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A59880 A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January the xxxth, 1691/2 by William Sherlock ... Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1692 (1692) Wing S3350; ESTC R21693 11,547 38

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The Dean of St. Pauls's SERMON Before the Honourable House of Commons On the 30 th of January 1691 2. Lunae 1 mo die Februarii 1691. ORdered That the Thanks of this House be given to the Dean of St. Paul's for the Sermon Preached before this House at St. Margaret's Westminster the 30 th day of January last And that he be desired to Print the same And that Sir Tho. Darcy and Mr. Biddolph do acquaint him therewith Paul Jodrell Cl ' Dom. Com. A SERMON Preach'd before the HONOURABLE House of Commons AT St. MARGARET's WESTMINSTER January the XXXth 1691 2. By WILLIAM SHERLOCK D. D. Dean of St. Paul's Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their MAJESTIES LONDON Printed for William Rogers at the Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Flee●street 1692. A SERMON Preach'd before the HOUSE of COMMONS On the XXXth of January 1691 2. XC PSALM 15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil THIS Psalm as the Title tells us and as Learned Men generally agree is a Prayer of Moses penned by him as is supposed after God had pronounced that final Sentence against the Israelites That none of that great Army which came out of Egypt from twenty years old and upwards should enter into Canaan but should all die in the Wilderness excepting Caleb and Joshua And therefore he complains We are consumed in thy anger and by thy wrath are we troubled Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance For all our days are passed away in thy wrath we spend our years as a tale that is told Which is literally true of no other period of the Jewish Church but this when God in great anger had condemned them all to die in the Wilderness They lived then to little other purpose but to pass away the time as men tell Stories till forty years should put an end to them all But in my Text and some Verses before he prays for and foretells a more happy state of the Jewish Church when all the Troubles they had suffered for so many years in Egypt and the Wilderness should come to an end and they should be setled in a quiet possession of the promised Land Return O Lord how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil So that in my Text there are three things considerable 1. The first is implied That sin for which God thus punished them For that it was for their sins not only the Justice of the Divine Providence supposes when the Calamity is National but the Psalmist expresly affirms v. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance Which intimates that there were more sins than one and some of them very secret ones too for which God punished them For so commonly it is that a great many sins such as we have forgot or took little notice of are brought to account when some one great Provocation tempts God to publick Acts of Vengeance If we apply this to the Case I before mentioned then it is very evident what this provoking Sin was viz. Their murmuring against that good Land their rebelling against God and Moses their attempt to make them a Captain to return into Egypt and to stone Caleb and Joshua who encouraged them to go up and take possession of the Land which God had promised to their Fathers Num. 14. 2. Their Punishment The continuance and severity of it They were to wander in the Wilderness Forty Years and to die there without entring into that good Land 3. Moses's Prophetick Prayer That God would return to them in Mercy and recompence these Sufferings by giving them a quiet possession of the Land of Promise Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil Our case which is the occasion of this present Solemnity differs somewhat from this in every particular but yet bears such an Analogy and proportion to it that I shall take occasion from hence to discourse to you on these Three Heads 1. The Sin which we this day Lament 2. The Evils and Calamities which we have now for more than Forty Years in some degrees or other and sometimes very severely suffered under as the natural effects or just Punishments of that Sin 3. What a happy Prospect we have of an end of all these Evils if we can be contented to be Happy 1. As for the First The Sin we this Day lament I shall make no scruple to call it what you have this Day in your Publick Prayers to Almighty God confessed it to be The Barbarous Murder of an Excellent Prince And those are guilty of base Hypocrisie and put a great Contempt upon God who join in the Devotions of this Day and don't think it so Besides our imploring the Divine Mercy and Forgiveness I have sometimes thought that such an Annual Solemnity as this is due to the Memory of our murdered Prince the least Recompence we can make to him and yet the greatest thing we can now do for him To celebrate his Funeral with a Religious Pomp and to shed Penitential Tears upon his Grave And indeed such an Honourable Presence as this gives an illustrious Testimony to him and vindicates his Memory from those scurrilous Reflections which are made on it by envenomed Pens I shall not dispute the Lawfulness of Resisting the King's Authority whether it were Lawful for the Parliament to take Arms against the King to Defend the Laws and Liberties of their Countrey for whether it were or were not all Wise and Good Men must abominate the Villany of this Day as we know many of those did who began the War without being aware what the end of it would be For suppose which is all that can be asked in this case That in a Limited Monarchy the Estates of the Realm have Authority to maintain the Laws and Liberties of their Countrey against the Illegal Encroachments and Usurpations of their King How does this justifie the Murder of King Charles For 1. They could pretend to no farther Right than to keep the King within the Boundaries of Law and when they were secured of this they had nothing else to do but to lay down their Arms and return to their Duty for he was their King still and they his Subjects and if it were no Rebellion to resist his illegal Usurpations yet it must be Rebellion to oppose him when he was contented to Govern by the Measures of Law if there be any such Sin as what men use to call Rebellion Especially when the Subversion of the Laws and Government and Established Religion of the Nation is