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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30734	A sermon preached at St. Mary-le-Bow before the Lord Mayor, and court of aldermen, and citizens of London, on Wednesday the 28th of April, a day appointed by His Majesty's proclamation for a general and publick fast by Lilly Butler ...	Butler, Lilly.	1697 (1697)	Wing B6283; ESTC R14783	15,229	32

thy Redeemer's Sufferings and thy own Ingratitude Did the Son of God cry out under the burden of thy Sins and art thou easy and chearful under them Did he bleed and die for thee and canst thou not weep for him for the Sufferings thou hast brought upon him and thy unkind behaviour towards him O Blessed Jesus that I should be thus insensible of thy intolerable Sufferings and of thy infinite Love that I should take Pleasure in that which brought thee to so much Sorrow that I should cherish and embrace and be so fond of that by and for which thou wast wounded and bruised and put to all the Shame and Torments of the Cross Oh! what Lamentations what Tears can be loud or bitter enough to bewail the shameful returns I have made for that precious Life and Blood which were so freely given and shed for me Thirdly Let us endeavour to afflict our Souls with Grief and Shame by considering the filthy and abominable Nature of Sin we have been so fond and spent so much Time in the service of There is not any thing in Toads or Vipers so ugly so loathsome so destructive as there is in Sin Every Creature of God is Good but Sin is the Devil's Off-spring it is the Devil's Image and Work And what can make us more deformed than that which makes us resemble him which the God of Love cannot but hate which the Father of Mercies cannot but abhor which he cannot look upon It is the Transgression of a Holy Just and good Law it is the corruption of our Nature the plague of our Hearts and the filthiness of our Flesh and Spirit and do we not blush and loath our selves to think how much we have set our Hearts upon it that it was for this for the sake of this so base and filthy a thing that we have been all this while abusing the Love of a most Merciful Father and defeating the Design of our Compassionate Redeemer who gave himself for us to redeem us from Iniquity Fourthly Let us endeavour to afflict our Souls with Shame and Sorrow by considering what means of Reformation and what earnest Invitations from God we have sinned against God hath given us marvellous Light frequent Warnings great and precious Promises severe and dreadful Threatnings and called upon us with the greatest Compassion and Importunity that he might reclaim us from our Sins And is it not an evil and bitter thing O Sinner that thou hast resisted all these rendred them all of none effect and in spite of all the Methods of Heaven still persisted in the dangerous ungrateful and filthy Ways of Sin Try then how thou canst affect thy Heart with such Reflections as these upon thy sinful Doings Had I been born amongst Heathens and Infidels my Sin and Folly had been less but all that I have done against my God and Saviour and my own Soul I have done it in a bold and obstinate defiance of the Glorious Gospel of the Son of God against the plainest Commands and the strongest Motives to Obedience revealed in it There I had Life and Death Heaven and Hell plainly set before me but neither did the one move me with Fear nor the other encourage me with Hope to forsake my Sins and return to my God How often have my God and Saviour besought me by their Ambassadors to be reconciled to come unto them that I might have Life How have they stretched out their Hands all the Day long and with repeated Declarations and Instances of Mercy and Compassion invited me into their Embraces But alas all this hath been done to a stubborn and gain-saying Wretch O my foolish and unhappy Soul that thou shouldst be thus obstinately bent upon Sin and Ruin that thou shouldst be thus insensible of the most gracious Offers of Pardon and Mercy and the most dreadful Denunciations of Wrath and Vengeance that thou shouldst make so light of the most condescending Addresses of thy offended God of the most compassionate Invitations of a dying Saviour How grievous should the remembrance of these things be how intolerable the Burden of them Fifthly Let us endeavour to afflict and humble our Souls by considering how shamefully we have contradicted our Profession and broken our most solemn Ingagements by the Sins we have committed Is it possible we can think without regret and shame how we have dishonoured the Holy Name by which we are called how contrary we have walked to the Precepts and Example of our Lord and Master and how frequently we have broken our Vows and Resolutions of Amendment Say to thy Soul then and try how it will work upon it Oh! what a shameful Sinner hast thou been How wide a Difference is there betwixt thy Profession and thy Practice How holy is thy Religion how loose and prophane thy Life How regardless hast thou been of the Vows of thy Baptism of the Promises thou hast made in thy Distress and of the most solemn Engagements thou hast entred into at the Table of the Lord O my Soul doth it not become thee bitterly to bewail such false and absurd dealing such bold dissembling with thy Almighty and Gracious Lord such presumptuouViolations of the Covenant of thy God Sixthly Let us endeavour to afflict our Souls with Shame and Sorrow by considering for what Trifles and Vanities we have committed and continued our Sins When Lysimachus had sold himself and his Army for a Cup of cold Water he thus lamented the foolish Bargain he had made O ye Gods said he for how short a Pleasure have I Plutarch made my self of a King a Slave So let the Sinner say within himself For what perishing Enjoyments for what poor and short Delights have I forfeited the Favour and Love of God and endangered the Life of my immortal Soul For what Vanities have I wearied my self in committing Iniquity What Fruit have I of all those things for which I am now ashamed and the End whereof is Death That I should spend my Strength for that which is not Bread and my Labour for that which profiteth not That I should so wilfully expose my self to everlasting Death and Misery for the Pleasures of Sin which are but for a Season That I should prefer the empty Profits of Iniquity before the inestimable and incorruptible Reward of Righteousness That I should so offend my Merciful Creator dishonour my Gracious Redeemer and grieve the Holy Spirit of God so often and so wilfully as I have done for things that perish in the using for the most vain and momentany Enjoyments If we did but seriously consider these things and press them hard upon our Minds surely we could not be altogether stupid and insensible under them we could not but feel some remorse for the Folly and ingratitude of our Sins and humble our selves in the sight of God for them I shall hope therefore that we are in some measure thus affected with these Considerations have been laid before us that we