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A29515	The easiness and difficulty of the Christian religion in a sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor, and court of Aldermen of the city of London, at Guild-Hall chappel, on Sunday May 26. 1689 / by Isaac Bringhurst ...	Bringhurst, Isaac, d. 1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing B4695; ESTC R14226	21,221	40

well as St. Paul's is evident by many places of Scripture I shall name two or three 2 Cor. 3.6 The Gospel is called the Ministration of the Spirit in opposition to the Law which was but the Ministration of the Letter which signifies that by the Law of Moses there was no inward Assistance of the Spirit of God for our Assistance in Religion as there is under the Gospel for the Performance of all the Duties it requires of us and that every Christian as well as St. Paul is to know experimentally the Power of our Saviour's Resurrection or is assisted with that Power which raised Christ from the dead He himself tells us in Rom. 8.9 11. where he makes it an essential Character of our Christianity to have the Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead in us And Col. 2.12 he attributes our being buried with him in Baptism and raised again to Newness of Life which contains all that the Gospel requires of us to the Faith of the Operation of God who raised our Saviour from the dead Philosophy tells us that Sublunary Bodies are influenced by the Heavens as Celestial Bodies Is it not as reasonable to believe that our Souls are influenced and enlivened by God Cannot the Father of Spirits as easily and naturally assist our Spirits as the Celestial Bodies these below If so then what Yoke can possibly be uneasy to us or what Burden heavy or troublesome I do not say insupportable when in all our religious Actions we act in Conjunction with our Creator 3. The Greatness of the Reward proposed in the most emphatical but intelligible Expressions of Felicity As Crowns of Glory Inheritances incorruptible and that fade not away Immortality Eternal Life and for these light Afflictions which last but for a Moment a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4.17 And whatever we lose here we are promised for it an hundred fold hereafter If we venture and lose into the bargain our Lives in the dispute for our Saviour and his Religion we lose but crasy heavy painful Bodies for Bodies spiritual healthful and incorruptible Sin and Sickness and Putrifaction for Holiness and Health and Incorruption these Tabernacles of Clay daily declining and dissolving into the Earth of which they were at first made and subject to be broken by many accidental Violences and Knocks they are like to meet with in the hurry of this World for a Building of God a House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens 2 Cor. 4.1 Who would not chuse to be thus unclothed to be clothed upon with those everlasting Robes of Light and Glory A full Perswasion of this Reward hath made Fire and Faggot Swords and wild Beasts and all the cruellest Instruments of Death not only eligible Heb. 11.35 but easy to many hundreds of Christians that they might obtain a better Resurrection And we have reason to believe it from common Experience of humane Affairs for we daily see that neither Seas nor Rocks nor Storms nor Tempests will discourage Men from making very desperate Adventures when they have but probable Expectations of a great Reward but here is all the Assurance God that cannot lye can give us And whilest we are here in the consciencious and sincere Practice of our Religion we have that Peace of God which passeth all Understanding and is able to make every Yoke easy and every Burden light our Saviour hath any where in his Religion layed upon us 4. It affords us the most powerful Examples God himself Matth. 5.45 to the end where our Saviour commands us to love our Enemies c. that we may be the Children of our Heavenly Father and in the last verse perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect Now who would stick at any thing that may advance him not only to the Similitude but Perfection of God himself The Duty is something difficult but the Example is a sufficient Reward to make any labour or pains delightful and easy to us The Son of God took upon him our Nature to be an Example to us and here we have an Example of our own Nature in the Practice of the hardest Duties in the midst of Opposition and the worst of times and of more than he requires of us namely laying down his Life for his Enemies and all for our sakes that we might be encouraged in our Duty Complanatur itur vestigiis Domini said Tertullian To this Example the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews directs us chap. 12. ver 2 3 4. lest we be weary and faint in our Minds In chap. 11. he proposes the Examples of very great and wise Men Noah Abraham Moses and divers others and both what great things they did and suffered and in chap. 12. ver 1. he doth as it were sum up the Evidence that this so great a Cloud of Witnesses in storms of Persecution assist us with to make it easy to lay aside the Sin that so easily besets us and then reinforceth the whole Argument with the Example of our Saviour in the following verses before mentioned In chap. 6.12 Be not slothful saith the same Apostle but Followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises He is certainly strangely degenerated and sunk into the Ground of which he was at first made that finds it an uneasy thing not to be slothful And the Apostle plainly here tells us that any body else will follow those great Examples our Religion affords us and by Faith and Patience inherit the Promises Examples all Men acknowledg and all Experience demonstrates are a most effectual way of perswading and in these Examples we have all the advantage the Reverence of Persons or the Reason of the Thing can assist us with 5. It supplies us with the most pregnant and efficacious Principle of doing or suffering any thing it requires of us This the serious Consideration of our Religion must necessarily beget in us if we really believe the Truth of it for it is nothing else but God's so loving the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Joh. 3.16 And this his only begotten Son so loving it as to be crucified for it These two Articles contain the substance of the Revelation given us in the Gospel of our Religion Now if Love begets Love can we believe and think of this Religion without being constrain'd to live no longer to our selves but to him that dy'd for us to live to him and die for him when he requires it of us And the Constraints of Love are the Extasies and Triumphs of it which make every thing easy and delightful Thus our Christianity without us impresseth its own Characters within us and becomes the Gospel of Christ written in our Hearts and our Faith removeth Mountains and makes all ways plain and overcometh the World and crucifieth the Flesh with its Affections and Lusts working by the Love