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A65324	Universal Christian charity, as comprehending all true religion and happiness, demonstrated from scripture and reason in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Treby, at the assizes held at Maidstone in Kent, March the 17th, 1696 / by Tho. Watts ...	Watts, Thomas, 1665-1739.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1159; ESTC R38960	15,491	32

well-founded Government which if any will venture to disturb and to break the Peace will dare to injure other Mens Persons or invade their Properties c. the Sword of Justice which the Magistrate is not to bear in vain must be drawn upon such Yea to punish Malefactors is both Justice and Mercy wherein themselves can't complain of any wrong done them when they receive their Reward the just retribution of their own Demerits Yet all due care must be taken of their Souls and Repentance may plead for Pardon as the Great Judge of the World so mercifully condescends to the vilest Sinner Thus Rulers are ordain'd of God with an irresistable Power Rom. 13.1 to suppress the Wicked and protect the Righteous to Condemn the Guilty and Absolve the Innocent But woe to those that do otherwise Prov. 17.15 Isa 10.12 Now this is the Blessing of all Good Government as particularly to right the Poor the Fatherless and the Widow and what is all this but reasonable Charity and to do as we would be done by Even so are we justly oblig'd to speak and act without guile to be True Sincere Upright and Honest in all our ways and dealings for our common Welfare and Felicity The longest day has a night and the most continu'd Serenity a full Period in which Storm and Tempest Darkness and Horror succeed The uncertain variety of Man's Condition makes the Application very easie and natural The longest Felicity upon Earth is but short-liv'd and never fails to meet with an interruption at last And in what a wretched condition were the best and strongest of us all if left to our selves in our Calamities if God had not made Compassion a natural Inclination as well as a Law if Mens Consciences had learn'd no such Language as Pity if there were no Springs in Nature to stir up our Affections not only to Commiserate but to be Helpful and Assistant to one another I say without an Obligation to this Vertue we should be left alone to struggle with those Diseases which we often find enough for our selves and our Friends and be forsook by our Neighbours in the greatest Extremities of Oppression Poverty or Sickness as the wounded Deer is abandon'd by the Herd So for Temperance and Chastity what can be better Calculated to serve the Interests and provide for the Safety of Mankind Which is notoriously evident from the dismal inconveniencies that Excess and Debauchery bring upon Men. Shortness of Life and Rottenness of Bones Pains and Aches Diseases and Infirmities are the constant attendants upon the constant breach of these Commandments which to practise with the rest upon this Principle of Universal Charity is certainly more easie and pleasant and more becoming Rational Souls and Christians than all the contrary Vices and Transactions Wherefore in love to God should we abominate all manner of Prophaneness Irreligion Perjury and Sacrelige In Charity to our selves should we avoid all manner of Intemperance and Uncleanness Pride Vanity and Hypocrisie And in Charity to our Neighbour should we abhor all manner of Injustice and Unmercifulness Malice Detraction and Covetousness the Root of all Evil 1 Tim. 6.10 Thus a Charitable Disposition will eschew evil and do good Seek Peace with God and Man and ensue it 1 Pet. 3.11 will ever encrease it selfe in all Godliness and find it truly profitable unto all things as it hath the promise both of this life and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 Thus is every thing good and happy included in Charity Charity the immediate Off-spring of Heaven Man's summum bonum the Fountain of all Goodness and Felicity the Joy of Angels and Glory of Men Now who wouldnot thus with Love it self go about doing good Acts 10.38 whatever he may suffer for the same when God must be obeyed rather than Man Act. 4.19 c. wherein Love knows no Difficulties nor fears any Tribulations He that is made perfect in Love being free from all distracting Cares Worldly Anxieties or servile tormenting Fears 1 Joh. 4.18 Love secures him in the Pious Filial fear of God alone and to make him undoubtedly persist with his loving Favour in all well-doing and contented suffering Following his steps as call'd thereunto 1 Pet. 21. as in cases of Persecution happy are they that suffer for Christ's or Righteousness sake Mat. 5. tho' it is not our Love and Obedience but others Hatred and Disobedience that does us any mischief thereupon For all Christ's Love and Commandments are not only consistent with but productive of the common Peace and Good of Mankind and therefore if all Men would unanimously obey his Gospel as they ought then no body could ever suffer by it However is it not more commendable and glorious to suffer patiently for well-doing than evil doing in any case whatever 1 Pet. 2.19 20. and will not Charity rejoyce exceedingly in being revil'd and persecuted for Conscience sake and even Bless and Pray for all its Slanderers Enemies and Persecutors when so great a Blessedness as the Kingdom of Heaven will be the Reward and everlasting Glory Crowns the Martyr Matth. 5.10 11 12. Nay who would not upon any account even through many Tribulations enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Acts 14.22 When all who thus love their God and Saviour are assur'd of enjoying that Mysterious endless Bliss and Happiness in the Beatifical Vision which can neither be seen express'd nor conceiv'd on this side Heaven 1 Cor. 2.9 as those Charitable Persons shall be pronounc'd Blessed in the last General Assize of all by our great Lord and Judge himself and joyfully admitted into that Kingdom prepar'd for them where Charity hath fed the Hungry cloathed the Naked visited the Sick c. Matth. 25.34 35 36. hath reliev'd the Oppress'd and redeem'd the poor Captive and Prisoner whether Friend or Enemy This is Generous and God-like thus to love Mercy This is preferr'd before Sacrifice by our Divine Law-giver and this with the Acts of Justice and Piety instead of all the costly laborious Services and Sacrifices of Nature God hath shewed thee O Man to be good under the Old Law Mic. 6.8 as thus the Gospel teacheth us to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this present World looking for that blessed Hope and Glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who will then receive us into the Arms of Eternal Love who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People Zealous of Good Works Now these things we most Charitably teach and exhort and as we may too rebuke with all Authority and let no Man despise us for thus the Love and Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men Tit. 2.11 to the end So I come in the third and last place to manifest some grand Obligations to the due practice hereof but very briefly from the points of Duty Gratitude

through the Christian World and as much as any-where in this unhappy Kingdom where the pretended Love of Christ and his Religion has set Father against Son Brother against Brother c. Ver. 53. And this has taken such entire Possession of our Affections that has sadly crowded out all Charity for one another But none of these Pretences are sufficient Proofs of our Love of Christ nay some are the greatest Arguments against it For take it how we will he that pretends to Love God and hates his Brother is justly pronounced a Lyar 1 Joh. 4.20 And it holds not only in the case before-nam'd but in all other Instances whatever where our Pretences to the Love of Christ are not seconded and made out by an entire Obedience to his Commands as himself requires Joh. 14.15 21. Eph. 1. Moreover what an impudent Affront is it to him and contradiction in themselves for the Subjects of the Prince of Peace to be contentious and bloody as for the Disciples of the holy and immaculate Jesus to be prophane and impure yea as too many are worse than all other People and Nation So Christendom is too fatally become the vilest part of the World a Sink of all those Abominations which even Barbarians detest O the Horror and Misery Thus is Christ smitten in the House of his Friends crucify'd by his Votaries his seamless Coat divided by his Disciples his Spouse the Church's Bowels torn out by her own Sons Christianity destroy'd by its base uncharitable Professors and the Gospel subverted by surious pretended Zealots whose Condemnation will be the heavier Whos 's Judgment now of a long time lingreth not and their Damnation slumbreth not For The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptations and to reserve the Vnjust unto the day of Judgment to be punished as chiefly the Unclean and Rebellious the Presumptuous and Self-will'd that fear not to speak Evil of Dignities 2 Pet. 2. to v. 11. Among those damnable Hereticks who even deny the Lord that bought them and so bring upon themselves swift Destruction 2 Pet. 2. to v. 11 and so to the end All which proceeds from the want of this solid Principle of real Love or operative Charity Wherein how easie soever 't is to deceive others and what 's more our selves into an Opinion that we love Christ c. when at the same time we do nothing less or how dexterously soever we can put the Cheat upon the World and get the Name of Religious at so cheap a rate as the Trouble of a well dissembled Hypocrisie c. yet Christ sees the Heart and will not be impos'd upon God will not be mocked Gal. 6.7 Neither will all their Professions or Devotions save such Workers of Iniquity Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven Matth. 7.21 And Luk. 6.46 Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say So was he revil'd by his Crucifiers But what Lord or Governor what Parent or Master would endure such heinous Mockeries and daring Contradictions Can we think then that the great King of Kings and Lord of Lords will bear with the Contradictions of Sinners against himself forever No certainly unless they repent and amend and resolve to do his Will in Love which must be our principal if not only Motive to Obedience Otherwise 't is no Argument that we love him if we do it not for his sake who requires it And because there can be no other Reason given of our Saviour's requiring this Instance of our Love but as 't is the Effect of that Cause If therefore any By-end or Self-Interest such as the getting a Reputation in the World the driving on of secular Designs or Worldly Advantages by that means be the end of our compliance with Christ's Commands He has no reason at all to look upon it as any Argument of our Affection to him or to reward it as such 'T is Carnal or Worldy Policy and not Religion 'T is the Love of Our selves and not of Christ And as its Motives are Worldly so will its Rewards be Such a Man has nothing else to expect for a Retribution of such Services but to attain in the end that for which they were perform'd namely vain Popularity and humane Applause And to what wretched pupose has such a Man been at the Pains to keep the Commandments who has thus literally labour'd for the Wind. As he is no less faulty whose Obedience is Peace-meal and Partial For he that offends in one point is guilty of all James 2.10 Charity is Universal and 't is this grand Principle which is signified in all this Discourse this pure Christian Love which will surely Direct Regulate and Compleat our Obedience and Happiness Wherefore let us practice accordingly and then God will reward such Love both with Temporal and Eternal Blessings as the Scriptures abundantly testifies God sheweth mercy unto thousands of them that love him and keep his Commandments Exod. 20.6 he keepeth Covenant and Mercy for them that love him and observe his Commandments Neh. 1.5 the Lord preserveth all them that love him Psal 145.20 and we know that all things works together for good to them that love God Rom. 8.28 the same are known of him 1 Cor. 8.3 are without fear and may have boldness in the day of Judgment 1 Joh. 4.18 19. The Lord hath promised a Crown of Life and a Kingdom to to them that love him Jam. 1.12 c. 2.5 and hath prepared glorious Mansions invisible Joys in Heaven for those that love him Joh. 14.2 1 Cor. 2.9 Take good heed therefore unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God Josh 23.11 and in Love let each one both high and low make Joshua's Pious Resolution c. 24.15 As for me and my House we will serve the Lord Which how can we Christians refuse upon consideration of the Divine Infinite Unparallel'd Love to us God the Father Son and Holy Ghost in whose Name we are Baptiz'd Matth. 28.19 Those ever Blessed Sacred Three in One who bear Record in Heaven having so exceedingly lov'd us and left us United Witness on Earth in the Spiritual Ministry of his Word and Sacraments 1 Joh. 5.7 8. all testifying our Redemption by the Son of Love v. 9 c. that only begotten and well-beloved Eternal Son the Brightness of his Father's Glory and the express Image of his Person by whom all things were made and whom all the Angels of God do Worship Heb. 1.1 2 c. that ever living Word Wisdom and God manifest in our Flesh who thus alone could satisfie infinite Justice for us Joh 1.1 c. 1 Cor. 1.24 30. 1 Tim. 3.16 He reliev'd us in our most forlorn Condition and remediless Misery He beyond all the instances of endearing vertuous Friendship beyond all the Examples of Mankind stept in between the just Indignation