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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92845	A sermon, preached at St. Marie's in the University of Cambridge May 1st, 1653. Or, An essay to the discovery of the spirit of enthusiasme and pretended inspiration, that disturbs and strikes at the universities: by Joseph Sedgwick, Mr. of Arts, and Fellow of Christs Coll: in the University of Cambridge. Together with an appendix, wherein Mr. Del's Stumblingstone is briefly repli'd unto: and a fuller discourse of the use of universities and learning upon an ecclesiasticall account, submitted by the same authour to the judgement of every impartial and rational Christian.	Sedgwick, Joseph, 1628-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing S2362; Thomason E699_2; Thomason E699_3; ESTC R510	26,942	31

their education which may by the assistance and supervenient grace of the Spirit be a foundation of reall closing with Christ and real Gospel-holiness In the meanetime God hath purified their hearts by this Faith which is in them though unconsidered unimproved and unactive in that sense as I think is agreeable with the context of Acts 15. 9. i. e. so that though they were impure as to legal purification uncleane and profane as to communion with the worshippers of the true God God hath now made them cleane as to Church-communion and being admitted into Brotherhood by the believing Jewes by bringing them to a belief that Jesus is the Christ 2. Further to warrant the communion of the Church of England observe that those that are united in the Faith of Christ ought to be united in Church-communion i. e. ought to assemble together for the publick Profession of their Faith in Christ and joint serving of God seeking him for each other and the cause of Christ in enlarging and protecting his Church and for mutual edification It is grounded upon that promise of our Saviour He that confesses me before men him will I confesse 'T is true there are other wayes of confessing Christ but the promise is to confession in the latitude and it is dangerous in any particular to be guilty of denying Christ Assembling together to the imploring of Divine grace and a thankfull remembrance of the Lord till he come is the duty of the members of Christian Churches the ends still remaining and being as necessary as in the Apostles times viz. to hold out the profession and faith of Christ to the World and to strengthen encourage and build up each other in our most precious faith and Christian love which is mightily confirmed by our union in the service of God and which is the ground of God's especial regard to united prayers which argue the unanimity and concord of his people The arguments against our assemblies that of mixt-congregations being answered in the precedent assertion are these two I. The perfection to which some men have attained so as to be past those beggarly rudiments externall and fleshly worships c. and now to live in immediate communion and a constant Sabbath If this glory and raisedness be reall in them more then fancy words I shall only say First humility and self-disesteeme is one maine piece of a Christian's perfection Secondly submission to Divine institution certainly would be no derogation from happiness yea that is the question And for proof of it we appeale to Apostolical practice those first times wherein this spirit was wholly unknown We desire not a warrant from Scripture to beare us out in our inconformity to this primitive practice though we might more reasonably then they require of us to shew by Scripture that the effusion of the Spirit in extraordinary gifts ceased with the first age of the Church The matter is quite other in man's duty and God's free dispensation Especially if we remember that a publick profession of our dependance upon God and communion in seeking and acknowledging of God are the dictates of natural light and indispensable Thirdly enquiry may be made whether they are incapable of growth and beyond all increase of grace if not whether the Scripture-way of edification be not most imitable Fourthly such glorious Saints in reality might assemble to the greater benefit of inferiour Christians and sure no perfection priviledges from serving God in building up the Church Fifthly to acknowledge God and Christ before men to blesse him for his mercies to glorify him in the Congregations of his Saints nay to celebrate the memoriall of his death in the Supper of our Lord are Duties agreeable with the most Saintlike eminency while conversant in the World The most glorious Saint or Angel if in a body and mixt with humane society would I believe thus be employed and count it no disparagement no superfluous or empty service Methinks the souls under the Altar and the Hallelujahs resounding from Heaven to the Apocalyptical Divine are good presumptions that there is some such thing in Heaven or that such service is not altogether indecorously attributed to the highest manifestation of God But I wish there be nothing of self-conceit impatience under God's wisely-and-justly-suspended communication of himself or formality converted to another extreme at the bottome of this high-towring confidence I desire in my self to be shrewdly suspicious of that Heaven which lessens my willingness to meet God and his Angels it is as probable an exposition of 1 Cor. 11. as any I have heard coassembled with believers upon earth An heart enlarged to communion with Saints to edification of our brethren to a constant praising of God and to an embracing of any opportunity of acknowledging thankfully before men and Angels the love of God in our Redemption an heart I say thus raised to be Praecentor in the Quire of the Saints blessing God the Father and our Lord Jesus is an heaven in almost every thing but in the spiritualness and Immortality of the Body II. The imperfection of our assemblies in comparison of the primitive times is to some an argument against our Worship of God Indeed it is a good argument to quicken our dulness to an imitation of their affectionate fervency Yet I appeal to the experience of devout souls whether God be wholly absent from our assemblies and the quickning presence of the Spirit absolutely withdrawn We retaine not empty and dead Ordinances and to call them but dead and ineffectuall shadowes is an expression injurious to the manifestations of God in many a faithful heart who can sensibly and with rejoycing beare witness to the appearance of God in our publick Service What wants of miraculous presence we may referre to the Divine Wisdome manifesting it self suteably to each Age of Christianity What wants of effectualness let us blame our negligence and approach more spiritually to service But what consequence is it We are already by much short of the primitive ardour and therefore must still more recede from their so glorious example While we believe the Gospel grace worth our thanks while we need his assistance and protection we must not deny God the service that is due unto him even by right of Creation but do it to our best ability Expect what glorious times you see ground for in Scripture I shall not quarrel though the largeness of your hopes may exceed any promise I can see in Divine Writ yet remember to presse toward it in eminency of piety and due attendance upon the Worship of God which I am sure can be no greater prejudice to the drawing nigh of any glory in the Church then Simeon's waiting in the temple was to his seeing of Christ 3. There must be set over the Church men that may watch to the Flock Pastors Teachers men able to instruct direct and order the Church of Christ and more especially in their religious