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B00055 Love and obedience or, Christs precept and promise. Being a sermon preached on Whitsunday last, 28 of May, 1637. in Guild-hall chappell, before the right honorable the Lord Major of this city of London. Freake, William 1637 (1637) STC 11347; ESTC S123109 14,888 23

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Love and Obedience OR Christs Precept and Promise Being a Sermon Preached on Whitsunday last 28. of May 1637. in Guild-hall chappell before the right Honorable the Lord Major of this City of London By William Freake Minister of the Word of God 1 Samuel 15.22 Behold to Obey is better then sacrifice and to hearken is better then the fat of Rams LONDON Printed by Iohn Okes dwelling in little-Saint Bartholmewes 1637. To the Right Honourable Sir Edward Bromfield Knight Lord Major of this honorable City and to the rest of the right Worshipful Court of Aldermen with the right Worshipful William Abell and Iames Garrard Esquires Shriefes of this Honourable Citty for this yeare William Freake Minister of Gods Word wisheth in the Dedication of this his service all reall happinesse conducing to this life and a better Right honorable and right Worshipfull TO shew reasons for my Dedication of this Sermon and my service therein to your Honour and to this City may bee expected by some that have not knowne me and my course but they are well known almost to all that know me to be such and of that Nature that if I should neglect this duty the World might well crie shame upon me I have beene above thirty foure yeares imploied here wholy and within the Verge of this City I haue received the greatest good that I enjoy in my present course from the reverend Ministry of this City I have had my first incouragement in this way from a worshipfull Society of this City What I hope to enjoy during life hath beene the free gift of this honourable Court of Aldermen and of this Citty All which are iust incentives to a respective thankefulnesse from me But I must adde one reason more in respect of you my much honoured Lord your Honours free goodnesse to mee at my first comming to Saint Georges in Southwarke now five yeares since compleate The free continuation of your love in some distresses falne upon me in the interim And lately your Honors undeserved favour in appointing me to this Service All these have enioyned me to this Dedication which I humbly beseech your Honor to accept of as proceeding from him whose daily praiers and constant indeauours in the way of all thankefulnesse and dutifull obseruance are and shall be during life ever yours as obliged Your Honours and the Cities Chaplaine to be commanded William Freake Love and Obedience JOHN 14. vers 15.16 If yee love me keepe my Commandements and I will pray unto the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever OVr Text is Verbum Dei and Verbum diei as a Father sometimes said in the like case as the Word of God so a Word in season even a word for the very day being the first words of that portion of sacred Scripture which the pious care of our Church hath selected to be read unto you as the Gospel for this day In which without any dilatory Preambles wee have onely these 2. generals propounded to our consideration 1. A Precept 2. A Promise The precept seeming to be propounded conditionally as a man would collect from the words at the first sight thereof Si me diligatis If yee love me But being indeed as Ferus hath observed a charge inforced by way of Argument drawne Ex concessis from the generall and frequent confession of all the Apostles in their professed love to Christ as their Lord and Master If ye love me keepe my Commandements As if our blessed Lord had sayd Ye all professe to love me and that ye are desirous to indeare your service by some reall testimonies thereof unto me If then ye love me as yee professe yee can no way better shew it than by keeping my Commandements If ye love me keep my Commandements As touching the second generall it is a promise of the sending downe of the Holy Ghost whose descending gave occasion to this Festivall which now we celebrate this being the day by the Churches accompt whereon the Holy Ghost came downe in the forme of cloven tongues of fire and sate upon the Apostles at Hierusalem as yee have it delivered in the second of the Acts. A Day to bee celebrated with a religious observance in a double respect First as it is the day if we understand things aright whereon the Law was delivered to the Israelites from Mount Sinai the fiftieth day after their departure out of Egypt which gave name to the Feast of Pentecost Levit. 23.15 16. Deut. 16.9 Exod. 13.4 Secondly as it is the day upon which the Gospell proceeded from Mount Sion by the comming downe of the Holy Ghost the third person in Trinity according to the promise of the second person in Trinity our blessed Lord heere in my Text If ye love me c. Et ego rogabo Patrem ille dabit vobis alium paracletum You have the second generall propounded the precept of our blessed Lord and his gracious promise which together with the particulars therein considerable are like to be the subject of my discourse and your attention at this time Wherein that our joynt indeavours may tend to the glory of our good God and our mutuall comforts both here and hereafter may it please our heavenly Father to assist me in speaking and you in hearing and to second our weake and worthlesse undertakings by the sacred influence and holy operation of his gracious Spirit the Comforter in our Text even for his sake who in this Text hath promised to pray for us saying Ego rogabo Patrem c If yee love me keepe my Commandements and I will pray c. and of these two Generals in their order beginning with the first the Precept Si me me diligatis c. Many Observations may be made from this first Generall profitable for instruction for direction comfortable which I will runne over with what brevity I can As first from the scope and maine intention of the words I observe with Ferus Probatio dilectionis est exhibitio operis The best testimony of mans love to Almighty God is collected from the sincerity of mans obedience to Gods revealed Will. God is faithfull saith Moses keeping covenant and mercy with them that love him and keepe his Commandements Deut. 7.9 as intimating that no profession of love to Almighty God is acceptable in his sight where there wanteth a pious respect to his holy Commandements For what is it saith he ô Israel that God requireth of thee but to love the Lord thy God and to serve him with all thine heart and with all thy soule and that thou keepe the Commandements of the Lord and his Ordinances which I command thee this day Deut. 10.12 13. As if he should say God requireth nothing of thee but Love and Obedience Therefore in the 11. Chap. of the same Booke ver 22. hee comprehendeth the whole summe of Religion in these two branches Love and Obedience where having said Keepe