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death_n	bread_n	eat_v	show_v	5,537	5	5.6290	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76517	Remarks, and animadversions, on Mr. Keith's two sermons, being his first after ordiantion, [sic] preached at the parish church of St. George's Butolphs-Lane, London, May the 12th. 1700. on St. Luke i. 6 Now impartially compared with his former writings, setting George against Keith, and endeavouring to reconcile them, by shewing what he should have said upon the subjest. By W.B. a communicant of the Church of England.	W. B.	1700 (1700)	Wing B224; ESTC R230841	17,705	18

any are so much our Enemies that they will never be our Friends God may and can turn their Hearts 3dly 〈◊〉 must never do any Evil which will make it impossible for our Enemies to be happy they are vital parts which must in no wise be cut off unless the case is very desperate True they are Men liable to Errors but yet as I was capable of Information they are God's Image and our Flesh and Bone let us not be angry with them if they have hitherto loitered and comes to be hired at the Ninth Hour Let us imitate our Lord and Master and as he has loved us so love one another and reward them as well for one Hour as if they had laboured all the Day Yet what if our Enemies be Infidels evil and foolish or no Christians having put off common Civility and Humanity verily the greater than is their Misery but since they are not Devils being as I was capable of a recovery the more compassionable are their case therefore to be pittied for its unnatural Cruelty monstrous Inhumanity and hellish Malice to hate and prosecute any in Misery What if they be our Enemies they are Friends to many others as good if not better than our selves and can't we be satisfied with and love that which is our particular Interest if others receive Advantage by it For if the Rain that overflows me makes my Neighbours Field fruitful I ought not to and must not dislike it or if the Sun warms thousands by its heat and scorches me or the Season by which I suffer favours many others I am not to be displeased we are all God's People and Sheep of his Pasture therefore we have the greatest engagement laid upon us to mutual Kindness and Good-will nay that Christian Virtue is more innocent and doth less harm to both our selves and others and as we find by sweet experience ordinarily prevails upon others to lay aside all malicious thoughts for we are naturally prone to imitate as with the Froward to learn Frowardness and with the Loving Love and further there 's no reason imaginable to hate one that loves us because we only hate that which is evil to us but if any Person love us we can't think he doth us evil since he designs and will do us good so that if we hate such we hate our own good To conclude this Command our returning Love for Hatred quencheth the violence of it for the common Observation is if the Sun shine upon the Fire it will put it out so Love takes away the Heat and Fewel from those unnatural and consuming Fires destroying both the Parent and Nurse of Enmity viz. Hatred and Evil which would have propagated and preserved it yea this is the firm Foundation of a lasting Peace even that which passes our Understanding obtaining an answer to all our Petitions by forgiving as we would be forgiven and as St. 1 John 3.22 saith Then whatsoever we ask we shall receive of him because we keep his Commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight And these are his Commandments to believe on Jesus Christ and love one another even our Enemies as he gave us Commandment so as to be Blameless The Second Commandment which our Saviour gave his Apostles is mentioned by St. Mat. 28.18 19 20. All Power is given unto me in Heaven and Earth Go ye therefore and teach that is to make Disciples all Nations Baptizing them c. teaching them to observe all Things whatsoever I have commanded you c. In which Words our Saviour first Asserts and Declares his own Commission shewing his Apostles that what he did was not the result of his own private Judgment but the Exercise of Authority which was given him of his Father who had confirmed unto him a full Power of ordering and disposing whatsoever belonged to the Church But since in his own Person he must Ascend and leave them he gave them their Deputation by sending the Holy Spirit the Comforter to be with and Comfort them to the end of the World And since they were Mortal he gave them Power to Depute others to succeed them in them same Care and to deliver down the same Power successively to the end of the World it 's then without doubt by that Promise that our Saviour intended some Benefits to the Church which should be of no less continuance than it self So the Apostles were to be the first Dispensers of those Benefits Now the Benefits as appears from the Commission were these these First Teaching Secondly Baptising and some other Things which he had Commanded as the Taking and Eating of the Bread and Drinking the Cup which was to be a shewing of his Death to the end of the World And the Exercising Censures against the Obstinate and Sinful such as Elimas the Sorcerer as Act 13. c. Now These were either to end with the Apostles or they were not if they were then to end The Church ever since their Deaths has been without such which amounts only to this that there has been no Church since their Decease Or if they did not end with the Apostles but have always been and are still to be exercised unto the end of the World then there ever must have been and now must be fit Persons Which like to the Apostles must have a just Power to dispense these Benefits or exercise these Offices for no less can be conceived to have been intended by Christ in his Promise of being with his Church to the end Now when the great Bishop of our Souls ordained his Apostles it was according to the Tenor of his own Ordination As my Father sent me so send I you Luke 4.18 And said John 23.21 22. Receive ye the Holy Ghost The case is the fame in Matthias Saul and Barnabas as Acts 1.24 ond 13.2 and in those which the Church made Overseers or Bishops as Act. 20.28 and Eph. 4.11 and we have no reason at all to doubt but that the Spirit doth as truly tho' not so visibly assist at the present Ordaining of Ministers as then since the Church Prays for and bids them receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Priest in the Church of God now committed to such by the Imposition of Hands And since many say that the Gospel-Priesthood is left open to all that will enter it without any further Ceremony than a geting up and Ride or a jumping from the Shop-board to the Pulpit or Desk Now to the sober Consideration of such I Humbly recommend the ensuing Particulars as First Since St. Paul setting down the Nature of a Church Stiles it the Body of Christ where he means not a Similar Body such as Fire Air and Water where all the parts are alike and perform the same Office But a Body consisting of Diversity of Organs for several Faculties and Operations such a Body as is not one Member but many knit together with Unity and Charity as