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A66353 A sermon preached at Salters-Hall to the Societies for Reformation of Manners, May 16, 1698, and now printed at their request / by Daniel Williams. Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716. 1698 (1698) Wing W2655; ESTC R26374 24,541 74

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truly devoted to me as his Head and Leader he will concur with me in promoting Religion Truth Righteousness Temperance and Purity upon the Ruines of Irreligion Profaneness Falshood Injustice Drunkenness and Debaucheries And my Friends this is so far from Contingency that there is a necessity and a certain futurity of it from the very Constitution and Essentials of a true Christian even such that he cannot be a Christian indeed who statedly and altogether omits it For 1. IT is implied in our Dedication to Christ. We become Christians by our Dedication to the Lord Jesus and that Dedication can amount to no less than that we do renounce the World Flesh and Devil and will fight under Christ's Banner and stand by his Cause and Interests against Satan and his Usurpations which interpretatively is not only that the Devil and the Flesh shall not govern me in particular but that as far as I am able they shall govern no other Person they shall have no place whence I can expel them I 'll adhere to Christ and vigorously follow him in all just Attempts for their Restraint and Extirpation YOU wear a Christian Name and you own that you yeilded up your selves unto the Lord Christ by Covenant-engagement How then is it possible if your Hearts were right to hear his Name Blasphemed see his Day Unhallowed his Laws trampled on and what he came to destroy maintained with defiance and you connive at Mens doing it without controul when you have the happy advantage of good Laws to put a stop thereto TO reconcile this to Christianity you must reckon that Profaness and Sacriledge are part of your Christian Vow or that Hypocrisie in vowing is allowable or else that in giving up your selves to Christ you truly intended no more than what may be thus expressed Oh thou my Saviour To thee I yield up my self that by thee I may get Safety and Life Eternal but I am not so much as to offend a wicked Neighbour or at all to expose my self in resisting thy Enemies avouching thy Interests or pleading thy Cause I must be exempted from all Labour Expence and Hazard in following thee as my Leader I will be Neutral in thy Undertaking to reform the World and excepted from pursuing that Design With these Limitations I 'm content to give up my self to thee this is all I mean by my Christian Dedication and if therein thou insistest upon more Service on my part I disavow and renounce that Dedication and shall shew that I do so by my indifferency and neglect whenever thou puttest me on helping forwards the Work of Reformation WHATEVER you may farcy thus must your Foederal Transactings with Christ be interpreted if you esteem your selves unobliged to restrain other Mens Oaths and Enormities BUT how are you imposed on by Satan and your own Carnal Minds if you can imagine that this is to be Baptized in or into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Matth. 28. 19. or that a good Conscience answers to no other Demands in that Baptism which saveth 1 Pet. 3. 21. Read the Gospel again and you 'll soon find it Condemneth such a heartless and deceitful sense of devotedness to Christ a sense which every Gracious Soul must abhor yea common Ingenuity will detest as Ungrateful and Base and too mean for a Christian to offer or a Blessed Redeemer to accept Every real Saint will reckon himself separated to Christ and that Christ hath thereupon an absolute Propriety in him and that it 's by the utmost Services this Propriety is to be acknowledg'd his Language is the God whose I am and whom I serve Act. 27. 23. To me to live is Christ Phil. 1. 21. 2. A Regenerate Nature impels a Christian to further the Work of Reformation EVERY true Christian is partaker of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. by this he is denominated the Regenerate Seed of Christ because he is in a degree truly conformed to Christ in his Temper and Inclinations and thence he loveth and abhorreth things correspondently to what Christ doth Upon which very account the reforming designs of Christ are lovely to the Genuine Christian and all daring wickedness is detested by him yea a Zeal for the restraint of Sin and for promoting Holiness is become his Natural Instinct and therefore he suffers in the Criminal Exorbitancies he beholds and must offer a violence to himself when he testifieth not his dislike against open Wickedness as well as his approbation of what 's virtuous and becoming HOW impossible then must it be to such a Man to have a prospect of Reforming the flagitious and a certainty of restraining their open and daring Villanies and yet neglect the means which are in his Hand to effect these things YOU must suppose the Judgment Conscience Will and Affections of this Man altogether unactive nay himself to move statedly against his strongest biass and Divine Influences to yield nor excite any Holy Propensions if Sloath or Carnality can reconcile him to indulge what he so abominates and to neglect what his Heart is so intensly bent for MOREOVER you must conclude this Man to pray in a deceitful manner and to counter-act his own Petitions for he daily prayeth Thy Name be Sanctified and yet suffers it to be Blasphemed Thy Kingdom come and yet countenanceth Rebellion Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven and yet conniveth at the daring violation of God's plain Commandments and is content the Earth shall be an Emblem of Hell for Villany Matth. 6. 10. A good Man from the instinct of a Holy Nature saith Rivers of Water run down mine Eyes because they keep not thy Laws Ps. 119. 136. And is it possible he should refuse Labour and Expence to ease himself of what he thus heartily complains What costs him Floods of Tears when he cannot prevent it must force his utmost endeavours to subdue it WHENEVER you determine that a Regenerate Person may neglect to help forwards the Work of Reformation you must account him to frustrate his greatest hopes which are That there shall be a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. He must be reckon'd free from the impress that every Nature is under the power of viz. an abhorrence against what is destructive to it and an aptness to propagate it self 3. THE Reforming of the World is one great design of Christ's Discipling and gathering Men into his Kingdom THIS is the Charge they receive this is a great part of their Trust and they must be treacherous to him and unfaithful to that Trust if they omit to enlighten cleanse and reform the World to the utmost of their Capacity Christ as the Head of the Humane Nature is engaged in a War against the Devil to rescue Sinners out of his Power to divide the Spoil Isa. 53. 12. HE might have employed Angels alone in this Contest but he will put an Honour upon sinful Men also in the