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truth_n	kindness_n	lord_n	love_a	1,686	5	9.5041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29164	A sermon preach'd at the Parish-Church of Richmond in Surry April the 5th, 1699 being the day appointed for a publick humiliation and collection for the Vaudois / by N. Brady ...	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4182; ESTC R19532	10,115	28

to its Ancient Splendour Our Temples which they had destin'd to Foppery and Superstition were happily continu'd in the possession of unadulterate Worship and a reasonable Service The Laws which had been warped to serve the worst Ends were again reduc'd to their Primitive Use for the Punishment of wicked Doers and the praise of such as do well The just Prerogative of the Prince was vigorously asserted and yet the Liberty of the Subject not at all infringed The Church and State which like ill-yoak'd Oxen drew different ways now proceed lovingly in the same Track and strengthen and support each other mutually Peace and abundance begin to efface the Memory of the War and the necessities under which we lately labour'd Our Dangers and Apprehensions are vanished and removed and if any Scars remain of our former Wounds whilst they put us in mind that we have been hurt they also assure us that we are in a way to be healed Happy are the people who are in such a Case if they make a right use of the Mercies they have receiv'd yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God! And certainly so many visible appearances of the Divine favour have entitl'd God to the sole Honour of our Deliverance that it would be a direct robbing him of his Glory to give the praise of it to any other He having acted for us in this Case as he testifies of himself by the Prophet Isaiah and I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that there was none to uphold then my own Arm brought Salvation The Lord indeed looked down from Heaven and beheld from the Habitation of his Heliness and of his Glory his Zeal and his Strength and his Mercies and the sounding of his Bowels towards 〈◊〉 were not restrain'd He saw our Miseries and turned away his Eyes from our Transgressions or if he viewed them it was only to use other Methods to withdraw us from them and to attempt the reclaiming us by his Mercies who had formerly been incorrigible under his Judgments Thus God arose and his and our Enemies were scattered and they that hated both him and us fled before him Therefore Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give praise for thy loving Mercy and for thy Truth 's sake And now wherewithal shall we come before the Lord and bow our selves before the high God What retribution shall we make unto the Lord for all that the Lord has bestowed upon us according to his Mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses The Answer to this Question which every devout Soul is oblig'd to make is the subject of my 4. Particular in which I am to examine the Caution and Advice here given us how we ought to comport our selves under such blessings Sin no more The Mercies of God are design'd for our amendment and his Goodness leadeth to repentance if therefore we answer not this intention of his we go about as far as in us lies to disappoint the gracious Methods of his Providence and as it were to counterplot his Omniscence But God forbid that where his Grace has so signally abounded to us there Sin should abound so much more God forbid that we should continue obstinate and incorrigible against all that an All powerful and All-wise God can do for our amendment If Judgments could not frighten us into Obedience yet let Blessings allure us and like the Man in the Fable who held fast his Cloak against the blustering Wind but parted with it to the gentler Rays of the Sun So let us if we have kept our Sins close to us in the Storms of Adversity dismiss them when we are warmed with the Beams of Prosperity Ingratitude we know is stiled a complication of all Wickedness and no Title is so reproachful as that of an unthankful Person but how deeply shall we be liable to this imputation if we will make no return for such inestimable advantages And yet how easie is the Tribute which God expects at our hands He only requires of us that we should Sin no more That instead of provoking him to new Severities we should put our selves into a condition of recieving fresh Blessings Had something very difficult been exacted of us when we lay expos'd to the Oppression of our insulting Enemies would we have scrupled to perform it for our releasement from them And shall we now startle at that which is both easie and beneficial God's Yoke is easie and his Burthen is light his Commandments are not grievous neither does he delight to afflict the Sons of Men And yet how few are obedient to such equitable Injunctions How few submit entirely to so mild an Authority Is not the same Profaneness and Debauchery still rife amongst us which drew down those Judgments we formerly groan'd under Do we not still use the same false balances and deceitful Weights Do we not still practice the same over-reaching subtilties in our usual Dealings and mutual Commerce Is not all the Violence and Injustice for which we were wont to blame our Enemies still exercis'd amongst our selves and aggravated by the profession of a better Religion So that I may say in the words of the Prophet the Lord looked for Judgment but behold Opression for righteousness but behold a Cry Do not those that seem'd to lament and bewail the Danger of loosing the Publick Assemblies absent themselves too often from the Great Congregation and leave the House of God at the ordinary times of Divine Worship much more unfrequented than it need or ought to be Do not those who apprehended a Dearth in the Land not a Dearth of Bread but of the Word and Sacraments withdraw too frequently from the Bread of Life end Starve their own Souls in the midst of Plenty Let us judge our selves my Brethren that we be not judged of the Lord and let us consider that the caution here given Sin no more is not a bare Advice that may be taken or rejected without any considerable Consequences but that in the 5th And last Particular of my Text there is a Threatning or Commination and that a very severe One annexed to it to strengthen and enforce it Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee A Relapse into any illness is much more dangerous than the first fury of a Distemper and we read of the Man that washed and swept and garnished his House and yet admitted seven Devils afterwards that his last Estate was worse than his first For God in his Impartial Justice proportions his Judgments to our Offences now every latter Sin is greater than the former and therefore is liable to a more severe punishment For either we have repented before the Commission of it or we have not if we have our Sin besides its own guilt includes that of breaking our Resolution if we have not it is an additional Act of Obstinacy and Impenitency and either way it has a new accession