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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48731	A sermon at a solemn meeting of the natives of the city and county of Worcester, in the church of St. Mary le Bow, June 24, 1680 by Adam Littleton ...	Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.	1680 (1680)	Wing L2567; ESTC R21369	14,936	41

term'd a Good-natured man a thing which is so far from being a disadvantage or disparagement that it is a great ornament to Religion but then he must to brotherly kindness add charity And now we are come to the very topstone of this spiritual edifice to the very pitch of perfection Charity being the fulfilling of the Law both Moral and Christian. Here you find that to Faith is to be added Vertue to Vertue Knowledge and so on which rationally infers that not any one or more of these will serve turn without the other So then it is not enough to be a Believer to be Virtuous to be Knowing to be Temperate to be Patient to be Godly to be Brotherly kind to be Charitable I say it is not sufficient for a man to be any one of these but he must be all these if he will be a good Christian and mean to deserve the name of one truly Religious Thus much of the first general head the second is that which more nearly and immediately concerns us which is gathered out of the Text it self that 2. Inasmuch as the Apostle here requires Brotherly Kindness and Charity to be superadded to Godliness that Godliness is not a morose humorous ill-natured much less a cruel mischievous and bloudy principle but must to make it a true genuine godliness be attended with acts of Kindness and works of Charity So S. Peter himself in his 1 Ep. ch 2. v. 17. Love the Brotherhood Fear God and then Honour the King as Gods Vicegerent and Lord of the Community As if there could be no right fear of God without love of the brotherhood and neither one nor other without a due honour to the King the Head of the brotherhood In like manner S. Paul resolves all Religion into Faith and Love faith toward the Lord Jesus and love toward the Saints which make up his mystical body whereof we are all fellow-fellow-members for in this sense we profess to believe the communion of Saints And so the beloved Disciple tells us that this is Gods commandment that we should believe in the Lord Iesus and love one another Thus Christ himself hath stated the business of his Religion If ye continue in my Word that is keep my commandments then are ye my disciples indeed And how 's that in another place he says it over in these words By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another It seems then that our loving one another is the same thing as continuing in his Word as keeping his Commandments and hereupon it is said that love is the fulfilling of the law This was that new commandment Christ brought into the world that we should love one another This the great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and tryal of our love to God of our godliness it self that we love the brethren as he tells us For saies he he who loves not his brother whom he hath seen how can he pretend to love God whom he hath not seen Nor is this so a new commandment as himself acknowledges but that it was an old one too For our Saviour's Ancestor David in his short Catechism Psal. 15. has given much-what the same account of Religion Lord saies he who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill i. e. who has a right to the priviledges of the Church militant who has assurance of an everlasting possession in the Church triumphant He answers this question in the four following verses He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth evil to his neighbour nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour and so on Which are all or most part of them expresses of brotherly kindness and charity and then in the close he tells us that He which doth these things shall never fall So then we are to love God with all our heart and strength that 's Godliness and our neighbour as our selves that 's Brotherly kindness and Charity as Christ himself hath summ'd up the duties of the Law And many other such passages there are in Scripture to evince this truth had I time to insist on them If this be so what shall we say to those who take up Godliness on other terms as if their strictness and zeal to God's service to his worship right or wrong excused them from all offices of love to their fellow-men their fellow-christians nay obliged them to be Vnkind to be Vncharitable and to persecute even to death those who not out of any evil meaning to them will not but out of conscience to God dare not comply with sinful conditions of communion with them This was foretold by our blessed Lord should be the lot of his followers that some such zealots there would be who would turn them out of the Synagogue excommunicate them for Hereticks and then kill them and yet by their so doing would think they did God good service Blessed Iesu where have these men who take thy holy Name in vain these Fellows of thine for so they stile themselves learnt of thee such principles such practices as these that it is lawful so cruelly and treacherously to deal with men who live quietly by them with S. Paul's Sword to destroy them from off the face of the earth and with S. Peter's Keys to lock the gates of Heaven against them to murder them in this world and to damn them in the next This Evangelium armatum this Sanguinary doctrine was no Gospel of thy making no doctrine of thy teaching Thy doctrine was sealed with no bloud but that of thy own who wast the teacher of it and that of thy Apostles and Martyrs who were the propagators of it and though thou saidst thou camest not to send peace but a sword yet that sword was not design'd to fight with but to suffer by it was a sword of a passive not of an active persecution as to thy Disciples by which they were to fall victims themselves and not to sacrifice the lives of others How contrary to thine and their meek innocent methods of converting souls are the traiterous contrivances and hellish conspiracies of those who for the advantage of Holy Church plot the murder of Kings the slaughter of Subjects and the ruine of States and rare Masters of Christianity as they are think it glorious to Proselyte whole Nations by baptizing them in their bloud May God ever preserve his gracious Majesty and Us the sinful people of this Land from such villanous Attempts of his and our Enemies I know the like Bigotries and Outrages are charged upon our Sectaries even at this time and that with great vehemence I am heartily sorry that any who delight to wear the name of Protestants as I think most of those people do should give a just occasion for such a charge But if it be so if