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A63907 A discourse of the divine omnipresence and its consequences delivered in a sermon before the honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inn, upon the first Sunday of this Michaelmas term / John Turner ... Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50. 1683 (1683) Wing T3307; ESTC R5395 16,965 40

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A DISCOURSE OF THE Divine Omnipresence AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Delivered in a SERMON BEFORE The Honourable SOCIETY of Lincolnes-Inn upon the first Sunday of this Michaelmas Term. By JOHN TURNER late Fellow of Christs-College in Cambridge Sic vive cum hominibus tanquam Deus videat sic loquere cum Deo tanquam homines audiant LONDON Printed by R. E. for W. Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in St. Pauls Church-yard 1683. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir George Ieffryes Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Justice of England and one of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY-COUNCIL My Lord THis little Performance which would have courted you for a Patron had you still continued at the Bar one of the best Advocates that ever pleaded there now dreads and fears you sitting upon the Bench where you have approved your self by the extorted confession of your Enemies themselves to be so just and so impartial a Judge But my Lord I know the obligingness and goodness of your Nature to be such that you can pardon what you will not defend and therefore I could not forbear taking this first occasion after having received so great a mark of your Favour to lay my self humbly at your Lordships feet to pay my hearty and affectionate Acknowledgments for the great Obligation and Honour you have done me It was an Obligation of the highest nature because I wanted a subsistence so much and was in danger every day of encountring with greater difficulties than before And it was an Honour so extraordinary that nothing could be more that your self and those other Lords and Gentlemen in Commission with you should give me so desirable a Character and so good a Preferment together for it is plain it was for my Loyalty and Affection to my Prince and Country two Interests that are inseparable from each other that I was made the Object of your Choice and therefore it would be very incongruous in me if having withstood the shock of the most miserable Circumstances in a firm adherence to my Allegiance and Duty I should not now continue to the end a perpetual Example of the most constant and entire Obedience when Interest Gratitude and Inclination are in a triple League and Confederacy together I owed my Fellowship at Christ-College to the Kings Royal Prerogative and Princely Favour and it is to the same Royal Goodness reflected from those that act in Commission from it that I am now proud and safe in the Title and Advantage of Hospitaller of St. Thomas so that the King hath now a double Title to my Studies and my Life beside that of my being his natural Subject and Servant and it is still a further Obligation upon me to conform to all the Instances of Loyalty and Obedience that I may not disappoint your Lordship and the rest of the Commissioners who have reposed a confidence and expectation in me The Subject here treated of the Omnipresence of God is of that universal influence upon all the Actions and Affairs of Humane Life that if it were but duly and frequently attended to there would be no need of the Pulpit or the Bar and though there may be defects in the management and method yet it happens very luckily in my discourse upon it which was uttered when I did not think of that good Fortune which has since befallen me that it will appear you have preferred a Protestant Divine at a time when every thing but a Protestant Dissenter that is a Dissenter from the Established Protestant Religion is by some branded with the Character of a Papist But my Lord you are wanted at Westminster-Hall and I do rudely to detain your Lordship thus long therefore I shall conclude with my Prayers to Almighty God whose Providence in so necessary a Juncture hath placed a person of so much Prudence Learning Integrity and Courage in so high a Station that he would assist and guide you by his wise and good Spirit in your great and difficult Affairs and that you may go on with continuance and increase of Honour to be eminently serviceable and useful to your Country till you arrive after a peaceful and vigorous Old Age at those blest Mansions of Eternal light and rest and peace which God hath prepared as an encouragement and reward of Virtue for all those that Fear him and Honour the King I am may it please Your Lordship Your Lordships Most Humble Obliged and Obedient Servant John Turner ERRATA disturbing the Sense Page 27 for employed read enslaved p. 32. for seasonable r. reasonable Psal CXXXIX 7 8 9 10. Whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence If I ascend up into heaven thou art there if I make my bed in hell behold thou art there If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the Sea even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me AS there hath never yet been any Nation so barbarous nor any People so stupid as not to acknowledge the Existence of a God a Truth that shines with so much Evidence and Demonstration that blindness it self can hardly be insensible of so glareing Brightness and so piercing Light so the great reason upon which all Ages have all along proceeded in their acknowledgment of the Divine Existence hath been evermore taken from the consideration of the works of Nature and the Phoenomena that were about them For they considered that the far greatest part of this Universe being stupid and insensible was in no capacity to order and dispose it self after so comely and regular a manner nor to preserve it self in so magnificent and beautiful a Structure for so many Ages and what was true of the whole Universe taken together the same was true likewise of its several parts Plants and Animals and Minerals and Mettals could not frame or organize themselves or one another neither could the same Seed by Virtue of any Power or Wisdom or Contrivance which it had in it self be able so constantly to produce the same sort of Herb or Tree or Flower And as the observation of the whole Universe together and of every part of it considered by it self did undeniably argue that there was some infinitely wise and understanding Nature indued with Power and Goodness equal to his Wisdom by whom the whole Universe and every part of it was so strangely so wisely and so graciously contrived or in the Language of the Royal Psalmist so fearfully and so wonderfully made so the usefulness and Friendly Conspiracy of the several parts for the support and maintenance of each other tho' in themselves they were destitute of Counsel and were incapable of any such contrivance was still a further Evidence a most unquestionable invincible and irrefragable demonstration of an invisible and immortal Being by which all these things were administred and governed For to say that all these things came to be thus by chance by the Epicurean jumbling of a