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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47646	Sermons preached by Dr. Robert Leighton, late archbishop of Glasgow published at the desire of his friends, after his death, from his papers written with his own hand.	Leighton, Robert, 1611-1684.	1692 (1692)	Wing L1031; ESTC R29941	164,938	342

assimilates the Soul to him makes it Divine and therefore Bountiful full of Love to all So these two contradict not Love the Lord with all thy heart and thy Neighbour as thy self If all our love must go to God what remains for our Neighbour Indeed all go upwards and be all placed on him and from thence it is refounded and regulated downwards to men according to his Will But Self-love brings forth Pride and Cruelty and Covetousness and Uncleanness and disdain of others and all such kind of Monsters so it is the main breaking of the Law All that can be said will not perswade men to this till the Lord by his Love teach it and impress it on the heart Know that this is the Badge of Christs Followers and his great Rule and Law given to them and if you will follow him that you may come to be where he is then study this That as our Lord Christ loved us so also we ought to love one another SERMON XI PREFACE GReat and various are the Evils that lodg within the Heart of Man Hence proceed Evil thoughts Adulteries Murders and many other mischiefs as our Saviour specifies there they come forth apace and yet the heart is not emptied of them But was this heart thus at first when it came newly forth of the hands of its Maker Surely no Man was made upright but he found out many Inventions Soon did the heart find the way to corrupt it self but to renew it self is as impossible as to have been the Author of its own Creation easily could it deface the precious Characters of Gods Image but it passes the Art of Men and Angels to restore them Only the Son of God who for that purpose took on him our Nature can make us according to the Apostles Phrase partakers of the Divine Nature It is he alone that can banish these Unclean Spirits and keep possession that they return no more Have not they made a happy change of Guests that have those Infernal Troops turn'd out of Doors and the King of Glory fixing his abode within them This is the voice of the Gospel Lift up your heads ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors that the King of glory may enter in But small is the number of those that open where this voice is daily sounded yea some there are that grow worse under the frequent Preaching of the Word as if Sin were emulous and as is said of Vertue would grow by opposition The truth is too many of us turn these serious Exercises of Religion into an idle Divertisement Take heed that Formality and Custom and Novelty do not often help to fill up many Rooms in our Church It were indeed a breach of Charity to entertain the fullness of your Assemblies with ill Construction No it is to be commended But would to God we were more careful to shew our Religion in our Lives to study to know better the Deceits and Impostures of our own hearts and to gain daily more Victory over our secret and best beloved Sins Let our intentions then be to meet with Christ here and to admit him gladly to dwell and rule within us if he conquer our inward Enemies those without shall not be able to hurt us if he deliver us from our sinful Lusts he will still our own distrustful fears And that such may be the fruits of our meeting let us turn our selves towards the Throne of Grace with humble Prayer in the Name of Jesus Christ the Righteous Psalm LXXVI 10. Surely the wrath of a man shall praise thee The remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain WHat Man is this said the Passengers in the Ship that even the Winds and the Sea obey him Christ suddenly turns a great tempest into a greater Calm Matth. 8. 27. Surely those are no ordinary words of Command that swelling Waves and boisterous Winds in the midst of their rage are forc'd to hear and taught to understand and obey them Therefore the holding of the Seas in the hollow of his Hand the bridling of the Wind and riding upon the Wings of it we find peculiarly attributed to the Almighty But no less if not more wonderful is another of his Prerogatives to wit His Soveraignty over all Mankind the divers and strange motions of the Heart of Man admirable is it to govern those both in respect of their Multitude and Irregularity Consider we what Millions of men dwell at once upon the face of the Earth and again what Troops of several Imaginations will pass through the fancy of any one man within the compass of one day 'T is much to keep eye upon them and to behold them all at once but far more to Command and Controul them all yet if they were all Loyal and willingly Obedient were they Tractable and easily Curbed it were more easie for us to conceive how they might be Governed but to bound and over-rule the unruly hearts of men the most of them continually are either plotting or acting Rebellion against their Lord to make them all concur and meet at last in one end cannot be done but by a Power and a Wisdom that are both Infinite That God whose Name we often mention but seldom think on his Excellency is alone the Absolute Monarch of mens Hearts and the Ruler of all their Motions he hath them Limited while they seem most free and works his own Glory out of their attempts while they strive most to dishonour him Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee c. The Psalm is made up of these two different sorts of Thoughts the one arising out of Particular Experience and the other out of a General Doctrine These drawn from Experience are set down in the verses precedeing the Text and in it with those that follow is the Doctrine with a Duty annexed to it which two are Faiths main Supporters by past particulars verifie the Doctrine and the generality of the Doctrine serves to explain the particular Experiences to all wise observers There is not a Treasure of the Merits of Saints in the Church as some Dream but there is a Treasure of the precious Experiences of the Saints which every Believer hath right to make use of and these we should be verst in that we may have them in readiness at hand in time of need and know how to use them both to draw comfort from them to our selves and arguments to use with God The words contain clearly Two Propositions both of them concerning the wrath of Man the former hath the event of it Surely the wrath of Man shall praise thee The latter the limitation of it The remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain That the Vertues and Graces of men do praise the Lord all men easily understand for they flow from him his Image and Superscription is upon them and therefore no wonder if of them he has from them a Tribute of Glory Who knows not that Faith praises him Abraham