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A32780	The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing C377; ESTC R1330	19,289	31

THE COMMINATION Prescribed in the LITURGY OF THE Church of England VINDICATED AND Recommended to the Consideration of all Pious Christians IN A SERMON Preached to a Countrey Audience on the First Sunday in Lent 1679 80. By Benjamin Camfeild Rector of Aylston near Leicester Cursed is he that maketh the Blind to wander out of the way And all the people shall fay Amen Deut. 27.18 LONDON Printed for H. Brome at the Gun and R. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1680. TO THE COURTEOUS READER HOw this honest Discourse may rellish with thee I know not Yet if it prove Medicinal the season I am sure is good and proper enough for it and it matters not much though it should be less palatable Two desperately-malignant humors it hath to encounter and work upon Faction and Profaneness both of them now almost grown Epidemical God Almighty send it a Success answerable to the sincere intentions of him that tenders it But if thou art Friend to an Orderly Piety and Christian Life He may promise himself moreover thy acceptance and Prayers And that is all which I have to desire of Thee on his behalf Vnless it be this point of common Justice that thou Read it over without prejudice and consider of it before thou pass censure But This too I should rather commend unto thee for thy own Benefit because Spiritual Physick Operates not like to Bodily whether we think on it or no. Farewell A Lent Sermon Deuteron XXVII XV. And all the people shall answer and say Amen IT is a most excellent Devotional Service Cum primis salutaris est ceremonia sed non video our debeat exhiberi solùm nno die non saepiùs Bucer for so in the Liturgie of Edward 6. it was determined to Ashwednesday but after enlarged to divers time of the year with an ●●●alty only to the First day of Lent See Mr. Ham. L'Estrange's Alliance of Divine Offices ch 11. p. 318. which our Church hath charitably provided for the Beginning of Lent in the Commination prescribed to be used on Ashwedensday and at other times * of Solemn Humiliation when the Ordinary shall appoint as one of the most proper Helps and Expedients she could furnish Penitents with in that loose and degenerate Age wherein our Lot is fallen which is impatient of a severer Discipline namely That according to the Pattern set us in this Chapter principally the General Sentences of Gods Curses against impenitent sinners be distinctly pronounced in the presence of all the People and that every one that hears them should answer as distinctly unto each Sentence Amen But such is the Licentiousness and Profaneness of our Generation that instead of desiring and promoting the Restoration of Primitive Discipline we will not vouchsafe to come up so much as Thus far We make light of sin and slight the Calls of God and his Church unto Repentance and live as if we thought that the happiness and Salvation of the World to come were worthy but of very little Care and Labour and Pains in our striving to secure it here We have found out new and easie wayes and methods to Heaven which the Primitive Christians the Church of Christ from the Beginning were never acquainted with wayes to Heaven without Repentance without confessing and forsaking our sins and bringing forth Fruits meet for Repentance We are not for going so far about but a nearer Cut a directer Passage of our own devising a Leap as it were from Hell to Heaven or hugging our sins all the dayes of our Life at Death and the Grave to part and shake hands with them We have time enough to spare for Worldly pleasures and divertisements but when Religion challengeth our attendance we have no leisure at all for it We can spend hours and days freely enough in Visits in Sports in Drinking and 't is well sometimes if not in worse imployments But Oh! how Scrupulous do we seem in Conscience of taking any part from our six working dayes and Devoting it unto God! Pardon me Beloved if upon this occasion I speak somewhat plainly and freely to you A Pan-Cake Bell as we call it upon Shrove-Tuesday though no Authority injoyn it will easily draw men from the works of their Callings and every one is free and forward enough in hearkning to the Summons of it What a General Rendesvouz and Croud of People is there every where usually upon it But the Bells may Call loud enough and Chime long enough upon the Ash-Wedensday after it and that by Authority too both of Church and State yet few or none will take the warning given them to lay aside their Worldly business for a while to resort to the Congregation there to Confess their Sins and give proof of their Repentance and Humble themselves together before Almighty God in order to the procuring of his Forgiveness and Blessing Nor is this all I would it were Too many there are that are gone a degree farther in their Impiety They content not themselves with abstaining from the Churches Service but they sit down also in the Chair of the Scorner They Scoff at and Deride Revile and Blaspheme that most excellent Service which we then perform as a Superstitious Foolish or Wicked thing an uncharitable Cursing of our selves and others c. Of whom I must say as St. Jude in another Case These speak evil of those things which they know not Psal 10. but what they know Naturally as Brute Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves Alas None of those Persons consider what a provocation it is unto God Almighty in the dayes and seasons of his Grace to harden their Hearts against him How dear it cost his People of old in the Wilderness unto whom therefore he sware in his wrath Psal 99. that they should not enter into his Rest How dismal a Requital he hath threatned unto such Prov. 1. ch Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought all my Counsel and would none of my Reproof I also will Laugh at your Calamity and Mock when your fear cometh when your fear cometh as Desolation and your destruction cometh as a Whirlewind when distress and anguish cometh upon you Then shall they call upon me saith He but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me for that they hated Knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord they would none of my Counsel they despised all my reproof Therefore shall they eat of the Fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices These Persons think not how implacable God hath declared himself upon such a like miscarriage as this of theirs is You have a full and lively Picture of it drawn for your view Jsa 22.12 c. In that day did the Lord of Hosts call to weeping and mourning and to baldness and