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A43704	A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, on Sunday, Octob. 2, 1692 by Charles Hickman ...	Hickman, Charles, 1648-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1901; ESTC R18595	11,711	33

is has told us upon what terms we must live and prosper See I have set before you life and good and if after this we will venture upon Evil we our selves are answerable for the Event and 't is but just that God should take the forfeiture Death and Evil we know must go together unless we can separate them by our Repentance which it self is a death unto sin and a greater evil than we know how to bear 'T is sufficient that we see our way before us that we ly no longer under any dark uncertainties any dismal suspense but our work is laid open to our hands and our reward is ready for us Our work itself is very good and our reward is exceeding glorious but if we resist these gracious offers and still persist in a senseless provokeing course of Life we deserve the severest punishment not only for our sin but for our obstinate folly too These are the things which the Law of God daily sets before us and if the charms of goodness cannot draw us yet one would think the terrours of Evil should drive us into Vertue What would we not do to purchase Eternal Life What would we not suffer to escape Eternal Death What should we do but renounce our Sins what should we suffer but this reasonable Divorce and then the thing is done and what does God require of us but those very things which our own reason requires of us too things that are most suitable to our nature and most likely to promote our happiness in this World though we had no expectation of a World to come when it is so easy a thing to prosper who would take such pains to be undone when it is in our own choice to live Why will ye dy O house of Israel The reason is plain we are deeply engaged Body and Soul in another interest our Lusts by a long familiarity have so endeared themselves unto us that we know not how to part We are so ty'd and bound with the Chain of our Sins that when God calls us to Repentance we are not able to move a step Not able That is indeed we are not willing to advance we have such a load of iniquity upon us that we think it more easy to ly down and dy than to shake off our deadly weight and live But if we seriously consider'd what it was to dy we should quickly be of another mind When Death with his cold frozen hands lays hold upon us and is dragging us out of a soft sinful Bed into an uncomfortable Dungeon a noisome Grave then all our heats will be abated and we shall repent indeed and wish that we had repented sooner before 't was too late to be reform'd Let us consider this in time now that it is fairly set before us and 't is in our power to make our choice And if we see that wicked men find it so difficult to dis-engage themselves that the prospect of Death it self with all its terrours cannot affright them from their Sins let us beware of the dreadful Example let us beware how we admit a Guest into our Bosom who is like to stick so fast upon us and brings after him such a deadly train Let us keep him at a religious distance and superstitiously avoid his sight Let us enter into no Parly or Combination with him but maintain the integrity of our Soul as we would do our Soul it self and stand in aw of Sin as much as Death If we have unfortunately let him in and the Enemy has already got some advantage of us let us redeem our selves in time and use all diligence to dispossess him though he has ty'd and bound us never so fast yet one vigorous resolution may break the Chain it is but resolving to be free and then by the help of our Redeemer we shall be so And have we no sense of Life and Liberty and Happiness shall one vain foolish Lust weigh down all the considerations of Eternity surely there is some Witchcraft in this Sin and we are not so much perswaded by it as possess'd but in the name of God we will cast it out We will set before us Death and Evil as God himself has set them both together and then there is no danger that we should be impos'd upon for Sin cannot possibly be so much our delight but Death is much more our aversion The very thoughts of it if we can but think at all will take off the relish of our vicious enjoyments and make all our head-strong Passions give way and our empty airy pleasures will fly before it Now that Sin has conceiv'd in the World 't is our Happiness that it has brought forth so deform'd a thing as Death that though the Mother may disguise her self and delude us with false Colours and flattering words yet the foulness of her Off-spring cannot be conceal'd and in the Face of Death we may read the natural deformity of Sin Let us consider this and then let us entertain it if we dare nay let us embrace it if we can for how temptingly soever Sin may look upon us yet Death is a powerful Antidote 't is enough to damp our Spirits and chill our blood and to change not only the inclinations but the very constitution of our Flesh Knowing these terrors of the Lord surely we shall be perswaded considering the sad consequences of sin one would think there should be little or no temptation in it to a thinking Man indeed there is none at all and 't is a wonder that any Man can so far lay his thoughts aside as to hug a slavish gilded Chain to fall in love with a fulsome painted Sepulchre and doze himself in poisonous Wine only because he sees it sparkling in the glass All these are but imaginary Pleasures at the best and yet these are all the Pleasures that a Sinner has and what are all these in comparison of that real substantial eternal Joy which we part with for these trifles sake after such an exchange as this we must never pretend to Judgement or Discretion more We that are so circumspect and wise in the little inferior concerns of Life where is our wisdom in our great Affair where is our circumspection when our whole Happiness is at stake To get a poor livelihood upon earth we can labour and toil hunger and thirst and sweat and starve and applaud our selves for doing so but here we can be content to stand all the day idle and have our thoughts otherwise employ'd and are so far from labouring for life that we will not be at the trouble so much as to look before us Nay for the most part we make it our business to look the quite contrary way What indefatigable pains do we take to gratifie our foolish Lusts when with half the pains we might learn to live much happier without them What violence do we use upon our selves to lay our Souls and Consciences asleep for fear the

beautiful Prospect of Life should tempt us to be vertuous or the dismal Apparitions of Death should affright us from our Vice when half that force employ'd against our Vanities and Corruptions would suffice to take Heaven it self by violence and make us for ever happy But when Men have once sold themselves to work wickedness how obstinately do they refuse to hear their own Reason speak How do they disdain to be reclaim'd though it be by the Word of God! That word which is piercing as a two-edged sword they labour to put by with all their art and defend themselves against it with the whole Artillery of the Devil with the Helmet of Pride the Shield of Obstinacy and the Breast-plate of Unbelief Armour that is hardned in the bottomless Pit they maintain a desperate Cause and wage a senseless War against the Powers of Heaven So dangerous a thing is it to give way to Disobedience that by degrees it betrays us into Unbelief and by slighting the notions of Good and Evil we come at last to make no difference between Life and Death Thus the Devil who is conscious of his own doom and officious to prevent the like in us teaches us not to believe for fear we should tremble too and the terrours of the Lord are the very reason why some men will not be perswaded But let us bring more tractable dispositions to the word of God and when he sets before us life and good and death and evil let us for our Information submit to his Judgment and in our Choice let us comply with his desires 'T is no disparagement for the wisest Man to be instructed and surely 't is no condescension for the greatest Man to be sav'd If we are desirous of Life we know now upon what terms it must be had if we will still follow after Evil we know what will be the consequence nay the consequence will fall the heavier upon us for this very reason because we know it our condemnation will be the more just our death the more unpitied because it has been so often and so plainly set before us Seeing therefore we have so many Sins and sinful ignorances to be accounted for let not our knowledge also be number'd amongst our transgressions let not our means of grace and opportunities of Glory come to inflame our Reckoning against the great Day of Account Many a time have we been admonish'd of our Sins and now once more are we forewarn'd of our danger See I have set before you this day also life and good and death and evil God grant that we may even in this our day see the things that belong unto our Good before they are hidden from our eyes FINIS BOOKS Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard DR Burnet's Theory of the Earth the two last Books concerning the Conflagration of the World and the new Heavens and the new Earth Fol. Answer to Mr. Warren's Exceptions against the first Part. Consideration of Mr. Warren's Defence Relation of the Proceedings at the Charter-House upon occasion of King James II. his presenting a Papist to be admitted into that Hospital in Virtue of his Letters Dispensatory Fol. Telluris Theoria Sacra Libri duo posteriores de Conflagratione Mundi de futuro rerum statu Quarto Archaeologiae Philosophicae sive Doctrina antiqua de Rerum Originibus Libri duo Bishop Overall's Convocation-Book 1606. concerning the Government of God's Catholick Church and the Kingdoms of the whole World Quarto Mr. Nicholl's Answer to an Heretical Book call'd The Naked Gospel Quarto Turner de Lapsu Angelorum Hominum Quarto Mr. Lamb's Dialogues about the Lord's Supper Octavo Mr. Raymond's Pattern of pure and undefiled Religion Octavo Exposition on the Church-Catechism Octavo Animadversions on Mr. Johnson's Answer to Jovian in Three Letters Octavo Mr. Dodwell's Two Letters of Advice about Susception of Holy Orders c. Mr. Milbourn's Mysteries in Religion Vindicated Or Filiation Deity and Satisfaction of our Saviour asserted against Socinians and others with occasional Reflections on several late Pamphlets Octavo Dr. Sharpe's now Archbishop of York Sermon before the Queen Apr. 11. 1690. on Gal. xv 13. Fast Sermon before the House of Commons May 21. 1690. on Deut. 5.21 Farewell Sermon at S. Giles June 28. 1691. on Phil. 4.8 Sermon before the House of Lords Novemb. 5. 1691. on Rom. x. 2. Sermon before the King and Queen on Christmas-day 1691. on Heb. xix 26. Sermon on Easter-day 1692. on Phil. iii. 10. Sermon of the things that make for peace before the Lord Mayor Aug. 23. 1674. on Rom. xiv 19. Sermon before the Lord Mayor Jan. 1675. on 1 Tim. iv 8. both new Printed Dr. Grove's now Lord Bishop of Chichester Sermon before the King and Queen June 1. 1690. Dr Hooper's Sermon before the Queen Jan. 24. 1690. Dr. Hickman's Thanksgiving Sermon before the House of Commons Octob. 19. 1690. Sermon before the Queen Octob. 26. 1690. Mr. Lamb's Sermon before the King and Queen Jan. 19. 1689. Sermon before the Queen Jan. 24. 1690. Dr. Worthington of Christian Love Octavo Faith and Practice of a Church of England-Man Twelves Fourth Edition Mr. Jeffrey's Religion the Perfection of Man Octavo Dr. Scot's Sermon before the Queen May 22. 1692. Mr. Young's Sermon of Union May 20. 1688. The Protestant and Popish Way of interpreting Scripture in Answer to Pax vobis