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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40819	A sermon preached at the triennial visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, James, Lord Bishop of Lincoln held at Hartford, June 12, 1700 / by Philip Falle ...	Falle, Philip, 1656-1742.	1700 (1700)	Wing F342; ESTC R16543	31,663	66

now There is a Swarm of Atheists Deists Sceptics Spinozists Socinians and other Enemies of our Holy Faith gone out amongst us Men with whom a Servant of Jesus Christ will often be called to encounter It behooves him therefore to be furnished with such Arms as may enable him to do it with success Would it not grieve him to see the best Cause in the World baffled and defeated only because he wants Abilities to defend it The meanest Christian ought to be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh him a reason of the Hope that is in him (h) i Pet. iii. 15. How much more ought the Ministers of the Church to be mighty in words (i) Acts vii 22. workmen that need not to be ashamed (k) ii Tim. ii 15. able by sound Doctrine to convince gainsayers (l) Tit. i. 9. and to cast down every high thought and imagination that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God (m) ii Cor. x. 5. 'T is that they may the better qualify and capacitate themselves in this way that by the Laws of God the Sanctions of the Universal Church and under the Protection of Christian States and Governments the Clergy enjoy an Exemption and Immunity from Secular Cares and Labours 5. and lastly They enjoy this Exemption and Immunity and those among them are exceedingly to blame who do not use it to that End that they may adorne their Province and fulfill their Ministry in every Part of it That is that they may be continually busied and employed in advancing the Honour and Service of the great Maker and Preserver of the World in reconciling Men to him by Repentance and the administration of Holy Rites in teaching and instructing the Ignorant in relieving anxious and doubting Consciences in rebuking profligate Sinners and warning them of the dread and terrors of an approaching Judgment in composing Differences and promoting Peace Charity and a reciprocal Good-Will among all People in plucking up Sin and Vice and planting the Seeds of every Christian Grace and Virtue in the Earth in purifying their own Lives and giving heed to their own Sanctification that they may be shining Examples to their Flocks in praying night and day to God that he will bless their Endeavours and afford them such a Measure of his Divine Spirit as may be sufficient to carry them through their Work The World cannot envy a Vacation from Secular Cares and Labours to the Clergy nor any other Privilege annexed to their Sacred Function whilst it sees them intent upon such things as these And praised be God the Father of Lights and the Author of every good Gift (n) Jam. i. 17. for that in the midst of so general a Corruption and Degeneracy as prevailes in our Age he has not left his Church destitute of honest and faithful Pastors who strenuously pursue all the Ends I have named answer all the Qualifications and Characters I have laid down That is who are eminently conspicuous for their contempt of and abstraction from Earthly Things for their grave and sober Deportment for their sound and useful Learning and for their constant Assiduity to their Charge I cannot better express it than in the Words of St. Cyprian * Epist lxvii ad Foelicem Presbyterum c. pag. 174. Edit Oxon. which are so nicely adapted to our Case that one would think they had been suggested to him by a Prophetick Spirit and that when he wrote them he had in view not the State of the Church in his Time but in ours Non sic tamen quàmvis novissimis temporibus in Ecclesià Dei aut Evangelicus vigor cecidit aut Christianae virtutis aut fidei robur elanguit ut non supersit portio Sacerdotum quae minimè ad has rerum ruinas fidei naufragia succumbat sed fortis stabilis honorem Divinae Majestatis Sacerdotalem Dignitatem plenâ timoris observatione tueatur Although says he we are fallen into the Last Days nevertheless the Evangelical Spirit and Vigour is not sunk nor the strength and power of Christian Faith and Virtue enfeebled to such a degree in the Church of God as that there should not be yet remaining a Portion of Holy Priests who amidst all these ruins and shipwracks of Religion are not unmindful of their Duty but stand firm and unshaken therein going on with great zeal and courage to assert the Honour of the Divine Majesty and to maintaine the Dignity and Reputation of Sacerdotal Functions Praised be God that no Particular Church upon Earth can boast of a greater number of such Worthy Men than the Protestant Orthodox Church of England I reckon it not the least advantage I have gained from my Attendances abroad that I have received many Convictions of this Truth by comparing the Clergy of this and of other Churches To those who deny them their due Commendation I shall only say that I wish them the like opportunities of Conviction May God in his infinit mercy keep up a Succession of such Pastors in his Church so long as there is a Sun in the Firmament May their Excellent Example quicken Me and others of their Brethren who flag behind them May the World be just to them and esteem them very highly in love for their Work 's sake (o) i Thess v. ●3 May their People have the wisdom not to withdraw themselves from under their Conduct to follow Blind Guides and Seducers May they feel a kind and benign Influence of Heaven going along with them and prospering every thing they do or undertake for the glory of God and for the benefit and instruction of Mankind May none of the Enemies of God be able to stand before them May the great and sacred Truths of Religion be ever victorious and triumphant in their Discourses and Writings May they every where beat down the Kingdom of Satan and on the fall of it build up the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Lord. And from him the Everlasting High-Priest the supreme Pastor and Bishop of Souls may they one day receive the Crown and Reward promised to their Holy Labours Amen THE END BOOKS printed for John Newton at the Three Pigeons in Fleetstreet MR. Falle's Account of the Isle of Jersey with a new and accurate Map of the Island Dedicated to the King 8o. His Sermon before the Garrison in Jersey April 10. 1692. His Sermon at White-hall Decemb. 30. 1694. His Sermon before the Lord Mayor April 21. 1695. Mr. D'auvergne's Relations of the Campagnes in Flanders for the Years 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 and 1697. New Observations on the Natural History of this World of Matter and this World of Life In two Parts Being a Philosophical Discourse grounded upon the Mosaick System of the Creation and the Flood To which are added some Thoughts concerning Paradise the Conflagration of the World and a Treatise of Meteorology With occasional Remarks upon some late Theories Conferences and Essays By Tho. Robinson Rector of Ousby in Cumberland The Anatomy of the Earth By the same Author A Charge given at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Surrey holden at Dorking on Tuesday the 5th day of April 1692. and in the 4th year of their Majesties Reign By the Honourable Hugh Hare Esquire one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for that County Pendragon or The Carpet Knight's Kalendar A Poem ERROR PAge 46. Line 7. for They greatly abuse this Exemption read They greatly abuse of this Exemption