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A63885	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of clergy-men, in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, December 4, 1684 by Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and president of the society.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing T3286; ESTC R3975	13,286	36

have been Legitimate and has in a manner undertaken to be himself our Guardian And with great sense of Gratitude you did but this time Twelvemonth at our solemn meeting Vote an Address worthy of your selves wherein you have plighted your Faith to Assert the Rights of this Hereditary Imperial Crown and this you did with the lowdest and joyfullest Acclamations And as we are most particularly and indispensibly oblig'd to be zealously true and faithful to our Prince and Country so in the second place we of all Mankind are most strictly engag'd to be most unfeignedly and concernedly Friends to the Church This was a Temper of mind which Abraham effectually Commanded and Taught his Children when he discarded and expos'd one of them that was Ismael for but making a mock of Isaac whom the Apostle makes a Type of the Church and represents that whole Transaction for a figure of such as are Born after the flesh how they Persecute such as are Born after the spirit For a Mans foes to be those of his own houshold is hard indeed But that any of the Churches enemies should be some of those who came out of her own Bowels is a great deal harder If there be any such they are most properly call'd a Generation of Vipers But whatever he be in his Name he is in his Nature an Ismael a kind of Wild Man who can put off the most Natural affection that the Son of a Clergy-man ows to the Church which is something more than his spiritual Mother and to whose tender care he belong'd as soon as ever he came into the world To call such a one a Janizary may be thought too much and yet considering some aggravating Circumstances 't is indeed too little for those Children of Christian Parents are snatch'd from the breasts of their Mothers soon after they are Dedicated to God in the Blessed Laver of Regeneration the wretched Infants are worse than offer'd to Moloch who kill'd them presently they are Consecrated to Mahomet they are Educated in all the prejudices of Mahumetanism which makes their Aversion to Christianity much their misfortune though very much also their fault But what excuse can be made to alleviate the guilt of one brought up not at the feet of Gamaliel as Saul was but like Timothy bred up as it were by St. Paul himself or by such as were followers of him as he was of Christ But on the other side what a vast advantage may the Church derive from the kindness of so many Worthy and Excellent persons as make up this Solemn Assembly who though very considerable in themselves yet are few in number compar'd with the rest of our Brethren as I take leave to stile them dispers'd over these Three Kingdoms Many whom God has bless'd and who may prove a Blessing to very many For though Jacob curs'd the wrath of Simeon and Levi yet it was also part of his Blessing upon them and through them upon all the rest of Abrahams Children that he would divide the Tribe of Levi in Jacob and scatter them in Israel that so they might carry along with them his Benedictions that they might dispense them far and near that they might be themselves a common Blessing So at this time are the Sons of the Sons of Levi in their several stations So many wealthy Citizens such as the Book of Wisdom describes in that Chapter where we find the praises of Abraham and his Children Men renown'd for their power giving Counsel by their understanding that is Men of business excellent managers to make up your Court of Assistants So many honourable Gentlemen and Noble Knights rais'd by their merits and services at Sea and Land bound by their Order as well as by their Extraction to protect your Widows and Orphans So many Clergy-men of the Church of England to do their parts and to make good that Plea for the Marry'd Clergy that a great part of the Clergy of England and among them some of the best of the Clergy are the Sons of the Married Clergy Such a Corporation as this will bear up the Character given by the Apostle to the Church it self as that is a Corporation depending as do all Christian Societies and this for one upon Christ the Head from whom the whole Body fitly joyn'd together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the Body But this falls in with my fourth and last head of discourse of which very briefly the Blessings upon well-governing Parents and well-disciplin'd Children that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him And what is that all Earthly and Heavenly all bodily and spiritual all temporal and eternal good things upon Him and His especially His by Adoption His by Faith any that follow His and their Footsteps His in Teaching Devotion theirs in Learning it All these shall be thus Blessed with Faithful Abraham But if thus shall his Seed be Bless'd with both hands with the Blessing of the Left as well as the Right hand how comes it to pass that so many of their miserable Orphans call for our help and Relief How are Times chang'd since David made it his Observation I have been young and now am old yet saw I never the Righteous forsaken nor his Seed begging their Bread But I answer neither does David here suppose that it can never happen thus but that it falls out rarely He never saw it He never saw the Righteous forsaken nor his Seed begging their Bread that is he never saw them begging and quite forsaken which must be repeated That the Children of the Righteous should never beg their Bread was no where promised the Jews themselves They were not exempted from this as a Temporary evil either for Tryal or for Punishment They were not priviledg'd from being beseig'd in their Cities not yet from being driven out of their Native Country and David himself in the time of his Flight and Banishment was reduc'd to that extremity as to ask and receive the Shew-Bread to keep himself and his followers from starving But that there should be none to pity or have Compassion upon the Fatherless Children or Widow that was the Curse on Judas and David had never seen that heavy Curse fall on any Children of Abraham 'T is only upon such Apostates from the Faith such as Sin Trecherously the Psalmist lays such load Let the Runegates continue in scarceness I answer secondly those promises of plenty and eating the Fat of the Land must either be abated to us or else spirituliz'd to an Evangelical sense they were more literaly fullfil'd to that Carnal people the Jews than must be expected by us Christians our part is to be always dispos'd for Martyrdom and God has never engag'd to Command that these Stones shall be made Bread rather than any Son or Daughter of Abraham shall be starv'd into Heaven no more than he has oblig'd himself out of these Stones to raise up Children unto Abraham But for the better promises Those exceeding great and pretious Promises as the Apostle calls them In thy Seed shall all the Families of the Earth be Bless'd the multiplying of Abraham's Children like the Sand of the Sea or the Stars of Heaven These Benedictions are in a manner appropriated to us Christians St. Augustine presses the Donatists hard with these Glorious Prophecies concerning the vast number of those that should flock into the Church that its Sons should be innumerable whereas they of that Sect or indeed of any other were a handfull of Men in comparison how vainly soever they pretended to be the Catholick Church upon which those unspeakable Blessings are entail'd and settled to the end of the World Enough I hope has been said of the great rewards in this World and in that to come for the Righteous and those that Teach their Children Righteousness to reinforce this obligation upon us especially upon us the Children of such Fathers as were also our Ghostly Fathers To call to mind the wise dictates to revolve the memorable sayings and to recollect the worthy Acts of such venerable Guides is one of the best Systems of Practical Divinity for our use For if St. Augustin himself the Night after his Mothers Funeral could not help falling into most tender Passions upon the remembrance of Monica his devout Mother how many wearisome steps she had taken to follow his idle Progresses in his vitious youth that she might recover her lost sheep and bring him home to Christ's Flock then what mighty powerfull effects will it work upon any one of us that had a pious Churchman to his Father to reflect on his admonitions such as for their Gravity and Piety might have become the mouth of St. Austin himself Such a Reverend Spiritual Father such a Saint has this whole Society lost in our late most worthy President For how can I treat of this subject of teaching others to keep the way of the Lord and treat of it before this Audience without one word in Commemoration of that incomparable person who with almost an incredible concurrence of Abilities both of mind and body and with a most indefatigable industry yet with all this was not more fitted to acquire all parts of Divine Learning than he was apt to Teach And being Dead he yet speaks and Teaches us by his example he perswades as powerfully as if Abraham himself had Commanded us as his Children he Preaches more efficaciously than if Abraham should send us a Lazarus from the Dead to press Repentance and Holy Living He exhorts us not to be weary as he never was of well doing he charges us to be as he was Stedfast Unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord knowing that our labour is not in vain in the Lord To whom c. FINIS