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A47031 A sermon upon Ember-Week, preached before the University of Oxford, at Christ-Church in Oxford, 1698 by David Jones ... Jones, David, 1663-1724? 1699 (1699) Wing J939; ESTC R2427 21,461 34

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God makes a Man Rich the Curse of God must needs make him Poor Prov. 10. 22. And here in our Church no Man can be received into the Ministry but he must first make a Solemn Subscription that he acknowledgeth the Articles and the Common-prayer Book to be Agreeable to God's Word and that he will use That and No other Form in publick Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments And no Man that is thus solemnly received into the Ministry can be Lawfully admitted into any Ecclesiastical Place With or Without Cure of Souls but he must also Take a most Strict and Severe Oath against Simony And if it were possible for us to know how many have broken this Oath and are guilty of Perjury and have broken their Subscription to the Common-prayer Book which they pretend to Magnifie and Admire so much by neglecting to Catechize and to Read the Daily Prayers and Homilies and have broken their Subscription to the Articles by private Disputing publick Preaching and Printing against them If I say it were possible for us to know how many are guilty of these things it would make us All if we have but the least Sense of their miserable State to quake and tremble to Think of their Numbers And yet all these men have all their Blessings and all their Estates thus unlawfully gotten cursed with the Curse of God And they can not possibly leave them to their Children but they must also at the same time necessarily leave the Curse of God along with them And how then can such Children while they Keep and Live upon these accursed things without making any Restitution of them to the Right Owners How can they I say possibly Thrive and Prosper in the World unless God will suffer them to do so on Purpose that their Prosperity may destroy them and make their Destruction the more Intolerable Prov. 1. 32. And indeed if a Man seriously considers the Proceedings of God in this Particular without all Prejudice and Partiality he will presently find them to be most highly Reasonable For all people committed to a Ministers Charge are or at least he is to endeavour to make them his Children according to the Spirit begotten again through his Ministry to a lively Hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead Galat. 4. 19. compared with 1 Pet. 1. 3. And if a Minister that does not Catechize and Preach in his own Parish-Church does Force his Children according to the Spirit to go from Parish to Parish and from Church to Church to beg a little spiritual Food for their Souls that are ready to Starve for Hunger and Thirst then is it not most highly reasonable that his Children according to the Flesh should be forced to go from House to House and to beg their Bread from Door to Door And if a Minister forces his Spiritual Children to starve for want of the Body and Blood of Christ frequently Administred to them in the Blessed Sacrament then is it not most highly reasonable that his Natural Children should be forced to Starve for want of Meat and Drink Sure I am whatever you think of this Now God has long since Threatned it and he will certainly bring it to pass For says the Lord Hos 4. 6 7. My people are destroyed for lack of Knowledge because thou hast rejected Knowledge I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy Children and change their Glory into Shame And the Priests eat up the Sin of my people and they set their Heart on their Iniquity That is they Eat and Feast upon the Sacrifices which my people offer for their Sins and they are heartily glad that they commit so many Sins and do not at all endeavour to Reclaim 'em lest their Gain should be lost And then it follows ver 10. They shall eat of those Sacrifices unlawfully gotten and they shall not have enough they shall commit Whoredom thinking thereby to increase their Children and they shall not Increase because they have left off to take heed to the Lord. Where you see that the Sins of the Priests are Threatned with Scarcity of Bread and they Affect and Reach their Children as well as Themselves And you also see that every Morsel you eat and every Draught you drink and every Rag of Cloaths you and your Children wear are the Price of the Blood and Souls of those poor People which are Starved on Earth and Damned in Hell for want of your Catechizing and Preaching Every Glass of Wine you drink is Bought with the Price and Mingled with the Blood of those poor People which Perish through your Neglect You Grind the Faces of the poor and then as the Psalmist elegantly expresseth it You eat them up for Bread whenever you Feed your selves with the Tithes and Offerings of those people who are ready to perish everlastingly because of your shameful Absence from them all the Year long And by this means Ye cover the Altar of the Lord with the Tears the Weeping and the Crying out of those Poor Starved and Damned Souls Insomuch that the Lord regardeth not your Offering any more nor receiveth it with good will at your Hands Mal. 2. 13. And how then can you ever expect that your Estates thus Damnably gotten should ever Thrive or Prosper with You or your Children And therefore though you have no Regard to your own Souls nor to the Souls of your people nor to the Blood of Christ which was Shed for the Redemption both of your and their Souls yet however have some little Regard to the Bodies and Souls of your poor Children Oh do not make them a Generation of God's Wrath Do not make them the Heirs of your Vices as well as your Estates Do not make them to Inherit your Curses as well as your Blessings Oh remember what a dreadful Legacy Joab left to his Children 2 Sam. 3. 29. One of them was to have an Issue another a Leprosy another to lean on his Staff for Lameness another to fall on the Sword and another to lack Bread And canst thou find in thy Heart to leave thy Children no better yea far worse Legacies than these are Canst thou find in thy Heart to leave thy Ignorance and Idleness to one thy Covetousness and Voluptuousness to another thy Pride and Malice to another and thy Neglect of Catechising Preaching and daily Prayers in thy Church and Family to another of thy Children Canst thou find in thy Heart to leave thy Children no better Legacies than these are Canst thou pretend to Love thy Children and yet leave them Nothing to Live upon but thy Vices and thy Curses the Tears of the Living and the Blood of the Dead And canst thou still expect that they should Thrive and Prosper in the World when this is all the Portion and all the Stock thou givest them to begin the World and to set up