SERMON 



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PREACHED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS, NOVEMBER 13tH, 1678, 

 BEING THE FAST-DAY APPOINTED BY THE KINO TO IMPLORE THE 

 MERCIES OF ALMIGHTY GOD IN THE PROTECTION OF HIS »AJESTy's 

 SACRED PERSON, AND HIS KINGDOMS.* * 



In the Shadow of thy Wings will I make my Refuge^ until these 

 Calamities be oxer-past. — Psalm Ivii. ver. 1. 



What St. Hierom observed long since concerning 

 this Book of Psalms, Titulos esse claves; that the 

 title is usually the true key of David, to set open 

 the Psalm to us, and to let us into the true under- 

 standing of it ; he learned, probably, from a former 

 author, (with whose writings he was in his younger 

 years much delighted,) Origen| I mean : who, in 

 his tomes upon the Psalms, discoursing of some 

 obscurities in Holy Scripture, and the proper re- 

 medies thereof, gives us yet a more ancient tradi- 

 tion, which he received (as he saith) from a learned 

 Jew ; that the whole body of Scripture is like a 

 great house, in which are several apartments, and 

 therein many rooms shut up, and in them again 



* On the occasion of the celebrated Popish Plot, 

 t Orig. Philocal. p. .09. 



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