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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23769	A sermon preached before the King at White-hall, October the 12th 1662 by Richard Allestrey ...	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1663 (1663)	Wing A1165; ESTC R15228	15,707	44

compleat and perfect what the Devil but began in Eden Nurse up Original sin chafe inclination into appetite and habit suggest and raise desires and then feed them into constitution and nature in a word are a brood of those serpents one of which was enough to destroy paradise and innocence T is true a man would think these were our friends indeed that venture to Gehenna for us Alas they are but more familiar devils work under Sathan to bring us to torments and differ nothing from him but that they draw us into them and he inflicts them And when sinful contents come home in ruine and pleasures dy into damnation then men will understand these treacherous loves and find such friends are but projectours for the Devil then they will hate them as they do their own damnation discerning these are but the kindnesses of Hell Nay it is possible I may slander that place in speaking so ill of it Dives will let us see there are affections of a kinder and more blessed strain in Hell Luke xvi from the twenty-seventh verse you find he did make truce with torments that he might contrive and begg onely a message of repentance for his brethren he did not mind at all his own dire Agonies he minded so the reformation of his friends Good God! when I reflect upon these pieties of the damn'd together with the practices of those who have given their names in to Religion when I see fiends in Hell do study how to make men virtuous and Christians upon earth with all their art debauch them into vice and ruine I cannot choose but pray Grant me such friends as are in Hell Rather grant us all the friendship in the Text. But then we must have none with any vice Friendship with that engageth into enmity with God and Christ I shew'd you And to passe over all those after-retributions of vengeance Christ hath studied for his enemies when he that now courts us to be our friend and we will make our adversary must be our Judge For were there none of this and should we look no further then this life yet sure we of this Nation know what it is to have God our enemy who for so many years lay under such inflictions as had much of the character of his last executions they had the blasphemies and the confusion the dire guilts and the black calamities and almost the despair and irrecoverableness of those in Hell And though He be at peace with us at present at least there is a truce yet I beseech you in the presence and the fear of God to think in earnest whether the present provocations of this Nation do not equall those that twenty years agoe engaged him into Arms against us and made him dash us so in pieces whether those Actions of the Clergy be reformed that made the people to abhorre their function and their service the Offerings and Ministers of the Lord and made God himself spew them out 'T were endless to go on to the prophaneness to the loose impieties and the bold Atheismes of the Laity especially of the better-sort in short what one degree or state or Sex is better Sure I am if we are not better we are worse beyond expression or recovery who have resisted every method and conquerd all God's arts of doing good upon us been too hard for his judgments and his mercies both 'T is true when we lay gasping under his severe revenges we then pretended to be humbled begg'd to be reconciled and be at peace with him and vow'd to his conditions promising obedience and aliened our selves from our old sins his foes But then when Christ came to confirme this amity came drest with all his courtships brought all the invitations of Love along Our Prince and our Religion our Church and State Righteousness and Peace and the Beauty of Holyness every thing that might make us be an happy and a pious nation thus he did tempt and labour to engage that friendship which we offered him and vowed to him And we no sooner seiz'd all this but we break resolutions as well as duty to get loose from him and laden with the spoyls of our defeated Saviour's goodness we joyne hands with his enemies resume our old acquaintance-sins enrich and serve them with his bounties make appear that we onely drew him in to work such miracles but to assist our Worldlyness Ambitions and Lusts to be our opportunities of vice and provocation of him And being thus affronted and refused his enemy preferr'd not this God but Barabbas any the vilest thing for friend rather then Christ must he not needs be more our enemy then heretofore And if he be that question will concerns us Are we stronger then God It should behove us not to fall out with him till we are See how he does prepare himself for the encounter Wisedome v. Taking his jealousy for armour putting on Justice severe and vindicative Justice as a breast plate and his wrath sharpening as a sword and arming all the creatures for auxiliaries Alass when omnipotence does express it self as scarcely strong enough for execution but Almightyness will be armed also for vengeance will assume Weapons call in aides for fury who shall stand it Will our friends think you keep it off us and secure us did we consider how uneasy God accounts himself till he begin the storme while he keeps off his plagues from overrunning such a land we would expect them every moment and they must come Ah says he I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies and then in what condition are we if God can have no ease but in our ruine if he does hunger and thirst after it go to his vengeance as to a feast And if you reade the xxv Chapter of Isaiah you will find there a rich bill of fare which his revenge upon his enemies does make view the sixth verse He that enjoys his morsels that lays out his contrivances and studies on his dishes so as if he meant to cramm his Soul let him know what delight soe're he findes when he hath spoil'd the elements of their inhabitants to furnish his own belly and not content with natures delicacies neither hath given them forc'd fatnesses changing the very flesh into a marrow suppling the bones almost into that oyle that they were made to keep all this delight the Lord by his expressions does seem to take in his dread executions on his enemies a sinful people And if the vicious friendships of the world have so much more attractive then Christ's love and favour and the happy consequences of it as to counterpoise all the danger of such enmity you may joyn hands with them but if his be the safer and more advantageous then hearken to his propositions and beseechings for He does begg it of you as he treated this reconciliation in his blood so he does in Petitious too For saith Saint Paul We are Ambassadours for Christ as if God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christ's stead Be you reconciled and then be Generous towards your GOD and Saviour and having brought him as it were upon his knees reduc'd him to entreaties be friends and condescend to him and your own happiness If He be for you take no care then who can be against you His friendship will secure you not onely from your enemies but from Hostility it self for when a man's ways please the Lord he will make even his enemies to be at peace with him Prov. xvi 7. He will reconcile all but Vices And afterwards see what a blessed throng of friends we shall be all initiated into Heb. xii 23. To an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly and Church of the first-born that are written in Heaven to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of Just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediatour of the new Covenant c. And of this blest Corona we our selves shall be a noble and a glorious part inflamed all with that mutual Love that kindles Seraphims and that streams out into an heavenly glory filling that Region of immortal love and blessedness and being friends that is made one with Father Son and Holy Ghost that Trinity of Love we shall enjoy what we do now desire to ascribe to them All Honour Glory Power Majesty and Dominion for evermore Amen FINIS ERRATA Page 5. l. 5. r. pestilence p. 10. l. 8. r. love p. 13. l. 19. r. friends p. 17. l. ult r. them although p. 19. l. 20. r. as in a garden p. 26. l. 6. r. paramour-sin p. 27. l. 21. r. in his armes p. 29. l. 2. r. necessity p. 30. l. 2. r. groun'd (a) Luke xvi 24 25. a Luc. xxii 19.20.21 b John vi 70. c Rom. v. 10 d John iii. 16 17. vi 51. 2 Cor. v. 19. a Gen. xv 5. b Gen. xxii 4. a Rom. viii 7. a Mat. xiii 22. b Matt. xxvii 29. c Matt. xxvi 38 39. d Levit. xxiiii 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Psal. xlix 17. a Prov. vii 27. b Prov. ii 19. a 1 Cor. x. 22. Verse 17 19.20 a Isay i. 29 a 2 Cor. v. 20.