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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31085	Sermons preached upon several occasions by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.; Loggan, David, 1635-1700?	1679 (1679)	Wing B958; ESTC R36644	220,889	535

sins then we live minutes that with infinite patience endures not only our manifold infirmities and imperfections but our petulant follies our obstinate perversnesses our treacherous insidelities overlooks our careless neglects and our wilful miscarriages puts up the exceeding-many outragious affronts injuries and contumelies continually offered to his Supreme Majesty by us base worms whom he hath always under his feet and can crush to nothing at his pleasure To Him yet who as St. James saith giveth freely and upbraideth no man who calls us neither very frequently nor over-strictly to accounts who exacts of us no impossible no very difficult no greatly-burdensome or costly returns being satisfied with the chearful acceptance of his favours the hearty acknowledgments of his goodness the sincere performance of such duties to which our own welfare comfort and advantage rightly apprehended would otherwise abundantly dispose us To Him lastly whose Benefits to acknowledg is the greatest Benefit of all to be enabled to thank whom deserves our greatest thanks to be sensible of whose Beneficence to meditate on whose Goodness to admire whose Excellency to celebrate whose Praise is Heaven it self and Paradise the life of Angels the quintessence of Joy the supreme degree of Felicity In a word To Him whose Benefits are immensely great innumerably many unexpressibly good and precious For Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord who can shew forth his praise said he who had imployed often his most active thoughts and his utmost endeavours thereupon and was incomparably better able to do it To this God to this great to this only Benefactour of ours we owe this most natural and easie this most just and equal this most sweet and pleasant Duty of giving Thanks To whom if we wilfully refuse if we carelesly neglect to pay it I shall only say thus much That we are not onely monstrously ingrateful and horribly wicked but abominably foolish and deplorably miserable I shall repeat this sentence once again and wish it may have its due effect upon us To this great to this only Patron and Benefactour of ours if we do not in some measure discharge our due debt of Gratitude for his inestimable Benefits and Mercies we are to be adjudged not onely most prodigiously unthankful most detestably impious but most wofully stupid also and senseless most desperately wretched and unhappy I should now proceed to consider the Circumstance of Time determined in the word Always and the extension of the Matter implied in those words for all things and then to subjoyn some farther inducements or arguments persuasive to the practice of this Duty But the time and I fear your patience failing I shall reserve them to some other opportunity The Ninth Sermon EPHES. 5. 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God HAving formerly discoursed upon these words I observed in them Four Particulars considerable 1. the substance of a Duty to which we are exhorted to give thanks 2. the Term unto which it is directed to God 3. the Circumstance of time determined in that word always 4. the Extent of the Matter about which the Duty is employed for all things Concerning the Two former Particulars wherein the Duty consisted and wherefore especially related unto God I then represented what did occur to my meditation III. I proceed now to the Third the Circumstance of Time allotted to the performance of this Duty expressed by that universal and unlimited term Always Which yet is not so to be understood as if thereby we were obliged in every instant or singular point of time actually to remember to consider to be affected with and to acknowledge the Divine Benefits for the deliberate operations of our minds being sometimes wholly interrupted by sleep otherwhile pre-occupied by the indispensible care of serving our natural necessities and with attendence upon other reasonable imployments it were impossible to comply with an obligation to the performance of this Duty so interpreted And those Maxims of Law Impossibilium nulla est obligatio and Quae rerum naturâ prohibentur nullâ Lege confirmata sunt that is No Law or Precept can oblige to Impossibilities being evidently grounded upon natural equity seem yet more valid in relation to his Laws who is the Judge of all the World and in his dispensations most transcendently just and equal We may therefore observe that the Hebrews are wont in way of Synecdoche or grammatical Hyperbole so to use words of this kind that their universal importance ought to be restrained by the quality or circumstances of the matter about which they converse As when our Saviour saith Ye shall be hated by all men for my sake All is not to be taken for every singular person since there were some that loved our Saviour and embraced the Evangelical Doctrine but for many or the most And when David saith There is none that doeth good he seemeth only to mean that in the general corruption of his times there were few righteous persons to be found And so for ever is often used not for a perpetual and endless but for a long and lasting duration and always not for a continual unintermited state of being or action but for such a perseverance as agrees to the condition of the thing to which it is applied 'T is for instance prescribed in Exodus that Aaron should bear the judgment of the Children of Israel the Urim and Thummim upon his heart before the Lord continually that is not in absolute and rigorous acception continually but constantly ever when he went into the Holy Place to discharge the Pontifical function as the context declares And our Saviour in the Gospel saith of himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I always taught in the Temple that is very often and ever when fit occasion was presented And the Apostles immediately after Christ's ascension 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were as St. Luke tells us continually in the Temple praising and blessing God that is they resorted thither constantly at the usual times or canonical hours of prayer in like manner those injunctions of nearest affinity of rejoycing of giving thanks always and particularly of praying without ceasing as I have shewn more largly in another Discourse are to be taken in a sense so qualified that the observance of them may be at least morally possible Thus far warrantably we may limit the extension and mollifie the rigour of this seemingly-boundless term but we can hardly allow any farther restriction without destroying the natural signification or diminishing the due emphasis thereof As far therefore as 't is possible for us we must endeavour always to perform this duty of Gratitude to Almighty God and consequently 1. Hereby is required a Frequent performance thereof that we do often actually meditate upon be sensible of confess and celebrate the Divine Beneficence For what is done but seldom or never as we commonly say cannot be understood done always without a Catachresis or

of passion and tedious vexations of body it maintains our minds in a chearfull calm quiet indifferency and comfortable liberty On the other side things of real worth and high concernment that produce great satisfaction to the mind and are mainly conducible to our happiness such as are a right understanding and strong sense of our obligations to Almighty God and relations to men a sound temper and complexion of mind a vertuous disposition a capacity to discharge the duties of our places a due qualification to enjoy the happiness of the other World these and such like things by discovering their nature and the effects resulting from them it engages us highly to esteem ardently to affect and industriously to pursue so preventing the inconveniences that follow the want of them and conveying the benefits arising from the possession of them XIII Wisedom distinguishes the circumstances limits the measures determines the modes appoints the fit seasons of action so preserving decorum and order the parent of peace and preventing confusion the mother of iniquity strife and disquiet 'T is in the business of humane life as in a building a due proportion of bigness a fit situation of place a correspondency of shape and sutableness of colour is to be observed between the parts thereof a defect in any of which requisites though the materials hap to be choice and excellent makes the whole fabrick deformed and ugly to judicious apprehension The best actions if they swell and exceed their due measure if they be unskilfully misplaced if in uncouth manner performed they lose their quality and turn both to the disgrace and disadvantage of life 'T is commendable to pray but they that would always be performing that duty by their absurd devotion procured to themselves the title of Hereticks and they that will stand praying in places of publick concourse deserved our Saviour's reprehensions and those men who against the custom and ordinary use would needs pray with their faces covered you know S. Paul insinuates of them that they were fond and contentious persons Friendly admonition is very laudable and of rare use but being upon all occasions immoderately used or in publick society so as to encroach upon modesty or endammage reputation or when the person admonished is otherwise employed and attent upon his business or being delivered in an imperiously-insulting way or in harsh and opprobrious language it becomes unsavoury and odious and both in shew and effect resembles a froward malicious exceptiousness 'T were infinite to compute in how many instances want of due order measure and manner do spoil and incommodate action 'T is Wisedom that applies remedy to these mischiefs Things must be compared to and arbitrated by her standard or else they will contain something of monstrous enormity either strutting in unwieldy bulk or sinking in defective scantness If she do not fashion and model circumstances they will sit ugly on the things that wear them if she do not temper the colours and describe the lineaments the draught of practice will be but rude and imperfect and little resemble the true patterns of duty but if she interpose and perform her part all things will appear conformable neat and delicate XIV Wisedom discovers our relations duties and concernments in respect of men with the natural grounds of them thereby both qualifying and inclining us to the discharge of them whence exceeding convenience pleasure and content ensues By it we understand we are parts and members of the great Body the Universe and are therefore concerned in the good management of it and are thereby obliged to procure its order and peace and by no irregular undertaking to disturb or discompose it which makes us honest and peaceable men that we proceed from the same primitive stock are children of the same father and partake of the same bloud with all men are endowed with like faculties of mind passions of Soul shape of body and sense of things that we have equally implanted in our original constitution inclinations to love pity gratitude sociableness quiet joy reputation that we have an indispensable need and impatient desire of company of assistence comfort and relief that therefore it is according to the design of nature and agreeable to reason that to those to whom our natural condition by so many bands of cognation similitude and mutual necessitude hath knit and conjoyned us we should bear a kind respect and tender affection should chearfully concurre in undergoing the common burthens should heartily wish and industriously promote their good assist them in accomplishing their reasonable desires thankfully requite the courtesies received from them congratulate and rejoyce with them in their prosperity comfort them in their distresses and as we are able relieve them however tenderly compassionate their disappointments miseries and sorrows This renders us kind and courteous neighbours sweet and gratefull companions It represents unto us the dreadfull effects and insupportable mischiefs arising from breach of faith contravening the obligations of solemn pacts infringing publick laws deviating from the received rules of equity violating promises and interrupting good correspondence among men by which considerations it engages us to be good citizens obedient subjects just dealers and faithfull friends It minds us of the blindness impotence and levity the proneness to mistake and misbehaviour that humane nature necessarily is subject to deserving rather our commiseration then anger or hatred which prompts us to bear the infirmities of our brethren to be gentle in censure to be insensible of petty affronts to pardon injuries to be patient exorable and reconcilable to those that give us greatest cause of offence It teaches us the good may but the evil of our neighbour can in no wise advantage us that from the suffering of any man simply considered no benefit can accrue nor natural satisfaction arise to us and that therefore 't is a vain base brutish and unreasonable thing for any cause whatsoever to desire or delight in the grief pain or misery of our neighbour to hate or envy him or insult over him or devise mischief to him or prosecute revenge upon him which makes us civil noble and placable enemies or rather no enemies at all So that Wisedom is in effect the genuine parent of all moral and political vertue justice and honesty as Solomon says in her person I lead in the way of righteousness and in the midst of the paths of judgment And how sweet these are in the practice how comfortable in the consequences the testimony of continual experience and the unanimous consent of all wise men sufficiently declare But farther XV. The principal advantage of Wisedom is its acquainting us with the Nature and reason of true Religion and affording convictive arguments to persuade to the Practice of it which is accompanied with the purest delight and attended with the most solid content imaginable I say the Nature of Religion wherein it consists and what it requires the mistake of which produceth daily