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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30958	A sermon preached vpon the fifth of November, 1679 in the Cathedrall Church of Gloucester / by Cl. Barksdale.	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1680 (1680)	Wing B808; ESTC R37064	14,170	26

A SERMON PREACHED Vpon the Fifth of November 1679. In the Cathedrall Church at Gloucester By CL. BARKSDALE Pray for the peace of Jerusalem OXFORD Printed for John Barksdale Book-seller in Cicester 1680. Psal CXXII VI. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem They shall prosper that Love thee TO observe the coherence and meaning of the Text you may be pleased to look back to the 3 verse Jerusalem is builded as a City that is Compact together i. e. Jerusalem is a Lovely place the very buildings being so uniform and orderly joyn'd together are very beautifull an Emblem of that unity of minds that should be in the Church of God Then at the 4 verse Thither the Tribes go up the Tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel or rather as our Critical Paraphrast has it according to the Commandment unto Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. It was the place to which all the Inhabitants of the Land were obliged to go up thrice every year to commemorate the mercies of God afforded to his people Then at the 5 verse For there are set Thrones of Judgment the Thrones of the House of David i. e. Besides the Service of God there also is the Sanhedrim or supreme Judicatory of the Nation that great Court where the highest matters are decided And there also is the Palace of David where the King resides and his Posterity shall sit upon his Throne All these Considerations infer the Duty of the Text Pray for t●e 〈…〉 the City of God we●l compacted and 〈…〉 in it selfe ●erusalem is the place where the House of God is and his solemn service ●erusalem is the sea●e of the King and the seat of ●●stice Therfore P●ay ● pray 〈◊〉 the peace of Jerusalem It is the du●y of ●ll Good men to pray for this place and to love it most affectionatly and to beseech God to bestow a quiet enjoyment of all these Advantages and all manner of prosperity upon it They shall prosper that love thee They that love and pray and contribute their utmost to Jerusalem shall not loose their reward they shall gain to themselves prosperitie The Text you see being thus explained falls into two parts A Duty and a Reason Th● Duty in t●e former words Pray for the peace of Jerusalem The Reason in the later They shall prosper that love thee a reason which is the great Reason and Common Motive to duty taken from their own intere●t and benefit They shall prosper that love thee ô Jerusalem So that we have these two Observations I. It is our duty to pray for the peace of the Church and State wherin we live II. They that well performe this duty procure prosperity and happiness for themselves I. It is our duty to love and pray for the peace of the Church and State wherin we live I joyn the Church and the State together for as I said at Jerusalem was the House of God the Temple and there also was the House of the King and the Court of Justice Religion and Justice are the great pillars of a Nation when these stand f●rm and inviolate then is a Nation happy That the Church may florish in true Religion and the State florish in the due Execution of Justice this must be the desire of our hearts this we must endevour every one in his place and this must every one pray for Pray for the peace of Jerusalem It is to this purpose that the Apostle Paul so earnestly exhorts that supplications and prayers be made for Kings and for all that are in Authority that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty The Kings and Emperors and Magistrates in those times were Heathens and persecutors of Christian Religion yet the Apostle requires that prayers and supplications be made for them How much more ought we to pray for Christian Kings and Princes that under the Gracious Government of these Nursing Fathers Godliness and Honesty Religion and Justice may be nourished and maintained Good Reason to pray for Magistrats in the State under whose protection we live and by whome we enjoy peace and quietness And we have good reason too to pray for Ministers in the Church This the same Apostle requires Pray for us I desire your prayers for me and my fellow labourors in the Gospel those he means that are described there that watch for your souls and must give account for them namely the Bishops and Ministers under the Bishops They that have such a great charge as the charge of Souls that labour amongst you in the word and doctrine that exhort and admonish you in the Lord they certainly may well exspect the benefit and help of your prayers Pray for us Ministers in the Church saith the Apostle as well as for Magistrats in the State that it may go well both with the Church and with the State What the Apostle en●oyns that prayers should be made for Magistrats and Ministers was duly remembred in composing and framing the Liturgy and publick prayers of the Church of England as you may easily acknowledge who are such obedient sons of the Church as dayly to attend which I do heartily wish all having no lawful hindrance would do daily attend the publick divine Service For example O Lord save the King And endue thy Ministers with righteousness Againe for the King O God Behold our gracious Soveraigne Lord the King and so replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that he may alwayes encline to thy will and walke in thy wayes And for the Ministers Send downe upon our Bishops and Curats the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Againe for the King By the way remember a Note of King Charls I of blessed memory That sure some of his Enemies were the more offended against the Common prayer book because it taught us to pray so much and so often for the King a reason which may make those who are loyal Subjects the more in love with it I say Againe for the King So rule the heart of thy Chosen Servant that he may above all things seek thy Honour and Glory So rule his heart that he may study to preserve thy People committed to his charge in wealth peace and godliness And yet againe Save and defend our King that under him we may be Godly and quietly governed Grant unto his whole Counsel and to all that are put in Authority under him that they may truly and indifferently minister Justice to the punishment of wickedness and vice and to the maintenance of true Religion and Vertue Where also you may remember it follows for the Church Give grace O Heavenly Father to all Bishops and Curates that they may both by their life and Doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word and rightly and duly administer thy Holy Sacraments Thus Beloved are we taught in our

friends to the present State On the contrary that man that takes himself to be a royallist a friend of the King and a faithful subject and only talkes or drinks a health and does not both in publick and private pray for the welfare of the King and Kingdom is very much mistaken Can he truly love the King that does not heartily pray for the King The loving Subject is the praying Subject and he will not fail in any other act or duty of obedience 2. For the discovery of the Churches freinds and enemies you have heard that by the Church is chiefly meant the Ruling part the Bishops and Ministers So the word seemeth to be understood in that precept of Christ Die Ecclesiae Tell it to the Church i. e. to the Rulers of the Assemblies as our learned Paraphrast has it out of Chrysostome These Rulers spirituall if we do not pray for we are no freinds but enemies of the Church For these are given by the special favour and providence of God for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ as Saint Paul saith They are given as the same Apostle adds that being instructed and guided by them we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine So then if our settlement in the true Religion and our preservation from dangerous Errors if our edification and growth and perfection depend under God upon the sacred Ministry certainely he can be no freind to Religion and the Gospel who does not not love and pray for the Bishops and Ministers of the Gospel Nevertheless it is true and often found by sad experience that Church-men have many Enemies And no wonder For the Prophets of old and after them the Apostles yea Christ himselfe our Lord and Master had their Enemies slanderers revilers Elias the Prophet was accused as a troubler of Israel Paul the Apostle was accounted for a seditious fellow and his own Galatians seem to have been his Enemies for his telling them the truth And is not this that which raiseth up enmity against our preachers somtimes even the telling them the Truth The truth is we love our sins and favour our own lusts and vanities and would not be vehemently urged to part with any thing which is in deliciis a delight to us and dear as the right hand or eye We care not to be taught how to be grave and yet withall kind strict and yet courteous temperate and yet sociable as our Religion our Christianity exacteth We can hear the Doctrine but endure not to come under the Discipline of the church And here among the Churches Enemies I might fall againe upon the Popish Traytors both old and new the grand Adversaries of our Jerusalem both of our Church and State But 't is time to ease you and I had rather pray then inveigh Wherefore I intreat you to joyn with me in your most ardent desires that God would be pleased still to discover and defeat and blast his and our enemies that our Soveraigne Lord the King may still be protected by the Divine power and directed by the Divine Wisdom that the Parliament now summoned may in due time meet together and sit f●st with such unanimity and concord in their Counsels such order and prudence and success in their Affaires that they may be a joy to the King and to all his faithfull subjects and may rise with the honour the lasting honour of having been the reestablishers of truth and peace for us and our posterity I must not end till I have in a word admonished you of some other Traytors and these the worst of all For those Traitors aforementioned could only destroy the Body but these destroy the Soul the immortal Soul I mean these privy Conspirators in our own bosomes our carnal lusts and unruly passions and our presumptuous Sins proceeding thence I need not name them These must be searched out mortified extinguished and totally destroyed A great Work but possible by the Grace of Almighty God and by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ which we shall receive if we pray for it as we ought to do with humility and fervency and constancy And therefore in the close of all let me earnestly request of the Worthy Citizens here that this magnificent and beautifull Basilica the House of God the Glory of your ancient Corporation and the solemn service dayly ministred in this Colledge may be more frequented and attended by you And withall let me petition that the daily Divine Service at least in the mornings may be procured and maintained according to the Injunction of our good Mother the Church of England in every Parish Church in this City Consider of it if you please Right Worshipfull and beloved Brethren Bear with my zeal in this proposal If ever you will be zealous for publick and Common Prayer Now is the time Extraordinary occasions call for our extraordinary care and diligence Verbum sapienti My last words shall be taken out of a Prayer appointed for this Day O Lord Let the Consideration of thy Goodness work in us true Repentance that Iniquity may not be our ruine And increase in us more and more a lively faith and fruitfull Love in all holy Obedience that thou maist continue thy favour with the Light of the Gospel to us and our posterity for evermore And that for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Advocate Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉