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Several sermons upon the fifth of St. Matthew .... [vol. 2] being part of Christ's Sermon on the mount / by Anthony Horneck ... ; to which is added, the life of the author, by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.
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Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.
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the way to Christian Perfection a Perfection to speak properly begun on this side the Grave and which shall be perfected in Heaven And when that which is truly Perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away I conclude with St. Peter's ardent wish 1 Pet. v. 10 But the God of all Grace who hath called us to his Eternal Glory in Christ Jesus after that ye have suffer'd a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you To him be Glory and Dominion for ever Amen FINIS Some Books Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil THe Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Containing Fifty four Sermons and Discourses on several Occasions Together with the Rule of Faith being all that were Published by His Grace himself and now Collected into one Volume in Folio Several Sermons upon the Fifth of St. Matthew being part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount By Dr. Horneck late Preacher at the Savoy the first Vol. To which is added the Life of the Author by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells In 8 vo A Demonstration of the Messias In which the Truth of the Christian Religion is proved especially against the Jews Part I. 8 vo Twelve Sermons preach'd upon several Occasions In 8 vo Both by the Right Reverend Father in God Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells A Brief Exposition on the Creed the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments To which is added the Doctrine of the Sacraments By Isaac Barrow D. D. And late Master of Trinity College Cambridge This on the Creed never before Publish'd The Council of Trent no Free Assembly more fully discover'd by a Collection of Letters and Papers of the Learned Dr. Vargas and other great Ministers who assisted at the said Synod in considerable Posts Published from the Original Manuscripts in Spanish which were procur'd by the Right Honourable Sir William Trumbal's Grandfather Envoy at Brussels in the Reign of King James the First With an Introductory Discourse concerning Councils shewing how they were brought under Bondage to the Pope By Michael Geddes LLD. and Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Sarum A Conference with an Anabaptist Being a Defence of Infant-Baptism In 8 vo Price 12 d. A Theological Discourse of Last Wills and Testaments In 8 vo Price 12 d. A Discourse concerning a Death-Bed Repentance Price 6 d. A Seasonable Vindication of the B. Trinity Being an Answer to this Question Why do you believe the Doctrine of the Trinity Collected from the Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Right Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet now Lord Bishop of Worcester Price 12 d. A Method of daily Devotion a Method of Devotion for the Lord's-Day Likewise several small Books against Debauchery Profaneness Blasphemy Cursing and Swearing c. 24 s. Price 2 d. each and something cheaper to them that give away Numbers All these by Dr. Asheton An Exposition on that most excellent Prayer in the Liturgy of the Church of England call'd the Litany Wherein all or most of the Exceptions that have been made against it are fully Answer'd 8 vo Stich'd Price 4 d. Advice to Young Persons relating both to Faith and Practice Contain'd in some plain Directions how to demean themselves Together with some few Motives to the Observation of what is here recommended In 8 vo Price 4 d. Euseb. Hist. l. 2. c. 16.17 Vide Lightf in Matth. ii 4 Maldon in c. 2. Matth. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiph. l. 1 adv Haer. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiph. Ibid. i. e. Contradictions Vid. Grot. in loc Bishop Sanderson Numb xii 1 2. Vid. Lap. on 1 Joh. 4.12 p. 492.
to make Proselytes and Converts to their Religion for they compassed Sea and Land to do it Matth. xxiii 15 They were so strict or so nice rather that they were afraid of touching a Person who was counted an open and scandalous Sinner would not only not Eat with him but not so much as Touch him which was the reason why the Pharisee in whose House Christ dined found fault with our Saviour for suffering himself to be touch'd by a Woman who had been a notorious Sinner Luc. vii 39 And this is the account the Scripture gives of them St. Epiphanius adds that many of them would Vow very strict Chastity and Abstinence from the Partners of their Beds some for Four years some for Eight and some for Ten. They were very watchful against all Nocturnal Accidents and partly to prevent them and partly to awake the sooner to Prayer they would Sleep upon Boards not above nine Inches broad that falling or rolling off from those Boards on the Ground they might go to their Devotion some would stuff their Pillows with Stones and Pebles and some would venture even upon Thorns for that purpose Besides their Tythes they separated their First-Fruits and the Thirtieth and Fiftieth part of their Incomes to Pious Uses and as to all Vows and Sacrifices no Persons were more punctual to pay or discharge them than they This was the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees All this looks well and hath a very good Gloss. And one would wonder at first sight how Christ could find fault with these Performances One would think that in stead of blaming he should have commended them for so doing How many Thousands are there in the World that do not do half so much in Matters of Religion and some would look upon themselves as extraordinary Saints if they came up to what the Scribes and Pharisees did so far are they from dreaming of going beyond them But have not You seen some counterfeit Pearls so Artificiously contrived that the ignorant Spectator hath taken them for truly Oriental Have not you seen some curious Limner draw Infects and Butterflies with that Life that one would take them for living Animals The same may be said of the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees As specious as glorious as it look'd it was perfectly or the Nature of the Glow-Worm and shined bright in that dark Night of Ignorance but view'd by Day-light was nothing but a squallid Worm a mere Skeleton of Devotion which leads me II. To shew You the Defects of their Righteousness and they will appear from the following Particulars 1. They laid the Stress of their Devotion upon the Opus Operatum the bare Outward Task and Peformance without any regard to the Inward Frame very indifferent whether their Minds at the same time were season'd with a due sense of God's Greatness and their own Imperfections Just as the People of the Church of Rome at this Day will say so many Credo's so many Pater Noster's so many Ave Maria's and fancy they have done admirably well when they have absolved their Task though their Minds or Thoughts all the while like the Evil Spirit in Job have been wandring to and fro in the Earth And I wish too many who profess themselves Members of the best Church in the World I mean the Church of England did not split their Vessel against this Rock I am sure the Scribes and Pharisees did They made no account of the inward Frame but rested in the Shell and thought God would be pleased with the slaying of a Bullock or Lamb or He-Goat and they measured the Goodness of their Prayers by their Length and Number more than by the great Sense they had of the Shekinah or Divine Presence whereas an humble and devout Mind in the Religious Service was the thing God required at their Hands Mat. xv 8 2. They were very Zealous for the Ceremonial part of Religion but very reguardless of the Moral and more Substantial part of it hot as Fire for the one cold as Ice with respect to the other The neglect of a Ceremony anger'd them more than the omission of a sober and pious Conversation much as the Greeks at this Day look upon breaking a Fast of the Church as a more heinous Crime than Killing or Murthering a Man and to this purpose Christ tells the Pharisees Mat. xxiii 22 23. Wo to you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites who strain at a Gnat and swallow a Camel Ye pay Tithe of Mint and Cummin and Anise and have omitted the weightier matters of the Law Judgment Mercy and Faith 3. They were abominably selfish in all their Religious Undertakings for all their Works they do to be seen of Men saith our Saviour Matth. xxiii 5 This was the Worm that corrupted their Alms their Prayers their Fasts their Self-Denials their Mortifications and all they did even a design to advance and promote their Profit Interest and Credit and to gain the Applauses and Admirations of Men and though they made long Prayers yet it seems it was to devour Widows Houses Matth. xxiii 14 Their very Doctrins were suited to their Profit and Interest As Transubstantiation Purgatory Private Masses Indulgences Auricular Confession c. in the Church of Rome are invented to aggrandize the Honour and Profit of the Priest so the Tenents they held were accommodated to their Gain and Lucre for they taught the People that there was greater Holiness in the Gold of the Temple than in the Temple and greater Sanctity in the Gift upon the Altar than in the Altar it self thereby to oblige the People to bring Gold and Gifts into the Temple whereby the Priests who were of the Order of the Pharisees suckt no small advantage Matth. xxiii 16 17. 4. They took care to purifie the outward Man but took none to cleanse the Heart and the Soul Such Acts of Piety and Devotion as were stately and favour'd of Pomp and served to attack the Eyes of Spectators they were for and of this Nature were all their External Severities and Rigors and Revenges they used upon themselves But as to Mortifying their inward Pride and Rancour and Hatred and Malice and Covetousness and love of the World they were so great Strangers to it that they did not think it part of their Religion which makes Christ tell them Thou blind Pharisee cleanse first that which is within the Cup and Platter that the outside of them may be clean also Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees for ye are like unto whited Sepulchres which appear fair unto Men but within are full of Rotten Bones even so ye appear outwardly Righteous unto Men but within are full of Covetousness Matth. xxiii 26 27. 5. Though they own'd professed and taught the Law of Moses yet in effect they preferr'd their wild and phantastick Traditions before it Not to mention their common Proverb That the Words of the Scribes i. e. of their Traditionary Divines were more Lovely