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A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of Clergy-men, in St. Paul's Cathedral, December 3, 1700 by Richard West ...
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West, Richard, 1671 or 2-1716.
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Principles are not easily instilled into them and not quickly understood and what they See does much more affect them than what they Hear The sight of a good Action fixes a lasting Idea and is never forgotten And if we had such advantages the same are we obliged to convey down to others The Cause of Religion the Honour of our Church and Gratitude to God do all require it of us There are some who take much Pains to make others Miserable to seduce them into bad Courses before they have learnt to know the Evil from the Good and are always contriving new Methods to make Proselytes to Vice and Irreligion It must certainly then be our Indispensible Duty who profess to be of a superior Order of Christians to fence against these Opposers of God and Religion and to apply our utmost care and diligence that others who have equal pretensions to Immortality with our Selves should not for want of right Management and good Examples be for ever miserably lost in another World The study of Peace and Unity among our selves will do no small service to the Cause we espouse For Religion never appears so inviting as when 't is adorn'd with a sedate and quiet frame of Mind that is its true and genuine Shape and it must appear Deform'd when it has lost its native Beauty and Excellence If therefore there are hatreds and variances among our selves both our Order and Religion will be aspers'd and the Enemies of God will take occasion to Blaspheme Let us then take care that we give not the least suspicion of our dispensing with those obligations we are under to promote Friendship and mutual Agreement among our selves and we need not fear any Attacks of our Enemies We shall then never be uneasie at any Reproach or Calumnies that are thrown upon us but shall follow with satisfaction the Blessed Example and Precepts of our great Master and Saviour and Pray for them that despitefully use us It would be almost a Scandal to us to be spoken well of by those who treat our Religion it self with Scornâ— And indeed our Saviour hath pronounced a Wo unto us when all men shall speak well of us Let us then but have the pleasure of discharging our Duties conscientiously towards God and one another and we shall never be dissatisfied with the delight which others take in contemning and reviling us Let us give no occasion to others to upbraid us with unhappy differences among our selves or with contemning and despising one another and no other Weapon formed against us can prosper But above all let us put on Charity the Great bond of peace and of all vertues and never be weary of well doing Let us never suffer the ways of Sion to mourn and never shut our Ears against the Cries of Her Fatherless Children and Widows and then we may be sure that Heaven will hear those many Prayers and Good Wishes they will send up thither for us And as we have had large Advantages perhaps beyond most others by a Careful Education and good Examples so let us shew that we are truly sensible of them by giving others as much as we are able the same Encouragements By this shall all men know that we are the true Disciples and Followers of Christ and by this means we may hope to see both our Church and Religion Flourish and that Glory shall dwell in our Sion O let Righteousness and Peace Kiss each other and then we shall find that the Lord will Bless us he will Bless the House of Aaron The Lord will Encrease you more and more both you and your Children Wherefore praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion for he maketh Peace in thy Borders and hath blessed thy Children within Thee FINIS