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A39288 A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen, upon Ephes. 5.16. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. By the Reverend Father Philip Ellis monk of the H. Order of St. Benedict, and of the English Congr. chaplain and preacher in ordinary to their Majesties. Published by His Majesties command Ellis, Philip, 1652-1726. 1687 (1687) Wing E600; ESTC R214602 15,277 36

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which is but standing Error has prepossess'd our Minds stupifi'd and immersed in Flesh and Blood that to do nothing is easie when indeed it is the greatest pain the reasonable Creature can endure arguing either a childish Weakness that we cannot act or a shameful Ignorance that we know not what to do And I believe the Man of Reason will grant me that Ignorance as it is a punishment upon us for doing what we ought not so is it the greatest torment to a Soul which is perpetually thirsting after Knowledge And as for the more unthinking and grosser part of Mankind they cannot deny but all Pain comes from Weakness Our own Notions therefore bear testimony against us and if what we call a gentile life speaks either our Weakness or Ignorance the gentile Liver is the most unhappy Creature in the World For Happiness is so far from consisting in either of these that both are essentially destructive to it and whosoever hopes to compass this end by contrary means will find himself at last in the other Extremity To be plain whosoever promises Happiness to himself without much labor sets it at too high a price at which no wise Man would buy it if it be not to be purchas'd but by living idly for at this rate one must be Miserable to become Happy But how unnatural a thing is it for that Creature to be idle Ambr. Praef. in Luc. Basil ap Mel. 89. who alone of all Creatures stands condemn'd to labor as St. Ambrose observes Upon which consideration St. Basil doubts not to brand this Vice of so great reputation in the World with the infamous Character of a sin against Nature because there is nothing in the whole Frame of Nature idle or unactive Our Blessed Saviour testifies of the Godhead it self My Father saith he John 5.17 still works and I work Pater meus usque modo operatur All the Hierarches of Angels as one assures us who had been in the third Heaven are Administring Spirits The Prophet declares they have no rest day nor night but incessantly pour forth their harmonious Acclamation Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabbath And what I should have mention'd before The sacred Humanity of Christ came not to be serv'd but to serve Non venit ut Ministraretur sed ut Ministraret The Celestial Orbs have never had any respite from their perpetual motion all things below are in a continual Tide a regular Succession of Causes and Effects Every Creature groans and brings forth even till now saith the Apostle And if the invisible things of God are understood by those things which are made The Operations of Nature are so many Emblems of the Diligence he requires at our hands towards the working out our Salvation God having made them not only for our use but also for our instruction In fine the whole World is a large Volum as St. S. Athanas in Vit. S. Ant. Anthony calls it where we may read our Duty and meet with it in every line Nay if Man would but take the measure of his Moral Actions from the observation of his Natural the continual working of the Heart circulation of the Blood respiration of the Lungs pulse of the Arteries and activity of the Fancy will teach him Assiduity in the exercise of those nobler Faculties whose Actions depend upon the liberty of his Will how constant and regular his Motion ought to be in the Service of God And that his Soul is as much dead when it is idle and surceases from doing well as the Body will be when all these Vital Operations are at an end I know not any one who would not esteem it a horrible Execration to wish he had neither Hands nor Feet yet such is our misery that while we make no more use of them in order to our own good or that of our Neighbor than if they were quite disabled even in that respect we count our selves happy For take away from the Lady the Gentleman the Courtier c. the power and convenience of doing nothing and being not in the labors of Men the subtilest Logician can scarce explain in what formality their Happiness i. e. the advantage of their Condition consists Their priviledge seems to lie in an exemption from the general Malediction inflicted upon the rest of Mankind In the sweat of their brows they shall eat their Bread But then they must draw their Pedegree from some other Line than that of Adam for no more is any Child of his free of this Obligation than he is from the cause of it and if we Inherit the one we must necessarily be partakers of the other For as Holy Job expounds this Sentence Man is born to labor Labor being not only a necessary means to preserve his life but one of the ends why it was given him And our Blessed Saviour revives and inforces this Doctrin in the Parable of the Master entrusting his Servants with so many Talents with a Negotiamini Manage and improve them and this not for a spirt when the fit takes you but donec veniam without intermission till he calls them in and you to give an account of your Stewardship by which Servants every body understands the whole Mass of Human Nature without excepting any State or Condition and by the Talents a necessity of working according to the Abilities this great Master has dispensed to every particular Now if a Man who had well consider'd the weight and strictness of this Obligation without knowing the Follies of Mankind and their vain amusements should look out into the World he would tell me I make a Discourse in the Air and to the Walls for every one is active in his respective Station and employ'd in his Duty when he should see their earnestness at such a distance as not to discern the matter they are so intent upon How People hast along the Streets and press one another like Waves which are broken and sever'd with a contrary Tide When he should behold some warmly disputing at a Table others walking musing and solitary some Reading others discoursing with abundance of Gravity others sitting in crowds in recollection and silence he would certainly bid me hold my peace and not disturb these serious Men with advising them to begin what they are already doing But if I should lead him nearer to them within ken of their Actions and hearing of their Discourse when he should discover their Lives and their Talk to be all of a piece Atheistical in good earnest When he should see these People running to a Shew or to a Riot to circumvent their Neighbor or to oppress the Innocent or coursing about the Streets meerly to shew their Equipage or themselves When he should find those silent and recollected People at the Theater whom he thought at a Sermon That Lady at her Glass and in a profound contemplation of her self whom he thought at her Oratory that Gallant reading a Romance or a Novel