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Sermons and discourses on several occasions by William Wake ...; Sermons. Selections
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Wake, William, 1657-1737.
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IMPRIMATUR Carolus Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc. Lond. Ã Sacris Septemb. 4. 1689. SERMONS AND DISCOURSES ON Several Occasions By WILLIAM WAKE D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties and Preacher to the Honourable Society of GRAYS-INN LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard And W. Rogers at the Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet MDCXC TO The RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir WILL. RAWLINSON Kt. One of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England Sir JOHN HOLT Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England TO The HONOURABLE Sir WILL. GREGORY Kt. One of the Justices of Their Majesties Court of Kings-Bench Sir JOHN POWELL Kt. Sir THO. ROOKESBY Kt. Justices of Their Majesties Court of Common-Pleas Sir EDWARD NEVILL Kt. Sir JOHN TURTON Kt. Barons of Their Majesties Court of Exchequer TO The WORSHIPFUL THE MASTERS OF THE BENCH AND TO The Rest of the MEMBERS OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF GRAYS-INN HAving a long time designed to make some publick acknowledgment of my great Obligations to you I could not tell in what way more properly to do it than by presenting to you a small Collection of some of those Discourses which I have lately had the Honour to Preach before you 'T is upon this acount that I now crave leave to Prefix your Names to these Sermons Both as a Testimony of that particular Respect I owe to you and to let the World see what Persons they are by whom I have the Happiness to be Countenanced and Encouraged in my Ministry Such whose Integrity and Abilities have rendred them at Once both the Support and Ornament of our Courts of Justice Whose firmness to the true Interest of our Church and Government in the Worst of Times have set them above the power of Malice to Calumniate Who by suffering heretofore rather than they would betray either the Liberties of their Countrey or their Own Consciences have effectually convinced all Impartial men That as it cannot be Ignorance of our Laws and Constitution so neither is it Interest or any other unworthy Design but the clear Evidence of Right that engages them to that Submission they now pay to the Present Government And who that they may long possess those Places they so worthily fill and be the Honour of the Bench as the Rest of the Society are of the Profession is the Hearty Prayer of Him who with all possible Respect will always remain Your most Obliged Humble Servant WILLIAM WAKE The CONTENTS SERMON I. OF the Qualifications required to a Profitable Hearing of God's Word Luke viii 8 He that hath ears to hear let him hear SERMON II. Of the Benefit and Practice of Consideration Deuter. xxxii 29 O! that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end SERMON III. Of the Devices of Satan 2 Cor. ii 11 For we are not ignorant of his devices SERMON IV. Of stedfastness in Religion 2 Pet. iii. 17 18. Ye therefore Beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be Glory both now and for ever Amen SERMON V. Of the Reasonableness and Terrors of the future Judgment Acts xxiv 25 And as he reason'd of Righteousness Temperance and Judgment to come Felix trembled and answer'd Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee SERMON VI. Of the Causes of mens delaying their Repentance Acts xxiv 25 Felix trembled and answer'd Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee SERMON VII Of the Danger of mens delaying their Repentance Acts xxiv 25 Felix trembled and answer'd Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee SERMON VIII An Exhortation to mutual Charity and Union among Protestants Rom. xv 5 6 7. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive ye one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God SERMON IX Of the Nature and Benefit of a publick Humiliation Joel ii 12 13. Therefore also now saith the Lord Turn ye even to me with all your heart and with Fasting and with Weeping and with Mourning And rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil SERMON X. Of Contending Earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you That you should Earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the saints DISCOURSE I. Of the Nature and End of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper 1 Cor. xi 24 This do in Remembrance of Me. DISCOURE II. Of the Honour due to the Blessed Virgin Luke i. 48 49. For behold from henceforth all Generations shall call me blessed For he that is Mighty hath done for me great things and holy is his name ERRATA SErm 1. p. 27. l. 6. r. Christ's Ib. l. 24. r. an Indisposition Serm. 3. p. 80. l. 16. r. may we Serm. 5. p. 161. l. 3. r. he so much ib. l. 15. r. Interests p. 182. l. 1. personally r. presently Serm. 6. p. 190. l. 10. dele been p. 202. l. 19. r. than as they Serm. 8. p. 264. l. 17. r. in the Faith Serm. 11. p. 383. l. 11. marg r. illustre Serm. 12. p. 471. l. 23. r. do not esteem l. 24. dele not p. 480. l. 13. these r. those p. 493. l. 7. r. ordinarily OF THE QUALIFICATIONS Required to a Profitable Hearing OF GOD's WORD A SERMON Preach'd on the Gospel for Sexagesima-Sunday AT GRAYS-INN 1689. LUKE VIII 8 He that hath Ears to hear let him Hear THE Words are a kind of Proverbial Expression with which our Blessed Saviour very frequently concludes his Discourses to his Disciples the more to engage them to a just Attention to and Consideration of that holy Gospel which he delivered unto them And the import whereof we cannot better learn than from that excellent Parable to which they are here subjoin'd A Sower went out to sow his Seed and as he sowed some fell by the way-side and it was trodden down and the fowls of the air devoured it And some fell upon a Rock and as soon as it was sprung up it withered away because it lacked moisture And some fell among Thorns and the Thorns sprang up with it and choaked it And other fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit an hundred-fold
our Religion from Destruction And by the Blessing of God he accomplish'd it in a manner so extraordinary in all its Circumstances as I think should not suffer us to doubt from whose Providence it was that this Redemption was sent to us This was the Lord's doing and whatever it is I am sure ought to be marvellous in our Eyes And may I think be a final I hope it shall be an effectual Confirmation to us of this Great Engagement of our Text to turn to him with all our hearts viz. That he is a God repenting him of the evil and therefore whose Mercy if we now truly do so we may securely depend upon both for the forgiveness of our sins and for our deliverance from those dangers which our sins have so justly exposed us to And now what remains but that having all these great Encouragements such Promises or rather such an Earnest of God's Favour to us we resolve every of one of us seriously to comply with the great Design both of this Day and of this Discourse and by our sincere Repentance for our past Offences obtain that Blessing we so much desire both for our Country and for our Religion Never was there a time wherein we had greater Reason to hope for God's Acceptance than at this Day and such an Occasion as this to implore his Favour there may not perhaps again occur in the Course of many Ages For indeed what is it that we are now assembled to recommend to His Mercy but in Effect the preservation of our Selves our Laws our Liberties and our Religion against the Violence of those who have long conspired both Their and Our Destruction That be would preside in our Councils and go forth with our Armies and so direct the one and prosper the other that we may again enjoy the Blessings of Peace and Security that there may be no decay no leading into Captivity and no just complaining in our Streets And this he will do if we be not our selves wanting to our own Preservation Only let us act as becomes Good Christians and True Englishmen let us do all things for the Glory of God and for the Safety Honour and Welfare of our Country In the words of Joab to his Brother Abishai upon an Occasion not much different from our own at this time Let us be strong and of good Courage and let us play the Men for our People and for the Cities of our God and then he will not fail us nor forsake us But if instead of pursuing the things that make for our Peace we shall still go on to precipitate our own Destruction If when we are call'd this Day to turn unto the LORD our God with all our hearts and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning we shall instead thereof fast only for strife and for debate If when we should be here prostrating our selves before the LORD to implore the Completion of that Great Deliverance he has begun to work for us we shall on the contrary continue ungratefully to murmur against his Providence and be ready almost to implead his Justice for what he has already done and with those repining Israelites of old be looking back again to our Egyptian Bondage when we are brought even within prospect of the Promised Land In a word If when we should be uniting our selves against the Common Enemy of our Country and Christendom we shall suffer a Spirit of Faâ—tion and Sedition of Mutiny and Discontent of private Interests and unseasonable Resentments to distract our Councils and divide us against one another What can we then expect but that God should at last give us over into the hands of our Enemies and make those that hate us to rule over us Wherefore now arise O ye Worthies ye Chosen and Counsellors of our Israel Consult consider and resolve And may the God of Heaven the God before whom we are here assembled this Day He who has and does and we trust will still deliver us our Rock and our Defence against the Face of our Enemies so direct and prosper all your Consultations that the Children which are yet unborn may rise up in their Generations and call you Blessed when they shall enjoy the Benefits of that Peace and Security which we trust shall descend to them through your Wise and Vigorous Resolutions Behold this day the Eyes not of your own Nation only but of all the Nations round about us fix'd upon you The Fortunes I do not say of every single Person among you tho' that were somewhat nor yet of your own Country and Religion only which ought to be much more valued but what is still more considerable than all this the Fortunes of all the Reformed Churches and distressed Countries of Europe depending on the Success of our present Enterprizes This is the fatal Crisis that must secure or ruine both them and us for ever May the Consideration of all these things inspire every one of you with a Spirit suitable both to our present Needs and to that great trust that is here committed to you A Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding a Spirit of Prudence and Discretion a Spirit of Charity and Moderation but above all with a Spirit of Piety and Vnity that being endu'd with all these excellent Qualities ye may become the Repairers of our Breaches the Restorers of our almost lost and trampled Liberties the Defenders of our Faith the Support of your Country the Avengers of your barbarously abus'd Allies the Scourge and Terror of the Vniversal Enemy of Truth Peace Religion Nature In short of all the common Laws and Rights both of God and of all Mankind May your Councils be govern'd with such a Calmness and Temper as may settle and compose all the unquiet and dissatisfied Spirits if there be any yet remaining among us and suffer none to regret our wonderful Preservation but those only whose fury had once prompted them to attempt and whose Principles still carry them on to desire even when they are not able to accomplish our Destruction May your Resolutions be as speedy as the publick Necessities are pressing and their Execution be accompanied with a Fidelity and Success that may equal not only our Expectation but even our very Hopes and our Desires And for the obtaining of all these Blessings and whatever else may serve to make these Kingdoms Happy May we all this day fast the fast which the Lord has chosen to loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and to let the Oppressed go free Let us confess our wickedness and be sorry for our sins Let us turn to the LORD our God with all our heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning Let us deal our Bread to the Hungry and bring the Poor to our Houses So shall we call and the Lord shall answer we shall cry and he shall say Here I am Our light shall break forth as