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A sermon preached upon the 29th of May, in the parish-church of St. Margaret in Lyn-Regis in Norfolk, in a great presence by Tho. Fysh ...
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Fysh, Thomas.
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1685
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Wing F2569; ESTC R17652
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A SERMON PREACHED Upon the 29 th of MAY In the Parish-Church of S t. MARGARET IN Lyn-Regis IN NORFOLK In a Great Presence By THO. FYSH A. M. LONDON Printed by T. Snowden for Sam. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1685. To the most High Puissant and Noble Prince Henry Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England Earl of Arundel Surrey Norfolk and Norwich Baron Howard Mowbray Segrave Brews of Gower Fitz-Alan Warren Clun Oswaldestre Matravers Scales Graystock Furneval of Sheffield and Howard of Castle-Rising Constable and Governor of His Majesty's Royal Castle and Honour of Windsor Lord Warden of the Forest of Windsor Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk Surrey and Berks and of the City and County of the City of Norwich c. High Steward of Lyn-Regis in Norfolk May it please Your Grace THis Discourse was design'd to attend and cherish the Publick Devotions of a very Loyal and Worthy Corporation to which Your Grace has lately vouchsafed to own a Relation and whose Interests You are pleased to Espouse But it had the Fortune to wait upon Your Grace likewise in the same Solemnity at the Head of an Illustrious Assembly of Persons of Great Honour and Quality All full of most Dutiful Affections to His Majesty and Honourable Thoughts and Veneration of Your Grace Coming into the World under such kindly Aspects and honestly however weakly endeavouring to speak out upon an agreeable Argument it met with a Favour from Your Grace bigger than it did aspire to or could deserve Which was to have Your Repeated Commands for its Publication After this Duty was to govern and control my Inclination and it became me on the first fitting Occasion to lay It and my Self at Your Grace's Feet This I now do in all Humility Beseeching Your Pardon of my Presumption Herein Which I am the more encouraged to hope for when I reflect upon that Great Goodness and Sweetness of Temper which in Your Grace is as Eminent as Your High Authority and most Noble Descent I am My LORD Your GRACE'S Most Obedient Servant THO. FYSH Zechariah 12. 8. In that day the Lord shall defend the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David and the House of David shall be as God as the Angel of the Lord before them THis day was this Scripture fulfilled to these Nations and he that comes prepared as he ought to celebrate this Solemnity will presently discern what an easie Accommodation thereof may be made to the state of our own Affairs and that the words afford a seasonable Theme for an holy Panegyrick and are fit to remind us of those Mercies we here are met to commemorate and acknowledge Your selves I know can well transfer them and make the Application But if I may contribute any help to this be pleased that we reflect a while on their Ground and Occasion which having done with any tolerable Attention we shall grow doubtful perhaps whether in Palestine or Britain the Scene might be more fitly laid God had now brought again the Captivity of Sion and redeemed his chosen Nation from Vassallage under haughty Tyrants and the Mercy was so great and the Joy so transporting that it almost astonished and overwhelmed their Sense They were tempted to disbelieve their Eyes and to suspect it was a Dream of the Night and not a Vision of the Day that entertained them For the Revolution and Turn of Affairs was so wonderfully surprising and great so unexpected a Face of things did appear and yet so calmly accomplished and smoothly brought to pass that like St. Peter when his Chains dropt off at the Angel's Voyce at first they thought their Deliverance but an imaginary thing fine wrought in the Shop of Fancy and that surely it could not be a real Event of things or a solid and substantial Change But when they found that it was a publick and palpable Blessing that had befallen them a Blessing the happy influence whereof every awakned Eye might see and every well affected Heart might feel what Gladsom Passions then throng'd in their enlarged Breasts and warm'd and actuated every Part How was their Mind ravished with the Joy and how was their Countenance adorned with a pleasing Grace How did the wasted Kingdom erect its drooping Head and the Church new string her Harp which had so long hung upon the Willows in the times of her Desolations How did their Mouths sing out the Praises of Him who rules in all the Kingdoms of the Earth and how did their Hearts glow with Love and Loyal Veneration to Zerubbabel and other Princes of ancient Race How did all the Sorrows of their past Captivity disband and vanish till scarce any other Remembrance was left of former Miseries than what might heighten the Relish of present Enjoyments Nay further How did the Fame of this spread into distant Countries and Foreign Lands And whether they did envy or congratulate Judah's Happiness yet still how were they obliged to say The Lord had done great things for them And what happy Consequents did attend and wait upon this Revolution cannot be better described than in our Prophet's Language The Temple was rebuilt and the solemn Worship restored Sanctuaries rescued from shameful Prophanation and the places of God's Feet made glorious The Hierarchy was restored and the Mitre placed upon the High Priest's Head and Plenty was poured down from the Stores of Heaven The Vine gave her Fruit and the Ground her Increase and the Heavens their Dew and instead of Monthly Fasts God was to the House of Judah Joy and Gladness and chearful Feasts And now nothing could be added to the greatness of their Happiness but Continuance and Perpetuity and a wise Provision for its lasting and uninterrupted Enjoyment For Religion would soon be lost without an established Defender of the Faith successively to maintain protect and support it Peace would be dishonourable or short-liv'd without an Head of Counsel a Scepter of Justice and a Sword of War to secure and guard it Plenty would expose a Nation to be the fatter Prey for Rapine or Ambition from abroad or incline them to be wanton or desirous of Change at home without the Force of Government to repel the one and the Wisdom and Authority of it to check and to curb the other And therefore that Religion and Peace and Plenty might be continued to them and their Posterity and that God might crown all his other Favours in their Restoration and that no Oppressor might go through them any more God resolved to settle the Government in the hands of a meek and righteous Prince and to entail the Succession upon his House and so to secure them in the Enjoyment of all the Interests that could be dear unto them and by that means as formerly by the Ministery of Angels to dispence and convey to them the various Issues and Fruits of his Providence and Care And thus