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A70206	A sermon on Acts xxviii, 22 shewing, that the Christian religion is not a sect, and yet that it is every where spoken against / by Matthew Henry ...	Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.	1699 (1699)	Wing H1476; ESTC R19814	33,478	57

for the Faith and striving against Sin now it is desirable to know which of these contesting Interests will be victorious and we may be assur'd that the cause of God and Religion will certainly carry the day Contradicted Truths will be effectually clear'd and vindicated Despised Holiness will be honour'd Mistakes rectify'd Reproaches roll'd away and every thing set in a true Light Then you shall return and discern between Truth and Falshood Right and Wrong which now it is not always easie to do The Day of the Lord is said to be in the Valley of Decision Joel 3.14 Because then and there will this great Cause be decided which has been so long depending and a definitive Sentence given from which there will ly no Appeal and against which there will be no Exception Our God will then come and will not Keep Silence whoever now Speak against Religion he will then speak for it and will undoubtedly be justified when he speaks and clear when he judgeth Particular Parties and Interests as such will wither and come to nothing But Catholick Christianity that is Denying Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and living Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World in expectation of the Blessed Hope This is Good and the Goodness of it being founded on the unchangeable Will of the Eternal Mind it is Eternally Good and no doubt will be Eternally Glorious whatever is said against it This this is that Gold and Silver and those Precious Stones which will stand the Test of the Fire that shall try every Mans Work 1 Cor. 3.12 13. and will be found unto Praise and Honour and Glory at the Appearing of Jesus Christ Assure your selves Christians there is a Day of Recompences for the Controversy of Sion coming and it is at Hand Behold the Judge standeth before the Door Then Vice and Wickedness which now appear so daring so threatning will be effectually and irrecoverable crush'd and such a fatal and incurable Blow given to the Serpents Head that he shall never hiss shall never spit his Venom any more Then shall the Vpright have the Dominion Psal 49.14 and all the faithful Souldiers of the Lord Jesus shall be call'd to set their Feet upon the Necks of Principalities and Powers Then Atheists and Blasphemers the Debauchees and prophane Scoffers of the Age will have their Mouths stopt with an irresistable Conviction will have all their vile Calumnies visibly confuted their Hearts fill'd with unspeakable Horror and their Faces with everlasting Shame Their Refuge of Lies will then be swept away and Rocks and Mountains call'd upon in vain to shelter them Then shall the Righteous who are now trampled upon and despised shine as the Sun in the Firmament of their Father Wisdom and her Children shall be first justified and then glorified before all the World And they that through Grace have gotten the Victory over the Beast and over his Image shall solace themselves and praise their Redeemer with everlasting Songs of Triumph The Dirt that is now unjustly thrown upon them will not only be wiped off but will add to their Glory and every Reproach for the Testimony of Jesus will be a Pearl in their Crown The Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth will shortly render to every Man according to his Work To them who by patient continuance in Well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality in the other World and in pursuit of that patiently bear Disgrace and Contempt in this to them he will render Eternal Life which will make them as Happy as they can desire far more Happy than they can now conceive But to them that are Contentious and do not obey the Truth but contradict it and rebel against the Light and Laws of it being resolv'd to obey Vnrighteousness to them he will render with a just and Almighty Hand Indignation and Wrath the effect of which will be such Tribulation and Anguish to the Soul as will make them feel eternally what now they will not be perswaded to believe that it is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the living God for never any hardned their Hearts against him and prosper'd Brethren These are the true Sayings of God on the certainty of which we may venture our Immortal Souls They who speak and act so much against Religion design to run it down and extirpate it that the Name of it may be no more in remembrance and perhaps you hear them sometimes boast of their success herein If they can but handsomly as they think ridicule the sacred Text or Banter any of the Divine Mysteries or Hector over a good Man they are ready to triumph as if they had run down Religion Run down Religion In the Name of my great Master I defy all the Powers of Hell and Earth to run it down They may sooner run down the flowing Tide or the Sun when he goes forth in his strength than run down the least of the Dictates of Eternal Truth not one iota or tittle of which shall fall to the Ground Dagon will certainly fall before the Ark of the Lord and the Rod of Aaron will Swallow up the Rods of the Magicians Do they talk of running down Religion and the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Christ The Virgin the Daughter of Sion hath despised them and laughed them to scorn the Daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her Head at them and hath therefore put them to shame because God hath despised them as it is said Psal 53.5 He that sets in the Heavens enjoying himself and rides upon the Heavens for the Help of his People derides their Attempts against the Kingdom of his Son as vain and fruitless The Lord shall laugh at them for he sees that his Day is coming They have their Day now it is their Hour and the Power of Darkness But God will have his Day shortly and a Glorious Day it will be when our Lord Jesus shall appear in all the Power and Grandeur of the Vpper World to the everlasting Terror and Confusion of all his Adversaries and the everlasting Joy and Honour of all his faithful Servants and Soldiers With the believing Hopes and Prospects of which Day let all those who heartily espouse and plead Religion's righteous Cause Comfort themselves and one another FINIS Jam. 1.27 1 Tim. 1.15 1 Thes 2.15 16. † Tertullian confidently asserts Primum Neronem in hanc Sectam tum maxime Romae orientem Caesariano gladio terocisse Apol. cap. 5 Inquisitione agnitione neglecta Nomen detinetur Nomen expugnatur Vox sola praedamnat Tert. Ap. c. 3. Acts 17.11 John 1.46 Prov. 18.13 John 7.51 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Electio optio An Opinion not forced upon us by the Evidences of Truth but chosen by us with some forreign Design 2 Cor. 5.19 Luke 2.14 Joh. 1.29.3.16 1 John 2.2 Secta dicitur à Secando Eph. 2.14 15 16. John 11.52 Luk 9.56 Luke 10.36 37. Phil. 2.8 Heb. 3.1 2 Cor. 1.12 Rom. 14.17 18. Luke 12.1 1 Cor. 1.2 Jam. 3.17 1 Pet. 2.15 1 Cor. 4.3 4. Doct. Rev. 12.17 Psal 118.22 Isa 53.2 3. Mat 27.39 Luke 23.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 1.20.21 Phil. 2.6 Cant. 5.9 Jude 15. Gen. 3.4 Ps 10.13 Jer. 12.2 Deut. 28.58 Jude 16. Isa 8.21 Psal 73.9 * Trident Concil Sess 4th Ps 137.3 Dan. 5.2 3. Zach. 3.8 See this at large represented by Caecilius in Minucius Felix 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Theatre they plaid upon cui septima quaeque fuit lux Ignava Juvenal sat 5. Dicimur sceleratissimi de Sacramento infanticidij pabulo inde post convivium incesto c. Tertull. Apol. cap. 7. 1 Pet. 1.18 Acts 17.18 19. See Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity lib. 1. ch 1. Greg. Nazian Invectiv in Julian Orat 1. p. mihi 42. Lollards from Lolium Tares so my Ld. Cook from Mr. Fox Rev. 13.17 Rev. 13.17 Isa 5.20 1 Pet. 4.3 4 Psal 12.8 Isa 59.15 Eph. 4.21 compar'd with Tit. 1.1 Acts 3.15 17. Luke 23.34 Job 21.14 John 4.10 Cant. 5.9.6.1 Psal 83.3 Col. 3.3 Prov. 15.24 Psa 105. Quid iniquiusquàm ut oderin● homines quod ignorant Tunc enim meretur quando cognoscitur an mereatur Tert. Apol. cap. 1. Antè nos incipiunt odisse quam nosse ne cognitos aut imitari possint aut damnare non possint Min. Fel. p. mihi 30. Rom. 8.7 1 Joh. 3.13 Job 15.25 Psa 12.4 Mat. 21.45 John 7.7 Gen. 37.2 1 Ki. 22.8.21.20 Rev. 11.10 Mat. 24.14 Naturale est odisse quem times quem metueris infestare si possis Min. Felix Isa 29.21 Isa 58.1 Gal. 1.8 9. Gal. 1.10 Heb. 11.7 Prov. 29.10 1 John 3.12 Eccl. 8.11 Ps 50.12 2 Pet. 3.3 4. 2 Pet. 3.9 Rom. 1.18 Psal 50.3 Jude 14.15 Mat. 22.12 Mat. 26.63 Joh. 19.9 Heb. 10.13 2 Sam. 16.10.4 1 Pet. 2.23 Ps 83 3 4. Acts 5.38 See this excellently enlarged upon by the learned Grotius de v. R. C. l. 2. Acts 19.20 2 Kin. 18.34 Exod. 3.3 4. Rev. 6.2 Acts 28.3 Mat. 16.18 See the learned Dr. Humfrey Prideaux's excellent History of the Life of Mahomet lately published Rev. 12.10 11. Isa 52.5 Psa 69 10. Mat. 25.45 Psa 64.8 Gal. 6.7 Hos 14.9 2 Pet. 3.16 Zach. 12.3 1 Pet. 2.8 Isa 28.13 2 Tim. 2.17 2 Pet. 2.2 Act. 13.7.8 9 10. Isa 8.11 12. Psal 1.1 Cic. de Nat. Deor. lib. 2. ad Fin. Luk. 9.55 Ro. 2.24 2 Pet. 2 2. Jude 12. The foulest Reproaches of the Primitive Christians took rise from the vile practises of the Gnosticks and other Pseudochristians Of which Vid. Euseb Eccl. Hist l. 4. c. 7. Col. 4.5 Luk. 7.35 Prov. 14.8 Ec. 10.10 Jam. 1.5 2 Cor. 6.3 1 Tim. 6.1 Col. 1.10 Tit. 2.10 Mat. 5.14 2 Thes 5.12 1 Pet. 2.12 v. 15. Psal 38.33 Eccl. 3.7 Luk. 12.9 2 Tim. 2.12 Prov. 25.23 Luke 1.4 1 Pet. 3.15 2 Cor. 6.7 Col. 2.2 Psal 8.2 Isa 30.21 Isa 51.7.8 12. 2 Thes 3.2 Eccl. 10.3 Arch Bp. Tillotson's Serm. on 2 Pet. 2 3. Job 5.1 Deut. 32.7 Job 28.28 Prov. 3.17 Mal. 3.18 Psal 50.3 Psal 51.4 1 Pet. 1.7 Isa 34.8 Jam. 5.9 Jos 10.24 Isa 28.17 Rev. 6.16 Ma. 13.43 Rev. 15.2 Mat. 5.11 12. Rom. 2.6 7 8 9. Heb. 10.31 Rev. 19.9 Psa 83.4 Magna est Veritas praevalebit Mat. 5.18 Ex. 7.12 Isa 37.22 Psal 2.4 Deut. 33.26 Psa 37.13

That the Lord Jesus who so loved the World is so much hated and despised by the World The Reproaches of them who thus reproach our Master if we be his faithful Servants we should feel as falling upon us And if he take what is said and done against his People as said and done against himself much more reason have they to find themselves aggrieved in that which is said and done against him If we pray heartily that God's Name may be hallowed as we should do every day we should grieve heartily that his Name is dishonoured as we see it is every day And our resentments of the Reproach cast upon God and Religion we should make a humble and pious Remonstrance of before God in Prayer as King Hezekiah spread Rabshakeh's blasphemous Letter before the Lord with that tender and affectionate Request Lord bow down thine ear and hear Open Lord thine eyes and see 2 Kin. 19.16 How pathetically doth Joshua plead chap. 7.9 What wilt thou do unto thy great Name And with what a concern doth the Psalmist in the name of the Church insist upon this Psal 74.10 O God how long shall the Adversary reproach Shall the Enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever And v. 18. Remember this that the Enemy hath reproached O Lord and that the foolish People have blasphemed thy Name And how earnestly doth he beg v. 22. Arise O God plead thine own Cause Thus should the Honour of God and Religion lie nearer our Hearts than any other concern whatsoever 2. Consider the miserable Condition of those that presumptuously speak against God and Religion Tho' they may do it with an Air of Assurance as if they run no hazard yet he that rolleth this Stone it will certainly return upon him sooner or later They that speak against Religion speak against their own Heads and their own Tongues will at last fall upon them We have reason to bewail their Madness and to pity and pray for them for they know not what they do Miserable Souls How will they be deceived at last when they shall find that God is not mocked And that while they were studying to put contempt on Religion they were but preparing eternal Shame and Confusion for themselves The Lord is a jealous God and will not hold them guiltless that thus profane his Name Their Wit and Learning and Figure in the World may embolden them in their Sin and bear them up a while in an open Defiance of all that 's Sacred but nothing can prevent their utter Ruine besides a serious and sincere Repentance which is an unsaying with Shame and Self-lothing of all that which they have proudly spoken against God and Godliness They that pervert the right ways of the Lord will certainly fall therein and they that wrest the Scriptures do it to their own Destruction Religion's Motto is Nemo me impune lacessit 'T is ill jesting with edg-tools Jerusalem will certainly be a burthensome Stone to all People that burthen themselves with it They that spurn at the Rock of Salvation will not only be unable to remove it but will find it a Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offence And we find those who ridicul'd the Word of the Lord broken and snared and taken Let all those therefore that mourn in Sion weep over those that will not weep for themselves and look with pity and compassion upon those that look upon them with scorn and contempt 3. Consider the Mischief that is hereby done to the Souls of others They who thus err their error remaineth not with themselves but this poisonous and malignant Breath infects others Words spoken against Religion eat as doth a Canker and they who speak them seldom perish alone in their iniquity for many follow their pernicious ways Unwary Souls are easily beguil'd and brought to conceive rooted Prejudices against that which they hear every where spoken against and few have Consideration and Resolution enough to maintain a good opinion of that which they that set up for Wits make it their business to cry down Sergius Paulus was a prudent Man and yet St. Paul saw him in danger of being turned away from the Faith by the subtle Suggestions of Elymas the Sorcerer which therefore the Apostle resented with a more than ordinary keenness It is sad to think how many Young People who perhaps were well Educated and Hopeful when they go abroad into the World by conversing with those who lie in wait to deceive have their minds insensibly vitiated and debauch'd and perhaps they are made seven times more the Children of Hell than those that first seduced them Under a pretence of free Thought and fashionable Conversation and a generous Disdain of Preciseness and Singularity Atheistical Principles are imbib'd the Restraints of Conscience shaken off Brutish Lusts not only indulg'd but pleaded for and serious Godliness and Devotion look'd upon with Contempt and thus the Heart is impregnably fortify'd for Satan against Christ and his Gospel Wrath is treasur'd up against the Day of Wrath and those who might have been the Blessing prove the Plague of their Age which is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation to all that wish well for the souls of Men and to those especially that are desirous of the welfare of the rising Generation Fourthly Let us take heed that none of us do at at any time directly or indirectly speak against the ways of Religion and Godliness or say a Confederacy with those that do so Submit to Divine Instructions given with a strong hand not to walk in the way of those People that speak ill of Religion Take heed of embracing any Notions which secretly tend to derogate from the Authority of the Holy Scriptures or to diminish the Honour of Religion in the Soul or of accustoming your selves to such Expressions as treat not Sacred Things with that awful Regard which is due to them Those were never reckon'd Wise Men that would rather lose a Friend than a Jest much less are they to be accounted so that will rather lose the Favour of their God Those that in their common Converse make themselves merry with serious things how can it be expected they should at any time be serious in them or experience the influence and comfort of them It is not likely that those who make the Word of God the subject of their Jests should ever make it the Guide of their way or find it the spring of their Joys Let us not chuse to associate with those that have light thoughts of Religion and are ready upon all occasions to speak against it It is not without good reason that among the many words with which St. Peter exhorted his New Converts this only is recorded Save your selves from this untoward Generation Acts 2.40 Those that listen to the Counsel of the Vngodly and Stand in the way of Sinners as willing to walk with them will come at