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A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen at White-Hall, on the 28th of December, 1690 by George Royse ... ; printed by the King's special command.
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Royse, George, 1654 or 5-1708.
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their Lusts they have no longer any commands over themselves nor power to think or act freely And the Scripture does every where reckon them as slaves by stiling them the servants of sin sold under sin Rom. 6.16 17. Hom. 7.14 v. 23. in captivity under the law of sin And this of all others is the greatest oppression of our Liberty that can be imagin'd for our Lusts and Passions were born slaves to our Reason and Understanding and therefore to be subjected to the dominion of these is to be a slave to those that were born slaves to us and he that fancies this to be a true manly Liberty let him have his ear bored through and be a slave for ever And if subjection to Lust and Passion be the true state of Slavery then consequently the Laws of Religion that teach us to manage and govern these are the best Fence and Security of our Freedom Hence the Religion of the Gospel is stiled the perfect Law of Liberty hence God's Service is call'd perfect Freedom and good men only are honour'd with the Character of sons and free men In short this is the only true manly Liberty that I know of in the World I mean that whereby the mind is set free from the dominion of our Passions disengaged from the power of Lust and restored to an empire over it self which the Sword can't invade nor the Tyrant reach This is the Liberty and Frecdom of God Angels and good men made perfect which does not consist in an exemption from Laws but in living up unchangeably and unalterably to them And thus much for the third and last Proposition That his Commands are not grievous in this sense by destroying our true Liberty and Freedom I come now by way of Conclusion to draw some Practical Inferences from the several Heads And from the first we may conclude That if the Commands of our Religion be so highly agreeable to our Frame and Constitution therefore 't is but highly just and reasonable to live up to the Laws of our own frame There is no Creature in the World but what is govern'd by the Laws of its own Nature the Beasts by a principle of sense and all other Bodies by the unchangeable Laws of Matter and Motion And what a shame and reproach is this to Humane Nature that we alone who understand the Laws of our Frame should be the only persons that trangress them From the second we may conclude That if the Principles of Religion be nothing else but the common Principles of our own Reason therefore as we would maintain the Reputation of our Understandings so we should act up to the true Dictates of them and since the Commands of Religion are so highly Reasonable and Excellent in themselves consequently our Minds should be affected as well with the Goodness and Excellency of those Laws as aw'd by that Authority which establish'd them From the third and last we may conclude That if the Laws of the Gospel do rather advance than impair our Liberty therefore we should no longer reflect upon the Goodness and Justice of God Almighty as if he had imposed so many Fetters and Shackles upon our Natures but rather Adore Worship and give Praise unto him for affording us that perfect Law of Liberty which alone can set us free And since a true manly rational Liberty does consist only in a freedom from the Power and Dominion of our Vices let 's all henceforth shake off those Clogs and Ties of Lust and Passion which have hitherto not only beset but enslaved us And then as we shall find our selves free from the slavery of these so we shall have no reason to complain That his Commandments are grievous FINIS BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Pope's-Head-Ally next Cornhil FOLIO THE History of Scotland written in Latine by Geo. Buchanan Faithfully rendred into English The History of the Life Reign and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland with the Rise and Fall of his great Favourites Gaveston and the Spencers Written by E.F. in the Year 1627. and Printed verbatim from the Original The History of the Affairs of Europe in this present Age but more particularly of the Republick of Venice Written in Italian by Battista Nani Cavalier and Procurator of St. Mark Englished by Sir Robert Honywood Knight QVARTO A Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chappel upon Good Friday March 29. 1689. By George Royse D.D. Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties A Sermon Preached before the Deputy-Governour and the Company of Merchants trading to the Levant Seas at St. Bartholomew Exchange May 1. 1689. By Edward Smith A.M. Fellow of Trinity Colledge near Dublin and Preacher to the Factory at Smyrna The True Interests of the Princes of Europe in the present State of Affairs The A-la-Mode Secretary or Practical Penman A New Copy-Book Youth's Introduction to Trade Both by John Ayres Master of the Writing School near St. Pauls OCTAVO Observations upon the Vnited Provinces of the Netherlands By Sir William Temple of Shene in the County of Surry Baronet Embassadour at the Hague and at Aix-la-Chapelle in the Year 1668. Britannia Languens Or a Discourse of Trade Shewing That the Present Management of Trade in England is the true Reason of the Decay of our Manufactures and the late great fall of Land-Rents and the Increase of Trade in the Method it now stands must proportionably decay England Humbly offer'd to the Consideration of the Parliament Cardan his three Books of Consolation Englished Of great use in these Times The Art of Painting in Oyl Wherein is included each particular Circumstance relating to that Art and Mystery containing the best and most approved Rules for Preparing Mixing and Working of Oyl Colours Christianity in short Or the Way to be a Good Christian Recommended to the use of such as want either time or capacity for reading longer or learneder Discourses By C. Ellis Author of the Gentile Sinner ☞ The Young Clerk Compleated being a Royal Sueet of Paper full of variety of the Clerks Hands with breaks off the Court Letters and 166 Words abbreviated in Court Hand and fairly Written at length in Secretary By John Ayres at the Hand and Pen in St. Paul's Church-yard Price 2 s. 6 s. So contriv'd as to be cut in parts and Roll'd up in a small Pen-case Sold with the rest of the Author's Works by S. Crouch at the corner of Popes-head Ally in Cornhil