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Sermons on special occasions and subjects ... by John Edwards ...
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Edwards, John, 1637-1716.
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SERMONS On SPECIAL Occasions and Subjects VIZ An Answer to Pilate's Question What is Truth Why Rulers and Judges are called Gods That Magistrates should be Exemplary in their Lives How Ministers of the Gospel are to Excel That Decay of Trade is the Product of Vice War Lawful and Necessary on just Occasions The Danger of Intestine Divisions The Use and Abuse of Apparel That there are Mysteries in Christianity c. By IOHN EDWARDS B. D. Sometime Fellow of St. Iohn's College in Cambridge LONDON Printed for Ionathan Robinson at the Golden Lion and Iohn Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard 1698. To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of ORFORD Viscount BARFLEUR Baron of SHINGEY One of His MAJESTY'S most Honourable PRIVY-COUNCIL My LORD ALL true English men have their Eyes upon Your Lordship as their Faithful Patriot and Protector as a Firm Lover of their Religion and Country and they all pay a profound Respect to that Illustrious Name in which the Welfare of the Nation is so much involv'd We are every one of us sensible of those large and manifest demonstrations which You have given us of Your Concern for the Publick Good in the late Happy Revolution Your Heroick Enterprizes Your constant Fatigues Difficulties and Perils undergone for the Service of Your Country are the continual matter of our Admiration We celebrate and applaud Your never to be forgotten Engaging the French Navy when their Admiral felt the destructive force of your Martial Thunder which You poured out so fast upon him and which produced a a Glorious Victory over the Insulting but Flying Foe the remembrance of which Great and Noble Atchievement Your Lordship bears in Your Honourable Title Which way so ever we look whether at Sea or Land we find Your Lordship meriting in a most sigâ—al manner both of Church and State And Your near relation to â—his Grace the Duke of Bedford whose Family hath been the Nursery of Patriots and Worthies yea and of Sufferers for the Publick Interest and Welfare renders You a Person yet more Conspicuous in the world And lastly That High Degree of Honour which Your Prince hath advanced You to and that Eminent and Honourable Post Your Lordship is now in make You capable of being what is so much desired by You Beneficial not only to the County You have a more particular Concern in but to the whole Kingdom But I know Your Transcendent Modesty will scarcely suffer these things to be said and therefore I dare add no more The design of this present Address to Your Lordship is to express my Thankful and Dutiful Resentments of the undeserved Favours cast upon me by Your Lordship and to offer my sincere Wishes and Prayers to Heaven for Your Health and Long Life that You may live in the favour of the Most High and be bless'd with His Divine Assistance that Success may crown all Your Worthy Undertakings that You may continue to be Happy in the Embraces of so Excellent and Accomplish'd a Lady as Heaven hath bless'd You with that You may be as instrumental in Preserving the Church and State as You were in Restoring them that You may long enjoy the Honour which Your Merits have advanc'd You to and the Happiness You have of possessing His Majesty's Favour and in â— word that You may still be admired honour'd and loved by all his Subjects that are Wise and Religious And now My Lord permit me to beg an Extraordinary favour of You but such as I know Your Generosity will not disdain to grant viz. that I may have the honour to dedicate the following Papers to Your Lordship's Name which as it will give a Glory to them so it will remain a Testimony which is the thing I design of that Entire Service and Duty which I owe and shall ever be owing to Your Lordship I have had Your Lordship in my eye ever since I have begun to be a Writer but I could not prevail with my self to make my Approaches of a sudden to so Great a Personage nor was I furnish'd with a Subject which was suitable to Your Lordship's Genius I forbore to trouble You with Criticisms and Controversies though of an important nature but now when the Matters I treat of are agreeable to so Noble and Exalted a Mind I take the confidence to make an Oblation of my Discourses to Your Lordship And though You have sometimes intimated Your averseness to see Your Name in Print yet I presume to prefix it to these Papers which have the Sacred Writings for which Your Lordship hath so great an Esteem for their ground-work On this account I hope they will not be unacceptable notwithstanding their Meanness and Faultiness otherwise Finally begging Your Lordship's Pardon for this Prolix Trouble I lay this Offering with my self at Your Lordship's Feet and crave the honour to be esteemed My LORD Your Lordship 's most Humble Entire and Devoted Servant JOHN EDWARDS THE PREFACE SEveral Years ago I was solicited by some of my Brethren of the Clergy and other Worthy Friends who were pleas'd to entertain no ill opinion of some of my Discourses which were deliver'd from the Pulpit to make them more Publick and to expose them to the General View but I was at that time furnish'd with such Reasons as would not permit me to give way to their importunity But about half a Year ago being solicited afresh I began to relent and to comply with such a Motion For a Friend extorted these Papers from me by an Argument which I was not able to resist he assuring me that Printed Sermons or Practical Discourses were call'd for by the generallity of Readers and were in great Esteem with them which I look'd upon as a Good Sign I wish it were an Infallible one that they were intent upon Practice I was heartily glad to hear that the World is in so good a temper and thereupon I laid aside my former Resolution for I had prepared Discourses of another nature for the Press and betook my self to the accommodating them with a Volume of Sermons whilst they were in so good a Vein and relish'd matters of a Religious and Practical nature And I did this the rather because having lately been employ'd in asserting some of the Chief Articles of the Christian Faith and in animadverting on the Errors which are contrary to them I was forc'd on that account to be ingaged in Contâ—oversies and Debates and therefore I take the first Opportunity to let the world see that I take no pleasure in Contests that I delight not in Insults and Philippicks and that I prefer the Practical part of our Holy Religion to the Disputes of it Having thus assigned the Occasion of my publishing these following Discourses I will in the next place give you a brief Account of them In the first I have endeavour'd to fix the Standards of Truth and to shew how they are to be Applied especially how the Scriptures which are the Chief Standard
we cannot but entertain these Divine Doctrines and firmly believe them and heartily approve of them for when we find any thing though 't is impossible to explain and unfold it vouch'd by Scripture we need desire no more Whence we may judge of Socinus aud Smalcius the former of whom declares concerning the Satisfaction of Christ and the latter concerning the Incarnation of the Son of God that they would not believe these doctrines though the Scripture should expresly assert them These are strange passages in Writers that bear the Name of Christians and seem to own the New Testament as well as the Old where every thing is Authentick and worthy of all acceptation and depends not on the arbitrement of our shallow Reasons Here to doubt is Inâ—idelity to be scrupulous is an affront to Heaven to dispute is an injury to the Deity To conclude It appears from the whole that the Disciples of Socinus are the most foolish and sensless pretenders to Reason in the whole world because they make it their business to argue against the God of Reason and the Spirit of Truth But if they will call their Anti-Scriptural Notions by the name of Reason who can help it Only this we are sure of and it is all I will add at present no truly Rational and Sober man will be pleas'd with that Reason which rejects what God hath reveal'd which vilifies the Discoveries that come from Heaven which contradicts the Bible and gives the Lye to Him who is the Original Truth the Eternal Reason the Source of all Understanding and Light and Knowledge it self FINIS BOOKS written by the Reverend Mr. John Edwards and printed for Jonathan Robinson and John Wyat. AN Enquiry into several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probable Resolution of them In Two Vol. 8 o A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testament with a continued Illustration of several difficult Texts throughout the whole Work In Three Vol. 8 o Some Thoughts concerning the several Causes and Occasions of Atheism especially in the present Age with some brief Reflections on Socinianism and on a late Book Entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures 8 o Price 1s 6 d. A Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God from the Contemplation of the visible Structure of the Greater and the Lesser World In Two Parts The first shewing the Excellent Contrivance of the Heavens Earth Sea c. The Second the wonderful Formation of the Body of Man 8 o Price 4 s. Socinianism Vnmask'd A Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness of a late Writer's Opinion concerning the Necessity of only One Article of Christian Faith and of his other Assertions in his late Book Entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures and in his Vindication of it with a brief Reply to another Professed Socinian Writer 8 o Pr. 1s 6d The Socinian Creed Or a brief Account of the professed Tenents and Doctrines of the Foreign and English Socinians wherein is shewed the Tendency of them to Irreligion and Atheism With proper Antidotes against them 8 o Price 3 s. A brief Vindication of the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith as also of the Clergy Vniversities and Publick Schools from Mr. Lock 's Reflections upon them With some Animadversions on two other late Pamphlets viz. of Mr. Bold and a Nameless Socinian Writer 8 o Price 1s 6d Brief Remarks upon Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth and upon another Gentleman's Objections against some Passages in a Discourse of the Existence and Providence of God relating to the Copernican Hypothesis 8 o Price 6 d. Several Sermons Preached on Special Occasions Price 5 s. BOOKS printed for Jonathan Robinson and John Wyat. A Practical Exposition on the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer In Two Vol. In 4 o The Vanity of the World with other Sermons In 8 o Sermons or Discourses on several Scriptures In Four Vol. In 8 o The Almost Christian discovered in some Sermons on Acts 26. 28. All these written by the Right Reverend Father in God Ezekiel Hopkins late Lord Bishop of Londonderry Bishop Vsher's Life and Letters By Dr. Parr In Fol. 's Body of Divinity Or the Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion Fol. 's 22 Sermons on several Subjects Fol. Iosephus's History of the Iews Fol. Dr. Bates's Harmony of the Divine Attributes 8 o Fourth Edition 1697. Charron of Wisdom In Three Books All Dr. Anthony Walker 's Works viz. The Sinfulness and Danger of delaying Repentance The Vertuous Woman Or the Life of the Countess of Warwick The Vertuous Wife Or the Life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker His Sermons of Water-drinking Preached at Tunbridge-wells c. The worthy Communicant A Treatise shewing the due Order of Receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper The Seventeenth Edition By Ieremiah Dyke Newly reprinted 1697. The Poor Doubting Christian drawn unto Christ. By Thomas Hooker Ovid's Metamorphosis in English Verse By George Sandys Aesop's Fables in Prose with Cuts Solitude improved by Divine Meditation By Nathaniel Ranew late Rector of Felsted in Essex Practical Discourses concerning Death and Heaven By Nathaniel Ranew Correction Instruction Or a Treatise of Afflictions By Tho. Case The Principles of Christian Religion with a brief Method of the Doctrine thereof By Bishop Vsher. The Sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of Christ. In 2 Sermons By W. Bridge Brinsley's Posing of the Parts reprinted 1697. Sir Simon D'ew's Journal of all Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments Fol. Bacon's Historical and Political Account of the Government of England Fol. BOOKS lately Printed and Sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard A Fourth Volume of the Works of Dr. Thomas Goodwin In Fol. Mr. Clark's Survey of the Bible Or an Analytical Account of the H. Scriptures 4 o Ten Sermons Preached on several Occasions By William Bates D. D. A Discourse concerning Natural and Reveal'd Religion Evidencing the Truth and Certainty of both By the Considerations for the most part not yet touched by Any By S. N. The Altogether Christian his Duty Explained and Enforced in some Sermons on Acts 26. v. 28 29. Together with the Causes why there are so few who are Altogether Christians By Iohn Foxcroft M. A. formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridge now Rector of Wifordby in Leicestershire The Character and Blessings of a Prudent and Vertuous Wife with other Particulars relating to the Marriage State practically considered in a Discourse on Prov. 19. 14. The Beauty of Magistracy with other Observations concerning Government Represented in an Assize Sermon Preached in St. Mary's Church in Leicester Mar. 26. 1697. Both by the same Author BOOKS Printed for and Sold by John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard FAmily Devotions for Sunday Evenings throughout the Year In Four Volumes each containing Thirteen Practical Discourses with suitable