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A28289 The unreasonableness of anger a sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-hall, July 29, 1694 / by Lancelot Blackburne ... Blackburne, Lancelot, 1658-1743. 1694 (1694) Wing B3068; ESTC R23050 11,834 27

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of it and an impudent Affectation of Concern for its Truths were a sufficient Excuse for the Breach of its Duties Even where the strictest Regard to Decency would be expected where even good Manners to the Lookers on should make Men stanch and reserv'd in the Treatment of an Adversary that has any Pretence to Learning or Vertue In the Combats of the Pen a bitter Malignity reigns without controul fights the Devil's Battels under the Banner of our Saviour and not content to poison the present Age with an unexampl'd Barbarity raises lasting Monuments of Scandal to those which are to come This sort of Management may make sport enough to the Enemies of all Religion but I know not how They can be thought any Friends to it who afford 'em the very unseemly and ill-natur'd Diversion There will always be different Thoughts of Religion as long as there are different Apprehensions among Men and whoever duly considers the great Difficulty of attaining that strength and firmness of Attention that intire Liberty of the Mind by which its Assent is suspended till a clear and certain Evidence shall justly claim it In a word that Freedom from Passion Prejudice and Interest which is necessary to ground a certain Conclusion in any thing that is disputed will see more reason to pity than be angry at the Errours of other Men and where they are of consequence to any of the Fundamentals of the Gospel in meekness to instruct those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging the truth Men are so naturally wedded to their own Opinions that 't is generally a shrewd Mortification to shew them they are mistaken and there are very few can take any pleasure in the Discovery if we have a Love for Truth or the Souls of Men we ought to soften that Aversion which indisposes them to receive it by all the artful Gentleness and Condescension that it 's capable of being propos'd with A Railer cannot convince nor an angry Man perswade neither will Men be jeer'd or hector'd out of their Errours and Mistakes When we indiscreetly or furiously exasperate their Minds we shut 'em against the Truth and their Hearts against our selves and so destroy all Charity which is the Life of Religion Nor are our Civil Dissentions less scandalous and prejudicial to Government than our Religious Bickerings to Piety and Vertue or the means of carrying 'em on less bitter and malicious Some are not content to accept of Deliverance but even quarrel and fall out with their Preservation and even of those who would be thought to receive it with Acknowledgment enough there are but too many who seem desirous to lessen the Number Every Party among us would pretend to engross all the Merit of Obedience to it self exclusive of all others and the Disputes on this Head are not more common than they are eager and provoking 'T were well the Pretence were as honest as it would seem though surely 't is not much the wiser for being so confining But 't is rather to be fear'd that particular Interest and a mutual Oppression are the only real Aims at the bottom of such Distinctions while the very Name of Party is industriously and very revengefully kept up among us to the apparent Hazard of reducing us back again to all that Disorder and Confusion from which we have been so wonderfully rescu'd In the mean time the Common Enemies of both our Religious and Civil Rights are intent more than enough to widen our Differences and watchful to find their Account in our Divisions When the Enemy is at the Gate 't is time one wou'd think to be united but we have never had the sense to do so till he was enter'd the City God grant that we may all know and do in this our day the things that belong to our Peace to the Quiet and Security both of our Religion and Government That we may be slow to anger ready to forgive overcoming evil with good speaking evil of no man and by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Eternal Life thro' the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. 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