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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31085	Sermons preached upon several occasions by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.; Loggan, David, 1635-1700?	1679 (1679)	Wing B958; ESTC R36644	220,889	535

Benefits the Jewish more then half in Eucharistical oblations and in solemn commemorations of providential favours and that of the ancient Christians so far forth that by-standers could hardly discern any other thing in their religious practice then that they sang Hymns to Christ and by mutual Sacraments obliged themselves to abstain from all Villany But I will rather wholly omit the prosecution of these pregnant Arguments then be farther offensive to your patience Now the Blessed Fountain of all Goodness and Mercy inspire our hearts with his heavenly Grace and thereby enable us rightly to apprehend diligently to consider faithfully to remember worthily to esteem to be heartily affected with to render all due acknowledgment praise love and thankful obedience for all his infinitelygreat and innumerably-many Favours Mercies and Benefits freely conferr'd upon us and let us say with David Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doeth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting And let all the People say Amen The Tenth Sermon 1 TIM 2. 1 2. 1. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men 2. For Kings and for all that are in authority SAint Paul in his preceding discourse having insinuated directions to his Scholar and Spiritual Son Timothy concerning the discharge of his Office of instructing men in their Duty according to the Evangelical Doctrine the main design whereof he teacheth to consist not as some men conceited in fond stories or vain speculations but in practice of substantial Duties holding a sincere Faith maintaining a good Conscience performing Offices of pure and hearty Charity in pursuance of such general Duty and as a principal instance thereof he doth here first of all exhort or doth exhort that first of all all kinds of Devotion should be offered to God as for all men generally so particularly for Kings and Magistrates From whence we may collect two particulars 1. That the making of Prayers for Kings is a Christian Duty of great importance S. Paul judging fit to exhort thereto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before all other things or to exhort that before all things it should be performed 2. That it is incumbent on the Pastours of the Church such as S. Timothy was to take special care that this Duty should be performed in the Church both publickly in the Congregations and privately in the Retirements of each Christian according to what the Apostle after the proposing divers enforcements of this Duty subsumeth in the 8th ver I will therefore that men pray every-where lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting The first of these particulars That it is a Duty of great importance to pray for Kings I shall insist upon it being indeed now very fit and seasonable to urge the practice of it when it is perhaps commonly not much considered or not well observed and when there is most need of it in regard to the effects and consequences which may proceed from the conscionable discharge of it My endeavour therefore shall be to press it by divers Considerations discovering our obligation thereto and serving to induce us to its observance some whereof shall be general or common to all times some particular or sutable to the present circumstances of things I. The Apostle exhorteth Christians to pray for Kings with all sorts of Prayer with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or deprecations for averting evils from them with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or petitions for obtaining good things to them with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or occasional intercessions for needful gifts and graces to be collated on them as after S. Austin Interpreters in expounding S. Paul's words commonly distinguish how accurately I shall not discuss it sufficing that assuredly the Apostle meaneth under this variety of expression to comprehend all kinds of Prayer And to this I say we are obliged upon divers accounts 1. Common Charity should dispose us to pray for Kings This Christian disposition inclineth to universal benevolence and beneficence according to that Apostolical precept As we have opportunity let us do good unto all men it consequently will excite us to pray for all men seeing this is a way of exerting good will and exercising beneficence which any man at any time if he hath the will and heart may have opportunity and ability to pursue No man indeed otherwise can benefit all few men otherwise can benefit many some men otherwise can benefit none but in this way any man is able to benefit all or unconfinedly to oblige mankind deriving on any somewhat of God's immense beneficence By performing this good Office at the expence of a few good wishes addressed to the Sovereign Goodness the poorest may prove benefactours to the richest the meanest to the highest the weakest to the mightiest of men so we may benefit even those who are most remote from us most strangers and quite unknown to us Our Prayers can reach the utmost ends of the Earth and by them our Charity may embrace all the world And from them surely Kings must not be excluded For if because all men are our Fellow-creatures and brethren by the same Heavenly Father because all men are allied to us by cognation and similitude of Nature because all men are the objects of God's particular favour and care if because all men are partakers of the common Redemption by the undertakings of him who is the common Mediatour and Saviour of all men and because all men according to the gracious intent and desire of God are designed for a consortship in the same blessed Inheritance which enforcements S. Paul in the Context doth intimate if in fine because all men do need Prayers and are capable of benefit from them we should be charitably disposed to pray for them then must we also pray for Kings who even in their personal capacity as men do share in all those conditions Thus may we conceive S. Paul here to argue For all men saith he for Kings that is consequently for Kings or particularly for Kings to pray for whom at least no less then for other men universal Charity should dispose us Indeed even on this account we may say especially for Kings the law of general Charity with peculiar advantage being applicable to them for that Law commonly is expressed with reference to our Neighbour that is to persons with whom we have to do who come under our particular notice who by any intercourse are approximated to us and such are Kings especially For whereas the greatest part of men by reason of their distance from us from the obscurity of their condition or for want of opportunity to converse with them must needs slip beside us so that we cannot employ any distinct thought or affection toward them it is not

Doctrine for reducing Charity and Peace for reviving the spirit of Piety and bringing Vertue again into request for preserving State and Church from ruine we can have no confidence or reasonable hope but in the good Providence and merciful succour of Almighty God beside whom there is no Saviour who alone is the hope of Israel and Saviour thereof in time of trouble we now having great cause to pray with our Lord's Disciples in the storm Lord save us we perish Upon such Considerations and others whereof I suppose you are sufficiently apprehensive we now especially are obliged earnestly to pray for our King that God in mercy would preserve his Royal Person and inspire his Mind with Light and endue his Heart with Grace and in all things bless him to us to be a repairer of our breaches and a restorer of paths to dwell in so that under him we may lead a quiet life in all godliness and honesty I have done with the First Duty Prayer for Kings upon which I have the rather so largely insisted because it is very seasonable to our present condition II. The Other Thanksgiving I shall but touch and need not perhaps to do more For 1. As to general Inducements they are the same or very like to those which are for Prayer it being plain that what-ever we are concerned to pray for when we want it that we are bound to thank God for when he vouchsafeth to bestow it And if common Charity should dispose us to resent the Good of Princes with complacence if their Welfare be a publick benefit if our selves are interested in it and partake great advantages thereby if in equity and ingenuity we are bound to seek it then surely we are much engaged to thank God the bountiful Donour of it for his goodness in conferring it 2. As for particular Motives suting the present Occasion I need not by information or impression of them farther to stretch your patience seeing you cannot be ignorant or insensible of the grand Benefits by the Divine Goodness bestowed on our King and on our selves which this day we are bound with all grateful acknowledgment to commemorate Wherefore in stead of reciting trite stories and urging obvious reasons which a small recollection will suggest to you I shall only request you to joyn with me in the practice of the Duty and in acclamation of praise to God Even so Blessed be God who hath given to us so Gracious and Benign a Prince the experiments of whose Clemency and Goodness no History can parallel to sit on the throne of his Blessed Father and renowned Ancestours Blessed be God who hath protected him in so many encounters hath saved him from so many dangers and snares hath delivered him from so great troubles Blessed be God who in so wonderful a manner by such miraculous trains of Providence did reduce him to his Country and re-instate him in the possession of his Rights thereby vindicating his own just Providence declaring his salvation and openly shewing his righteousness in the sight of all people Blessed be God who in Him and with Him did restore to us our antient good constitution of Government our Laws and Liberties our Peace and Quiet rescuing us from lawless Usurpations and tyrannical Yoaks from the insultings of Errour and Iniquity from horrible Distractions and Confusions Ever blessed be God who hath turned the captivity of Sion hath raised our Church from the dust and re-established the sound Doctrine the decent Order the wholsome Discipline thereof hath restored true Religion with its supports advantages and encouragements Blessed be the Lord who hath granted us to continue these sixteen years in the peaceable fruition of those Blessings Praised be God who hath not cast out our prayer nor turned his mercy from us Praised be God who hath turned our heaviness into joy hath put off our sackcloath and girded us with gladness Let our mouth speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh bless his holy Name for ever and ever The Lord liveth and blessed be our Rock and let the God of our salvation be exalted Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who onely doeth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen and Amen Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. The Eleventh Sermon PSAL. 64. 9 10. And all men shall fear and shall declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing The righteous shall be glad in the Lord and shall trust in him and all the upright in heart shall glory IF we should search about for a Case parallel to that which we do now commemorate we should perhaps hardly find one more patly such then is that which is implied in this Psalm and if we would know the Duties incumbent on us in reference to such an Occasion we could scarce better learn them other-where then in our Text. With attention perusing the Psalm we may therein observe That its great Authour was apprehensive of a desperate Plot by a confederacy of wicked and spitefull enemies with great craft and secrecy contrived against his safety They saith he encourage themselves in an evil matter they commune of laying snares privily they say who shall see them That for preventing the blow threatned by this design whereof he had some glimpse or some presumption grounded upon the knowledge of their implacable and active malice he doth implore Divine protection Hide me saith he from the secret counsel of the wicked from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity That he did conside in God's Mercy and Justice for the seasonable defeating for the fit avenging their machination God saith he shall shoot at them with an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded That they should themselves become the detectours of their crime and the instruments of the exemplary punishment due thereunto They added he shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves all that see them shall flee away Such was the Case the which unto what passage in the history it doth relate or whether it belongeth to any we have recorded it may not be easie to determine Expositours commonly do refer it to the designs of Saul upon David's life But this seeming purely conjecture not founded upon any express words or pregnant intimations in the text I shall leave that inquiry in its own uncertainty It sufficeth to make good its pertinency that there was such a mischievous Conspiracy deeply projected against David a very great personage in whose safety the publick state of God's people was principally concerned he being then King of Israel at least in designation and therefore in the precedent Psalm endited in Saul's time is so styled from the peril whereof he by the special Providence of