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A30857	A sermon preach'd at St. Trinity's in Kingston, upon Hull To a society there for the reformation of manners, September 20. 1699. By Robert Banks, A.M. Vicar of St. Trinity's in Hull, and prebendary of York.	Banks, R. R. (Richard R.)	1700 (1700)	Wing B672A; ESTC R217213	16,591	54

or punished here according to their National Virtues or Impieties So that when a Kingdom or Country continne to do wickedly we have abundance of reason to conclude that the Providence of God will promote the Misery and Unhappiness of such a People and manifest it self sooner or later in severe and remarkable Judgments upon them And this is very agreeable to the plain Expressions and Declarations of God's Will who hath constantly determined to pull down or build up Nations according as they persist in or turn from their Evil Ways as may be seen at large in the 18th chap. of Jeremiah or elsewhere And indeed in all Ages and Places his Judgments have succeeded the prevailing Wickedness of a Church or Nation In the very Infancy of the World when the wickedness of man was great and all flesh had corrupted his way upon earth God sent an universal Flood of Waters to sweep and wash away its polluted Inhabitants Gen. 6. 5 12. When the Cry of the Sins of Sodom which were very grievous came up before God he quench'd the Flames of their unnatural Lusts by showring down Flames of Fire and Brimstone from Heaven to destroy them Gen. 19. 13 24. And when the Wickedness of the Amorites was full what a Series of terrible Devastations succeeded for their Extirpation But why should I multiply Examples to prove that which the Records of all Nations so demonstratively confirm to us To omit all others our own History will readily instruct us how oft our Land has chang'd her Inhabitants and certainly for the wickedness thereof Even in our own Memory we have had Pestilence and Fire and Sword amongst us and we have lately been engaged abroad in a Tedious and Expensive War which yet blessed be God is brought to an Happy Conclusion by an Honourable Peace And adored be that Goodness which has not of late inflicted a Famine upon us to compleat Ezek. 14. 21. his Four sore Judgments For surely we cannot be so credulous as to believe that any thing withholds him from the Infliction of that or the severer repetition of his other Judgments but his long-suffering Goodness design'd to lead us to Repentance For our Sins are so great that I fear we may vie with any Nation in the World Good Heathens wou'd blush at those Impieties tho but to see them acted by others which they who call themselves Christians and shelter themselves under the Name of Protestant dare commit before all Israel and the Sun Drunkenness Whoredom and Swearing are reckoned but puny trivial Modish Sins We are advanced to Crimes of a deeper Dye to Cursings and Blasphemies and a slat Denial not only of the Revelation of God's Will but even of that Invincible Power that Inflexible Justice that made us and can destroy us in a Moment And shall not God visit for these things shall not his Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this Jer. 5. 9. This is what we have all reason to fear and to be humbled for notwithstanding our present Peace and Security least even whilst we cry Peace Peace sudden Destruction should overtake us I know 't is an unpleasant thankless Office to forbode Evil to a Man's Native Country Nor am I fond of Predictions from Vulgar Prodigies which mightily alarum the Common People Yet I may be bold to affirm with a Learned Man of our own * Dr. Spencer of Prodigies c. Sect. 6. p. 116. That when such Prodigies As Monsters of Vices and Opinions do generally obtain in a State When the old Man of Sin is grown too big for the girdle of Shame or Fear and the Hand of Publick Justice neglects to rub off that Rust which is growing upon the Iron Age then it may be quickly expected that God should do his own Work himself assert his own Righteousness by throwing such a People into the Fire of some terrible Judgment to refine and purifie it Then in the Language of the Psalmist 't is Time for God to lay to his Hand when Men have destroyed his Law Psalm 119. 126. This I say is what all good Men have Cause to be apprehensive of from the abused Patience and Long-suffering of God And yet amidst our Fears we may not cease to Hope that the many good Souls who stand in the Gap to ward off the Blow by their devout Prayers and Intercessions whose Eyes in David's Language Run down with Water because Men keep not Gods Law that the Pious Resolution of His Majesty effectually to discourage Prophaneness and Immorality with what He and our Senators have excellently done to that Purpose together with the hearty Endeavours of some in almost every Rank and Order of Men amongst us in whom at this Time there appears a great Propensity and Disposition to put a stop to that Inundation of Wickedness which threatens a Deluge to our Destruction Will by their United Force yet prevail with God to be favourable to his Land so oft preserv'd and rescu'd by the Miracles of his Mercy and to Pity his People And O that the Concurrence of these joyn'd with a Divine Blessing and Cooperation may at length effectually prevail To set bounds to our Errors by Truth to our overflowing Impieties by an universal Reformation of Manners and to our Unhappy Divisions which are such a Pastime to Popery by that real and unfeigned Charity which may teach us to maintain the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace But this suggests the 3. Particular which is to shew what Effects the Sorrow and Humiliation of all good Men especially of those in Stations of Eminence and Authority because Men keep not Gods Law ought to have upon them And we cannot give a better account of this Matter in Reference to those last mentioned then by considering what the Psalmists Practise was in the like Case For if we can plainly discover what Effects Davids Grief and Humiliation because of the Wicked that forsook Gods Law had upon him we may conclude that the same Cause ought to have the same Effect upon every good Man especially upon those in Authority according to their Power and Capacity in their several Stations Now what David's Resolution upon the Melancholy Apprehensions he had from the Consederacy of Wicked Men that kept not Gods Law was we find in several Places of his Psalms but no where better then in the 101. Psalm where he fixes his Pious Purpose first how to Govern himself and then his Court and Kingdom and that with so much Justice That the good and virtuous might ever expect all possible favour from him but that he would as constantly discountenance discourage and punish evil doers of all sorts according to their Demerits and thus he concludes that Psalm I will early destroy all the Wicked of the Land that I may cut off all wicked doers from the City of the Lord i. e. Assoon as ever I am peaceably setled on my Throne I will use Dr. Hammond in