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A56704 A sermon preached at St. Paul's Covent-garden on the first Sunday in Lent being the second part of the sermon preached before the Prince of Orange / by Symon Patrick ... Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1689 (1689) Wing P851; ESTC R31758 23,908 44

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good work Which kindnesses were more especially shewn to those who were banished their own Countries or despoiled of their Goods and lost their Friends for Religion sake Unto whom the Promise of our Saviour was by this means literally made good Mark 10. 29 30. Verily I say unto you there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother c. for my sake and the gospels but he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life For every Country was their own Country every Man's Lands were at their service for every House they lost upon our Saviour's account they had hundreds of Houses to which they might resort For every Christian's House was their House every one that belonged to Christ was a Brother and a Sister to them and many treated them with such care and tenderness as if they had been their own Child●en And thus the words of Isaiah were exactly fulfilled also that People between whom there had been anciently the greatest strangeness or rather antipathy were now brought to such a familiarity that wheresoever they met they dwelt together in one another's Houses and there received such a hearty welcom as if they had been Domesticks born and bred up in that Family which they had never seen before By which means also the Gospel was marvellously propagated as is observed by Julian himself who takes notice of this entertaining strangers as a most obliging Vertue wherein Christians quite out-did Heathens who practised no such thing and gain'd ground upon them every where III. It must be confessed indeed that after God had thus opened the door of faith to the Gentiles as St. Luke writes 14. 27. there did arise a Controversie which for some time disturbed the peace and quiet of those Churches which were planted among them but it was admirably composed by the Wisdom and Authority of the Apostles Some of the Christians in Judea who were imperfect in the knowledg of the Gospel which must be diligently noted because where Men were fully instructed there was no Contention about such Matters went abroad and preached That though the Gentiles did indeed belong to the Kingdom of Christ and should be made one Body with them yet they must be Circumcised and tied to observe all the Rites and Ceremonies of the Jewish Law. Nay they carried it so high as to say Except ye be circumoised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved Act. 15. 1. They had the same Opinion which the Jews are of at this day That the reconciliation of the world one to another should be brought about by uniting all Nations in the Mosaital Religion Thus Maimonides expounds the words of this Prophet as if by the Lyons eating straw like an Oxe in the Verse following my Text were meant the Gentiles eating only clean Meats and abstaining as the Jews did from all those Creatures prohibited by the Law of Moses as unclean About such matters as these Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them ver 2. that is laboured to convince them as we find by many Arguments he uses in his Epistles that all the World was to be made one not by the observing their Law but by the abolishing it because it was in truth a Wall of Partition and Separation between them and other Nations Of which they could not be persuaded presently popular Errors being very hard to be rooted out and this was one of the chief Which had so deeply rooted it self in the Hearts of that Nation that such as were become Christians still retained it and through a partial ignorance remaining in them stifly maintained that Moses his Law was to stand for ever and that all Mankind must submit unto it or be shut out of the Kingdom of Christ With this unreasonable conceit they infected some of the Gentile Churches though these things following were most evident First That the Law of Moses was given to that one Nation alone and to be the Law of that one Land and Country only and no other and this to keep them from the Idolatrous Customs of the People round about them All this is apparent from the Law it self where you read that Circumcision that great distinguishing Mark was established to be observed by Abraham and his seed in their generations Gen. 16. 7 9. and that other Laws are appointed a Statute throughout their generations Levit. 7. 36. 24. 3. And this only in that particular Land or Country Deut. 4. 5. I have taught you statutes and judgments that ye should do so in THE LAND whither you go to possess it And again ver 14. The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments that ye might do them in THE LAND whither ye go to possess it And for this end alone that they might be a holy people to him that is separated from other Nations and thereby preserved from their wicked Customs The places that mention this are so obvious that I need not recite any of them And it is apparent enough from those now named that all Nations were not concerned in those Laws but only the Jews and they only in the land of Canaan not in other Countries where they could not keep them As the Jews themselves find by experience at this day in the several Countries where they are dispersed in which they cannot observe all the Laws and Customs which they were bound to observe there Secondly And indeed it is impossible that all those Laws should be observed by the whole Gentile World OF by any that live in Countries much distant from Judea For how should they go up three times a year to worship at Jerusalem as all the Males among the Jews were bound who live so far off from thence that it would require a whole Year to make one Voyage thither And how should Women for their purification after Child-birth and Lepers for their cleansing bring their Offering unto the Priest to be presented by him at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation Levit. 12. 14. Such things as these demonstratively shew the Law of Moses was local that is determined to a particular Country Thirdly But if it were possible to observe that Law yet it would be unnecessary because the reason of it is ceased by the coming of Christ Who having abolished that Idolatry which occasioned the Law might very well abolish the Law it self whose end was to keep them from the Manners of those Nations which are now destroyed Fourthly and lastly It was far more reasonable that one Nation should conform to the Common Law of all the World than that all the World should be constrained to conform to the Law of one Nation Especially since their Law was Arbitrary depending wholly on the Will of the Law-giver having no natural goodness in its Precepts But