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Sermons preach'd upon several occasions. By John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The fourth volume
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Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
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evil-speakings And the Apostle ranks backbiters with fornicators and murderers and haters of God and with those of whom it is expressly said that they shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And when he enumerates the Sins of the last times Men says he shall be lovers of themselves covetous boasters evil-speakers without natural affection perfidious false accusers c. And which is the strangest of all they who are said to be guilty of these great Vices and Enormities are noted by the Apostle to be great pretenders to Religion for so it follows in the next words Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof So that it is no new thing for men to make a more than ordinary profession of Christianity and yet at the same time to live in a most palpable contradiction to the Precepts of that Holy Religion As if any pretence to Mystery and I know not what extraordinary attainments in the knowledge of Christ could exempt men from obedience to his Laws and set them above the Vertues of a good Life And now after all this do we hardly think that to be a Sin which is in Scripture so frequently rank'd with Murther and Adultery and the blackest Crimes such as are inconsistent with the life and power of Religion and will certainly shut men out of the Kingdom of God Do we believe the Bible to be the Word of God and can we allow our selves in the common practice of a Sin than which there is hardly any Fault of men's Lives more frequently mention'd more severely reprov'd and more odiously branded in that Holy Book Consider seriously these Texts Who shall abide in thy Tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy Hill He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour Have ye never heard what our Saviour says that of every idle word we must give an account in the day of Judgment that by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemn'd What can be more severe than that of St. James If any man among you seemeth to be religious and bridleth not his tongue that man's Religion is vain To conclude The Sin which I have now warned men against is plainly condemn'd by the Word of God and the Duty which I have now been persuading you to is easie for every man to understand not hard for any man that can but resolve to keep a good guard upon himself for some time by the grace of God to practice and most reasonable for all Men but especially for all Christians to observe It is as easie as a resolute silence upon just occasion as reasonable as prudence and justice and charity and the preservation of peace and good-will among men can make it and of as necessary and indispensible an obligation as the Authority of God can render any thing Upon all which Considerations let us every one of us be persuaded to take up David's deliberate Resolution I said I will take heed to my ways that I offend not with my tongue And I do verily believe that would we but heartily endeavour to amend this one Fault we should soon be better Men in our whole lives I mean that the correcting of this Vice together with those that are nearly allied to it and may at the same time and almost with the same resolution and care be corrected would make us Owners of a great many considerable Vertues and carry us on a good way towards perfection it being hardly to be imagin'd that a man that makes conscience of his Words should not take an equal or a greater care of his Actions And this I take to be both the true meaning and the true reason of that saying of St. James and with which I shall conclude If any man offend not in Word the same is a perfect man Now the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ the great Shepherd of the Sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good word and work to do his will working in you always that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ To whom be glory for ever Amen FINIS V. 8 9 10 11 12. V. 8. V. 9. V. 10. V. 8. V. 9. V. 13. 1 Pet. 5.12 Philip. 1.27 1 Chron. 29.4 Psal 103.10 Lev. 26.13 Isaiah 1.4 Verse 5. Isaiah 9.13 Isaiah 26.11 2 Chron. 28.22 Judges 8.34 35. 1 Kings 11.9 2 Chron. 32.25 Isaiah 1.2 Verse 3. Isaiah 26.10 Deut 13.1 2. Verse 5. Numb 14.32 Judges 10.11 12 13 14. Jer. 2.19 Judges 10.13 Gen. 15.16 Rom. 9.22 Isaiah 1.5 Matth. 23.37 38. Psal 28.5 Psal 118.23 24. 1 Cor. 10.6 7 9 10 11. Numb 2.5 6. V. 11. Dr. Barrow Dr. Barrow Prov. 14.29 Eccl. 7.9 Prov. 16.32 Verse 45. Eph. 4.32 chap. 5.1 Luke 17.3 4. Rom. 12.17 V. 18. Matth. 6.14 15. Matth. 18.23 V. 35. M. Aur. Antoni lib. 7. Eccl. 23 1 2 3 4. Heb. 11.6 Joh. 17.3 Matth. 5.3 4 c. Matth. 7.21 V. 24. V. 26 27. John 13 17. Luke 6.46 1 Joh. 5.3 1 Joh. 2.4 John 14.15 V. 21. 1 Joh. 3.7 V. 10. Gen. 3.7 Isa 3.10 11. Matth. 19.17 Matth. 6.31 33. * Ita me Dij Deaeque omnes pejus perdant quà m bodiè perire me sentio c. Rev. 20.14 Wisd of Solomon ch 1. ver 12 13 16. 2 Chron. 14.11 Ps 33.16 Psal 44 6. Prov. 21.30 31. Prov. 3.5 6. Deut. 23.9 Isa 37.23 26 27 28 29 32. Isa 26.10 11. Isa 58.5 6 c. Jer. 15.2 Hos 9.12 Gen. 7.1 1 Cor. 10.11 Jer. 4.14 Jer. 13.27 Hos 11.8 9. Jonah 4.11 Psal 78. * Lib. 1. c. 3. Lib. 4. c. 5. Lib. 7. c. 1. Lib. 5. c. 2. Lib. 6. c. 11. Lib. 7. c. 1. Jer. 2.19 Psal 122. John 16.2 Luke 23.34 Acts 3.17 Acts 26.9 1 Tim. 1.13 Acts 3.19 Jam. 1.20 Boeth Acts 22.4 Acts 26.9 John 7.17 1 Cor. 4.4 Job 25.5 6. 1 Joh. 3.21 Prov. 14.32 Ps 37.37 Acts 23.1 John 17.4 2 Tim. 4.6 7 8. Zech. 8.18 19. Verse 9 10 11 12 13. 1 Kings 8.37 38 39 40. Jer. 8.6 Jer. 13.17 Psal 119.36 v. 53. v. 158. Dan. 9.5 7 8. Ezr. 9.6 7. Jer. 5.30 31. Jer. 13.20 21. Isai 1.4 5. Ezra 9.6 Joel 2.15 16 17. Ver. 18. Dan. 9 3â— Ver. 16 17 18 19. Dan. 4.27 Jer. 29.11 12 13. Job 41.33 34. Acts 10.4 Isa 58.7 9. 2 Chron. 7.14 Zech. 8.19 Ezek. 33.31 Ver. 1. Ver. 2. Ver. 10. Ver. 12. Ver. 13. Ver. 14. Ver. 15. Ver. 16. Ver. 17 18. Ver. 21. Ver. 23. Psal 22.9 10 11. Rom. 8.35 v. 38 39. Prov. 1.24 25 c. Isa 27.11 Psal 4.6 7 8. Psal 119. 1 Cor. 1.25 Job 28.12 Ch. 28.12 Job 28.28 Eccl. 9.11 â—â— 38.22 23. Psal 52.1 Prov. 23.5 Eccl. 5.13 Prov. 1.18 Job 40.9 Judg. 10.13 Deut. 32.20 Jer. 6.8 Isa 14. Psal 48.2 Rev. 18.17 Isa 26.11 Ecclus 19.16 James 3.2 Jam. 1.26 Eccl. 19.8 Ecclus. 19.13 14 15. Matth. 24.12 Ecclus. 19.8 9. Matth. 7. Psal 34.12 13. Jam. 1.26 1 Cor. 6.10 Wisdom of Solomon c. 1. v. 11. Ecclus. 19.10 Psal 34.12 13. Matth. 15.19 Rom. 1.29 1 Cor. 6.10 2 Tim. 3.2 3. Psal 15.1 Psal 31.1
know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore will I put my hook into thy nose and my bridle into thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest The zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this But more especially in vindication of his oppressed Truth and Religion and in the great and signal Deliverances of his Church and People God is wont to take the conduct of affairs into his own hands and not to proceed by humane rules and measures He then bids second Causes to stand by that his own Arm may be seen and his Salvation may appear He raiseth the spirits of men above their natural pitch and giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength as the Prophet expresseth it Thus hath the Providence of God very visibly appear'd in our late Deliverance in such a manner as I know not whether He ever did for any other Nation except the People of Israel when He delivered them from the House of Bondage by so mighty a hand and so outstretched an arm And yet too many among us I speak it this day to our shame do not seem to have the least sense of this great Deliverance or of the hand of God which was so visible in it but like the Children of Israel when they were brought out of Egypt we are full of murmurings and discontent against God the Author and his Servant the happy Instrument under God of this our Deliverance What the Prophet says of that People may I fear be too justly apply'd to us Let favour be shewn to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the Land of uprightness he will deal unjustly and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord Lord When thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed And I hope I may add that which follows in the next verse Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works for us What God hath already done for our deliverance is I hope an earnest that He will carry it on to a perfect peace and settlement and this notwithstanding our high provocations and horrible ingratitude to the God of our Life and of our Salvation And when ever the Providence of God thinks fit thus to interpose in humane affairs the race is not to the swift nor the battel to the strong For which reason their Majesties in their great Piety and Wisdom and from a just sense of the Providence of Almighty God which rules in the Kingdoms of men have thought fit to set apart this Day for solemn repentance and humiliation That the many and heinous Sins which we in this Nation have been and still are guilty of and which are of all other our greatest and most dangerous Enemies may not separate between God and us and hinder good things from us and cover us with confusion in the day of our danger and distress And likewise earnestly to implore the favour and blessing of Almighty God upon their Majesties Forces and Preparations by Sea and Land And more particularly for the preservation of his Majesties sacred Person upon whom so much depends and who is contented again to hazard Himself to save us To conclude There is no such way to engage the Providence of God for us as by real Repentance and Reformation and by doing all we can in our several Places from the highest to the lowest by the provision of wise and effectual Laws for the discountenancing and suppressing of Profaneness and Vice and by the careful and due execution of them and by the more kindly and powerful influence of a good Example to retrieve the ancient Piety and Virtue of the Nation For without this whatever we may think of the firmness of our present settlement we cannot long be upon good terms with Almighty God upon whose favour depends the prosperity and stability of the present and future Times I have but one thing more to mind you of and that is to stir up your charity towards the poor which is likewise a great part of the Duty of this Day and which ought always to accompany our Prayers and Fastings Thy Prayers and thine Alms saith the Angel to Cornelius are come up before God And therefore if we desire that our Prayers should reach Heaven and receive a gracious answer from God we must send up our Alms along with them And instead of all other arguments to this purpose I shall only recite to you the plain and perswasive words of God Himself in which He declares what kind of Fast is acceptable to Him Is it such a Fast as I have chosen a Day for a man to afflict his soul Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush to spread sackcloth and ashes under him Wilt thou call this a Fast and an acceptable Day to the Lord Is not this the Fast that I have chosen To loose the bands of wickedness and to undo the heavy burthens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thine house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thy salvation shall spring forth speedily thy righteousness or thine Alms shall go before thee and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward Then shalt thou call and I will answer thee thou shalt cry and He shall say here I am Now to Him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb that was slain To God even our Father and to our Lord Jesus Christ the first begotten from the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the earth Vnto Him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father To Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen And the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen The way to prevent the Ruin of a Sinful People A FAST-SERMON Preached before the LORD-MAYOR c. ON Wednesday June the 18th 1690. Pilkington Mayor Mercurii xviii Junii 1690. Annoque Regis Reginae Willelmi Mariae Angliae c. Secundo THis Court doth desire Dr. Tillotson Dean of St. Pauls to Print his Sermon preach'd before the Lord-Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of London at St. Mary-le-Bow Wagstaffe To the Right Honourable