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A61637	A sermon preach'd to the House of Peers, Novemb. 13th, 1678 being the Fast-day appointed by the King to implore the mercies of Almighty God in the protection of His Majesties sacred person, and His Kingdoms / by William Archbishop of Canterbury.	Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1678 (1678)	Wing S568; ESTC R8680	17,372	42

necessary the great Duty of this and of every Day namely to implore God's Mercy and Protection upon the King and his Kingdoms and his Direction and Blessing upon the publick Counsels Let my Counsel I pray be acceptable unto you Study to be quiet and to do your own Business and that lies not in the Court or in the Palace but here in the Temple 'T is not to listen at the Doors of the two Houses of Parliament or to Eves-drop the Council-Chamber but to wait in your proper Stations with Modesty and Patience what Avisoes and Commands are sent you from thence and to comply with them Instead of thronging and pestering the Galleries and Avenues of those places where Matters of State are upon the Table what a blessed Appearance were it in times of Danger such as this is to see the Church Doors alwaies open and the great Stream and Shole of People continually flowing thither and to find some of you alwaies upon the Floor there Weeping between the Porch and the Altar and saying Spare thy People Oh Lord and give not thy Heritage to Reproach Thou hast brought up a Vine out of Egypt Thou hast cast out the Heathen and planted it Let not the Wild Boar out of the Wood root it up nor the Wild Beast of the Field devour it Let thy Hand be upon the Man of thy right Hand whom thou hast made so strong for thy self Keep him as the Apple of thine Eye Hide him under the shadow of thy Wings Let his Dayes be many and his Reign prosperous and under his shadow let both Church and State long flourish And let them be confounded and driven backward as many as have Evil Will at Sion To furnish out an Office for such daily Devotions 't is but to take your Psalter along with you in your Hand which is full of them But especially let me commend to you that Decad of Psalms which begins with the livth and so on which may seem to have been put together on purpose for such an Occasion This would be indeed effectually to transcribe holy David's Copy in this his Exemplary and ardent Devotion which is the second Duty requir'd in the Text to prepare us for the protection of God's Wing There is but one more behind and that is 3 Constant Perseverance in both the former In the two former you have seen holy David putting himself under the shadow of God's Wings and making good his Refuge there by Acts of Faith and Devotion And being once there no storm shall beat him off No Discouragement shall drive him away No delay shall weary him out If God kills him 't is all one hee 'll trust in him still and die in his Arms For here he hath set up his Rest and Donec transierint he is steddily resolv'd his Refuge is and shall be here till these Calamities are overpast But here we must take heed of a great Mistake There are that hold the Donec in the Text too hard and stiff are too punctual and precise with God in it who will trust in him it may be and ply their Devotions just so long as till the Calamity be past But then on the sudden their Trust grows feeble and their Devotion cold and heartless No sooner deliver'd but like old Israel they forget God at the Sea even at the Red Sea Use him like Themistocle's Plane-trees under which men run for shelter in a Storm but the Shower once over they pluck off the Branches turn their backs and away Nay but there is in Scripture-language an infinite and an interminable Donec which never expires He knew her not till she brought forth Nay he never knew her In spight of Helvidius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Church stile her A Virgin before and in and after the Birth of our Lord and for ever Ay that 's the Virgin-Soul indeed that keeps ever close to her heavenly Spouse Not only runs under his Wings for Shelter when Calamities affright her saying Spread thy Skirt over me and then straies away again as soon as ever the flattering Calm and Sunshine of Prosperity tempts her abroad As our Lord hath given us an everlasting Donec Lo I am with you saith he till the End of the World Not that he will leave us then but take us yet nigher unto himself and so we shall ever be with the Lord as the Apostle speaks So must we also have One for him of the same Latitude and Extension For ever under the Shadow of his Wings till this single Tyranny as in the Old Translation till these Calamities as in the New or as the Hebrew implies till all and every of our Calamities be overpast Both before and in and after Calamities still under the Shadow of God's Wings While they last 't is In the Shadow of thy Wings will I trust and when they are past 't is In the Shadow of thy Wings will I rejoyce that 's all the Difference As the Scenes shift our Devotion must improve and advance too till our Prayer be heighten'd into Praise as I trust ere long it will be our Hope swallowed in Enjoyment and our Trust sublimated and made to flowre up into Joy and riumph When the same God that rais'd David from the Cave to the Throne shall translate us also from the Shadow of his Wings into the Light of his Countenance To the Beatifical Vision whereof He of his Mercy bring us who hath so dearly bought it for us Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with thee O Father and God the Holy Ghost be ascribed of us and all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth Blessing Honour Glory and Power both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Orig. Philocal p. 59 Ps. CV 39. Jac. I. 11. L. 17. c. 12. In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 17. 8. 18. 10. Ps. XVIII 10. Ex. XIX 4. Deut. XXXII 11. Rev. XII 4. Es. VIII 8. Gen. I. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Schol. on Aratus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LXVI I. Chald. Engl. Gen. Ps. CIV 18. Psal. cix 10. Esa. xxx 3. Aristoph De Adorat lib. 16. Psal. xliv 6. xxxiii 16. Psal. lv 6. See his Life Psal. xxxvii 3-5 1 Pet. iv ult Prov. xix 29. Psal. xxxii 9. Psal. xxxi 24. Exod. xxv 20. Hebr. ix 5. Psal. cxxi 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. i. ult 1 Thess. iv 17.

's the progress of David's Trust It goes on in active Diligence Thirdly It is consummate as in the last Act in clear and perfect Resignation to God's good pleasure in the Event whatever it be They trust not in God entirely and as they ought that rely only on his Power and dare not submit to his Wisdom also that would gladly engage Omnipotence on their side and can you blame them but then they would manage it their own Way and in Methods of their own Contriving and to Ends it may be far distant from what God hath appointed As if he would work Journey-work under them and leave them to be Masters of the great Shop of the World No but as Luther said well when his Friend Melanchthon troubled himself overmuch at some cross Events Desinat Philippus esse Rector Mundi 'T is God alone who sits in Heaven and doth whatever pleaseth him If we be not content with the Portion he allots us but will needs be carving for our selves elsewhere or otherwise or if we be not satisfied with his Conduct of the Affairs of the World but think with the great Alphonso that we could mend the Systeme what is this but in Effect to turn our Backs upon God and to set up for our selves upon our own wretched Stock and implicitly at least to renounce the shadow of his Wings and all the privileges of it Pulli non prospiciunt saith One Young Birds have no Designs or Forecasts of their own but are wholly under the Dams Conduct And if we are allow'd to have any our selves be they never so deeply laid or so wisely contriv'd so skilfully managed or so vigorously pursu'd We must at last intirely submit and sacrifice them all to that Soveraign Wisdom and Power which ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and orders them in all things according to the good pleasure of his VVill. To summ up then this whole great Duty of Affiance in God with all the parts and Branches of it He trusts Regularly in God that trusts in Nothing else first And yet secondly doth every thing he can or is oblig'd to do by his Duty And thirdly when he hath done All sits down at last under the shadow of God's VVings and waits the Success in Faith and Hope with perfect Resignation to God's wise and just Appointment in all things That is the first Duty implied in the Expression a pious Trust and Confidence in God The 2 d Is an ardent and flaming Devotion toward God and his holy Worship and Service in his Temple Under the shadow of thy Wings will I make my Refuge 't is certainly an Allusion to the Holy of Holies where was the Ark of the Covenant the Symbol of God's gracious presence over which the Cherubim of Glory stretcht forth their VVings on high and shadowed the Mercy-seat Between which VVings was God's Dwelling-place his Shekinah or Majestatique presence And therefore when Ruth the Moabitess became Proselyte to the Jewish Religion and VVorship she is said to come to trust under the Wings of the God of Israel Ruth ii 12. There are also Alae Ecclesiarum which we meet with in Church-writers as we corruptly call them the Isles of Churches and in the Gospel it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pinacles or if we will render it close and just Wings of the Temple From the saving Covert and Protection whereof as 't is the Devil's Business to tempt and withdraw us and so to cast us down from one of our noblest Heights and Defences So on the contrary holy David's great Example here and the clear Importance of the VVords of my Text lead us directly thither that is the last and most illustrious Resort of the Expression and bring us up with Boldness to seek and make our Refuge even under the VVings of the Cherubim of Glory And indeed VVhere can we find on Earth so safe or so comfortable a Retreat when Calamities assail or threaten us as here in the House of our God Doth not his Cross stand over it on purpose to direct us hither when we are ready to sink under the Burthen of our own When God's Judgements are abroad in the World and the Avenger of our Sins pursues us More particularly When the Land is mov'd and divided when the Pillars thereof shake and tremble and the Foundations are ready to be cast down when all things are in Ferment and in Commotion round about us and Men's Hearts ready to fail them for Fear and for looking after those things which are coming upon the Earth Where should we rather take Sanctuary where can we more probably find Help and Redress than at the Altar of the God of Mercy and under the shadow of the Wings of his Mercy-seat This was holy David's steddy Resolve when his Heart was overwhelmed as he speaks Ps. lxi 2. I will abide in thy Tabernacle for ever I will trust or I will make my Refuge in the Cover of thy Wings v. 4 th And when his Afflictions put him beside that Guard set him at Distance from those happy Opportunities took him down from those blessed Heights Yet still even at the lowest I will lift up mine eyes saith he to the Hills at least cast a long Look toward Sion from whence cometh my Help This was the Sting of all his Sorrows as it were the Calamity Royal he so groans under almost in every Psalm not that Saul or Absalom had driven him from his own but from God's House Though the Holy Land was of no large Extent Yet as if he had been banisht to the Antipodes From the Ends of the Earth saith he have I cried unto thee Psal. lxi 2. Though his Devotion consecrated every place he came into turn'd the Cave into a Chappel and the Wilderness of Judah into Holy Ground and I had almost said even Gath of the Philistins into a Holy City for we have Psalms dated from every One of these Yet still he sighs Oh restore me Oh bring me Oh set me up upon the Rock that is higher than I He means without Doubt the Hill of Sion the Pico of Jewry where God's House was establisht upon the Tops of the Mountains as the Prophet speaks Esa. ii 2. Men and Brethren you that make up the more popular part of this mixt Audience Let me freely speak to you of the Patriarch David and of your selves Blessed be the Mercies of God you lie under no such Restraint or Interdict as he did You are not banisht into the Wilderness nor shut up in the Cave The Doors of God's House stand open to you if you please and the Wings of his Mercy are stretcht out wide to invite and receive you would you but come in and put your selves under the shadow of them Let it not be said that your Curiosity or some worse Humour leads you quite another way that you are over-careful and troubled about many things which belong not to you while you neglect the one thing