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A53909	The study of quietness explained, recommended, and directed in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, at the Guild-Hall chappel, March 16, 1683/4, and now published, as the heads were, elsewhere, more enlarged upon, in several discourses.	Pearson, Richard, d. 1734.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1017; ESTC R6934	38,545	70

Tulce Major Martis XVIII Die Martii 1683 4. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angliae c. XXXVI THIS Court doth desire Mr. Pearson to Print his Sermon Preached at the Guild-Hall Chappel on Sunday last before the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe THE STUDY OF QUIETNESS Explained Recommended and Directed IN A SERMON Preached before The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR and Court of Aldermen At the GVILD-HALL CHAPPEL March 16. 1683 4. And now Published as the Heads were elsewhere more Enlarged upon in several Discourses By RICHARD PEARSON Rector of St. Michael's Crooked-Lane LONDON London Printed by P. H. for Henry Bonwicke at the Red-Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1684. To the Right Honourable Sir HENRY TUICE Lord Mayor of the City of London My Lord IN Obedience to your Lordship's Order I have now made this plain Discourse publick That which I beforehand most assuredly expected has since accordingly befallen me upon my Preaching of this Sermon which hath brought me under the gentle Discipline of the long-ago-erected Phanatick-Office that is if there can be any need to explain my meaning I have been bitterly Cursed and Railed at and both my Self and my Discourse vilely aspersed with an hundred Lies and Slanders and most ridiculous and malicious Misrepresentations And indeed since I must needs be venturing to tell these Men their own though out of never so charitable a Design how could I expect to escape that which has been the never-failing Portion of all others who have yet done the like or think to come off without having a Cast of their Office Nor have I now therefore the least reason to take it ill that I should be thus treated by them according to the constant Methods of their proper Trade and Mystery For to Rail and Slander is the only way which this sort of Men yet ever knew of requiting those Persons who speak to them Home-truths and give them sober Counsels This is their only significant and most substantial way of Commendation in these Cases And under this Notion I can assure them I have now learn'd to take all their present Treatment which I do therefore not only readily forgive but over and above return them hearty thanks for the same professing withal that I will still carefully endeavour according to their Rules of judging never to deserve less from their hands If their Design herein has been quite contrary and they far enough from having any Intention to gratifie me I cannot tell how to help their being defeated they must e'en bestow their Lies elsewhere for the future For for my part in these Cases I shall ever look upon such course Complements as the greatest Credit and Courtesies that these Men are capable of doing me till I see they come once to have a more real Kindness for their own Souls In the mean time in point of Gratitude for what I have already received I think my self obliged to acquaint them with this secret viz. That if they have indeed a mind most effectually to shame vex and disoblige me their only way will be to speak well of me As to the Discourse itself I shall only say thus much that though there are now several things added and more enlarged upon yet there is nothing at all omitted of what was delivered before your Lordship And I must now leave it to all impartial Readers to judge whether in the whole there be any thing of my own either so prophane or ridiculous as that any one who is not himself troubled with over moist a Brain shall need as some very gravely pretend they did at the hearing of it to sweat for me My Lord I have no more to add but that no man shall more heartily Pray for your Lordships Happiness and Prosperity for the successfull Government Peace and true Welfare of this City than Your Lordships most Humble and Obedient Servant R. Pearson 1 THES 4. 11. And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own Business c. THough Peace and Quietness be a thing in it self so highly desirable and essentially conducive to the present temporal as well as the future eternal Happiness of men and though Strife and Discord be constantly attended with such Misery and Confusion that any tolerably wise man cannot but stand amazed at the prodigious Folly and Madness of those who make it so their only Business to disquiet the World and themselves yet which is worst of all no Persons are ever more hardly perswaded to consider what they do to be made sensible of their folly or willing to admit of any proper Remedy for their Disease than such turbulent factious Spirits Who whilst in the heat of their Passion and Disorder are commonly so far from hearing any Arguments of Reason or Religion which would tend to pacifie and bring them to a better Mind that the very Proposal of any such Arguments does usually but so much the more exasperate and enrage them and make them become extreamly furious also against him who does but offer to make any such charitable Applications to them Thus popular Tumult and Faction is apt at first like a violent Torrent to carry all before it And such men whilst in their full Carreer are as deaf to all moral Arguments as the very Bruits till at last when either they have wearied out themselves or come to be overpowred by Authority and forcibly restrained from proceeding or are made a little to smart for and feel the bad Effects of their own Disorders then perhaps they may become more docible and ready to hear such sound reason as may prevail upon them for the future to betake themselves to more regular Courses and a peaceable Behaviour And now as this Observation hath generally proved true as to the men of most other Ages and Places of the World and as the first part of it has been already too sadly and notoriously fulfilled by very many men of our own Time and Nation so 't is to be hoped that now the second part of it will also be no less verified in the future Temper and Behaviour of the same Persons 'T is but a very little while ago if it be indeed yet over since very considerable numbers amongst us were by the wicked Artifices of some of the worst of men boil'd up into such a height of Tumult and Sedition so wholly bent upon Faction Disorder and Confusion that no sober Counsels or Perswasions of those who sincerely endeavoured to maintain Peace could find any tolerable Reception Men were grown far wiser than all their regular Teachers and only admired and betook themselves to such false Guides as would first suffer themselves to be guided and instructed by their fond Disciples how and what to teach them such only as would be sure still to infuse into them more and more unresonable Fears and Jealousies make them more froward discontented and seditious and fire them on into an open Combustion

use to be so much for Repetitions You will not suspect I hope that I have made this for them for fear you should thereby allow any of us able to Preach so exceeding well as this comes to for it has their own infallible Stamp and Shibboleth upon it and besides I have their own Authentick Printed Copys by me and much more of the like Nature at forth-coming for any that shall herein desire satisfaction And I beg their pardon only that I have been forced a little to disgrace the Matter for want of the right Twang and elegant whining Tone the peculiar set-off by which usually such Discourses are chiefly recommended to that sober Party But however as for all those who would indeed deserve this Name and to such chiefly I shall now direct the small Remainder of what I have to say they may I think had they no other Evidence sufficiently discover from what they have now heard what kind of Trade it is that they drive at Conventicles and how impossible it is for those that have their Hearts set so upon going to those Places not to be utterly intoxicated and destroyed by such deadly Poyson They therefore who have any due Care either of their Souls or Bodies may see if they will what they are to shun as they would avoid a Pest-house or coming into the most dangerous Places of Infection And you may easily enough judge by this time with whom you have most reason to be displeased whether with those who sincerely Preach to you the ever blessed and most peaceable Gospel of our Saviour or with them who have coin'd and would intrude upon you another of their own in direct opposition to it whether with them who make it their Business to exhaust your Pockets and corrupt your Minds or with those who endeavour to rectifie your Understandings and to cure your Lusts desiring no other temporal Reward for the same but that standing Maintenance which the Law allows them whether with them who contrive all they can to instigate you to those horrid crying Sins of Murder Rapine and Rebellion and would involve you and your Countrey in endless Misery and Confusion or with them who do their best to hinder you from the Guilt of these heinous Crimes and to secure you from all these dreadful Mischiefs In a Word Remember to what sad and shameful Ends the accursed Doctrines of these men have already lately brought so many of their professed Admirers and consider with your selves which of the two are really your best Friends they who sincerely endeavour to secure your Necks here and your Souls hereafter or they who direct you the ready way to destroy both Chuse your Friends and then follow them And if you do indeed believe this to be any part of the New Testament and Word of Life be then entreated as you tender your everlasting Welfare let others do what they please to betake your selves to the Study of being Quiet and to do your own Business To which that we may all at length most seriously apply our selves the God of all Peace and Love of his infinite Mercy Grant through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom c. FINIS Books Printed for and sold by Henry Bonwick at the Red-Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard A Late Voyage to Constantinople Containing an exact Description of the Propontis and Hellespont with the Dardanels and what is else Remarkable in those Seas as also of the City of Constantinople wherein is particularly described the Grand Seraglio and Chief Mosquees Likewise an account of the ancient and present State of the Greek Church with the Religion and manner of Worship of the Turks their Ecclesiastical Government their Courts of Justice and civil Employments Illustrated with Curious and Exact Draughts of the Hellespont Propontis Constantinople the Seraglio Sancta Sophia and other Chief Mosquees with the several postures of the Turks during Prayer-time in fourteen Copper-plates the exactness whereof is attested by several Famous Travellers published by Command of the French King by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot made English by J. Phillips Certain Miscellany Tracts Written by Thomas Brown Knight and Doctor of Physick late of Norwich The History of the late War with the Turks during the Siege of Vienna and the great Victory obtained against them at the raising the Siege together with the under-hand dealings of France in that Affair being the best and fullest Relation that has been yet Published Printed at Cologn and reprinted at London The Constant Communicant a Diatribe proving that Constancy in receiving the Lords Supper is the indispensable duty of every Christian the second Edition to which is added a Sermon Preached at the Anniversary meeting of the Sons of Clergy-Men at St. Mary le Bow on the seventh of December 1682. By Ar. Bury D. D. Rector of Exon Coll. Oxon. A Discourse of the Repugnancy of Sin to the Principles of Universal Reason being a Diswasive from a Sinful Life from Principles of common Wisdom currant amongst all Man-kind save in the Concerns of their Souls A Discorse proving from Scripture and Reason that the Life of Man is not limited by any absolute Decree of God by the Author of the Duty of Man c. The Importance of Religion to young Persons represented in a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Sir Thomas Viner Baronet in St. Hellens Church London May the 3 1683. A Private Peace-offering for the Discovery and Disappointment of the late horrid Conspiracy against the King c. In a Sermon Preached July the 8 1683. A Sermon Preached before the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen at the Church of St. Mary le Bow September the 9 1683. All 3 by H. Hesketh Minister of St. Hellens London and Chaplain to his Majesty Providence bringing Good out of Evil in a Sermon Preached the 9 of September 1683. By Richard Pearson Rector of St. Michaels Crooked-Lane FINIS