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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

Die Jovis 24 Octobris 1678. ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury be and is hereby appointed to Preach before the House of Peers in the Abbey-Church at Westminster on Wednesday the Thirteenth Day of November next being the Day appointed by His Majesty for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation to implore the Mercy and Protection of God Almighty upon the King's Majesty and His Kingdoms JO. BROWNE Cleric Parliamentorum A SERMON PREACH'D to the House of Peers Novemb. 13 th 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 In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Robert Beaumont 1678. Die Jovis 14 Novembris 1678. ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury for his Pains in Preaching before the House of Peers in the Abbey-Church Yesterday being the Day appointed by His Majesty for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation and that His Grace be desired to Print and Publish his Sermon then Preached JO. BROWNE Cleric Parliamentorum A SERMON Preach'd to the House of Peers PSALM Lvii. 1. In the Shadow of thy Wings will I make my Refuge until these Calamitie be overpast WHat S. Hierom observ'd long since concerning this Book of Psalms Titulos esse Claves that the Title is usually the true Key of David to set open the Psalm to us and to let us in to the true Understanding of it he learn'd probably from a former Author with who 's Writings he was in his younger years much delighted Origen I mean Who in his Tomes upon the Psalms discoursing of some Obscurities in Holy Scripture and the proper Remedies thereof gives us yet a more ancient Tradition which he receiv'd as he saith from a learned Jew That the whole Body of Scripture is like a great House in which are several Appartments and therein many Rooms shut up and in them again many Cabinets and Boxes lockt down Nor hangs the proper Key at every Door but they lie scatter'd here and there and counterchang'd so that it requires some pains and skill to find them out and apply them aright Thus the Key of the Prophetick Scripture lies in the Historical where we often find both the Occasion of the Prophecy and the Event too and that proves usually the best Interpreter Thus the Acts of the Apostles which contein the Peregrinations and Gests of St. Paul are a great Master-Key to open his Epistles and to unlock to us many things hard otherwise to be understood in them And thus in the present Instance David's History is the proper Key to David's Psalter and so the Books of Samuel the Kings and Chronicles the best and most authentick Commentary upon the Psalms For this now before us lest we should mistake the Spirit of God hath hung the Key at the Door or at least pointed us whence to fetch it and while the Title dates it from the Cave we are plainly directed to 1 Sam. xxiv There we find the holy Man in a great streit of Affliction wandring like an Exile or Bandito in the Wilderness of Engedi the few Men he had stragling and shifting for themselves upon the Rocks of the wild Goats implacable Saul in the mean time with five times his Number so closely pursuing him that he is forc'd to take shelter in the Cave And there being shut up from the Sight of Heaven and light of the Sun and as it were buried alive in that obscure Dungeon surrounded with Danger on every side and little Hope left him of escaping with his Life 't is then that he sighs out his Al-taschith as this and the two following Psalms are entitled Oh destroy me not utterly so the Word signifies but let me live to praise thy Name 't is then that by a vigorous Faith he flies to the tender Mercies of God as to his only City of Refuge and reposing himself in the Bosom of the Divine Goodness by Acts of Faith and Devotion and of perseverance in both he doth exactl and precisely that which We all are enjoyn'd to do this Day he implores the Mercies of God in the Protection of himself and in him of those that belong to him Be merciful unto me O God saith he be merciful unto me for my Soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy Wings will I make my Refuge until these Calamities be overpast So that the proper business of this Day being visibly stampt in great Letters upon the Forehead of the Day and that by the Hand of Sacred Authority it self and the Lines of the Text too running so parallel all along and so commensurate to those of the Day upon which Ground the whole Psalm was very pertinently selected as one of the proper Psalms for the Office of the Day I may hope in some Degree to discharge my Duty to both of them by treating of these two things What God's Protection is and What we are to do that we may be qualifi'd and prepar'd aright successfully to implore the Mercy of that Protection In Order whereunto I will consider the Text in a twofold Reference I. As it looks down from God to us-ward in gracious and powerful Protections and so it speaks our great Honour and Happiness the high and glorious Privilege of pious Kings and their Kingdoms that they are under the Shadow of God's Wings II. As it looks up in another Aspect from Us to God again and so it contains our necessary and indispensable Duty and calls aloud for our suitable Deportment which is resolvedly to put our selves under the Divine Protection or to seek and make our Refuge under the Shadow of his Wings I. I begin with the high and glorious Priviledge of all holy Souls but especially of pious Kings and their Kingdoms They are under the shadow of God's Wings The Expression frequently occurs in Scripture and may seem to speak these three things or some of them which together will give you I think the full Extent of the shadow of God's Wings the adequate Importance of this illustrious Metaphor 1. Safeguard and Defence from Calamities that they come not Or 2. Speedy Help and Deliverance out of Calamities when they are come Or however 3. Comfort in the mean time and Refreshment in Calamities while they are upon us 1. The Priviledge of Safety and Protection from Calamities stands first in our Method intimated here in a threefold Expression A Refuge a Shadow and the shadow of Wings 1. And what is a Refuge which is the first but a place of Security either in regard of its secrecy to hide us or its strength to defend us to which we flie when Calamity threatens us And such is God to his People a City of Refuge an inviolable Sanctuary an Altar of Mercy to which we may flie and

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.