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A50522	The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D., sometime fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge; Works. 1672	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1588; ESTC R19073	1,655,380	1,052

for at the hands of God without it An invincible argument whereof is That our Saviour himself in the Prayer he hath taught his Church hath put in a bar against asking it but upon this condition Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us If we ask not with this disposition there is no promise that any such prayer shall be heard nay our Saviour tells us in plain terms it shall not If saith he you forgive not men their trespasses no more will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses How then can any man whose heart is fraught with malice and meditates revenge against his brother hear this and not tremble Is it not a fearful thing for a man to carry in his own bosom not only an evidence that his sins are unpardoned but a bat too that he cannot ask the forgiveness of them Let no man deceive himself Though our consciences should bear us witness of many good works we have done reconciliatione tamen contemptâ nullum possumus promereri solatium yet if we neglect to be reconciled to our brethren we are not in a capacity to receive any comfort and mercy from God So Chrysost. As the fifth Commandment is called by the Apostle the first Commandment with promise so is this Petition for forgiveness of sins the only Petition with condition and such a condition too as our Saviour dwells upon and enforces when he had delivered this Form of Prayer to his Disciples For he passes by all the rest of the Petitions and singles out this alone to comment upon as that wherein the chiefest moment lay and without which all our prayer would be uneffectual and to no purpose A further confirmation of which we have in that parable of Servus nequam the wicked Servant Matth. 18. whom his Lord being moved with compassion when he besought him forgave a debt of ten thousand Talents But he finding one of his fellow-servants which ought him an hundred pence though he fell at his feet and besought him yet would not hear him but cast him into prison Then his Lord was wroth and said O thou wicked servant shouldst thou not have had compassion on thy fellow-servant even as I had pity upon thee And he delivered him unto the tormentors till he should pay all that was due to him The Application is terrible So likewise saith our Saviour shall my heavenly Father do unto you if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses We are this Servus nequam if when our heavenly Father forgives us thousands of Talents we stand with our brethren for an hundred pence For there is no proportion between the offences wherewith we offend God and the offences wherewith our brother offends us And therefore we have no excuse hath our brother wronged us never so often never so much never so hainously For whatsoever it be or how unworthy or undeserved soever our sin our ingratitude to Almighty God is and hath been infinitely greater even as ten thousand Talents to an hundred pence To these two Testimonies add a third and that also as the former out of our Blessed Saviour's own mouth Matth. 5. 23 24. If thou bring saith he thy Gift to the Altar and there remember that thy brother hath ought against thee Leave there thy gift before the Altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word whereby the Septuagint constantly render that which the Law calls Corban and the Gospel concurs with them Mark 7. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now Corban in the Law is in special used for those Offerings which were made for atonement of Sin as the Burnt-offering Sin-offering Trespass-offering and Peace-offering call'd Offerings by Fire or Sacrifices So that this Precept of our Saviour's here is the same in effect with the former When thou comest to offer an offering unto God for an atonement of thy sin go thy way first and be reconciled unto thy brother for without this thy sin shall not be forgiven thee I shall not need tell you that now in the Gospel Christ is the Sacrifice is the Gift which a Christian by faith offers unto God for the propitiation of his sin and that this Sacrifice is commemorated sealed and communicated unto us in the blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper whereby it will easily appear how this Precept of our Saviour's uttered after the style of the Legal worship is appliable to the Evangelical Hence in the ancient Church when they assembled to celebrate this Sacrament the Deacon was wont to proclaim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ne quis contra aliquem Let no man have ought against his brother And then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Salute one another with an holy kiss which accordingly they did first the Bishop and Clergy then the Laiety the men apart by themselves and the women by themselves and this was a profession of friendship and reconciliation and therefore called Osculum pacis the kiss of peace In after-times the Priest gave this Kiss of peace unto the Deacon and he to the chief of the Congregation and so it was given from one to another In stead of which at length was brought in that foolish ceremony still used among the Romanists for the Priest to send a little gilded or painted Table with a Crucifix or some Saint's picture thereon to be kissed of every one in the Church before they receive the Holy Bread which they call the kissing of the Pax. So oftentimes profitable and useful Ceremonies degenerate into toys and superstitions Our Church though she useth no ceremony retains the substance when the Priest in his Exhortation to the Communicants saith If any of you be in malice or envy or any other grievous crime bewail your sins and come not to this holy Table and by the Rubrick the Priest if he knows any such is to turn them back unless they will be reconciled Lastly The necessity of this duty is testified by that pious and generally-received Custom amongst Christians to exhort those that are dying to forgive all the world that so themselves may find mercy and forgiveness at the hands of God Is it needful at the hour of death and not as needful in the time of our health Is there no forgiveness to be expected at the hands of God without it when we are dying and is there while we are living No certainly All times are alike here and there is no time wherein God will forgive us unless we forgive our brother What then remains but that we do every day as we would do if we were to die the next It is a blessed disposition to have a becalmed heart to those who have wronged us and not to let the Sun go down upon our wrath to be able to come before God with confidence and say Lord forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us DISCOURSE XXV S. MARK 1. 14 15. Now after that Iohn was put in prison Iesus came into Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of