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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65469	The profitableness of piety opened in an assize sermon preach'd at Dorchester, March 24 1670/1 : before the Right Honourable Sir Richard Rainsford Knight, one of the judges of the Kings Bench at the request of the Right Worshipful Robert Seymer Esquire, His Majesties High-Sheriff of the County of Dorset / by Richard West, D.D. ...	West, Richard, 1614-1690.; Rainsford, Richard, Sir, 1605-1680.; Seymer, Robert.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1380; ESTC R8228	19,335	34

Men as one says are the Walls and Ribs for Strength Women the Nurseries for Increase Children the Pledges for Perpetuity Money as the Vital breath Peace as the Natural heat Plenty as the Radical moisture Justice as the Life-bloud but Religion that 's the Form and Soul of a Body Politick without which it is but as a noisome Carcass exposed to be devoured by Birds and Beasts of prey Poets and Historians tell us That the Old Romans owed their Prosperity to their Piety and were made Commanders of the World for their Obedience to their Gods And New Rome too flourishes at least Outwardly in her Superstition more than some Protestant Churches do in their carelesness and coldness of Worship not to say Prophaneness And to come nearer home we have seen also by Experience how Pretended Godliness and Zeal hath made Usurpation Formidable and brought Reputation and Assistance to an Ill Cause and Title Machiavel therefore was not out in his Politicks when he Instructs his Prince to put on a Shew of Religion The very Athiests themselves acknowledge it a principal Engine of State and an excellent Instrument of Government And now if the Shadow Form and Counterfeit of a Feigned Religion be thus Considerable and Effectual to Establish a False Power and draw Disciples and Adherents to Unjust Governors O how Forceable and Advantageous would the Real and Sincere Exercise of True Godliness be to the Setling and Securing of a Right and Lawful Authority If the bare pretence and profession of Piety hath done such wonders as amazed the world and struck an Awe into Forein Princes O what miracles of Victories and Deliverances would the Power and Purity thereof produce How would that make a Reformed Protestant Church Terrible as an Army with Banners Doubtless when our Wayes thus please the Lord this will make our Enemies be at Peace with us lest happily they should be found to fight against God as Gamaliel said to the Jews Acts 5. 39. Peace with All men and Holiness they are joyn'd together in the Holy Gospel of Peace And if any Professors of Holiness have been turbulent and Rebellious it was not because of their Holiness but because they were but Professors Religion that is Pure Pure for Faith not Faction it will be also Peaceable James 3. 17. it hath its Name à Religando and binds men more than All your Laws to their Good-behaviour in that it puts an Awe upon their Consciences and sweetly constrains them to Obey for the Love of Christ working in them also a Fear not only of Temporal but Eternal wrath Whatever you do then suffer not this Sacred Bond to be it self broke in pieces neither let Religion lose its due Reverence and Dread in being sported with and scoffed at by the prophane Drollers of this Age whose wit lies in all wickedness and whose mirth is nothing but madness The Jews have a Proverbial saying Migrandum est ex loco in quo Rex non timetur There is no staying in that place where the King is not Fear'd and Honour'd They knew such a crying sin would be Eccho'd with some roaring Judgment And what then shall we think will befall that Kingdom where God is not Fear'd nay where he is Reproach'd and Dishonour'd Righteousness says Solomon exalteth a Nation be it never so mean and poor but sin especially that sin of Reproaching the holy things of God it is a Reproach to any People be they never so great and mighty And if you think to have true Honour and lasting Peace and Safety without being serious and sincere in Holiness truly you had as good resolve you will have These things whether God will or no. The Lord is with you while you are with him And he that doth not account his Presence the best Protection and looks not upon Godly Prayer and Holy Living as the best Procurers of his Presence let him go like an Atheist as he is and live where he may feel the woes of Gods departure I might shew you in the next place how Godliness hath the Promises also in this Life of Spiritual Blessings such as Forgiveness of sin Peace of Conscience Assurance of Salvation and sweet Communion with God whose Grace is better than Gold and whose favour and loving kindness is better than Life But further Its greatest Gain is in Reversion in that it hath the Promise of Life after Life The Lord sayes David is a Sun and a Shield Grace and Glory will he give and no good thing will he with hold from them who walk Vprightly It is reported of Alexander the Great that having conquered this world he wept because there was no more left for his Valour to overcome But Gods Servants are better provided for than that Great Monarch was in that they have a life and a life a world and a world one present here and another to come hereafter so that to them not only life is sweet but to Dy is Gain Phil. 1. 21. Godliness you see it is that which will improve your Estates Preserve your Bodies Keep the Kingdom in Peace and Safety yea and save your Souls into the Bargain And now when all things are yours whether Present or to come When you can say I have these and these Jewels and heaps of Gold and the goodly Pearl of the Gospel is mine too when you can say I have such and such Ships and Lordships and the Kingdom of Glory is mine too in brief when you can say I have such and such Dignities and Honours and the Lord hath accepted me too and is become my Portion and inheritance for ever When thus all is prosperous on Earth and all is right and sure in Heaven also what can the most large and Noble Soul desire more Having opened the Rich Mine or Treasure of my Text in the Doctrinal part I shall now crave your Patience whilst I make some Application And here my Humble Address shall be to you the Worthy Magistrates here Assembled that you would for the Health of your Souls and Bodies yea and of the Body Politick too Use the Exercise injoyned in my Text. There are none that have stronger and more pressing Engagements upon them to be Good than those whom the Lord hath made Great 'T is all the Equitie in the world that those whom God hath most Honoured should most Honour God 'T is fit that they Return as they have Received and not be like some Gentlemen-Servants and Tenants who do the least work because they have the greatest Wages and pay the smallest Rent when they have the largest Farms They who are first in Dignity should have a Holy Scorn in them to let others go before them in Duty I know your Employments are manifold and weighty and so certainly were King Davids yet he served God not only on the seventh Day but seven times a Day Let not then the multitude of your Agencies