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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56695	A sermon preached at St. Pavl Covent-Garden, on the late day of fasting & prayer, Novemb. 13 by Simon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1678 (1678)	Wing P840; ESTC R23234	28,516	39

faithfully admonished and not in the least bolstered up in our wickedness if when we see ruine just before our eyes we will not go out of our way to avoid it You cannot name any one of this Church that hath confidently prophesied of glorious times Nor above one impious Writer of any note and he not pretending to the Ministry that hath laid down Principles to incourage men in wickedness and irreligion And therefore if we will notwithstanding run on in our evil courses it is a sign we have no heart to any thing else but that this is our inclination nay our resolution and that we being unreformable must perish because we have no mind to be saved in Gods way but to hurry on to destruction in our own Never any Nation perhaps perished if we must be undone against so much Reason against such plain warnings against so many mercies to invite us to do better and so many judgments to deter us from our evil ways against so many convincing instructions clear and rational arguments solid confutations not only of all leud and atheistical Principles but of Popery and of all Fanatical Doctrines There can be nothing therefore pleaded in our behalf but we must be left as the man without a Wedding Garment perfectly speechless A sad and most wretched condition Sad because we shall be extremely miserable and sad because we shall not be able to say why we were so frantick as against so many restraints to cast our selves into such miseries Which I beseech you let every one of us for our parts endeavour to prevent by timely repentance never to be repented of For that 's the thing I have shewn you still wanting for our preservation And I must tell you further in the last place 6. That as the case now stands it is not an ordinary Repentance and Reformation that will serve the turn We are gone too far I doubt towards ruine to be delivered without some extraordinary endeavours to put a stop to it and therefore I must say to you for a conclusion of all as our Lord Christ doth to the luke warm Church of Laodicea Rev. III. 19. Be zealous therefore and repent Repentance is not sufficient for the recovery of a Church when there is a great Apostacy and defection in Faith and in Manners but we must join zeal with it which is a pious warmth in our affections for all that is good and vertuous and that will certainly do the business We need not fear then the most desperate Enemies no not our sins but look upon all the Judgments God hath sent upon us as tokens of his love to us if they awaken us to zealous repentance For so our Saviour there incourages us to hope in the words foregoing As many as I love I rebuke chasten be zealous therefore and repent There would be some hope of us if we could but see that indifferency that chilness nay deadness which is in too many spirits turn'd into a warm nay burning zeal both in the Service of God and for his Service I. Be zealous therefore first in your Devotions of which I have spoken something already But let me again beseech you to stir up your selves to make your supplications to God with more inflamed affection for the King for the Parliament for the Bishops and Pastors of the Flock of Christ for the Magistrates for one another that all and every of these in their several places may attend their duty and perform it faithfully and zealously Instead of finding fault as the manner is with this and the other person whose actions do not please us let us fall upon our Knees and with fervent prayers intreat the Divine Majesty that he will bend their hearts to study to do those things which are pleasing and acceptable in his sight and to do them with all their might remembring there is no work nor device in the Grave whither they are going We tell God every day in the Collect for our Soveraign Lord the King that we most heartily beseech him he may alway incline to Gods will and walk in his way O that there were indeed such a heart in us as Moses speaks and that we would constantly with more fervour than ever put up that Petition for his Majesty Beseeching him also by whom Kings reign to be his defender and keeper and not to suffer any of the Sons of violence to approach to do him hurt With the like ardent zeal should we daily say the following Prayer for the Queen his Royal Highness and all the Royal Family that he would endue them with his holy Spirit and enrich them with his heavenly grace Of which things did we make a greater conscience and were not careless and frozen in our Devotions we might hope to obtain that which we so much desire a clearer discovery of the snares our Enemies have laid for us For which I beseech you to pray with all the ardour that you are able to raise up in your hearts that God would bring to light still more and more the hidden works of darkness Be importunate with him who sees into the greatest secrets to lay bare to the very bottom all the wicked contrivances that are against us Call upon him likewise with the same fervour that he would endue his Ministers with righteousness and inspire them with such courage that they may behave themselves like men who have not received the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind Pray also that he would raise up the Spirits of those who are assembled in the High Court of Parliament to consult for our good unto the loftiest pitch of Christian resolution wisdom and integrity Beseech him to send among them a Spirit of might and power whereby they may act so resolutely and worthily that if any be false they may be daunted if any be faint-hearted they may be incouraged Finally pray that all the Lords people may Watch and stand fast in the faith quit themselves like men be strong and do all their things in charity loving one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Cor. XVI 13 14. 1 Pet. I. 22. II. But we must not content our selves meerly with this zeal in our devotions we must be zealous also of good works Tit. II. ult In order to this which is all the time will now give me leave to mention every soul of us must bestir himself to give a severe check to all vitious affections and actions and to root them out of himself and his family and wheresoever he hath any power looking upon these as the greatest Traitors in the Nation And since true zeal will always begin at home where we have most power to reform let every man search out with great care and cast out with great indignation whatsoever he finds in himself that is contrary to his Religion having a holy jealousie over himself lest any thing should escape his strictest examination For why should