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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50103	The Christian temper of moderation described and recommended in a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c. in Gvild-Hall-Chappel on the first Sunday in Hillary term, Jan. 26, 1689/1690 / by Samuel Masters ...	Masters, Samuel, 1645 or 6-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1068; ESTC R31219	13,428	42

Mr. MASTERS's SERMON PREACHED before the LORD MAYOR JANVARY 26. 1689 90. PILKINGTON MAYOR Martis xviiio. die Martii 1689 90. Annoque Regni Regis Regine Willielmi Mariae Angliae c. Secundo THIS Court doth desire Mr. Masters to Print his Sermon Preached at Guild-hall-Chappel the 26th of January last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe THE Christian Temper OF MODERATION Described and Recommended in a SERMON Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor c. IN GVILD-HALL-Chappel ON The first Sunday in Hillary Term Jan. 26. 1689 90. By Samuel Masters B. D. Preacher to the Hospital and Precinct of Bridewell LONDON Printed for Awnsham Churchill at the Black-Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane MDCXC To the Right Honourable Sir THOMAS PILKINGTON LORD MAYOR of London MY LORD IT was with no great confidence that I appeared before such an Awful Assembly of the Reverend Judges and the Chief Magistrates of this City nor is it without some uneasie reluctance that I now expose this Discourse to so publick a View but having received Your Lordship's Order I find it necessary to comply lest I should seem to dispute your Judgment or contest your Authority It was the Subject I know that recommended the Discourse and the favourable acceptance it met with is an argument of the Excellent Temper of those who approv'd it and how happy may we not think our selves when they who Interpret and Administer our Laws are such Friends to Moderation I have not design'd in this Discourse to plead the Cause of any Party or to determine any of the Cases of Difference which are among us but to recommend that Moderation which all Parties want and which would be the shortest and surest Expedient for composing all our Differences I must expect that they who have not this good Temper will be angry with Me as they are with one another but whatever they may object I am conscious of no other Design in this Discourse but to promote Religion and the Publick Good of the Church and Nation to which I am related May Your Lordship continue by Your good Conduct and Example to increase and encourage this Moderation among us and if this Discourse can contribute any thing thereto it will much rejoice MY LORD Your Lordship 's most Faithful and most Humble Servant Samuel Masters THE CHISTIAN TEMPER OF Moderation c. PHILIP IV. 5. Let your Moderation be known unto all Men The Lord is at hand IN this and the Neighbouring Verses the Apostle lays down some brief Rules which seem to be prescribed for a Remedy against chose Troubles that then infested the Church at Philippi In the Verse preceding the Text he exhorts them to rejoyce in the Lord always from whom their Faith might derive such copious Arguments of joy as would be sufficient to support them under the sharpest Persecutions And that they might be able to rejoyce in themselves too by conversing peaceably and comfortably one with another he directs in the Text to the mutual practice of Moderation And as to the Troubles ordinarily incident from the World about them he adviseth in the next Verse Be careful for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication with thanksgivings let your requests be made known to God And upon the observance of these three Rules he assures them in the next words That the peace of God which passeth all understanding should keep their hearts and minds through Christ Jesus My design at present is to consider the Apostle's advice for preventing or removing those troubles which too often arise among Men by their unnecessary and over-eager contentions among themselves of which troubles we of this Church and Nation have had such long and sad experience that we may be thought by this time to desire as much as we need the Remedy The Rule which the Apostle hath prescribed in this case is Let your moderation be known unto all men and because the observance of this Rule is both necessary and difficult he hath inforc'd it with a weighty Argument The Lord is at Hand My business therefore will be to explain the Rule prescrib'd To urge the Argument annex'd And to make a seasonable Application of the whole 1. I begin to explain the Rule prescrib'd in these Words Let your Moderation be known unto all Men. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let that moderate or temperate frame of Spirit which belongs to you as Christians be seen in your Behaviour toward all with whom you Converse Or let it appear in your Conversation so conspicuous and exemplary that all Men may see and acknowledg it and be thereby induc'd to love you and the Religion you profess That we may clearly understand the whole importance of this precept it will be convenient to consider distinctly these three things 1. The Nature of this Moderation or wherein it consists 2. It 's Subject-matter or the Cases wherein it should be known or manifested 3. It s Object or the Persons toward whom it should be us'd and practic'd 1. Let us enquire into the Nature of this Moderation that we may find out wherein it properly consists The English word Moderation occurs no where in our Bibles but only in this Text the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are oftener used and are rendred by other Words by our Translators in other Texts as they are by other Translators in this Text such as Gentleness Meekness Clemency Patience Equity Condescension c. From which variety of Translations we may reasonably presume that this Moderation is not one single Grace but rather some Frame or Temper that ariseth out of a Complexion of many particular Graces and that the general Design of its nature is to fit Men for conversing together in Society to which end those social Vertues properly serve of which this excellent Temper is compounded Our English word Moderation may properly denote such Government of our Spirits or Behaviour toward others as can contain us within due Bounds or restrain us from flying out into such Extremes as would break asunder that Bond of Peace which should hold together the Members of the same Society The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is derived from a Verb that signifies to give way or give place to comply or condescend And the Primitive use of the Word in the Schools or at the Bar whence it seems to be taken imports that Equity which is sometimes described by Learned Men to be the Condescention or Benignity of the Law whereby it yields and complies in some emergent Cases with which the rigor of its Letter would unequally comport According to these Observations we may be able to fix the proper Notion of this comprehensive Grace or Duty of Moderation It is such an excellent frame or temper of spirit whereby we are able to make all favourable Concessions and Condescentions one to another as far as God hath left us at liberty to do so for the