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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45493	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guildhall-Chappel, Septemb. 19, 1680 by Robert Hancocke ...	Hancock, Robert, fl. 1680-1686.	1680 (1680)	Wing H645; ESTC R10880	15,293	37

CLAYTON Mayor Jovis xxiii o die Septemb. 1680. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angl ' c. xxxiio. THis Court doth desire Mr. Hancocke to print his Sermon Preached at the Guildhall-Chappel on Sunday last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen Wagstaffe A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor AND THE COURT of ALDERMEN AT Guildhall-Chappel Septemb. 19. 1680. By ROBERT HANCOCKE Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge and Rector of Northill in Bedfordshire LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft for Tho. Flesher at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard and W. Leech at the Crown in Cornhill 1680. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Robert Clayton Kr. Lord Mayor of the City of London And to the Court of Aldermen Right Honourable THE present Juncture of our Affairs is such that nothing but the most active Zeal for our Religion the most constant Loyalty to the King and the firmest Vnion among our selves can without a Miracle secure this Church and Kingdom The design of the following Discourse is to recommend these great indispensable Duties and to root out all those Lusts and Passions which are destructive of true Religion or Human Society and apt to foment Intestine Divisions or Forreign Vsurpations God grant that in this our Day we may yet know the things that belong to our Peace the preservation of his Majesties Person and Government and the continuance of the true Reformed Religion among us I am Right Honourable Your most humble and most obedient Servant Robert Hancocke St. Luke XIX 42. If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace but now they are hidden from thine eyes IN these Words we have a great Instance both of the stupidity and incorrigibleness of the Jews and of our Saviour's love and tenderness towards his implacable Enemies For he was no sooner come within view of Jerusalem but he laments those Desolations which by the just Judgment of God were breaking in upon them When he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it (a) Verse 41. And as he could not behold their destruction without tears so neither would he express his apprehensions of it without some kind of abruptness Whether there was an irreversible Decree already past in Heaven against the Jewish Nation as it cannot be determined from this Text so it is besides my present purpose to enquire But it is more certain that a flaming Sword was now hanging over their heads there were too many Symptoms of their approaching ruin and our Saviour in the next Verse tells them plainly That the Romans should be the Executioners of the Divine Vengeance upon them Yet some of the Jews were secure and inapprehensive of the common Danger and the rest did neither resolve the Judgments of God into their proper Principles nor comply with the end and design of them by considering the time of their Visitation (b) Verse 44. These profound Politicians invented a new State-engine the putting Christ to death to secure themselves not only from the Romans but from their own Sins too They frustrated all the designs of God's Mercies and Judgments they filled up the measure of their Fathers and at last they forced the Almighty to find out unheard of methods of punishment as might be shewed from the fatal circumstances of that dreadful Story I know we have not yet had as loud Alarms from Heaven as they but yet we have just reason to believe that God in the way of his Providence speaks to us in the language of the Text If you had known c. Or Oh that ye would yet know and lay to heart the things that belong to your peace c. For are not our Divisions and Animosities as high Are not our sins aggravated with as signal mercies and deliverances as theirs We are crumbled into as many Sects and Parties as they and most of them are so much more intent upon their private Interests then upon the common Interest of Protestants that it seems no very hard matter for the Modern Romans to enter in at those Breaches which are made amongst us There were two things which were both the Causes and Symptoms of the Jewish Calamities 1. Ageneral corruption and licentiousness in the lives of men 2. Those unnatural dissentions and feuds among themselves If ever our Adversaries of Rome prevail against us they must make use of these two mighty Advantages which we have put into their hands and so long as our Sins and our Divisions are battering our Walls and pecking at our Foundations I know nothing but a Miracle of Mercy that can preserve our Religion and Government These were the Causes of our former Sufferings as they are of our present fears and the doing what in us lies in our respective Capacities towards the removal of them is the only effectual way of minding the things which belong to the peace of our Church and Kingdom I crave leave therefore to represent and enforce this seasonable Duty with respect to the present juncture of Affairs so far as the peculiar care of some and the prayers and endeavours of all of you are concerned in it 1. We must begin with a sincere Reformation and cleansing our selves from all manner of Debauchery and Prophaneness The Wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable (c) St. James 3.17 and till the Lusts that war in our Members be subdued 't is in vain to look for a lasting Settlement for there is no peace to the wicked (d) Isai 57.21 If ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your King (e) Sam. 12.25 But to descend to particulars our continuance in Licentiousness and Irreligion is the way to subvert the Civil Peace to let in Popery or else a meer empty Formal Religion among us 1. It is the way to subvert the Civil Peace If the sinful Lusts and Passions of men do naturally tend to the dissolution of a Government if the Divine Protection be that wherein the Safety of a Kingdom doth consist if the practice of Christian Righteousness be that alone which can entitle us to the favour of God If downright Atheism or the contempt of all revealed Religion if the most monstruous Ingratitude or the most obstinate Incorrigibleness if the mocking of God by Hypocritical Wickedness or the proclaiming War against him by notorious Prophaneness can provoke him to Wrath and Vengeance then I am sure that nothing but a timely Reformation can provide for the Peace and Settlement of this Kingdom 2. This is the way to let in Popery among us For that 's a Religion such a one as it is that all loose and licentious People are already prepared for 't is the most pleasant and easie the most gay and pompous Religion in the World 't is such a one as they would devise were they to make a Religion for themselves For the truth of this Charge I