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A66338	A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, April 2, 1690 being the fifth Wednesday in Lent / by William Wake.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1690 (1690)	Wing W264; ESTC R24588	17,349	40

them into Sin let us by our good Example both teach them what they ought to do and if possible make them in love with it And let us look upon our selves to lie under the same Engagement to God for one another that Judah once took upon himself for his Brother Benjamin Gen. 43. 9. Of my hand shalt thou require him if I bring him not unto thee and set him before thee then let me bear the blame for ever I am sensible that I am now exhorting you to a Duty but very little if at all consider'd by most Men. We think it to be enough for us to search out our own Souls and account with God for our own Miscarriages And may perhaps be ready to complain of this as some new Contrivance against your Liberty to call upon you to repent for other Men's sins But if the Case be indeed so as the Text plainly implies and as I think I may presume to say I have in some measure made it appear to be If there be many waies by which we may and by some or other of which it is probable the very best of us have rendred our selves partakers of other Mens sins Then I am sure it must remain that we have a concern to look beyond our own particular Offences and to enquire to how many sins of others we may have contributed by any of these means I have before mentioned and the less we have been wont to do this heretofore it will argue the greater not lesser necessity for us to set very seriously about it now It is indeed an amazing Reflection to sit down and think How much more Guilt we may possibly contract by every sin that we commit than we are any of us willing to believe or it may be able to comprehend For not to say any thing at all of those common Aggravations which we are every where taught to examine our selves about Such as sinning against Knowledg against the Checks of our own Consciences and the Motions of God's Holy Spirit to the contrary sinning against often repeated Promises against the most serious Resolutions against the most solemn and sacred Vows of Obedience In a word sinning against many providential Admonitions such as Trouble Afflictions Losses Sickness and the like sent by God on purpose to reclaim us Let us consider only this one thing now before us How many Men our sinning may be the Ruine of How many souls may for ought we know perish by our means And what a desperate increase this must add to our own Guilt For if he who converts a sinner from the Error of his way and so is instrumental to the saving but of one soul from death shall for that cover a multitude of his own sins O! then how fatally must we multiply evil against our selves when by our neglect of our duty we lead perhaps Multitudes into error and involve their souls in everlasting Destruction If we have therefore hitherto neglected so serious a Consideration If our Repentance has been only for the sins we our selves have committed without any regard to the Mischief we may have done our Brother by them Let us now at least be perswaded to think that we have yet one great part of our Humiliation still behind to deprecate God's Wrath not only for our selves but for others too and implore his Forgiveness of all those sins which have ever by our means been committed by any in the world and that he would not impute them either to their or our Damnation This if we do with that affectionate earnestness as becomes so great an Aggravation I am perswaded we shall not only very much increase our Contrition and so perfect our Repentance for what is past but may also by the Grace of God establish our selves the better against returning to our Evil Waies for the Time to come And our desires not to partake in other Men's sins be improved into one Motive more to keep us from continuing in our own I shall conclude this Discourse after the same manner and almost in the same Words that S. Basil once did his Canonical Epistle to Amphilochius upon the occasion of that very Reflection we have now been making Let us saies he consider the terrible Judgment of God and the day of his Appearing and let us fear lest we perish in other men's Sins Let us call to mind the Admonitions of God to us What Evils we have been exposed to What Calamities we have suffered And let these convince us That for the Iniquities of our Lives we have been forsaken by him Our People have been led into Captivity our Brethren dispersed far and near Because those who profess the Name of Christ have yet lived so contrary to their Profession But if after all this Men will not understand That for these Causes the Wrath of God is come upon us wherefore should we after this have any thing more to do with them Nevertheless let us not cease Day nor Night in Publick and in Private to intreat and beseech them to consider these things but let us not be drawn away with their Wickedness Let us wish and pray That if it shall please God we may yet gain them at the last and deliver them out of the Snares of the Devil but if this we cannot do yet at least let us save our own Souls thô we cannot theirs and not partake with them in their sins lest we also partake with them in their Destruction Now to him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb be ascribed as is most due Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and Thanksgiving and Honour and Power and Might for ever and ever Amen FINIS 1 Tim. iii. 15. 2 Cor. ii 6. Chrys. Hom. xv in 1. Tim. Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. iii. 5. Marc. Ant. l. viii Sect. 53. ●d Com. Ezek. xviii 2 Sam. xi 15 17. 2 Sam. xii 9. 10. 11 12. 13. Psal. li. 14. Inst. l. iv Tit. 1. Sect Interdum Serm. de Sanctis i iv v. Acts xxii 20. Ezek. xiii 3. c. Isaiah v. 2● Isaiah v. 24. Gal. ii 12. 13. 14. 11. 14. Exod. xxi 33. 34. 1 Kings xiii 34. Is●er ad Dem. ● 30. Chrysost. in Rom. Hom. V. pag. 46 47. 1 Kings xxi 4. 9. 10. 11. 15. 16. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phocyl Mat. v. 28. 22. 2 Ep. Jo. 7. 1● 2 Ep. Jo. 11. James v. 19 20. Bevereg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tom II. p. 367.