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honour_n	eternal_a	glory_n	immortality_n	1,513	5	10.0609	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46624	A sermon preached before the King at New Market, October 11, 1674 by Henry James ...	James, Henry, d. 1717.	1674 (1674)	Wing J426; ESTC R229420	12,121	35

for it as is implyed at least by a hearty detestation of all Sin hope of pardon through the Mercy of God and a concurrence with the motions of His Spirit to the works of Righteousness Or as if ours had any where declar'd that a dead Faith that is a Faith without motion and operation that is a Faith without Works were effectual to any Man 's eternal Happiness If any ignorant or malicious Romanist to gain Proselytes shall teach the one to be the Doctrine of their Church he affirms her Doctrine to be contrary to what is truly Ancient and Catholick nay he contradicts the very Determination of the Council of Trent it self Or Can. de Coutr it if any froward Zealot shall publish the other as held by the Church of England he is not of Us neither has he judgment or sense enough to understand Us or the express words of St. James Ch. 2.17 24. For thus far I hope both Churches and all Christians agree however we fall out about other matters that to raise Men to a conformity with the Divine Nature by inward and true piety and holiness was the main intent of our Saviour and that nothing can so effectually bring us to that temper and consequently to the Joys of Heaven as a consciencious compliance in every thing with the will of God So that to persevere in sin 'till we come to dye upon presumption that the foremention'd Doctrines are the Doctrines of our respective Churches or supposing they were so that they will then be our Security is to impose upon our own Souls and betray our selves into that misery which neither Absolution without Repentance nor Faith without good Works can free us from 2. It is necessary that we be righteous all the days of our life because the Reward is promis'd only to those that persevere Ezek. 18. when the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity all the righteousness that he hath done shall not be mention'd in his trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall be dye What ever worthy habits any Man has at any time had or what ever virtuous Inclinations they are all destroyed by their contrary Vices for as good habits are increas'd and strengthen'd in us by our concurring with the Grace of God in producing many good actions so do they decay and fail by our ceasing to do well and if Death finds us with a greater propensity to Vice than Virtue all our former righteousness will stand us but in little stead in as much as it is not and our present wickedness prevailing will be sufficient to condemn us Therefore are we so earnestly advis'd to be stedfast unmoveable and always to abound in the Work of the Lord because the Works only of them that do so shall follow them into a better World God in Justice is oblig'd to give to every man according to his Deeds not according to their Opinions or Fancies To them that are contentious Rom. 2.6 c. and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteosness indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every Soul that doth evil but glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good and to them alone who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternal life the reasonable expectation whereof upon this and no other ground may be of some force to engage all considerate Men in the Service of God all the days of their life But one word more and I have done If Eternal Life be the Lot of the Righteous in General if those whom Providence has plac'd in a lower Sphere the meanest Peasant and most despicable Lazarus nay if so inconsiderable a Creature as he that speaks be capable of the Enjoyments signified by those words how vastly unconceivable shall be the portion of God's immediate Vicegerents especially of those who through good reports and evil reports in perils at home and in perils abroad in perils by Sea and in perils by Land in perils by Strangers and in perils by their own Countrey-men have notwithstanding still maintain'd the Cause of Religion earnestly contended for the Faith once delivered to the Saints and all that they might by their care and perseverance turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just and to their power make ready a People prepared for the Lord. They that turn many unto righteousness says the Prophet Daniel shall be as the Stars for ever more And if the Instruments of Mens Conversion if they who by their example and advice have serv'd the Interest of Souls shall be as the lesser Stars certainly Christian Monarchs in whose hands under God those Instruments are and to whom all the blessed Effects of the Ministration of the Gospel under their protection if they themselves are good shall be accounted shall shine as the larger Luminaries with a more abundant lustre and glory Bless'd Princes who have this Testimony within themselves that they have secur'd unto God the things that are Gods and have faithfully discharg'd the Trust repos'd in them for their Peoples eternal as well as temporal advantage for beside the Reward which will be given to them in common with other good Servants proportionable to the improvement made of their several Talents the attendance of an Heavenly Train and the Acclamations and Euge's of the most Judicious that is of Happy Souls how much or little so ever they may add to the beginnings of future felicity will not be wanting For why may we not reasonably presume that when good Kings come to dye as dye they must and fall like other Men Millions of the Spirits of their own just Subjects made perfect and the Angels of God shall wait their departure hence and wing their Great Souls with triumph into the Celestial Habitations there presenting them to the Holy and Undivided Trinity that they may be incorporated into the Number of Saints be Crown'd with Diadems of Immortality and receive an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserv'd in Heaven for those who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation Oh that this may be the Portion of all Christian Kings Princes and Governours and especially of Him for whom our Souls desire to bless God that this may be the Portion of all that study to enlarge the Empire of the Holy Jesus in Truth and goodness that Protect His Church that Defend His Faith and that this may be the Portion of all the World that live in obedience to that Faith and make Conscience of Serving God in Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the days of their Life Amen FINIS