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IMPRIMATUR Carolus Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc. Lond. à Sacris Septemb. 4. 1689. SERMONS AND DISCOURSES ON Several Occasions By WILLIAM WAKE D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties and Preacher to the Honourable Society of GRAYS-INN LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard And W. Rogers at the Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet MDCXC TO The RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir WILL. RAWLINSON Kt. One of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England Sir JOHN HOLT Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England TO The HONOURABLE Sir WILL. GREGORY Kt. One of the Justices of Their Majesties Court of Kings-Bench Sir JOHN POWELL Kt. Sir THO. ROOKESBY Kt. Justices of Their Majesties Court of Common-Pleas Sir EDWARD NEVILL Kt. Sir JOHN TURTON Kt. Barons of Their Majesties Court of Exchequer TO The WORSHIPFUL THE MASTERS OF THE BENCH AND TO The Rest of the MEMBERS OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF GRAYS-INN HAving a long time designed to make some publick acknowledgment of my great Obligations to you I could not tell in what way more properly to do it than by presenting to you a small Collection of some of those Discourses which I have lately had the Honour to Preach before you 'T is upon this acount that I now crave leave to Prefix your Names to these Sermons Both as a Testimony of that particular Respect I owe to you and to let the World see what Persons they are by whom I have the Happiness to be Countenanced and Encouraged in my Ministry Such whose Integrity and Abilities have rendred them at Once both the Support and Ornament of our Courts of Justice Whose firmness to the true Interest of our Church and Government in the Worst of Times have set them above the power of Malice to Calumniate Who by suffering heretofore rather than they would betray either the Liberties of their Countrey or their Own Consciences have effectually convinced all Impartial men That as it cannot be Ignorance of our Laws and Constitution so neither is it Interest or any other unworthy Design but the clear Evidence of Right that engages them to that Submission they now pay to the Present Government And who that they may long possess those Places they so worthily fill and be the Honour of the Bench as the Rest of the Society are of the Profession is the Hearty Prayer of Him who with all possible Respect will always remain Your most Obliged Humble Servant WILLIAM WAKE The CONTENTS SERMON I. OF the Qualifications required to a Profitable Hearing of God's Word Luke viii 8 He that hath ears to hear let him hear SERMON II. Of the Benefit and Practice of Consideration Deuter. xxxii 29 O! that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end SERMON III. Of the Devices of Satan 2 Cor. ii 11 For we are not ignorant of his devices SERMON IV. Of stedfastness in Religion 2 Pet. iii. 17 18. Ye therefore Beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be Glory both now and for ever Amen SERMON V. Of the Reasonableness and Terrors of the future Judgment Acts xxiv 25 And as he reason'd of Righteousness Temperance and Judgment to come Felix trembled and answer'd Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee SERMON VI. Of the Causes of mens delaying their Repentance Acts xxiv 25 Felix trembled and answer'd Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee SERMON VII Of the Danger of mens delaying their Repentance Acts xxiv 25 Felix trembled and answer'd Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee SERMON VIII An Exhortation to mutual Charity and Union among Protestants Rom. xv 5 6 7. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive ye one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God SERMON IX Of the Nature and Benefit of a publick Humiliation Joel ii 12 13. Therefore also now saith the Lord Turn ye even to me with all your heart and with Fasting and with Weeping and with Mourning And rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil SERMON X. Of Contending Earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you That you should Earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the saints DISCOURSE I. Of the Nature and End of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper 1 Cor. xi 24 This do in Remembrance of Me. DISCOURE II. Of the Honour due to the Blessed Virgin Luke i. 48 49. For behold from henceforth all Generations shall call me blessed For he that is Mighty hath done for me great things and holy is his name ERRATA SErm 1. p. 27. l. 6. r. Christ's Ib. l. 24. r. an Indisposition Serm. 3. p. 80. l. 16. r. may we Serm. 5. p. 161. l. 3. r. he so much ib. l. 15. r. Interests p. 182. l. 1. personally r. presently Serm. 6. p. 190. l. 10. dele been p. 202. l. 19. r. than as they Serm. 8. p. 264. l. 17. r. in the Faith Serm. 11. p. 383. l. 11. marg r. illustre Serm. 12. p. 471. l. 23. r. do not esteem l. 24. dele not p. 480. l. 13. these r. those p. 493. l. 7. r. ordinarily OF THE QUALIFICATIONS Required to a Profitable Hearing OF GOD's WORD A SERMON Preach'd on the Gospel for Sexagesima-Sunday AT GRAYS-INN 1689. LUKE VIII 8 He that hath Ears to hear let him Hear THE Words are a kind of Proverbial Expression with which our Blessed Saviour very frequently concludes his Discourses to his Disciples the more to engage them to a just Attention to and Consideration of that holy Gospel which he delivered unto them And the import whereof we cannot better learn than from that excellent Parable to which they are here subjoin'd A Sower went out to sow his Seed and as he sowed some fell by the way-side and it was trodden down and the fowls of the air devoured it And some fell upon a Rock and as soon as it was sprung up it withered away because it lacked moisture And some fell among Thorns and the Thorns sprang up with it and choaked it And other fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit an hundred-fold