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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55641	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen and citizens of London at St. Mary le Bow, on Thursday, Sept. 2. 1697 / by Samuel Prat ...	Pratt, Samuel, 1659?-1723.	1698 (1698)	Wing P3185; ESTC R33949	11,271	34

the Iniquity of the Times whether the ordinary Conversation of many Men doth not look as if seeing they have survived so many Judgments they had steel'd themselves like Pharaoh against the apprehensions of any more But Oh! Let the presumptuous Sinner take heed God's Arm is not shortned For all this his anger is not turn'd away Ch. 10.4 but his arm is stretched out still They that are insensible of Temporal Judgments have reason to look for one Eternal and then on the other side they who have no sense of Eternity ought the most of all Men to be afraid of Temporal Calamities because their Portion of good things is in this life and if any National Misfortune should deprive them of their hopes in this World they have nothing else to trust to no future Comfort in prospect It is high time therefore that we seriously reflect upon our Condition and though the Counsels of God are unsearchable and we can never know the Methods of His Providence till they are Exhibited yet we may make a rational Judgment of our selves Whether we appear in our Consciences the proper Objects of God's Mercy or His Anger And though it is not every body's Talent to examine the Case in General What as a Nation or People we may deserve yet every body can examine himself in Particular and this being a Day of Solemn Humiliation it can't be better spent than in such a Scrutiny or rather let every Master of a Family to whom the Care of his Houshold is committed and entrusted by God see how the Case stands with those under his own Jurisdiction and let the Superiour Magistrates who have a greater Trust with so much the more Care and Watchfulness attend unto it They are not the Sins of our Forefathers but our own that come under our Consideration let us not resume the Jewish Proverb That the fathers have eaten sowre grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge We have eaten and drank sowre things enough our selves which have put that sowreness in our Tempers especially towards one another We have the crudities of our own Intemperance upon us and the root of Bitterness within our selves We have not derived so much malignity from the last Generation as we are like to transmit unto the next For we don't show them that come after us any great example of amendment Let us examine Whether they are like to be so as we are or no Whether our Sons or Daughters are more Virtuously Educated than we were Whether lesser Seeds of Vice appear in ' em The young People of this City I am afraid promised much better in former times than they do now the first sprouts of Sin had not half that impudent growth they have now a days Then perhaps there was a better sort of Discipline exercised in those times they learnt their Masters Crafts or Trades and not their Humours and Vices and when they grew up they made less failings both in their Manners and their Reputation They were Taught then to learn and labour truly to get their own Living and to do their Duty in that State of Life unto which it pleas'd God to call ' em There were not so many Beardless Men who think themselves wiser and better than their Masters They were better employ'd than to dress Fine to disguise their Profession to manage Intreagues to discourse of Politicks to be insolent in their Conversation and all the rest of those modern Accomplishments which qualifie 'em to be as uncapble of any good way of living as they are of that for which their Parents design ' em It would be more honourable for this Noble City and more prosperous for the Nation if every one would apply himself to his Vocation and by treading in all the fair and easie Paths of Humility Industry Temperance Chastity Fidelity and the like endeavour to raise themselves to the several Degrees of Honour and innocently aspire to the Scarlet Robe Such a conduct of Life would be a support if not a defence to 'em in the most disastrous times Nor did the Judgment we now Rememorate much affect the younger sort but at the rate they now live we have cause to fear such Calamities in which they shall as much partake as they do in the Sins of the Nation What can we expect when we come to consider these things We are big at present with the Hopes of an honourable and secure Peace But have we made our Peace with God Are we Reconciled to Him who maketh Wars to Cease in all the World Are we sure that we are qualified for the Blessings of Peace Are we as much proof against the Temptations of Prosperity as we have been apprehensive of the Contingencies of Adversity In vain shall we strow our streets with Palms and Lawrels if Jeshurun shall wax fat upon it and kick against God If when we are freed from Foreign Enemies we become Enemies to one another at home If we still carry on the war of our members If it makes us Proud and Presumptuous Wanton and Petulant Factious and Ungrateful If we prove to be of such Tempers that it was only the wolfs being at the door or Hannibal at the gates that kept us at Peace among our selves Rather let us not be solicitous about matters that are too high for us but let us consider and know in this our day the things that make for our everlasting Peace before they are hid from our Eyes This is our Day a Day consigned to us by Providence for the Humbling of our selves if peradventure the Lord may be intreated for us but if we will not humble our selves in this our day Is●iah ●2 know assuredly That the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low Peradventure I say the Lord may yet be intreated for his People the door of Mercy may continue open for a while as it now stands ●am 3.20 For it is of the Lord's Mercy that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not If we betake our selves to Repentance and Amendment of Life 't is possible that we may not be stricken any more that when our Enemies have put up their Swords the destroying Angel may not draw his upon us That whatever becomes of all our earthly Tabernacles which must moulder away for here we have no continuing City but seek for one that is to come yet we our selves our Immortal part may be saved so as by Fire that is according to the easiest Exposition As a Brand snatch'd out of the Fire We have had Memento's enough not to put our Trust and Confidence in any thing of this World The World it self passes away together with the Lusts and Desires thereof We know that we our selves shall be dissolved and what do we now but garnish our own Sepulchres or Monuments and trust to the Mercy or