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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67826	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the lord mayor and aldermen of the city of London at Guild-Hall Chapell, February the 17th, 1677/8 / by Edw. Young.	Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705.	1678 (1678)	Wing Y65; ESTC R39193	12,745	34

on easie terms and his stomach so haughty too that he hates to stoop to due submission and allegeance He draws his sword and flings away the scabbard and resolves to defend himself by a meditated rebellion The first strong hold that the rebel sinner betakes himself to is Debauchery which in its proper notion is no more then an expresse art against Thinking To indulge appetites and gratifie senses to live soft and delicate according to the scheme of studied pleasure is the businesse of the Voluptuous but the Debauchee is not so choice For his end is not so much to please as to amuze and his whole study is onely for a course of expedients how to darken the mind and divert thought and fence out reflexion His wine is not to refresh but to drown and therefore he drinks not like an Epicure but rather like a Spartan Slave when he drunk to bring drinking into disgrace His Discourse is not for understanding but for noise Noise is good company and wit and so with hurry and laughter and any thing that is loud he stifles the remonstrances of Reason and murmurs of Conscience as drum and trumpet cover the cryes of a battel He guards himself against the awe of vertue by an habitual contempt of the good and secures himself against counsel by a preventing derision of the serious He hates every solemn act if it be but a grace at his meal lest the remembrance of a God should check his jollity and bridle his excesse But then if notwithstanding all this art his body chance to tire under the drudgery of vice and so he be overtaken with the intervals of apprehensive thoughts the last Refuge of his uneasie and desperate mind is Atheism And questionlesse how poor a Refuge soever Atheism be it was never any other then Refuge it is an Opinion that was never offered by Reason but always sought for by Distresse And this without doubt is the reason why one age of Christianity has produc'd more Atheists then were ever known in the whole extent and duration of Heathenism because the Christian lying under greater convictions and therefore stronger pressures of conscience must needs be more forcibly urg'd to fly to this Refuge then the Heathen could be whose knowledge of sin and judgement being lesse his fears must necessarily be so too After the man has once resolved upon Atheism he does generally in the first place swear Fidelity to his Opinion that is he doth by familiar forms of Oaths and raving Imprecations inculcate to himself that God is nothing but a Mormoe or Bug-bear and so he hardens himself in his pretence In the next place he pronounces Religion a Trick contrived by the Art of Princes and conserved by the Interest of Priests that if ever any talk't wisely about Religion it is onely they who discard all particular positive Religions and stick onely to that of Nature But then what is Nature or at least the Interpreter of Nature but common usage and Custome And what is it that we have not Custome for We have Custome for all sorts of Vices we have Custome for opposite Religions and for no Religion and so in fine from Nature can arise no Obligation at all In the next place the Doctrine of Spirits is cryed down as absurd and all the matters of fact that tend to assert their being can obtain no more credit then Lucian's raillery upon the inchanted Broomstaff But most of all absurd in his conceit and unphilosophical is the Doctrine of Immortal Souls For what do Souls act above the power of subtle matter in the state of Union and how can they disengage themselves from common perishing in the state of dissolution The Beasts approach very near us in our most wise and sagacious operations without the hazard of being Immortal and why should man fancy that hazard to himself No we are born at all adventures and we shall be as though we had never been and our Spirits shall vanish into soft air And now what can be done with a man of this perswasion 'T is to as little purpose to tell him of Hell and torments as of Charon and Cerberus All is Par sollicito Fabula somnio as his Minion Poet hath concluded it And thus the Atheist is become as safe and impregnable as in a Castle of Brasse But alas the miserable dream of peace that must wake into an eternity of real evils Alas the pityable Reasons that must be confuted by so sad an Experiment For as we have hitherto taken the prospect of the sinner's way so my Text requires us to look a little farther and advert his end You have seen what the man was he was gay and secure in his wickednesse but now Lo this is the man this is his present state he is become a spectacle of vengeance an object of terrour and of scorn and pointed out for a warning to all that shall come after Lo this is the Man that had shipwrackt his Faith and wasted his Conscience and corrupted his Mind so that he had lost the notices of what he should do as well as the care of what he did But now his Miseries have rectified his Notions He believes and trembles He sees God again in the terrour of his judgements and is convinced by an eternal dying that the soul is subject to no other death He now lies scourged with past enjoyments and terrified with his present passions His Wit and Parts groan under the Conviction of Folly and his shame and anguish are consummated by despair But my Text onely points at this nor is it my businesse to insist upon it any farther I have my end in minding you from the Example that Sin and Judgement are inseparably linkt together That if we will escape Doeg's end we must avoid his way That if we will resist sin successfully we must resist it in its first Issues and pluck up the roots of it which in passing I have discovered And now that the most important of what I have said may be left more immediately upon your thoughts I shall summe it up into one sentence and conclude The lesson that the whole example does most genuinely teach us is this That when a man once ceases to take God for his strength which was Doeg's first default when he once neglects to apply himself to Heaven for conduct and support that man naturally falls from one sin to another and there is no security of stopping betwixt Indevotion and the Bottomlesse Pit From which the Divine mercy prevent us FINIS Books Printed for William Birch A Description of the 17 Provinces commonly called the Low Countries the present Stage of Action also of the Rivers Commodities All Cities strong Towns and Forts as Utrecht Gaunt Bruges Ipre Ostend Newport S. Omers Cambray Valenciennes c. with other things remarkable therein Price bound 1 s. The Angler's delight Containing the whole Art of Neat and Clean Angling wherein is taught the readiest way to take all sorts of Fish from the Pike to the Minnow together with their proper haunts and times of fishing for them as also the Method of Fishing in Hackney River of the best stands there with the manner of making all sorts of good Tackle The like never printed before By W.G. Gent Bridge's Word to the Aged Steps of Ascension unto God or a Ladder to Heaven Containing Prayers and Meditations for every day of the week and for all other times and occasions By E. Gee Shepard's Court-keepers Guide The French King Conquered by the English the King of France and his Son brought prisoners into England besides divers Earls Lords and above 2000 Knights and Esquires wherein is given an account of several great Battels fought and wonderful Victories obtained over the French when they have had six to one against the English to the honour and renown of England's unparalleled Valour Conduct and Resolution Leybourn's Universal Instrument performing all such Conclusions Geometrical and Astronomical as are usually wrought by the Globes Spheres Sector Quadrants Planupheres or any other the like Instrument yet in being with much ease and exactness The Reasonableness of God's Law and Vnreasonableness of Sin Allen of Contentment The Young Merchants Glass wherein are exact Rules of all Weights Coins Measures Exchanges and other matters necessary used in Commerce as also Variety of Merchants Accompts after the Italian way of Debitor and Creditor in Factorage Partnership and Bartar likewise the Method of keeping Pursers books By J. Every Clark's Martyrology Fol. His Examples in 2 Vol. Fol. Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Fol. THE END