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A56697 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the aldermen of the City of London at Guild-Hall Chappel, Octob. 31, 1680 being the XXI Sunday after Trinity / by Symon Patrick ... Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1680 (1680) Wing P842; ESTC R13508 19,534 54

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WARD MAYOR Cur. prima tent die Jovis quarto die Novemb. Annoque Regis CAROLI Secundi Angl. c. xxxij THis COURT doth desire Master Dean of Peterburgh to Print his SERMON preached at the Guild-hall Chappel on Sunday morning last WAGSTAFFE A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable THE LORD MAYOR AND THE ALDERMEN OF THE City of LONDON At Guild-Hall Chappel Octob. 31. 1680. Being the XXI Sunday after TRINITY By SYMON PATRICK D. D. DEAN of PETERBVRGH and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by I. M. for R. Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty 1680. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir PATIENCE WARD Lord Mayor Of the CITY of LONDON Right Honourable IT is so hard on some occasions to be a thoroughly good Christian and much more to be such a Magistrate that some have given over the endeavour of it out of a perswasion that it is impossible Which as it proceeds from great ignorance of the Christian Religion so would be a great disparagement to it if our blessed Saviour and his Apostles had not taken special care not only to breed in us a quite contrary opinion but also to raise our minds to the highest degree of confidence that we shall be able by the Divine assistance to surmount the greatest difficulties This I have endeavoured in as plain a manner as I could devise to press in this Sermon which by the desire of that Honourable Court where Your Lordship presides I now humbly present to Your and the publick view Which will do the more good I hope not only because Your Lordship judged it very seasonable at Your entrance upon Your Office but because I was directed to this subject not so much by my own Prudence as by a kind of Divine Providence which I have oft observed on the like occasions For having in the common course of my Sermons this year at my own Parish Preached upon some part of the Epistle for the Day I found there was no need to go out of my way to meet with a fitting Argument upon that Sunday when I was appointed to preach to Your Lordship And therefore I sought no further but applyed my self to prosecute the first words which occurred there and that not with such matter as humane invention might have furnished me withall but such as the Apostle himself suggested in the rest of the Epistle for that day And indeed they are matters of great and weighty importance which though there be many of them I have both comprehended in a little room and also made them not hard to be remembred because I have considered them as relating all to one and the same end and as having not only the same scope but such a dependance also one upon another that they cannot well be separated I am sure where they are all united there the Divine Blessing will be for they are the compleat Armour of God that heavenly defence which will certainly secure us in our station if we will but make use of it with a mind to be and to do what soever Christ would have us The first step toward which is rightly to understand our duty as should have been pressed more largely if I had had room enough from those words be girt about with Truth In which if we be defective we shall miscarry do what we can and the more Zealous we are the more we shall be out of the way But it is not likely we shall be defective in any material part of Christian Knowledge if to our serious study of a right understanding and judgment in all things we add according to the last Advice in this discourse most earnest prayer to God for his direction guidance and assistance and can appeal to Him in such words as those of David which are full of sincere affection that we are heartily resolved to do whatsoever we know to be our duty and that there is nothing we long for so much in this world as to know it intirely CXIX Psal 34 35. Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart Make me to go in the path of thy Commandments for therein do I delight Which that Your Lordship may alwayes do and thereby acquit your self in your difficult charge to the general satisfaction of all good men is the hearty prayer of My LORD Your most humble Servant S. PATRICK A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR and ALDERMEN Of the CITY of LONDON EPHES. vi 10. Finally my Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might I Have chosen you see for your present instruction Right Honourable and well beloved the beginning of the Epistle for this Day In the first word of which the Apostle signifies that he was drawing to a conclusion of this Letter to the Christian Church at Ephesus Finally my Brethren I have nothing more to add but this all that remains is to exhort you to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might He had made his most earnest Prayer to God in the middle of this Epistle iii. 14 c. that he would grant them according to the riches of his glory to be strengthned with might by his spirit in the inner man that so they might be able to perform all their Christian duty which follows in the insuing part of the Epistle till you come to my Text. In which he puts them in mind that it was not sufficient to receive strength from Heaven in their inner man but they must also be strong or strengthen themselves not indeed in themselves but in the Lord in that heavenly strength which our blessed Saviour gives us and in the power of his might wherewith He will always assist our weakness There lyes the security of Christians from whom our Saviour expects a faithful obedience both in their single and in their relative capacity either as Men or Women or as Husbands or Wives as Parents or Children as Masters or Servants all whose duties the Apostle had just before most punctually set down because He requires no impossible thing but such an obedience as he strengthens us with might by his spirit to perform if we will but be careful and diligent to strengthen our selves in him and in the power of his might In which words we cannot but observe these two things First A Christian duty incumbent upon them which was to be strong or to strengthen themselves For it is an Exhortation of the Apostle to the Ephesians whom he charges with this as the very upshort of his foregoing discourse Secondly The ability they had to perform this duty which is in or by the Lord For there he tells them their strength lyes in him and in the power of his might that is in his mighty insuperable power The first of which supposes that they would need a great deal of courage and resolution for that is to be strong in the