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A81104	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Philip and Jacob, in the city of Bristol on Wednesday the 15th of July, 1691. Being the monthly-fast. By Thomas Cary, M.A. Vicar of the parish of St. Philip and Jacob, in the city of Bristol.	Cary, Thomas, 1648 or 9-1711.	1691 (1691)	Wing C743B; ESTC R232684	7,176	30

Mercy and Judgment together he doth not proportion the Stripes to the Offence he Corrects in Love when he might justly Destroy in Wrath the obstinate Jews deserved that God should utterly forsake them their Sins cryed for a longer Captivity then of seventy Years but it pleased God to restore them again to their Native Country and to erect a second Temple for his publick Worship Yet many Neh. 9. 30 31. years did'st thou forbear them and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets yet would they not give ear therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands Nevertheless for thy great mercies sake thou didst not utterly consume them nor forsake them for thou art a Gracious and a Merciful God And now to apply this to ourselves God hath certainly punished us less then our Sins deserve it was not for any Righteousness in us that God hath so Graciously delivered us for we are a Rebellious and an Unthankful People our Sins were clamorous for greater Judgments then those from which God hath in Mercy rescued us God may justly say to us as heretofore to the Jews Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known unto you be ashamed Ezek. 36. 32. and confounded for your own ways O house of Israel God hath spared us to magnifie his Grace in our Deliverance he hath miraculously preserved us to Demonstrate to the Antichristian World that we profess his true Religion although we do not live up to it it was more for the Sins of the Papists then for the Righteousness of the Protestants that God so providentially Appeared for us O what great Reason have we then to celebrate God with Praises O how thankful should we be for this unexpected Deliverance God hath done great Things for us and shall not we rejoyce in God He hath Magnified his Mercy and shall not we Admire his Love O give Thanks unto the Psal 118. 1 2 3. Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth for ever Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth for ever Let them now that fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth for ever That the Deliverances of the Church and People of God come from Him and hast given us such deliverance as this The return of the Jews from their Captivity in Babylon was God's Act he put it into the Heart of Cyrus to issue out his Proclamation to rebuild Jerusalem and to Erect there a Temple to the Lord God brought them down to Babylon and brought them up again And thus our Deliverance from two intolerable Evils Popery in the Church and Slavery in the State is God's Work we may truly say of it what the Magicians of Aegypt did of the unimitable Miracle this is the Finger of God we have great reason to apply the Words of the Psalmist this is Psal 118. 23. the Lord 's doing it is marvellous in our eyes If ever any Deliverance had plain Characters of a remarkable Providence stampt upon it this hath God so managed the whole that every one may discern his Hand in it that doth not affect wilful Blindness it was so contrived in every part of it it came in such a time of Extremity and was brought about by such Unlikely and Improbable means all things did so Conspire together for the good of this Church and State that if ever God hath wrought Miracles in any Age since that of the Apostles then was the time Let us not then impute our Deliverance to Chance and Fortune or to our own Wisdom and Endeavours or to the Policy and Craft of States-men or to the renowned Instrument of it that Illustrous Prince whom God hath in Mercy to us Exalted to the Throne but wholly to the Providence of the Almighty Let us say with Daniel Blessed be the Name of God for ever Dan. 2. 20 21. and ever for wisdom and might are his and he changeth the times and the seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings he giveth wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding He revealeth the deep and secret things he knoweth what is in darkness and the light dwelleth with him Here certainly we may apply the Words in the Song of Moses How should one chase Deut. 32. 30 31. a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their Rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up For their Rock is not as our Rock even our enemies themselves being judges Let us then regard God as the sole Author of our Preservation let us not so much consider second Causes as the original Cause let us conclude this Point with the Words of the Psalmist If it had not been the Psal 124. 1 2. Lord who was on our side may Israel now say If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us That great Deliverances do call for great Reformation by way of Thankfulness and Gratitude This is implied throughout the whole Beloved Brethren the late Deliverance of this Nation is Great and Remarkable it should not only be Recorded in our Chronicles but Written on our Hearts he that hath no sense of it hath no regard for God or Religion it deserves to be Proclaimed with the lowdest Praises our Hearts and Lives should concur together to demonstrate our Gratitude for it God intends his Mercies as Obligations to Obedience they are Arguments very proper to work on all that have any Ingenuity Let us then live up unto that holy Religion God hath preserved among us now being delivered out of the Hands of our Enemies let us serve our God with humble and obedient Hearts now we are secured from the Fears of Popery let us live as doth become the Protestant Profession Let us not be more zealous for the Rites and Ceremonies of Religion then for the Substantial and Indispensible Duties of it let us not waste our Zeal upon Triffles that cannot profit or edifie Souls and in the mean time loose those essential Graces without which we cannot be saved let us not contend about the Shell and part with the Kernel the Life and Spirit of Christianity the Love of God and our Neighbour let us all endeavour to exceed one another in practising the substantial Duties of Piety Justice Sobriety and Charity and then we shall not differ much about indifferent Things Peace and Unity are the Glory of a Christian Church this excellent Character is given of the Primitive and Purest The multitude of them that believed were Acts 4. 32. of one heart and of one soul Love is the inseparable Badge of a true Disciple of Christ By this shall all men know that ye John 13 35. are my disciples if ye have love one to another

A SERMON Preached in the Parish-Church OF St. PHILIP and JACOB IN THE City of Bristol ON Wednesday the 15th of July 1691. BEING THE MONTHLY-FAST By THOMAS CARY M. A. Vicar of the Parish of St. Philip and Jacob in the City of Bristol London Printed by F. C. for Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms in Lumbard-street 1691. To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Maclesfield Viscount and Baron of Brandon Lord President and Lord Lieutenant of the Principality of Wales and Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Gloucester Hereford and Monmouth and of the City and County of Bristol and one of the Lords of Their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council My Lord YOVR Approbation of this Sermon when it came from the Pulpit gives me Confidence to Present it to your Lordship now it comes from the Press what had the Honour of your Acceptation when it was Private humbly claims your Patronage now it is Publick I should not however Presume to Prefix your Lordships great Name to this mean Discourse did not your Goodness dispose you to accept of a mean Offering especially when it comes as the Expression of a grateful Heart although I am sensible your Lordship is so far from being taken with Flattery that you cannot bear to hear your Due yet I cannot but Congratulate your Lordships hearty Zeal and indefatigable Industry in that high Orb in which you Act for the Support of that Government which God by a Train of Remarkable Providences hath Established among us May your Lordship Live to see it fixt upon such solid Foundations that it may never so much as shake much less tumble down My Lord I have one Advantage by this Dedication which I confess I am fond of that is an Opportunity to give your Lordship a publick Acknowledgment for the great Obligations you have laid on me and to let the World know how much I value my self on the Character of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble Servant and Chaplain Thomas Cary. EZRA IX 13 14. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass seeing that thou our God hast punished us less then our iniquities deserve and hast given us such deliverance as this Should we again break thy commandments and joyn in affinity with the people of these abominations wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping THE words are a part of Ezra's Prayer the time when he Prayed was after the return of the Jews from the Captivity in Babylon and the free Exercise of their Religion after the second Temple was finished the deliverance here mentioned is their liberty to return and to set up God's publick Worship in Jerusalem the Sins he here mourns for and prayeth God to Pardon are the Idolatry of the Jews and their Intermarriages with the Heathens after God had given them so great a deliverance This good Man feared the Consequence of their great Ingratitude he saw God's end frustrated and therefore expected greater Judgments he observed no Reformation after such a signal Providence and therefore had just Reason to believe that God would bring them back again into that Captivity out of which they lately escaped He acknowledgeth it is but fit that God should inflict more severe Judgments when his Mercies do not draw to obedience the design of the whole is to perswade the Jews to Repentance and Reformation as a suitable return to a gracious God for their late Deliverance The words contain these five Propositions 1. That Sin is the cause of all the Miseries that do befal the Church and People of God And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass 2. That God doth not punish his Church and People according to the Merit of their Sins Seeing that thou our God hast punished us less then our iniquities deserve 3. That the Deliverances of the Church and People of God come from him and hast given us such Deliverance as this 4. That great Deliverances do call for great Reformation by way of Thankfulness and Gratitude This is implyed throughout the whole 5. That Disobedience after a great Deliverance doth highly provoke God to inflict more terrible Judgments Should we again break thy Commandments and joyn in affinity with the people of these abominations wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou had'st consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping I shall all along apply these Heads in order to perswade Men to Repentance and Reformation for the great Deliverance we of this Nation have lately received 1. That Sin is the cause of all the Miseries that do befall the Church and People of God And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass It was Sin that carried the two Tribes Captive into Babylon for seventy Years destroyed their City and Temple slew their Princes and Nobles and laid their Country desolate Zedekiah did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God and humbled 2 Chron. 36. 12 13. not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen and polluted the house of the Lord which he had allowed in Jerusalem Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or maiden old man or him that stooped for age he gave them all into his hand All these evils came upon the Church of the two Tribes for their evil deeds and for their great trespass for their Idolatry in Worshipping strange Gods for their immoral Practices in living worse then the Heathen for the corruption of their Hearts and prophaneness of their Lives And now to apply this home to our selves It was for the Sins of this Nation that we were brought so near unto Destruction God shook his Rod over us to shew us what Punishment our Sins deserved although in Mercy he did not lay the Ax to the Root of the Tree it was for contempt of God's Word and Worship for prophaning his Holy Day dishonouring his sacred Name by Customary Swearing and Cursing for Drunkenness Adultery Pride and Dissolute living that we were likely to loose our Religion our Liberties and our Properties we deserved these Judgments as much as ever the Jews did their seventy Years Captivity in Babylon the more reason then have we to praise God for our late Deliverance This brings me to the second Particular 2. That God doth not punish his Church and People according to the Merit of their Sins Seeing that thou our God hast punished us less then our iniquities deserve God temper's