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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58187	The pattern of pure and undefiled religion exhibited in the preaching and life of the holy Jesus, shewing the true genius and spirit of Christianity, with an introduction concerning the restoring of true religion by Jesus Christ and his kingdom / by George Raymond.	Raymond, George, A.M.	1689 (1689)	Wing R412; ESTC R33512	50,348	160

that their credit might not need the support of an Oath This is the substance of our Saviour's Sermon in Matth. 5.20 to the 37 verse Farther he enjoins that his Disciples should excel in meekness and patient bearing of injuries not resisting evil but over-coming it with good That they should not violently impose their Religion on Men nor yet endeavour the destruction of such as with violence opposed it To call for Fire from Heaven on the Churches Enemies to kill extrajudicially a bold Seducer of the Brethren from true Religion were acts of holy zeal once commended and rewarded but Christians are required to be of another spirit Luke 9.55 And the son of man came not to destroy mens lives but to save them He calls his Followers to the most excellent heights of all vertue that they may shine as Lights before Men and become as the salt of the earth to season the manners of others and keep them from stinking corruption So that whereever his Religion should come it should produce many eminent lights and incomparable Examples and should have such a general influence as to render the Conversations of all more tolerable and savoury Such is the instruction contain'd in the preaching of Jesus exhibiting to us the true Principles of Christian Religion declaring the genuine spirit and temper of it He moreover asserted his own Authority and Mission from God to restore his true Religion and Worship he confirm'd the former Revelations and taught a just Reverence of them he reveal'd many things concerning the following state of his Church and promised farther information in those matters by the pouring out of his Spirit upon it But these are things foreign to our present business I shall therefore here shut up the first Chapter CHAP. II. The manner of Christ's teaching instructive to us how we ought to profess abett and maintain his Doctrine JEsus the great Prophet that was to come into the World did by his Preaching Inlighten the Darkness and dispel the gross prejudices of it he did moreover by the manner of declaring his Doctrine recommend it to our regard and instruct us how to profess and propugn it For first It is frequently taken Sect. 1 notice of by the Evangelists Matth. 7.29 Luk. 4.32 Mark 1.22 that he taught as one having Authority and not as the Scribes that the people were astonished at his Doctrine because he spake with Authority i. e. as became the Majesty of divine truth without affectation or artifice without ostentation of Wit or Eloquence not dealing in subtilties nor descanting upon the traditions of Elders or referring to the testimonies of famous Rabbies but he delivered plain and useful Instructions in a grave sincere and authoritative sort as a Messenger of God fully satisfied of the truth of what he spake and referring to the Conscience of his Auditors appealing to the Scriptures and demanding audience and credit for his works which proved his Mission from God. The things of God must be reverently handled his truth is a sacred depositum which as we must not be ashamed to own so we must not triflingly expose 'T is too great and noble a thing to be brought forth barely to entertain or divert the Company it carries its own Authority when solidly proposed and confirm'd by Sacred Writ but 't is enfeebled and diminish'd when dress'd with exquisite art as if it needed trimming or varnish It is profaned if we so blend it with Fancy Wit Eloquence or other small Arts that it serves only for an occasion of shewing our selves or that it appears not in its native beauty and majesty by reason of the spots and bedeckings that we bestow upon it to shew our art not to serve the Interest of the truth Religious truths are venerable they had their proper seat in the Conscience must be received thither with a full Conviction and rule there with a divine sway and we must endeavour to transmit and fasten them in the Conscience of others with all that Authority and venerable regard that they have or ought to have in our own Secondly It 's noted of Jesus that Sect. 2 he taught with becoming freedom and boldness his very Adversaries confessed he taught the way of God in truth not regarding the person of men Matth. 22.16 He conceal'd no necessary or useful truth for fear of offending He freely and sharply reproved the Scribes and Pharisees though the most potent Faction of greatest interest and repute He neither courted the people nor their Rulers he desisted not from refuting popular Errours though they more than once took up stones to cast at him nor was discouraged when he was told that Herod sought to kill him Go ye saith he and tell that fox that I cast out devils and do cures to day and to morrow and the third day I shall be perfected Luk. 13.31 There was nothing more offensive to the Jews than his healing on the Sabbath days and the Pharisees who were exceedingly Superstitious in that point watched him with an evil Eye yet he cured the sick in their presence and confounded their superstition with his free discourse upon that subject Is it not lawful to do good on the Sabbath days and which of you having an Ox or an Ass fallen into a Pit will not streightway pull him out on the Sabbath day Luk. 14.1 5. Thus he taught us sincerely and freely to profess necessary and useful truth and boldly to refute Errour and reprove Vice not to hold the truth with respect of persons nor in the just defence of it to fear the Faces of Men. Yet thirdly Jesus taught with Sect. 3 great Wisdom and Prudence taking fit seasons and accommodating himself to the needs and Capacities of Men. By familiar and apt Parables from things well known he did instruct the vulgar and at the same time did escape from the insidious and captious did pass by the obstinate and untreatable leaving them in their blindness or he shut their Mouths and defeated their Snares He pointed and barb'd an Arrow which flew more directly and stuck the faster in their Consciences for the Parable it was winged with Such was the Parable of the two Sons whom their Father commanded to work in his Vineyard representing the inexcusable obstinacy and impenitency of the Pharisees and that of the Husbandmen miserably destroy'd for refusing to their Lord the fruits of his Vineyard for killing his Servants and at last his Son whom he sent to reclaim them for they themselves confessed the justice of the proceed against those wicked Men and therein past Sentence on themselves even whilst they knew that he had spoken these Parables of them Matth. 21.41 45. With like Wisdom he defeated their captious questions and put them to silence with his Interrogatories Thus he asserted the Rights of God and the King and yet avoided the snare of the Herodians when they asked him concerning paying tribute to Caesar Matth. 22.21 So he asserted his own Divinity