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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes + +Author: Thomas Sherlock + +Release Date: August 6, 2008 [EBook #26204] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LORD BISHOP, LATE EARTHQUAKES *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +A +LETTER +FROM THE +LORD BISHOP +OF +_LONDON_, +TO THE +CLERGY and PEOPLE +OF +_London_ and _Westminster_; +On Occasion of the Late +EARTHQUAKES. + + + +_LONDON_: +Printed for JOHN WHISTON in _Fleetstreet_. +MDCCL. + +[Price Three-Pence.] + + + + +TO THE +CLERGY and Inhabitants +OF THE +Cities of _London_ and _Westminster_. + + +_My Brethren and Friends_, + +The Relation I stand in to you, is a daily Call upon me to consider the +spiritual State of these great Cities; and tho' I doubt not but GOD has +many faithful and chosen Servants among you, yet the general View of +the Wickedness and Corruption that abound, and are spreading far and +wide, gives me, and must give to every serious Christian very painful +Reflexions: It is hardly possible to think of the History of +Providence, recorded in Holy Writ, and the many Examples of Divine +Justice exercised, sometimes in punishing, sometimes in utterly +destroying wicked Nations, or Cities, without being sensibly affected +with Apprehensions for ourselves: But more especially have we Reason to +fear, when we see the _Beginning of Sorrows_, and the Displeasure of +the Almighty manifested in the Calamities we suffer under, and in the +Signs and Tokens given us to expect a far more dreadful Judgment. + +It is every Man's Duty, and it is mine to call upon you, to give +Attention to all the Warnings which God in his Mercy affords to a +sinful People: Such Warning we have had, by two great Shocks of an +Earthquake; a Warning, which seems to have been immediately and +especially directed to these great Cities, and the Neighbourhood of +them; where the Violence of the Earthquake was so sensible, tho' in +distant Parts hardly felt, that it will be Blindness wilful and +inexcusable not to apply to ourselves this strong Summons, from God, to +Repentance. + +Thoughtless or hardened Sinners may be deaf to these Calls; and Little +Philosophers, who see a little, and but very little into natural +Causes, may think they see enough to account for what happens, without +calling in the Aid and Assistance of a special Providence; not +considering, that God who made all Things, never put any Thing out of +his own Power, but has all Nature under Command to serve his Purposes +in the Government of the World. But be their Imaginations to +themselves, the Subject is too serious for trifling; and calls us off +to other Views. + +If we consider the general Government of the World by God, and upon +what Reasons and Motives he acts, when he brings Calamities and Plagues +upon any People: Or if we recollect from History sacred and profane, +what State and Condition with respect to Religion and Morality, the +People were in, who have been Examples of Justice: And then compare our +own Case with the general Reason by which Providence acts, and with the +Circumstances of those by whose Example we ought to take Warning, we +shall soon discover whether there be just Reason for our Apprehensions. +If those who have been destroyed by Fire from Heaven, or swallowed up +by the Earth were _Sinners_, and we are _righteous_, let us fear +nothing, nor be dismayed though the _Foundations_ of the Earth be +removed: But if our Consciences tell us, that we have sinned after +their Example, what Consolation is there to be had against the just +Expectation of suffering after their Example also? + +The same Conclusion will arise from a Contemplation of God's general +Providence; which tho' it is not daily exerted in punishing all Men, or +all Vices that deserve it; yet is always armed with Power to stop +outrageous Wickedness; and he has told us in his holy Word, what we may +expect from his Justice, when we are grown hardened and obdurate +against his Mercy. + +Upon these Principles let your own Case be examined: But who shall be +your Accuser? Shall I? God forbid, _My Heart's Desire and Prayer to God +for you is, that you may be saved_. Hear me then with Patience, not as +your Accuser, but as your faithful Servant and Monitor in Christ Jesus, +warning you to flee from the Wrath that is to come. + +Had this Part of the World had less Knowledge and less Light, they +might have some Excuse, and some Hope that GOD would wink at the Times +of their Ignorance: But they have had the Light, and have loved +Darkness: The Gospel of Christ in which all the Goodness and Mercy of +GOD are display'd through the Redemption purchased by the Blood of +Christ; in which the Aid and Comfort of the Holy Spirit of GOD is +offered to all who diligently seek it; in which the Hopes and Fears of +Eternity are display'd to guard us against the Temptations of Sin; has +been not only rejected, but treated with a malicious Scorn; and all our +Hopes in Christ represented as Delusions and Impositions upon the +Weakness of Men. How has the Press for many Years past swarm'd with +Books, some to dispute, some to ridicule the great Truths of Religion, +both natural and revealed. I shall mention no particular Cases, there +is no need for it; the Thing is notorious. I wish the Guilt in this +Instance was confined to the Authors only, and that no body else was +answerable for it: But the Earnestness with which these Books were +sought after, the Pleasure and Approbation with which they were +received, are too strong Indications of the general Taste to be +dissembled; and the Industry used to disperse these Books at home and +abroad, and especially to our Plantations in _America_; to which great +Numbers, and at a great Expence have been conveyed; are Proofs of such +Malice against the Gospel and the Holy Author of it, as would not be +born even in a _Mahometan_ Country. In this Branch of Trade, this great +City beats all the World; it is become even the Mart for Infidelity. + +It required no great Sagacity to foresee what the Consequence would be +of the Pains taken to unsettle all Principles of Religion. Infidelity +and Immorality are too nearly allied, to be long separated; and though +some have pretended to preserve a Sense of Virtue without the Aid of +Religion, yet Experience has shewed that People who have neither Hopes +nor Fears with Respect to _another_ World, will soon abuse _this_ by +indulging the worst of their Passions, and will not regard Man, when +once they have learn'd to disregard GOD. + +Whether this be our Case, let every Man judge by what he hears and +sees; by what, indeed, he _must_ hear and see, if he lives amongst us. +Blasphemy and horrid Imprecations domineer in our Streets, and poor +Wretches are every Hour wantonly and wickedly calling for Damnation on +themselves and others, which may be ('tis much to be feared) too near +them already. Add to this the Lewdness and Debauchery that prevail +amongst the lowest People, which keeps them idle, poor, and miserable, +and renders them incapable of getting an honest Livelihood for +themselves and Families; the Number of lewd Houses, which trade in +their Vices, and which must at any rate be paid for making Sin +convenient to them; and it will account for Villainies of another Kind, +which are growing so fast as to be insupportable, and almost incurable: +For, Where is the Wonder that Persons so abandoned should be ready to +commit all Sorts of Outrage and Violence?--A City without Religion can +never be a safe Place to dwell in. + +The unnatural Lewdness, of which we have heard so much of late, is +something more than brutish, and can hardly be mentioned without +offending chaste Ears, and yet cannot be passed over entirely in +Silence, because of the particular Mark of Divine Vengeance set upon it +in the Destruction of _Sodom_ by Fire from Heaven. Dreadful Example! + +But these Vices are so enormous, that 'tis to be hoped the Generality +of our People are not guilty; I hope in God they are not, I trust they +are not. But how unhappy is it for this Country, that there should be +any Ground even for Suspicion that these Vices are growing to be +common! + +But to go one Step further-- + +When Men, not content with indulging their own brutish Passions, take +Pains to corrupt others, they act with such cool and diabolical Malice, +as outdoes former Examples, and seems to be a Challenge to the Power +and Justice of God--Have not all the Abominations of the publick Stews +been opened to View by lewd Pictures exposed to Sale at Noon-day? Have +not Histories or Romances of the vilest Prostitutes been published, +intended merely to display the most execrable Scenes of Lewdness; +Lewdness represented without Disguise, and nothing omitted that might +inflame the corrupt Passions of the Youth of the Nation! What was the +Encouragement for Men to dare giving such an Affront not only to the +common Sense, but to the common Law of the Country? Was it not the +quick Sale these Pictures and these Books had? And is not this a +deplorable Circumstance, and sad Instance of the corrupt Disposition of +many among us? + +Is it to be wondered at, after so much Pains taken to corrupt the +Religion and Morals of the People, that they should be indisposed to +attend to any thing serious, or that they grow sick of Religion, which +has no Comforts for them; that they fly from the Church and crowd to +the Playhouse: That they are tired of themselves, and their own +Thoughts, and want to lose themselves in Company from Morning to Night? +It is this unhappy, unsettled State of Mind that has introduced a Kind +of general Idleness among the People, and given Rise to almost infinite +Places of Diversion in and about this Town; it were well if they were +Places of Diversion only; but they are often Places for carrying on +worse Business, and give Opportunities to the Profligate to seduce the +Innocent, who often meet their Ruin, where they only came for +Pleasure--While I was writing this I cast my Eye upon a News-Paper of +the Day, and counted no less than fifteen Advertisements for _Plays_, +_Operas_, _Musick_, and _Dancing_, for Meetings at _Gardens_, for +_Cock-fighting_, _Prize-fighting_, &c? Should this Paper, (as many of +our News-Papers do) go abroad, what an Idea must it give to all the +Churches abroad, of the Manner in which _Lent_ is kept in this +Protestant Country? What our Saviour said to the _Jews_ upon another +Occasion, _You have turned the House of Prayer into a Den of Thieves_, +may with a little Variation, be applied to Ourselves, We have turned +this Season appointed for serious Reflexions, and Humiliation of Body +and Spirit, into a Time of Mirth and Jollity, of Musick, Dancing, and +riotous Living. + +How far this Spirit of Indolence and Idleness has gone, and to what +Excess, may be seen in all Orders among us; friendly Visits for +Conversation are become insipid Things, and are degenerated into +Meetings for Gaming, where People hardly known to each other, are +invited by one Tye only, the Love of Play: Which seems now to be, not +an Amusement or Diversion, but a serious Business of Life, and one +would think a _necessary_ one, by seeing how some Children are trained +up to it. + +There is a great and a grievous Evil among us, which naturally springs +from the Disorders beforementioned: I mean the great Increase of Popery +in this Kingdom. When Men have lost all Principles of Religion, and are +lost to all Sense of Morality, they are prepared to receive any +Superstition, whenever the Decay of Health, or the cross Accidents of +Life revive the Fears of Futurity; which may be stifled, but cannot be +extinguished; such Persons not able to digest the wholesome Food of +Repentance, by which their spiritual Condition might be gradually +mended, greedily swallow the high Cordial of Absolution, which like +other Cordials gives some present Ease, but works no Cure. And with +respect to People of a serious and religious Turn of Mind, the manifest +and almost general Contempt, or at least Neglect, of the Duties of +Religion gives a great Advantage to the Emissaries of _Rome_ to impose +on their Weakness, and to persuade them that they can have no Hopes in +the Religion of a Church, where Religion itself is hardly to be found. + +Lay these Things together; and what more your own Observation and +Reflexion may furnish, and much more they may furnish; and then ask +your Heart, whether you have not Reason to fear, that God will visit +for these Things. If your Heart misgives you, and forebodes the Time of +taking Vengeance for these Iniquities to be drawing near, consider +further, how graciously you have been dealt with by having had Warning +of your Danger; and remember that the long _Sufferance of God is a Call +to Repentance_. + +It is purely for the Sake of this Reflexion, that I now address myself +to you: I have no Pleasure in laying open the Shame of my Country, or +in exposing its Nakedness either to Friends or to Foes; and when I +consider my own Situation, 'tis a Prospect void of all Comfort to me to +see the Condition of the People, over whom I have a Charge; and, God +knows my Heart, these Considerations are a Pain and Grief to my Mind. + +But, let us not despair; there is still one Remedy left, and whatever +Reason we have to condemn ourselves, yet of this we may be sure, that +God has not _forgotten to be gracious_. To him then let us turn, with +hearty Repentance for our Sins; and with a Resolution to do, each of us +in his proper Station, what lies in our Power to stem the Torrent of +Iniquity which threatens our Ruin. + +As to You my Brethren of the Clergy, who share with me the Care of the +Souls in these populous Cities, let me exhort You, (though I trust you +want not to be exhorted) to awaken the People, to call them from the +Lethargy in which they have too long lived, and make them see their own +Danger. Speak to them, _perswade them as knowing the Terrors of the +Lord_.--Speak to their Hearts and Consciences with such Plainness as +becomes the Ministers of the Gospel; tell them in _Season and out of +Season, that unless they repent, they must perish_. If the Warnings we +have had are a Call on the People to Repentance, remember they are +still stronger Calls on us, to _preach_ Repentance, and to discharge +the Duty we owe to God and his Church, and to the Flock of Christ, over +whom we are placed. May this Work of God prosper in our Hands! + +I should be wanting to the Duty I owe to the highest as well as the +lowest, should I omit on this Occasion to remind those who are +entrusted by their Country, with the Government of these populous +Cities, how much the Welfare of the People depends upon the faithful +Execution of the Law. I pretend not to accuse _them particularly_ of +Neglect, a _general Neglect_ of this Kind is one of the worst Symptoms +of the Time; every Man is left to do what is right in his own Eyes, one +would think _there was no King in Israel_. Could the vile abominable +Pictures of Lewdness have been offered to Sale in the most frequented +Parts of the City; could Books for the Instruction of the Unexperienced +in all the Mysteries of Iniquity have been publickly cried in our +Streets; had not the Laws, and the Guardians of the Laws, been +asleep?--But surely it is high Time to awake; and to let People once +more know, (what seems to be almost forgotten) that Laws are made for +the _Punishment of Wickedness and Vice, and for the Maintenance of true +Religion_. + +Government is a great Trust, and the Powers of it are not intended +merely to do Honour to those who have them, but must be used for the +Good of the Community. This is a Truth sufficiently known, it has been +founded in the Ears of the Nation, without Ceasing; but the Misfortune +is, that this Doctrine has been applied so constantly to the _Supreme_ +Magistrate only, that those who have _subordinate_ Powers derived from +his Authority, forget, or are not accustomed, to make the Application +to themselves. And yet surely, there is not a Constable but has, in +Proportion to the Power the Law gives him, a Trust reposed in him in +Behalf of his King and his Country: Those who are in higher Offices, +have still greater Reason, as more depends upon the due Exercise of +their Authority, to be watchful for the Community. The Good of Society +must be influenced by their Conduct and Example, one Way or other. +Great Officers of Justice cannot be _useless_, without being +_pernicious_. + +If a Regard for the Publick is not a Motive strong enough in this Case, +let every Magistrate consider that there is another of infinite +Importance to himself; for if all Power be the _Ordinance_ of God, He +will undoubtedly demand an Account of the Exercise of it: And who is +he, that has so little to answer for on his own Account, as willingly +to subject himself to be answerable for the Sins of others, which +either by his Encouragement, or his Connivence he makes his own? Pardon +the Freedom of this Address; I honour and reverence _your_ Office, and +I hope I give you no Occasion to despise _mine_. + +Next to those in publick Offices of Power and Trust, the Happiness of +the Publick depends upon those who have the Government in private +Families. Here it is that the Youth of the Nation must be formed, and +if they are suffered to be corrupted in their Religion or Morals before +they come into the _World_, there is little Hope that the _World_ will +reform them. All wise Men, Legislators, and Princes, have acknowledged, +not only the Use, but the Necessity of an early Education to form the +Mind, whilst tender, to the Principles of Honour and Virtue; and what +is more, the wisest of all, the Writers inspired by the Holy Spirit, +have required it as a Duty from Parents, and as Part of the Obedience +they owe to God: Even our Unbelievers have seen how far Religion +depended on this Care; and under a Pretence of maintaining the Liberty +of the human Mind, and guarding it against early Prejudices, they have +endeavoured to persuade the World, that Children should be taught +nothing of Religion, but be left to form Notions for themselves. They +have had but too great Success, and we begin to see the Fruits of it. +The Children of this Age, grow soon to be Men and Women, and are +admitted to be Partners, and Witnesses to the Follies and Vices of +their Parents. Thus trained and educated, when they come to be Masters +and Mistresses of Families, they answer fully what was to be expected +from them; they are often a Torment to each other, and to themselves, +and have Reason to bemoan themselves for the Indulgence shewn them in +their early Days. + +Would you see the Effects of this Education in all Orders among us, +look into the many Publick Assemblies; sometimes you may see Old Age +affecting the Follies of Youth, and counterfeiting the Airs of Gaiety; +sometimes Men lying in wait to seduce Women, and Women to seduce Men; +and even Children seriously employed at the Gaming Table, as if their +Parents were concerned to form them early to the Taste of the Age, and +were afraid that they should not soon enough, of themselves, find the +Way to their Ruin. + +Look near Home: See the Temptations of this Sort which surround these +Cities, and are indeed so many Snares to catch your Sons and Daughters +and Apprentices. Can you look on, and be unconcerned? For God's Sake, +and for the Sake of your Children and your Country take the Courage to +act like Parents and Masters of Families: Reformation must begin in +private Families; the Law and the Magistrate can punish your Children +when they become wicked; but it is you, who must make them good, by +proper Instruction and proper Government. If you suffer them to meet +Temptation, where Temptation is sure to meet them, never complain of +him who corrupts your Child, you are the Corrupter yourself; to you he +owes it, that he is undone. And perhaps there is not a more provoking +Circumstance, nor a greater Call for Divine Vengeance on a wicked +Nation, than this; that the Youth are prepared and brought up to +inherit all the Vices of their Fathers, which cuts off all Prospect of +Reformation; and stands as a Bar between us and Mercy. + +On you therefore, Fathers and Mothers, your Country, and the Church of +God call for Assistance; your Endeavours may go a great Way towards +saving us, and this wicked Generation may be spared, for the Hope of +seeing the next better. + +In a word, let every Man, whatever his Station is, do his Part towards +averting the Judgments of God: Let every Man reform himself, and others +as far as his Influence goes: This is _our_ only proper Remedy; for the +dissolute Wickedness of the Age, is a more dreadful Sign and +Prognostication of Divine Anger, than even the Trembling of the Earth +under us. + +To our own Endeavours, let us add continual and fervent Supplications +to the Almighty, that he would _spare us, and not deal with us +according to the Multitude of our Sins_; that he would give us the +Grace of Repentance, and open our Eyes to see, before it is too late, +_the Things which belong to our Salvation_. + +May the God of all Mercy hear you, in this Day of your Distress! To his +Protection, and the Grace of our Lord _Jesus_ I earnestly recommend +you. I am, + +_Your Affectionate Brother, and +Servant in Christ Jesus_, + +THO. LONDON. + + + + +_Printed_ for JOHN WHISTON _in_ Fleetstreet. + +_The Fifth Edition, on a fine Paper_, Price 5_s._ bound: + +I. The Use and Intent of Prophecy, in the several Ages of the World: In +Six Discourses, delivered at the _Temple Church_; To which are added, +Four Dissertations, and an _Appendix_, being a farther Enquiry into the +_Mosaick_ Account of the _Fall_. + +_By_ THOMAS SHERLOCK, _D.D._ + +Master of the _Temple_, now Lord Bishop of _London_. + +_N.B._ The _Appendix_ may be had alone to compleat former Editions. +Price 1_s._ + +II. The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of JESUS. The +Twelfth Edition, corrected. 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