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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62275	A sermon preached at Reading, Feb. 25, 1672, at the assizes there holden for the county of Berks, before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Turner, Knight ... and Sir Edward Thurland, Knight ... by Joseph Sayer ...	Sayer, Joseph, 1630 or 31-1693.	1673 (1673)	Wing S797; ESTC R7938	19,707	42

Argument is taken from the evil of punishment that is incurr'd by disobeying They that resist shall receive to themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.2 judgment or as we render it damnation i. e. according to the ordinary course of Gods Providence they shall receive some grievous punishment here in this World Prov. 17.11.24.22 A cruel Messenger shall be sent against them and their destruction shall come suddainly God for the most part being more quick and more severe in revenging those Injuries and Indignities that are offered to his Deputies his Lieutenants his Vicegerents here on earth than those greater and more hainous crimes that are committed more immediately against Himself He has declared it to be his will Deut. 17.12 13. that if any man will do presumptuously and will not hearken to the Priest and to the Judge that man shall die and so evil shall be put away from Israel and so the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously We now live in an Age when 't is scarce thought to be a sin not to hearken to the Judge or to the Priest but you see how God accounts it and what provision he has made for such sinners even temporal destruction that man shall die i e. he ought to be put to death And since God has declared it to be sin he that dies in it without repentance shall in the world to come suffer death everlasting that 's the full import of the phrase They shall receive to themselves damnation An instance whereof we have in Corah and his Complices who for their stubborn and seditious carriage towards Moses and Aaron Num. 16.30 Psal 55.15 went down quick into Hell 5. A fifth Argument is taken from the end for which Magistracy was ordained viz. the benefit of Humane Society the good of all Mankind that by an equal distribution of rewards and punishments Peace may be preserved Mens rights defended Religion protected Vertue incouraged and Vice supprest This is what 's contained in the two Verses next immediately preceding my Text Now from all these several reasons we have here the Apostles conclusion in my Text That Subjection to Authority is the Christians Duty All these things considered we must needs be subject 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is a necessity of being subject The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies to be subordinate It extends both to the State of Subjection and to the exercise of the Subjects Duty as St. Chrysostom well observes And as to Duty it includes whatsoever Duty or Service may be challenged by Superiours at the hands of Inferiours It is required that we observe the order wherein God has set us and that we walk orderly that we keep to the station of Subjects and that we do as does belong to Subjects But to speak more distinctly these particular Duties are included in this general In the first place 1. Being a Subject to keep the rank of a Subject to be content with our own station cheerfully to submit our selves to that state and condition of life to which God in his good pleasure has designed and appointed us Phil. 4 11. I have learnt says holy Paul in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content 1 Cor. 7. And Let every man abide in that calling wherein he is called with God says the same Apostle two or three times in one Chapter The better to understand his meaning there you may do well to observe that the Corinthians 1 Cor. 1.3 being as yet but Carnal as the Apostle tells them having generally more of the Flesh than of the Spirit more of lgnorance and Corruption than of Grace and Knowledge mistook their Christian Calling to be an exemption from the Duties of other Callings as if their Liberty in Christ Jesus had cancelled all precedent Obligations both of nature and voluntary agreement 'T is that which I intimated before in the entrance of this Discourse The Husband would put away his Wife the Wife reject her Husband Children disrespect their Parents Servants disregard their Masters and themselves become too masterly In a word all persons of what rank or condition soever were apt to break the bonds of those relations in which they stood obliged one to another all under this pretence and on this ground that Christ by the introduction of his Gospel and their reception of it had made them free Now in this passage the holy Apostle St. Paul does designedly correct this errour principally indeed and as the present Argument led him in the particular of Marriage but with a further and more universal extent to all states and conditions of life The sum of what he says is this that they who are any way related unto others notwithstanding that they are Christians must still own their relations and continue to perform all Offices suitable though the persons to whom they bear those relations are meer Pagans Infidels Heathens and Unbelievers The Wife must be contented with the condition of a Wife and as a Wife she must behave her self to her Husband though an Infidel The Servant must content himself with the condition of a Servant and as a Servant must behave himself towards his Master though an Unbeliever And in like manner a Subject must content himself with the condition of a Subject and as a Subject must behave himself towards his Sovereign though a Pagan though a Tyrant though a Persecutor the relation which they had to Christ being not designed to weaken and make void but to strengthen those relations in which they stood obliged one to another whether natural or induced by contract and agreement The general Rule to this purpose he conceives in form of an Exhortation That every person whatsoever notwithstanding that relation which he bears to Christ and the freedom which he has by him should abide in that station wherein God has placed him keep himself within the bounds and limits thereof and with a quiet and religious care cheerfully and contentedly undergo the Duties that pertain thereto 1 Cor. 7.17 In few words As God has distributed to every man and as he has called every man so let him walk And for fear lest his Exhortation to this purpose being unsuitable to what they were very much inclined to might be less heeded than 't was necessary it should that he might recommend it so much the more both to their observation and practice he does inforce it a second time 1 Cor. 7.20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he is called And again once more Brethren let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God 1 Cor. 7.24 This the Learned and most Judicious Dr. Sanderson has observed to be the scope and drift of the place and the design of all these several Instructions Precepts or Exhortations You have the like Precept from the Apostle elsewhere Study to be quiet and meddle with your own business