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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39386	A sermon preach'd before the societies for reformation of manners in Dublin, October the 4th, 1698 by Tho. Emlyn.	Emlyn, Thomas, 1663-1741.	1698 (1698)	Wing E713; ESTC R29400	18,987	26

A SERMON Preach'd before the SOCIETIES FOR Reformation of Manners IN DUBLIN October the 4 th 1698. By Tho. Emlyn Published at the desire of the said SOCIETIES DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty for Math. Gunne at the Sign of the Bible and Crown in Essex-street and Iosiah Shaw at Russel's Coffee-house on Cork-Hill Booksellers M DC XC VIII 1. Sam. 2. v. 30. Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed AS 't is easy to apprehend the Important Consequences of that Excellent Work for the furtherance of which we are here met viz. The endeavouring an effectual restraint upon the Open Indecencies of a Lewd Age So I doubt not but the Tryal which some of you have made herein hath convinc'd you more than ever that not a few Discouragements are like to attend the promotion of so Pious a Design That the Strong man armed after so long and quiet a possession is not to be turned out but with conflict and violence That those Sons of Belial who if let alone will surely prove as Thorns in your sides by provoking the Anger of Heaven against us are when you thrust them away as Thorns in your hands so that as David speaks He that touches them had need be fenced with Iron and the staff of ● Spear Since therefore 't is now my part to strengthen your hands that they may never hang down in the pursuit of so sacred ●n Attempt I have judg'd it requisite to lay before you some M●ti●es that may be proportionable both to the greatness of your Task and the Variety of your Discouragements And I think there is enough contained in the Text to answer my end for it intimates your Work to be honourable in God's account and that it shall redound to your own immortal honour in the issue Humane Nature never acts with more violence and force than when it feels the power of Aspiring Ambition after great Renown and tho' my Brethren I hope the fading honour of this World is contemptible in your Eye as Sounding Brass ●r a Tinkling Cymbal yet honour from God is a great thing all ambition is just but none too great nor any contention too warm where this is the Prize How suitable an Application to the present occasion my Text will admit of may better be seen after a little enquiry into the Context 'T is part of a sad Message from God and for the greater solemnity sent by a Man of God to Eli who was over the Tribes of Israel a Judge and over the House of God the High-Priest how he came by the latter Dignity is not evident both from Scripture and Iosephus it appears that he was not of the Elder Line of Aaron's Family by Eleazer but of the younger from Ithamar and consequently not the legal Heir to that Honour but sometime during the Rule of the Iudges over Israel the High-Priesthood was translated to the younger Line for what cause is not known A very Learned Author in the Jewish History supposes it might be because of the miscarriage of the High-Priest in permitting Iephthah to Sacrifice his Daughter when he should have counselled him better out of the Law of God and this supposition of his may find some countenance from that Relation of some of the Jewish Doctors which I meet with elsewhere they say That Iephthah disdained to go to the High-Priest for a Commutation or release from his Vow and he wou'd not go to Iephthah because he did not ask his help therefore say they Iephthah was smitten with the Palsey and the High-Priest was deprived of the Spirit of God And if so much b● true the other is no unlikely Supposition By this it seems Eli● in his possession of that Office carried a memorial of God'● displeasure against the Neglecters of his Honour and yet himself incurs it the same way Not by any positive presumptio●● crime of his own but by remissness in checking the Profaness of others The Iniquity of his Sons was come to an unsufferable and daring heighth they prostituted their Sacred Function t● their Sensuallity and Lust as it is set down from Verse 12 〈◊〉 verse 18 such was their contempt of God that thô the T●bernacle was his House and they were only his Guard an● Attendance and the Sacrifices his Provisions yet they wou●● be served first and would carve for their own bellys befo●● it went to God's Table I mean before the fat was burn'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A●t●● And being thus highly fed like Horses they neigh 〈◊〉 their Neighbours Wife Ier. 5.8 They lay with the ●om●n at the door of the Tabernacle ver 22. as if they would ●ffront God to his face putting their filth under his very Nose thus his House was now made a Den of Harlots and Adulterers that afterwards was so of Thieves and Robbers insomuch that men abhorred the Offering of the Lord v. 17. It cannot but grieve Conscientious Worshippers to see the Sacred Solemnities of Religion pass through Unhallowed hands that reap indeed the benefit of others Reverence for God while themselves shew none But what is this to Eli that he must suffer for other mens ●ins It was because he restrained them not Chap. 3. v. 13. He did indeed reprove them Chap. 2. v. 24. He dealt gently with the Young-men but Impudent Sinners require sharper Corrections than Friendly Rebukes like the unruly Leviathan they laugh at the shaking of that Spear and those Arrows will not make them flee Iob 41.28 29. So that when better Remedies are in our power a bare Reproof of bold Sinners is no sufficient discharge of our Duty God counts this for nothing in Eli He as a Magistrate should have made 'em Publick Examples for a warning to others For neglecting this God sends him a severe Message upbraiding him with Ingratitude for past Favours so ill requited charging him with honouring his Sons above his God to fave their Reputation he let God's sink and fall and then recanting all his former thoughts of Kindness all his Conditional Promises he threatens him and his Family with Utter Ruine to the Generations to come The reason and equity of which procedure in this and like Cases he expresses in the words of the Text Be it far from me for them that honour me I will honour As if he had said after the manner of men I had once a great Kindness for thee and thy House and hadst thou but concerned thy self to vindicate my Name by suppressing and punishing the wick●●dness of those Vile Wretches thou hadst lost no honour by ●t I would have advanc'd thee to great Dignity but now 〈◊〉 be it from me to honour such a scornful despiser of his God no 't is farthest from my thoughts thy name shall pe●ish thy memory rot thy Family sink and thy posterity shall continue only to be by their poverty 〈…〉 the Monuments of thy Sin and my Indignation