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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61503	Lex ignea, or, The school of righteousness a sermon preached before the King, Octob. 10, 1666, at the solemn fast appointed for the late fire in London / by William Sandcroft ...	Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1666 (1666)	Wing S553; ESTC R14856	26,604	37

Suum proximo give God his Due and your Neighbour too These are the integral parts of it So that Righteousness as the great Rule of it hath two Tables or if you will two Hemispheres the upper and the nether Both so vast that we cannot measure them in a Span the Span of time allotted me I shall therefore contract them to the occasion and give you only some of those particular Lessons of Righteousness which this present Judgment of God upon our Land seems most clearly to take us forth both in relation to God himself and to our Neighbours and then call you and my self to a serious Scrutiny how well we have learn'd them and so an end And first we begin as we ought in giving God his due in rendring to God the things that are Gods To limit this wide Universality too and render it more proper and peculiar we may reduce all to that first of Esai's three Songs mention'd at the beginning Glorifie ye the Lord in the Fires giving him upon this sad Occasion the Glory of that great Trinity of his Attributes the Glory of his Power and Majesty the Glory of his Justice and Equity the Glory of his Goodness and Mercy Give him the Glory of his Power and Greatness which the Prophet calls singing for the Majesty of the Lord Cap. xxiv 15. or beholding the Majesty of the Lord when his Hand is lifted up in the verse after my Text. How great and glorious our God is who is in himself incomprehensible appears best by the glorious greatness of his Works If he builds it is a World Heaven and Earth and the Fulness of both If he gives it is his only Son out of his Bosom the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person If he rewards 't is a Crown 't is a whole Heaven of Glories If he be angry he sends a deluge opens the Cataracts of Heaven above and breaks up the Fountains of the great Deep below and pours forth whole Flouds of Vengeance Or else he rains down Hell out of Heaven and in a moment turns a Land like the Garden of God into a dead Sea and a lake of Brimstone If he discover himself by any overt expression of his Power though the Intention be meer Mercy and loving Kindness Mortality shrinks from it and cannot bear it When his Glory descends on Mount Sinai the people remove and stand afar off and Let not God speak with us say they lest we die and Depart from me O Lord saith S. Peter amaz'd at that miraculous draught of Fishes How much more should the Inhabitants of the World tremble before him when his great and sore Judgments are in the Earth Tremble thou Earth the presence of God saith the Psalmist even when he improves the hard Rock into a Springing Well much more when a fruitful Land he turns into barrenness or a stately City into Ashes for the wickedness of them that dwell therein I am horribly asraid saith David for the ungodly that sorsake thy Law and I exceedingly sear and quake said Moses at the giving of it But when our Lord shall come again to require it The Powers of Heaven shall be shaken too the Angels themselves as S. Chrysestom interprets though pure and innocent Creatures shall tremble 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to see the severity of that Judgment How much rather ought we wretched Creatures that we are conscious to our selves of Dust and Sin to tremble and quake at the Wrath of this dread Lord of the Universe at whose Voice alone the great Emporous Caligula runs under the Bed and the mighty Bel-shazzar's Loins are loosed and his knees knock one against another when God but writes bitter things against him on the Wall It were a vain Affectation to attempt a Description of the greatness of our late horrible Devastation This were to be Ambitiosus in Malis to chew over all our Wormwood and our Gall again This were Rogum ascia polire which the xii TABLES forbad to carve and paint the wood of our Funeral pile I shall only call back your thoughts to stand with me upon the prospect of that horrid Theatre of the divine Judgments and say Come hither and behold the Works of the Lord what Desolation he hath made in the Earth and then who will not joyn with me to say upon so convincing an occasion We humble our selves under the Almighty Hand of God the Lord of all the World We adore his Power and Majesty in lowly prostrations before whom all the Nations of the World are as a Drop of the Bucket the Globe of the Earth as the small Dust of the Balance and who taketh up the Isles even our Great Britains too as we call them as a very little thing Great and marvelous are thy Works O Lord God Almighty who would not fear thee and glorifie thy Name when thy Judgments are thus manifest Thou hast brought them down that dwell on high and laid the lofty City low even to the Ground the Joyous City of our Solemnities the Royal Chamber the Emporium of the World the Mart of Nations the very Top Gallant of all our Glory in the Dust. Even so Holy Father for so it seemed good in thy sight We say not to our God What do'st thou Wherefore hath the Lord done thus to this great City we reply not we answer not again The Lord hath spoken let all the Earth keep silence before him We acknowledg thy Hand in it O our God we submit to thy good pleasure in it we wait for thy Comfort and thy Salvation in it We meekly kiss the Rod that strikes us With dying Jacob we desire to worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with perfect Resignation as we are able leaning and reposing upon the top of this thy severe Rod. For shall we rcceive Good at the hand of our God and shall we not receive Evil 'T is the same Blessed Hand that distributes and strikes and with equal Reverence and Affection we adore it whether he opens it wide in Bounty or contracts it close in severity The one the Divine Rhetorick to perswade us to learn Righteousnes the other his more irrefragable Logick to convince and constrain us And therefore we charge not our Maker foolishly but meekly accept the punishment of our Iniquity And having thus ador'd his Power which was the First we go on in the next place to acknowledg his Justice too saying with holy DAVID Righteous art thou O Lord and just are thy Judgments The second part of God's Due Give him the Glory of his Justice also and if you learn no other Righteousness in his School at least learn His and frankly confess it too For though God's Judgments may be secret yet they cannot be unjust Like the great Deep indeed an Abyss unfathomable But though we have no Plumb-line of Reason that can reach it