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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66419	A sermon preached July 26, 1685 being the day of publick thanksgiving appointed by His Majesty for the late victory over the rebels, in the parish-churches of St. Mildred's Poultrey, and St. Ann's Aldersgate : published in vindication of that, and the author / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2726; ESTC R7297	12,118	36

A SERMON Preached July 26. 1685. Being the DAY of Publick Thanksgiving Appointed by His MAJESTY for the Late VICTORY over the REBELS In the Parish-Churches of St. Mildred's Poultrey and St. Ann's Aldersgate Published in Vindication of That and the Author By JOHN WILLIAMS Rector of St. MILDRED's POULTREY LONDON Printed by R. R. and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen Corner 1685. To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God HENRY Lord Bishop of London MY LORD IT is to Your Lordship that we of the Clergy within your Diocess are immediately under his Majesty accountable for our Doctrine and Behaviour in which if any of us are known to offend it becomes such as know it and are aggrieved to complain to you as our Ordinary for the Reformation and redressing of it But it is of late grown too much a practice amongst some that would be thought not a little concerned for our Church to be the first that censure us and without Examination of the Case or enquiring into the Truth and Certainty of what they report make the wide World the Judg and proclaim our Faults whatever they are or are said to be in the chief Places of Concourse and which your Lordship and perhaps the Party himself knows nothing of till every body knows it and common Fame brings it to your Ears My Lord it has happened thus with me as with others who am not the first nor it's likely shall be the last that is to be thus served For having Preached July 26. the Day appointed by his Majesty for a Publick Thanksgiving for the late Victory over the Rebels there want not some who have reported that I only entertained my Auditory with a General Discourse that was not to the purpose of the Day and Occasion A Calumny I for a while slighted and contented my self to give my Friend satisfaction that first acquainted me with it But when from a deep Design in some to asperse the Clergy of the City from a Credulity in others to believe ill of them and from the humour of an Age from what reason it proceeds God knows given to believe a Lye it came to be a publick Talk It became me if I had no regard to my own Reputation yet from the regard I ought to have to our Clergy which too much suffers by such aspersions and to your Lordship under whose Cognizance it falls to take the most effectual course for the refuting of it by publishing my Sermon how defective soever it may otherwise be This therefore I do without adding any new matter saving what may serve to render it the more intelligible useful and entire which is therefore distinguished from the other and set forth by marks and without making any Alteration so much as in the Words relating to the Day forbearing even those Things that I said more of it as they then offered themselves to my thoughts because I cannot now exactly recollect it though I am sensible it would have been not a little to the Advantage of it I must acknowledg there is not that bitterness and severity with which some eager spirits are gratified having learned from the behaviour of St. Michael not to bring even against an Adversary a railing accusation But if I mistake not the Doctrine I teach doth overthrow the main Principle by which Rebellion is supported a way indeed that may not make so much noise but if prudently and effectually managed strikes it to the Heart and differs as much from the former as fighting and vanquishing an Enemy doth from railing at him And therefore tho I am not able to answer for the order and dress of it which had the Printing been a mere voluntary act of mine I should be obliged to yet for the Truth and Loyalty I may safely challenge those that have adventured either spightfully or ignorantly to revile it the worst of mine or our Churches Adversaries to question it In Confidence of which I do present it to your Lordship and desire to stand or fall as your Lordship shall judg of it Who as in this so upon all other occasions shall approve my self Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant JOHN WILLIAMS To the Parishioners of St. Mildred's Poultrey and St. Mary Cole and of St. Ann's Aldersgate and St. John Zachary HAVING Preached the ensuing Sermon to both Auditories the same day I now present it to you from the Press not of mine own accord for then it had been better fitted for that purpose but as compelled thereunto for my own not to say your Vindication I have already appealed to my Superiours as my Judg to you I appeal as my Witnesses To them Whether the Matter be either true in it self or fitted to the Occasion To you Whether it be the Sermon I Preached I cannot expect that even the most attentive should remember every Particular then delivered but I am confident that you will be able generally to say that this was the Sermon I at that time entertained you with And if this be so as so it is then I need say no more to answer those that have too rashly censured and traduced it as not at all suitable to the occasion it was Preached upon Certainly if the Doctrine therein contained be true viz. that We must not do Evil that Good may come those that first invented and so industriously spread the Calumny are not the best of men whatever end they think to serve by it nor a credit to that Religion and Church they profess to be of I leave such to the Sermon and recommend that you and my Labours amongst you to the Blessing of Almighty God beseeching him to lead us into all Truth Your Servant in Christ Jesus JOHN WILLIAMS The Reader is to take Notice That so much of the Sermon as is thus marked was through want of Time not Preached or else not so fully as it is now Printed A SERMON Preached July 26. Being the Day set apart for a Publick THANKSGIVING for the Late VICTORY over the REBELS ROM III. 7 8. If the Truth of God hath more abounded through my lye unto his Glory why yet am I also judged as a sinner And not rather as we be slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just IN the Former Chapters of this Epistle the Apostle had considered the sad Condition which the whole Mass of Mankind was in whether Jews or Gentiles and shewed that the Jews whatever Preheminence they had of the Gentiles as God's peculiar People and invested with many Eminent Priviledges and Marks of the Divine Favour yet in case of Unbelief and Disobedience they could not be thereby secured against the Wrath of God which is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness ch 1.18 For there is no respect of persons with God ch 2.28 From whence he concludes ver 28. He is