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A44414 A sermon preach'd before my lord major at Guild-Hall Chappel on the 30th of Octob., 1681 by George Hooper ... Hooper, George, 1640-1727. 1682 (1682) Wing H2705; ESTC R4457 20,330 39

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Moore Major Cura Specialitent Die Dominico XXX Octob. 1681. Anno. R. R. Caroli Secundi Ang. c XXXIII This Court doth desire Dr. Hooper to print his Sermon preached this morning at the Guild-Hall Chappel before the Lord Major and Aldermen of this City Wagstaff A SERMON Preach'd before my Lord Major AT GUILD-HALL CHAPPEL ON The 30th of Octob. 1681. By GEORGE HOOPER D. D. LONDON Printed for Mark Pardoe at the Sign of the Black Raven over against Bedford House in the Strand 1682. To the Right HONOURABLE Sir JOHN MOORE Knight Lord Major OF THE City of London My Lord THis Discourse as it doth justifie its becoming now more Publick by so good an Authority as that which it hath Prefixed so is too to confess that it owes that Honour to the Subject of which it treats Those Graces of the Blessed spirit were likely to procure favour from your Lordship to One that did but mention their Names and might be understood well enough tho in an Imperfect Description by Such as were no Strangers to them That the Holy Ghost may proceed to exhibit them to your Lordship and your Brethren in their own Life and full Power that by the Influence of your Government Love and Joy and Peace may be once again Restor'd amongst us that by such Fruit your City may flourish Now and your selves be everlastingly happy hereafter is the Prayer of My Lord Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant George Hooper 5 GALAT. 22 23. But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Longsuffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance I Will not leave you comfortless 14 S. Joh. 18. said our Blessed Saviour upon his Departure to the disconsolate Disciples I will come unto you And this promise he afterwards graciously verified in the Mission of the Holy Ghost when the Divine Nature came yet nearer to them then it had before done in the Incarnation did not take flesh apart and constitute a distinct man but United it self in particular to each Believer came in unto them and dwelt within them not now to work its wonders in its own Person or only to declare Laws but to endue others with that Power of Miracles and to enable us all for the mighty works of Obedience to perform those his commands That is the Manifestation of the Spirit spoke in the same Chapter and given to every one to profit withal But because too there are Differences of Spirits and those as great as between the Holy and the Wicked the Blessed and the Accurs'd because it is necessary to know which to ask of God and cherish in our selves which we should command to avoid and get behind us And the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 This manifestation is not yet clear till we are taught to discern the Spirit and till the Holy Ghost in farther favour to us shall have inform'd us of the Manner and Signs of it's blessed Presence How it operates and where it is to be presum'd And if the Operation of our Souls the Apprehension of the Understanding and Inclination of the Will afford such Advantagious and delightful Speculation to Rational minds Our thoughts being no other way better entertain'd nor further improv'd then by such Reflections The motions of the holy Spirit within us the Actings of that new Divine Soul as they are infinitely more exalted and more Concerning so are they a far Nobler and much more necessary Subject for our most attentive Consideration Our Saviour entred upon this Subject in Answer to Nicodemus 5. Joh. 3.8 The wind saith he bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof c. Not to direct us to know the Holy Spirit by the sound for we may hear of it loudly where it is not Nor that we should expect it always in Storms and Tempests but to inform us that it 's Sustance is Invisible and that it is discernable only by the Effects And after those Effects we are now to inquire That therefore we may know how to stir up the gift of God that is in us and may duely thank him for those Graces of his we find in our selves or in our Brethren that we may not be deluded by our own Imaginations or others Pretences let me engage you a little while into so noble so useful a Contemplation while the Spirit in St. Paul tells you what Fruit of it ye are to expect in your selves and others The Fruit of the Spirit saith the Apostle is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance And in these words you may consider 1. The Natures of these Graces and their orderly Production 2. Their Beauty and Advantage and 3. Our obligation to Produce them I. The Love here first mentioned is the same with that you find throughout the whole New Testament sometimes under it's own Name sometimes under that of Charity and is nothing else but the Love with which the Christian is affected to God first and then for God's sake to his Brethren This Fruit contains the Seeds of those that follow the Holy Spirit producing the rest from it in a most Natural manner And this how it is raised it self we are first to Consider And in order to this it will be necessary to Premise that one of those Graces which results from Love and is here rendred Faith ought not to be taken for that Faith by which we become Christians but for Faithfulness or Fidelity as will appear hereafter The initiating Faith whereby we assent to the Gospel being here presuppos'd and leading us to Love as Love will afterwards incline us to Fidelity For the Apostle begins here 1 Cor. 13.13 where he ended in his Epistle to the Corinthians There after he had discover'd the Temporary Instrumental use of those Miraculous gifts which Shin'd out in some Christians for the Benefit of others he directs them earnestly to covet the Better those which were to abide and were necessary to their own Salvation And now says he abideth Faith Hope Charity these three And as these three have the preserence before those other afore mentioned For they tended only to excite Faith the first of these so amidst these too the Preeminence is given to the Last But the greatest of these is Charity Faith and Hope themselves being but of a Transitory Nature in respect of Love they serving only to create that and not Continuing in the next World And this Love he there largely Commends by the Effects of which he here gives us a more Particular enumeration For this Reason the Apostle mentions here neither Faith nor Hope the Preparatory Graces But begins with Love their Perfect work and this agreeably to the ordinary Method of the blessed Spirit whose Gifts he now describes For so in the Acts of the Apostles after the New Convert had given Assent to the Doctrine of Christianity and in Hope of it's Promises had been Baptiz'd then it was that