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A30420 A sermon preached before the Aldermen of the city of London, at St. Lawrence-church, Jan 30. 1680/1 being the day of the martyrdome of K. Charles I. / by Gilbert Burnet ... Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1681 (1681) Wing B5875; ESTC R14664 19,574 37

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A SERMON Preached before the ALDERMEN OF THE City of London AT St. Lawrence-Church Ian 30. 1680 1. Being the day of the Martyrdome of K. CHARLES I. By GILBERT BURNET D. D. LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1681. TO THE Right Honourable Sr. Patience VVard LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON My Lord THE favourable account that was brought your Lordship of this Sermon your self by an Indisposition being kept from bearing it as it induced you to desire to see it in Print which seconded by the Order of the Court of Aldermen does now make it appear in publick so it will give a new discovery of the little credit that is due to Report which though it errs more generally on the severer side yet in this Instance was too partial to so poor a Performance But the Argument treated in it will cover many faults Especially meeting with such Equitable Iudges as your Lordship is Since the acquitting the Reformed Religion of such a scandal as has been cast on it upon the account of that great wickedness then commemorated and the persuading all Protestants to live in Peace and Love together are subjects so acceptable to your Lordship and so suitable to our present unhappy Circumstances that the most imperfect Essay towards them will I presume be well received and the Defe is of it easily forgiven by one that employs himself with so much Zeal and Fidelity in the securing our Holy Religion and the maintaining of Truth and Peace in that Great City now under your Lordships Government May the God of Truth and Peace lead us into the way of his Truth and make us know the things that belong to our peace and may your Lordship be a great Instrument in promoting it This is earnestly prayed for by My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most obedient servant G. BURNET ZECHARY VIII 19. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts The Fast of the Fourth month and the Fast of the Fifth and the Fast of the Seventh and the Fast of the Tenth shall be to the House of Judah joy and gladness and cheerful Feasts therefore love the Truth and Peace IT may be justly doubted whether horrid and unexempled crimes ought not rather to be buried in oblivion than be remembred though with the greatest detestation possible The mentioning them too often may make them grow too familiar to our thoughts and some may be tempted to like them and approve what it is designed they should abhor Yet on the other hand some things carry in the first appearance of them such odious characters that the nature of man shrinks at the very mentioning them so that the frequent remembring them will encrease the horrour at them and the shewing the precipice over which some have fallen may warn others to beware of approaching too near it for fear of the like ruine and destruction I acknowledge it were better if we could have Iob's wish That that day should perish that darkness and the shadow of death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the day nor should the light shine upon it It were better to strike it out of our Kalendar and to make our Ianuary determine at the 29th and add these remaining days to February But alas this cannot be done we cannot wipe out this blot what was done can never be forgotten It cannot by others and by us it ought not to be forgotten The whole world lookt on with amazement not knowing whether more to admire the heinousness of the crime the wickedness of the actors or the patience and constancy of the sufferer The cry was loud on Earth but much louder in Heaven The shrieks and tears of many good Subjects and particularly in this Great City which as I have been informed spent that day in a general mourning and bitter lamentation and astonishment followed it fast to deprecate those judgements which such guilt gave them cause to apprehend But the prayers of this Martyr went before it for averting that Curse which he feared should but prayed that it might not fall on his people We have been since above twenty years putting up by publique authority and in the name of the whole Nation David's Prayer Deliver us from blood-guiltiness O God thou God of our our Salvation So it may be now perhaps thought that after so long a continuance of mourning this sin is expiated and the land purged from the defilement of it Upon which some may ask the Question set down in the former Chapter Should I weep separating Chap. 7. 3. my self as I have done these so many years The Iews had during the seventy years of the Captivity Fasted in those months mentioned in my Text the chief steps of that calamity which had so overwhelmed them having been made in these months On the tenth month and the tenth day of the month which according to Arch-bishop Usher is exactly our 30th of Ianuary the King of Babylon besieged Ierusalem he took it on the fourth month It was burnt on the 2 King 21. 1. Ibid. ver 3. Ibid. v. ● Ibid. v. 25. fifth month and on the seventh month was Gedaliah killed Upon which the few that were left behind were broken among themselves and dispersed But of all these that on the fifth month was the most solemn Fast and therefore when the Question was put concerning the continuance of the Fast that is only mentioned and no wonder For the burning of the Temple was not only a temporal calamity but it deprived them of all the means of obtaining the favour of God of expiating their sins by sacrifices and of consulting the Urim and Thummim It seemed reasonable enough for them to Fast during the Captivity while they lay under the sensible effects of these judgements which had broke out upon them in those days But that being over and they being again restored to their Native Countrey it was no unreasonable thing for them to put the Question whether that should be still kept up To this three things are answered First That they had not Fasted aright on these days Ch. 7. v. 5. When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month even these seventy years did ye at all fast unto me even unto me Intimating that it had been only Pageantry and matter of form they had perhaps hanged down their heads like a Bull-rush put on Sackcloth and covered their heads with ashes which were the usual rites of mourning among them but there had been nothing done on those days suteable to the occasion for averting the wrath of God which had then broke out and was still hanging over them Secondly The Prophet directs them to do such things which became true penitents and those that indeed afflicted their souls to execute true judgement Ibid. 8 9 10. ver 17. and shew mercy and compassions every man to his neighbour not to oppress the widow or the fatherless