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A63914 The praise of humility a sermon preached upon the 20th of March 1687 : being Palm-Sunday, at the Guild-Hall-chappel, London / by John Turner ... Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50. 1687 (1687) Wing T3314; ESTC R10525 16,061 42

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THE PRAISE OF HUMILITY A SERMON PREACHED Upon the 20th of March 1687. BEING Palm-Sunday AT The Guild-Hall-Chappel London By JOHN TVRNER Hospitaller of St. Thomas Southwark LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1687. To the Right Honorable and my singular Good Lord George Lord Jeffries Baron of Wem Lord High Chancellor of England and one of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council c. My Lord THis Sermon which for the great seasonableness of the Subject of it I think it my Duty to Publish at this time it being Preached as it fell out but just the day before His Majesty was pleased to signifie His Gracious Resolution to allow Liberty of Conscience to all his loving Subjects of what Denomination soever I do humbly beseech your Lordship to Accept and Patronize as you do the Author and give me leave at once to pay a very small and inconsiderable Acknowledgment for many the most signal and obliging Favors and to shelter so lovel y so useful and so excellent a Vertue under the shady Patronage of so great a Person whose Name and Authority will at the same time render it more Charming to its Friends and make it appear so formidable to its Enemies that it will constrain and force them into its own resemblance and cause them to Abase and Humble themselves before it But besides the plain suitableness of the Discourse to the Juncture Humility and Charity being the only expedients that can make Liberty safe or Toleration a tolerable thing by preventing those Quarrels and Animosities that arise from different sentiments in Religious matters Besides my own particular and personal Obligations which I cannot think of without shame when I consider how little I deserve them there is also a Congruity in the Subject of my Sermon to your Lordships Person which seems to me to challenge and single you out for a Patron without asking any leave but from the Nature of things I mean those Natural effects of this incomparable Vertue which I have recommended which flow so easily so unaffectedly from you with so much Beauty and Brightness with so much Strength and Vigor and with so constant and uninterrupted a Stream in the sweetness and affability of your Conversation even among your Inferiors and Dependants in the easiness of Access in the midst of so much Greatness the Quickness the Justice the Sagacity of dispatch in so importunate a crowd of Business all which would be certain and infallible Indications at once of a Generous and Composed Mind a Great and Lofty and yet an Humble Spirit though they were not as they are attended with a peculiar proneness to Forgive the most implacable and mortal Enemies of which your Lordship hath given such convincing Proofts that this alone might be sufficient with out that universal Merit which even Envy and Detraction cannot help allowing you to recommend you Powerfully to the Favor of a Prince in whom Mercy is Hereditary and Majesty is by Nature temper'd with Pity and Compassion to render it more easie and familiar to his People But there is likewise the Justice and Integrity the Constancy and Courage the Diligence and Assiduity the Wisdom and the Condu●t of your Actions that have concurr'd and club'd with a kind and obliging Temper to render you truly Great and make you an Object worthy the Esteem of two the most Judicious and Discerning Kings that ever sat upon the English Throne And my Lord it is another genuine Effect of that admirable Vertue which is the Glorious Theme of the ensuing Papers that it makes its way to Greatness as your Lordship hath done not by Popularity and mischievous Intrigues to the Danger if not Ruin of the publick Peace but only by just Actions and honorable Designs and like your Great Master whom Providence had a mind to shew how much it loved by the Protection of a weakly Bark when the Royal Oak was unable to defend Him you Ventured Suffered and Escaped a Shipwreck and made a costly Sacrifice of your Hopes and Fortunes to the publick Good before your entrance upon that Scene of Honor in which you now shine with so much the greater Brightness for having first suffered so Glorious an Eclipse by this means shewing at once the difference betwixt your Enemies and you and verifying our Saviours never failing Promise to all his Faithful Followers and Disciples that whosoever Exalteth himself by Base Dishonorable and Vnworthy Means the same shall be Abased and he that Humbleth himself shall be Exalted For Humility my Lord is the true way to Greatness it is not a Poltron and a sneaking Disposition as its Name may seem unjustly to Insinuate but it implies Magnanimity and Courage at the same time by looking backward upon God and inwards upon it Self and forwards upon the Hope and Expectation of a future Life it acquires an habitual Sense and Sympathy of Human Frailty a Pity and Compassion for Human want and necessity an universal Candor Integrity and Ingenuity in all its Words and Actions and Designes a warm inclination to promote the good of its Country and the happiness of Mankind an admiration of God and a desire to be like him and a scorn of every thing that is unhandsome or unjust It cannot revenge its own wrongs upon the Public it cannot embarrass or embroil the World upon a principle of Private Interest it cannot climb to Greatness upon the ruins of Justice though it would never so fain but it still meets with something that pulls it strongly back and rewards all Ambition with regret and pain but what is noble and useful and serviceable to the World and is an Instinct of the Divinity in Human Nature to prompt it when fair Opportunities present themselves to great Atchievements and generous Vndertakings it Ascends by the Steps of Chancery into the Temple of Honor and from the Pinacle of that lofty Structure it Surveys the whole Extent and Circumference of things and will not fall down to Worship a mean design to Purchase all the Prospect that it Views But my Lord I grow troublesome with too much length and therefore if what I have said may not be allow'd to be Apology sufficient for the hardiness of this Address I shall only beg that what I cannot Justifie you would please to Pardon and with my Prayers to God for your Lordships Health and Happiness and encrease of Honor I am may it it please your Lordship Your Lordships most Humble Grateful and Obedient Servant John Turner The Collect for Palm-Sunday ALmighty and Everlasting God who of thy tender Love towards Mankind hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our Flesh and to suffer Death upon the Cross that all Mankind should follow the Example of his great Humility Mercifully grant that we may both follow the Example of his Patience and also be made partakers of his Resurrection through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Matth. 5. 3.