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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55939	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen at Guild-Hall-Chappel, July the 23th, 1682 by Thomas Pargiter ...	Pargiter, Thomas, 1642 or 3-1705.	1682 (1682)	Wing P356; ESTC R604	14,925	40

be upon them we durst not defraud our Brethren and do them Wrong so commonly as now we do Would any dare to turn aside the needy from Judgment and take away the Right from the Poor and make Widows their Prey and rob the Fatherless if they did but consider with themselves that a Father of the Fatherless and a Judg of the Widows is God in his holy Habitation and that from thence he sees the Oppression of the Poor and hears the sighing of the Needy and will at length arise for their defence and maintain their righteous Cause and plague all those that have harmed them wrongfully and dealt injuriously with them Would Men covet Fields and take them by violence and Houses and take them away and so oppress a Man and his House even a Man and his Heritage Could they be so very busy and industrious as they are in invading the Rights of others in defrauding the Brethren of their Goods and injuring them in their Possessions if they did but once take it into their Thoughts that they must be called to a strict account for these things before the righteous Judg of all the World who loves Justice and Judgment and will be sure to punish the wrong-doer and break in pieces the Oppressor and spoil the Soul of all those that have spoiled others How durst the subtile and the cunning Sinners hold fast Deceit and go on in their fraudulent and mischievous Courses How durst they deal so treacherously and endeavour by their circumventing Skill to go beyond and over-reach their Neighbours if they did but call to mind that God sees all their Fetches and their Devices all their lesser and greater Mysteries of Iniquity and will at last bring them into Judgment for all those wicked Arts and Stratagems which they have so often made use of to ensnare the ignorant and unwary and make them fall a Prey into their Nets Would Men covet an evil Covetousness to their Houses that they might set their Nests on high Would they go to raise their Families by that which they wrongfully take from others if they considered that thir ill-gotten Wealth will bring such a Curse of God along with it into their Houses as will root out all their Increase and quickly be the ruine and Dectruction of them and their Posterity Would they dare to suffer any unjust Gain to cleave to their Fingers would they not presently with all the haste imaginable shake their Hands from holding of it if they considered further that the heaping up of this is but the laying up of Vengeance in Store and the Treasuring up of Wrath for themselves against the great Day of Wrath Would men be tampering in the very Courts of Justice and be devising Subtilties there how they may Circumvent their Brethren and thrust them out of their apparent Rights if they considered that they must in another Court of Justice and at Gods own Tribunal give an Account of this and there have the Sentence of Eternal Condemnation Passed upon them for it Would any Persons have the boldness to be Givers or Takers of Bribes to Afflict the Innocent if they considered that a God of Infinite Justice looks upon them when their Hands are either opened to Receive or Stretched out to give the Wages of Unrighteousness and that he will be an Avenger of all those that use such foul and Indirect Practices against their Brethren With what Confidence could any men talk deceitfully and speak in any matter to wrest Judgment and pervert Equity if they did but bethink themselves that the God of Faithfulness and Truth knowes every word that is in their Mouths and that he utterly abhorrs all those that love Lying rather than to speak Righteousness and will at last Condemn them to those eternal Flames where they shall never be allowed one drop of Water to cool their false Tongues which have framed Deceit What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false Tongue It is David's Question Psal 120.3 And his Answer to it in the next Verse is very dreadful Sharp Arrows of the Mighty with coals of Juniper That is as some of the Jewish Interpreters expound it piercing Plagues here and Hell fire hereafter This shall be the Portion of those men whose Tongues devise Mischief and who love all Devouring words that will do hurt What fearfulness and trembling would seize upon the false Swearers what an horrible dread would presently overwhelm them if they did but call to their remembrance that the just Lord hath taken notice of all their Perjuries of all those Oaths which they have Sworn falsely by his Name to the hurt and Prejudice of others And that he will not hold them Guiltless nor suffer them to go Unpunished for these hainous Crimes but will most certainly let loose the fierceness of his Anger and Displeasure upon them and pursue them with Wrath and Vengeance all their dayes here and throughout all the dayes of Eternity hereafter And as for the high and mighty Transgressors the haughty and imperious Sinners that have no regard at all either to the Laws of God or Man in this case but do their Brethren hurt with as great a Confidence as others do them good how would their Courage sink and their hearts fail them if they would but take it into their Consideration that there is a great God above them to whom they must be accountable for all the Hurt and Mischief they have done and that he will be no Respecter of their Persons in Judgment nor Spare them any more than the meanest Sinners in the day of his Wrath And to draw to a Conclusion for I think it is time so to do Let us all be perswaded very frequently and seriously to consider what this terrible place and Text of Scripture puts us in mind of That the Lord will be a sure and severe Avenger of all such as go beyond and Defraud their Brethren in any matter and let the fear of his Eternal Vengeance keep us within the strictest Rules of Equity and Justice and restrain us from doing the least Injury or wrong to others That we may escape that dreadful Wrath of his that is to come let us forsake all our over-reaching and fraudulent and deceitful Courses and let us do justly and live honestly and neither devise nor practise any harm against our Brethren and then when God comes to Judge the World he will not be an Avenger but a Rewarder of us then we may all with Chearfulness and Comfort stand before his Judgment Seat at the last and final Judgment of all the World for then the Judge of all the World will pass a joyful Sentence upon us and before the greatest and most solemn Assembly that ever appeared before all the Angels and all the Devils and before all the Good men and all the Bad men of all Generations will Pronounce us Blessed for evermore And God grant that we may all be so Just to one another now that the Lord may be Merciful to us all at that Day and Receive us up into his Heavenly Kingdom to be Partakers of all the Joys of it and there to make our Eternal abode in his most glorious and delightful Presence Amen FINIS