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A31403 The Gospel preached to the Romans, in four sermons two on the 5th of November, and two on the 30th of January, 1680 / by John Cave ... Cave, John, d. 1690. 1681 (1681) Wing C1583; ESTC R17526 41,434 109

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reproaching our Religion when they are convinced that it hath excellent Effects upon the Professors of it Nor would that idle and senceless Talk whereby some hot-headed People endeavour to prove us an Antichristian Church be by many if by any listned to if they could discern among us more Christian Lives could they be once satisfied that we esteem it our principal Interest and Concernment to make our selves and others really and substantially good Ministers by preaching and all by obeying the Gospel This would be the most likely way to secure us from Popery and Tyranny on the one hand from popular Tumults and Confusions on the other from all those Evils and Calamities that threaten us in these cloudy lowring Times these times of general Trouble and Distraction and abodings of Evil when Mens Hearts are ready to fail for fear of what is coming upon the Earth what is likely to befal us of this Nation because this is the sure way to have the Soveraign over-ruling Power of Heaven and Earth on our side his merciful Providence to guard and defend us in the greatest Extremities and indeed the worse the times are the greater the Dangers we are in the more closly should we walk with God in the daily practice of Piety and Vertue humbling our selves for our Sins past and watching against future Temptations praying for and putting our Trust in the Divine Protection according to that excellent Example of the Prophet Micah Chap. 7. ver 7. Because the Times were very wicked and perilous as God knows ours are Therefore saith he I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my Salvation and then he encourageth himself in Almighty Goodness my God will hear me Beloved Our fervent Prayers and our patient continuance in well-doing will avail more for the removal or the preventing of publick Calamities than the Policy of our States-men the Zeal of our Preachers and much more than the heady and inconsiderate endeavours of our People For when neither the Wisdom of our Counsellours nor the Courage of our Magistrates can preserve us God's Mercy doth deliver the Island of the Innocent Job 22 30. and it is delivered by the pureness of their Hands As it was spoken upon another occasion Wisdom 5.23 But Iniquity shall lay waste the whole Earth and ill dealing shall overthrow the Thrones of the Mighty In this time of general Distress Fear and Danger every Man almost to be sure every Party of Men are projecting and fore-casting this and the other way to secure their own Interests but alass there is but one way to save our selves every part and the whole and that is the way of God the way we have been commending to you the way of Righteousness the way of Holiness that is the way of Peace and Happiness Blessed are they that walk in it Integrity and Vprightness will preserve them and keep them from the Paths of the Destroyer If while we escape other Persecutions the Calumnies and Reproaches of those that reproach God and his Religion fall upon us Let us consider that in due time the lying Lips shall be put to silence Psal 31.18 which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the Righteous or else God will hide them in the secret of his Presence from the Pride of Man Psal 31.20 and keep them secretly in a Pavilion from the Strife of-Tongues If we walk in God's Name he will preserve ours he will give Honour to our Persons and Defence to our Cause When Aaron and Miriam in a Seditious Humour mutinied against Moses then God is pleased to own and vindicate Moses's Fidelity and to maintain his Cause Numb 12.7 My Servant Moses is faithful in all my House wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against him If any thing will shame or confound the Malice of our Enemies it must be an exemplary Piety in our Lives and Faithfulness in our Places We have heretofore and of late had many heavy Complaints of persecuting Silencers but there is one way of putting our Adversaries to Silence which sure will never be accounted Persecution and that is meerly by our well-doing For even those who will scarce suffer the Word of Exhortation the greatest Persuasions of our Ministry will yield a little to the Integrity and Innocency of our Lives Therefore however they escape the Rod of the Civil Magistrate or the Churches Censures let them not want such Christian Reproofs and Convictions as these Let the Peoples Practice as well as our Doctrines shew the Folly and Unreasonableness of those that separate from our Communion upon the pretence of greater Purity So that if we do not reclaim those that are at Rome we shall be no Accessories to their Guilt and clear our selves from all suspicion of being at Rome also by lending any Hand to advance or uphold the Antichristianism of that Religion I shall come next to the second Proposition The Fourth Sermon ROM 1.15 So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also THe second Proposition we are to speak to was this viz. II. That the most Christian and effectual way of promoting the Gospel is Preaching and Perswasion It is one of the greatest Glories of the Christian Religion that it came in and prevailed in the World upon its own Piety and Wisdom with no Force but a Torrent of Arguments and Demonstration of the Spirit according to that Prophecy concerning our Saviour Isa 42. That he should shew Judgment to the Gentiles and yet that he should not strive nor ory i.e. discover no sign of Anger or Discomposure in his Mind nor That any Man should hear his Voice in the Streets i.e. he should raise no Tumult or popular Hubbub Again it was prophecied of the Gospel Days that our Saviour's Institutions should tend so much to the correcting and qualifying of the Ferity and Roughness of Men's Manners that they should need no other Weapons of Hostility than those of Argument and Perswasion That their Swords should be turned into Plow-shares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks and however in this unhappy Declension of Times Men's Worldly Interests have much perverted this most excellent Design of Christianity yet our blessed Lord hath expresly forewarned that whosoever shall presume to draw the Sword in his Cause shall be sure to perish by it The Precepts which he gives and most earnestly recommends in order to the general Benefit of Mankind are those of Meekness Mercy Forbearance Long-Suffering Brotherly Kindness and Charity He gave Love for the Livery and Badg of his Disciples Joh. 13.35 By this shall all Menknow that ye are my Disciples if ye love one another The Holy Spirit descended in the Form of a Dove to signify say some the Meekness and Gentleness of the Christian Temper And St. Paul tells us that the Fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 23. is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering