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A56715	Two sermons : one against murmuring, the other against censuring preached at St. Paul's Covent-Garden / by S. Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.; Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. Sermon against murmuring.; Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. Sermon against censuring.	1689 (1689)	Wing P863; ESTC R5051	36,605	72

Which we shall unavoidably draw upon our selves and if it be possible greater Evils should we be so unhappy as to see our present Settlement overturned Take heed therefore unto your selves not only to your Actions and to your Tongues but to your very Minds and Spirits Do not allow of any risings and boilings there but instantly suppress them Give not way to the very beginnings of any discontented thoughts and angry Motions Stay them before they proceed further and grow unruly Ask them what they would have whither they would go what they design and where they will end For you know not whither they will carry you if you do not put an end to them as soon as they begin They will lead you from one sin to another till they have drawn one mischief upon you after another and where they will conclude at last we cannot certainly tell but we may make a shrewd guess by the Example of those whom the Apostle here sets before us to be a warning to us by which if we judge it will be in utter destruction For all that evil Generation who would not cease their murmuring notwithstanding all the chidings they had for it and the sharp punishments that had been inflicted on them for their Amendment fell at last in the Wilderness short of the promised Land into which God resolved they should not enter because of their perverseness And what was the cause of all this What made them so perverssy murmur but only such things as these They forgat the late Oppressions under which they had groaned and the glorious Deliverance God had wrought for them from that miserable bondage They considered not their present ease and the liberty they had to serve God according to their Hearts desires They had no respect to the Hope which was set before them of being brought to perfect rest in the Land of Promise and there setled in the Happiness which God himself expresses in these magnificent Words If ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine And ye shall be unto me a KINGDOM OF PRIESTS and an holy Nation Exod. XIX 5 6. Herein then lies the Cure of this Disease if we find any spice of it in our selves 1. Let us reflect daily upon the Condition wherein we were a few Months ago and the extraordinary hand of God in delivering us from our fears 2. And then lay to heart the freedom we now enjoy to serve God without fear of those Dangers wherewith we were surrounded 3. Together with the hope we have if we our selves do not hinder to see both our Civil and Religious Rights and Liberties secured to us and to our Posterity so as they have not been since we were a Nation And then we shall be so far from murmuring that we shall think we owe the highest Praises and Thanksgivings to him Which if we be careful to pay and every day upon our bended knees bless his holy Name who hath saved our life from destruction and crowned us with loving kindness and tender mercies we shall never be guilty of murmuring any more which is utterly inconsistent with thankfulness to God for all his Benefits Of which if we be mindful who knows but we may fall by degrees into such an angry mood as that of the Israelites who commended their Egyptian Bondage and miscalled their Slavery there by the Name of Liberty to enjoy a fulness of good Things nay look'd upon their Deliverance from thence as a betraying them to perish in the Wilderness insomuch that at last they wish'd themselves in Egypt again and conferred about going back into their Chains This was such a fearful Provocation that we should dread any approaches to it not admitting so much as a discontented Thought if we can prevent it but if it press in upon us reject it or throw it out as soon as it is entred For if it lie brooding there we know not what it may bring forth If it be no more than Complaints where we have reason rather to give Thanks it is a great deal too much and must be speedily amended For there is no great difference between approving that which is evil and disliking that which is good Nay * Cyril Alex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. in Johan VII 12. to find fault with that which is well done is equally culpable as to commend that which is bad The same thing to free that which is base and unworthy from just reprehension and to quarrel with those things which are so far from deserving our Censure that they ought to be highly praised A SERMON AGAINST CENSURING PREACHED At St. Paul's Covent-Garden on the Third SUNDAY in ADVENT March 17. 1688 / 9. By S. Patrick D. D. LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell M DC LXXXIX 1 Cor. IV. 10. Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come IN these words there is a double Supposition and thereupon a weighty Inference The Suppositions are First That there will be another Advent or coming of our Lord besides that which we now commemorate when he appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh Secondly That the end and intention of his Second coming is to judge us as the foregoing Words tell us He that judgeth me is the Lord therefore let none of you be so bold as to judge before the time until the Lord come whose proper business it is to judge others That 's the Inference he makes from those two known Doctrines Since the Lord will come again on purpose to Judge us all let not us take upon us to prejudge one another but suspend our censures till he come to Judgment The Suppositions are so well understood and I hope so stedfastly believed that I need not go about to prove them They are among the first principles or Elements of the Doctrine of Christ and it is a shame to be continually laying again the foundation as it is called Heb. VI. 2. of the resurrection of the dead and the eternal judgment the belief of which we own by professing the Christian Religion which in opposition to the Jewish Pedagogy is thus described in the same Epistle Heb. XII 22 23. We are not come to mount Sinai such a dispensation that is as that of Moses whose Law was given upon that Mount but we are come to mount Sion to the city of the living God and to God the judge of all As much as to say When weare made Members of the Christian Church figured by Mount Sion and Jerusalem we acknowledge God to be the Judge First of all things not only the outward Actions which the Mosaical Law chiefly regulated but even the Thoughts and Counsels of the Heart And Secondly of all Persons not only Jews but the whole Gentile World of whatsoever rank or condition they be Who shall be called to an account for all things whatsoever open or