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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91754	Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1289; Thomason E915_4; ESTC R207479	16,805	36

and crafty endeavors which have been from time to time by that party used and no doubt they are as unwearied now as ever though haply they are under new shapes and disguises to reduce us back again And consider the purity of Evangelical Doctrine and Worship and the great liberty you now enjoy therein The Lord pardon pitty and rebuke those who either through ignorance o prophaness do pray the wantons with such a benefit and abuse it to the rending and causing of breaches in the Church of Christ 2. Look on the sore plagues which have heretofore reigned in this place emptying the City of all that could fly and sending Armies of those that remained weekly to the grave The City is probably now much more populous many thousands of houses being since that time newly erected and few either of the old or new without Inhabitants yet for these many years this raging disease hath been banished from this place when probably it might have been a double Judgment unto you and you have that blessing which the Lord promised Jerusalem Zach. 8. 5. made good unto you The streets of the City full of Boys and Girls playing in those streets where in the days of pestilence grass grew for emptiness and desolation 3. Look on the late bloody VVars when the Lord poured out on the Nation the strength of battel and set it on fire round about Ephraim Manasse and Manasse Ephraim when the people were as the fuel if the fire you here heard not the prancing of the horses nor the rarling of the wheels you saw not the glittering of the swords nor the displaying of the Banners you were not witnesses of the confusions which other places saw and felt Your houses were not shaken with the roaring of the Canon nor your wives made Widows or your children Orphans by the edge of the sword Your City was then like the top of the hill at Rephidim where Aaron and Hur held up the hands of Moses no hands lifted up here to fight but onely to pray no siege here but that about the Throne of Grace ut ad Deum quasi manu factâ precationibus ambiamus orantes no waring or wrestling here but that of Jacob with the Angel This City was as it were the Chappel the Oratory of the Nation 4. Look back on the late heavy blows by fire in this City that sad and sudden blast by Gunpowder on Tower hill whereby divers persons perished those dangerous fires afterwards in other places unto which the Lord could have given a commission to have spread and diffused it self into an universal conflagration the merciful rebuke which was upon the fire then and the safety you have since enjoyed from such dangers And truly when I consider how many Trades there are in this City which deal in combustible matters Powder Flax Hemp Pitch Tar Turpentine Hops Tallow Paper Oyl and many other like the casualties and carelesness which may be in many amongst so great a multitude by knocking of Links by misplacing of Candles by falling down or sparkling of fire by blowing out of Tobacco and many other miscarriages not easily ennumerable it is an evident demonstration of Gods watching over such a City and being himself a wall of fire about it and giving his Ministers who are a flame of fire a special charge over it that other fires do not break out in it 5. Consider the goodness of God to this City in giving it zealous and faithful Magistrates who make it their business to be vigilant over the good of this place who lay next their hearts the prosperity thereof to encourage vertue to punish and suppress wickedness to preserve peace to prevent prophaness to look to the health and good order of the place 6. Consider the goodness of God unto you in a learned and a faithful Ministry what endeavors some have used to cry them down and to leave this Nation as sheep without shepheards the copious and abundant light of the Gospel which shineth on this place this City being filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea If any City in the world may at this day be called as Jerusalem once was a City of Truth a holy Mountain in regard I mean of the doctrine of truth and holiness preached therein then certainly this may Insomuch that Forraigners Hungarians Germans Batavians others learn our lan guage and come over to this City that they may hear your Preachers and read your English Divines In one word look unto the concurrence with all Countries at home all foreign Nations abroad do joyn in to send variety of blessings and comforts unto this City As the beams of the sun are united in a Burning-glass so variety of blessings meets from a wide circumference in such a center as this The Sea sends you in Fish and the Air Foul the Fields Corn and the Pastures Cattel Some Countries adorn you with Silks and Jewels some warm you with Furs and Cottens some heal you with Drugs and Balsoms others comfort and refresh you with Wines and Spices some send in Materials to build your houses others send you in furniture for your ships read Ezek. 27. and that will shew you the benefits of a Celebre Emporium And when you have viewed these mercies look on the many and prodigious sins whereby the Lord is provoked in this place to withdraw these mercies from it Sins made much the more atrocious by the mercies and light against which they are committed Joh. 15. 22. Amos. 3. 2. Now then as the Lord hath put into your hearts to consecrate this day unto his praise and to stir up one another to speak good of his name be pleased to set your selves seriously about it Consider it is not the work of the lips alone though it consist much in uttering the loving kindness and in singing aloud of the goodness of the Lord Remember what David that great Artist in Divine praises did Ps. 103. 1. He calls upon his soul and upon all that was within to bless Gods holy name Our Mindes should bless him by meditation on his goodness and admiration of his mercy our Heads should study and contrive what to do to bring honour unto the name of so great a God our Hearts Wills and Affections should resolve to take the cup of salvation to call upon his name to love the Lord because he hath heard our supplication Psal. 116. 1. to fear the Lord and his goodness Hos. 3. 5. considering how great things he hath done for us 1 Sam. 12. 24. Our Mouths should make report what he hath done for our souls for our families for our Cities for our people Our Hands should praise the Lord by rendring back out of his own blessings for of his own onely do we give him 1 Chron. 29. 14. Some homage and acknowledgment that we hold all from him We read of the Lords offering Exod. 35. 21. and of the Lords tribute Num. 31.