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A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-hall, February the XIIth, 1691/2 by William Sherlock ...
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Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
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BOOKS lately Printed for W. Rogers A Sermon Preached at White-Hall before the Queen on the Monthly-Fast-Day September 16th 1691. 4 o A Persuasive to Frequent Communion in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper The Eighth Edition 12 o Both by the most Reverend Father in God John Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury A Sermon Preached on the 28th of June at St. Andrew's Holbourn By the Right Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Norwich A Sermon Preached on the 28th of June at St. Mary le Bow on Sunday the Fifth of July 1691. at the Consecration of the most Reverend Father in God John Lord Arch-Bishop of York and the Right Reverend Fathers in God John Lord Bishop of Norwich Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough and Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester By Joshua Clark Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Norwich 4 o The Necessity of Serious Consideration and speedy Repentance as the only way to be safe both living and dying 8 o The Lambs of Christ fed with the sincere Milk of the Word of God in a short Scripture Catechism 12 o The Folly of Atheism demonstrated to the Capacity of the most unlearned Reader 8 o These Three by the Reverend Mr. Clement Elis Rector of Kirby in Notinghamshire Reflections upon two Books one Entituled The Case of Allegiance to a King in Possession The other An Answer to Dr. Sherlock ' s Case of Allegiance to Sovereign Powers in Possession on those parts especially wherein the Author endeavours to shew his Opinion to be agreeable to the Laws of this Land In a Letter to a Friend 4 o The Dean of St. Pauls's SERMON BEFORE THE QUEEN On the 12th of February 1691 2. A SERMON Preach'd before the QUEEN AT WHITE-HALL February the XII th 1691 2. By WILLIAM SHERLOCK D. D. Dean of St. Paul's Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their MAJESTIES Published by Her Majesty's special Command LONDON Printed for William Rogers at the Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1692. A SERMON Preached before HER MAJESTY At WHITE-HALL Febr. 12. 1691 2. IV. MATT. 1. Then was Iesus led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness to be tempted of the Devil THE Temptation of our Saviour after his fasting Forty Days is a very proper Subject for our Meditation at this time and suggests so many useful observations that I shall not wast any time in a needless Preface but shall 1. Consider in general what concerns his Temptation and 2. Explain the Nature of those particular Temptations wherewith the Devil assaulted him 1. In general Concerning our Saviour's being tempted by the Devil Now to tempt is to make a Tryal and Experiment and when the Devil tempts it is to try if he can perswade or seduce us from the Fear and Worship and Obedience of God 1. Now in the first place it is very observable that Christ himself when he became Man was tempted of the Devil and there is no greater mystery in this than that he was liable to hunger and cold and had all the innocent Appetites Inclinations Infirmities of Human nature that is That he was a true and real Man The Ancients generally conclude that the Devil did not know at this time how great a Person our Saviour was even the Eternal Son of God for it is hardly credible that had he known this he would have made so vain and hopeless an attempt on him It is likely enough he thought him to be some extraordinary person He knew by the Ancient Prophecies that the Messias was to appear and knew from the Prophet Daniel that the time for his coming was accomplished nay it is probable he knew all the circumstances of his Birth and heard that testimony God gave him at his Baptism This is my beloved Son but he saw he was a Man though an extraordinary Man and might not know that he was any thing more and having formerly foiled our first Parents in Paradise in the State of innocence hoped for the like success again Now if Christ himself was tempted by the Devil none of us must hope to escape tempted we shall be and therefore must take care to stand upon our guard and to fortify our Minds against all temptations And this encouragement we have from the example of our Saviour that to be tempted is no Sin unless we yield to a temptation for He was tempted as we are yet without sin and we cannot imagine had it been a sin to be tempted that God would have permitted the Devil to have tempted our Saviour which may ease the fears of some Melancholly Christians who are afflicted with evil and tempting thoughts which their Souls abhor for whatever the cause of such thoughts be whether a frighted and disturbed imagination or the suggestion of wicked Spirits they can no more defile the Soul which abhors and rejects them with grief and indignation than they can the Paper on which they are writ Nay hence we learn that God many times exercises those with the greatest and most difficult Tryals and Temptations who are most dear to him He had no sooner proclaimed Christ his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased but he leads him by the Spirit into the Wilderness to be tempted of the Devil This Life is a State of Tryal and Probation and Temptations though they create some trouble and difficulty to good men yet do them no hurt If good Men Conquer Temptations do but exercise encrease and confirm their Graces and make them great and illustrious examples to the World glorify the Divine Power in the Victories and Triumphs of his Servants over the World the Flesh and the Devil give them a secure hope in God and a transporting sense of his Love and prepare great rewards for them in the next Life And if they happen in any particular encounter to be overcome as St. Peter himself was when he denied his Master yet they rise again with glory and the sense of their sin and the shame of a defeat fills them with sorrow indignation self-revenge gives them new spirit vigour activity resolution makes them more patient of hardships and sufferings more unwearied in doing good more humble and modest and more perfectly resigned to the Will of God to dispose of them and their Services to his own Glory as he pleases God does not train up those whom he Loves and whom he prepares for Glory in ease and softness Whom the Lord loveth he chastneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth And the more difficult Temptations he exposes us to the greater honour he does us the more glorious will our Triumphs the richer and brighter will our Crowns be Let us then behold our Saviour in the Wilderness separated from human conversation and all the comforts of Life in the midst of wild Beasts and tempting Spirits and not think that God uses us hardly if at any time he lets loose the Tempter upon us and gives him power