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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67189	A sermon preached to those, who had been scholars of St. Paul's school in Guild-Hall Chapel, London, at their anniversary-meeting on St. Paul's Day, 1678/9 / by W. Wyatt ...	Wyatt, W. (William), d. 1712.	1679 (1679)	Wing W3735; ESTC R12296	11,353	34

much Lord of his own Charity as to choose the chiefest object of it 'T is true that I must love my Neighbour and every man is so but certainly without offence I may more encline to him by whose Wisdom I am instructed or by whose Bounty supported I may select him for my Companion before another who best suites with my humour provided it be not vicious and the Benefits or innocent Gaynesses of Life are Causes enough for preference in Election I know there are some Men of more Envy than Wit or Wisdom that esteem such Meetings and Feasts of Charity as these we this day celebrate as the effects of Pride and the Parents of Separation in a Community that think Men by thus doing esteem much better of themselves than of others and suppose they make a League against all others whilst they make one of Friendship among themselves and what is only Concord they name Conspiracy But let such men know that whilst they pretend a Breach of Charity in others they make an extreamly wide one themselves and for want of line to sound the true depth of things like all Zealots they grow Malicious whilst they would approve themselves Instructers But we are not at this time more bound to satisfie their ignorance than to love it Certainly there cannot be any more Natural Cause for the uniting Men into the Conjunctions of Love and Charity than a Similitude in Education the sames Rules and Principles produce most commonly the same Manners and in spite of Business and all the other avocations of humane life something will remain of what was formerly imbib'd We see men of the greatest Business Wisdom and Grandeur still recollecting what they acted in their first days and then bringing in some Person whose Familiarity then was perhaps the Greatest Cause of a Friendship now If then Likeness and Congruity may be admitted to be the Causes of Friendship and Love and similitude of Education is the most apt to produce that we have all the reason in the World firmly to link our selves into a Society whose first meeting together sprang from so great a Cause and hath since produc'd so good effects of Friendship I know there are some indeed whos 's neither Wit or Manners could ever prove that they had been in a School who are alwayes traducing not only the Method but the Authors of their education and of such the next subject will be their Parents and the next their God But certainly all sober men must acknowledge that they deserve exceedingly well of the Publick that can make themselves so miserable as to labour in the instruction of Youth the Toil is theirs though the fruit be Ours And yet let the best Man here sink into himself and he will soon confess that if he had followed strictly those Principles he brought with him from School he had been much a better Christian though not perhaps a Richer Man than he is 'T is not the fault of a Seneca but of Nero himself that he proves wicked Let us all labour to live after the practical Principles at least which were instill'd into us within those Walls and make that place henceforward as immortal by our Piety as some have done already by their Learned Parts Let us imitate the action of the great Apostle in this day and if any Man hath been a Persecutor of his Saviour as every Sinner is the greater his Malice hath prov'd the sooner let him return and appear the more faithful Servant to his abused Lord. Let our Charity to one another encrease as the Years grow more numerous upon us and in this innocent Custom continue till Years shall loose themselves into Eternity other Actions perhaps may proclaim us Great but this will declare us Good Let others upon very strange Principles as much as they please think Rebellion Meritorious and Murder Lawful Canonize the Authors of Discord and make Traytors Saints but let us shew our selves Christians by those Nobler ways of Unity Concord Peace and Love and then our Great Master who was himself the Miracle of Charity will lead us into those Serene and Blessed Places where Love reigns in its full perfection and a constant Unity and Concord makes Heaven Let us put up our Prayers then to Almighty God that He would continue in us this Gift of Charity the very Bond of Peace that in helping sustaining and doing Kindnesses one for another here we may lye down in the Arms of the Eternal Love hereafter Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be ascrib'd as is most due all Glory Honour Praise Might Majesty and Dominion now and for ever The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the Love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen FINIS