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A58958	The Second and last collection of the late London ministers farewel sermons preached by Dr. Seaman, Dr. Bates, Mr. Caryll, [brace] Mr. Brooks, Mr. Venning, and Mr. Mead ; to which is added a farewell sermon preached at Dedham in Essex by Mr. Matthew Newcomen ; as also Mr. Lyes sermon at the conclusion of the last morning-exercise at All-hallows in Lumbard-street, being a summary rehearsal of the whole monthly-lectures.	Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.; Bates, William, 1625-1699.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.; Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.; Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing S2257; ESTC R41075	195,536	326

Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God therefore he cannot be saved he that abideth in the Doctrine hath the Father and the Son Therefore as you would be saved hold fast the Truths you have received Now here but I have not time to speak to it is a Case of Conscience Whether every errour doth cut a man off from God Answer No God forbid But this we cannot speak to now Fourthly They that hold not fast the Truth of God are injurious to their Posterity Our Fore-Fathers holding fast the Truth of God in the day of their Trial and sealing it with their Bloud was the means of transmitting the purity of the G●spel to us their Posterity and if we in our Generation hold no fast the Truth of God but carry it loose in our Consciences and Judgments and we let it fall out of our hands and hearts we forfeit the Truths of God not onely from ou● selves but also from our Posterity Thus you see we shall wrong the God of Truth and the Truth of God we shall wrong our selves and our Posterity if we hold not fast the Truth we have received Thus we have the Reasons of the Doctrine Application For Application here first I might bewail the general want of the care of the performance of this Duty which hath appeared many years in this Land We have had little care of holding fast the Truths we have received For holding fast the Truth in our Judgments How many are there whose Judgments have been perverted with many Errours This is that which the Apostle calls A turning aside to another Gospel in the first of the Galathians and the sixth Verse And so for holding fast the Truth in the love of it How many are there that have failed in that which Christ calls 〈◊〉 forsaking of the first Love Revelations the seco●● and the fourth Verse And we should hold fast the Truth in the Profession of it and how many are there that have failed in that This the Apostle calls in the tenth of the Hebrews A drawing back unto Perdition And for holding fast the Truth in the Practice of it How many have failed in that that have been Professors and now are grown loose and debauched This the Apostle Peter calls A turning aside from the Holy Commandement All these things call for our Lamentation Exhortation But the whole Work that I will apply my self to is to exhort every one of you to the care of this Duty To hold fast the Truths that you have heard and received Hold them fast in your Judgment hold them fast in your Will and Affections hold them fast in your Lives and Conversations hold the Truths you have received constantly and hold them against all opposition on the right hand and on the left from Friends and Foes To press this upon you I think I shall need use no other Motive then what I have laid down before you in the Doctrinal Part onely this one thing more and that is Take notice how urgent the Spirit of God is in pressing this in Scripture Now saith M ● Hildersham If in those days when the Apostles were ye● living who taught th● People of GOD with more Power and Demonstration of the Spirit then any of us do or can Yet if then they had need of such Exhortations to continue in the Doctrine and to abide in it to stand fast and hold fast the Word and Truth of God How much more needful are these Exhortations in our days If any say No There is not more cause for then the Magistrate was a Mortal Enemy to the Gospel and the Professors of it but we are thanks be to God under a Christian Magistrate who doth not oppose but countenance the Gospel and the Profeffors of it If any makes this Objection I will give you Mr. Hildersham's Answer to it which I find in a Sermon of his Printed in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty and one which is now One and Thirty Years agone saith he Though through the great mercy of GOD we in this Land enjoy the Gospel in great Peace and have it countenanced by Authority and though through the Religious Disposition of the KING we may have great hopes of the continuance of the true Religion and seem to be freed from all fear of the altering of it Yet says he there is need of this Exhortation even in these days and that for these Reasons REAS. I. First Because of the great danger we are in of being over-run or over-spread with Popery and the Fiery Tryal before we are aware For says he The great increase of Papists that we daily hear of and the great declining of many who are ready to receive any Errour that shall be offered to them These things give us just cause to fear the danger of Popery over-spreading us And Brethren If it were so in his time so many years ago What is it now REAS. II. Secondly says he If he there were no danger o● Popery yet says he there are so many Errours newly sprung up that do shew how needful this Exhortation is REAS. III. Thirdly says he There is such a general decay of the love of Religion in all places and amongst all sorts of People and so much irreligiousness every where that it is the general Disease of the Nation Therefore he concludes That in these Times of ours though Religion hath the Magistrate to countenance it yet there is as much need of pressing this Exhortation as ever there was namely To hold fast the Truths that we have heard and received Now if you ask What you shall do that you may be able to hold fast the Truths that you have received I will give you some Directions First If you would hold fast the Truths that you have heard and received get into Christ rooted and established in him Brethren It is not all the Learning in the World and Abilities that man can have that will inable him to hold out and hold fast the Truths that he hath received If a time of Tryal come unless Christ be his Bottom and Foundation unless Christ be his strength if a man stands upon his own legs his own Parts and Abilities to argue and dispute and repel Objections alas these things will fall in a day of Tryal Prison and Death and a Stake are such Arguments Brethren that all the Learning and Parts in the World cannot answer but onely Christ and his Spirit and Grace in the Heart Therefore if you would hold fast the Truths which you have received and heard and not be beaten off from them in the day of Tryal get into Christ rooted and established in him then shall you stand not else 2. If you would hold fast the truths that you have heard and received then take nothing upon trust in matters of Religion what ever Preachers you hear or what ever Books you read take not things upon trust but examine them and prove