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Sermons and discourses on several occasions by William Wake ...; Sermons. Selections
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be adored To conclude Let MARY be held in Honour but let God be Adored Now to this God who alone has infinite Perfections and is a God hearing Prayer let us ascribe as is most due Salvation and Glory and Power and Praise and Thanksgiving for ever and ever Amen FINIS ADVERTISEMENT Of Books published by the Reverend Dr. WAKE THere having been lately a little trifling Discourse concerning the Blessed Sacrament published and spread abroad in the Name of Dr. Wake dedicated to the Princess of Denmark it is thought convenient here to let the World know how great an injury has been done to him in it To prevent such Practises for the time to come the Reader is desired to take notice that the Doctor has yet published no other Books than what are here subjoined nor will ever hereafter set his Mark where he is not willing to write his Name Printed for Richard Chiswell AN Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church 4 to A Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator A Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the new Exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator The FIRST PART Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against Monsieur de Meaux and his Vindicator The SECOND PART A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and the Adoration of the Host in Answer to the Two Discourses lately Printed at Oxford on this Subject To which is prefixed a Large Historical Preface relating to the same Argument Two Discourses of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead A Continuation of the Controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a full Account of the Books that have been of late written on Both sides Preparation for Death being a Letter sent to a Young Gentlewoman in France in a Distemper of which she died Printed for William Rogers A Discourse concerning the Nature of Idolatry in which a late Author viz. the Bishop of Oxford's true and only Notion of Idolatry is considered and confuted 4 to The Sum of a Conference between Dr. Clagert and F. P. Gooden about Transubstantiation Published by this Author with a Preface Printed for Richard Chiswell and William Rogers TWo Sermons One before the King and Queen the other before the House of Commons Both Reprinted in this present Collection Other Tracts by the same Author A Sermon Preached at Paris on the 30 th of January S.V. 1681 5. The Present State of the Controversie Sure and Honest Means for Conversion of all Hereticks and wholsom Advice and Expedients for the Reformation of the Church The Preface by this Author A Letter from several French Ministers fled into Germany upon the account of the Persecution in France to such of their Brethren in England as approved the King's Declaration touching Liberty of Conscience Translated from the Original French * Mat. xi 15 xiii 9.43 Mat vii 16 Luk. xiv 35 c. 2 Cor. v. 11 Mat. xiii 8 2 Tim. iii. 5 Joh. xv 22 1 Cor. i. 12 Ib. ver· 17 18 19· and 2 Cor. iv 13 2 Cor. iv 5 1 Cor. ix 22 1 Cor. vi 7 2 Tim. iv 3 Aristot. Eth. Nic. lib. 1. c. 1. Rom. xii 17 Mat. v. 44 Luke xi 41 xvi 9 1 Co. i. 18 21 23 25. John vii 17 Luke viii 14 Ib. Mat. xxii 15 Mat. x. 16 Andronic Rhod. Par. Eth. Nic. l. 1. cap. 4. Jo. v. 44 Jo. xii 42 43. Jo. viii 47 1 Joh. iv ver 6. col cum vers 4 5. John iii. 19 c. Acts xxiv 16. Rom. i. 28 See Pontif R. Ordo ad reconcil Haer. Luke xii 47 1 Cor. â—â— 14. Acts. xvi 14 Luke xi 13 See chap. xxxi 19 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ‡ See Munster and Fagius on v. 1 of this Chapter Crit. M. Vol 1. Titus ii 11 Psal. lviii 5 Mat. xvi 26 Psal. 132.3 4. Hos. v. 15 Isa. xxvi 9 See the Commination used on Ash-wednesday 2 Cor. iv 5 1 Cor. iv 5 See 1 Cor. v. 1 See the Rhemists Annot. on this Chap. Catholick Scriptur Point 26. of Indulgences n. 6. Mat. vii 14 1 Tim. iv 8 Prov. iii. 17 Maâ— xvi 24 Psal. xiv 1 Morin de Poenir l. 8. c. 4. n. 26. 1 Jo. iii. 21 Psa. 130.4 1 Joh 19. Phil. ii 12 Card Perron See this more at large Serm. VI VII Collect for the iv th Sund. after Epiph. Jude iii. V. 1. V. 2. See the R. Pontific O. d. ad Reconcil Haerer Spondeo sub Anathematis Obligatione Mâ— nunquam Quorumlibet suasionibus vel quocunque alâ—o modo ad Reversurum Et si quod absit ab hâc me unitate aliquâ Occasione vel Argumento divisero perjurii Reatum incurrens aeternae obligatus poenae Inveniar c. Acts iv 19 II. Chap. ver 18. 2. 1 Cor. II 9. Mat. v. 44 1 Tim. ii 5 2 d Com. Aquin. his School 1 Cor. xiv Mat. iv 8 Heb. xi 25 26. Heb. xi 35 Dan. iii. 15. 16. 17. 18. Mat. x. 28 Matth. x. 32. 33. Acts xxiii v. 23 c. Ib. v. 12 14 16. Joh. xvi 2 Acts xxiv 23 v. 24 See Grotius and Dr. Hammond on that Verse which in our Translation seems to imply quite otherwise viz. That he had a perfect knowledg of the Jewish Law Josephus Hist. l. 20. Tacitus Hist. l. 5. Verse 2. Verse 24. Acts xvii 31 Rom. xiv 10 2 Cor. v. 10 1 Thess. iv 15 c. 1 Cor. xv Matt. xxv 31 c. Rom. ii 6 c. Gen. xviii 25 Wisd. v. 4â— 5. v. 24 2 Cor. v. 10 ‡ Tacitus Hist. lib. v. c. 9. says of him That per omnem saevitiam ac libidinem jus regium servili ingenio exercuit Et annal l xii c. 54. cuncta malefacta sibi impune ratus tanta potentia subnixo * Joseph Antiq. Jud. l. 20. c. 5. pag. 616. Basil. 1544. The Account of which see above p. 159. Act. ii 37 Eccl. xi 9 Mat. xxv 41 The Socâ—nians 1st Deny Immortality to the wicked Smalc contr Frantz p. 415. Volkelius lib. iii. cap. 11.12 2dly They affirm That they shall be for ever destroyed Smalc l. c. Volk l. c. pag. 73. and cap. 33. pag. 133. Socinus in 1 John 2.17 Bibl. Fr Pol. p. 178. Woltzogen in Mat. iii. 12 and in Mat. xxv 46 And that 3dly By Fire Schlicting comm in Hebr. x. 27 apud Crellium in Bibl. Fratr Polon T. 1. see his Paraphr on the same vers ibid. Mat. xiii 42.xxii.13 xxv 41 46. Mar. ix 43 c· compared with Rev. xiv 10.xx.10 Rom. ii 5 6 8 9. Add for the reality of the pains Mat. xi
to be seduced from the right Faith he may deserve indeed to be pitied now but I fear he will hardly be hereafter excused But it is not sufficient to secure our selves against this danger He that will be constant in his Religion as he ought to be must see 2 dly That he be not too apt to entertain an ill Opinion of it For if it be Obstinacy on the one hand not to admit of any Conviction thò never so clear and reasonable it is certainly a great Weakness on the other to be affrighted at every shadow of an Argument and to put it in the power of every little Disputer to prejudice us against our Religion because one who is its professed Enemy rails against it and pretends it is a very ill One He would I believe be thought a very credulous person indeed who should begin to stagger and fall into a trembling thô he saw himself upon plain and even Ground because a bold and fanciful man is very positive that 't is a precipice And doubtless that Man is no less to be pitied that is frighted for fear he should be in the wrong thô he has the undoubted Authority of Scripture and Antiquity nay and even of Sense and Reason too on his side as often as every Common-place Trifler shall think fit to run over his division upon the Church the Antiquity Succession Infallibility of it and without either Modesty or Proof call us Hereticks If Men have Reason on their side if they have Scripture for what they say let them on God's Name produce it We are always ready to consider and to submit to such convictions But otherwise to think to perswade us that we are in utter darkness when we see the Sun shining in our faces That we must be damned for not believing that what we see and tast and know to be but a bit of Bread is not the Body of a Man That they are not Infallible who are actually involved in the grossest Errors In a word That our Church had no being before Luther every Article of whose Faith is founded upon the Authority of the Holy Scriptures and has been professed in all Ages of the Church from the Apostles to this day this is certainly one of the most unreasonable things in the whole World and what ought not by any means to stagger our stedfastness And now having secured our selves on both these sides it only remains to preserve our Constancy 3 dly That if at any time any Arguments should be offer'd to us that may deserve our regard we then be sure to give them that due and wise Examination that we ought to do It is a very great Weakness and indeed a very great fault in many persons that if at any time they begin to doubt in their belief of any part of their Faith which they have been taught to profess they presently abandon their own Guides and run for satisfaction to those who are the professed Enemies of their Religion From henceforth they hear nothing but what is ill of their Church they are taught more and more to suspect the way that they are in and then 't is odds but a very little examination suffices to make them leave it This is certainly a very great fault and will one day prove of very dangerous consequence What such persons may think of changing their Religion I cannot tell but sure I am our greatest Charity will hardly enable us to entertain any very comfortable Opinion of them Nor are they such as those that we either say or believe may be saved notwithstanding the errors and corruptions of that Church with which they Communicate He that will make a safe change from one Religion to another must not think it enough to enquire into one or two points and having received a satisfaction in them embrace all the rest at a venture for their sakes but he must pass distinctly through every Article in debate He must enquire not only whether the Church of which he is at present a Member be not mistaken in some points it may be there is no Church in the World that is absolutely free from all kind of Error But whether those mistakes be of such a consequence that he cannot communicate any longer with it on the account of them When this is done the greatest difficulty will still remain to examine with the same diligence every Article of that other Church to which he is tempted For else thô he should have reason to forsake his own Church he will yet be but little advantaged if he goes to another that is as bad or it may be worse than that If there he should find the most part well yet so that there are but any One or Two things so Erroneous as to oblige him to profess what he thinks to be false or to practice what is unlawful even this will be sufficient to hinder him from reconciling himself to it And in all this there must be a serious and diligent and impartial search There must be no prejudice in favour of the One or against the Other no desire that the Truth should be on this side rather than on that In short nothing must be omitted whereby he might reasonably have got a better Information And to all this Care there must be added fervent Prayer to God for his assistance He who falls away from his first Faith on any lesser convicton than this can never excuse himself from a criminal lightness in a matter of such concern And for him that sincerely does this I shall for my part be content that he should leave the Church of England whenever he can be thus convinced that any other but especially that the Church of Rome is a safer way to Salvation And this may suffice to have been said to the first particular What that stedfastness in Religion is to which our Text exhorts us I go on 2 dly to shew II. Upon what Motives it was that the Apostle here stirred up the Christians to whom he wrote and that I am now in like manner to exhort you to such a stedfastness Now these our Text reduces to this One General Consideration That they both understood their danger and were expresly forewarn'd by his Epistle how careful it would behove them to be to arm themselves against it Ye therefore Beloved seeing ye know these things before Beware And doubtless it is not only a great security but ought to be also a great engagement to such a vigilance to be thus expresly forewarned of our danger And he who either neglecting or despising the Admonition suffers himself to be seduced from his own stedfastness must certainly be utterly inexcusable both in the sight of God and Man for his Inconstancy But that which will aggravate this neglect yet much more is the consideration of those Motives by which the Apostle here cautions them to Beware and which therefore I must lay a little more distinctly before you Now such