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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91907	Three sermons preach'd upon extraordinary occasions. By Charles Robotham, B.D. rector, of Reisam in Norfolk	Robotham, Charles, 1625 or 6-1700.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1729E; ESTC R231140	83,223	245

Duties and Offices of a good Life according as time and opportunity shall give leave and occasion True indeed a bare purpose of Obedience if it be sincere and ●esolute joyn'd with a Faith unfeigned is enough to enter the Believer into a state of Righteous●ess and Justification But sure●y 't is neither sense nor reason for any to think that God will justify him upon such a promise or purpose of Obedience as takes a Bona opera sunt necessaria ad justificationis statum retinendum conservandum non ut causae ●● per se efficiunt aut mereantur hanc conservationem sed ut ●●dia seu conditiones sine quibus Deus non vult gratiam ju●●ificationis in hominibus conservare Davenant de actuali ju●●itia Cap. 31. Pag. 404. Conclusio sexta no effect nor is duly execu●ed in the Life and Conversation where time and space is afford●d For 't is in vain to enter into Covenant unless we keep it 'T is by believing and repenting that we enter into Covenant 'T is by Obedience a These i. e. Faith and Obedience without just offence I may call the Conditions of the Covenant Faith whereby the Covenant is accepted upon the terms on which it is tendered and Christ the Mediator received Obedience whereby 't is kept viz. in an Evangelical way in respect of desire and endeavour This is that which the Psalmist calls Keeping of the Covenant Psal 25. 10. Psal 103. 18. Not a Legal but Evangelical Keeping when the Promises being believed there is a serious desire and endeavour of yielding Obedience to all Gods Commandments Mr. Brinsley of great Yarmouth Treatise of Christs Mediatorship P. 14. that we keep it Let no man therefore flatter or cozen himself with vain words or with false confidences or with a wrong or scanty notion of Faith For if there be any thing clear in Scripture this I am sure is most clear and perspicuous That Life and Salvation belongs only to such as believe and obey b Nos dicimus Vitam Aeternam promitti operibus non solum ut sunt signa Fidei sed etiam ut sunt Obedientia filialis Patri Coelesti debita seu ut sunt positio conditionis sub quâ Deus Filiis haereditatem Vitae Aeternae donare promi●ti● Paraeus contra Bellarm ad Cap. 3. P. 1242. The good Lord of his mercy grant That we may abound more and more in Knowledge and in all Judgment that we may approve the things that are excellent that we may be sincere and without offence till the Day of Christ being filled with the Fruits of Righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the Glory and Praise of God Phil. 1. 9 10 11. FINIS The Christian's Sacrifice OR A SERMON OF CHARITY Preached before the Mayor and Aldermen OF THE City of NORWICH ●pon occasion of the Annual Commemoration of the Gift of Sir John Sucklin to that Corporation By Charles Robotham B. D. and Rector of Reifam in Norfolk LONDON Printed for William Oliver in Norwich M DC LXXX TO HIS Worthy Friend and Patron Mr. Francis Annyson Worthy Sir JUstice should ever be first served before Charity and ●●e paying of Debts be before ●he giving of Alms. And how●ver the Subject of this Dis●urse be meer Alms yet the pre●enting of it to your Hand is ●ut a piece of Justice owing from 〈◊〉 to your self not only from ●he more common score as you ●re a part of that Body unto whose audience it was first deliver●d but upon the private account of ●our especial Favours to my par●icular which I shall always ●knowledge with all due and deserved thankfulness For in truth when your Kindness first found me it was very singular being such as wholly prevented my very acquaintance with you So that I first felt you favour as a Patron before 〈◊〉 had the Knowledge of your Fac● or Person This so unusu●● and surprizing a Method of Benificence hath moved me to take this first occasion in my appearing in publick to declare your Nobleness and to testifi●● unto the World my deep Obligations Accept I beseech you this small Testimony of a great and grateful respect from him who desires ever to show himself Your much Devoted in a●● Thankfulness and Christian Service Charles Robotham From Reifham Nov. 15. 1679. Hebrews xiii 16. do good and to communicate forget not for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased THE coherence of these Words with the Context is plain and obvious if we do but ●●st our Eyes back unto the tenth ●se of this Chapter where the Apostle tells us We have an Al-● We i. e. we Christians as ●ll as the Jews yea and in oppo●ion to them and exclusion of ●●em ' For we have an Altar whereof they have no right to ●●at who serve at the Tabernacle This Altar as the Pontificians themselves confess is no other ●●an Christ himself even He mentioned in the twelfth Verse who suffered without the Gate Per altare ipse Christus significàtur 3. 83. 3. 2 m says Aquinas So Estius upon the place so also Gaignaeus Hostiam in ara crucis oblatam ip sum scilicet Corpus Christi And to speak properly Christ himsel● is the Altar of a Christian the common Altar that sanctifies al●● our Gifts the only Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is Verse 15. by whom w● all offer unto God Yea but may some say here'● the Altar indeed on Gods part but as Isaac once said unto hi● Gen. 22. 17 Father where 's the Sacrific● on our part To this I answer in the words or sence of Aquinas There is a double Sacrifice and both here specified which we are to offer unto God by an● through Christ The first is Devotio erga Deum the juge Sacrificium the daily Sacrifice of Piety and Devotion to wards God The second is miseratio erga ●oximum the occasional Sacrifice of mercy bounty and compassion towards our Neighbour The first of these ye have expresly in the 15th Verse By him let us ●ser the Sacrifice of Praise unto God ●●●tinually even the Fruit of our ●ips giving thanks or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confes●ng in his Name There 's the Sacrifice of Devotion The ●econd ye have as plainly in the ●ords of the Text now read verse the 16th To do good and rections communicate forget not for ●ith such Sacrifices God is well plea●●d There 's the Sacrifice of Cha●●ty and Commiseration I shall not at present at all 〈◊〉 with the first of these especially being already opened from the Press by a better and more Bishop Lany ●everend Hand Yet seeing the Apostle not without reason joyns these two sacrifices together something I shall note partly from their connecting and partly from their order First from the coupling and connecting of these two I shall observe that the Duties of Piety towards God must be followed and seconded with the Deeds of Charity towards Man Works of Compassion