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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36925	Evangelical politie, or, A Gospel conversation a sermon preached at St. Paul's, London, May 20, 1660. : being the Sunday next (but one) before His Majesties happy return to his said citie / by James Duport ...	Duport, James, 1606-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing D2650; ESTC R17238	21,197	39

bad men may have their fits and flashes but what a man is in his common ordinary course and conversation that he is What ever trade or occupation ye are of besides to be sure there is one trade and vocation ye all profess viz. Christianity that is your profession religion that is your trade I pray then make it so and use it so Ye are not at your trade by fits and girds a man is at his trade at the works of his vocation and calling every day and commonly all day long it is his business his constant daily ordinary imployment If then Christianity be your trade and profession ye must be at it continually ye must shew what trade ye are of by your constant course and conversation That that is called conversation here is termed a walking elsewhere {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} very often in the New Testament nothing more frequent and ordinary in Scripture then to express the course of a mans life and conversation by the metaphor of a way or walk so we find {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} utrâque paginâ all along in the Hebrew of the Old Testament whence {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} so often in this sense in the Hellenistical or rather Hebraistical Greek of the New Now walking ye know is an uniform constant continued motion course or progress Tell me not then of this or that good work that you do once in a moon of one or two holy duties you perform now and then in your holy-day clothes Is your general carriage good is your constant ordinary course and conversation right To him that orders his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God Psal. 50. last Would ye be good Christians good Gospellers indeed have a care of your general carriage and conversation look to the constant frame and bent of your spirit be sure to get your bias right set to get a good bias clapt upon you a good principle grafted and planted in you pointing and winding and bending towards heaven let your common ordinary habitual course and conversation be right and good Thus in the general But then again further Secondly and more particularly take it as it is in the Original {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The word would afford much work for a Critick but I come not hither to trouble you with Grammatical notions or verbal niceties onely thus if you please The word in heathen Authours signifies Rempublicam gerere To bear rule or office in a Commonwealth or citie and hence I might take occasion if I might be so bold to press the exhortation and set it home in a more especial manner upon Rulers and Magistrates and men in autority and particularly upon you my Honourable Lord and the rest of the worthy Aldermen and Governours of this famous Citie whose proper work it is in this sense {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And certainly it concerns you especially above all others who are the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} S. Lukes word Act. 17. the rulers of the citie you who are set in a more eminent place and move in a higher and larger sphere then ordinary men whose example hath such a commanding influence upon those who live under your rule and autority I say it concerns you above all so to walk in all holy conversation and godliness that your lives may be every way suitable and agreeable to the rules of the Gospel Ye are as so many beacons set upon an hill to give light to others therefore the more eminent and conspicuous ye are in place and autority the more exemplary ye ought to be in your conversation It concerns you especially to walk up to the rule to stick close to the rules of the Gospel yea to see that others do so too It is your duty not onely to observe the rule but to preserve the rule and in so doing ye will preserve your selves so that it is not onely your duty but your interest too Do ye defend and preserve the Gospel and the Gospel will defend and preserve you for I assure you Sirs the purity of the Gospel is your Palladium your fort-royal the safeguard strength and security of this great City I say again Your main strength and security lies not so much in your men and money your arms and amunition your Tower and Militia as in your sincere profession of the Gospel of Christ your maintenance of the true orthodox reformed religion The Gospel is the glory of a kingdome or city of England and of London in particular if the Gospel go then comes Ichabod where is the glory the glory is departed from you Wherefore Honourable and worthy Sirs ye that do {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in this sense upon whose shoulders the government lies to whose care and trust the good and welfare safetie and prosperitie of this great and populous citie is committed look well to the rule the Gospel of Christ to safeguard secure and preserve that from all invasions attempts and encroachments that are or may be made upon it by untoward and malicious by ignorant or ungodly men men of unruly passions or corrupt principles who would either break and divide the rule by sects and schismes or else pervert and distort it by false doctrines and heresies As ye your selves conform to the rule so as much as in you lies and in your proper sphere look that others do so too imploy and improve your utmost skill and abilitie power and autority interest and influence for the maintenance and defence of the Gospel for the support and encouragement of an able faithfull Ministery and for the encrease and advancement of true piety and religion so shall ye {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} govern and rule aright indeed But now though this be the genuine proper notion of the word in Classical and ancient Greek writers yet this is not the meaning of it here in this place for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} here as elsewhere in Scripture and it is used but once more in all the New Testament Act. 23.1 and the verbal {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} too but once neither Phil. 3.27 is put in a different acception from what it hath in other Authours viz. in a more extensive and large signification and so it reacheth to all in general to high and low rich and poor one with another not onely to men of place and power rule and authority but to those also of inferiour qualitie rank and degree and so it is no more then {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to live walk or converse nor

yet doth it signifie any kinde of life or conversation neither but with some restriction viz. such a kinde of life properly as citizens live in a citie borough or town incorporate {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a citizen and so the word implyes a regular strict and orderly course of life All know and none better then you that citizens they are tied to observe the rules and orders the laws and customes and constitutions of the citie or corporation or body politick whereof they are members Now Christians are free denizons of heaven citizens of the holy citie of the heavenly Jerusalem the Church of Christ not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as he said but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} citizens of heaven and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} fellow-citizens with the Saints Eph. 2.19 therefore they should be governed by the rules and orders the laws and statutes of their heavenly citie the societie of Saints the Church of God and not conform themselves to the guize and fashion and course of the world Christians then are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} citizens and Christianity is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a politie or policy if you will not in a carnal worldly atheistical sense as by too many of late years religion hath been made a matter of state and piety turn'd into policy modern piety and modern policy indeed too much of this we have had already but I mean in a true sober Christian sense so Christianity or a Christian conversation is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} S. Pauls word or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and indeed the best policie it will prove in the conclusion and so to live as Christians is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is to walk orderly and exactly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to live by rule not loosly and at large and at randome but strictly precisely and regularly as citizens in a citie as men in a civil society who are bound up and tied to the rules and laws and orders of their fraternity community or corporation Shall I need apply this to you I know your thoughts have already prevented me Ye are as S. Paul said of himself citizens of no mean citie {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of no ignoble or obscure citie but of one of the famousest and noblest cities in Christendome and I make no doubt but that in this sense ye do {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} live as members of a civil society observing the laws and customs the orders and rules of your citie company and corporation and you do well to do so but I pray remember withall that ye are citizens too of a far nobler and better citie viz. the Church of God the heavenly Jerusalem the citie which is from above Members ye are and freemen at least ye profess your selves to be free of this corporation of this company and to be of the politie or commonwealth of Israel fellow citizens with the Saints Do ye then {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in this sense too are ye Saints indeed do ye behave your selves as citizens of this citie do ye conform to the laws of your heavenly citie do ye frame your lives according to the rules of the Gospel for the Gospel of Christ that is your grand Charter by which you hold all your spiritual priviledges rights and immunities O take heed of forfeiting this charter howsoever of running into a praemunire by transgressing and breaking the laws and orders of your corporation by neglecting your dutie and rebelling against the King of heaven And truly it concerns you worthy citizens above all that I know in this Kingdome to be exemplary unto others in holiness and piety and all manner of godly conversation for all mens eyes are upon you A citie that is set on an hill cannot be hid Matth. 5.14 and such an one is this Metropolis in regard of its eminencie grandeur and power Now the more noble eminent and conspicuous a place ye live in the more should ye out-shine and out-strip others in the holiness of your lives I am not skil'd in Politicks forms of government but by what I have heard and read and observed I verily beleeve there 's not a citie under heaven better model'd that hath a more axcellent frame and temper of government now the more you transcend others in your reiglement politie the more likewise should ye strive to excell in religion and pietie Ye are the head-citie ye know what an influence the head hath upon the rest of the members and we all know by experience what a leading example ye have been and still are to the whole nation both one way and other Una cademque manus Ye derive law down from hence to the whole Kingdome men coming up to you from all parts for law and justice O that ye would derive Gospel too I mean that by your Gospel-like conversation ye would give example and set a pattern to the rest of the nation that the sweet perfume of your Christian graces might cast a fragrant smel over the whole land that your love and charity patience and humility peace and puritie zeal and pietie justice and equity obedience and loyaltie like the precious oyl upon the head of Aaron might run down from this head-city to the skirts of the kingdome round about you And so I hope it does Qui monet ut facias onely give me leave to be your remembrancer or if you will your encourager to proceed in your Christian course {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and still to put you in minde of the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that as ye are citizens so ye would live as citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem according to the rules and laws of the Gospel of Christ which is your grand Charter a conformitie whereunto I have already in brief commended unto you as to the several marks and characters of it which I shall not repeat but onely desire you to reflect upon them and so frame your conversation accordingly And so much for the Verb I come now to the Adverb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the word in the Original properly signifies worthily dignam Evangelio vitam agite as Castelio renders it and so the Vulgar Latine dignè Evangelio worthy of the Gospel and so Col. 1.10 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} walk worthy of the Lord and Eph. 4.1 worthy of the vocation so we render it In these and the like places where the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is used worthy or worthily the Papists run away with it and catch as greedily at it as Benhadad did at the word Brother supposing thereby they have got

a fair plea for their merit ex congruo at least if not ex condigno But as the learned Grotius in this no Papist I am sure observes upon the word Vox ista Graecis non semper {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sed qualemcunque rei convenientiam notat the word worthy or worthiness in Greek Authours does not always imply merit or condignitie by way of equality but onely a fitness or decency by way of congruity and so the Reverend Davenant upon that place to the Colossians Dignitatis vocabulum in Scriptura non semper denotat exactam proportionem aequalitatis rei ad rem c. not an exact proportion of merit by way of equality but onely a suitableness or correspondencie not analogiam seu proportionem meriti ad praemium but onely analogiam seu proportionem regulati ad regulam in a word not a condignity but a conformity And in this sense sticking close to the original the word worthy or worthily may pass well enough we may make a very good use of it Christians should walk worthy of the Gospel There is an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a twofold dignitie worth and excellencie in the Gospel of Christ in regard of the authour and end matter and form which a Christians life conversation should come up and reach unto at least in some degree and proportion There is a specifical worthiness and there is a gradual worthiness a specifical worthiness in the Gospel above the Law and a gradual worthiness in regard of the different administration of Gospel ordinances some men enjoying greater means now under the Gospel then others In respect of the first there is more required now of us Christians under the Gospel then there was of them under the Law in respect of the second there is more required of some Christians then others Look how much any enjoy a greater degree of Gospel-light so much the greater measure of holiness and obedience is expected of them The more powerfull means of grace any place or person or people enjoy the clearer light they have the more glorious Gospel-dispensations they live under the more holy exact and regular should their conversation be and this is indeed to walk worthy of the Gospel when men make suitable improvements under the means of grace when they bring forth fruits worthy of the Gospel worthy of that cost and charges God is at with them in a proportion to those plentifull dews and droppings of a Gospel-ministrie falling upon them And does not then this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} here come home to us of this Kingdome in general and more especially to you of this Citie in particular For what nation or people under heaven have had more powerfull more plentifull and precious means of grace then we have had what Citie in the world hath enjoyed such a bright gleme such a glorious noontide and sun-shine of the Gospel as ye have done now for an hundred years together what a series and succession of burning and shining lights and lamps have ye had among you that have sunk in the socket for your sakes that have spent and consumed themselves in the work of the Lord for the good of your souls Ye have had so many I shall name none I am sure the British clergy particularly the Ministers of the Church of England have been counted and called the wonder and envy of the whole Christian world have not ye had the cream the flower of them and it is fit ye should there is an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in that too it is meet and fit that the chief City should have the best watchmen If then God hath blessed you so much blessed you so long with so able and powerfull a Ministry what say ye then to the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} do ye bring forth fruit worthy of all this do ye make a suitable impovement under so plentifull means of grace is the encrease worthy all this planting and watering do ye walk worthy of the Gospel worthy of that great and glorious Gospel-light that hath for so many years together shined so brightly round about you Your lines are fallen to you in a wealthy and a pleasant place ye are like sheep in a fat pasture do ye show by your wool and your milk how well ye are fed as Epictetus hath it do ye credit your meat the word and Gospel which is the food of your souls do ye make it appear by your life and conversation what good Pastours and Preachers ye have I beseech you remember the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and consider that in a proportion to your receits God expects suitable returns from you And so much of the Adverb as to the Original {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} worthily Take it now secondly as our English translation gives it as becometh I confess it is a word I am much taken with and therefore I have reserved it for the close of all as becometh the Gospel of Christ There is a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a decorum or decencie a comeliness or becomingness in a Christian carriage in complyance with the Gospel of Christ As he said That might become Parmenio which would not become Alexander so that may become another man which will not become a Professour of the Gospel Holiness becometh thy house for ever Psal. 93.5 Let them adorn themselves with good works say's S. Paul as becometh women which profess godliness 1 Tim. 2.10 Avoid all uncleanness as becometh Saints Eph. 5.3 A Christian will have a care of doing any thing that is uncomely or unhandsome There is a comeliness in a Gospel conversation and that not onely as to the inward man but as to the outward man too There is a Cynical kinde of sect of Christians lately sprung up among us who under pretence of a Gospel-austeritie and strictness affect a sordidness and undecency in their attire and under a colour of an Evangelical parity profess unmannerliness and rusticity in their behaviour making it a great part of their religion to forbear all outward signes and expressions of respect and reverence civility and curtesie I confess I cannot skill of these mens religion I wish there be not a spice of pride and singularity in it that there be not something of humourousness and affectation and self-conceit in the bottom to say no worse Calco Platonis fastum ye know who said and how he was answered sed majori fastu Otherwise for those that are misled and drawn away merely out of weakness ignorance may they be dealt with in the spirit of meekness used with all manner of mildness and tenderness in a way to reduce and reclaim them for I cannot but extremely