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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62632	Several discourses viz. Of the great duties of natural religion. Instituted religion not intended to undermine natural. Christianity not destructive; but perfective of the law of Moses. The nature and necessity of regeneration. The danger of all known sin. Knowledge and practice necessary in religion. The sins of men not chargeable on God. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late lord arch-bishop of Canterbury. Being the fourth volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.; Barker, Ralph, 1648-1708.; White, Robert, 1600-1690, engraver.	1697 (1697)	Wing T1261A; ESTC R221745	169,748	495

when Vice hath got such head that it can hardly bear to be ●keckt and controll'd and when as the Roman Historian complains of his times Ad ea tempora quibus nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus perventum est things are come to that pass that we can neither bear ou● Vices no● the Remedies of them Our Vices are grown to a prodigious and intolerable height and yet Men hardly have the patience to hear of them and surely a Disease is then dangerous indeed when it cannot bear the severity that is necessary to a Cure But yet notwithstanding this we who are the Messengers of God to Men to warn them of their sin and danger must not keep silence and spare to tell them both of their sins and of the Judgment of God which hangs over them that God will visit for these things and that his Soul will be avenged on such a Nation as this At least we may have leave to warn others who are not yet run to the same excess of riot to save themselves from this untoward generation God's Judgments are abroad in the Earth and call aloud upon us to learn Righteousness But this is but a small Consideration in Comparison of the Judgment of another World which we who call our selves Christians do profess to believe as one of the Chief Articles of our Faith The Consideration of this should check and cool us in the heat of all our sinful Pleasures and that bitter Irony of Solomon should cut us to the heart Rejoyce O young Man in thy youth and let thy heart chear thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment Think often and seriously on that time wherein the wrath of God which is now revealed against sin shall be executed upon Sinners and if we believe this we are strangely stupid and obstinate if we be not moved by it The assurance of this made St Paul extreamly importunate in exhorting Men to avoid so great a danger 2 Cor. 5. 10 11. We must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in the Body according to what he hath done whether it be good or evil Knowing therefore the terrors of the Lord we perswade Men. And if this ought to move us to take so great a care of others much more of our selves The Judgment to come is a very amazing Consideration it is a fearful thing to hear of it but it will be much more terrible to see it especially to those whose guilt must needs make them so heartily concern'd in the dismal Consequences of it and yet as sure as I stand and you sit here this great and terrible Day of the Lord will come and who may abide his coming What will we do when that Day shall surprize us careless and unprepared what unspeakable horror and amazement will then take hold of us when lifting up our eyes to Heaven we shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of it with Power and great Glory when that powerful voice which shall pierce the ears of the Dead shall ring through the World Arise ye Dead and come to Judgment when the mighty Trumpet shall sound and wake the Sleepers of a thousand years and summon the dispersed parts of the Bodies of all Men that ever lived to rally together and take their place and the Souls and Bodies of Men which have been so long strangers to one another shall meet and be united again to receive the doom due to their deeds what fear shall then surprize Sinners and how will they tremble at the presence of the great Judge and for the glory of his Majesty How will their Consciences flye in their faces and their own hearts condemn them for their wicked and ungodly Lives and even prevent that Sentence which yet shall certainly be past and executed upon them But I will proceed no further in this Argument which hath so much of terror in it I will conclude my Sermon as Solomon doth his Ecclesia●tes Ch. 12. 13 14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole of Man for God shall bring every work into Judgment and every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil To which I will only add that serious and merciful Admonition of a greater than Solomon I mean the great Judge of the whole World our blessed Lord and Saviour Luke 21. 34 35 36. Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life and so that day come upon you at unawares for as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole Earth Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accouuted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost c. SERMON XII Knowledge and Practice Necessary in Religion JOHN XIII 17. If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them TWO Things make up Religion the Knowledge and the Practice of it and the First is wholly in order to the Second and God hath not revealed to us the Knowledge of Himself and his Will meerly for the improvement of our Understanding but for the bettering of our Hearts and Lives not to entertain our Minds with the speculations of Religion and Virtue but to form and govern our Actions If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them In which words our blessed Saviour does from a particular instance take occasion to settle a general Conclusion namely that Religion doth mainly consist in Practice and that the knowledge of his Doctrine without the real effects of it upon our Lives will bring no Man to Heaven In the beginning of this Chapter our great Lord and Master to testifie his Love to his Disciples and to give them a lively Instance and Example of that great Virtue of Humility is pleased to condescend to a very low and mean Office such as was used to be performed by Servants to their Masters and not by the Master to his Servants namely to wash their feet and when he had done this he asks them if they did understand the meaning of this strange Action Know ye what I have done unto you ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am if I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an Example that ye should do as I have done to you Verily verily I say unto you the Servant is not greater than the Lord neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him if ye know these things

Uncircumcision Barbarian S●ythian bond nor free but Christ is all and in all Which is the same with what the Apostle says here in the Text that in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but a new Creature that is these external Marks and Differences signifie nothing but this inward Change the new Creature Christ formed in us this in the Christian Religion is all in all But that we may the more clearly understand the just importance of this Metaphor of a new Creature or a new Creation I shall First Consider what it doth certainly signifie by comparing this Metaphorical Phrase with other plain Texts of Scripture And Secondly That it doth not import what some would extend it to so as to found Doctrines of great Consequence upon the single strength of this and the like Metaphors in Scripture without any manner of countenance from plain Texts First I shall consider what this Metaphor doth certainly import so as to be undeniably evident from other more clear and full Texts of Sripture namely these two Things 1. The greatness of this Change 2. That it is effected and wrought by a Divine Power 1. The greatness of this Change it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a new Creation as if the Christian Doctrine firmly entertained and believed did as it were mould and fashion Men over again transforming them into a quite other sort of Persons than what they were before and made such a change in them as the Creating Power of God did in bringing this Beautiful and orderly frame of things out of their dark and rude Chaos Thus the Apostle represents it 2 Cor. 4. 6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness alluding to the first Creation hath shined into our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ We are translated from one extream to another Acts 26. 18. When our Lord sends Paul to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles he tells him what a change it would make in them by opening their eyes and turning them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God And St. Peter expresses the change which Christianity makes in Men by their being call'd out of darkness into a marvellous light 1 Pet. 2. 9. And so St. Paul Eph. 5. 8. Ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord. And indeed wherever the Doctrine of Christ hath its full effect and perfect work it makes a mighty change both in their inward Principles and outward Practice it darts a new light into their Minds so that they see things otherwise than they did before and form a different judgment of things from what they did before it endues them with a new Principle and new Resolutions gives them another Spirit and another Temper a quite different sense and gust of things from what they formerly had And this inward change of their Minds necessarily produceth a proportionable change in their Lives and Conversations so that the Man steers quite another course acts after another rate and drives on quite other designs from what he did before And this is remarkably seen in those who are reclaimed from Impiety and Prophaneness to Religion and from a vicious to a virtuous course of Life The Change is great and real in all but not so sensible and visible in some as others in those who are made good by the insensible steps of a pious and virtuous Education as in those who are translated out of a quite contrary state and t●rn'd from the power of Satan unto God and translated out of the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Christ which was the case of the Heathen World in their first Conversion to Christianity Secondly This Change is effected and wrought by a Divine Power of the same kind with that which Created the World and raised up Christ Jesus from the Dead two great and glorious Instances of the Divine Power and to these the Scripture frequently alludes when it speaks of this New Creation God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined into our hearts Like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father so we also are raised to newness of life saith St. Paul Rom. 6. 4. And to the same purpose the same Apostle speaks Ephes 1. 19 20. And that ye may know what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the operation of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead So that our Renovation and being made new Creatures is an instance of the same glorious Power which exerted it self in the first Creation of things and in the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the Dead but not altogether after the same manner as I shall shew under the next Head I should now in the second place proceed to shew that this Metaphor of a new Creation doth not import what some Men would extend it to so as to found Doctrines of great consequence upon the single strength of this and other like Metaphors of Scripture without any manner of countenance and confirmation from plain Texts But this I reserve to another Discourse SERMON VI. Of the Nature of Regeneration and its Necessity in order to Justification and Salvation GALAT. VI. 15. For in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but a new Creature IN these words are contained these two Things First That the Gospel hath taken away the obligation of the Law having taken away the sign of that Covenant which was Circumcision Secondly That according to the terms of the Gospel and the Christian Religion nothing will avail to our justification and acceptance with God but the real renovation of our Hearts and Lives For the full explication of this I propounded to do these three Things I. To shew what is imply'd in this Phrase of a new Creature II. That this is the great Condition of our justification and acceptance with God and that it is the same in sense and substance with those other expressions in the two parallel Texts of Faith perfected by Charity and keeping the Commandments of God III. That it is very reasonable that this should be the Condition of our justification and acceptance to the favour of God I began with the first of these viz. To shew what is imply'd in this Phrase of a New Creature as to which I shew'd First What this Metaphor doth certainly import so as to be undeniably evident from other more clear and full Texts of Scripture namely the greatness of this Change and that it is effected by a Divine Power I now proceed Secondly To shew that it doth not import what some would extend it to and that so as to found Doctrines of great Consequence upon the meer and single strength of this and other like Metaphors of Scripture without any manner of countenance

as without Repentance and Resolution of better Obedience we are unfit for Forgiveness so much more for a Reward as we cannot expect God's Favour so we are incapable of the enjoyment of him without Holiness Holiness is the Image of God and makes us like to him and 'till we be like him we cannot see him we can have no enjoyment of him All delightful Communion and agreeable Society is founded in a similitude of Disposition and Manners and therefore so long as we are unlike to God in the temper and disposition of our Minds and in the Actions and Course of our Lives neither can God take pleasure in us nor we in him but there will be a perpetual jarring and discord between him and us and tho' we were in Heaven and seated in the place of the Blessed yet we should not nay we could not be Happy because we should want the necessary Materials and Ingredients of Happiness For it is with the Soul in this respect as it is with the Body tho' all things be easie without us and no Cruelty be exercis'd upon us to give torment and vexation to us yet if we be inwardly Diseased we may have pain and anguish enough we may be as it were upon the rack and feel as great torment from the inward disorder of our humours as if we were tortur'd from without So it is with the Soul Sin and Vice are internal Diseases which do naturally create trouble and discontent and nothing but diversion and the variety of Objects and Pleasures which entertain Men in this World hinders a wicked Man from being out of his wits whenever he reflects upon himself for all the irregular Appetites and Passions Lust and Malice and Revenge are so many Furies within us and tho' there were no Devil to torment us yet the disorder of our own Minds and the horrours of a guilty Conscience would be a Hell to us and make us extreamly miserable in the very Regions of Happiness So that it is necessary that our Faith should be made perfect by Charity and that we should become new Creatures not only from the arbitrary constitution and appointment of God but from the Nature and Reason of the thing because nothing but this can dispose us for that Blessedness which God hath promis'd to us and prepared for us Faith consider'd abstractly from the Fruits of Holiness and Obedience of Goodness and Charity will bring no Man into the favour of God All the excellency of Faith is that it is the Principle of a good Life and furnisheth us with the best Motives and Arguments thereto the Promises and Threatnings of the Gospel and therefore in Heaven when we come to sight and enjoyment Faith and Hope shall cease but Charity never faileth for if it should Heaven would cease to be Heaven to us because it is the very frame and temper of Happiness and if this disposition be not wrought in us in this World we shall be altogether incapable of the felicity of the other You see then what it is that must recommend us to the favour of God the real Renovation of our Hearts and Lives after the Image of him that Created us This must be repaired in us before ever we can hope to be restored to the grace and favour of God or to be capable of the Reward of Eternal Life And what could God have done more Reasonable than to make these very things the terms of our Salvation which are the necessary Causes and Means of it How could he have dealt more mercifully and kindly with us than to appoint that to be the Condition of our Happiness which is the only qualification that can make us capable of it I will conclude all with that excellent passage in the Wisdom of Solomon Chap. 6. 17 18. The very true beginning of Wisdom is the desire of discipline and the care of discipline is love and love is the keeping of her laws and taking heed to her laws is the assurance of incorruption The Summ of what I have said upon this Argument amounts to this that upon the terms of the Gospel we can have no hope of the forgiveness of our Sins and Eternal Salvation unless our Nature be renewed and the Image of God which is defaced by Sin be repaired in us and we be Created in Christ unto good works That no Faith will avail to our Justification and acceptance with God but that which is made perfect by Charity that is by fulfilling of the Law and keeping the Commandments of God by sincere Obedience and Holiness of Life which notwithstanding the inavoidable imperfection of it in this state will nevertheless be accepted with God through the Merits of our Blessed Saviour who hath loved us and washt us from our Sins in his own blood To whom be Glory for ever Amen SERMON X. The Danger of all known Sin both from the Light of Nature and Revelation ROM I. 18 19. For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of Men who hold the truth in unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them IN the beginning of this Chapter the Apostle declares that he was particularly design'd and appointed by God to preach the Gospel to the World and that he was not ashamed of his Ministry notwithstanding all the Reproach and Persecution it was attended withall and notwithstanding the slight and undervaluing Opinion which the World had of the Doctrine which he preached it being to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness for tho' this might reflect some disparagement upon it in the esteem of sensual and carnal Men yet to those who weighed things impartially and consider'd the Excellent End and Design of the Christian Doctrine and the force and efficacy of it to that end it would appear to be an Instrument admirably fitted by the Wisdom of God for the Reformation and Salvation of Mankind And therefore he tells us ver 16. that how much soever it was despised by that ignorant and inconsiderate Age he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because it is the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek that is the Doctrine of the Gospel sincerely believed and embraced is a most proper and powerful means designed by God for the Salvation of Mankind not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles The Revelations which God had formerly made were chiefly restrained to the Jewish Nation but this great and last Revelation of the Gospel was equally Calculated for the benefit and advantage of all Mankind The Gospel indeed was first preached to the Jews and from thence publish'd to the whole World and as this Doctrine was design'd for the general benefit of Mankind so it was very likely to be effectual to that end being an Instrument equally fitted for the Salvation of the