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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30218	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the natives of St. Martins in the Fields, at their own parochial church, on May 29, 1684 by Richard Burd, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord President, and lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury ; published at the request of the stewards.	Burd, Richard.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5616; ESTC R34772	15,233	51

live under be not sufficient I hope the memory and experience of our late unhappy troubles will abundantly prevail upon the most stif necked amongst us Let any of our sectaries look back and consider the sad posture of affairs in the year 41. and recount if they can all the evils and mischiefs that gushed in upon the Nation during the Civil Wars I say let any of them that survived the calamity and had been for sometime under the hatches confess if they would pay so dear for Rebellion once more whether they could ever find in their hearts to set one foot towards the introducing again such dolorous and bloody times in these Kingdoms which I can parallel to nothing but a kind of Interregnum where after the death of the Alcade or chief Governour the people are allowed to do all manner of villanies until another is chosen Or to that sad time among the Jews when there was no King in Israel in the which every man did that which was lawful and right in his own eyes The old civilized Romans had such an opinion of the augustness of their City that to be proscribed or banished was counted a capital punishment and a civil death thought equal to a natural O that I could perswade all of you to be such brave spirited Romans and to have such a regard for this Royal City the Metropolis of our Nation never to commit any base or disloyal action as to merit proscription from it but be as constant and true to the King as we are fully convinced the Natives of this place are by this solemn anniversary Festival and if several Countries heretofore strove which should have the honour of Homers birth sure it is no small addition to our happiness seeing this very Parish is honoured with so good a Kings Nativity as well as ours And if we enjoy not now all the rights and priviledges which hath been long since continued to this our Imperial City we may e'ne thank some of its Pharisaical members who by their open Rebellions have forfeited the great Seal and Charter of it I pray God then we may all lay it to heart and let our Rebellion terminate here and every man sit down content and eat the fruit of his labour under his own Vine and under his own fig-Tree For what can any expect by disturbing and thwartning the Government but abundance of evils and calamities must ensue And then how deep will their guilt be and what a great deal of blood must be Spilt and how many lives lost in such wild heats and combustions Xerxes when he beheld his army pass before him it drew tears from his eyes that a hundred years hence there would not be a man of them left Here was something of good nature but we strive as fast as we can by our fierce debates and quarrellings to destroy and be the death of as many and to imbrue our hands one in anothers blood These are strange and preposterous doings and very ill-timed and most unchristian breaches and heartily to be lamented and sorrowed for and do much weaken our Nation and fit us for a final overthrow I remember Josephus sayes the unhappy divisions that were among the Jews in the time of their Siege did more shake the foundations of their City than Titus his whole Army without the Walls And in another place he has most impartially related that there was no care of Religion no zeal for the Law amongst them because there was nothing but bandings and factions in their Synagogues And I am afraid that our zeal for small and indifferent matters for circumstantials only hath quite eaten up the very Spirit and life of our Religion and well may we be bore down by the common enemy when we do all we can by our devilish and inhumane breaches to prepare the way and accelerate his coming in And besides this there is such a surplusage of Atheism and prophanness of irreligion and ungodliness abounding every where that notwithstanding what Juvenal remark long ago omne in praecipiti vitium Stetit all vice was at the height Yet if it be possible the times we now live in are worse And albeit some would insinuate that it is the humour of every age to cry down their own times yet iniquity is now grown so bare faced and rife in our streets that there is not the lest umbrage or colour for such a pretext And was there nothing more his is enough to throw us out of the protection of the Almighty and to make us the fag-end and refuse of Gods Creation For what saies Solomon righteousness exalteth a Nation but sin is the reproach and confusion of any people And to use the words of a great man the experience of every age has made this good All along the history of the old Testament we find the interchangeable providences of God towards the people of Israel always suited to their manners they were either prosperous or afflicted according as virtue and piety florished or declined amongst them And God did not only exercise this Providence towards his own people but he dealt thus with other Nations The Roman Empire whilst the virtue of that people continued firm was strong as iron as t is represented in the prophesie of Daniel but upon the dissolution of their manners the iron began to be mixt with miry clay and the feet upon which the Empire stood to be broken in pieces No doubt than but it was our own exceeding guilt and sinfulness that destroyed the nation and plunged us into such an abyss of misery and confusion But seeing this happy day hath given us a blessed resurrection to life again and turned all our heaviness into joy and rejoycing O sing therefore unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things Psal 98. with his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a Psalm of thanksgiving with trumpets and Shawms O shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let the sea make a noise and all that there in is the round world and they that dwell therein Let the stoods clap their hands and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord. For this Nation was sunk deep into the earth but now it hath lift up his head again The people all lived under bondage and thraldom but now are at perfect liberty and enjoy their own Oppression and Tyranny before infested the land but now mercy and truth are met together and righteousness and peace have kissed each other The hinges of the Government that were all disjonted and broken are now redintegrated and turn upon the same axle Our most gracious Soveraign who had been so long banished on a foreign shore is now landed again and become the delight and glory of three Kingdoms That very Sun which before was shrowded and set is now stept from behind the cloud and shines upon us with all his heavenly and benign influences In a word Seeing this day then hath put a final period to all our grievences Oh let us study to be peaceable and quiet and not Physick our distemper to a worse but learn the lesson of obedience better for the time to come and mind the peace and prosperity of our Nation and the preservation of his Majesties most sacred Person who after several years hazards and turmoils by his own Country-men and by Foreigners and after all those attempts and offers that were made by the Priests while he was beyond sea to pervert him from the true Religion blessed be God yea thrice blessed be God who preserved him all along through the Wilderness and at length brought him back in the same faith and profession as he went out And let us all now implore the continuance of Gods mercy towards him that his Reign may be long and prosperous and his years many that he would bless him both in body and Soul and give him the hearts and love of all his Subjects that he would make him wise as an Angel of light and a faithful Minister of justice among his people that he would give him the victory over all his enemies at home and abroad and let them be driven back and put to confusion that wish him evil that he would set a Crown of pure gold upon his own head and so make him for ever happy in this life and when that dismal night draweth near in which we must part with him Crown him everlastingly in the world to come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS