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A56796 A word in season being a sermon preach'd in the parish-church of St. James Clarkenwell, on Wednesday the 11th of December, 1695, being the fast-day / by D. Pead ... Pead, Deuel, d. 1727. 1695 (1695) Wing P966; ESTC R17740 14,716 42

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our Childrens Children that it may be had in everlasting Remembrance Thus having endeavour'd to remove the grand Obstruction of our Impenitence and want of Reformation give me leave to refresh your Mind with what I hope the first Lesson for this Morning's Service hath imprinted Isa 1. you find God promised by his Spirit of Grace v. 25. to purge them purely from their Dross and their Tin by sanctified Chastisements and Afflictions he would bring them out of Love with their Corruptions and Vices he would reform their Manners and enliven their Devotions freeing the one from Hypocrisy and the other from Sin and Wickedness And then ver 26. I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning afterwards thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithful City Had we no farther Good to expect than upright Judges and faithful Counsellors yet 't were worth our Repentance to obtain these Now then if the present Consultations succeed not we know where justly to lay the Blame not on the great Council but in the great Sins and greater Impenitence of the Nation But I hope better things of you that you are perswaded and that God will by his holy Spirit assist you in the great Work of Repentance so that you will cry and pray unto God heartily that you will wrestle with God for publick and private Pardon Thus you have seen the first thing you ought to request of God Grace to repent and reform you have also seen the Reason because till then it is but Folly to expect a Blessing 2. The second thing you are at this and other times to beg of God for the great Council of our Nation is Counsel We must pray that God would counsel our Counsellors and give our Senators Wisdom And that none may excuse the non-performance of this Duty by pretending Unskilfulness I shall shew them where they may collect an excellent form of Prayer sutable for this occasion it is short but comprehendsive viz. Psal 32.8 Lord instruct them in the way they should go and guide them with thine Eye then will their Consultations be both sound for the Matter right for the Way and justifiable by the End For this we should pray 1. Because Counsel is expedient and proper for their present Occasions The Affairs that require their Inspection and Advice are many and great weighty and intricate it is no such easy matter to perswade an untoward Generation to better Manners The purging away the Dregs of Popery and Socinianism is not so soon accomplished the Stain of Superstition Idolatry and Error are not lightly washed away and if there be not that appearance of drowning in a Gulph of Popery yet the Floods of Socinianism come on apace and rise high small matters will not revive decay'd Piety nor subdue stubborn and daring Vice it is a difficult Province to keep fantastical Subjects in due Obedience How hard is it to stretch the Sinews of War farther when they are even now ready to break How wise ought they to be who would find out what thing with Wings betray'd our Ships at Sea A few bare Wishes will not recover our Peace compose our Divisions nor unite Mens Affections And when such extraordinary Long-suffering and Clemency of the Government will not reclaim Men of perverse Principles it will deserve some Consultation by what Methods of Justice they may be reduc'd or at least prevented in their malicious Intentions These and many more Particulars that want Redress may make you sensible what necessity there is to pray for Counsel it were not therefore amiss that we all pray'd this day to morrow and every day that God would bless the Consultations of the Parliament The wise Man assures us from his own Experience that had we nothing else to condole or dread to look for or prepare against yet the very War wherein we are so much concern'd requires more than ordinary Counsel Prov. 11.14 Counsel and Strength are necessary for the War for in a War with ambitious and bloody with cruel and barbarous with false and perfidious Enemies whose Power is not easily resisted and whose Faith is not to be credited we have need of able Counsellors Hear we him again Prov. 15.22 Without Counsel Purposes are disappointed but in the multitude of Counsellours they are established So again Prov. 20.18 Every Purpose is established by Counsel Wise and faithful Counsellours sit at the Helm like Pilots guiding the Ship so that it may pass with Ease through the roughest Waves and with Safety by the threatning Rocks the Pilots therefore see the Quicksands and prevent the Danger Romani sedendo vincunt was the old Proverb the antient Romans defended themselves from the Craft and Power of their Enemies they also extended their Dominion and made their Name rever'd in remote places more by the Prudence of their Counsels than by the Valour of their Armies And what mighty antient and powerful States and Kingdoms have been broken and overthrown either by neglect of Counsel or by precipitate and immature Advice Counsel and Strength are the main Pillars that bear up a Government yet the former seemeth to have the Preheminence A good Head surpasseth a strong Arm yet in as much as Counsel doth but chalk out the way to Action it requireth a strong Arm and when these two happily conjoin in the same Service what Wonders do they produce Understanding finds out the Matter to be done Counsel Reason and Debate provide and fit Means proper thereunto then Wisdom undertakes the managing of those Means and by the help of Strength in due time the desired End is obtain'd In short it was by the grave Advice of Parliament that our gracious King first condescended to enter into this present War and if it please God to assist the Wisdom of this present Parliament and to direct and bless their Consultations he may make an happy end thereof sooner than they expect who presume to say it is not yet begun 2. Another Reason prompting us to comply with this Day 's Order and to pray for Counsel for this present Parliament is Counsel is the Gift of God It must be confest that the Majesty of the Prince the Fidelity and Wisdom of his Counsellors the Prudence and Justice of his Judges and the Valour of his Souldiers are great Supports to a Nation yet unless God affords his Counsel to every one of them in their respective places these will totter and fall and come to a fearful end Convenient is it therefore that we who must otherwise suffer in the common Ruine be zealous at the Throne of Grace suing for Divine Wisdom and Counsel to aid them in time of need for it is he that gives Wisdom to the Head Courage to the Heart and Strength to the Hands Thus wise Solomon instructs us Prov. 16.1 The Preparations of the Heart in Man and the Answer of the Tongue is from the Lord So that the wisest Man hath