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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30434	A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, on the 16th day of July, 1690, being the monthly-fast by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5892; ESTC R21629	20,709	42

PUBLISH'D By Her Majesty's Command A SERMON Preached before the QUEEN At WHITE-HALL On the 16 th Day of IULY 1690. BEING THE MONTHLY-FAST By the Right Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARUM LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXC THE Bishop of Salisbury's FAST-SERMON Before the QUEEN A SERMON Preach'd before the QUEEN At WHITE-HALL c. Psal. Lxxxv. Ver. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak Peace unto his People and to his Saints but let them not turn again to Folly IN all the various Turns of David's Life we find him neither so much lifted up with Success nor depressed with Misfortune that he went off from that Confidence in God which was his Basis and on which all his Hopes rested when he was beset with ten thousands of people that had compased him round about he was not afraid but laid himself down in peace and slept for it was God only that made him to dwell in safety and when his Afflictions grew so high that once his own People spake of stoning him yet even then when he had fainted unless he had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living he encouraged himself in the Lord his God And when a happy reverse of his affairs raised him to a vast Elevation and a Series of great Successes covered him with so much Glory that all his Enemies did fall or fly before him this change of his condition wrought no change in his mind unless it were to the better he imploying the hours of that Tranquillity which he had procured to himself and to his People in composing this Book of Psalms in which by a happy intermixture of the two charmingest things in the World Poetry and Musick he studied to raise in himself and in his People the loftiest Thoughts of God and the most grateful acknowledgments of his Mercies that was possible There is somewhat in Misfortune and Affliction that gives Men naturally a Cast towards Religion and Devotion For the Mind being driven in upon it self and forced to think much if it is apt to be overcharged with Melancholy then it encreases its trouble by severe Thoughts drawn from the Considerations of Religion but if it is naturally gay and cheerful then it entertains it self with such a pleasant prospect of Hope as Religion proposes Thus it is so common to all men in trouble to look towards God that unless the mind is strongly fortified against those Impressions they will then break in upon it But the Charms of Ease and Prosperity of Greatness and Glory do soon deface all those good thoughts which arise out of blacker circumstances the mind stays no more within it self but is softened with pleasures and dissipated with business or folly and retains neither its former wise thoughts nor good resolutions yea that very Devotion which was ones Sanctuary and Relief in the evil day becomes matter of Raillery in the daies of mirth and gaiety How different from all this was this great King who though he was raised from a low condition to an high dignity which often brings a Giddiness over weak minds that cannot bear such an unlookt-for progress in their Fortunes and that extraordinary Merits a high Courage a wise Conduct and great Vertues made that his advancement might be considered as the Effect as well as the Reward of his worth yet he ascribes all his Deliverances all his Victories and all his Glory wholly to the Goodness of God and to his great designs in which he was employed as an Instrument that how glorious soever it might be was yet only an Instrument in the hands of that Eternal Mind that raises up and uses all persons in subserviency to those ends for which all things were made and do still subsist In these his Raptures he did not think it would derogate from his glory to acknowledg that he did not trust in his Bow neither did his Sword save him but that it was God that had saved him from his Enemies and had put them to shame that hated him that God was his Refuge and Strength that vain was the strength of man that a King was not delivered by the multitude of an Host nor was a mighty man delivered by much Strength that God was his Deliverer and his Shield in whom he trusted that subdued the People under him that gave salvation to Kings and that delivered David his servant from the hurtful sword The Conquests and the Treasures of David are perhaps Objects which strike the minds of some Princes while his Courage and his Wisdom raise a nobler Ambition in others But alas shall his Piety and Devotion have no force to work on great Minds raised to great Dignities who how much soever they may be exalted above the rest of Mankind yet still in comparison to God and when put in the ballance with him they are altogether lighter than vanity What a new face would the World put on if it were governed by Princes of such a temper as appears in David when he composed this Psalm of which my Text is a part He begins it with a grateful remembrance of the Deliverances of former times and particularly of their being redeemed out of the Bondage their Fathers suffered in the Land of Egypt Lord thou hast been favourable unto thy land thou hast brought back the captivity of Iacob thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people thou hast covered all their sin thou hast taken away all thy wrath thou hast turned thy self from the fierceness of thine anger These are both acknowledgments of past Mercies and encouragements to hope for a return of the like Blessings since such extraordinary favours were marks of a particular care and kindness that seemed to watch over them From these he proceeds to an earnest Intercession for the People who it seems were then under signal characters of God's displeasure Turn us O God of our salvation and cause thine anger towards us to cease Wilt thou be angry with us for ever Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations Wilt thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoyce in thee Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation Words of great tenderness that express both a deep sense of God's anger and a most earnest desire of being again restored to his favour After these comes my Text which carries in it a Poetical Allusion to the consulting of the Cloud of Glory which was between the Cherubims and to the receiving Answers from it upon all critical occasions David turned his thoughts from all the other views he might have to this I will hear what God the Lord will speak that so he might depend wholly on the assurances that he should receive of God's favour upon the Repentance and Prayers of the People and in consideration of God's Covenant with them he knew the