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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: The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm + Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle + +Author: Daniel Defoe + +Release Date: July 10, 2011 [EBook #36694] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAY-MAN'S SERMON UPON LATE STORM *** + + + + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. In +memory of Steven Gibbs (1938-2009). + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<div class="notes"> +<p><i>Transcriber's Note:</i> This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was +originally published in 1704, and was prepared from <i>The Storm</i>, a +modern reprint (London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2005). Archaic and +inconsistent spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and hyphenation, +as well as apparent printer errors, have been retained as they appear +in the original.</p> +</div> + +<p class="centertbp border"> +<img src="images/title.png" width="347" height="500" alt="title page" title="title page" /> +</p> + +<div class="bbox"> +<h1><span class="xsm gesperrt">THE</span><br /> +Lay-Man’s<br /> +<span class="gesperrt">SERMON</span><br /> +<span class="xsm gesperrt">UPON THE</span><br /> +<span class="msm gesperrt">LATE STORM;</span><br /> +<span class="sm">Held forth at an Honest</span><br /> +<span class="sm"><i>Coffee-House-Conventicle</i>.</span></h1> + +<hr class="close" /> +<p class="center bl lg">Not so much a Jest as ’tis thought to be.</p> +<hr class="close" /> + +<p class="center lg">Printed in the Year 1704.</p> +</div> + + + +<hr /> +<h2>NAHUM. I. III</h2> + +<h3 style="line-height: 1.1"><i>The Lord has his way in the Whirle-Wind and in the<br /> +Storm, and the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet.</i></h3> + + +<p class="tp">This Text is not chosen more for the Suitableness to the present +Callamity, which has been the Portion of this Place, than for the +aptness of the Circumstances, 'twas spoken of God going to Chastise, a +Powerful, Populous, Wealthy and most reprobate City.</p> + +<p><i>Nineveh</i> was the Seat of a mighty Empire, a Wealthy Encreasing +People, Opulent in Trade, Flourishing in Power and Proud in +Proportion.</p> + +<p>The Prophet does not seem to deliver these words, to the <i>Ninevites</i>, +to convince them, or encline them to consider their own Circumstances +and repent, but he seems to speak, it to the <i>Israelites</i> inviteing +them to Triumph and Insult over the Heathen adversary, by setting +forth the Power of their God, in the most exalted Terms.</p> + +<p>And that this is a just Exposition of this Text, seems plain from the +words Imediately going before, <i>the Lord is slow to Anger, and Great +in Power and will not at all acquit the wicked</i>. These words could +have no Connexion with the Text, tho' they are joyn'd with them in the +same Verse, if it were not meant of his being slow to Anger, to his +own People, and Terrible to the Heathen World, and this being spoken +as an Expression of his being not easily provoked as to his Church, +the Subsequent part of the Verse tells them how his power and Vengance +is matter of particular Satisfaction to his People as being exercis'd +in Revenging the affront put upon his Glory by his Enemies, <i>God is +Jealous, and the Lord Revengeth, the Lord Revengeth and is Furious, +the Lord will take Vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath +for his Enemies</i>. Tis plain this is meant of his Enemies, but as if +brought in with a Parenthesis, tis spoken for the comfort of his +Church, the Lord is slow to Anger as to them, and to lift up their +hearts in a further confidence that their Enemies are all in his hand, +he goes on discribing the Terrors of his Judgement.</p> + +<p><i>The Lord has his way in the Whirl-wind and in the Storm, and the +Clouds are the Dust of his Feet.</i> Eloquent Flourishes upon the +Omnipotence of God.</p> + +<p>The short Exposition I shall make of the words, Tends only to remind +us that the Whirl-wind and Storm which are here made use of, to +express the Magnipotent power of God are acted by his Direction, <i>he +has his way in them</i>, it may note indeed the Invisible secrecy and +swiftness of his providences, but to avoid long Paraphrases, I confine +my self to my own Construction, as that which, as it is a just +inference from the matter of the Text, so 'tis most suitable to the +design of this discourse.</p> + +<p>And as this Sermon may be a little Immethodical, because I purpose to +make it almost all Aplication so I shall advance some Conclusions from +the Premises which I lay down, as the Geneuine sence of the Words.</p> + +<p>1. The Omnipotence of God gives Christians sufficient ground to Insult +their Enemies, <i>wherefore do the Heathen Mock thy People and say unto +them where is now your God? Behold our God is in the Heavens, and +doeth whatsoever he pleaseth</i>; as the Prophet <i>Elija</i>, Banter'd the +Heathen Priest of <i>Baal</i>, with the Impotence of their Gods, Cry aloud +for <i>he is a God, either he is talking or he is Pursuing, or he is in +a Journey, or Peradventure he Sleepeth and must be awakned</i>, so he +insulted them about the power of the true God, <i>let it be known O Lord +says he this day that thou art God in Israel</i>.</p> + +<p>2. As God in all the works of his Providence, makes use of the +subserviency of means, so the whole Creation is Subordinate to the +Execution of his Divine will, <i>the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet and +he rides upon the Wings of the Wind</i>, the most Powerful Elements are +so subjected to his almighty power that the Clouds are but as Dust +under his feet, tis as easy for him to Govern and mannage them; as it +is for a man to shake off the Dust from his feet, or he can as easily +subdue the fury of them as a man Tramples the Dust, they are small and +Triffling things, in his Eyes.</p> + +<p>3. The ways of God are unsearchable, the Methods of his Providence are +secret and powerfull; his way is in the Whirle-wind, and in the Storm, +tis invisible and iresistible, invisible as the Wind, and iresistible +as the Storm.</p> + +<p>But waving these and abundance more usefull observations which might +be justly drawn from so rich a Text, I shall proceed upon one which +tho' it favours something more of private authority, and I have not so +Authentick Opinion of the Learned Commentators, on my side, yet I +shall endeavour not to Merit much Censure, in the Improvement of it, +even from those who perhaps may not joyn with me in the Exposition.</p> + +<p>According therefore to my own private opinion of these words; I shall +for the present occasion only Paraphrase them thus, that <i>the Lord has +a way</i> or an end <i>in the Whirle-wind, and in the Storm</i>, nor is this a +very unusual Method of expressing things in Scripture, where the way +is Exprest, to signify the design, or end of a thing.</p> + +<p>And from this Exposition I advance this head.</p> + +<p>That as God by his power Governs the elements, so in all their +Extraordinary Motions, they are in a Perticular manner acted by his +Soveraignity. And,</p> + +<p>2. When the Creation is put into any Violent or Supernatural +Agitation, God has always some Extraordinary thing to bring to pass, +<i>he has a meaning in all the Remarkables of Nature</i>.</p> + +<p>3. We ought dilligently to observe the extraordinary actings of +Providence, in order to discover and Deprecate the displeasure of +Almighty God, Providences are never Dumb, and if we can not discern +the signals of his Anger, we must be very blind. The Voice of his +Judgements is heard in the Voice of Nature, and if we make our selves +Deaf, he is pleas'd to make them speak the Louder, to awaken the +stupifyed sences, and startle the World, which seem'd rather Amus'd +than Amas'd, with the common Course of things. This I take to be some +of the true meaning of the way of God, in the Whirle-wind, and in the +Storm.</p> + +<p>The design of this Discourse therefore, is to put the Nation in +general upon proper Resolutions; if we pretend to believe that there +is any such thing as a Collateral Sympathy, a Communication of +Circumstances, between a Nations Follies, and her Fate. Any Harmony +between Merit and Mischief, between the Crimes of Men and the +Vengeance of Heaven; we cannot but allow this <i>Extra</i>-Pulpit +admonition to be just.</p> + +<p>And let not any man Object against this being call'd a Sermon, and its +being introduc'd from a Text of Scripture while the remainer of this +Discourse, seems wholly Civil and Political.</p> + +<p>If all our Measures in Civil affairs were deduc'd as Inferences from +sacred Texts, I am of the Opinion the Text would be well improv'd, and +Publick matters never the worse Guided.</p> + +<p>And for this reason, tho' the Subject be not Treated, with the Gravity +of a Sermon, nor in so serious a manner, as would become a Pulpit, yet +it may be not the less suitable to the occasion and for the manner, it +must be placed to the Authors account.</p> + +<p>Besides the Title I think has provided for the Method and If so he +that expected it otherwise than it is tis his Fault, and not Mine.</p> + +<p>The Term Sermon which is but <i>Sermo</i>, a Speech, may Justify all the +Novelty of my Method if those who find fault please to give themselves +leave to allow it, and since it has never profain'd the Pulpit, I +believe the Text will receive no Prejudice by it, I wish every Sermon +equally Improv'd.</p> + +<p>And what tho' your Humble Servant be no Man of the Text; if he be a +Man of Honesty, he may have a hand in making you all Men of +Application.</p> + +<p>In publick Callamities, every Circumstance is a Sermon, and every +thing we see a Preacher.</p> + +<p>The trembling Habitations of an Unthinking People Preach to us, and +might have made any Nation in the World tremble but us; when we were +rock'd out of our Sleep as Children are Rock'd into it; and when the +terrible Hand of Soveraign Power rock'd many a Wretch from one Sleep +to another, and made a Grave of the Bed, without the Ceremony of +waking in the Passage.</p> + +<p>The shatter'd Palaces of our Princes Preach to us, and tell us aloud, +that without respect to Dignity, he is able to put that Dreadful Text +in Execution; <i>That if a Nation does wickedly they shall be destroy'd +both they and their King</i>.</p> + +<p>The fallen Oaks, which stood before to tell us they were the longest +liv'd of all God's Creatures, Preach to us, and tell us that the most +towring object of humane Beauty and strength must lye humble and +prostrate, when he is pleased to give a Check to that Splendor which +was deriv'd from his Power.</p> + +<p>The Wrecks of our Navies and Fleets Preach to us, that 'tis in vain we +pretend to be Wall'd about by the Ocean, and ride Masters of the Sea: +And that, if he who bestow'd that Scituation upon us thinks fit, he +can make that Element which has been our Strength, and the Encreaser +of our Wealth, be the Grave of our Treasure, and the Enemy of our +Commerce; he can put it into so violent Agitation, by the blast of his +Mouth, that all our Defence and the Naval Strength we have vallued our +selves so much upon, shall at once be swallow'd up in the Mouth of our +Friend the Sea; and we shall find our Destruction in the very thing +from which we expected our Defence.</p> + +<p>Our Seamen and Soldiers, whose Dead Bodies Embrace the <i>English</i> +Shores, Preach aloud to us, that whenever we think fit to Embark them +on any Design, which Heaven approves not of, he can blast the Embrio, +and devour those People whose Hands are lifted up against Justice and +Right.</p> + +<p>Also they Preach to us, Not to build our hopes of Success upon the +multitude of Ships or Men, who are thus easily reduc'd, and the +Strength of a whole Nation brought to Ruine in a Moment.</p> + +<p>These are the Monitors of our Missfortunes, and some of these +admonitions would be well preach'd from the Mouths of those whose +Tallent as well as Office gives them reason to do it, and us to expect +it.</p> + +<p>But since the Sons of the Prophets have not yet thought it proper to +enter very far into this Matter, not doubting but they will in due +time find it as suitable to their Inclination as 'tis to their Duty,</p> + +<p>In the mean time let us see if no uncommon Application may be made of +so uncommon a Circumstance.</p> + +<p>First, 'tis matter of wonder that any Man can be so senceless, as to +suppose there is nothing extraordinary in so signal an Instance of a +Supream Power; but 'tis much more remarkable that those who have +Religion enough to own it a Judgment, are yet at a loss how to +appropriate it's signification.</p> + +<p>Every one thinks it to be a Judgment upon the Person or Parties they +see touch'd with it. <i>W——</i> the Carpenter was knock'd on the head +with a Stack of Chimneys, and his Wife saved; all the Neighbours cried +out 'twas a Judgment upon him for keeping a Whore; but if Stacks of +Chimnies were to have fallen on the Heads of all that keep Whores, +<i>Miserere Dei</i>.</p> + +<p><i>S——</i> was kill'd by the like Accident, and he must be singl'd out +for Extortion; But think ye that he was a Sinner above all the +<i>Gallileans</i>?</p> + +<p>The <i>Jacobites</i> and <i>Non-Jurants</i> shall rise up in Judgment against +this Generation, and shall condemn them, for they tell us, this Storm +is a Judgment on the whole Nation, for Excluding their Lawful +Soveraign, and Abjuring his Posterity: Upon this head they have been +preaching up Repentance, and Humiliation to us; and some of them are +willing to reduce all to a very practical Exhortation, and tell us, we +ought to look upon it as a Loud Call to Restore the Right Owner (as +they call him) to the Possession of his own again; that is, in short, +to rebel against a Mild, Gentle, Just and Protestant Queen, and call +in the Popish Posterity of an abdicated Tyrant.</p> + +<p>These Gentlemen are Men of Uses and Application, and know very well +how to make an Advantage of God's Judgments, when they serve their +turn.</p> + +<p>The <i>Whigs</i> and <i>Occasional Conformists</i> shall rise up in Judgment +against this Generation; for they are sensible of the present severe +Stroke of Providence, and think 'tis a mark of Heavens Displeasure +upon the Nation, for the violent methods made use of by some People +against them, for their Religion, contrary to their Native Right, and +the Liberty of their Consciences.</p> + +<p>Some think a general Blast follows all the Endeavours of this Nation +against the Common Enemy, for their slighting and reproaching the +Glorious Memory of the late King <i>William</i>, whose Gallant Endeavours +for the general good of <i>Europe</i>, and of <i>England</i> in particular, were +Treacherously thwarted and disappointed while he was alive, and are +Basely and Scandalously undervalued and slighted now he is Dead; and +of this sort I confess my self enclined to be one.</p> + +<p>From these general Observations we may descend to particulars, and +every one judges according to their own Fancy.</p> + +<p>Some will have it, that the Slaughter and Destruction among the Fleet, +is a Judgment upon them, for going into the <i>Streights</i>, and coming +home again without doing any business; but those forget, that if they +did all they were ordered to do, the Fault lies in those who sent +them, and not in they that went.</p> + +<p>Some will have the Damage among the Colliers to be a Judgment, upon +those who have Engross'd the Trade, and made the Poor pay so dear for +Coals; not enquiring whether those Engrossers of the Coals are not +left safe on Shore, while the poor Seamen are drown'd, who know +nothing of the matter.</p> + +<p>'Tis plain to me, who ever are Punish'd by the Storm, we that are left +have a share in the Judgment, and a Trebble concern in the Cause.</p> + +<p>If it could be said that those who are destroy'd, or who have suffered +the loss of Lives, Limbs or Goods, were the only People who gave any +occasion to the Divine Justice thus severely to Revenge it self, then +all admonition to the rest of Mankind would be useless, any farther +than it directed them to be Cautious how they provoked him in like +manner; but have we not all had a hand in the general provocation, +though not an equal share in the general Calamity.</p> + +<p>Sometimes the Judgements of Heaven, bear so much Analogy to the +Crimes, that the Punishment points out the Offence, and 'tis easy to +distinguish what it is the perticular hand of Justice points at.</p> + +<p>And if we will seek for a Perticular case, in which Heaven seems to +have singled out this way of Punishment on the Nation, as best +proportion'd to the general National Crime we are all guilty of? what +seems more Rational than to Judge that tis a severe Animadversion upon +the Feuds and Storms of parties kept up among us in this Nation, with +such unnatural Heat, and such unaccountable Fury, that no man, who +has the least Compassion for his Native Country, but must with more +than Common Grief, be concerned for it, since unless some speedy +course be taken to bring a general Composure upon the minds of Men, +the general ruin seems Inevitable.</p> + +<p>If the matters in Debate were of Extraordinary Consequence, there +might be some pretence for Espousing contrary parties with unusual +heat; but while the difference lies in small, and, in some cases, +indifferent things, tis a most inexcusable Madness that the Feuds +shou'd be run up so high, that all manner of Charity should Perish and +be lost among us.</p> + +<p>We have had an Extraordinary Bustle in the World about Moderation, and +all Parties pretend to it, and now we are as busy about Peace, and +every one lays in a Loud Claim to it.</p> + +<p>I have seen, with some regret, the strange Mysterious Management of +this Age about Moderation, and tho' some late Authors have Published +that Moderation is a Vertue, It begins to be a question whether it is +or no.</p> + +<p>I wish some Body would make enquiry after the occasion that has +brought this Blessed Word into so much Contempt in the World; tis very +hard that a word expressive of the most Glorious Principle in the +World, should become the Brand of reproach, and a Badge of Infamy to +Parties; be a Nick-name it self, and be Nick-nam'd on every side; and +that at a time when the Vertue it self, is perhaps the only thing left +in the World, that can preserve this Nation from Destruction.</p> + +<p>'Tis too unhappy for <i>England</i>, that Men of immoderate Principles are +so powerfull as they are. Let the Party be which it will, tis +Destruction even to themselves, to run up all their Niceties and all +their Scruples to the Extremes. Every Dispute becomes a Feud, every +Spark a Flame, every word a Blow, every Blow, a Civil-War, and by this +Intestine Confusion of Principles, Backt with the Passion and Fury of +Men, this unhappy Nation is Subdivided into an Infinite Number of +Parties, Factions, Intrests and seperate Opinions.</p> + +<p>Every Man being thus bent upon the propagation of his own Notion, for +want of this healing Spirit of Moderation, falls foul upon his +Neighbour because he has not the same Heat, and if he finds him +better Temper'd than himself, if he finds him less Violent, less +Furious, than himself, he is Imediately Branded with the Scandal of +Moderation.</p> + +<p>Since then the Change of times has made this Practice, which in its +very Nature is a Foundation of Vertue, become a Crime, Let us examine +who are, and who are not Guilty of it.</p> + +<p>For the Negatives of this Vice of Moderation they are something Easier +to be discover'd than ordinary, both in Principles and in Practice; +and, without the Scandal of a Censorious Writer, I may be allowed to +say all the following Instances may stand clear of this Crime.</p> + +<p>1. If Mr. <i>Sachaverell</i>, with his Bloody Flag, and Banner of Defiance, +were Indicted for Moderation, I verily believe no Jury would bring him +in Guilty.</p> + +<p>2. If Dr. <i>J——ne</i>, Author of the Character of a Low-Churchman, Mr. +—— Author of the New Association, if a famous Bishop who told us, +'twould never be well with <i>England</i> till all the Dissenters were +serv'd like the <i>Hugonots</i> in <i>France</i>, if any of these were Indicted +for Moderation, they might safely plead not Guilty.</p> + +<p>3. If Sir <i>John Friend</i> and Sir <i>William Parkins</i>, had been only +accus'd for Moderation, they had never been Hanged, nor <i>Collyer</i> and +<i>Cook</i> had never absolv'd them at the Gallows without Repentance.</p> + +<p>4. If he were Hang'd for Moderation, who ask'd the Question, <i>whether +if the Play-house in Dorset-Garden, were let for a Meeting-house, +'twould not do more harm than tis like to do as a Theatre</i>, he would +certainly Dye Innocently.</p> + +<p>5. If <i>Fuller</i> had been Voted an Incorrigible Rogue only for the Vice +of Moderation, I should have thought the House of Commons had done him +wrong.</p> + +<p>6. If the Councellors of the late King, such as Father <i>P——</i>, my +Lord <i>S——</i> and all those that betray'd their Master, by hurrying on +his ruin and their own. If those Gentlemen were Charged with +Moderation, I doubt we should wrong them.</p> + +<p>7. If some of the Members of our Late Convocation shou'd be accused +for Moderation, I believe it might be no Difficult task to Vindicate +them.</p> + +<p>8. If this Crime should be Charged higher than we dare to mention, I +am perswaded some Persons of Note would think themselves abused.</p> + +<p>9. In short all those Gentlemen, by whatsoever Names or Titles +Distinguish'd, who repine at the Settlement, who reproach the +Tolleration, and who Blame the Queen for her promises of Maintaining +it, these abhor the thoughts of this Scandalous Crime of Moderation, +and are as Innocent of it as the Child unborne.</p> + +<p>10. Tis the Opinion of some People, That there are some of our beloved +Friends in <i>Scotland</i>, may be Vindicated in this case, nay others are +of the Opinion, tis not a National Crime in that Country, that is, +'tis not a sin the <i>Scots</i> are much adicted to.</p> + +<p>11. Lastly, Take our English Clergy in general, some are ready to say +they have no great cause of Repentance for the sin of Moderation.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, some People have so home a Charge of this Error +laid upon them, that 'twill be very hard to clear themselves of it, +and I am afraid they would be brought in Guilty by a Jury, almost +without going away from the Bar. as,</p> + +<p>1. Our Observator, they say, is Guilty of Moderation, with Relation to +his Wit, and Especially as concerning his good Manners; I hope he wont +be prosecuted for it the next Sessions, if he should, I doubt, 'twill +go hard with him.</p> + +<p>2. If our News-writers should be Indited for Moderation, as to Truth +of Fact, I would advise them to plead Guilty, and throw themselves +upon the Mercy of the Court.</p> + +<p>3. Some of our Captains, they say, are addicted to Fight but +Moderately; I hope all the rest wont be Infected, but I know not what +to say to it.</p> + +<p>4. Some of our Lawyers are apt to be very Moderate in their Justice, +but being well read in the Law are cunning enough to keep off an +Indictment, so there is no fear of them.</p> + +<p>5. Some of our General Receivers, when they got the Publick Money in +their hands, were apt to be very Moderate in paying it out again.</p> + +<p>6. Some have been very Moderate in giving in their accounts too, as +may appear in former Reigns, and perhaps in time to come too.</p> + +<p>Some Moderately Wise, some Moderatly Honest, but most Immoderately +adicted to think themselves Both.</p> + +<p>Tho' I might be a little more serious upon the matter, yet this way of +talking is not so much a Jest neither as it looks like; and has its +Moral, in it self, which a Wise man may see, and for the Fool tis no +matter whether he does or no. Custome has prevailed upon us to such a +degree, that almost in every part the very Practice seem a Scandal, +and the Word passes for a Reproach.</p> + +<p>To say, among the Sons of <i>Levy</i>, such a man is a Moderate Church-man +is to say he is no Church-man, and some of our present Bishops from +the Practice of Moderation have been boldly call'd Presbiterians in +the Pamphlets of our less Moderate writers.</p> + +<p>In short, 'tis hard to find any party or profession of Men among us, +that care for the Title; and those who but Moderately espouse an +Intrest, are generally suspected by those who are of that side, as +Persons Favouring their Enemies.</p> + +<p>These Moderate Men, said a Gentleman whose Gown and Band had given us +reason to expect better Language, they will Ruin the Church, this +Damn'd Moderation, says he, spoils all, we should deal well enough +with the Dissenters, if it were not for these men of Moderation, they +are worse than Dissenters, for they seem to be among us, and yet wont +Joyn heartily to do the Work.</p> + +<p>Moderation seems to be cast off on every side, and is used as a Badge +of reproach in every Class, or degree of Men in the World.</p> + +<p>In the Church of <i>England</i>, 'tis call'd Low-Church.</p> + +<p>In the Court, 'tis call'd Whiggism.</p> + +<p>In the Dissenters, 'tis call'd Occasional Conformity.</p> + +<p>In Parties, 'tis call'd Trimming.</p> + +<p>In Religion, 'tis call'd Latitudinarian.</p> + +<p>In Opinion, 'tis call'd Indifference,</p> + +<p>In the Church of <i>Scotland</i>, 'tis call'd Prelacy.</p> + +<p>While Moderation of principles seems thus the general Sin of Parties, +Let them consider whether Heaven it self has not declar'd War against +us all on this Head, and fill'd us with immoderate Judgements.</p> + +<p>Where's all our prospect of success Abroad, or prosperity at home? +Since our late Thanksgiveing for Victories, how has Heaven Treated us, +but like a Nation, that being puff'd up and exalted with prosperity, +began to slight Forreign Judgements, and leaving Providence to Work by +it self fell to making War at home with one another, as if we would +prove that the Scripture was not true <i>and that a Kingdom might stand +tho' it were divided against it self</i>.</p> + +<p>How has Heaven declar'd that he is resolv'd not to bless this +immoderate Generation? How has all their Measures been disappointed +both abroad and at home, all their designes been blasted, and the +Anger of Heaven so remarkably bent against them, that even the little +success we have had, has been prescrib'd by Providence to those few +hands who Act from Principles of Honesty and Temper, as if God did +thereby point out to us who they are he delights to bless.</p> + +<p>The <i>D——</i> of <i>M——</i> is a Whig <i>say some of our People who Hate all +Moderation</i>, he is so <i>Dutchify'd</i>, we shall never have any Good of +him, why that may be, but yet you see there is not one Article of our +Conduct has succeeded but what has been under his Mannagement.</p> + +<p>And Heaven has declar'd so Eminently against all other Branches of our +Affaires, that I wish I am mistaken when I say 'tis plain either he +seems to mislike the Cause or the Persons employ'd, and that however +severe he was pleas'd to Anminadvert upon the Publick affaires in the +late Violent Tempest, it seems that <i>for all this his Anger is not +turned away but his hand is Stretched out still</i>.</p> + +<p>But what has a Sermon to do to enquire, may some say, and if it had, +how shall it make appear whether God is displeased with our designs or +the Persons employed, with the cause or the Carryers of it on.</p> + +<p>As to the cause, all men are Judges of the Justice of it, and all men +know the Foot of the present Confederacy, at least our part must be +Just as it is to Maintain our just Rights, Liberty, Trade and +Religion.</p> + +<p>It must then be the Persons, the <i>R——s</i>, the Sir <i>G——s</i>, +<i>G——ns</i>, the <i>R——ks</i> of this War; that Heaven is resolv'd shall +not be the men, whom he will honour with the Deliverance of his +People.</p> + +<p>All wise Princes in the World have made it a constant Maxim in their +Governments, that when any of their great Generals prove Unfortunate, +tho' never so Wise, they lay them by, as Persons that God does not +think fit to bless with success, and 'tis not needful to examine +whether it were not their fault, but to be Unfortunate is to be told +from Heaven, that such a one is not the Man, and a Nation ought to +understand it so.</p> + +<p>But sure when Heaven Singles men out by Crossing their attempts <i>and +Marks them for unfortunate</i>, and we can give our selves good reasons +why they are thus Mark'd by the Divine displeasure; when we can see +their false steps, their General designs against God and their +Countries Intrests, 'tis high time then for those who sit at the Helm +of Government, to Change hands and put their affaires into such +Persons Conduct, against whom Heaven has not declar'd so plainly its +Displeasure, nor the Nation its Dislike.</p> + +<p>Why shou'd the Queen be desir'd to Chain down her own Happiness and +the Nations Interest, to the Missfortune of a few Men. Perhaps God may +Bless the Fleet under one Admiral, when he will not under another. I +know nothing against Admiral <i>Callemburgh</i>, he may be an Honest and +worthy-man, and ready enough to Fight for the cause, for indeed most +of the <i>Dutch</i> Captains of Ships are so, but since Heaven has now +'twice refus'd to let him go, and driven him back again, if I were the +Governour of his Masters affairs, he should not be sent a Third time, +least we should seem obstinately to Employ somebody that God himself +had declar'd against and had three times from Heaven forbid to go.</p> + +<p>I hope no Body will Construe this to be a Personal Satyr upon <i>Myn +Heer Callemburgh</i>, But <i>take it among ye</i>, let it go, where it Fitts +best.</p> + +<p>If these are not the Generation of Men that must do the Nations +business, then 'tis plain our Deliverance will never be wrought while +they are employ'd; If God will not bless them he will never bless us +till they are dismist.</p> + +<p>I doubt not we shall be deliver'd, and this Nation shall yet Triumph +over her Enemies; but while wrong Instruments are Employ'd the Work +will be delay'd. <i>God would have a House built him</i> But <i>David</i> was +not the Man and therefore the Work was put off till <i>Solomon</i> was in +the Throne.</p> + +<p>God would have <i>Israel</i> go into the Land of <i>Canaan</i> and possess it, +but those Generals and those Captains were not the Men; <i>Moses</i> and +<i>Aaron</i>, and the great Men of the Camp were not such as God approv'd +off and therefore <i>Israel</i> could not go over <i>Joardan</i> till they had +laid their Bones in the Wilderness.</p> + +<p><i>England</i> is hardly ever to pass over the <i>Jourdan</i> before her, till +these Immoderate Men of Strife and Storms are laid by.</p> + +<p>If any man ask me why these men shou'd not perfect the Nation Peace as +well as other men? <i>I do not say which Men nor who</i>, but let them be +who the enquirer please, I answer the Question, with a question <i>How +shou'd men of no Moderaion bring us to Peace</i>.</p> + +<p>How shou'd Men of strife bring us Peace and Union: Contraries may +Illustrate but Contraries never Incorporate; Men of Temper, are the +safe men for this Nation. Men of heat are fit to Embroil it, but not +to Cure it: they are something like our Sea Surgeons who fly to +Amputation of Members upon every slight Fracture, when a more proper +Application would effect the Cure and save the Joynt.</p> + +<p>'Tis an ill sign especially for <i>England</i> when Wars abroad wont make +us Friends at home. Foreign dangers us'd to Unite us from whence Queen +<i>Elizabeth</i>, has been said to leave this Character of the Nation +behind her, that they were much easier to be Govern'd in a time of War +than in Peace.</p> + +<p>But when This, which us'd to be the only Cure of all our diseases, +fails us, 'tis a sign the Distemper is Grown very strong, and there is +some more than usual Room for despair.</p> + +<p>The only Way left the Nation is to obtain from those in power, that +Moderation may cease being the pretence and be really the practice.</p> + +<p>It would be well all men would at least <i>be Occasional Conformists</i>, +to this Extraordinary principle; and when there is such a Loud call to +Peace both from Heaven and from the Throne, they would do well to +consider who are the Men of Peace and who are not: For certainly those +Immoderate Gentlemen, who slight the Proposals for a general Union of +Charity, cannot pretend to be Friends to the present Intrest of their +Native Country.</p> + +<p>These men, 'tis true, Cry out of the danger of the Church, but can +they make it appear that the Church is in any danger from Moderation +and Temper; can they pretend that there is no way to secure her, but +by pulling down all that differ with them, no way to save her but by +the ruin of her Protestant Brethren; there are Thousands of Loyal +honest Church-men, who are not of this mind; who believe that +Moderation and Charity to Protestant Dissenters is very Consistant +with the safety of the Church and with the present general Union which +they Earnestly desire.</p> + +<p>As to Persons we have nothing to say to them, but this, without +pretending to prophesy, may be safely advanced, that Heaven it self, +has Eminently declared it self against the Fury and Immoderate Zeal of +those Gentlemen, and told us as plainly as possible, unless we would +Expect a Voice from on high, that he neither Has nor Designs to bless +this Generation nor their proceedings.</p> + +<p>When ever our rulers think fit to see it, and to employ the Men and +the Methods which Heaven approves, then we may expect success from +abroad, Peace at home, prosperity in Trade, Victory in War, plenty in +the Field, Mild and Comfortable Seasons, Calm Air, Smooth Seas, and +safe Habitations.</p> + +<p>Till then we are to expect our Houses Blown down, our Pallaces +Shatter'd, our Voyages broken, our Navys Ship-wreck'd, our Saylors +Drown'd, our Confedrates Beaten, our Trade ruin'd, our Money spent and +our Enemies encreased.</p> + +<p>The Grand dispute in this Quarrelsome Age, is against our Brethren who +Dissent from the Church; and from what principle do we act? it is not +safe say they to let any of them be entrusted in the Government, that +is, it is not profitable to let any Body enjoy great Places but +themselves.</p> + +<p>This is the Bottom of the pretence, as to the safety of it. These are +the People who Cry out of the Danger from the Dissenters, but are not +concerned at our Danger from the <i>French</i>; that are frighted at the +Dissenters who as they pretend grow too Formidable for the Church, but +are not disturb'd at the Threatning Growth of a Conquering <i>Popish</i> +Enemy; that Deprecate the Clouds of Whiggism and Phanaticism, but +apprehend nothing of the Black Clouds of God's Threatning Judgements, +which plainly tell them <i>if they would suffer themselves to think</i>, +that there is somthing in the general practice of the Nation which +does not please him, and for which the hand of his Judgements is +extended against us.</p> + +<p>These are strange dull-sighted men, whose Intrest stands so directly +between them and their understanding that they can see nothing but +what that represents to them; God may Thunder from Heaven with Storms +upon Storms, Ruin our Fleets, Drown our Sailors and Blow us back from +the best Contriv'd Expeditions in the World, but they will never +believe the case affects them, never look into their own Conduct to +see if they have not help'd to bring these heavy Strokes upon the +Nation.</p> + +<p>How many Thousands have we in <i>England</i>, who if the whole <i>Navy</i> of +<i>England</i> had been at Stake; had rather have lost it than the <i>Bill +against Occasional Conformity</i>; that had rather the <i>French</i> should +have taken <i>Landau</i> and Beat the Prince of <i>Hess Cassell</i>, than the +Queen should have made such a <i>Speech for Peace and Union</i>; that had +rather the <i>Duke</i> of <i>Bavaria</i> should have taken <i>Ausburgh</i>, than that +there should not have been <i>some Affront put upon the House of Lords</i>.</p> + +<p>And if such Zealots, such Christian Furies are met with by Providence, +and see both the <i>Fleet</i> and the <i>Occasional Bill</i> lost together is it +not plain, what Providence meant in it. He that can not see that God +from on high has Punish'd them in their own way and pointed out the +Crime in the Vengeance must be more blind than usual, and must shut +their Eyes against their own Consciences.</p> + +<p>'Tis plain Heaven has suited his Punishment to the Offence, has +Punish'd the Stormy Temper of this Party of Men with <i>Storms of his +Vengeance, Storms on their Navies, Storms on their Houses, Storms on +their Confederates</i>, and I question not will at last with <i>Storms in +their Consciences</i>.</p> + +<p>If there be any Use to be made of this matter, 'tis to excite the +Nation to Spue out from among them these Men of Storms, that Peace, +Love, Charity and a General Union may succeed, and God may Bless us, +Return to us and delight to dwell among us, that the Favour of Heaven +may Return to us, and the Queen who has heartily declared her Eyes +open to this needful happiness, may enjoy the Blessing of Wise +Counsellors and Faithful Servants, that Constant Victory may Crown all +our Enterprizes, and the General Peace of Europe may be Established.</p> + +<p>If any one can tell us a way to bring all these Blessed ends to pass, +without a General Peace of Parties and Interests at home, he is +Wellcome to do it, for I profess It is hid from my Eyes.</p> + + +<p class="centertp"><i>FINIS.</i></p> + + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late +Storm, by Daniel Defoe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAY-MAN'S SERMON UPON LATE STORM *** + +***** This file should be named 36694-h.htm or 36694-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/9/36694/ + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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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: The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm + Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle + +Author: Daniel Defoe + +Release Date: July 10, 2011 [EBook #36694] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAY-MAN'S SERMON UPON LATE STORM *** + + + + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. In +memory of Steven Gibbs (1938-2009). + + + + + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was +originally published in 1704, and was prepared from _The Storm_, a +modern reprint (London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2005). Archaic and +inconsistent spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and hyphenation, +as well as apparent printer errors, have been retained as they appear +in the original.] + + + + +THE + +Lay-Man's + +SERMON + +UPON THE + +LATE STORM; + +Held forth at an Honest + +_Coffee-House-Conventicle_. + + +_Not so much a Jest as 'tis thought to be._ + + +Printed in the Year 1704. + + + + +NAHUM. I. III + + _The Lord has his way in the Whirle-Wind and in the Storm, + and the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet._ + + +This Text is not chosen more for the Suitableness to the present +Callamity, which has been the Portion of this Place, than for the +aptness of the Circumstances, 'twas spoken of God going to Chastise, a +Powerful, Populous, Wealthy and most reprobate City. + +_Nineveh_ was the Seat of a mighty Empire, a Wealthy Encreasing +People, Opulent in Trade, Flourishing in Power and Proud in +Proportion. + +The Prophet does not seem to deliver these words, to the _Ninevites_, +to convince them, or encline them to consider their own Circumstances +and repent, but he seems to speak, it to the _Israelites_ inviteing +them to Triumph and Insult over the Heathen adversary, by setting +forth the Power of their God, in the most exalted Terms. + +And that this is a just Exposition of this Text, seems plain from the +words Imediately going before, _the Lord is slow to Anger, and Great +in Power and will not at all acquit the wicked_. These words could +have no Connexion with the Text, tho' they are joyn'd with them in the +same Verse, if it were not meant of his being slow to Anger, to his +own People, and Terrible to the Heathen World, and this being spoken +as an Expression of his being not easily provoked as to his Church, +the Subsequent part of the Verse tells them how his power and Vengance +is matter of particular Satisfaction to his People as being exercis'd +in Revenging the affront put upon his Glory by his Enemies, _God is +Jealous, and the Lord Revengeth, the Lord Revengeth and is Furious, +the Lord will take Vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath +for his Enemies_. Tis plain this is meant of his Enemies, but as if +brought in with a Parenthesis, tis spoken for the comfort of his +Church, the Lord is slow to Anger as to them, and to lift up their +hearts in a further confidence that their Enemies are all in his hand, +he goes on discribing the Terrors of his Judgement. + +_The Lord has his way in the Whirl-wind and in the Storm, and the +Clouds are the Dust of his Feet._ Eloquent Flourishes upon the +Omnipotence of God. + +The short Exposition I shall make of the words, Tends only to remind +us that the Whirl-wind and Storm which are here made use of, to +express the Magnipotent power of God are acted by his Direction, _he +has his way in them_, it may note indeed the Invisible secrecy and +swiftness of his providences, but to avoid long Paraphrases, I confine +my self to my own Construction, as that which, as it is a just +inference from the matter of the Text, so 'tis most suitable to the +design of this discourse. + +And as this Sermon may be a little Immethodical, because I purpose to +make it almost all Aplication so I shall advance some Conclusions from +the Premises which I lay down, as the Geneuine sence of the Words. + +1. The Omnipotence of God gives Christians sufficient ground to Insult +their Enemies, _wherefore do the Heathen Mock thy People and say unto +them where is now your God? Behold our God is in the Heavens, and +doeth whatsoever he pleaseth_; as the Prophet _Elija_, Banter'd the +Heathen Priest of _Baal_, with the Impotence of their Gods, Cry aloud +for _he is a God, either he is talking or he is Pursuing, or he is in +a Journey, or Peradventure he Sleepeth and must be awakned_, so he +insulted them about the power of the true God, _let it be known O Lord +says he this day that thou art God in Israel_. + +2. As God in all the works of his Providence, makes use of the +subserviency of means, so the whole Creation is Subordinate to the +Execution of his Divine will, _the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet and +he rides upon the Wings of the Wind_, the most Powerful Elements are +so subjected to his almighty power that the Clouds are but as Dust +under his feet, tis as easy for him to Govern and mannage them; as it +is for a man to shake off the Dust from his feet, or he can as easily +subdue the fury of them as a man Tramples the Dust, they are small and +Triffling things, in his Eyes. + +3. The ways of God are unsearchable, the Methods of his Providence are +secret and powerfull; his way is in the Whirle-wind, and in the Storm, +tis invisible and iresistible, invisible as the Wind, and iresistible +as the Storm. + +But waving these and abundance more usefull observations which might +be justly drawn from so rich a Text, I shall proceed upon one which +tho' it favours something more of private authority, and I have not so +Authentick Opinion of the Learned Commentators, on my side, yet I +shall endeavour not to Merit much Censure, in the Improvement of it, +even from those who perhaps may not joyn with me in the Exposition. + +According therefore to my own private opinion of these words; I shall +for the present occasion only Paraphrase them thus, that _the Lord has +a way_ or an end _in the Whirle-wind, and in the Storm_, nor is this a +very unusual Method of expressing things in Scripture, where the way +is Exprest, to signify the design, or end of a thing. + +And from this Exposition I advance this head. + +That as God by his power Governs the elements, so in all their +Extraordinary Motions, they are in a Perticular manner acted by his +Soveraignity. And, + +2. When the Creation is put into any Violent or Supernatural +Agitation, God has always some Extraordinary thing to bring to pass, +_he has a meaning in all the Remarkables of Nature_. + +3. We ought dilligently to observe the extraordinary actings of +Providence, in order to discover and Deprecate the displeasure of +Almighty God, Providences are never Dumb, and if we can not discern +the signals of his Anger, we must be very blind. The Voice of his +Judgements is heard in the Voice of Nature, and if we make our selves +Deaf, he is pleas'd to make them speak the Louder, to awaken the +stupifyed sences, and startle the World, which seem'd rather Amus'd +than Amas'd, with the common Course of things. This I take to be some +of the true meaning of the way of God, in the Whirle-wind, and in the +Storm. + +The design of this Discourse therefore, is to put the Nation in +general upon proper Resolutions; if we pretend to believe that there +is any such thing as a Collateral Sympathy, a Communication of +Circumstances, between a Nations Follies, and her Fate. Any Harmony +between Merit and Mischief, between the Crimes of Men and the +Vengeance of Heaven; we cannot but allow this _Extra_-Pulpit +admonition to be just. + +And let not any man Object against this being call'd a Sermon, and its +being introduc'd from a Text of Scripture while the remainer of this +Discourse, seems wholly Civil and Political. + +If all our Measures in Civil affairs were deduc'd as Inferences from +sacred Texts, I am of the Opinion the Text would be well improv'd, and +Publick matters never the worse Guided. + +And for this reason, tho' the Subject be not Treated, with the Gravity +of a Sermon, nor in so serious a manner, as would become a Pulpit, yet +it may be not the less suitable to the occasion and for the manner, it +must be placed to the Authors account. + +Besides the Title I think has provided for the Method and If so he +that expected it otherwise than it is tis his Fault, and not Mine. + +The Term Sermon which is but _Sermo_, a Speech, may Justify all the +Novelty of my Method if those who find fault please to give themselves +leave to allow it, and since it has never profain'd the Pulpit, I +believe the Text will receive no Prejudice by it, I wish every Sermon +equally Improv'd. + +And what tho' your Humble Servant be no Man of the Text; if he be a +Man of Honesty, he may have a hand in making you all Men of +Application. + +In publick Callamities, every Circumstance is a Sermon, and every +thing we see a Preacher. + +The trembling Habitations of an Unthinking People Preach to us, and +might have made any Nation in the World tremble but us; when we were +rock'd out of our Sleep as Children are Rock'd into it; and when the +terrible Hand of Soveraign Power rock'd many a Wretch from one Sleep +to another, and made a Grave of the Bed, without the Ceremony of +waking in the Passage. + +The shatter'd Palaces of our Princes Preach to us, and tell us aloud, +that without respect to Dignity, he is able to put that Dreadful Text +in Execution; _That if a Nation does wickedly they shall be destroy'd +both they and their King_. + +The fallen Oaks, which stood before to tell us they were the longest +liv'd of all God's Creatures, Preach to us, and tell us that the most +towring object of humane Beauty and strength must lye humble and +prostrate, when he is pleased to give a Check to that Splendor which +was deriv'd from his Power. + +The Wrecks of our Navies and Fleets Preach to us, that 'tis in vain we +pretend to be Wall'd about by the Ocean, and ride Masters of the Sea: +And that, if he who bestow'd that Scituation upon us thinks fit, he +can make that Element which has been our Strength, and the Encreaser +of our Wealth, be the Grave of our Treasure, and the Enemy of our +Commerce; he can put it into so violent Agitation, by the blast of his +Mouth, that all our Defence and the Naval Strength we have vallued our +selves so much upon, shall at once be swallow'd up in the Mouth of our +Friend the Sea; and we shall find our Destruction in the very thing +from which we expected our Defence. + +Our Seamen and Soldiers, whose Dead Bodies Embrace the _English_ +Shores, Preach aloud to us, that whenever we think fit to Embark them +on any Design, which Heaven approves not of, he can blast the Embrio, +and devour those People whose Hands are lifted up against Justice and +Right. + +Also they Preach to us, Not to build our hopes of Success upon the +multitude of Ships or Men, who are thus easily reduc'd, and the +Strength of a whole Nation brought to Ruine in a Moment. + +These are the Monitors of our Missfortunes, and some of these +admonitions would be well preach'd from the Mouths of those whose +Tallent as well as Office gives them reason to do it, and us to expect +it. + +But since the Sons of the Prophets have not yet thought it proper to +enter very far into this Matter, not doubting but they will in due +time find it as suitable to their Inclination as 'tis to their Duty, + +In the mean time let us see if no uncommon Application may be made of +so uncommon a Circumstance. + +First, 'tis matter of wonder that any Man can be so senceless, as to +suppose there is nothing extraordinary in so signal an Instance of a +Supream Power; but 'tis much more remarkable that those who have +Religion enough to own it a Judgment, are yet at a loss how to +appropriate it's signification. + +Every one thinks it to be a Judgment upon the Person or Parties they +see touch'd with it. _W----_ the Carpenter was knock'd on the head +with a Stack of Chimneys, and his Wife saved; all the Neighbours cried +out 'twas a Judgment upon him for keeping a Whore; but if Stacks of +Chimnies were to have fallen on the Heads of all that keep Whores, +_Miserere Dei_. + +_S----_ was kill'd by the like Accident, and he must be singl'd out +for Extortion; But think ye that he was a Sinner above all the +_Gallileans_? + +The _Jacobites_ and _Non-Jurants_ shall rise up in Judgment against +this Generation, and shall condemn them, for they tell us, this Storm +is a Judgment on the whole Nation, for Excluding their Lawful +Soveraign, and Abjuring his Posterity: Upon this head they have been +preaching up Repentance, and Humiliation to us; and some of them are +willing to reduce all to a very practical Exhortation, and tell us, we +ought to look upon it as a Loud Call to Restore the Right Owner (as +they call him) to the Possession of his own again; that is, in short, +to rebel against a Mild, Gentle, Just and Protestant Queen, and call +in the Popish Posterity of an abdicated Tyrant. + +These Gentlemen are Men of Uses and Application, and know very well +how to make an Advantage of God's Judgments, when they serve their +turn. + +The _Whigs_ and _Occasional Conformists_ shall rise up in Judgment +against this Generation; for they are sensible of the present severe +Stroke of Providence, and think 'tis a mark of Heavens Displeasure +upon the Nation, for the violent methods made use of by some People +against them, for their Religion, contrary to their Native Right, and +the Liberty of their Consciences. + +Some think a general Blast follows all the Endeavours of this Nation +against the Common Enemy, for their slighting and reproaching the +Glorious Memory of the late King _William_, whose Gallant Endeavours +for the general good of _Europe_, and of _England_ in particular, were +Treacherously thwarted and disappointed while he was alive, and are +Basely and Scandalously undervalued and slighted now he is Dead; and +of this sort I confess my self enclined to be one. + +From these general Observations we may descend to particulars, and +every one judges according to their own Fancy. + +Some will have it, that the Slaughter and Destruction among the Fleet, +is a Judgment upon them, for going into the _Streights_, and coming +home again without doing any business; but those forget, that if they +did all they were ordered to do, the Fault lies in those who sent +them, and not in they that went. + +Some will have the Damage among the Colliers to be a Judgment, upon +those who have Engross'd the Trade, and made the Poor pay so dear for +Coals; not enquiring whether those Engrossers of the Coals are not +left safe on Shore, while the poor Seamen are drown'd, who know +nothing of the matter. + +'Tis plain to me, who ever are Punish'd by the Storm, we that are left +have a share in the Judgment, and a Trebble concern in the Cause. + +If it could be said that those who are destroy'd, or who have suffered +the loss of Lives, Limbs or Goods, were the only People who gave any +occasion to the Divine Justice thus severely to Revenge it self, then +all admonition to the rest of Mankind would be useless, any farther +than it directed them to be Cautious how they provoked him in like +manner; but have we not all had a hand in the general provocation, +though not an equal share in the general Calamity. + +Sometimes the Judgements of Heaven, bear so much Analogy to the +Crimes, that the Punishment points out the Offence, and 'tis easy to +distinguish what it is the perticular hand of Justice points at. + +And if we will seek for a Perticular case, in which Heaven seems to +have singled out this way of Punishment on the Nation, as best +proportion'd to the general National Crime we are all guilty of? what +seems more Rational than to Judge that tis a severe Animadversion upon +the Feuds and Storms of parties kept up among us in this Nation, with +such unnatural Heat, and such unaccountable Fury, that no man, who +has the least Compassion for his Native Country, but must with more +than Common Grief, be concerned for it, since unless some speedy +course be taken to bring a general Composure upon the minds of Men, +the general ruin seems Inevitable. + +If the matters in Debate were of Extraordinary Consequence, there +might be some pretence for Espousing contrary parties with unusual +heat; but while the difference lies in small, and, in some cases, +indifferent things, tis a most inexcusable Madness that the Feuds +shou'd be run up so high, that all manner of Charity should Perish and +be lost among us. + +We have had an Extraordinary Bustle in the World about Moderation, and +all Parties pretend to it, and now we are as busy about Peace, and +every one lays in a Loud Claim to it. + +I have seen, with some regret, the strange Mysterious Management of +this Age about Moderation, and tho' some late Authors have Published +that Moderation is a Vertue, It begins to be a question whether it is +or no. + +I wish some Body would make enquiry after the occasion that has +brought this Blessed Word into so much Contempt in the World; tis very +hard that a word expressive of the most Glorious Principle in the +World, should become the Brand of reproach, and a Badge of Infamy to +Parties; be a Nick-name it self, and be Nick-nam'd on every side; and +that at a time when the Vertue it self, is perhaps the only thing left +in the World, that can preserve this Nation from Destruction. + +'Tis too unhappy for _England_, that Men of immoderate Principles are +so powerfull as they are. Let the Party be which it will, tis +Destruction even to themselves, to run up all their Niceties and all +their Scruples to the Extremes. Every Dispute becomes a Feud, every +Spark a Flame, every word a Blow, every Blow, a Civil-War, and by this +Intestine Confusion of Principles, Backt with the Passion and Fury of +Men, this unhappy Nation is Subdivided into an Infinite Number of +Parties, Factions, Intrests and seperate Opinions. + +Every Man being thus bent upon the propagation of his own Notion, for +want of this healing Spirit of Moderation, falls foul upon his +Neighbour because he has not the same Heat, and if he finds him +better Temper'd than himself, if he finds him less Violent, less +Furious, than himself, he is Imediately Branded with the Scandal of +Moderation. + +Since then the Change of times has made this Practice, which in its +very Nature is a Foundation of Vertue, become a Crime, Let us examine +who are, and who are not Guilty of it. + +For the Negatives of this Vice of Moderation they are something Easier +to be discover'd than ordinary, both in Principles and in Practice; +and, without the Scandal of a Censorious Writer, I may be allowed to +say all the following Instances may stand clear of this Crime. + +1. If Mr. _Sachaverell_, with his Bloody Flag, and Banner of Defiance, +were Indicted for Moderation, I verily believe no Jury would bring him +in Guilty. + +2. If Dr. _J----ne_, Author of the Character of a Low-Churchman, Mr. +---- Author of the New Association, if a famous Bishop who told us, +'twould never be well with _England_ till all the Dissenters were +serv'd like the _Hugonots_ in _France_, if any of these were Indicted +for Moderation, they might safely plead not Guilty. + +3. If Sir _John Friend_ and Sir _William Parkins_, had been only +accus'd for Moderation, they had never been Hanged, nor _Collyer_ and +_Cook_ had never absolv'd them at the Gallows without Repentance. + +4. If he were Hang'd for Moderation, who ask'd the Question, _whether +if the Play-house in Dorset-Garden, were let for a Meeting-house, +'twould not do more harm than tis like to do as a Theatre_, he would +certainly Dye Innocently. + +5. If _Fuller_ had been Voted an Incorrigible Rogue only for the Vice +of Moderation, I should have thought the House of Commons had done him +wrong. + +6. If the Councellors of the late King, such as Father _P----_, my +Lord _S----_ and all those that betray'd their Master, by hurrying on +his ruin and their own. If those Gentlemen were Charged with +Moderation, I doubt we should wrong them. + +7. If some of the Members of our Late Convocation shou'd be accused +for Moderation, I believe it might be no Difficult task to Vindicate +them. + +8. If this Crime should be Charged higher than we dare to mention, I +am perswaded some Persons of Note would think themselves abused. + +9. In short all those Gentlemen, by whatsoever Names or Titles +Distinguish'd, who repine at the Settlement, who reproach the +Tolleration, and who Blame the Queen for her promises of Maintaining +it, these abhor the thoughts of this Scandalous Crime of Moderation, +and are as Innocent of it as the Child unborne. + +10. Tis the Opinion of some People, That there are some of our beloved +Friends in _Scotland_, may be Vindicated in this case, nay others are +of the Opinion, tis not a National Crime in that Country, that is, +'tis not a sin the _Scots_ are much adicted to. + +11. Lastly, Take our English Clergy in general, some are ready to say +they have no great cause of Repentance for the sin of Moderation. + +On the other hand, some People have so home a Charge of this Error +laid upon them, that 'twill be very hard to clear themselves of it, +and I am afraid they would be brought in Guilty by a Jury, almost +without going away from the Bar. as, + +1. Our Observator, they say, is Guilty of Moderation, with Relation to +his Wit, and Especially as concerning his good Manners; I hope he wont +be prosecuted for it the next Sessions, if he should, I doubt, 'twill +go hard with him. + +2. If our News-writers should be Indited for Moderation, as to Truth +of Fact, I would advise them to plead Guilty, and throw themselves +upon the Mercy of the Court. + +3. Some of our Captains, they say, are addicted to Fight but +Moderately; I hope all the rest wont be Infected, but I know not what +to say to it. + +4. Some of our Lawyers are apt to be very Moderate in their Justice, +but being well read in the Law are cunning enough to keep off an +Indictment, so there is no fear of them. + +5. Some of our General Receivers, when they got the Publick Money in +their hands, were apt to be very Moderate in paying it out again. + +6. Some have been very Moderate in giving in their accounts too, as +may appear in former Reigns, and perhaps in time to come too. + +Some Moderately Wise, some Moderatly Honest, but most Immoderately +adicted to think themselves Both. + +Tho' I might be a little more serious upon the matter, yet this way of +talking is not so much a Jest neither as it looks like; and has its +Moral, in it self, which a Wise man may see, and for the Fool tis no +matter whether he does or no. Custome has prevailed upon us to such a +degree, that almost in every part the very Practice seem a Scandal, +and the Word passes for a Reproach. + +To say, among the Sons of _Levy_, such a man is a Moderate Church-man +is to say he is no Church-man, and some of our present Bishops from +the Practice of Moderation have been boldly call'd Presbiterians in +the Pamphlets of our less Moderate writers. + +In short, 'tis hard to find any party or profession of Men among us, +that care for the Title; and those who but Moderately espouse an +Intrest, are generally suspected by those who are of that side, as +Persons Favouring their Enemies. + +These Moderate Men, said a Gentleman whose Gown and Band had given us +reason to expect better Language, they will Ruin the Church, this +Damn'd Moderation, says he, spoils all, we should deal well enough +with the Dissenters, if it were not for these men of Moderation, they +are worse than Dissenters, for they seem to be among us, and yet wont +Joyn heartily to do the Work. + +Moderation seems to be cast off on every side, and is used as a Badge +of reproach in every Class, or degree of Men in the World. + +In the Church of _England_, 'tis call'd Low-Church. + +In the Court, 'tis call'd Whiggism. + +In the Dissenters, 'tis call'd Occasional Conformity. + +In Parties, 'tis call'd Trimming. + +In Religion, 'tis call'd Latitudinarian. + +In Opinion, 'tis call'd Indifference, + +In the Church of _Scotland_, 'tis call'd Prelacy. + +While Moderation of principles seems thus the general Sin of Parties, +Let them consider whether Heaven it self has not declar'd War against +us all on this Head, and fill'd us with immoderate Judgements. + +Where's all our prospect of success Abroad, or prosperity at home? +Since our late Thanksgiveing for Victories, how has Heaven Treated us, +but like a Nation, that being puff'd up and exalted with prosperity, +began to slight Forreign Judgements, and leaving Providence to Work by +it self fell to making War at home with one another, as if we would +prove that the Scripture was not true _and that a Kingdom might stand +tho' it were divided against it self_. + +How has Heaven declar'd that he is resolv'd not to bless this +immoderate Generation? How has all their Measures been disappointed +both abroad and at home, all their designes been blasted, and the +Anger of Heaven so remarkably bent against them, that even the little +success we have had, has been prescrib'd by Providence to those few +hands who Act from Principles of Honesty and Temper, as if God did +thereby point out to us who they are he delights to bless. + +The _D----_ of _M----_ is a Whig _say some of our People who Hate all +Moderation_, he is so _Dutchify'd_, we shall never have any Good of +him, why that may be, but yet you see there is not one Article of our +Conduct has succeeded but what has been under his Mannagement. + +And Heaven has declar'd so Eminently against all other Branches of our +Affaires, that I wish I am mistaken when I say 'tis plain either he +seems to mislike the Cause or the Persons employ'd, and that however +severe he was pleas'd to Anminadvert upon the Publick affaires in the +late Violent Tempest, it seems that _for all this his Anger is not +turned away but his hand is Stretched out still_. + +But what has a Sermon to do to enquire, may some say, and if it had, +how shall it make appear whether God is displeased with our designs or +the Persons employed, with the cause or the Carryers of it on. + +As to the cause, all men are Judges of the Justice of it, and all men +know the Foot of the present Confederacy, at least our part must be +Just as it is to Maintain our just Rights, Liberty, Trade and +Religion. + +It must then be the Persons, the _R----s_, the Sir _G----s_, +_G----ns_, the _R----ks_ of this War; that Heaven is resolv'd shall +not be the men, whom he will honour with the Deliverance of his +People. + +All wise Princes in the World have made it a constant Maxim in their +Governments, that when any of their great Generals prove Unfortunate, +tho' never so Wise, they lay them by, as Persons that God does not +think fit to bless with success, and 'tis not needful to examine +whether it were not their fault, but to be Unfortunate is to be told +from Heaven, that such a one is not the Man, and a Nation ought to +understand it so. + +But sure when Heaven Singles men out by Crossing their attempts _and +Marks them for unfortunate_, and we can give our selves good reasons +why they are thus Mark'd by the Divine displeasure; when we can see +their false steps, their General designs against God and their +Countries Intrests, 'tis high time then for those who sit at the Helm +of Government, to Change hands and put their affaires into such +Persons Conduct, against whom Heaven has not declar'd so plainly its +Displeasure, nor the Nation its Dislike. + +Why shou'd the Queen be desir'd to Chain down her own Happiness and +the Nations Interest, to the Missfortune of a few Men. Perhaps God may +Bless the Fleet under one Admiral, when he will not under another. I +know nothing against Admiral _Callemburgh_, he may be an Honest and +worthy-man, and ready enough to Fight for the cause, for indeed most +of the _Dutch_ Captains of Ships are so, but since Heaven has now +'twice refus'd to let him go, and driven him back again, if I were the +Governour of his Masters affairs, he should not be sent a Third time, +least we should seem obstinately to Employ somebody that God himself +had declar'd against and had three times from Heaven forbid to go. + +I hope no Body will Construe this to be a Personal Satyr upon _Myn +Heer Callemburgh_, But _take it among ye_, let it go, where it Fitts +best. + +If these are not the Generation of Men that must do the Nations +business, then 'tis plain our Deliverance will never be wrought while +they are employ'd; If God will not bless them he will never bless us +till they are dismist. + +I doubt not we shall be deliver'd, and this Nation shall yet Triumph +over her Enemies; but while wrong Instruments are Employ'd the Work +will be delay'd. _God would have a House built him_ But _David_ was +not the Man and therefore the Work was put off till _Solomon_ was in +the Throne. + +God would have _Israel_ go into the Land of _Canaan_ and possess it, +but those Generals and those Captains were not the Men; _Moses_ and +_Aaron_, and the great Men of the Camp were not such as God approv'd +off and therefore _Israel_ could not go over _Joardan_ till they had +laid their Bones in the Wilderness. + +_England_ is hardly ever to pass over the _Jourdan_ before her, till +these Immoderate Men of Strife and Storms are laid by. + +If any man ask me why these men shou'd not perfect the Nation Peace as +well as other men? _I do not say which Men nor who_, but let them be +who the enquirer please, I answer the Question, with a question _How +shou'd men of no Moderaion bring us to Peace_. + +How shou'd Men of strife bring us Peace and Union: Contraries may +Illustrate but Contraries never Incorporate; Men of Temper, are the +safe men for this Nation. Men of heat are fit to Embroil it, but not +to Cure it: they are something like our Sea Surgeons who fly to +Amputation of Members upon every slight Fracture, when a more proper +Application would effect the Cure and save the Joynt. + +'Tis an ill sign especially for _England_ when Wars abroad wont make +us Friends at home. Foreign dangers us'd to Unite us from whence Queen +_Elizabeth_, has been said to leave this Character of the Nation +behind her, that they were much easier to be Govern'd in a time of War +than in Peace. + +But when This, which us'd to be the only Cure of all our diseases, +fails us, 'tis a sign the Distemper is Grown very strong, and there is +some more than usual Room for despair. + +The only Way left the Nation is to obtain from those in power, that +Moderation may cease being the pretence and be really the practice. + +It would be well all men would at least _be Occasional Conformists_, +to this Extraordinary principle; and when there is such a Loud call to +Peace both from Heaven and from the Throne, they would do well to +consider who are the Men of Peace and who are not: For certainly those +Immoderate Gentlemen, who slight the Proposals for a general Union of +Charity, cannot pretend to be Friends to the present Intrest of their +Native Country. + +These men, 'tis true, Cry out of the danger of the Church, but can +they make it appear that the Church is in any danger from Moderation +and Temper; can they pretend that there is no way to secure her, but +by pulling down all that differ with them, no way to save her but by +the ruin of her Protestant Brethren; there are Thousands of Loyal +honest Church-men, who are not of this mind; who believe that +Moderation and Charity to Protestant Dissenters is very Consistant +with the safety of the Church and with the present general Union which +they Earnestly desire. + +As to Persons we have nothing to say to them, but this, without +pretending to prophesy, may be safely advanced, that Heaven it self, +has Eminently declared it self against the Fury and Immoderate Zeal of +those Gentlemen, and told us as plainly as possible, unless we would +Expect a Voice from on high, that he neither Has nor Designs to bless +this Generation nor their proceedings. + +When ever our rulers think fit to see it, and to employ the Men and +the Methods which Heaven approves, then we may expect success from +abroad, Peace at home, prosperity in Trade, Victory in War, plenty in +the Field, Mild and Comfortable Seasons, Calm Air, Smooth Seas, and +safe Habitations. + +Till then we are to expect our Houses Blown down, our Pallaces +Shatter'd, our Voyages broken, our Navys Ship-wreck'd, our Saylors +Drown'd, our Confedrates Beaten, our Trade ruin'd, our Money spent and +our Enemies encreased. + +The Grand dispute in this Quarrelsome Age, is against our Brethren who +Dissent from the Church; and from what principle do we act? it is not +safe say they to let any of them be entrusted in the Government, that +is, it is not profitable to let any Body enjoy great Places but +themselves. + +This is the Bottom of the pretence, as to the safety of it. These are +the People who Cry out of the Danger from the Dissenters, but are not +concerned at our Danger from the _French_; that are frighted at the +Dissenters who as they pretend grow too Formidable for the Church, but +are not disturb'd at the Threatning Growth of a Conquering _Popish_ +Enemy; that Deprecate the Clouds of Whiggism and Phanaticism, but +apprehend nothing of the Black Clouds of God's Threatning Judgements, +which plainly tell them _if they would suffer themselves to think_, +that there is somthing in the general practice of the Nation which +does not please him, and for which the hand of his Judgements is +extended against us. + +These are strange dull-sighted men, whose Intrest stands so directly +between them and their understanding that they can see nothing but +what that represents to them; God may Thunder from Heaven with Storms +upon Storms, Ruin our Fleets, Drown our Sailors and Blow us back from +the best Contriv'd Expeditions in the World, but they will never +believe the case affects them, never look into their own Conduct to +see if they have not help'd to bring these heavy Strokes upon the +Nation. + +How many Thousands have we in _England_, who if the whole _Navy_ of +_England_ had been at Stake; had rather have lost it than the _Bill +against Occasional Conformity_; that had rather the _French_ should +have taken _Landau_ and Beat the Prince of _Hess Cassell_, than the +Queen should have made such a _Speech for Peace and Union_; that had +rather the _Duke_ of _Bavaria_ should have taken _Ausburgh_, than that +there should not have been _some Affront put upon the House of Lords_. + +And if such Zealots, such Christian Furies are met with by Providence, +and see both the _Fleet_ and the _Occasional Bill_ lost together is it +not plain, what Providence meant in it. He that can not see that God +from on high has Punish'd them in their own way and pointed out the +Crime in the Vengeance must be more blind than usual, and must shut +their Eyes against their own Consciences. + +'Tis plain Heaven has suited his Punishment to the Offence, has +Punish'd the Stormy Temper of this Party of Men with _Storms of his +Vengeance, Storms on their Navies, Storms on their Houses, Storms on +their Confederates_, and I question not will at last with _Storms in +their Consciences_. + +If there be any Use to be made of this matter, 'tis to excite the +Nation to Spue out from among them these Men of Storms, that Peace, +Love, Charity and a General Union may succeed, and God may Bless us, +Return to us and delight to dwell among us, that the Favour of Heaven +may Return to us, and the Queen who has heartily declared her Eyes +open to this needful happiness, may enjoy the Blessing of Wise +Counsellors and Faithful Servants, that Constant Victory may Crown all +our Enterprizes, and the General Peace of Europe may be Established. + +If any one can tell us a way to bring all these Blessed ends to pass, +without a General Peace of Parties and Interests at home, he is +Wellcome to do it, for I profess It is hid from my Eyes. + + +_FINIS._ + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late +Storm, by Daniel Defoe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAY-MAN'S SERMON UPON LATE STORM *** + +***** This file should be named 36694.txt or 36694.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/9/36694/ + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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