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A44542	A sermon preached at Fulham in the Chappel of the Palace, upon Easter-day, MDCLXXXIX, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2850; ESTC R8309	15,421	39

Spirit and are filled with it and that the weapons of your warfare are not carnal but spiritual mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong holds of iniquity Feeding implyes giving Food convenient to your Masters Family Ruling the House of God according to the dictates of Reason the Word of God and the best examples and making your selves paterns of Meekness Humility Charity Self-denial and of all good Works The external Honours Providence bestows upon you and the respect Men pay you are to encourage you to a chearful performance of your Work and intended not to swell you not to puff you up not to tempt you to please and tickle your selves with your Grandeur but to infuse greater alacrity into you to Fight the good Fight and to shed Blessed Influences on all that are round about you Ye are the Captains the Generals in Christ's Army while you bear the Heat and Burthen of the day detrect no Labour spare no pains live like Faithful Stewards of the Mystery of God Vindicate your Masters Honour act like persons who have renounc'd the hidden things of dishonesty and by manifestation of the Truth commend your selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God you make good the glorious Titles and the lofty Names which are given you such as Angels and Stars and Lights of the World and the Salt of the Earth and a City set on a Hill c. Titles of a proud sound but which are intended to make you Humble and to tell you you are only exalted that you may with greater facility take your people by the hand and lift them up to Heaven This is the way to do good and to make Religion glorious and well spoken of This will even convince Infidels that Religion is something more than a Name something more than Policy and interest that it is able to transform Tempers to change hearts and to make Men act contrary to their natural inclination and that instead of debasing humane Nature it exalts and polishes and refines it and leads it to solid Bliss and Happiness and this as well as your Learning will make you as it was once said of the English Clergy stupor Mundi the Wonder of the World. 2. Labouring and making it your business to reform abuses Thus did the Primitive Prelates the Men whose Names we rise up to and whose Memories we admire and in whom the Spirit of Power of Love and of a sound mind did shine Indeed we have some later Examples of magnanimous persons within the Kingdoms to which we belong who finding the Field over which they were set over run with Bryars and Thorns with abuses which peace and plenty and connivance and love to an easie quiet life and the corruption of the Age and the covetousness and partiality of worldly Men and a slavish fear of Superiours had brought in have resolutely set themselves to weed the deformed and dismal Field and to pull out the Tares that incommoded and annoy'd the Wheat This is a Work which requires more than ordinary Courage and therefore fit for you whom Providence places at the Stern and constitutes chief Watchmen over the House of Israel and who are in credit with God and with your Prince Your Commission like Jeremy's reaches to destroying and pulling up as well as to planting and building not such a destroying as he who pretends to be the Vicar of Christ hath made in Kingdoms and Nations but tearing up those obstructions and impediments which put a stop to the chearful progress of Religion amongst us Here the Zeal of Phin●es will be necessary especially when the Evil is grown so dangerous that it s come to an Ense rescindendum Fear of displeasing Men or of being ill spoken of or of being contradicted by Equals or Superiors must here be banish'd as a thing that renders you unfit for the Kingdom of God and great Enterprises Had Christ and his Apostles insisted upon such excuses Judaism had triumph'd to this day and Idolatry maintain'd its post and station I need not name here the particular abuses which require your Cognisance and Censures they are too obvious and a holy mind that judges by the Word of God and the Rules of Primitive Discipline will soon perceive where the Sword of the Spirit even this Reformation is to be made use of I know its easier to spy faults than to mend them and what seems intollerable to one man appears harmless in anothers eye but such evasions will not do with a Person whose Soul is touch'd with a sense of God's Glory whose delight is to do good who examines impartially what is required of him in the Station he is in whom the love of God constrains to do great things for the honour of the Gospel and I may add who knows the terrours of the Lord and believes the threatning of Christ pronounced against the unfaithful Steward Matth. XXIV 50 The Lord of that Servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the Hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth 3. Enduring hardness as good Souldiers of Jesus Christ a duty very warmly recommended to our Bishop 2 Tim. II. 3 In discharging your duty faithfully you must expect obloquy and slanders and reproaches and other inconveniences troubles and adversities but to bear them patiently to maintain your integrity in the midst of all such Storms your sweetness in the midst of all the salt waters not to flinch from your good Profession not to sink under your Burthen to hold out to the End to continue with Christ in his Temptations and to be faithful unto death upon a prospect of the Crown of Righteousness this is Masculine and Heroick and a certain Argument that the Spirit of God is sent into your hearts which is the earnest of your future inheritance Thus the Apostles baffled the Temptations of the World and vanquished the Stratagems of Hell and Devils and thus the World must be taught that neither Death nor Life neither Superiorities nor Powers neither Things present nor Things to come can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Christ Jesus our Lord. Were the future Glory saith One believ'd as firmly as the things which are seen it would be a kind of Martyrdom to live here To be sure the more lively our Faith and our Apprehensions are of that future Bliss the more cheerfully we shall stir up the Gift of God that is in us to our great Redeemers Glory and the more patiently we shall bear the crosses that befal us in our good and great attempts Crosses which must turn into Crowns at last Crowns that wither not that tarnish not Crowns which time doth not change and Ages do not alter for so we read 1 Pet. V. 4 When the Chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a Crown of Glory which fades not away And now O Timothy whom God hath called and the King hath called and the Church doth call God by extraordinary parts and abilities the King who understands the merit of those who are near and dear to him the Church which considers who are like to be most useful to the edifying of the body of Christ O Timothy I say upon whom the sacred unction is to be poured forth and the hands of blessing to be laid Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to the Gospel an argument I make use of not only because of its relation to the day but because St. Paul makes it an incentive to a Bishops duty 2. Tim. II. 8 Remember therefore how our Great Master laboured for the good of Mankind for the salvation of Souls how he suffered and how he died and then rose to an immortal glorious life the emblem of thy Office and reward for when thou shalt have gone about doing good and healing those that are possess'd of sin and of the Devil and hast born and hast had patience thy mortal part which hath been tired and worn out with labour must fall indeed but then after the example of Christ's body a Creature must rise at last glorious and Angelical and triumphing over hell and Devils seeing We all look for a Saviour who shall change our vile body that it may be like unto his glorious body according to the mighty Working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself FINIS Mr. Y. in the year 1685. Exod. 20.6 L. 3. c. 4. Hom. 15. in 1. Tim 3. v. Joh. xi 49. Morin in Ordin Maron Lib. 2. contr Donatist c. 16