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A47031 A sermon upon Ember-Week, preached before the University of Oxford, at Christ-Church in Oxford, 1698 by David Jones ... Jones, David, 1663-1724? 1699 (1699) Wing J939; ESTC R2427 21,461 34

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or I shall Live to go out of this Church or ever to come into it again to be told of and stirred up to the consciencious discharge of our Ministerial Office thus Plainly thus Impartially thus Convincingly and I heartily Pray to God Effectually Oh my Beloved Brethren do not think that I am too earnest ot too much concerned for you and your peoples Immortal Souls For I know I know that your Souls have cost Christ very dear they have cost him his H●arts Blood they have cost him his Life And can I be too much Concerned or can I ever be Concerned enough for the Salvation of those Souls which have cost my Lord my God and my Saviour which have cost Christ Crucified so much Oh those Emphatical Words of His to Simon Peter are always sounding in my Ears and deeply Rooted in my very Heart and Soul Lovest thou Me Feed my Lambs Lovest thou Me Feed my Sheep Lovest thou Me Feed my Sheep John 21. 15 16 17. And does Christ repeat this Thrice that it may make the Deeper Impression upon us And are we so Insensible and so Seared and so Judicially Hardned as not to take the Least Notice of it Does Christ here try a Ministers Love to him Onely by Catechizing his Lambs and Preaching to his Sheep And can I pretend to Love Christ when I neither Catechize nor Preach in my own Parish all the Year or perhaps all my Life long Or can I ever be too strict in recommending these Duties wherein my Love to Christ does Onely consist My Love to Christ who Loved Me and gave himself for Me when I was Dead in Trespasses and Sins Gal. 2. 20 compared with Ephes 2. 1. Oh these Eyes of mine these Eyes of mine have seen how poor Country people do Sit in Darkness and the Shadow of Death and are as Ignorant of Christianity as if Christ had scarce ever been Preached to them And I am verily perswaded that if You who have Great and Rich Places in the Countrey would but do as Christ did would but Go and See how the Multitudes committed to your Charge do Faint and are Tired and Wearied and lie down and are scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd you could not possibly chuse but be moved with Pity and Compassion on them unless your Hearts are all Stone and your Bowels are all Brass and You your selves are more Barbarous than the Sea Monsters which draw out the Breast and give suck to their Young Ones Lam. 4. 3. Oh my Beloved Brethren do not think that I am too earnest or too much concerned for your and your peoples Immortal Souls For whether we be besides our selves it is to God or whether we be sober it is for your cause For the Love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if One died for all then were all dead and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto Themselves but unto Him which died for them and Rose again 2 Cor. 5. 13 14 15. Thirdly The Holy Ghost has caused the Faults of God's Ministers to be written in Scripture And the same Holy Ghost assures us that the Faults of us Ministers are the Cause why our People do not Repent of their Sins and Reform their Lives For says the Lord Jerem. 23. 22. If the Prophets had stood in my Counsel and had caused my People to hear my Words then they should have turned from their evil Way and from the evil of their Doings Where you see that the Cause and indeed the Onely Cause here mentioned why the People did not turn from their evil Way and their evil Doings is because the Prophets had not stood in the Counsel of the Lord and had not caused them to hear his Words And if you will turn to Malachi 2. 6. You will there find that the great Success of Levi's Ministry in the Conversion of Souls unto God is Onely attributed to his Holy Preaching and Holy Living For the Law of Truth was in his Mouth and Iniquity was not found in his Lips he walked with God in Peace and Equity and therefore he did turn many away from Iniquity And if thy Bad Life be the Cause and the Onely Cause here mentioned why thy Parishioners are so Bad Good God what will become of thy poor Soul Is not thine own Badness enough to Damn thee but thou must also Add all the Badness of thy whole Parish to make thy Damnation the more Intolerable Can not thine own Sins sink thee deep enough into Hell but thou must also Add all the Sins of all thy people to sink thee deeper and deeper into the bottomless Pit and the Gulf impassable Oh thou hast Sins enough of thine own to answer for though thou art the best Man upon Earth and therefore be not thou Partaker of other Mens Sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. Fourthly The Holy Ghost has caused the Faults of Gods Ministers to be written in Scripture And the same Holy Ghost assures us that the Faults of us Ministers are the true and the Onely Cause Why God does curse our very Blessings and corrupt our Seed and spread Dung upon our Faces even the Dung of our solemn Feasts and make us Contemptible and Base before all the people Malachi 2. 2 3 9. Where you see that all the Seed both of your Body and Ground all your Estate all your Land all your Money all your Cattle and all your other temporal Blessings are Cursed by God himself because you do not perform the Work of your Ministry without Fear or Favour but are Partial in the Law of the most High ver 9. You either Fear such a Mans Person and Dare not or you Admire such a Mans Person and Will not tell him of his Sins in Hope of getting something from him by your base and cowardly Silence And because you are thus Partial in Gods Law having Mens Persons in Admiration because of Advantage and Preferring one before another therefore God will certainly curse all your Blessings yea and he has cursed them already ver 2. And therefore if the common Observation that is in every ones Mouth be really True I do not say It is True But if it be really True That Clergy-mens Children are more Vnfortunate than other Mens then One Great Cause of it is this Their Fathers do not faithfully discharge their Ministerial Office And therefore God according to his Threatning does corrupt all the Seed both of their Body and Ground and lays a dreadful Curse upon all their Blessings and Estates And those Estates and God's Curse are Entailed together upon their Children as the Leprosy and Estate of Gehazi descended together upon his Posterity 2 Kings 5. 27. And therefore the Meat Drink Cloaths Portions and all other things which the Children of such ungodly Ministers have are cursed with the Curse of God And how then can such Children possibly Thrive and Prosper in the World For if the Blessing of