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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27462	A sermon preached at the assizes held at Leicester, July xxii. MDCLXXVI before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Atkins Lord Chief Baron, and Sir Christopher Milton, Baron of the Exchequer / by the Honourable George Berkeley ...	Berkeley, George, 1651 or 2-1694.; Atkyns, Edward, Sir, 1630-1698.; Milton, Christopher, Sir, 1615-1693.	1686 (1686)	Wing B1970; ESTC R8808	9,310	30

should be singular wilful and testy humoursome and capricious but rather gentle and conversable frank and easie complaisant and obliging in whatsoever things are honest and of good report No man is willing to have an unjust Tyranny obtruded upon him in words and actions by a troublesome Lawgiver and Dictator in Discourse or a greedy Extortioner in Business and Dealing No man is willing that his Neighbour should treacherously collude with him in Promises and Covenants or wickedly and deceitfully trepan him We would all be gently accosted and favourably handled in word and deed No Body is fond of ill-natur'd censure of unworthy and base detraction Who is there ambitious of being exposed and Bussoon'd to have hisfaults unravell'd with envy and spight his imperfections publickly canvass'd as a common Theme of Discourse an entertainment of laughter and malice No Body careth to be wrongfully upbraided unseasonably charged and rebuked nor are we fond of being proudly over-awed insolently brow-beaten or imperiously controuled No man careth to be sawcily bearded to be stubbornly withstood in a reasonable matter by a wilful and cross-grain'd opposition Is there any man who is willing to have his words wrested his sense misconstrued or his actions misreported and traduced Is there any one who is willing that his person should be vilified with open slander nay with malicious truth stabb'd in effigie by cowardly whispering or griev'd with unmanly scoffs with insupportable insulting Taunts If it be true that we are apt to wink at our own faults and conceal them to colour our own failings nay to make an Apology for our very Crimes and grow angry that others will not bestow the Curse which Isaiah mentions upon themselves Isai. 5.20 of calling evil good and bitter sweet is it commendable or honest then to disclose another's nakedness to aggravate all the miscarriages of our Neighbour and magnifie them beyond all modesty and measure 'T is certain we would not be hurt or prejudiced in Body damnified in Estate or deflowred in Reputation we have so delicate and nice a feeling in our own concerns that we cannot bear a moderate reflection but it shocks us immediately we cannot endure the Brunt of a false Story of our selves how doth it stagger and unsettle us amuse and affright us How eager are we to stop the mouths and ears of others against our selves and stifle as soon as possibly we can the infection and hinder it from spreading And this may be a Rule to square our Deportment and fashion our Behaviour in whatsoever relates to Ingenuity and Candour to honest and plausible Dealing to the sweet and comfortable enjoyment of reasonable Society For this is a Rule of unsailing Equity of impartial Truth and Godly Simplicity to do to others as we would have them do to us if we could exchange our persons with them which in a Negative sense implies the for beating what we dislike and the declining such Proceedings with our Neighbour as are hateful to our selves And this removes an Objection which might perhaps be started viz. That it seems an infringement of Order and a relaxing of Society for men of very different and unequal capacities so far above or below one another by natural or acquired Rights to follow the strictness of this Rule That it tends to the confusion and levelling of Persons and therefore is impracticable No certainly this holy and wise Law hath a respect unto the Common Good of Mankind and cannot overthrow that peace and settlement which God by writing it in the hearts of men intended it should uphold and establish although it had never been inforced by positive Institution and Command no more being meant thereby than a commodious Rule ever at hand to adjust and temper all the Duties of Sociable Life that every man would do by his Neighbour that which his Reason and Conscience tells him he should expect from him in like circumstances to fulfil the Laws of universal Justice and to establish an equal and uniform Charity which is the Bond of Perfection and the Top of all humane Vertue I come now to consider the last Proposition in my Text viz. IV. The Divine Authority and Sanction of the Precept For this is the Law and the Prophets This is not only a Dictate of the Law of Nature a Precept every way agreeable to our rational Faculties but it is the very Basis and Ground-work of Legal and Prophetical Dispensations throughout the Book of God What is the Second Table of the Decalogue in what doth it consist but in standing Rules of Direction concerning our Duty unto our Neighbour in strict Injunctions of due Honour and Obedience to our Superiours and of Justice to all men in severe Prohibitions to be injurious to any in their Persons their Property and Good Name or any thing belonging to them What are the Prophets but inspired Commentators upon the whole Law of God with extraordinary Commission to inforce Righteousness and Morality nay and often to prefer it before Devotion it self as more pleasing to God Hos. 6.6 Matt. 9.13 for he loveth mercy better than Sacrifice and the good we do our Fellow-Creatures that need it better than his own Worship and Service who though he infinitely deserves it yet needs it not Now as this Body of Institutes was given to Moses by the Ministry of Angels and delivered to the People of Israel the Seed of Iacob God's peculiar Inheritance so the Gospel of our Lord the Covenant of Grace hath exceedingly confirmed and strengthened this Second Table of the Commandments by superadding eternal Rewards and Punishments unto all those who willingly observe or wilfully transgress them Doth not our Saviour assure us That with what measure we mete unto others it shall be measured to us again in our Accounts with God in the Journal of our Lives when He that sets Iudgment to the Line Isai. 28.17 and Righteousness to the Plummet will pronounce us everlastingly condemned or acquitted by the Rule of Charity And therefore St. Paul exhorts us for a Test of our Holiness Col. 3.12 and Mark of our Election to put on Bowels of mercy humbleness of mind to be clothed with meekness and long-suffering Gal. 6.2 to bear one anothers Burthens Rom. 12.3 and think soberly of our selves In reference also to publick Establishments how firmly doth the Apostle bind us to Obedience Rom. 13. Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers Render to all men their Dues Tribute to whom Tribute Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour 1 Pet. 2.13 So also S. Peter Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake And that we may not be blown and puff'd up with vanity which renders us overweening and conceited imperious and haughty we are forbid to do any thing Philip. 2.3 through strife or vain-glory but in lowliness of mind to give preheminence to others and esteem them better than our selves In