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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50545	A sermon preached before the King at Windsor-Castle August 15, 1675 by Richard Meggott ...	Meggott, Richard, d. 1692.	1675 (1675)	Wing M1622; ESTC R16982	12,106	38

walked disorderly and not after Godliness 1 Tim. 5.8 telleth us If any provide not for his own especially for those of his own House he hath denyed the Faith Why are there no such ill Husbands within the Pale of the Church who so they may riot and rant themselves care not what becometh of their comfortless and ruined Families no doubt abundance but deeds have a Language more significant than Words and their carriage denyed him though their Tongues were silent or should say the contrary And accordingly when Ecclesiastical Authority was thought fit to be exercised the Church of God dealt with them for her own reputation cutting them off by Censures and denying them her Communion If it be asked what difference then between these and open Infidels It must be granted that there is one but it is only this They deny God in their Vnderstandings these deny him in their Wills they deny the Doctrine of the Gospel these deny the Precepts of it they deny the Truth of Divine Revelations these deny their Goodness Of the two the former is in the better condition and much more excusable because they act according to their own Principles but these will be condemned out of their own Mouths But if every evil work be a denying of God who can truly be said to confess him For there is none but doth evil no not one God saith Saint Hierom is Omniscience Justice Providence Truth by sinning in secret we deny his Omniscience by any dishonesty in dealing we deny his Justice by Discontent and Murmuring we deny his Providence by any Lye or Dissimulation we deny his Truth But yet we may warrantably say it is not every one that sometimes doth some Work which is evil that is here intended It is not every miscarriage or single act of ours that is charged so highly but some sins and ways of sinning there are so inconsistent with the Worthiness of this Holy Calling and the Power of Godliness that they who do such things may must have this pronounced on them Having not a distinct History of these Cretians and their manners we cannot say what all those works were in particular which moved the Apostle in the Text to declare this of them that they did deny God but there are two great ones lye plain before us in the Context and though I wave some others that are also hinted I cannot pass over these in silence they are so near the complexion of the present days and may be of so much use to us in teaching us to judge our selves One of these sins they are upbraided with is that of Sensuality The Country they lived in was so plentiful and fruitful that in Pliny and Solinus it is called Macaros and Macaronesas the blessed and happy Island their Wine so rich and generous that among the Poets it hath obtained the Epithet of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This was an occasion of their being so ryotous and luxurious so debauched and vicious that proverbially with other Nations they had the name of slow bellies Such courses as these very often bring men to deny God in Word The Soul of man though it cannot be prejudiced in its Essence yet by the abuse of our Bodys it may much in its operations and experience showeth us that impurity and intemperance physically so wrong the brain as to indispose it for its highest and most noble Uses Wherefore the Jews among their qualifications of a Prophet make Dyet and Chastity two special ones concluding no man capable of divine and spiritual Knowledge without them It is a good observation of Lapide that after the Flood when Noah had planted Vines and men altered their feed from Herbs to Flesh that then presently they turned Idolaters and the Worship of God decayed And I would leave to the impartial consideration of the sober whether that so great and mischievous inundation of Scepticism in our own Nation be not much of it owing to such kind of sins having been so very rife among us for as it is very seldom seen that any man is an Atheist who was not first an Epicure so I think it is almost as feldom that any man hath been long an Epicure who is not at last an Atheist But where through a more happy Mechanism of the Head it doth not proceed so far as to Speculative Atheism yet it is in it self Practical Atheism These things are so expresly against all the plain Commands and clear Revelations of God so opposite to that Moderation and Sobriety Modesty and Mortification that he requireth of us that they who did such works though they made an external Profession of God upon this score in the Text are said to deny him The other sin I choose to instance in that they are branded with is their Profaneness in contemning all Instructions and Admonitions given to reclaim them They were rebuked sharply but they did not amend upon it Paul had planted them and Titus watered them but there was no increase They are called not only evil but beasts too as headstrong and unperswadable as inconsiderate and unreasonable under all the counsels and warnings of God A sad case in all other things where it is their interest men are easily prevailed with but here though it be their everlasting one so deaf and unconcerned they are that the likeliest Messengers God ever employed scarce could sow in hope We find them so heartless when they have been delivering their Messages that with abrupt disturbances they oft give over their Auditors and in Melancholy Apostrophes apply themselves to the most senseless and inanimate Creatures O Altar Altar hear the Word of the Lord said the man of God though Jeroboam stood by as if those Stones were as like to relent or be made impression on as him he had to deal with Hear O Heavens saith the Prophet Isaiah and give eare O Earth for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken as if the Heavens as high as they weres were as likely to hear as if the Earth as dull as it was were as likely to consider as the People he was sent to Hear O ye Mountains the Lord's Controversie saith the Prophet Micha and ye strong Foundations of the Earth nothing in the Earth so immoveable as the Mountains nothing in the Mountains so impenitrable as their Foundations and yet the Mountains the very Foundations of those Mountains are addressed to as if they were as apprehensive of God's Controversie as the great ones there spoken to But lest the commonness of such things should diminish your apprehensions of the hainousness of them I must so far magnifie my office as to tell you that God who converseth not with us immediately but by his Officers interpreteth what is done unto these as done unto himself and as in hearing these you hear him so in despising these you despise him also and they that did so whatsoever they professed of their owning and acknowledging him are here expresly said to deny