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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35029	A second call to a farther humiliation being a sermon preached the 24th of Novemb. last past / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford, in his Cathedral Church of Hereford.	Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing C6973; ESTC R4769	18,017	45

A SECOND CALL TO A farther Humiliation BEING A SERMON PREACHED The 24 th of Novemb. last past BY The Right Reverend Father in God HERBERT Lord Bishop of Hereford in his Cathedral Church of Hereford LONDON Printed for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1678. TO THE READER Good Reader IT may be you do not take your self to be one of those who need this Second Call to Humiliation you not being of the number of those exorbitant Sinners whose notorious Vices cry aloud for Judgment First then humble your self in thankfulness to God for his preventing Grace that you are not for assuredly by Nature you are the same Secondly Consider that though the main bulk of sin belong to others yet when the Vessel is near full a small addition will fill up the measure yea and may make it run over and on that account your guilt may be great and your Humiliation necessary Thirdly Though you contribute nothing to the measure a rare Blessing yet as a member of the body you are bound by Nature Religion both to do your utmost endeavour to keep off the evil from the whole this likewise requires your Humiliation as necessary Yet say you none of all that makes this my Sermon necessary there being other abler Sermons already abroad to this effect Pardon me this may be notwithstanding a necessary help When four strong men are labouring to raise a heavy Log and are near effecting it the addition of a fifth though weaker may be necessary to compleat the work at least may make it easier and surer And I shall count it no small happiness to have contributed something towards the true humiliation and reformation of this sinful Land God of his infinite mercy by his powerful Grace assist all our endeavours Amen I Pet. v. v. 6. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty Hand of God WE lately kept a day of Humiliation to prevent by Gods mercy the fearful Judgment which seemed to hang over our heads by a bloody Plot contrived by Popish Priests for the destruction both of King and Kingdom Church and State all at a blow and let me tell you still hangs over us You hear what desperate bloody things have been spoken and acted in London in the face of King and Parliament since the discovery which plainly declare these Men have still confidence to effect their design otherwise they could not be so mad as to give such evidence against themselves of their bloody intention and give also such provocation to the Supream Legislative power for their more severe chastisement unless they had hopes they should yet be able to give the Law to and chastise this Supream power which makes me fear we and other people of the Land are not yet humbled as we ought Some perchance thought the business of Humiliation was to end with the day and that they had fully performed their task in Fasting that day and coming to Church and then expected God must presently withdraw his chastising hand But have they withdrawn their sinning hand I desire them to examine that a little better Others it may be went farther and resolved yea and entred on the way of Reformation but are since fallen from their first love and that days fervour and are grown luke-warm How far each one is failing I leave every man to look well into their own heart but there is great cause of fear we have not done our part for we have a most gracious God who never fails those that seek him in true Humiliation and hearty Repentance It is the same God that spared wicked Niniveh upon Repentance and doubtless would do the same to us did we repent as Niniveh did but pardon me if I tell you I doubt it much whereof I shall say more in the close Certainly then we have no reason to hope God should do to us as to Niniveh if we do nothing like what Niniveh did Wherefore I thought it necessary to give you a Second Call to a further Humiliation and in Christs stead beseech you Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God But some perchance conceive this to be no proper day for a Humiliation Sermon and I beseech you why Is not this the Lords day and ought to be kept a Feast unto the Lord And with what Will you offer unto him a Sacrifice of an hundred Bulls and five hundred Rams But the Lord delighteth not in such Sacrifices The Sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise Certainly then we cannot better celebrate a Feast unto the Lord then by offering up our broken hearts and contrite spirits Or will you keep this a Feast unto the holy Angels in Heaven You know who tells us that they ' rejoyce more over one Sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons which need no Repentance What a mighty Feast then shall we make unto the holy Angels in Heaven by all our Humiliation and Repentance And do you desire after you have Feasted God and his holy Angels to feast your selves also this blessed day Why then you know a good Conscience is a continual feast and this you cannot have but by Humiliation and Repentance for I doubt not but you will approve of that Scripture which tells us If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all Unrighteousness You see then there is no other way to have a good Conscience clean from sins but by humbly confessing them Humble then your selves under the mighty hand of God and you shall keep this day a most acceptable Feast unto the Lord a most joyful feast to all his holy Angels a most delightful and happy feast unto your selves this day and all the days of your life Which that we may effect I shall first shew you that a discourse of Humiliation is useful and necessary for all persons Secondly seasonable at all times in Prosperity or Adversity Thirdly I shall shew you the method of Humiliation out of Holy Writ Fourthly come to Application First A discourse of Humiliation is useful and necessary for all persons of either Sex of any Age for Pride the opposite Vice is a disease all Man-kind is infected with and shews it self even in our Childhood before any other and continues till our very death As for other Vices some we are not obnoxious to till we are grown up into the world and some are out-grown by long decaying Age but Pride comes with us into the world and never leaves us till we go out but rather increases along with our Age. And as the continuance of it is total during our whole life so the mischief of it is total and brings an universal ruin to the soul as Hugo de anima well observes Caetera