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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30930	A sermon preached at St. Mary Le Bow, on Whitsunday, May xxxi, 1691 at the consecration of the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and primate of all England / by Ra. Barker ...	Barker, Ralph, 1648-1708.	1691 (1691)	Wing B777A; ESTC R17105	11,838	31

their Affections and there is no coming at their Understandings but by them we lose our labour if we think to storm that Fort without gaining these Out-works and seeing it is so we must speak to Men as they are capable of hearing perhaps it is thus on purpose to teach us that Love is as valuable as many Truths that it is the way of gaining all Hath not God commanded us to follow the Truth in Love hath he not resolved that he will teach the meek his ways that he will not accept all Knowledge all Faith and what can Truth it self aim at more without Charity It is not the prerogative of Truth to convince it is but the Way not the End we water but God gives the increase we propose but God convinces we rebuke but it is God who gives Repentance What Pride what Presumption then is it for any to be angry and peevish if so soon as they have watered the increase doth not appear if upon their proposing the Person is not presently convinced if upon their rebuking he shew no Repentance And shall any do well to be angry in these cases Doth not all such Passion fly in the face of God himself who is pleased to withhold his Concurrence either because they proceed not in his way did not rebuke with Meekness or because they claimed too great a share in it themselves they must have them to be their Converts or lastly because God knows better than we when to interpose and bestow his Mercy that the power may be of God and not of Man that it may answer his ends rather than theirs I have been the longer upon this because I do believe that our feeding in Love is loving of Christ the Object different but the same Affection for that very Union which makes Christ to be one with them makes our Love of them to be our Love of Christ and that Feast of Love which we are going to partake of makes us to be one with Christ as it unites us in Love and Good-will towards each other whereby we being many become one Body one Church the members of Christ and of each other To conclude all Suffer I beseech you a word of Exhortation and let me once twice and a third time inforce this Duty that if you love Christ that as you love Christ that as you desire your Love may be approved and inlarged by him you would feed and thus feed his Sheep gathering the Lambs with your Arms and carrying them in the Bosome gently leading those that are with young and fetching back the lost upon your shoulders These are the Expressions which God by his Prophet and Christ in his Gospel are pleased to make use of setting forth thereby their great Care and tender Concern for their Sheep and can you take a better Course Can you follow a better Pattern than to be merciful as your Heavenly Father is merciful than to be sent as Christ himself was to seek and to save May you so faithfully discharge this great Duty that Christ may own and bless whatsoever you do for him and his and the God of Peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect to do his Will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight to whom be Glory for ever Amen FINIS Books Printed for James Adamson I. A Defence of Diocesan Episcopacy in answer to a Book of Mr. David Clarkson lately published Entituled Primitive Episcopacy by Henry Maurice D. D. Octavo II. Vita Reginaldi Poli Cardinalis ac Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Acta Disceptationis inter Legatos Angliae Galliae in Concilio Constantiensi de utriusque Gentis Dignitate Praerogativa in Conciliorum Tomis desiderata Libri Rarissimi olim quidem Editi sed paucis noti ac nullis facile obvii Octavo III. Pauli Colomesii Observationes sacrae Editio secunda auctior emendatior accedunt ejusdem Paralipomena de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Passio sancti Victoris Massiliensis ab eodem emendata Editio quarta ultima longè auctior emendatior Oct. IV. The Travels of Monsieur de The venot into the Levant In three parts viz. 1. Into Turky 2. Persia 3. The East Indies Folio V. Mr. Chillingworth's Book called The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation made more generally useful by omitting Personal Contests but inserting whatsoever concerns the common Cause of Protestants or defends the Church of England with an exact Table of Contents and an Addition of some genuine Pieces of Mr. Chillingworth's never before printed viz. against the Infallibility of the Roman Church Transubstantiation Tradition c. And an Account of what moved the Author to turn Papist with his Confutation of the said Motives Quarto VI. A Treatise of the Celibacy of the Clergy wherein its Rise and Progress are Historically considered Quarto VII A Treatise proving Scripture to be the Rule of Faith writ by Reginald Peacock Bishop of Chichester before the Reformation about the year 1450. VIII Doubts concerning the Roman Infallibility 1. Whether the Church of Rome believe it 2. Whether Jesus Christ or his Apostles ever Recommended it 3. Whether the Primitive Church knew or used that way of deciding Controversies IX A brief Historical Account of the Behaviour of the Jesuits and their Faction for the first twenty five Years of Q. Elizabeths Reign with an Epistle of W. Watson a Secular Priest shewing how they were thought of by other Romanists of that time Quarto X. A brief Examination of the present Roman Catholick Faith contained in Pope Pius his new Creed by the Scriptures Ancient Fathers and their own Modern Writers Quarto