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A62472 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Alderman of London, at Guild-Hall chappel by George Thorp ... Thorp, George, 1637 or 8-1719. 1677 (1677) Wing T1072; ESTC R1866 17,046 44

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Davies Mayor Martis quarto die Septembris 1677. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angliae c. Vicesimo Nono THis Court doth earnestly desire Mr. Thorp to Print his Sermon Preached at the Guild-Hall Chappel on Sunday Morning last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe Imprimatur T. Turner R.P.D. D o Episc Lond. à Sacris Domest Septemb. 6. 1677. A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor AND ALDERMEN of LONDON AT GUILD-HALL CHAPPEL By George Thorp B.D. Fellow of Gonvil and Caius Colledg in Cambridg and Rector of St. Antholins and St. John Baptists London LONDON Printed by Andrew Clark for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1677. To the Right Honorable Sir THOMAS DAVIES Lord Mayor Of the City of LONDON And the Court of ALDERMEN Right Honorable WHat you were pleased to hear with so favourable approbation as to enjoyn this farther Publication for so I have learn'd to interpret the condescending desires of my Superiors I here humbly present to your like favourable Patronage I dare promise nothing for my performance but may I think presume so much upon the subject as to judg him fallen out with himself as all the World beside who is not willing to make his frequent appeals thereto If the Countenance of your Authority to its own inward Evidence recommend it more to the Serious Meditations and diligent Observance of all especially of this Great and Honorable City I know nothing may contribute farther under the Divine Blessing to its most lasting Renown and the increase of its Felicity to all Generations Which is the Hearty Prayer of Your Lordships most Humble and Obedient Servant Geo. Thorp MATTH vii 12. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them for this is the Law and the Prophets AS among all the Civiliz'd part of Mankind no Honors and Commendations have been judg'd great enough to bestow upon Virtue in general so no task has been found more difficult and perplext than to deduce it readily and safely into all the single Offices of Humane Life Not to insist at present on the immediate bounden expressions of Piety towards God about which men always have been and needs must be at the greatest loss where his own express declarations conduct them not from the infinite distance of the object In the more common and obvious instances of Justice and Benignity one towards another which most acknowledg in the gross reasonable and advantagious yet few are thought so happy or so faithful as to follow them by straight and uninterrupted lines in their several deductions and to accommodate them aright to all the emergent cases incident to our converse one with another After the relief and directions lent us from Laws Divine or Humane the clearest Revelations of God the most studied and emprov'd Reasonings of the wisest of men spent therein whether through ignorance or prejudice stubbornness or malice scarce any precept hath been found so plain any conviction so unexceptionable which some men will not evade or elude first make intricate and then frustrate dispute themselves into a loss about it and then conclude with almost a full exemption from it and that in pursuit of every fancied however lawless interest or groundless humor Farther The circumstances of our actions are open to such almost infinite variety and accordingly the reasons and measures of Commands and our Obligations altering It will be found a matter of some intricacy to the most upright and wary without danger or mistake duly and hastily to apply all general injunctions to each single act Wherefore after the largest provisions of particular Precepts of all sorts some general Rules we have given to direct us where others may come short or we seem at a loss about them Among which none more full and comprehensive than this of my Text which hath gaind it the most universal admiration and applause even from those that observe or those that observe it not from the Enemies as Friends to our sacred profession So that Alexander Severus the Roman Emperor Aelius Lampridius p. 376. in vita ejus is reported to have Engrav'd it on the Walls of his Palace and other Publick Buildings as it were a standing Law of his Empire and the best square of his own and others proceedings in the Administration thereof As our Lord in my Text declares it to have been of God himself under the Old Testament He no less Establishing it for future Generations under the New In Treating of which I shall First inquire into the proper extent of this Rule to vindicate it from some false applications and assign it as near as I can its true boundaries 2. The apparent Reasonableness Justice and Equity thereof 3. The plain easiness and suitableness of it to present use 4. The Divine Authority and Sanction of it from the last words In order to the former I observe First This does not make other mens dealings with us the Rule of our dealing with them It is not whatsoever men do to you but Whatsoever ye would they should do to you c. Which otherwise might open a gap to all injustice fraud or violence It must not pass for a Maxim here whatever it do in mens Practice Fallere fallentem non est fraus Men are very apt to think it a warrantable excuse in the worst of their Actions if they can but with any pretence say I do but to him as he did to me and give him as they call it I know not by what Figure as good as he brought So injuries as well as animosities are multiplied and bandied from one to another and contrary to all other violent motions lose nothing but gain still more and more in their rebound Another mans injustice or cruelty doth not warrant or alter the nature of mine and though he began first yet no Reason or Precept will justifie my following him therein which the more I complain of the greater distance I ought to keep from it and if in some instances it be no more than what may be just for him to suffer yet in all it 's more than I have power to inflict not to mention how partial Judges and Executioners men would be in their own Causes while the justest punishment where it goes no farther is not committed to every ones management and private Revenge in all Societies especially stands convicted by the Laws of God Nature and Compact and can have no shelter from this If in any case of extreme violence I may Vim vi repellere rather Kill than be Killed when openly Assaulted against the common rights of Human Society by Thieves and Murderers It is not so much their desert as my necessity that must bear me out wherein all Reason and all Laws of God and Man judg it more equal that the guilty should suffer rather than the innocent where one must presently and in