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A52859 Goodness proved to be the best protection from the arrests of all harmes in a sermon preached before the University, upon Innocents Day, in great St. Maries Church in Cambridge / by Robert Neville ... Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694. 1687 (1687) Wing N520; ESTC R12406 12,552 33

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GOODNESS Proved to be the BEST PROTECTION FROM THE ARRESTS OF ALL HARMES In A SERMON Preached before the University upon Innocents Day in Great St. MARIES Church in CAMBRIDGE By Robert Neville B. D. Rector of Ansty LONDON Printed for Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-Press under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange 1687. To the Worshipful my much Honoured Friend RALPH FREEMAN Esq One of His Majesty's Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace for the County of HERTFORD Honoured Sir YOU may perhaps be surprised to find your Name Usurped by me to Grace and Honour this trifle of a Sermon unless you please to consider that it is the usual Fate of Persons of your obliging Temper to receive Persecutions of this Nature as Returns of your Candour and Goodness And I have only this to at one for the Presumption of this Dedication that I thought no person so fit to Patronize a discourse of Goodness as him in whom all those bright Stars that make up the Constellation shine with so great a lustre Among all other Virtues which are resplendent in you give me leave to trumpet abroad your exemplary Sobriety which does approach so near to singularity in this age that I can scarcely pay you your due praises without a Satyr on most others who by their intemperate Quaffing make their Houses like those Inchanted Castles spoken of in Romances which when a man hath once enter'd there 's no finding his way out again by reason of an Inchanted Fountain there the free Drinking whereof layes him and his reason both asleep So that now a man can hardly avoid the Imputation of a Rude and Uncivil unless he lose the Reputation of a Sober Man and Sacrifice his health to the humour of his drunken Associates and his Soul to the Devil whose Factors they are and for whose interest they drive on that drunken Trade But to these inconveniencies no Person is exposed under your Roof where tho nothing that may speak a generous and hearty welcom is wanting yet you are a professed Enemy to all Excess and your Visitants may say the same of themselves which Socrates did of his Scholars that they were well the next day I have dwelt so long upon this part of your Commendations not because you deserve not greater but because I am not able to express them in other Subjects like an ill Swimmer I have willingly staid long in my own depth and though I am desirous to perform more yet I am loth to venture too far in the large Ocean of your Praises least by my ill commending your other Virtues I should so far incur your displeasure as to forfeit that Title which I value my Self upon Namely That of Honoured Sir Your Most Faithful and Humble Servant R. Neville Ansty Sept. 23th 1687. THE CHRISTIANS BEST PROTECTION From the Arrests of all HARMS 1 Epistle general of St. Peter chap. 3. ver 13. And who is he that will Harm you if ye be followers of that which is good WEre all who make a fair and plausible shew of Religion really such as they pretend to be discourses of this nature would be no more needful than the Commendations of a great beauty to one who is already a passionate admirer of it But on the contrary we see how common it is for men first to throw dirt in the face of Virtue and Religion and then perswade themselves 't is her natural complexion they represent it to themselves in a shape not pleasing to them and then bring that as a plea why they give it no better entertainment Men must know that though Virtue and Goodness be so fair and complaisant as to draw our affections yet she is so modest withall as to expect to be courted by us and it may be deny our first suit to prompt us to a second address and heighten our importunity and nothing hath oftner forbid the Banns between men and Religion than their Neglect and Contempt of her and abusing her by false and slanderous reports by saying That Religion is the Mother of Danger and that the place of her abode like that of Archimedes grave is septus Vepribus dumetis beset with Briars and Brambles I have read of the Cannibal Anakims in the Confines of the Promised Land that devour all that Travel towards that Region but let not our Melancholick and Aguish fancies transplant all these into Christendom and make them Emblems of those Harms and Dangers that attend those who are followers of Goodness don't let us fancy that there stands an Angel with a Flaming Sword to keep us out of this Paradise of Virtue nor report to the World that if a Man hath no other guard but his own Innocence he lies open to the assaults of all dangers and misfortunes which is a mistake sufficiently confuted by St. Peter who assures us That Goodness and Innocence is our best Protection from the Arrests of all Harms in these words of the Text. And who is he that will harm ye if ye be followers of that which is (a) Quis est q●i nocere aut velit aut possit good Upon which words Vorstius makes this Paraphrase Who either will or can harm you as if the Apostle had said you that are followers of Goodness may believe your selves secure and above the Sphere of all Harms For there are scarce any so impious that will or if they are so maliciously bent as to attempt it they shall not have power to Harm you which being premised the Text will fall the more naturally into these two parts First The Christians Protection from all Harms in these words Who is he that will harm ye or as Vorstius glosses upon the words Who will or can harm ye Secondly The Qualification that entitles him to this Protection namely his being a Retainer to Goodness or as my Text calls him A follower of that which is good First on the first or the Christians Protection from all Harms in these words Who is he that will Harm ye a Christian is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of gun-shot no real evil can annoy or molest him He hath an Almighty protection to skreen and secure him from it if he will put on God's Livery the Robes of Righteousness and enter into Gods service if he will get some dependance upon the Court of Heaven wait upon God and become his Servant in Goodness and Innocence he shall have a Protection from the Arrests of all Harms and this brings me to the second general part in the Text where we have Secondly The Qualification that entitles a Christian to this Protection namely his being a Retainer to Goodness or as my Text calls him A follower of that which is good Rari quippe Boni now because good men are scarce and Rare so that by the great scarcity and dearth thereof it is not easie to discover what True Goodness is it will be a worthy disquisition to Examine First What Goodness is Secondly What