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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48381	A sermon preach'd in the Cathedral-Church at Ely, July the 24th, 1698 on occasion of His Majesty's proclamation against atheism, and profaneness, &c / by Charles Lidgould ...	Lidgold, Charles, d. 1701.	1699 (1699)	Wing L1978; ESTC R15964	16,733	28

often as opportunities offer themselves it might soon be jeered into corners and made ashamed to shew its head and so by degrees in a little time be quite laugh'd out of the World We find there are few if any of these Atheistical Scoffers that so often wound our Ears with their Profane Jests that when they come to dye can forbear crying out Lord be merciful Who yet would look upon us as very barbarous and severe should we then sarcastically bespeak them in the Language of Elijah to Baal's Priests Cry aloud for he is a God Peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked 1 Kin. 18.27 And yet it would be no more than what they justly deserve who have all their Life time so abused him as if they thought he were indeed a-sleep and heard them not or rather as if they did not believe there were any such Being at all If we could by this or any other means suppress the growth of such monstrous Wickedness we should hope we were in a fair way to appease the Wrath of a provoked God but if something more were not yet done we should not be altogether without fear that his Anger is not quite turned away but his hand is stretched out still Is 9.12 I have already told you that the immediate occasion of the Jews Overthrow was Zedekiah's breaking the Oath he had taken to the King of Babylon Perjury And unless several among us that have Sworn Allegiance to his present Majesty who has hitherto so signally protected them even in spite of their teeth and their ungrateful endeavours to ruin his Designs forbear to trifle any longer with so Sacred a Thing as an Oath we have cause to expect that God may enter into Judgment with this Nation even for that crying Sin For Sedition and Treachery do naturally tend to the Ruin of the Innocent as well as of the Guilty and so long as such turbulent and unquiet Spirits reign among us we can never be secure How far the Innocent may suffer with the Guilty is not easie to foresee However I wish they who are this way Guilty could prevail with themselves to consider what a dreadful hazard they run and how certain a Judgment they are drawing on their own heads from the Example of God's terrible Vengeance on Zedekiah whereof I have before given an Account and whose Violation of his Oath God Almighty did esteem as a breach of Covenant against himself Seeing he despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when lo he had given his Hand and hath done all these things he shall not escape Therefore thus saith the Lord God as I live surely my Oath that he hath despised and my Covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head Ezek. 17. 18. 19. Disobedience And as for those who still refuse to take an Oath to our gracious Sovereign tho' he has been so long established in a quiet Possession of the Throne I shall only direct them to the Advice of those that were in Captivity to their Brethren that were left behind at Jerusalem Baruch 1.11.12 Pray for the lise of Nebuchadonosar King of Babylon and for the life of Balthasar his Son that their days may be upon the Earth as the days of Heaven And the Lord give us strength and lighten our Eyes and we shall live under the shadow of Nebuchadonosor King of Babylon and under the shadow of Balthasar his Son and we shall serve them many days and find favour in their sight Now if they should not only serve that King but think themselves obliged to pray for his long Life too we have no Reason to imagine that they made the least scruple of plighting their Faith to him even tho' they could not look upon him as their Rightful King in these Men's Notion of that World I shall add no more with respect to the many other Sins I mention'd whereby we have incurr'd the Wrath of Almighty God but shall beseech him to enlighen all our Eyes that we may see in this our day the Things that belong to our Peace Luke 19.42 And consider that if ever we hope to become a flourishing People it must be by fearing the Lord and the King and not medling with those that are given to change Pro. 4.21 By not swearing deceitfully Ps 24.4 By being zealous for the Honor of God and of the Son of God our Saviour promoting the Interest and Power of Religion in our several Stations by our Example by our Authority by our friendly Advice and Admonition and sweetly insinuating it into the Minds of others in the most engaging and winning manner we can think of In a word it must be by endeavouring with joynt hands and heart to advance the Honor and Welfare of our Nation by working Righteousness and following after Peace which the Lord has promis'd by his Prophet shall be the Product thereof The Work of Righteousness saith he shall be Peace and the effect of Righteousness Quietness and Assurance for ever Is 32.17 It is indeed this alone that can exalt a Nation but Sin as it is the Reproach Prov. 14.34 so it will be the Ruin of any People FINIS