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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51227	A sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, on the 28th of May, 1682 by John Moore ...	Moore, John, 1646-1714.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2552; ESTC R20127	21,938	53

we are capable to partake more and more of the Divine Perfections 3. There is no fundamental Doctrine of Christianity but an obligation naturally flows from it to some instance or other of a good Life If the Doctrine be that God is the maker of Heaven and Earth does not an obligation from thence lve upon all his Creatures to Gratitude and Praise if the Doctrine be that God is the great Soveraign of the World does not a duty plainly follow that we his Subjects are to govern our selves by his Laws does not the Doctrine of his Infinite Goodness make it our duty to love him and imitate him and that of his irresistible Power to dread the giving him the least offence and to submit our selves to his pleasure does not the Doctrine that Truth is one of his Essential Attributes make it our duty to believe him and to depend upon his promises does not the Doctrine of his unsearchable Wisdome oblige us to give up our wills unto his and to leave the Events of things to his wise Disposal does not the Doctrine of his Omnipresence his all seeing Eye engage us to have a constant and awful regard of him and to walk circumspectly in all our paths The Doctrine of Gods providence being concerned not only in our most weighty affairs but also extending even to those small things of which we our selves take no thought what powerful motives does it afford us against dejection pensiveness of mind and immoderate cares the Doctrine of all things working together for the good of the faithful Servants of God what a mighty obligation does it lay upon us to be contented and easy in our present condition how much soever it may be beset with adversities and afflictions and to take no indirect course to use no unlawful method or meanes to get out of it the Doctrine of Gods only having such a power over our Souls that he can destroy them how plainly does it imply that we are to dread God more than man and to disobey man rather than God The Doctrine of the necessity of the Sufferings and Passion of Christ does it not make it our indispensable duty to mortify the Flesh and to crucify the Lusts thereof and to prepare our selves rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a Season and should not the Doctrine of his Resurrection and Ascention carry our thoughts and great designs into the other World and fix our Hearts and all our Affections upon the Treasure which is in Heaven In a word does not the Doctrine of a day of Judgment in which sentence shall pass upon all men for every Thought Word and Deed Oblige us if we have the least love of our selves and dessire of our own eternal welfare to put our Accounts in exact Order and to break off our Sins by a timely and sincere Repentance And this was the method generally of the Apostles when they have delivered a Doctrine they presently draw an Inference from it which is in the nature of a Precept and where they do not express the Precept it is ever imply'd and easy thence to be Concluded Seeing all these things shall be disolved what manner of Persons ought ye to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness i. e. if ye believe this Christian Doctrine of the dissolution of the World your lives must come up to your Principle and your faith be render'd effectual by the holiness of your Conversation every man that hath this hope in him he purifyeth himself even as he is pure do you hope to see God it unquestionably followes that you are to endeavour to be like him by imitating his purity if ye then be Risen with Christ seek those things which are above i. e. if ye believe Christs Resurrection and as believers of it have been Baptized into a profession of the Christian Faith then it becomes you to mind those things which will procure your own Resurrection likewise As ye therefore have receiv'd Jesus Christ the Lord so walk ye in him if ye have receiv'd the Doctrine of Jesus Christ let not your behaviour carry any thing in it unsutable to his holy Doctrine but be ye mindful to Govern your selves by the Practical Rules therein contein'd But against the point I am now upon some will be apt to object that one great Doctrine of our Religion the mystery of the holy Trinity does not seem at all to concern a good life now tho it may so seem to them who slightly examin things yet those who shall be at the pains more exactly to consider this Doctrine will be otherwise perswaded For when we consider God so loved the World as to send his only begotten son to save all them from perishing who shall believe on him does not this lay the highest obligation upon us which is possible to make all the returns of praise and love and gratitude and obedience When we consider there was that aversion in the divine nature to sin that God would not pardon it before ample satisfaction was made at the Cost of the blood and life of his own Son can there be any argument in the World more effectual to deter a man from sin and if he have any ingenuity to make him abhor the thoughts of it when we consider that this very same Son of God who was the brightness of his Fathers glory and express image of his person is now our high Preist and has entered the holy of holies and does daily offer up our prayers to God and constantly there intercede with him on our behalf will not this be apt to create in us a mighty confidence to address our selves to the throne of Heaven in all our wants and strong hopes that God will never forsake us in distress When we consider the holy Spirit has consecrated our bodies and made them the Temples wherein he will vouchsafe to dwell which is the peculiar privilege and mercy of the Gospel is there not a deep engagement thereby laid upon us to prepare these bodies for his reception by keeping them pure from intemperance and filthy Lusts for fear we greive this holy guest and cause him to desert such unclean habitations and vex him that he turn to be our enemy And so I hope the sense of the 2d Point is cleared and the truth of it establisht that it is the design of the Doctrines of the Gospel to advance Godliness and that there is an aptness and direct tendency in them all to enforce the practice of it upon Christians this notion the Ancients had of Christian Religion when they stiled it an institution according to Godliness and an institution that comprehends all virtue and accordingly the first Christians as Minut. Felix observes were distinguisht from other men not by any thing peculiar in their habit and dress but by their innocence and modesty There was no other mark of