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A61263	A sermon preached at Christ-Church in Bristol, before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, lord chief justice of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas at the assizes held there, August 7th, anno Dom. 1675 / by Richard Standfast ...	Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.	1676 (1676)	Wing S5213; ESTC R38271	13,252	38

A SERMON Preached at Christ-Church in BRISTOL Before the Right Honourable Sr Francis North Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of common-Common-Pleas At the Assizes held there August 7th Anno Dom. 1675. By Richard Standfast Master of Arts and Rector there LONDON Printed by A. M. for Charles Allen Bookseller in BRISTOL 1676. Imprimatur Mar. 8º 1675 6. Geo. Hooper Rmo D no Arch. Cant. a Sacris Domesticis To the Right Reverend Father in God GVY by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of BRISTOL Right Reverend Father I Cannot but be sensible how unfit a Person I am now after Thirteen years blindness to offer any thing unto Publick View especially in such an Age as this But seeing that it is your Lordship's desire that these weak Meditations of mine should be made publick I am willing to obey and the rather that the world may know That whatever Faction and Division there is or hath been amongst us here in this City it hath not passed without publick discovery and reproof I will give your Lordship at the present no further trouble than humbly to crave that as these Meditations such as they are had your Lordship's Approbation when you heard them from the Pulpit so you would be pleased to let them pass under your Patronage from the Press And hereby I shall be the more obliged to be as I am Your Lordship 's most humble Servant RICHARD STANDFAST A SERMON Preached at Christ-Church in BRISTOL c. NUMBERS XVI 15. Moses was very wroth and said unto the Lord Respect not thou their offering SAint Paul saith That all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3.16 17. The word of God revealed unto us in his holy Book is it seems a perfect rule both of Faith and Manners Here we may learn both what to believe and how to live what to embrace and what to avoid if our desire be to have the fruit in holiness and the end everlasting life All sorts of persons may here be taught what belongs to their duty in their several places wherein God hath set them and the more to encourage us to perform our duties the Precepts of God are seconded with many and precious Promises both of the life that now is and also of that which is to come and his Prohibitions are backt with many and heavy Threatnings relating both to souls and bodies and to miseries not only temporal but also eternal And for the better confirming of our Faith concerning both these Promises and these Threatnings the Book of God hath set before our eyes Examples of both kinds the more to allure us to that which is good and the more to affright us from that which is evil Such as were Abel and Noah and Lot Abraham and Job and David with many others on the one side And Cain and Achan and Gehazi and Judas and the old world and Sodom and Gomorrah on the other amongst which also we may reckon this matter of Korah of which and of all others of like kind we may say as St. Paul 1 Cor. 10.11 All these things happened unto them for ensamples and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come For of Korah and his complices it is said they become a Sign Numb 26.18 to warn others how they walk in their ways lest in the end they drink of theirs or the like cup. And 't is indeed what God requires at our hands disobedient Apostates are call'd upon to remember Lot's Wife And Jerusalem is bid to go to Shiloh and see what God did to it for the wickedness of his people Israel Jer. 7.12 And the same is expected of us concerning the matter in hand Go to Korah and see what was done to him and his company lest ye be like them So that in this Chapter we have a perfect glass for all Seditious Schismaticks for all Factious and Seditious persons wherein they may see not only a discovery of their sin but also a description of their punishment both which are written for our instruction that we may hear fear and learn to beware of doing so wickedly Lege historiam ne fias historia In this Verse of my Text we have Moses his wrath and then the effect thereof in the prayer that he made when he saith to the Lord Respect not thou their offering But before I come to speak of these I must crave leave to begin a little higher that we may the better see upon what account it was that he was so displeased And that I may not seem over-tedious if you please but to fancy that I have taken in the foregoing part of this Chapter for a considerable part of the matter of my discourse I hope I may be accounted the more excusable In order therefore to my Text we must know that Levi had three Sons Gersham Coheth and Merari from these three came the Families of the Levites The Sons of Coheth were Amram Izhar Hebron and Vzziel The Sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses And the Sons of Izhar were Korah Nepheg and Zichri c. Of these came the Families of the Levites whose Names you may see Exod. 6. And their Families and Number at large Num. 6.3 Moses and Aaron were the men unto whom God spake and by whom he spake to Pharaoh and by whom he brought them out of Egyptian bondage after which he led his people like Sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron These were two men unto whom God gave extraordinary Commissions The one to be as a Prince the other to be the Priest of God for the people of Israel What Moses did he did by Gods appointment and his Commission was sufficiently ratify'd by variety of Miracles enough to convince the most incredulous besides all which his meekness justice industry prudence care and love manifested in those great benefits advantages and deliverances which they enjoy'd by his means were enough to oblige them to submit quietly unto his Government tending so much to their own good After they were got out of Egypt God gave that people the Law and after that Orders for erecting of a Tabernacle for his publick Worship every thing wherein was appointed by God himself who communicated all to Moses and by him to the people according to which every thing was accomplished by Moses his care and the peoples voluntary and liberal contributions The Tabernacle being finished and erected Almighty God who is debtor to no man and may freely chuse out for his Service whom he pleas'd setled the Priesthood upon Aaron and his family unto whom were given all the Families of the Levites in lue of the First-born and these were offered unto God as an holy offering and were consecrated unto God for the service of the Tabernacle but yet between the Office of them