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A sermon preached at Islington upon the 26th day of July, 1685, in the afternoon being the day of solemn thanksgiving to almighty God for His Majestie's late victories over the rebels / by Shadrach Cooke.
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Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724?
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Wing C6038; ESTC R29331
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in War Tumults Blood and Murder to ruin our Church destroy our Prince and all true Loyal men Is not this sufficient cause to make them look about them and now at length seriously to repent of and renounce all such impious ways and practices 3. Considering in the Third place That this seems to be both the greatest and the last means and method God may use for the bringing these men to repentance and a sound mind for what is there that can or will be prevalent with them if this be not If after all those demonstrations God has given us of his mercy and their impious designs you will not see and repent you give the world too much reason to believe that you lie under that Pharisaical judgment to have eyes and see not ears and hear not hearts and will not understand And therefore Sirs as you will answer it to your Consciences now and to God hereafter be rouz'd out of this fatal Lethargy and hearken to this awakening and perhaps last call of Almighty God be not still perverse and obstinate to your utter ruin both of Soul and Body 't is high time to look about you and now at length having seen all this to shew your Repentance which we earnestly hope and desire to see in these following respects which is our Fifth particular V. I. In an utter renouncing of your former ways and doings those especially that have had any manner of Aspect or tendency to the promoting or incouraging these impious designs and practices cast a serious sincere and impartial reflection upon your late and your former actions and see whether you have not one way or other justified incourag'd or promoted these designs whether by herding with the multitude against publick Rule and Government by countenancing or speaking or thinking well of them that did by acting or voting what you knew was displeasing to the King and contrary to the practice of undoubtedly Loyal men by discouraging truly Loyal honest Orthodox Preachers that would tell you the Truth without guise or dissimulation and adhering to or thinking well only of such that you knew or fancied to be otherwise In a word Examine your own knowledge and Consciences and make a thorow search of whatever way means or actions through fault or misfortune you have promoted the Cause and Interest of such as are thus Factious and Rebellious and be now at last convinc'd of your error detest what you have done this way with zeal and heartiness This is the first mark and token of Repentance we desire and expect from you 2. Hereupon ensues another very signal mark and token of your sorrow Repentance and true Conversion and that is a sincere and hearty Loyalty to your Prince That you practice this your selves and promote it among others to the utmost of your skill and power that whoever are in your families under your care or committed to your charge may be instructed in the sound Principles of Loyalty and Obedience according to the Doctrine and Institution of the Church of England And is it not high time seriously to enter upon this course and practice seeing the fatal designs and consequences of disobedience and Rebellion the works of those that forget or abandon their Duty and Allegiance to their Prince you will not and cannot secure your selves from such impious practices but by your being thus heartily and truly Loyal in Thought Word or Deed to the utmost of your Power for if it be only in outward formality or expression or according to the indifferent and moderate way and manner of some men 'T is such as will be neither acceptable to God serviceable to your Prince or safe to your selves Wherefore to shew your selves truly penitent you must endeavour to be eminently Loyal and remarkably Obedient and dutiful to the King for the future which is the only opposite to Faction Sedition and Rebellion 3. As another sign of your true Repentance we do exhort you to and expect from you a thorow and strict conformity to our Church The best if not only Constitution that does sincerely teach and promote true Loyalty and Obedience for you may take this as a sure rule which you 'l find true by constant observation and experience the more any do dissent from or dislike the present Constitution of our Church the greater friends or promoters they are or have been of what either was or tended to Sedition or Rebellion against which there is no prevention or security but by a firm and strict adherence to the Church of England And this besides other incomparable advantages shews the great priviledge of those who are truly of it and the miserable state of such that are bred up in any other courses Wherefore to repent of what you have been or done and to avoid or prevent such designs or calamity and to be heartily honest Dutiful and Loyal for the future You must be sincerely conformable to the Church of England studying it your selves and teaching others its Doctrines and Principles frequenting its Communion devoutly joyning in its Prayers and doing every thing that becomes a sincere Conformist and a true Churchman And thus as you have heard are you to manifest your Repentance First by an utter renouncing your former ways and practices that have been any ways Factious or Seditious Secondly to become heartily Loyal and dutiful to the King Thirdly sincerely and strictly Conformable to the Church And as we just now pray'd may God to this end take from them all their Prejudices and all their Passions their confident mistakes their carnal ends and their secular interests and open their eyes that they may see at least in this their day the things which belong to their peace and soften the most obdurate heart into a meek humble and docible temper that they may no longer resist the truth bow down the stiff neck and the iron sinew take away the brow of brass and the whores forehead sweeten if it may be the gall of bitterness and loose the bands of iniquity and guide their feet into the ways of peace 4. After which you will be fit and ready for the Fourth and last advice which is to shew your Repentance by joyning with us in returning Praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for this great Deliverance for I dare say whoever is heartily thankful to God for this Mercy and Blessing was either altogether unconcern'd in those horrid designs from which we are thus deliver'd or does sincerely repent of them Let us therefore with one heart and voice glorifie God by giving him the honour due unto his Name The sole glory of our deliverance That we acknowledge it to be the Lords doing and the day which the Lord hath made And let us endeavour to express our gratitude not only with our lips but in our lives by giving up our selves to his service and studying to serve him all the days of our lives For the Lord your God he it is that fighteth for you Take good heed therefore unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God Josh 23. 10 11. And now I cannot instance in any one thing that does so much manifest our Religious Duty and Thankfulness together as that of Charity and Beneficence to the Poor the great obligation of a Christian at all times but peculiarly necessary and almost indispensable at a solemn time of Praise or Thanksgiving Were your Charity which we now beg of you for our Poor large or bountiful it would be but a slender return for this present Deliverance and the Mercies we enjoy by it However 't is an acknowledgment of God's goodness towards us which therefore we cannot omit without being insensible of his mercies or ungrateful for them May none of you therefore slight or neglect such a fair seasonable and blessed opportunity of shewing your selves Thankful to God Loyal to the King and Charitable to the Poor FINIS