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A43071	A sermon preached at St. Olave Southwark, September the 8th, 1700 occasioned by the recantation of Dr. Joh. Spire, lately a Quaker : which said recantation is added at the end / by John Haslewood ...	Haslewood, John, b. 1647.; Spire, John. Oration at the parish-church of St. Olave-Southwark.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1132; ESTC R14553	11,771	28

Rules What now remains but that we present our humble Supplications at the Throne of Grace in behalf of this good-natured this Orthodox and Uncorrupt Church that God would continue to be her Guide and Defence that he would keep and strengthen in the true Faith and Holiness of Life all the Members of her Communion and daily add to her such as shall by his Blessing save both themselves and others Which God of his infinite mercy grant for Jesus Christ's sake to whom be rendred as is most due all Honour Glory Praise Might Majesty and Dominion both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Dr. John Spire's ORATION AT THE Parish-Church of St. OLAVE-SOUTHWARK September the 8th 1700. It is probable it may seem somewhat strange to many for me to appear after this manner in this Place but let it not be accounted either presumption or rudeness in me so to do for my undertaking is justifiable in the sight of God and all good Men. FOrasmuch as upon the Occasion of my being here the first time which was on Trinity-Sunday the 26th Day of May 1700. and that caused a disturbance in this Place and for the prevention of the like again as well as many and various false Reports that have been spread up and down and that I have frequently met with all for so doing I think it very proper to signifie something of the Reason of my coming hither and also to give you a short account of my Life down to this Day I doubt not but many will be asking why such a Man and his Family or Friends come to Church who have so many Years been Dissenters from her to which Question I shall return one general answer by acquainting you as followeth I was born of Honest Christian Parents in the County of Berks and about 40 Years since Baptized according to the usage of the Established Church of England and Educated therein till I was about 13 Years of Age at which time my Parents Joyned with the People called Quakers and afterwards I was instructed in their way in which I continued about 26 Years and in the Year 1694 when thro' the good Providence of Almighty God I began to have some small glances of the Christian Religion from which with many others I had so many Years swerved upon this Discovery I published a small thing in print to vindicate my self and my Friends many of which are here present from some erroneous Tenets held by the Quakers for which I received many and great Abuses from them and was excommunicated or disowned under the Hands of 24 from being of their Communion And in the Year 1696 finding by many of their Books and Preachments that they slighted the Humanity of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I did in that Year print a small Piece asserting the Humanity of Christ from Scripture Testimony for which Ialso suffered many Reproaches and have it now under a Quaker Preacher's Hand baring date the 27 of June 1696 what affronts I then received who after his long Scribble thus violently utters himself against me He tells me the Lord will confound me that God will destroy me he calls me a Ravening Wolf and bids me call in my Book that asserts the Humanity of Christ and says withal that the Lord requires it of me In the Year 1698 it pleased God Almighty to let me see that those two great Ordinances of Christ Baptism and the Lord's Supper are thankfully to be received by all sincere Christians till his coming again at the last and great Day And I do hereby freely acknowledge my former Error in denying the Benefit and Necessity of Baptism and the Lord's Supper as well as in slighting the use of the Holy Scriptures as also in Denying that great and fundamental Article of the Resurrection of the Dead all which with many others of my Friends and Relations I have been taught by the Principle Leaders and Teachers of the aforesaid People and do own I was so far seduced as to help to teach and encourage others in these abominable Errors which sin I trust the Lord of his Mercy hath pardoned because I did it Ignorantly I do also hereby freely declare that I own for Substance the Doctrine of the 39 Articles of the Church of England and desire that I may live and dye in that Faith into which I was baptized What I have further to add is that you and I may persevere in the Way and Worship of the true God and that we may be exemplary one to the other and Patterns of Humility as becomes the Christian Religion that when Days and time shall be no more to us in this World we may have our Dwelling and Habitation Eternally in the Heavens with the Lord Jesus Christ To whom with the Father and Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen John Spire Junior

how then say the Quakers that there is no Resurrection And yet a Ring-leader among them hath no less proudly then ignorantly given out That if the complete happiness of the Soul rests in a re-union to a carnal Body for such it is sown then must we never cry out upon the Turks Alcoran for such a Heaven and the joys of it suit admirably well with such a Resurrection (b) Penn's Reason against Railing Pag. 138. But this is evidently neither more nor less than to set up a piece of foppery of his own that he may have the pleasure and credit of beating it down for certainly never any Christian affirmed that the Body should be raised to a life of sensuality that revelling and junketting were the joys of Heaven But this all that pretend to any love and honour for the Gospel have unanimously agreed upon that at the Resurrection the Body shall be the same as to its substance but very different as to its qualities it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body But it is unconceivable by this profound Logician how a thing should be the same and yet notwithstanding that be changed as if there were any the least absurdity in saying that a Man might be the same and not the same in divers respects may he not be changed from weak to strong from proud to humble from sickly to healthful and yet be still the same Person When the Jews saw the Man out of whom the Devils were cast sitting at Jesus Feet cloathed and in his right mind they made no doubt notwithstanding this wonderful change that had been wrought in him but that he was the same Man that was possessed before I have not insisted so long upon this Objection for any strength that I perceived in it but for the sake of the Article itself which is the powerfullest motive to a good life as all People must own that will not take upon them to be wiser than God So that to deny the Resurrection is to cut the very Sinews of Piety and cast a worser shade than that of Death upon the Primitive Martyrs who doubtless would never have endured their sharp afflictions with that unimitable courage and constancy if it had not been for the joy that was set before them nor born those marks of the Lord Jesus in their Bodies if they had not looked upon the scars of their stripes and hurts as so many signs that they belonged to Christ and that in due time he would seize upon them as his own peculiar So the Author to the Hebrews saith expresly that some were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better Resurrection But nothing but the certainty that this Article hath been denied could make one think it possible that it should since it is so directly repugnant to several Passages in Scripture particularly to the second Verse of the Twelfth Chapter of Daniel Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and so likewise to that Passage in St. John's Gospel Chap. 5. The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation Now certainly when the Prophet speaks of them that sleep in the dust of the Earth and the Evangelist of them that are in the Graves neither of them thought of the Souls being in that condition and therefore if any thing be waked out of sleep or come forth of the Grave it must be the Body which is so clear that I defye these Sectaries with all their little shifts and base arts of corrupting Scripture to evade the force of these Texts and use them as they have done several others i. e. make them vanish into the Clouds and thick darkness of unintelligible allegories Whosoever he be that professeth any reverence for the Scripture and yet doubts of the Resurrection all that I would desire of him is to peruse the Fifteenth Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians with seriousness and impartiality and then let him speak his mind It is most certain at Christ's second Advent when he shall judge the World in righteousness and minister true judgment unto all People there will be a re-union of Soul and Body and then fiery indignation shall be poured out upon the Adversaries but Mercy and Loving-kindness upon all those that have kept the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus Rev. 14.12 St. John tells us that he heard a voice from Heaven saying write from henceforth blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours are unmolested with the impertinence and malice the folly and hypocrisie the rage and perfidiousness of busie false and vexatious Mortals but this is by far the least part of their felicity for after a short sleep in their Graves they shall awake up to Glory and always have such a transcendently delightful object in their view as shall never suffer them to shut their Eyes against it be as the Angels in Heaven not only ready to execute God's Commands but enjoying them too But as for the unbelieving and impenitent Wretch I have no glad tidings to tell him for all his false hopes were built upon the Sands And he who would have been the rock of his Salvation shall then put on only the deafness and hardness of the rock not be moved to the least pity by the most hideous and dismal out-cries but for ever remain inflexible to all complaints and intreaties We are told indeed in Scripture that God justifieth the Ungodly but that Passage must be understood in sensu diviso of such as were Ungodly and not of such as continue in ill-doing for God cannot declare him to be just and righteous who is unjust and unrighteous without impeaching his own Justice and Righteousness It is as certain that grievous Sinners without amendment of life shall never be received into God's favour as it is that by their reformation and renewing of their minds they shall be adopted into the family of his beloved Children Would God punish the imputation of Sin so severely in his innocent and beloved Son in whom he was well pleased and will he pardon the unrepented Iniquities of a stubborn Enemy If he would not spare him that was in his Bosom but pour out his most precious Blood doubtless he will not spare the refractory after such a dreadful and amazing Execution Eternal Life is the gift of God not to be purchased as a due reward of the most holy Conversation But Death is the proper Wages of Sin that which of right belongs to it and without Repentance shall be fully pay'd So that to imagine that God retains an affection to one