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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52332	A sermon preach'd in the Cathedral of Lincoln, July XVIII, 1681 being the Assize-Monday / by Daniel Nicols ...	Nicols, Daniel.	1681 (1681)	Wing N1142; ESTC R36617	18,222	41

tender regard had the children of Israel for David by no means must he endanger his Person in the battel for in their eye he was more worth than ten thousand of them Good Josiah did better deserve the name of Delicium humani generis than Caesar observe how the people lament him by the lips and eyes of the weeping Prophet Lament 4.20 The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord was token in their nets of whom we said Under his shadow we shall be preserved alive among the heathen Secondly There is imprinted upon the Nature of man a special reverence for Holiness and Religion which you may easily perceive in the common people who tho they seldom understand what true Religion is yet how do they hug and embrace the very rumour and report of it Let Religion beat up a drum and you cannot allay the heat of their spirits they must follow the noise of it This makes Satan in our days put on the appearance of an Angel of light and every jugling Enthusiast will pretend Sanctity and Religion when he designeth to obtrude his own blasphemies upon the World How many miserable Souls are trepan'd into the thraldom of the Romish Church by a Religious blush which sits upon the face of her Worship It was no hard matter for the Scribes and Pharisees to swallow down whole houses under the pretence of Devotion Plutarch in his Politicks gives this advice to Traj●●●● the Emperor Venerare Deos per pietatem in co●●m honorem opibus tuis utare magnopere enim multitudo affici sol●t dum pietatem coram conspiciunt quos maximi ducunt This got Numa Pompilius such an excellent name Quod plurima fana lucosque Deorum dedicavit Thirdly The great design of Christian Religion especially the publick and solemn Worship of God is to render men alike one to another of one heart mind way and life Our prayers are the same that all of us as one man may consent to say Amen Our Discourses either are or should be the same differing in phrase and manner of utterance yet bearing proportion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the wholesome form of sound words We are initiated after the same manner by Baptism into one and the same Church at the Eucharist fed at the same table with the same bread refreshed with the same wine by all incorporated that being one body all the members may have a mutual respect and care one of another St. Paul upon this consideration magnifieth the Christian Religion Eph. 4.3 as keeping the unity of the spirit and commends it in the next words for the power that it carrieth to secure the common interest of love which he calleth the bond of peace the reasonableness of which he evinceth v. 4. There is one body as there is one spirit as likewise ye are called into one hope of your calling One Lord one faith one baptisme one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in all things The whole body of Religion is comprized in this word Love and we may judge of the sincere professors of it by their conformity to it Thus have I done with the second particular the cementing nature of true Religion The third and last Enquiry is What priviledge the Text alloweth to a Nation or People whilst they are zealous and devout in Religious Worship thus expressed Then shall ye and the King which reigneth over you continue to follow the Lord. In the Original there is nothing at all found for following all that is there expressed is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Translators have rendered as you read the Septuagint does not much differ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walking behind or after the Lord the meaning of which must be that as God when they had no King was their Captain leading forth their Armies and giving them success and victory for this was the great reason they urged for alteration of Government that they might have a King to go out before them and so fight their battels so also upon due observation of Religious Worship by him appointed he would still be their General and under his Banner they should sight victoriously over their Adversaries Now that this blessing is not meerly temporary belonging only to that people but entailed upon Piety and Religion to all generations is evident from the constant care and tender respect he hath continued to his Church to this day for according to his promise that the gates of Hell shall never prevail against it so it is and so it shall be so long as the world endureth And lest it should be objected that Promises of this nature are peculiar to the Church Universal and have no reference to particular Churches or Nations although true Religion be therein professed and incouraged let it be remembered that what belongs to the whole belongs also to the part and though many particular Churches formerly renowned are now utterly extinct as the seven Churches of Asia and many more yet before their ruine they had a charge of notorious crimes drawn up against them and notice of those exterminating Judgments which without repentance would follow God does very rarely if ever deal with Churches or Societies of men as with Individuals these he oftentimes leaveth under dismal and sore afflictions not so much for the demerit of their Sins as the probation of their Graces This was the case of Abraham of Lot in Sodom of holy Job who had this excellent character from God at the very instant when he sealed a Commission to Satan to afflict him that he was an upright and perfect man But who can tell of a Righteous Nation which hath kept inviolate the Judgments and Statutes of Heaven that was ever forsaken by God If you please to look home you will find the never failing Providences of the Almighty to watch over this Kingdom for good so long as we kept our Garments clean so long as Religion flourished and the Corruptions thereof were discountenanced Prosperity attended the long Reign of Queen Elizabeth although the Enemies of our Church were more numerous then and as busie and active as they are now The peaceable bringing in of King James almost to a Miracle was a demonstration of the kindness which God had for a people unanimous for then neither Popery nor Phanaticism were tolerated All the time he reigned both Church and State were in a prosperous condition but as soon as ever extravagant spirits began to break the unity of the spirit by Faction then did God righteously begin to break the bond of peace And it is farther observable that when the Inhabitants of England waxed wanton in their Religion then also did they become immoral loose and debauched in their lives for Superstition Heresie Schism Factions in the Church and Adulteries Fornication Drunkenness Prophaneness in the State are but gemini fratres which come into the world at one and the same time If we look for a reason