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A70263 Several sermons upon the fifth of St. Matthew .... [vol. 1] being part of Christ's Sermon on the mount / by Anthony Horneck ... ; to which is added, the life of the author, by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. 1698 (1698) Wing H2851; ESTC R40468 201,926 515

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added to you Matth. VI. 33. It 's this must have your Hunger and Thirst The desires after necessary Comforts of this life must have the other's leavings Nay you will never hunger and thirst after Righteousness as ye should till you mind the World less and moderate and qualifie your greediness after it for your strong desires after the satisfactions of this World will infallibly drown your earnest Desires after Righteousness whatever opinion you may have of your skill to keep the balance even To be strongly carried toward them both is a thing as hard to conceive and as hard to do as to reconcile contradictions There is such an opposition betwixt Heaven and Earth that a Man may as soon serve and please two contrary Masters as be fond of both at the same time Therefore whoever they be of you that are very sharp set upon the Wealth and Honour and greatness of the World your Appetite after Righteousness must be flat and dull and thus it will be to your dying Day except your desires after the Pomp and Vanities of this World be kept under and brought into subjection III. Those who truly hunger and thirst after Righteousness and I must boldly say for my Text warrants me to do so you shall be filled Blessed are ye that c. How you shall be filled I have shewed already and I doubt not but such hungry and thirsty Souls do find by blessed Experience that this very Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness is pleasing that God doth certainly give his Holy Spirit to them that seriously ask it and gives more grace to them that earnestly seek it and greater strength against Temptations to them that importunately beg it and greater support to those that will not be satisfied without it and greater light to them that supplicate for it as they would do for their lives May be some of you find that their Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness is not so strong so lively as formerly it was if so the causes of this decay must be search'd into and if suffering your affections to run out after the World too much hath been the cause of it they must be checkt in their Career and reduced into the right way again if a vanity or secret Lust hath beguiled your Minds that must be dismiss'd without Mercy if want of thinking hath caused it a fresh view must be taken of the Excellency Beauty and glorious Consequences of this Righteousness if melancholy or some other bodily Distemper hath occasion'd it God must be considered as a Father who will not turn a Child that 's weak and sickly out of Doors However in the first Conversion this Hunger and Thirst after Goodness is ever more vehement and brisk than afterward when the surprize of Grace and Mercy is over and the blazing Flame turns into a more gentle Fire but this must not fright you If your present Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness hath the same Effects which the former desire had i. e. if it makes your obedience grow if it both confirms and enlarges your respect to the Commands of your Lord and Master let not the abatement of the former Flame discourage you Look up to that God who hath said Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Search what Graces what Perfections what spiritual Ornaments you want and quicken your Hunger and Thirst after them and rest confident that God will satisfie the longing Soul and fill the thirsty Soul with goodness But whatever fulness you may want here doubt not but Heaven will complete it Your Souls will there be filled and your Cup will run over there you will be filled with the Rivers of God's pleasure fill'd with Eternal light fill'd with the truest Wisdom fill'd with Universal knowledge the Glory of the Lord will fill the heavenly Tabernacle and you in the midst of it In the Tabernacle of old his Glory that filled it appeared in a Cloud in the Heavenly Sanctuary it will appear in the sweetest Light and Splendour Job complain'd that his misery had filled his Face with wrinkles poor Man but these you need not fear in that place where he that is altogether lovely will present you to his Father blameless without spot or wrinkle or any such thing Here your faces are sometimes filled with shame upon the account of your falls and slips there they will be fill'd with Joy and Gladness There you need not fear that God as rich Men do the poor sometimes on Earth will dismiss you with a Complement Depart in peace be ye filled be ye warmed but you will be filled with all the fulness of God it must needs be so for in his presence there is fulness of joy and pleasure at his Right-hand for ever more SERMON VII St. Matth. Ch. V. Ver. 7. Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtain mercy A Mmianus Marcellinus a grave Heathen Writer taking notice of the differences among Christians in matters of Religion and the hatred one Sect bore to another and the Tumults that were caused at the Election of Bishops and the Blood that was spilt upon that account hath a very unlucky Expression concerning it There are saith he no wild Beasts so cruel or so barbarous one to another as some of these Christian Sects are to those that differ from them in opinion a very sad Character this and Pudeat haec de nobis c. It is a shame that Heathens and Infidels should have occasion given them to speak so reproachfully of this Noble Religion But surely this cannot be the fault of Religion but of the proud and cholerick Men who profess it or have the management of it Christ their Master never taught them to do so His Precepts run in another strain they savour of another Genius No command of cruelty or animosity is to be found in all the Gospel so far from a Command that the very appearances of it are forbidden Mercy and Charity is the Soul the Breath of those lively Oracles Mercy is the Language of that Book and to Mercy runs the Promise of the Text Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy For the understanding of which words I shall I. Give you a true description of the mercifull II. Explain to you the reason of the truth implied here that those who are not mercifull cannot be blessed No mercifulness no happiness III. Shew how the mercifull shall obtain mercy I. To give you a true description of the mercifull we must search into the nature of Mercy and in doing so we shall find this vertue to be of a vast extent insomuch that there is none so mean in the world that can justly plead impossibility of practising it upon the account of his circumstances in the world all being capable all able one way or other to exercise it And 1. One principal ingredient of this mercifull temper is a compassionate heart or an inward pity and compunction at the sight or hearing of the