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A64289 A sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Canice Kilkenny, Feb. 27. 1669. By Joseph Teate, dean of St. Can. Kilkenny Teate, Joseph. 1670 (1670) Wing T620; ESTC R219172 20,777 55

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Solomons in Peace and Plenty They thought that the Roman Eagles would be gathered as Chickens under his Wings and that his Gleanings would be better then the Vintage of all the Kingdomes upon Earth But when he told them his Kingdome was not of this World that his Crown must be of Thorns how few did bear his reproach to follow him without the Camp to honour him in the indignities of his passion What is this but the Artifice of filthy Lucre to make a Gain of Godliness to assemble for Corn Wine and Oyl to bake Cakes to the Queen of heaven not to be consumed with famine to court the Kings Daughter because she is an Inheritrix of temporal Blessings and not for the Beauties of her Holiness but they that are affraid or ashamed of the Profession of Godliness before Tyrants Tribunals Flames and Faggots of them will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of the Father with all his holy Angels Let thy Form have such an inviting Modesty as to allure others to a Love and Participation of the Power of Godliness Musitians observe in the Sympathy of sounds that if two Viols be tuned to a Consonancy and the String of one be struck the same string of the other will sound though laid at a Distance such an Harmony there is of Souls that if a well-tuned Heart be struck with the Finger of God it will send forth such a Melody that will work in others an Unison and Concord with it self Dauid went up with the Tribes to worship Andrew brought Simon Philip Nathaniel the woman of Samaria the City of Sychar to the presence of the Messiah The Apostles did triumph in the Myriads of the Jews the Kingdoms of the Gentiles the Numberless Accessions of the World to the little Flock of Christ A Form well ordered in all things by a sweet and gracious Conversation doth powerfully and placidly insinuate it self to produce this Effect which I shall demonstrate thus The Word is the great Instrument of Faith it hath a Moral and Suasive Power to propound Arguments to the Understanding and Objects to the Will Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God But this Cause is not irresistible for we find the Apostle taking up the Complaint of the Prophet Who hath believed our report But where the Word is deficient the Form of a good Conversation may be Efficient of Faith in Christ St. Peter exhorts Wives to be in subjection to their own Husbands that if any obey not the Word they may without the Word be won with the conversation of their Wives while they behold their chastity coupled with fear It seems the Eye is a better Organ then the Ear sometimes to conveigh Light and Happiness to the Spirit and good Works are better Orators then good Words For so we read in Story that Theodolinda Queen of the Longobards converted both her Husbands the First from Gentilism the other from Arianism an auspicious Lady to espouse them both to the great Bridegroom of Souls but the Story is still Big with greater Wonder for her Virtues were so Exemplary and Eminent that they executed an Apostolick Office and converted the Nation of her Subjects to be baptized into the Catholick Faith If thou seest a beauty in the Form of Godliness and wouldst preserve it from decay avoid the sins mentioned in the Catalogue The Enemies of a form are those of her own house no Sins make her more Odious then those that are Shrowded and Sheltred under her Protection All sin hath such an abhorrence to the powers of holiness that they hate the Form and Fringes of her Garment as is commonly observed of the Panther that he so abhors the person of a man that he tears in pieces his picture For a Form extorts from Seducers and Sectaries those Actions that are against the Bent and Inclination of their hearts They are Covetous and yet the false Apostles at Corinth preached freely to get Occasion of Glory and disgrace St. Paul who was there forced to live by his Mechanick Labours that he might not be Burdensom or Chargeable to that Opulent and Censorious City They are Self-lovers in their Benificence and Good Will towards men I need not mention anymore seeing Self-love is so Prolifical a Parent of all the other Sins that they must have a Commixture and Co-incidence with it as Branches in the Stem from whence they grow So that the Form is a Restriction to and Contradiction of their Villanies though they use it as an Artifice to palliate their sweet and secret Sins and to make way for an open Dissolution The sixth verse calls them Creepers while they creep into houses unawares and privily sow their Tares and are Despicable they insinuate themselves with Pretences of Strictness and a Tender Conscience of Modesty and Meekness of Condescentions and Philanthropy but when the Creeping Party becomes prevailing they soon forget their formal Complements and break the Bonds of their former Restrictions asunder and cast away their Cords from them they are Blasphemers and fill heaven with Reproaches Traytors and fill Kingdoms with Seditions the Tender Conscience soon betrayes it self in Searedness and unnatural Affection is incontinent in all Excesses and fierce in all Errors with a Rage reaching up to heaven how contrary is this to the Light of the Gospel that is altogether Serene and Pacifical to the Tongues of Fire that descended on the Apostles that by all-powerfull words did create those Miracles that were all like his that sent the Comforter the instances of mercy new light soon turns into Wild-fire and the Tender Conscience Ravens as a Wolfe to make havock of the Church The Arians and Donatists of old and Anabaptists in Munster and Sectaries of England of late have been sufficient Arguments to make this manifest to all men and Alarms to Princes whose security consists in the Preservation of Religion In this vigilancy Babilon exceeded Zion for Nebuchadnezar made a Decree that what ever Nation spake against the God of Shadrach should be made a Dunghill but of Judah where God was known the Prophet complains according to the Number of thy Cities so are thy Gods O Judah to return An Hypocrite Loves not freely and heartily his Reigning Sin because it exerciseth a Tyranny and Co-active Power over him it restraines him from swallowing the sweet Morcels he tacitely hungers after therefore he Dethrones it and takes away the Scepter of Authority from it when he can have his other Lords to Reign over him and exposes his Form when he hath cast of its Yoak to the greatest Odium and Contempt what cheap thoughts must men have of a Form of Godliness when it 's infected with Dishonesty the feigned Saint is manifestly a real Knave and all his Humiliations and Prayers wherein he deprecates the Evils of Covetousness are apparently but feigned words to make merchandise of the Inheritance of Orphans the Houses of Widdowes the Patrimony of the