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A13119 A receite for grace in a sermon preached in the parish church of Westminster / by Christopher Styles. Styles, Christopher. 1620 (1620) STC 23412.5; ESTC S1008 11,697 24

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A RECEITE FOR GRACE IN A SERMON PREACHED in the Parish Church of Westminster By CHRISTOPHER STYLES PSALM 84.12 The Lord will giue grace and worship and no good thing shall he with-hold from them that liue a godly life ●EACE PLENTY 〈◊〉 WISDOM 〈◊〉 AT LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON 1620. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LADY FRANCES BARONESSE OF BVRGH Dowager of Thomas Lord Burgh Knight of the Honourable order of the Garter and somtime Lord Deputie of Ireland and Gouernour of Brill grace and peace bee multiplied MAdam as euer since my first cōming to Westminster I haue liberally tasted of your Honourable bounty so now your daily charity vnto mee hath made my life so much more comfortable Many who haue receiued great and speciall fauours done by your Honour for their good haue confessed themselues bound in all thankfulnesse of duty and seruice as debtors vnto you Amongst the which my selfe most deeply ingaged haue thought it meete to shew some token of this my duty and thankfulnesse to your Ladyship And that is this booke an vnworthy present which I beseech you to accept of as you shall bee pleased to iudge of the matter not of the bringer So it is that God being the spiritual Physicion for the soule and Mankind his Patients the Prophets and Preachers of Gods Church are if I may so tearme them his Apothecaries to apply the spirituall Physicke prescribed vnto them in the sacred bills of Gods Booke the holy Bible Of which number my selfe being one though the most vnworthy of all men hauing receiued this sacred bill my text as a receit for grace which I haue applied vnto this Congregation And now by experience finding it probatum part of the best physicke that can be ministred to such an vngracious world as this wherein wee liue I haue therefore committed the same vnto the Presse for the publike benefit so farre as may be of Gods holy Church and doe commend the same vnto your Honourable protection For which I shall euer acknowledge my selfe bound to remaine Your Honours daily Orator CHRISTOPHER STYLES TO THE READER GEntle Reader I confesse the Presse is oppressed and there is no end in making of bookes and euery Preacher is not fit to be a Writer I doe also humbly acknowledge my defect in both what bold presumption then doth spurre me forwards to so dangerous aduentures Onely these weake reasons First a diligent desire not to bee idle as also to vse it for a better meanes whereby to shun idle and euill company Secondly writing maketh our knowledge more certaine and our speech more ready and perfect Thirdly because we are called to teach the Word of God as well by writing as by word by pen as by voice therefore the Prophets wrote hidden mysteries the Apostles profound doctrines and Iohn the Euangelist a whole booke of Diuine Reuelations and not without command What if my plainnesse be not well taken of the enuious let them that are gald kicke my faithfull meaning heerein is for the common good of the multitude and yet I know the most good will redound vnto my selfe Therefore good Christian though I write not excellently pleasing things to delight thee and to profit all yet if I write honestly plaine truth which no doubt will comfort many especially my friends and all such as feare God without dissembling Straine not thy conscience to cauill at words and to wrest them contrary to good meaning if any small fault hath escaped me consider thy selfe in another or the like kind maist commit a worse for Humanum est errare It were beyond humane nature not to erre therefore let thy charity couer that which thy enuie would disclose for Diuinum est amare it makes vs like vnto God to loue for God is loue Vse thy discretion and so farewell C. S. A RECEITE FOR GRACE 2. COR. 6.1 Wee therefore as workers together doe beseech you that you receiue not the grace of God in vaine IT is wittily obserued that all the Epistles of Paul stand on two legs that is Doctrine and Exhortation therefore to trouble you with no further circumstances this Scripture my Text is nothing else but an exhortation to reduce the wandring Corinthians from their disobedience and ignorance to the carefull practice of religious holinesse And for as much as they haue heard the voices of Christs spirituall Trumpetters now a good space threatning the iudgements and fierce wrath of God against the obstinate and impenitent sinner and proclaiming the free pardon of Gods rich mercy to all that truly repent and vnfainedly beleeue his holy Gospell that therefore they would no longer dis-hearten their teachers and despise the Grace that is brought vnto them by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and so forsake their owne mercy but humbly to submit themselues in all obedience vnto those holy counsels and walke worthy of their vocation in newnesse of life that others may glorifie God for their gracious conuersion and holy conuersation Now for our better ease in proceeding to handle these words let vs obserue these circumstances following First the Apostles vnity and consent with the other teachers in these words Wee are workers together Secondly his humility in these words doe therefore beseech you Thirdly his fidelity in these words that you receiue not the grace of God in vaine Now repeat all the Text. First to speake of vnity we reade that vnity is said to be vnderstood three waies first it must be within vs touching our selues by an absolute assent consent of al our vnderstanding parts that the mind may be settled Psal 108.1 as Dauids was who said O God my heart is ready c. that is that we may be firme and stable in all our counsels and resolutions Iam. 1.8 for the Apostle saith A wauering minded man is vnstable in all his wayes Secondly it must bee in vs touching God by faith and loue for faith vniteth our vnderstanding and loue our affection vnto God while we endeuour to keepe the vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4.3 Thirdly it must be in vs touching our neighbour by brotherly loue for it is meet that he which is vnited vnto God should bee in vnity with all the world as the Apostle speaketh elsewhere Aboue all things put on loue Col. 3.14 which is the bond of perfectnesse and let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which you are called in one body and this is the vnity heere meant Psal 3 3. Behold how good and ioyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in vnity The Apostle Paul not presuming to build the faith of the Church vpon the foundation of his owne doctrines onely confesseth himselfe to be but a fellow-labourer saying 1. Cor. 3.9 Wee together are Gods labourers ye are Gods building and Gods husbandry Our Sauiour Christ chose twelue Disciples whom he sent forth to minister comfort to the Elect of God as well