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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90810	A sermon preached before the religious societies in St. Michael's Church Dublin. September the 25th. 1698. / by Thomas Pollard ...	Pollard, Thomas.	1698 (1698)	Wing P2777; ESTC R181919	10,628	20

and Righteousness before him all the days of their life And if it be our Duty to learn of Him and endeavour to be like him we are certainly oblig'd to promote the good of Souls as much as in us lies and to be willing to run some hazzard to be at some cost and pains for the rescue of a poor Soul which was so precious in the eyes of Christ that he thought it worth dying for he came into the world on purpose to do Kindnesses to the Souls of Men even to turn us from the Errors of our ways to the living God The very first act that a Christian does in behalf of himself is solemnly to engage in a war against the Devil and all his Works against all the deceitful and wicked Pomps and Vanities of the World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh and that sacred Vow does oblige us by all lawful ways and means to prevent and destroy all these as well in others as our selves and if we neglect it we make our selves partakers of their sins Even under the Law they were enjoyn'd to Rebuke Sin in their Neighbour and not to suffer sin upon him Some translate it Thou shalt not bear Sin for him by which is sometimes understood the Sin it self and sometimes the Punishment thereof And truly he that neglects this Duty among his Friends and Equals when 't is fit to perform it makes himself liable to both And this neglect in the former part of the verse is called A hating our Brother in our heart for so some apply that part of the Verse and not without reason for what hatred so deadly as that which tends to the utter ruin and destruction of a Soul What was spoken by the Prophet Ezekiel of the Watchman to whom the charge of the People was committed and was by virtue of his Office oblig'd to give the People warning of their Danger is in some measure applicable to every Christian who is so far a Prophet as to be oblig'd to prevent Sin as far as lawfully he may and in any wise to warn and rebuke his Neighbours when an opportunity and fit Circumstances do offer And in this respect why should we grudge any one the honour of rescuing a Soul from Death ought we not all much rather to joyn in Moses's passionate Prayer Would to God that all the Lords People were Prophets and that he would put his holy Spirit upon them The punishment that God threatned the Prophet with in case of neglect is very dreadful His blood will I require at thine hand Now thô this be more particularly the duty of a Minister who is intrusted with the cure of Souls and design'd here by the name of a Prophet yet private Christians are not altogether free from the Obligation but even a meer Laick may draw the blood of his Brother upon his own head and by a silent approbation of his Sin make himself liable both to the guilt and punishment and every Man is so far ingag'd against the common Enemy as to take his Brothers part and rescue him out of his hands as well as he is bound to defend himself Our Blessed Saviour enjoyns this private Admonition in these words If thy brother trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother And thô these words speak only of a trespass committed against our selves yet if we love God as we ought we should sure be as much concerned for him as we are for our selves And 't is a sign that we have little zeal for the Glory of his Name when we can patiently hear it blasphem'd and see his honour trampled upon by wicked and prophane wretches and sit contentedly by and neither say nor do any thing to retrieve and vindicate it sure we could not think him our Friend that could silently and contentedly stand by and see any of our selves thus rudely treated and abused 'T is the same private reproof that St. Paul means by his first and second Admonition Titus 3.10 And the end of all this is in the expression of my Text. Not to suffer Sin upon our Brother or as St. James expresses it The converting of a Sinner from the error of his ways And were our love to our Brother of the same kind with Christ's love to us we should not need many arguments to convince us of our obligation to this Duty that Love alone would soon put us upon the discharge of it 'T is a very powerful Passion where it is sincere it will not stick at Niceties or be discouraged with every seeming Difficulty And we know 't is our duty to love one another as he loved us And if his love was so great to the Souls of Men as to think the Redemption of them worth the infinite value of his own Blood sure to render our love in any degree like his we are certainly oblig'd to lay out our most vigorous endeavours towards the conversion of one another and be as solicitous for the prevention or removal of Sin as of the Plague for indeed the former is as catching and more fatally mortal than the latter Who could stand patiently by and see his Friend about to take deadly Poyson or throw himself off a dangerous Precipise and not use his utmost endeavours to prevent such a mischief And is it not much more barbarous and inhumane to stand uconcernedly by and see my Brother Sin a Sin unto Death and so ruin Himself Soul and Body to all Eternity And yet never make one step towards his rescue and deliverance Sure did we know the worth of a Soul or had any Bowels and Compassion for our Brother we should with the same earnestness endeavour his preservation that the Angel did Lots even by calling upon him and leading him by the hand and forcing him out of Sodom warning him of his danger and with the same zealous concern bidding him escape Neither stay thou in all the plain least thou be consumed And indeed he that can't find in his Heart to do something towards the conversion of a Sinner nay to run some hazard and be thus importunate when he sees his Brother ready to tumble in Hell has sure very little of this heavenly Angelical Temper in him very little value for a Soul which Christ thought so precious and less of Christian Love and Resolution in him he falls far below the Character of the more generous Heathens who look'd upon the preventing of Sin and Error in their Friend as the most sacred Office of their Love and Friendship and upon this account look'd upon their Friend as their Guardian Angel or rather as their own Conscience whose business it was not only to direct them in their Duty and forewarn them of their danger but also to check and reprove them when they did amits and wandred out of the ways of Truth and right Reason And sure Christianity does not supersede