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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40089	A sermon preached before the judges, &c. in the time of the assizes in the Cathedral church at Gloucester on Sunday Aug. 7, 1681 published to put a stop to false and injurious representations / by Edward Fowler.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1681 (1681)	Wing F1716; ESTC R10669	23,348	42

stranger to Christianity that he hath totally cast off all Humanity Whosoever is a thorough Papist hath no Conscience in his own keeping his Conscience is perfectly at the dispose of his Holy Father and his Confessor Nor is there any villany be it never so great but he is prepared for it whensoever a Priest or Jesuit by commission from the Pope shall oblige him to it That Protestant doth but slightly understand Popery who dares trust his throat with a thorough Papist although he be seemingly a man of never so good a nature or of never so good Morals and the more conscientious he is in his way by so much the more dangerous a person is he That 's a rare Religion in the mean time the more true to which any man is the greater Villain he must necessarily be And those are a precious sort of Christians of which one cannot adventure to give a true and impartial Character and to paint them in their own colours but he must be in danger to be Censured as a scurrilous person as a man of a foul mouth and a down-right Railer Let us all therefore take up those words of Iacob in reference to his Generation which he uttered concerning his two wicked sons Simeon and Levi O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united To make some Application of what hath been discoursed First Is the putting away a good Conscience the true cause to which making shipwrack of the Faith is to be imputed Is this the account into which it is to be resolved Then as we would be out of danger of falling into Heresie and particularly of turning Papists and of making shipwrack of the Faith as they have done let us have a great care to hold fast a good Conscience To exercise our selves in keeping Consciences void of offence both towards God and towards men To lead lives answerable to the holy Doctrine which we profess to believe If any man will do the will of God or be sincerely willing to do it he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God saith our Blessed Saviour Iohn 7.17 He shall be able to discern between truth and falshood and shall be guided into and kept in the truth The truth hath no fast hold of any but those who receive it in the love of it and make it the measure and rule of their lives and actions It is not at all strange that Learned and Knowing men should make shipwrack of the Faith for Learning and Knowledge is no security while separated from Honesty and a Good Conscience There is no error so absurd or dangerous but we ought to expect an insincere person will embrace it when once it becomes serviceable to that Interest he is most concerned for the promoting of Even those of us who do now shew the most forward zeal against Popery if we be wedded to any corrupt Affection and have only the Form but are void of the Power of Godliness will be in never the less danger notwithstanding our present zeal of Apostatizing if ever it should become our temporal interest which God forbid to turn Papists Secondly Is it so apparent that the Church of Rome hath made so woful a shipwrack of the Faith Then what an infinite obligation lyeth upon us to the greatest Thankfulness to our good God for rescuing these Nations from under her yoke and for those Miracles of mercy which he hath wrought for us in blasting so many of their deep laid designs their late great Conspiracy and late Sham-plots for the reducing of us to our old Captivity If it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may England say if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when these men rose up against us then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us then the waters had overwhelmed us and the streams had gone over our soul. Let us therefore Bless the Lord who hath not given us as a prey unto their teeth Lastly As we would still be secured from Popish Conspiracies from the unwearied attempts of our old Adversaries against us take we great heed of provoking the Almighty to withdraw at length his Protection and abandon us to their Malice by walking unworthy of that glorious Light and Liberty we now enjoy in the Church of England And while we have the light let us walk in the light lest God in his just judgment suffer us to be again involved in Egyptian darkness Oh happy Children of the Church of England if we could be perswaded to prize our present Vast Priviledges before our having lost them doth force us to set a high value on them And Oh that we were capable of so much Wisdom as no longer to strengthen the hands of our common enemy by our as unreasonable as Unchristian Animosities against one another That we had once as great a zeal against the Anti-christs within our own breasts Pride Anger Malice and Bitterness as we seem to have against the Anti-Christ in the Roman Chair Those Anti-christs being the greatest friends this Anti-christ hath and more our enemies than he is capable of being Oh that at length we could be convinced of this great truth that the Christian Religion consisteth not in meats or drinks mere external things but in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost In Humility Meekness Self-denial Obedience to Authority in all lawful things love to God and love to men c. Oh that we had a vigorous powerful sense of this that neither the most admired Gifts nor appearances of Grace which are not joyned with a Benign and Charitable temper can at all recommend us to the Divine favour That he hath no Participation of the God-like Life and Nature who is of a Quarrelsome Contentious Uncharitable Spirit be he in a many other respects never so Saint-like And that Christian love is a thousand times better argument of a renewed state than most of those marks and characters which are ordinarily given of a godly man If we were once brought to this happy pass to have a lively sense of these things to make great Conscience of preserving the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and to abandon all Separating Dividing Sowre and ill-natur'd Principles and Practices we shall not then need to fear the malice of the Papists were their power greater than God be thanked it is but till then all our other endeavours to secure our selves may fail of success But alas I fear that never had a People sadder Omens of miserable days than we now have And nothing bodes worse than this that we are so far from Uniting among our selves notwithstanding we seem so sensible of extraordinary danger from our common Enemy that our breaches daily grow wider and wider We seem no less infatuated no less madly bent upon our own destruction than were the miserable Iews in the Siege