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A30644 A most godly sermon preached at St. Albons in Woodstreet on Sunday last being the 10 of October, 1641 : shewing the necessity of selfe-denyall and humiliation by prayer and fasting before the Lord in regard of the present plague we now lye under : which God in his good time remove from amongst us / by ... Henry Burton. Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1641 (1641) Wing B6168; ESTC R18459 4,505 9

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A most Godly SERMON Preached at St. Albons in Woodstreet on Sunday last being the 10. of October 1641. Shewing the necessity of Selfe-denyall and Humiliation by Prayer and Fasting before the Lord in regard of the present Plague we now lye under Which God in his good time remove from amongst us By that faithfull Minister and Witnesse of Iesus Christ M. Henry Burton LONDON Printed by B. Alsop MDCXLI A GODLY SERMON Luke 9.23 Let him deny himselfe DOCT. I. THE first Lesson is the A. B. C. that CHRIST teacheth us in his Schoole is this For a man to deny himselfe and so is it also the highest taske that is set to any These words were spoken to them all a great many professed Christ and thronged upon him Therfore Christ taught them a lesson that most of them never thought of If any one will follow me let him deny himselfe The Condition is let him deny himselfe the terms are selfe-denyall Selfe-deniall consisteth 1. In denying our selves in all good things 2. In all evill Things 1. In all good things Selfe-denyall ought to be in all good things 1. Internall 2. Externall Internall as the understanding will and affection So in morall Habits as Temperance Fortitude Wisedome c. 3. In labour of knowledge even of such as are gotten by study 2. Selfe-denyall ought to be in Externall good things 1. In matters of duty 2. In Objects 1. Jn matters of duty that is toward God where is discovered a main duty between true exercise of Piety and Counterfeit Those are true which are set down in Scripture and none else for God will be served of himselfe he commandeth not as man prescript 2 Here appears the vainnesse of that duty which is prescribed of men Those of men may be knowne like trees by their fruits That of humane invention set upon the Conscience those who maintain it cannot but confesse the superstition which they maintaine The next thing is the duty we owe to our Neighbor as of charity of equity of mercy when we have done all that is commanded we must confesse we are unprofitable Servants Here is selfe-denyall yet there may be duties of Piety where there is a want hereof as 1. Cor. 13.3 There may bee seeming charity yet fals There may be a giving up of the body to be burned yet want of charity because not proceeding from Faith Even in these workes a Christian must deny himselfe Vse 1. To condemn all Popish Charity and many which they call good works instead of denying themselvs in those works they deny Christ for in those works they say they deserve the Kingdome of Heaven For there is salvation in none other but in Christ Iesus onely Vse 2. To condemn another sort of carnall profane men that build their salvation on common duties works of morality who say that they doe all men right though perhaps they are compelled so to doe this overthrowes the Doctrine of Christ this is not to deny themselves but to deny Christ Vse 3. To put a difference between true charity and false some men are naturally given to be upright to doe Justice to deale upright This is not to deny ones selfe to build in these for this is not of Grace for workes of Grace humble a man This may be a tryall of our grace if they be of grace thou wilt deny thy selfe in them In the next place we are to consider of certaine objects of a threefold relation 1. A Naturall 2. A Civill 3. A sensitive Relation Doct. 2. ANd first a Naturall Relation as to Father Mother wife Children kindred c. we must deny our selves in all relation where th●y stand in opposition unto Christ for proofe hereof Luke 14.26 If father mother wife children c. call us to stand in opposition to Christ In that respe●t we must hate them Mat. 10.35 No marvell then if the world cry out of Christ and call him a seditious Person For a man to hate his Parents as he is a Father but to deny obodience to his father so farre as he is hinder'd from comming to Christ A noteable Example is in Deutr. 13.6 The Sonne must not conceale the Father if he seeke to bring him to Idolatry We must not acknowledge Father and Mother in bidding us to do that which Christ forbiddeth Mat. 23.9 So there is a noteable Psalm Deutr. 33.9 This denyall brought a blessing upon them and it is a Type of the Gospell For every true Beleever is a Priest and must not in that respect looke upon outward Relation in competition with Christ but deny our selves in those things which otherwise we are bound to love by the Law of Nature Trample upon thy Father cast off thy wife and children saith a Father if they seeke to draw thee from Christ Vse To condemne the Papist who hang all their Faith and Religion on their Ancestors because they liv'd and dy'd in this Religion this is to set up the Parents against Christ Vse 2. To reprove too many Papists in this Land that doe propagate their Children and Childrens Children in that Religion Many amongst us that send their Children to Monasteries in Rome to make them bondslaves in darknesse for ever God be thanked we have good Lawes I hope we shall have them increased by the happy Parliament but happy were it if there were good Magistrates to put those Lawes in practice Vse 3. For Parents that professe Religion When the spirit of Christ toucheth the heart then they see the true way whose heart is so touched Yet how many Parents cannot endure that their children doe outstrip their Parents in purity even for this they abhorre their own children and sometime dispossesse them and cannot endure them this is lamentable Kings in their own Thrones are not above Christ much lesse Parents in their Families If God come into their Families into the hearts of their children shall Parents lift their hands up against Christ to abhorre and hate their own children because of this The body is received from the Parents but the soule from God Parents may instruct their children but not to keepe them from Christ Vse 4. For Children that have received a greater measure of light from Christ then the Parents they must be modest and humble beare their reproches patiently for Christ but if the Parents will keep them from Christ we must hate deny our Parents but in the mean time to be patient to convince them and if possible to perswade them 5. To perswade these children that they follow this light and not let their Parents nor any friend in the world draw them from Christ The 2. Relation is civill Doct. A Christian must deny himself in all civill Relation if Princes or States make Lawes against the Law of Christ against his Religion his pure Ordinances threatning punishment to those that will not observe them Herein a true Christian must deny himselfe both in matter of terrour and in matter of favour