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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23768	A sermon preached at Hampton-court on the 29th of May, 1662 being the anniversary of His Sacred Majesty's most happy return / by Richard Allestry ...	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1662 (1662)	Wing A1164; ESTC R22785	20,182	53

A SERMON PREACHED AT HAMPTON-COURT On the 29th of May 1662. BEING The Anniversary of His Sacred Majesty's most happy Return BY RICHARD ALLESTRY D. D. and Chaplain to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by I. Flesher for Iohn Martin Iames Allestry and Thomas Dicas at the Bell in S. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXII TO The Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of Clarendon Lord high Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford My Lord TO vouch your Lordships commands for the publishing this Discourse I might reasonably think would be to libel your judgement and the prefixing your Name to it and this mean address would look rather like revenge then homage or obedience if I did not know that low performances are due to the transcendency of such a subject as I then discours'd upon and such a Patron as I now dedicate to So I lie prostrate under my great Arguments here insufficiency is Art and Rhetorick And the truth is my Lord it was not this which made me so sollicitous to avoid your injunctions but apprehensions of the unusefulness of the Discourse it self When God's most signal methods of all sorts do not seem to have wrought much conviction when neither our own dismal guilts nor miseries nor most express miracles of deliverance have made us sensible but after the equally stupendous 30th of Ianuary and 29th of May and the black time that interven'd we are still the same perverse untractable people when luxury is the retribution made for plenty licence for liberty and Atheism for Religion whil'st miracles of mercy are acknowledg'd only by prodigies of ingrateful disobedience and on the other side when factious humors swell against all Laws as they would either over-flow those mounds or make them yield and give way to them when Declarations and Decrees which were infallible when they came only from a party of a part of a Parliament are neither of force nor esteem when they have all solemnity and obligation that just and full authority can give alas what hopes of doing any thing can a weak Harangue entertain But my Lord since you are pleas'd to command I give up both it and my understanding to your Lordship and the weaker the Discourse is so much the more pregnant testimony is it of the obsequiousness of My Lord Your Lordships most devoted and most humble servant RICHARD ALLESTRY HOSEA 3. 5. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodness HE had said in the words before that the children of Israel shall abide many daies without a King and without a Prince without a sacrifice and without an image or altar and without an Ephod and without Teraphim Now when they shall have been for many years in such a state of helpless desolation shall have no King under whose shadow they their laws and rights might hope for shelter no Prince to guard them from the sad calamities of wild confusion or usurping violence shall have no exercises of religion to allay and soften those calamities and give them comfort in the bearing of them no Altar to lay hold on for security against them or to stretch out their hands towards for deprecation of them no nor a God to put an end to this sad state nor any means of direction what to doe under it no Ephod to ask counsel at nor yet the pageantry the fallacy of these no Teraphim for Ephods nor Image for a God the same destruction having seized these and their worshippers the people and their Idols going into Captivity together and the onely true God having forsaken them Now when the Prophet had denounc'd this state of Woe which was to dwell with them so long as that their very expectations of deliverance should be dying having continued threescore years and ten a longer and more wearisome age of patience then life he then proceeds to sweeten all by telling them of a return and what things they shall doe in it and they are three First Seek the Lord their God apply themselves to his Worship and Obedience and cleave to him for so the word is rendred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lev. 19. 31. and Ieremy repeating this c. 30. 9. words it shall serve the Lord their God and David their King Which is the second thing they were to doe As the Ecclesiastical state was to be setled so the secular too upon its just foundations Religion and Loaylty both running in their ancient current Thirdly They shall fear the Lord and his goodness not onely tremble before him who is the Lord that did exert his power in their destruction but shall much more revere his goodness that did flow out in such plentiful miraculous expresses of deliverance Now these being not onely prophecy what in that juncture they would doe nor onely duties what they were to doe but also counsels and directions immediately from God what they were best to doe the onely prudent and safe course according to the policies of heaven the direct view of these particulars in reference to that state of theirs is not an unconcerning prospect at this season which is the Anniversary of an equal return and therefore I shall lay them so before you and the reflexion on them in our practice shall make the application 1. They shall seek the Lord their God is my first part and the Lord 's prime direction for the repairing of a broken Nation Neither indeed can any other course be taken for till we have found him while he does hide his face nothing but darkness dwells upon the land or if any light do break out 't is but the kindlings of his anger so he expresses Deut. 31. 17. This people will forsake me and break my Covenant then my anger shall be kindled against them and I will forsake them and hide my face from them and they shall be devoured and many evils and troubles shall befall them so that they will say in that day Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not amongst us This absence is onely another word for desolation Be thou instructed ô Ierusalem saith God by Ieremy c. 6. 8. lest my sould depart from thee and I make thee desolate a land not inhabited As if without him there were nothing else but solitude in Cities and in Courts and all were desert where he does not dwell Yea there is something beyond desolation Hos. 9. 11 12. As for Ephraim their glory shall flee away like a bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception though they bring up their children yet will I bereave them that there shall not be a man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yea wo also to them when I depart from them And it must needs be so for let our state be never so calamitous if God be not departed there is comfort in it and a deliverer at hand If we are in the place of dragons his presence