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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56695	A sermon preached at St. Pavl Covent-Garden, on the late day of fasting & prayer, Novemb. 13 by Simon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1678 (1678)	Wing P840; ESTC R23234	28,516	39

according to his own Institution and therefore cannot reasonably doubt of receiving there all the fruits of his dying love Whereas they that glory most in his favour have an imperfect representation of him a lame and defective ministration of that Divine Grace which he there communicates to his people 2. We believe also and are sure that our Lord is so nigh us that we may immediately address our selves to him and be confident of finding access though we take no Saints or Angels in our way to his blessed presence We need none to intercede with him for us like those of the Church of Rome who beg the assistance of this or that Saint especially of the blessed Virgin his Mother to introduce them into his favour and to recommend them and their suits to him Which manifestly supposes him at a distance and not to be nigh to such Supplicants who depend upon I know not how many men and women whom they suppose to be great Favourites in the Court of Heaven and whose Mediation they must use before they can approach him This one thing alone is sufficient to entitle us to this priviledge of being a People nigh unto the Lord and having him in the midst of us above all those Churches of that Communion It is no fansie but a real Truth that we stand in a nearer Relation to him and may be confident of his favour more than they can be who dare not go to him but by the intercession of others whom they desire to procure them acceptance with him Which very thing also is such an Offence to him that I am confident it sets them still at a greater distance from him For it is an imitation of that Worship which God abhorred so much in the Heathen world that he sent his Son on purpose to destroy it and to bring them to the acknowledgment of this truth that there is but one God and one Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus This Truth blessed be God we have received and hold as it hath been taught us by his holy Apostle St. Paul 1 Tim. II. 4 5. And by virtue of this our glory ought to be great in his Salvation and we should triumph in his praise saying What Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for We may lawfully look upon our selves and most thankfully acknowledge it as having the most High in the midst of us after a peculiar manner to bless save and deliver us in one word to be our God and singular Benefactor Which as it is the greatest glory so it was ever accounted the greatest safety and security Zach. II. 5. For if God be for us as the Apostle speaks who can be against us We need not care that is who opposes us nor fear what man can do unto us But though all Nations should compass us about as the Psalmist speaks Psal CXVIII 10 c. we might say with the same courage and resolution that he doth could we but be assured that God is with us In the Name of the Lord will we destroy them They compass us about yea they compass us about but in the Name of the Lord will we destroy them They compass us about like Bees but they shall be quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the Lord will we destroy them They may thrust sore at us that we may fall but the Lord will help us The right hand of the Lord shall be exalted the right hand of the Lord shall do valiantly We shall not dye but live and declare the works of the Lord. This is such a satisfaction that it is a wonder we are not all more solicitous to secure the Divine presence with us whereby we might live not only safely but confidently without those fears and dreadful apprehensions that are apt to possess and terrifie us Which would all vanish could we but rationally hope that we abide under the shadow of the Almighty and could say of the LORD he is my refuge and my fortress my God in him will I trust Surely he shall hide me from the Counsel of the wicked and from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity There is not a Man of us one would think but would put away all other fears and dread this alone lest God should not be with us did we not presume too much of his favour and vainly hope for his continued protection though we be so negligent as to remain utterly insensible of what he hath done for us and to take no care to behave our selves worthily as becomes those who have the honour to be so nearly related to him II. III. Let me therefore briefly awaken you as I propounded in the Second place to a due use of Gods singular grace to you by representing how far the extraordinary presence of God among a people will be from exempting them from the severest punishments if they prove ungrateful and disobedient to him There is so little reason for any presumption of such immunity 〈…〉 we may rather justly expect as I said in the third thing I propounded to your consideration which for brevities sake I shall joyn with this that he should punish them sorely nay utterly forsake them if they will not be reformed by those punishments The Israelites are a woful example of this who fancied indeed strongly that God was tyed to them so fast by his promises that they were in no danger to lose him though they took no care to keep him with them but found their error to their cost and paid dearly for it throughout all generations When he first manifested himself to them at their coming out of Aegypt into the Wilderness you know how many of their carcases fell there till they were all consumed but two men who were the only persons that followed God fully The cloud which you heard stood over them as a shelter to them while they were obedient to his word would defend them no longer when they rebelled against him but poured down fiery indignation upon them and destroyed them From that Lord who was in the midst of them from that dwelling place which they had built for him out of the house of his glory in which they trusted there came forth several sorts of sore judgments and smote down the choisest of them For that without all doubt is the propriety of such phrases as that in Numb XVI 46. Wrath is gone out from the LORD the plague is begun From the glory of the Lord i. e. which appeared then to all the congregation at the door of the Tabernacle v. 19.42 there issued out the tokens of his divine displeasure in a noisome pestilence by which and other such-like punishments Their dayes did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble For he who had been so kind to them was so incensed by their repeated rebellions that he