesty's Forces and those of His Allies in Flanders this Campaign By EDWARD Lord Bishop of Down Connor DUBLIN Printed for William Norman Eliphal Dobson and Patrick Campbell Booksellers 1695. Thursday the 10th of October 1695. By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled Ordered That the Earl of Droghedah and the Lord Viscount Bless●nton do give the Thanks of this House to the Lord Bishop of Down for his Sermon Preached before this House at Christ-Church on Tuesday last being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving for his Majesty's and his Allies so great Success in Taking the Town and Castle of Namur and preserving His Majesty's sacred Person from the many dangers to which he was so frequently expos'd during the Siege and that his Lordship be desired to cause his Sermon to be Printed Gerard Bor. Cler. Parliamentor A SERMON PREACHED In Christ-Church c. Psal 135. later part of the 20th Verse Ye that fear the Lord Bless the Lord. THE Psalm out of which I have chosen these words is a Hymn of Praise and it is observable in the manner or stile of these Hymns that the Composer generally calls upon all around him upon irrational and inanimate things sometimes as well as upon persons to joyn with him in the Encomium of the great person whom he celebrates and the holy Psalmist who very well understood all the Schemes and Elegancies of Poesie sometimes does the like as when he calls upon every thing that has breath upon the Sun Moon and Stars the Mountains and Rivers to praise the Lord. But in this Psalm he calls upon those who are under a more strict and peculiar obligation as well as acted by a more Zealous and ready Disposition to praise him The Servants of the Lord such as stand in the house of the Lord in the Courts of the house of his God Then he goes on to describe the great and mighty things that God had done for his People the Tokens and Wonders the Mercies and Deliverances the Victories and Successes over their numerous and powerful Enemies From thence he proceeds to despise and deride the silly Idols of the Heathens and to shew that it is the greatest folly and stupidity in the World to expect any thing like these from them That those that make 'em are like unto 'em and so are all they that put their trust in ' em And at last he calls upon those who were the remarkable Objects as well as the living Monuments of God's goodness and mercy to joyn with him That the whole House of Israel especially the House of Levi would bless the Lord That all that fear him that is every one that has a true Sense of Piety would show it in the Exercise of this great Duty of publick worship invocation and praise of his most holy Name for his goodness and mercy Ye that fear the Lord Bless the Lord. Where we are not to understand by fear that awful uneasy passion of dread and terrour which is apt to arise from a conception of the divine Justice and Vengeance but we are to take it in a larger Sense for a certain habit or disposition of mind that inclines men to a Religious Reverence of the divine Essence and Attributes The holy Scripture understand's sometimes by the fear of the Lord the whole of Religion Gen. 20. 11. Surely the fear of God is not in this place These are the words of Abraham who was afraid that the men of Gerar would slay him upon the account of his Wife because they had no sense of Religion amongst 'em The wise man tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Knowledge and the Psalmist calls men to him that he may teach them the Fear of the Lord that is that he may instruct 'em in the duties of Religion nay sometimes the holy Writers expess by the fear of the Lord some acts of the mind that are exclusive of that passion Prov. 14. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong Confidence and Act. 9. 31. We are told of walking in the Fear of the Lord and Comfort Now Comfort and Confidence having nothing to do with Fear according to the usual strict Sense of the word by the fear of the Lord in these places must needs be meant a habit of Piety or that Religious Respect and Reverence that is due to God And as we are not to take fear in this place in the strict Sense of the word So neither are we to understand by blessing the Lord the bare act of praising his holy Name with our lips only which is a thing may possibly be done when our hearts are far from him but a firm settl'd habit of thankfulness for all his Favours which upon fit and proper occasions shall break out into such acts as denote our honour and esteem of him before men and our Zeal for his Glory such as publick declarations of our gratitude for his general favours towards us and our solemn praises and thanksgivings for his more immediate and extroardinary Mercies and Deliverances The Words being thus understood offer to our consideration these two things 1st here is a duty injoyn'd to Bless the Lord. 2dly Here is a certain habit or disposition of mind which they are suppos'd to have that are call'd upon to this duty and that is The Fear of the Lord. Now because this last is but suppos'd here only and the former is look'd upon as a consequent of it I shall begin with the later That habit of Religious Worship and Reverence towards God which is the foundation of the devotional part of Religion concerning which I shall inquire 1st what are the seeds from whence it grows or what are the considerations from whence sober and thinking men reason themselves into this habit of Piety and Devotion towards God 2dly I shall consider the duty it self of Blessing God and in what it consists and when this is done I shall in the 3d place endeavour to shew you that they who thus fear the Lord are the fittest persons in the World to bless and praise him 1st Then I look upon this habit of fearing God to be a dictate of the Law of Nature as much as any part of the moral Law whatsoever if we suppose the being of a God which must be suppos'd as the Foundation of all certain Truths as well as of all Religion Now as to the being of a God the constant Sense and practice of every Age and Nation of the World that we can have any manner of account of in story do abundantly confirm this insomuch as if here and there an Atheist or Anti-religionist be mention'd he seems to stand upon Record as some