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lord_n	day_n	ghost_n	holy_a	10,874	5	5.1853	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30443	A sermon preach'd before the Queen, at White-Hall, on the 11th of March, 1693/4 being the third Sunday in Lent / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5900; ESTC R21582	16,903	37

the regards that the world naturally paies them and the dependencies that are upon them bring vertue in credit and put vice out of countenance they who make fashions in all other things might go far in this too if they would set about it in good earnest but if they go into the Stream they make it so much the stronger and to grow the more rapid They run good things down by a set of bad words which they bestow upon them they call Religion Superstition Zeal Bigotry Strictness of Conscience Narrowness of mind The just apprehensions of the guilt of sin or the wrath of God goes for a poorness of spirit and a want of courage Such words pass upon them and among them without any strict inquiry and thus they run headlong into false notions so that all those great Characters of Wise Mighty and Noble that have so August a sound are far from answering the first Ideas that we naturally frame in our minds concerning them 2dly Men of a lower form ought to be the more easily satisfied with that narrow Portion that has fallen to them since it delivers them from many temptations which otherwise would probably overset them A Man of a moderate sise as to parts tho perhaps few put themselves into this Classis except those who are really above it as they have little to answer for so they have little to encounter or to fear They may have sense enough to know what is their duty how they ought to go thro this Scene of life and what part they are to act in it But they were not born to disturb the Age to embroil Kingdoms and to distract Churches they are not Men of notions or speculations yet after all if they are Men of Probity and Industry Piety and Conscience they may fully answer the ends of their coming into the World and fulfil the obligations of that State of life in which they are put Men of Middlefortunes who are contened and easy who know to obey without aspiring to command and who chose rather to use well what they have than ravenously to cover what they have not are secure from many accidents and exempted from many temptations They are as much above Necessity as below Envy happy is a Middle-region Serene and Calm or if the Ballance seem rather to lean to the extraem of want yet they are thereby carried to take Sanctuary in the secret comforts which Religion gives in those two most eminently the firm belief of a wise Providence and of a future State the never-failing Springs of Joy to those who are possessed of them And if those who pass for the refuse and dreggs of Mankind have reason to conclude that they are the Sons of God and the Heirs of Glory How easily may they bear with all the depressions of their present condition who have such a Blessedness in view and in Reversion 3dly And lastly let us all consider what great reason we have to bless Almighty God for this high and holy calling to which he hath called us Let us but compare the present State of the greatest part of the world with our own how much preferable are our circumstances to theirs for all their happier Climates and richer Soils and how much does the present condition of this Island exceed that of our Ancestors either in the ruder times of Paganism or under the later corruptions of Popery how sensible how vast is the difference in all respects Since then we are called to so holy a Religion and enjoy it in its true purity with advantages both spiritual and temporal beyond any Church or Nation now under Heaven and far beyond what we had in former ages we have just reason to Glory in the Lord to value our selves upon the favours we have received and the priviledges that we are under but if we are under such peculiar distinctions the natural inference from this is that we ought to distinguish our selves from all others and that in proportion to what we have received we ought to rejoyce in this light to walk in it and to walk worthy of it and to become in every respect both the wiser and the better for it But if we have reason to glory in the Lord God knows how little reason we have according to St. Paul's other inference to glory in his sight that is to glory or boast of our selves This is but too evident and needs not be proved the enumeration of particulars would be too sad and too long all is to be summed up in these words that Light is come among us but that we love darkness better than Light because our Deeds are Evil. May the great God so touch our hearts with a sense of all his blessings to us and above all of his unspeakable Love in sending his Son to die for us that we may bring forth fruits worthy of them to the glory of his great name and to the salvation of our souls in the day of the Lord Jesus To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory now and for ever FINIS Books lately Printed for R. Chiswell A Discourse of the Pastoral Care By the Lord Bishop of Sarum 8vo Four Discourses delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum concerning I. The Truth of the Christian Religion II. The Divinity and Death of Christ III. The Infalibility and Authority of the Church IV. The Obligations to continue in the Communion of the Church By the Lord Bishop of Sarum An Impartial History of the Late Wars of Ireland from the beginning to the end In two Parts Illustrated with Copper Sculptures describing the most Important Places of Action Written by George Story an Eye-witness of the most Remarkable Passages 4to A Discourse of the Government of the Thoughts By George Tully Sub-Dean of York 8vo Memorials of the Most Reverend Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Wherein the History of the Church and the Reformation of it during the Primacy of the said Archbishop are greatly illustrated and many singular Matters relating thereunto now first published in Three Books Collected chiefly from Records Registers Authentick Letters and other Original Manuscripts By Iohn Strype M. A. Fol. Origo Legum Or A Treatise of the Origin of Laws and their Obliging Power As also of their great Variety and why some Laws are immutable and some not but may suffer change or cease to be or be suspended or abrogated In Seven Books By George Dawson M. A. Fol. FINIS