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A62636	Several discourses upon the attributes of God viz. Concerning the perfection of God. Concerning our imitation of the divine perfections. The happiness of God. The unchangeableness of God. The knowledge of God. The wisdom, glory, and soveraignty of God. The wisdom of God, in the creation of the world. The wisdom of God, in his providence. The wisdom of God, in the redemption of mankind. The justice of God, in the distribution of rewards and punishments. The truth of God. The holiness of God. To which is annexed a spital sermon, of doing good. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the sixth volume; published from the originals, by Raph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his grace.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.; Barker, Ralph, 1648-1708.	1699 (1699)	Wing T1264; ESTC R219315	169,861	473

Burnet Animadversions on Mr. Hill's Vindication of the Primitive Fathers against Bishop Burnet Dr. Williams's Vindication of Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons against the Socinians and of the Bishop of Worcester's Sermon of the Mysteries of the Christian Religion To which is annexed a Letter from the Bishop of Salisbury to the Author in Vindication of his Discourse of the Divinity of our Saviour 4 to Books written by Symon Patrick D. D. now Lord Bishop of Ely The Parable of the Pilgrim written to a Friend The Sixth Edit 4 to 1681. Mensa Mystica Or a Discourse concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper In which the Ends of its Institution are so manifested our Addresses to it so directed our Behaviour there and afterward so composed that we may not lose the Profits which are to be received by it With Prayers and Thanksgivings inserted To which is annexed Aqua Genitalis A Discourse concerning Baptism In which is inserted a Discourse to perswade to a Confirmation of the Baptismal Vow 8 vo Jewish Hypocrisie A Caveat to the present Generation Wherein is shewn both the false and the true way to a Nations or Persons compleat Happiness from the sickness and recovery of the Jewish State To which is added A Discourse upon Micah 6.8 belonging to the same matter 8 vo Divine Arithmetick A Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Samuel Jacomb Minister of St. Mary-Woolnoth-Church in Lombard-street London With an Account of his Life 8 vo A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Grigg Rector of St. Andrew-Vndershaft London 4 to An Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8 vo Heart's Ease Or a Remedy against all Troubles With a Consolatory Discourse particularly directed to those who have lost their Friends and Relations To which is added Two Papers printed in the time of the late Plague The sixth Edition corrected 12 mo 1695. The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by St. Paul in 1 Tim. 3.15 4 to An Examination of Bellarmin's Second Note of the Church viz ANTIQUITY 4 to An Examination of the Texts which Papists cite out of the Bible to prove the Supremacy of St. Peter and of the Pope over the whole Church In Two Parts 4 to A private Prayer to be used in difficult Times A Thanksgiving for our late wonderful Deliverance A Prayer for Charity Peace and Unity chiefly to be used in Lent A Sermon preach'd upon St. Peter's Day printed with Enlargements 4 to A Sermon Preached in St. James's Chappel before the Prince of Orange Jan. 20. 1688. on Isaiah 11.6 A Second Part of the Sermon before the Prince of Orange on the same Text. Preached in Covent-Garden A Sermon Preached before the Queen in March 1688 9. on Colos 3.15 A Sermon against Murmuring Preached at Covent-Garden in Lent 1688 9. on 1 Cor. 10.10 A Sermon against Censuring Preached at Covent-Garden in Advent 1688. on 1 Cor. 4.10 A Fast-Sermon before the King and Queen April 16. 1690. on Prov. 14.34 A Thanksgiving-Sermon before the Lords Nov. 26. 1691. for reducing of Ireland and the King 's safe Return On Deut. 4.9 A Fast-Sermon befere the Queen April 8. 1692. On Numb 10.9 Easter-Sermon before the Lord Mayor 1696. on 2 Tim. 2.8 A Sermon before the Lord Nov. 5. 1696. on Dan. 4.35 A Commentary on the First Book of Moses called Genesis 4 to 1695. A Commentary on the Second Book of Moses called ●xodus 4 to 1697. A Commentary on the Third Book of Moses called Leviticus 4 to 1698. A Commentary on the Fourth Book of Moses called Numbers 4 to 1699. Of Sincerity and Constancy in the Faith and Profession of the True Religion in several Sermons by the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Being the first Volume Published from the Originals by Ralph Barker D. D. Chaplain to his Grace The Second Edition 8 vo Sixteen Sermons preached on several Occasions By the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson late Ld. Archbishop of Canterbury Being the second Volume Published by Ralph Barker D. D. Chaplain to his Grace 8 vo Sixteen Sermons preached on several Subjects being the Third Volume by the same Author Published by Dr. Barker 8 vo Several Discourses viz. Of the great Duties of Natural Religion Instituted Religion not intended to undermine Natural Christianity not Destructive but Perferctive of the Law of Moses The Nature and Necessity of Regeneration The Danger of all known Sin Knowledge and Practice necessary in Religion The Sins of Men not chargeable on God Being the fourth Volume by the same Author Published by Dr. Barker 8 vo Reflections upon a Pamphlet Entituled Some Discourses upon Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson occasioned by the late Funeral Sermon of the former upon the latter By the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Ld. Bishop of Sarum 8 vo His Sermon preached before the King at Whitehal on Christmas-day 1696. 4 to Gal. 4.4 His Sermon preached before the King at Whitehal on the Third Sunday in Lent being the Seventh of March 1696. 1. Ephes 5.2 His Essay on the Memory of the late Queen The second Edition 8 vo Dr. Williams now Ld. Bishop of Chichester his 8 Sermons at Esquire Boyle's Lecture for the Year 1695. 4 to Any of them may be had single to perfect sets His 1 st 2 d 3 d 4 th Sermons at the same Lecture for the year 1696. 4 to His Sermon preached at St. Lawrence Jury before the Lord Mayor c. on Saturday the 28 th of September 1695. at the Election of the Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing Joshua 22.31 4 to His Sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons on Wednesday Dec. 11. 1695. being a solemn day of Fasting and Humiliation appointed by his Majesty for imploring the Blessing of Almighty God upon the Consultations of this present Parliament 4 to 1 Sam. 11.30 His Sermon upon the Resurrection preached before Sir Edward Clare Lord Mayor c. on Easter-Monday April 5. 1697. on Acts 10.40 41 42. Reflections upon a Libel lately Printed Entituled The Charge of Socinianism against Dr. Tillotson Considered 4 to The Church History of Ethiopia wherein among other things the two great splendid Roman Missions into that Empire are placed in their true Light to which are added an Epitome of the Dominican History of that Church And an Account of the Practices and Conviction of Maria of the Annunciation the famous Nun of Lisbon Composed by Michael Geddes D. D. Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Sarum 8 vo Fourteen Sermons preached in Lambeth Chappel before the most Reverend Dr. William Sancroft late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury In the Years 1688 and 1689 by the Learned Henry Wharton M. A. Chaplain to his Grace with an Account of the Author's Life 8 vo Dr. William Owtram's 20 Sermons On several Occasions The 2 d. Edition 8 vo Sermons preached on several Occasions By John Conant D. D. The first and second Volumes Published by Dr. Williams now Ld. Bishop of Chichester 8 vo The Fathers vidicated Or Animadversions on a late Socinian Book Entituled The Judgment of the Fathers touching the Trinity against Dr. Bull 's Defence of the Nicene Faith By a Presbyter of the Church of England 8 vo A Fifth Volume of Archbishop Tillotson's Discourses published by his Chaplain Dr. Barker on these following Subjects viz. Proving Jesus to be the Messias The Prejudices against Jesus and his Religion consider'd Jesus the Son of God proved by his Resurrection The Danger of Apostacy from Christianity Christ the Author and Obedience the Condition of Salvation The Possibility and Necessity of Gospel Obedience and its consistence with Free Grace The Authority of Jesus Christ with the Commission and Promise which he gave to his Apostles The Difficulties of a Christian Life consider'd The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus Children of this World wiser than the Children of Light 8 vo 1698. A second Volume of Sermons preached in Lambeth Chappel before Archb. Sancroft 1690. By the Learned Mr. Henry Wharton his Graces Chaplain Which with the first Volume lately published are all that he preached A New Account of India and Persia being Nine Years Travel began 1672. and finished 1681. Containing Observations made of those Countries Namely Of their Government Religion Laws Customs Of their Soil Climates Seasons Health Diseases Of their Animals Vegetables Minerals Jewels Of their Housing Cloathing Manufactures Trades Commodities And of the Coins Weights and Measures used in the principal Places of Trade in those Parts By John Fryer M. D. Cantabrig and Fellow of the Royal Society Fol. 1698. SCRIPTORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM Historia Literariae facili perspicua methodo digesta Pars Altera Quaplusquam DC Scriptores novi tam Editi quam Manuscripti recensentur Prioribus plurima adduntur breviter aut obscure dicta illustratur recte asserta vindicantur Accedit ad finem cujusvis Soeculi CONCILIORUM omnium tum Generalium tum Particularium Historica Notitia Ad Calcem vero Operia Dissertationes tres 1 De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis incertae aetatis 2 De Libris Officiis Ecclesiasticis Graecorum 3 De Eusebii Caesariensis Arianismo adversus Joannem Clericum Adjecti sunt Indices utilissimi Scriptorum Alphabetico-Chronoligici Studio labore Gulielmi Cave S. T. P. Canon Windesoriensis Fol. Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity The Fifth Edition 1698. Bp. Wilkins of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion The 3 d Edition A Sixth Volume of Archbishop Tillotsons's Discourses Published by Dr. Barker Being upon the Divine Attributes and Perfections 1699. Mr. Evelyns Gardners Almanack Directing what he is to do Monthly througli the Year and what Fruits and Flowers are in Prime The Ninth Edition 8 vo 1699. Pharmacopaeiae Collegii Regalis Londini Remedia omnia succincte descripta una cum Catalogo simplicium Ordine Alphabetico digestorum Quibus annexum est Manuale ad Forum nec non Divax Porographicus Editio Tertia prioribus emendator auctior Huic insuper adjiciuntur Pharmaca nonnulla in usu hodierno apud Medicos Londinenses Accessit in calce Prosodia Medica observatu non indig●a Cura Ja. Shipton 1699. 12 mo FINIS Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI. Vol. VI.

who gave him this Authority Our Lord tells us plainly his Kingdom was not of this world and that without any distinction of in ordine ad spiritualia and therefore he wrested no Princes Kingdom out of his hands nor seized it as forfeited to himself But this Power the Pope claims to himself and hath exercised it many a time disturbing the Peace of Nations and exercising the most barbarous Cruelties in the World under a pretence of Zeal for God and Religion as if because Religion is so very good a thing in it self it would warrant men to do the very worst things for its sake which is the ready way to render Religion contemptible and odious and to make two of the best things in the World God and Religion good for nothing If we would preserve in the Minds of Men any reverence and esteem for Religion we must take heed how we destroy the Principles of Natural Religion and undermine the Peace and Happiness of Humane Society for the glory of God and under pretence of following Divine Revelation and being led by a Church that cannot err for every Church doth certainly err that teacheth any thing plainly contrary to the Principles and Dictates ●f Natural Religion and utterly inconsistent with the essential Perfections of God and with the Peace and Order of the World for God is not the God of Confusion but of Order which St. Paul appealeth to as a Principle of eternal Truth and naturally known But they that pretend that Religion prompts men to Sedition and Cruelty do represent God as the God of confusion and not of order Therefore whatever men may through an ignorant zeal or for ambitious Ends pretend to be Religion let us place it in that which is unquestionable the imitation of the Divine Perfections and let us as the Apostle exhorts put on as the elect of God bowels of mercy kindness meekness long-suffering and above all let us put on Charity which is the very bond of perfection The great Perfection of the Divine Nature or rather the very Essence of God is Love So St. John speaks God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him And 't is very remarkable that in these very qualities of Charity and Kindness and Compassion which we peculiarly call Humanity we approach nearest to the Divinity it self and that the contrary Dispositions do transform us into wild Beasts and Devils And yet as severely as I speak against these Principles and Practices I have an hearty pity and compassion for those who are under the power of so great a Delusion and upon a pretence of being made the only true Christians in the world are seduced from Humanity it self and so far from being made good Christians by these Principles that they are hardly left to be Men being blinded and led by the blind they fall into the ditch of the grossest and foulest Immoralities such as are plainly enough condemn'd by the light of Nature if there were no Bible in the World Not but that we Protestants have our Faults and our Follies too and those God knows too many and too visible we possess more Truth but there is little Peace among us and yet God is as well and as often in Scripture called the God of peace as the God of truth In this great Light and Liberty of the Reform'd Religion we are apt to be wanton and to quarrel and fall out we are full of Heats and Animosities of Schisms and Divisions and the way of peace we have not known God grant that at last in this our day when it concerns us so much we may know the things that belong to our peace before they be hid from our eyes You see in what things the Practice of Religion mainly consists in our likeness to God and resemblance of him in Holiness and Goodness and without this we are utterly incapable of happiness we cannot see God unless we be like him The Presence of God can administer no Pleasure no Felicity to us till we be changed into his Image till we come to this temper to hate Sin and delight in purity and holiness we can have no delightful communion with the holy God till our Passions be subdued and our Souls dispossest of those devilish and ungodlike Qualities of Hatred and Malice of Revenge and Impatience and till we be endued with the Spirit of universal Goodness and Charity we are not fit company for our heavenly Father we are not qualified to dwell with God who is love and dwells in love So far as we are defective in these Divine Qualities and Perfections so far we fall short of the temper of Happiness There is a direct and eternal Opposition between the holy and good God and the evil dispositions of wicked men and till this Opposition be removed it is impossible we should find any felicity in the enjoyment of God Now the Nature of God is fixt and unchangeable God cannot recede from his own Perfection and therefore we must quit our sins Thou canst not change God therefore change thy self and rather think of putting off thy corrupt Nature which may be changed than of altering the Divine Nature with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning God condescended to take our Nature upon him to make us capable of Happiness but if this will not do he will not put off his own Nature to make us happy SERMON III. The Happiness of God 1 TIM 1.11 The Blessed God The whole Verse runs thus According to the glorious Gospel of the Blessed God which was committed to my trust SINCE all Men naturally desire happiness and thirst after it methinks we should all desire to know what it is and where it is to be found and how it is to be attained by us in that degree in which Creatures are capable of it What Job says of Wisdom may be said also of Happiness God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof He only who is perfectly possest of it himself knows wherein it consists and what are the true ingredients of it So that to direct us in our search after happiness the best way will be to Contemplate and Consider the Divine Nature which is the perfect Pattern and Idea of Happiness and the Original Spring and Fountain of all the Felicity that Creatures are capable of And to that end I have pitched upon these Words wherein the Apostle attributes this Perfection of bessedness or happiness to God The Blessed God And tho' this be as Essential a part as any other of that Notion which Mankind have of God from the Light of Nature yet I no where find in all the New Testament this Attribute of Happiness given to God but only twice in this Epistle 'T is true indeed the Title of Blessedness is frequently given both to God and Christ but in another Sense and in a quite different Notion As Mark 14.61 where the High-Priest asks our

our affairs and concernments after we have used our best Endeavours let us sit down and be satisfied and refer the rest to God whose Providence governs the World and takes care of all our Interests and of the Interest of his Church and Religion when they seem to be in greatest Danger We cannot but be convinced that this is very reasonable to leave the Management of things to him who made them and therefore understands best how to order them The government of the World is a very curious and complicated Thing and not to be tamper'd with by every unskilful Hand and therefore as an unskilful Man after he hath tampered a great while with a Watch thinking to bring it into better order and is at last convinced that he can do no good upon it carries it to him that made it to mend it and put it into order so must we do after all our Care and Anxiety about our own private Concernments or the publick State of Things we must give over governing the World as a business past our Skill as a Province too hard and a Knowledge too wonderful for us and leave it to him who made the World to Govern it and take care of it And if we be not thus Affected and Disposed we do not believe the Providence of God whatever profession we make of it if we did it would have an influence upon our Minds to free us from Anxious Care and Discontent Were we firmly perswaded of the Wisdom and Goodness of the Divine Providence we should confidently rely upon it and according to the Apostle's advice here in the Text cast all our care upon him because he careth for us SERMON IX The Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Mankind 1 COR. I. 24 Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God I Have in the ordinary course of my Preaching been treating of the Attributes and Perfections of God more particularly those which relate to the Divine Understanding the Knowledge and Wisdom of God The first of these I have finisht and made some progress in the second the Wisdom of God which I have spoken to in general and have propounded more particularly to consider those famous Instances and Arguments of the Divine Wisdom in the Creation of the World the Government of it and the redemption of mankind by Jesus Christ The two first of these I have spoken to namely the Wisdom of God which appears in the Creation and Government of the World I come now to the III. Instance of the Divine Wisdom the redemption of mankind by Jesus Christ which I shall by God's assistance speak to from these words Christ the wisdom of God The Apostle in the beginning of this Epistle upon occasion of his mentioning the Divisions and Parties that were among the Corinthians where one said I am of Paul another I am of Apollos asks them whether Paul was crucified for them or whether they were baptized into the name of Paul To convince them that they could not pretend this that they were Baptized into his Name he tells them at the 14 and 15 th verses that he had not so much as baptized any of them except two or three so far was he from having Baptized them into his own Name and at the 17 th verse he says that his work his principal work was to preach the Gospel which he had done not with Humane Eloquence not in wisdom of words but with great plainness and simplicity lest the Cross of Christ should be made of none effect lest if he should have used any Artifice the Gospel should have been less powerful And indeed his Preaching was unaffectedly plain and therefore the Gospel did seem to very many to be a foolish and ridiculous thing The Story which they told of Christ Crucified was to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness The Jews who expected another kind of Messias that should come in great Pomp and Glory to be a mighty Temporal Prince they were angry at the Story of a crucified Christ The Greeks the Philosophers who expected some curious Theories adorned with Eloquence and delivered and laid down according to the exact Rules of Art they derided this plain and simple Relation of Christ and of the Gospel But tho' this Design of the Gospel appeared silly and foolish to rash and inconsiderate and prejudiced Minds yet to them that are called to them that do believe both Jews and Gentiles Christ the power of God and the Wisdom of God Christ that is the way of our Redemption by Jesus Christ which the Apostle preached the wisdom of God an eminent Instance of it So that the redemption of Man by Jesus Christ is a Design of admirable Wisdom This I shall endeavour to confirm to you I. By general Testimonies of Scripture And II. By a more particular enquiry into the nature of this Design and the Means how it is accomplish'd I. By Testimonies from Scripture You know I have all along in my Discourses of the Attributes of God used this Method of proving them from the Dictates of Natural Light and the Revelation of Scripture But now I must forsake my wonted Method for here the Light of Nature leaves me The Wisdom of Creation is manifest in the things which are made the heavens declare the glory of God's Wisdom and the firmament shews his handy-work The Works of God do preach and set forth the Wisdom of the Creator but the Sun Moon and Stars do not preach the Gospel The Wisdom of redemption is Wisdom in a mystery hidden wisdom which none of the Princes or Philosophers of this World knew The sharpest Wits and the highest and most raised Understandings amongst the Heathens could say nothing of this Here the Wisdom of the Wise and the Vnderstanding of the Prudent is posed and we may make the Apostles challenge v. 20. of this Chapter Where is the Wise where is the Disputer of this World There is no Natural Light discovers Christ the Wise men cannot find him out unless a star be created on purpose to lead and direct to him Therefore in this I shall only depend upon Divine Revelation 1 Cor. 2.7 8. the Gospel is called the wisdom of God in a mystery even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory Which none of the Princes of this world knew Eph. 1.7 8. In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded toward us in all Wisdom and Prudence Eph. 3.10 11. The manifold wisdom of God according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. This work of our redemption by Jesus Christ is so various and admirable that it is not below the Angels to know and understand it To the intent that unto principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known the manifold wisdom of God II. By inquiring more particularly into the nature