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A62600 A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall, March the 8th, 1688/9 by John Tillotson ... Tillotson, John, 1630-1694. 1689 (1689) Wing T1237; ESTC R4814 16,700 44

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partial and unequal are we to hope so easily to be forgiven and yet to be so hard to forgive Would we have GOD for Christ's sake to forgive us those numberless and monstrous provocations which we have been guilty of against His Divine Majesty And shall we not for His sake for whose sake we our selves are forgiven be willing to forgive one another We think it hard to be oblig'd to forgive great Injuries and often repeated and yet Woe be to us all and most miserable shall we be to all Eternity if GOD do not all this to us which we think to be so very hard and unreasonable for us to do to one another I have sometimes wonder'd how it should come to pass that so many persons should be so apt to despair of the Mercy and Forgiveness of GOD to them especially considering what clear and express Declarations GOD hath made of his readiness to forgive our greatest Sins and Provocations upon our sincere Repentance But the wonder will be very much abated when we shall consider with how much difficulty men are brought to remit great Injuries and how hardly we are perswaded to refrain from flying upon those who have given us any considerable provocation So that when men look into themselves and shall carefully observe the motions of their own minds towards those against whom they have been justly exasperated they will see but too much reason to think that Forgiveness is no such easie matter But our comfort in this case is That GOD is not as Man that his ways are not as our ways nor his thoughts as our thoughts but as the Heavens are high above the Earth so are his ways above our ways and his thoughts above our thoughts And the best way to keep our selves from despairing of GOD's Mercy and Forgiveness to us is to be easie to grant Forgiveness to others And without this as GOD hath reason to deny Forgiveness to us so we our selves have all the reason in the World utterly to despair of it It would almost transport a Christian to read that admirable Passage of the Great Heathen Emperour and Philosopher M. Aurelius Antoninus Can the Gods says he that are Immortal for the continuance of so many Ages bear without impatience with such and so many Sinners as have ever been and not only so but likewise take care of them and provide for them that they want nothing And dost thou so grievously take on as one that can bear with them no longer Thou that art but for a moment of time yea Thou that art one of those Sinners thy self I will conclude this whole Discourse with those weighty and pungent Sayings of the wise Son of Sirach He that revengeth shall find vengeance from the Lord and he will certainly retain his Sins Forgive thy neighbour that hath hurt thee so shall thy Sins also be forgiven when thou prayest One man beareth hatred against another and doth he seek pardon of the Lord He sheweth no mercy to a man like himself and doth he ask forgiveness of his own Sins Enable us O Lord by thy Grace to practise this excellent and difficult Duty of our Religion And then Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us For thy mercies sake in Jesus Christ to whom with Thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory Adoration and Obedience both now and ever Amen FINIS Books lately Printed for Brabazon Aylmer THe Rule of Faith or an Answer to the Treatise of Mr. J. Sarjant By John Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury To which is adjoyned A Reply to Mr. I. S. his Third Appendix c. By Edward Stillingfleet D. D. Dean of St. Paul's The Advice of a Father or Counsel to a Child Direrecting him how to Demean himself in the most important Passages of this Life The True mother-Mother-Church or a Short Discourse concerning the Doctrine and Worship of the First Church at Jerusalem upon Acts II. By Samuel Johnson Author of Reflections upon Julian Price 2 d. Books Printed for B. Aylmer and W. Rogers SErmons and Discourses some of which never before printed The Third Volume By the Reverend Dr. Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury Octavo A Discourse against Transubstantiation In 8vo Price 3 d. A Perswasive to frequent Communion in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By John Tillotson Dean of Canterbury In Octavo Price 3 d. A Sermon preach'd at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel on the 31st of January 1688 being the Day appointed for a publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God for having made his Highness the Prince of Orange the Glorious Instrument of the Great Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power By John Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury Books lately printed for W. Rogers AN Answer to a Discourse intituled Papists Protesting against Protestant Popery being a Vindication of Papists not Misrepresented by Protestants Quarto A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-Hall-Chappel on Sunday November 4th 1688. By W. Sherlock D. D. Master of the Temple A Letter of Enquiry to the Reverend Fathers of the Society of Jesus Written in the Person of a Dissatisfied Roman Catholick Dr. Barrow Dr. Barrow Prov. 14. 29. Eccl. 7. 9. Prov. 16. 32. Ver. 45. Eph. 4. 32. chap. 5. 1. Luke 17. 3 4. Rom. 12. 17. V. 18. Matth. 6. 14 15. Mat. 18. 23. V. 35. M. Aur. Antoni lib. 7. Eccl. 23 1 2 3 4.