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A42097	A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Durham upon the revival of the ancient laudable practice of that, and some other cathedrals, in having sermons on Wednesdays and Fridays, during Advent and Lent / by D.G. ...	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1686 (1686)	Wing G1941; ESTC R2757	16,701	34

particularly Invite us to be Devout What kind of Devotions to conclude are most incumbent on us at this time and most proper for the Exercise of a Christian you may best Learn now as at all other times from the Choice and Order of the Church In the Sunday Services you have set forth unto you the several comings of our Saviour Christ his coming in the Flesh his coming in the Spirit his coming in the Ministry and his coming to Judgment Let some of those imploy your thoughts and be the Subject of your Meditations more or less at least on the Sundays The Epistle for Advent Sunday which gives us our first Alarm and out of which I have for the same reason chosen my Text together with our admirable Collect peculiarly added to the Devotions of the whole season Almighty God give us Grace to cast away the Works of Darkness c. do invite us to the strict Exercise of Repentance to labour to mortify our Corrupt Lusts and to exercise as much as in us lies Christian Grace and Vertue And let this be your Endeavour all the Week after at least upon these two Days which by our New Order are design'd for Sermons and which have always been esteem'd the most proper Days of the Week for Penitential Exercises The last of which i. e. Fryday is reckon'd up among the Fasting-days of the Church and so commanded to be throughout the whole Year unless it fall on Christmas-Day And if the former i. e. Wednesday be made so likewise for the future as Devout Christians have often made it it will be a very Laudable Practice and suitable to our present design and undertaking And it will moreover give Devout Souls a fair occasion to Sympathize with the poor Persecuted Reformed Christians of the Kingdom of France whose sad condition I conceive we ought in especial manner to Recommend to God in our Prayers a Tribute we owe to their Misery whilst they are labouring under so Barbarous a Persecution Whosoever is fully bent to Exercise this Duty in the most effectual manner and heartily desires to improve all occasions and means to advance on in Repentance in general needs not be importuned to apply himself to Fasting Since as it gains time for the exercise of Repentance so it always disposeth for the more spiritual performance of the Duty The Church does not Impose upon us throughout Advent as it does throughout Lent the duty of Fasting and Abstinence for which to some it is like it will be the more grateful for the Devotions of Advent are I conceive rather of a mixt nature partly Eucharistical and partly Penitential But if any Devout and well-disposed Christian who shall find it Commodious for his Soul will imploy his Exercises of Repentance and Prayer with Fasting and as a Freewil-Offering to his Saviour for the Memory of whose coming in the Flesh we are all making Preparation voluntarily add one day every Week to this Commendable Religious Duty more than the Church Imposes on us and not only Repent but Fast and Pray Devoutly in the private Closet to increase his Penitence as well as attend to a Sermon here in the Publick Church on all these Days which are now singled out by Authority for Days of more than ordinary Assemblies it will be no mighty work of Supererogation and a fit preparation for the Approaching Festivals The Joy whereof will be increased and rendred more grateful by some preceding Godly Sorrow which is inseparable from the Genuine Exercise of that true Repentance which we daily pray that we may exercise in our incomparable Collect proper for the Season whch will serve as an excellent pattern whereby we may Regulate our Devotions and wherewith I shall conclude my Sermon Almighty God Give us Grace that we may cast away the works of Darkness and put upon us the Armour of Light now in the Time c. FINIS A Catalogue of some Books newly Published and Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-Yard A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the Great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the XLIX of King Henry the third until these present Times With Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives and of such other Noblemen as derive their Titles of Honour from their Heirs-Female from whom they are descended and of such Noblemens eldest Sons as have been summoned to Parliament by some of their Fathers Titles Extracted from Publick Records by Sir William Dugdale Knight Garter Principal King of Arms. An Historical Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes from Scripture Reason and the Opinion and Practice of the Jews Gentiles and Christians in all Ages Designed to Supply the Omissions Answer the Objections and Rectifie the Mistakes of Mr. Selden's History of Tithes Part I. An Historical Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes Which is further proved by Scripture and Antiquity and illustrated by the Solemn Consecration and great Convenience of them With an Answer to the Objections of other Authors against them Part II. By Tho. Comber D. D. Precentor of York A Discourse concerning Excommunication By Tho. Comber D. D. Precentor of York Counsel and Directions Divine and Moral In plain and Familiar Letters of Advice from a Divine of the Church of England to a Young Gentleman his Nephew soon after his Admission into a College in OXFORD A Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts wherein all the Questions relating to that Subject are ingeniously Debated and Resolved by the late Famous and Learned Mr. Henry Swinborne Author of the Treatise of Wills and Testaments Summa Logicae partim ex optimis quibusque Autoribus tum Antiquis tum Recentioribus Collecta maxime autem ex usu ad usum Comparata Exemplis omnium Genemur abunde The Order of the Installation of Henry Duke of Norfolk Henry Earl of Peterborow and Laurence Earl of Rochester Knights and Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter in the Royal Chappel of St. George at Windsor July 22. 1685.