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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43566	A sermon preached at Market Harborow in the county of Leicester, on the 17th day of February, 1684/85 being the day on which our Sovereign Lord James II was there proclaimed king, &c. / by Thomas Heyricke.	Heyrick, Thomas, d. 1694.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1755; ESTC R10744	14,600	41

that stops the current of his goodness but our sins they are the clouds that hinder this Sun from arising upon us with healing in his wings Sin is that which is enmity toward God and which he cannot see with allowance The dreadful effects of sin were early seen in the Creation no sooner was sin acted but a curse followed as naturally as the effect doth the cause a dreadful and contagious curse fell not only upon the actors but on the whole creation which hath continued in an in-unterrupted line to our days which no changes could alter nor no time devour And that misery is now our portion that in sorrow we must eat our bread we owe it still to that fatal cause That one breach of the Law was such a sea breach that it let in an ocean of miseries which not all our labour ever since could get out So that God never punishes till we have sin'd and then unwillingly too and not till he hath used all ways to reduce us Judgments are wrested out of his hand by our importunate and loud crying sins So that as men cheerfully and readily go about that to which their nature inclines them but with reluctancy and ill will to that which is against their temper so God who is goodness and whose mercy is over all his works showrs down blessings with a liberal hand but dispenses Judgments sparingly with grief and sorrow washes even the wounds he makes as Christ did at Jerusalem with his tears So that would he know how God will deal with us there is no need of having recourse to the hidden book of the Stars with Astrologers or to deceitful prophesies with the inquisitive and credulous or to Endor with Saul the way is short and the labour small let us search our own Consciences that is an unerring book and all the lines are written in truth 't is the only book of fate we need 't is without deceit or fraud and will plainly tell us what we merit 't is like the righteous man bold as a Lion it knows not bribes and it fears not threatnings it will speak and it will be heard in the greatest hurry of business or delights Would we know how God will deal with the Nation 't is not hard to determine View the crying sins and iniquities the scarlet and crimson sins that have overspread the face of it and what do these merit at the hand of a just God without repentance a sinful Nation never wanted misery no sooner did the Jews run after other Gods but they were sold into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them were Lords over them and no sooner doth a Nation repent and turn to God but he prevents them with blessings These things being so surely those men that are so inquisitive into future times and fill their own and others heads with fears discontents and murmurings that revile the Government and like flies stick upon sore places and pass by the sound it would be well if these men would but examine their own breasts and know whether their own sins have not given an helping hand to those miseries they bear and since no evil is alleviated but rather doubled by fearful and feeble expectations of it and the true way is to use those means which are conducive either to overcome or bear it and since repentance is the only way to prevent Judgments it would sure better become them to begin the Reformation at home if they must be inquisitive let it be in their own breasts if they must be censorious let it be on their own actions and if custom or nature leads them to revile let it be their own sinful lives They would find matter enough in themselves no doubt for their busie restless thoughts their mischievous surmizes and their fester'd spleenes to work upon And since this is an age wherein every one pretends to be a Politician and meddles with the Secrets of Government and thinks it his birth-right to censure those at the Helm it would be well if these men would learn to govern themselves and yet that most beautiful and glorious victory if they must be Politicians let them study the insinuations deceits treacheries seditions and rebellions of their own lusts the arts they make use of the specious pretences they carry and the secret ambushes they continually lay for them Let them search out the weapons policy machinations and engines of their great enemy the devil and study how to countermine him And if their ambitious spirits must be great let their Kingdom be within every one hath an Empire in his own mind let them be absolute there There they may lay their Kingdom as wide as they will without incroaching upon anothers right make Laws without infringing others liberty and command and dictate without intruding into anothers office But why should he who is a coward at home think to be valiant abroad he that hath lost his own liberty think it his right to enslave others and he that is submissive and cringing at home to a sordid vice think it is his Province to be Lordly and Imperious over others 'T is sure a piece of extravagant kindness to have business wait him at home and to be busie abroad 'T is sure a sign of incorrigible folly to leave his own house on fire that calls for his help and run about to instruct others how they may regulate their Families Let us therefore all of us keep our thoughts at home turn our eyes into our own bosomes and spend all the rancor and malice of our hearts upon sin which is Gods and our Enemy And since our sins took away from us our Martyred Soveraign Charles the First and God in Judgment to this Land punished sin with sin in that unnatural and horrid Murther since it hath took from us the Mirrour of Princes a King of Mercy and Clemency CHARLES the Second let us by our Repentance stop future Judgments and beg of God that he would so turn the heart of our present Soveraign that it may not be turned from us but that Kings may be nursing Fathers and Queens nursing Mothers to the Church And that neither our neglect coldness or hypocrisie in Religion nor any other cause may provoke God to take away our Candlestick from us but that we may be happy in our Prince and our Prince in us and that we may be a Nation whom God may take delight to do good to FINIS