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A sermon of the transfiguration of our Lord preach'd before the Queen-Dowager, in her chappel at Somerset-House, on the second Sunday in Lent, 1687/8 / by Thomas Godden.
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Godden, Thomas, 1624-1688.
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a Postscript joyned unto the Answer to Nubes Testium Price 2 d. A Sermon Preached in the Chappel of his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador on the Second Sunday of Advent 1687. On which was Solemnized the Feast of St. Francis Xaverius By the Reverend Father Lewis Sabran of the Society of Jesus Price 6d A full Answer to the second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrin of the Church of England in a Letter to the Defender Price 2d A Letter from the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom to the Author of the late Discourse concerning the Sacrament of Extreme Unction Price 1d Dr. Sherlock Sifted from his Bran and Chaff or a certain way of finding the true Sense of the Scriptures and discovering who are the true living Members of Christ in a Dialogue between the Master of the Temple and a Student there Price 4d A Sermon of the Nativity of our Lord Preach'd before their Majesties at Whitehal 1687. By B. Gifford Doctor of Sorbon Chaplain in Ordinary and Preacher to their Majesties Price 6d Further Remarks on the Account given by Dr. Tenison of his Conference with Mr. Pulton wherein the Doctors three exceptions against Edward Meredith are examined several of his other Misrepresentations laid open Motives of the said E. M's Conversion shewed and some other Points relating to Controversie occasionally treated together with an Appendix in which some passages of the Doctors Book Entituled Mr. Pulton Considered are reconsidered and in the Clofe the best means of coming to true Faith proposed to all which is added a Postscript in Answer to the Pamphlet put forth by the School-Master of Long-Acre 1s 6d A Short and plain Way to the Faith and Church compos'd many years since by that Eminent Divine Mr. Rich. Hudleston of the English Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict and now publish'd for the common Good by his Nephew Mr. Jo. Hudleston of the same Congregation To which is annexed His late Majesty King Charles the II.'s Papers found in his Closet after his Decease As also a brief Account of what occurred on his Death-bed in regard to Religion In Quarto Price 6d An Answer to D. Sherlock's Preservative against Popery c. Price 1d A Defence of the Doctrin and Holy Rites of the Roman Catholic Church from the Calumnies and Cavils of Dr. Burnet's Mystery of Iniquity Vnveiled Wherein is shewed the Conformity of the present Catholic Church with that of the purest Times Pagan Idolatry truly stated The Imputation of it clearly confuted And the Reasons are given why Catholics avoid the Reformation With a Postscript to Dr. R. Cudworth By J. Warner of the Society of Jesus The Second Edition In Octavo Price 2s C. Julii Caesaris quae Extant de Bello Gallico ex emendatione Jos Scaligeri In Octavo Price Bound 1s D. Joannis Chrysostomi de Sacris precibus Oratio Prima Cum Interpretatione ad verbum Grammatica vocum Explanatione In Greek and Latin. Twelves Price Bound 8d Aesopi Phrygis Fabularum jam recenter ex collatione optimorum exemplarium emendatius excusarum Pars Prima In Twelves Price 2d A Pious Exercise of Devotion to the Sacred Passion of our Saviour for obtaining a happy Death To be performed every Friday in Their Majesties Chappel Twelves Price 3d. The Office of the B. V. Mary in English with the Vespers or Evensong in Latin and English as it is Sung in the Catholic Church upon all Sundays and Principal Holy-days and the Compline Rosary Hymns and Prayers that are Sung at the Benediction of the B. Sacrament the Prayers for the King and Queen c. The ordinary of the Holy Mass the Sequence dies Irae dies illa that is Sung at Solemn Masses for the Dead and the Libera that is Sung after Mass for the Dead all in Latin and English Together with several other Devout Prayers in English In Eighteens Price Bound 2s The Office of the Holy Week according to the Roman Missal and Breviary In Eighteens Price Bound 2s A Short Christian Doctrin composed by the Reverend Father Robert Bellarmin of the Society of Jesus and Cardinal now Revis'd and much Amended In Twenty-fours Price 1d Matth. 4. 8. Adrichom 2 Pet. 1. 18. Dan. 14. 35. Exod. 3. 3. 3. P. q. 34. a. 4. Ibid. q. 45. a. 2. Ep. 56. ad Dioscorum Phil. 3. 21. Mat. 15. 19. Sess 5. Rom. 11. 12. Ecclici 31. Marc. 16. St. Greg. Hom. 29. in Evang. In Ps 7. Quo primo vitio lapsa est anima hoc ultimum vincit Serm. 60. Facilius obserare Coelum quam Animum Jac. 5. 17. Gen. 45. Mat. 13. 43. Luc. 18. 34. Isa 41. 27. Ps 147. Merito fulgebat Vestis Christi sicut Nix tanquam de illa lana jam facta erat Tunica S. Aug. in Ps 147. 2 Pet. 1. 16. 2 Machab. 1. 22. 1 Cor. 9. 25. 2 Tim. 2. 5. Mat. 22. 26. In Ps 36.
like to Angels What our Savior said of the Just that they shall be as the Angels in Heaven and who says St. Austin would have believ'd it if He had not said it is as true of the Wicked that they shall be like to the Apostate Angels in Hell. No medium to be expected Eternal Happiness must be our Reward or Eternal Misery our Doom This may seem a hard condition to the inordinate Lovers of this World and perhaps to some faint-hearted Christians who could wish to be in Heaven so it might cost them nothing But who ever thought the Children of Israel were hardly dealt with because God after he had led them on dry ground through the middle of Jordan let the Waters flow in their ordinary Channel and hinder their retiring back so that they were reduc'd to a necessity of being either Conquerors or Slaves This happy necessity whetted their Courage to that degree that in a short time they became Masters of the Earthly Canaan which was a Type and Figure of the Heavenly One. And God seems to make use of the same Stratagem to encourage us to fight for the Glory of Heaven when having led us through the Waters of Baptism he puts us upon a necessity of making our selves eternally happy if we will not be eternally miserable What then if some difficulties occur in regulating the inordinate desires of our corrupt Nature to the Law of God What if it cost some pain and labor to mortifie and repress the absurd and extravagant suggestions of our sensual appetites Is there any thing of satisfaction even in this World how short and momentary soever but costs pain and trouble to obtain it Does not the Merchant undertake long Voyages at Sea and expose his Riches to the danger of being lost to augment them Does not the Soldier undergo the greatest hardships and enter the Combat with manifest hazard of his Life to gain the empty Honor of a Triumph Does not the sick person abstain from all things which the Physician commands him and swallow many a bitter Potion to recover his Health which may be lost again as soon as re-established And if the transitory things of this World are not attainable without much toil and labor which when they are gotten are upon the brink of being lost can we expect that Heaven alone should be cast upon us without any pains or labor on our part to obtain it Surely nothing can be more unjust nor more unworthy a Creature endued with Reason than this unequal Proceeding Nor can I imagin any other cause of it but the want of true Faith or a supine neglect to render it lively by framing a right Judgment of the greatness of the Glory of the next Life in comparison of this Did we do this it were impossible we should not ardently desire and heartily labor for it and instead of repining at the pains we are to take for it wonder as St. Austin did that so great a Reward should be expos'd for so little Labor Miraberis tantum dari pro tantillo labore It were but just says he that Eternal Labor should be exacted of us for the obtaining of Eternal Rest Pro aeterna requie aeternus labor subeundus erat But because then the Reward could never be obtain'd because the Labor would never be at an end God has been so gracious as to order that it shall not only be temporal but short Non solum temporalem voluit laborem tuum Deus sed brevem And I may add not only short but momentary For if this Globe of Earth on which we live compar'd with the vast Extension of the Heavens bears no greater a proportion than that of a Point to the Circumference what can the few days we have to live upon this Point be in comparison of Eternity but a Moment And yet how much of this Moment do we daily pare off and squander away upon the Vanities of the World as if a whole Moment of Labor were too much for an Eternity of Glory Whatever our Conduct hath been hitherto let us not henceforward be so ungrateful to the Riches of God's Goodness and so treacherous to our own true Interest as not to employ the remainder of it at least in the Duties of a Pious and Holy Life for the purchasing of so Great and Glorious a Reward To conclude and sum up in brief what I have discoursed in this Part that like good Seed laid up in your hearts it may bring forth Fruit with Patience God has allotted to man two Lives the One in this World short and subject to many miseries the Other Eternal in the next and to those who live well free from all Misery and replenished with all kind of Goods This supposed nothing can be more evident than that the latter is infinitly and without comparison to be preferred before the former What then can we conclude from these premisses unless we will renounce our Reason as well as our Happiness but a strong Resolution to set our selves seriously to work and not suffer any day or hour or moment of our Life to slide away without making an advance towards the obtaining of so great a Good What was represented on Mount Thabor tho' Great and Glorious as you have heard in the First Part was but a Glimpse or Reflection of that Essential Glory which the Blessed shall enjoy in Heaven If then the Labor of acquiring it deters us let the Greatness of the Reward invite us so Great that St. Paul says Neither eye hath seen nor ear hath heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the good things which God hath prepared for those that love him May his Infinit Mercy bring us to that happy Station where we may behold him as he is face to face and see and enjoy what here we cannot comprehend In the mean time let us say from our hearts with St. Paul 1 Tim. 1. 17. To the King of Ages Immortal Invisible only God be Honor and Glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for his Houshold and Chappel And are to be sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch side in Black-Fryers where all Gentlemen may be furnish'd with them at the Prices following PRimitive Fathers no Protestants or a Vindication of Nubes Testium c. Price 6 d. The Papist Misrepresented and Represented with a Preface containing Reflections upon two Treatises the one of the State the other of the View of the Controversie between the Representer and the Answerer Price 1 s. Good Advice to the Pulpits deliver'd in a few cautions for the keeping up the Reputation of those Chairs and preserving the Nation in Peace Price 6 d. A Letter to a Peer of the Church of England clearing a Point touched in a Sermon Preached at Chester before his most Sacred Majesty on the 28th of August in Answer to