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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63907	A discourse of the divine omnipresence and its consequences delivered in a sermon before the honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inn, upon the first Sunday of this Michaelmas term / John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1683 (1683)	Wing T3307; ESTC R5395	16,965	40

enjoyment that God did not expect we should make our selves miserable by a perpetual abstinence and self-denial but we are to make the interest of Virtue and the honour of Religion the measure of our abstinence and enjoyment in these Cases There must be a prudence and a temperance in all things and so St. Paul tells us Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things and that he kept under his body and brought it into subjection lest that by any means when he had preached to others he himself should be a cast away But in another place he tells us expresly speaking of the painful and unnatural mortifications of some in those times such as were some among the Pharisees and the Essenes and such as followed the severe Discipline of the Sons of Jonadab the Son of Recab and some no doubt that pretended to be Christians likewise that bodily exercise profiteth nothing but godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the Life that now is that is it is consistent with a sober and moderate enjoyment of our selves and of that which is to come And in the beginning of that Chapter he tells us that the Spirit spake expresly that in the latter times some should depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils that is Doctrines exhorting to the Worship of Demons or Angels or departed Spirits speaking Lies in Hypocrisie having their Consciences seared with an hot Iron The very Picture of the Jesuites at this day who do not only practise but defend in their Writings the Doctrine of Equivocation and then it follows Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats And who they are that do both of those things at this time of the day we understand very well And indeed if we consider the unreasonable Austerities of some of the Religious as they are called abroad a man would be enclined to think they were not the Disciples of Jesus but of John and that they took part with the Baptist against the Messias accusing him as his Enemies the Jews were wont to do that he was a glutton and a wine-bibber and a friend of Publicans and sinners And it is observable that though John the Baptist were a great Example of Abstinence himself yet it does not appear that he enjoined any such thing to his Followers and Disciples but on the contrary every man was admitted to the Baptism of John upon the sole and only Condition of Repentance and was as to other things so far as was consistent with Virtue and with Prudence left to be guided by his Constitution and by the Circumstances of his Life and Fortune Seventhly By a due Reflexion upon the Divine Extension we shall be excused from the shame and inconvenience of auricular Confession as it is practised in the Church of Rome at this day for God does not expect that we should make a particular confession of our sins to men the consequence of which is only to make our selves uneasie in the company of those to whom we have confessed to run an apparent hazzard of being undone in many cases by Knaves for interest or by Fools out of levity inconstancy and a blabbing humour and indeed I know nothing that it can be good for but to let men that have nothing to do to pry into such matters into the secrets of Families and to put our selves perfectly at the Mercy of a Priest who will sometimes be treacherous as well as other men besides that instead of keeping up a wholsom Discipline it is the way to corrupt it and tends to the debauching both Layety and Clergy in as many ways as there are sins to be committed when the Confessor and the Penitent begin to discover and understand one another But we are obliged in the presence of men to make a general Confession and we are in our thoughts as we go along to apply that general Confession to our particular sins and before God who is a Witness and a Spectator of our evil ways who is so intimately present to all our thoughts and actions that it is to no purpose to think of concealing any thing from him we are to bewail and bemoan our selves in a most particular manner we must humble our selves before him in sackcloth and ashes by laying our sins at the Footstool of his Mercy with all their aggravations beseeching him most humbly with a sorrowful and broken heart to pardon us for what is past and to assist us with his preventing Grace for the time to come that we may no longer abuse our selves and do despite to so merciful and so gracious a God In the Eighth place The Consideration of the Divine Omnipresence and Extension ought to fill us with chearfulness and courage in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us it ought to give us a full confidence and assurance in his Providence which where ever we are is always hovering with wings of mercy and compassion over us that is always at hand and is a ready help in the needful time of trouble that is never far off in a day of adversity or in a time of danger but is always nigh to them that call upon him yea to all such as call upon him faithfully Or if he do not see it fit or expedient to remove our trouble to ease us of our pain to prevent our danger and to instate us in a full possession of peace and rest and safety we are then in the Ninth and last place to Consider That a Being of so great Goodness and so tender Mercies as all his Works discover him to be would not suffer us to be tormented when we are not conscious to our selves of any heinous Guilt or when we are after an hearty and sincere Repentance but that there is a Scene of Happiness behind which as yet we do not see that he designs by this Calamity compared with the innocence of our lives or the sincerity of our repentance and the goodness of his Nature to give us a seasonable prospect of a blessed Immortality in another and a better state wherein these light afflictions that are but for a moment shall be made sufficient recompence and amends for by a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of glory FINIS