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A56699 A sermon preached upon St. Peter's day printed at the desire of some that heard it, with some enlargements / by a divine of the Church of England. Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1687 (1687) Wing P845; ESTC R4849 40,780 79

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you that ye love one another Have a sincere and hearty Affection for all Christian People and imitate not the Romanists who are out of Charity with the far greatest part of the Christian World. This Love of God and of our Brethren which are inseparable is the fruit of Faith and of Prayer without which they are nothing worth We must not only lift up our Hands to God which is a description of Prayer but lift up our Hands also unto his Commandments which we have loved Psal cxix 48. which is to do God's Will with a sincere Affection to it Without such fruits of Faith we shall not be able to stand fast in time of Temptation as Men built upon a Rock No our Lord hath told us that they who hear his Word and do it not are like to a Man that built his House upon the Sand which is soon overturned If we profess then this Faith which St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Living God which is the Foundation of Christianity let us be faithful and obedient unto him in all things For what he hath bidden us do as well as what he hath bidden us believe comes with the very same Authority and ought to be look'd upon as the words of the ever living God by his only begotten Son whom he hath sent to reclaim the World both from their Infidelity and from their Impiety This is part of the Foundation of our Religion that we renounce all Wickedness as well as that we believe our Lord Jesus to be the eternal Son of God. So St. Paul teaches us as we translate his words 2 Tim. ii 19. The Foundation of God standeth sure having this Seal The Lord knoweth them that are his And let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from Iniquity As much as to say this a setled Truth in the Christian Religion that they are Christ's they alone are known or approved by him who so profess Belief in him as to depart from Iniquity A profession of his Faith we ought to make but not content our selves with that alone We must add something to it and St. Peter tell us what 2 Pet. i. 5 6 7. Add to your Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledg and to Knowledg Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness brotherly Kindness and to brotherly Kindness Charity For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the Knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ And so as St. Jude teaches you in the last place Fourthly You may look for the Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto Eternal Life That is have a good hope to be saved in the day of the Lord by the great Grace and Mercy of God in Christ Jesus Stedfastly expect this and wait for it with a patient hope whatsoever any Man can say to discourage you Let it not shake you nor make you doubt of the Mercy of God in this way unto which the Holy Ghost directs us all the Power to which the Pope pretends from St. Peter shall never be able to shut you out of Heaven He may shut out himself by his unjust Usurpations and by his Uncharitableness and by his unwarrantable Additions to the Christian Doctrine and Religion but none of those who trust in God after this manner which I have declared shall ever be confounded Let him thunder and lighten as much as he pleases it shall never hurt and therefore should not fright any of those pious Souls nor shall their hope ever make them ashamed The sound of Damnation perpetually in their Ears they ought to hear as an empty noise and vain words which should not so much as startle much less terrify them or turn them out of the way wherein they are All the Conceit which others may have of their own Merits and of the Merits of the Saints and of the Treasures of their Church and the Indulgences of the Pope shall never avail them so much as the Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ towards those who look for his appearing unto Eternal Life by an holy Faith and by ardent Devotion and by unfeigned Love to God and to all Christian People Which cannot fail to commend us sufficiently unto him who is able as it follows in St. Jude to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his Glory with exceeding Joy. You ought not to question it nor suffer others to raise doubts in your Minds about it but in assured hope of it continually bless and praise the Father of Mercies who hath called you into his Church chosen you to be his People wrought Faith and Love and hope of Eternal Life in you saying as he concludes his Epistle To the only Wise God our Saviour be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power both now and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA PAge 6. line 14. for would not read could not P. 24. l. 14. Marg. r. Faelix iii. P. 30. l. antepen r. the greatest P. 33. l. 19. r. that they make P. 41. l. 21. f. prevent r. pervert P. 45. l. 18. r. next Chapter but one P. 51. l. 17. r. next Chapter but one P. 56. l. 23. r. next Chapter but one An Advertisment Of Books printed for Richard Chiswell THE History of the Reformation of the Church of England By GILBERT BVRNET D. D. in two Volumes Folio The Moderation of the Church of England in her Reformation in avoiding all undue Compliances with Popery and other sorts of Phanaticisms c. By TIMOTHY PVLLER D. D. Octavo A Dissertation concerning the Government of the Ancient Church more particularly of the Encroachments of the Bishops of Rome upon other Sees By WILLIAM CAVE D. D. Octavo An Answer to Mr. Serjeants Sure Footing in Christianity concerning the Rule of Faith With some other Discouses By WILLIAM FALKNER D. D. Quarto A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England in Answer to a Paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the Nullity of our Orders By GILBERT BVRNET D. D. Octavo The History of the Gunpowder Treason collected from Approved Authors as well Popish as Protestant With a Vindication of the said History and of the Proceedings and Matters relating thereunto from the Exceptions which have been made against it and more especially of late Years by the Author of the Catholick Apology and others Quarto A Relation of the barbarous and bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants begun at Paris and carried on over all France in the Year 1572. Collected out of Mezeray Thuanus and other Approved Authors Quarto The Apology of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Signior Scipio a Venetian Gentleman concerning the Council of Trent Written both in Latin by the Right Reverend Father in God JOHN JEWEL Lord Bishop of Sarisbury Made English by a Person of Quality To which is added The Life of the said Bishop Collected and written by the same Hand Octavo A Letter writ by the last Assembly General of the Clergy of France to the Protestants inviting them to return to their Communion Together with the Methods proposed by them for their Conviction Translated into English and examined By GILB BVRNET D. D. Octavo The Life of WILLIAM BEDLE D. D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland Together with certain Letters which passed betwixt him and James Waddesworth a late Pensioner of the Holy Inquisition in Sevil in matter of Religion concerning the General Motives to the Roman Obedience Quarto The Decree made at Rome the second of March 1679. condemning some Opinions of the Jesuits and other Casuists Quarto A Discourse concerning the Necessity of Reformation with respect to the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome Quarto First and Second Parts A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an unknown Tongue Quarto A Papist not misrepresented by Protestants Being a Reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to A Papist Misrepresented and Represented Quarto An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late Bishop of Condom in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church Quarto A Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator 4º A CATECHISM explaining the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome With an Answer thereunto By a Protestant of the Church of England Octavo The Second Edition corrected with a Vindication of a Passage in the said Catechism from the Exceptions made against it in A Reply to the Answer of the Amicable Accommodation