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A46627
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A sermon preached at Guildhall-Chappel Decemb. 24, 1682 before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor &c. by John James.
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James, John, b. 1649.
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Wing J428; ESTC R28735
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Devil throughout the world in rescuing many Souls from the tyranny of the Devil and the powers of darkness and giving them power to become the Sons of God You therefore that call your selves by that worthy name of Christians consider the high Priest of your profession and the great obligation that lies upon you to walk worthy of your calling and to live as becomes the Gospel by renouncing the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh that as you profess to believe the Articles of the Christian Faith ye may keep Gods holy will and Commandments all the days of your life That having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust ye may be partakers of the Divine Nature and as the Apostle exhorts give all diligence to add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity and that these things may be in you and abound 2 Pet. 1.4 c. This our Baptismal Covenant obligeth us to this the Sacrament of the Lords Supper would enable us to effect this the principles of our Christian profession require this the precepts of our most holy Religion commands for this the blessed promise of Gods Grace is tendered to Mankind in the dispensation of the Gospel this the blessed hope of Eternal Glory should incourage us to and the dreadful apprehension of everlasting damnation should make us afraid to neglect And if hitherto we have been so desperately mad to continue in slavery and subjection to the Devil and thereby to stand at open defiance and direct hostility with the Son of God Let us not persist a moment longer in so wretched so miserable a condition but immediately break off our League with Satan and become the servants and worshippers of the only true God and of his Son Jesus Christ whom he hath sent For though our case be very bad whilst inslaved to the Tyranny of the Devil yet since we enjoy the Gospel that word of Everlasting life no man ought to conclude that his condition is desperate For now is the accepted time now is the day of Salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save the chiefest of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 So that the Son of God is willing to save us from our sins and the malice of the Devil too if we be willing to leave off our sins and to serve him in holiness and righteousness we may yet be turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God and so be rescued from the slavery of the Devil and our lusts into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God But at this time especially in which we are to Commemorate the Incarnation of the Son of God who came to visit us in great humility and in infinite mercy to deliver us from the power of the Devil we should seriously resolve to banish sin from our hearts and lives that the Son of God may take possession of our Souls and dwelling in our Spirits by Faith we may bring forth the fruits of Piety and Charity and all other Christian Vertues and Graces to the praise and honour of his blessed Name that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead we may rise to the life immortal through him who liveth and raigneth with the Father and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Amen FINIS