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A30958 A sermon preached vpon the fifth of November, 1679 in the Cathedrall Church of Gloucester / by Cl. Barksdale. Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687. 1680 (1680) Wing B808; ESTC R37064 14,170 26

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friends to the present State On the contrary that man that takes himself to be a royallist a friend of the King and a faithful subject and only talkes or drinks a health and does not both in publick and private pray for the welfare of the King and Kingdom is very much mistaken Can he truly love the King that does not heartily pray for the King The loving Subject is the praying Subject and he will not fail in any other act or duty of obedience 2. For the discovery of the Churches freinds and enemies you have heard that by the Church is chiefly meant the Ruling part the Bishops and Ministers So the word seemeth to be understood in that precept of Christ Die Ecclesiae Tell it to the Church i. e. to the Rulers of the Assemblies as our learned Paraphrast has it out of Chrysostome These Rulers spirituall if we do not pray for we are no freinds but enemies of the Church For these are given by the special favour and providence of God for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ as Saint Paul saith They are given as the same Apostle adds that being instructed and guided by them we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine So then if our settlement in the true Religion and our preservation from dangerous Errors if our edification and growth and perfection depend under God upon the sacred Ministry certainely he can be no freind to Religion and the Gospel who does not not love and pray for the Bishops and Ministers of the Gospel Nevertheless it is true and often found by sad experience that Church-men have many Enemies And no wonder For the Prophets of old and after them the Apostles yea Christ himselfe our Lord and Master had their Enemies slanderers revilers Elias the Prophet was accused as a troubler of Israel Paul the Apostle was accounted for a seditious fellow and his own Galatians seem to have been his Enemies for his telling them the truth And is not this that which raiseth up enmity against our preachers somtimes even the telling them the Truth The truth is we love our sins and favour our own lusts and vanities and would not be vehemently urged to part with any thing which is in deliciis a delight to us and dear as the right hand or eye We care not to be taught how to be grave and yet withall kind strict and yet courteous temperate and yet sociable as our Religion our Christianity exacteth We can hear the Doctrine but endure not to come under the Discipline of the church And here among the Churches Enemies I might fall againe upon the Popish Traytors both old and new the grand Adversaries of our Jerusalem both of our Church and State But 't is time to ease you and I had rather pray then inveigh Wherefore I intreat you to joyn with me in your most ardent desires that God would be pleased still to discover and defeat and blast his and our enemies that our Soveraigne Lord the King may still be protected by the Divine power and directed by the Divine Wisdom that the Parliament now summoned may in due time meet together and sit f●st with such unanimity and concord in their Counsels such order and prudence and success in their Affaires that they may be a joy to the King and to all his faithfull subjects and may rise with the honour the lasting honour of having been the reestablishers of truth and peace for us and our posterity I must not end till I have in a word admonished you of some other Traytors and these the worst of all For those Traitors aforementioned could only destroy the Body but these destroy the Soul the immortal Soul I mean these privy Conspirators in our own bosomes our carnal lusts and unruly passions and our presumptuous Sins proceeding thence I need not name them These must be searched out mortified extinguished and totally destroyed A great Work but possible by the Grace of Almighty God and by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ which we shall receive if we pray for it as we ought to do with humility and fervency and constancy And therefore in the close of all let me earnestly request of the Worthy Citizens here that this magnificent and beautifull Basilica the House of God the Glory of your ancient Corporation and the solemn service dayly ministred in this Colledge may be more frequented and attended by you And withall let me petition that the daily Divine Service at least in the mornings may be procured and maintained according to the Injunction of our good Mother the Church of England in every Parish Church in this City Consider of it if you please Right Worshipfull and beloved Brethren Bear with my zeal in this proposal If ever you will be zealous for publick and Common Prayer Now is the time Extraordinary occasions call for our extraordinary care and diligence Verbum sapienti My last words shall be taken out of a Prayer appointed for this Day O Lord Let the Consideration of thy Goodness work in us true Repentance that Iniquity may not be our ruine And increase in us more and more a lively faith and fruitfull Love in all holy Obedience that thou maist continue thy favour with the Light of the Gospel to us and our posterity for evermore And that for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Advocate Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉