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Morbus epidemicus: or, the danger of self-seeking; discovered in a sermon preached before the right honorable, the Lord Major of the city of London, at Mercers-Chappel, Novemb. 18. 1649. By John Cardell.
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Cardell, John.
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Morbus Epidemicus OR THE DANGER OF SELF-SEEKING Discovered in a SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honorable The Lord Major of the City of LONDON At Mercers-Chappel Novemb. 18. 1649. By JOHN CARDELL Rom. 14.7 8. For none of us liveth to himself and no man dyeth to himself For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we dye we dye unto the Lord whether we live therefore or dye we are the Lords 2 Cor. 5.14 15. For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one dyed for all then were all dead And that he dyed for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that dyed for them and rose again Necesse est alterutrum in nobis affectum regnare ut vel nobis posthabitis feramur ad Christum quae sunt Christi vel in nostram utilitatem nimium propensi defunctorie Christo serviamus Johan Calvin Commentar in cap. 2. Epistol ad Philip. London Printed by John Field 1650. To the Right Honorable THOMAS FOOT LORD MAJOR OF The Famous City of LONDON Together with the Right Worshipful The ALDERMEN His BRETHREN Right Honorable and Right Worshipful ALl that I shall Preface to the ensuing Sermon is this Humbly to acquaint you That the publishing of these mean Endeavors in obedience to your Command and more then single motion will cry aloud in your ears for Justice at your hands and for such a piece of Justice as would render us all exceeding happy if God would but strengthen your hearts and hands to go before us and us to comply with you therein For loe (a) Iudg 16.24 our Enemy and the Destroyer of our Countrey Self is now apprehended and brought before you the worthy Magistrates of this Renowned City And it may well be expected from you That ye should proceed unto some exemplary Punishment upon so (b) Hostis Reipublicae Pestis dangerous an Adversary otherwise having already both owned and accepted the Charge (c) In the Sermon from page 14 c. exhibited against him as an Enemy to all Piety Unity and Policy and owned it so far as to Call for this open publication of it ye will I know bear with my (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 3.12 plainness in telling you That ye must being thus far engaged either proceed unto the Condemnation of Self or else be looked upon as (e) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tit. 3.11 Self-condemned Arise therefore Honored Patriots unto a speedy and faithful execution of Justice and Judgement upon this grand Incendiary and let all the world see That as your Actings of late have been high and extraordinary and far beyond the proportion of former Times and Ages so that ye have had nothing in your eye therein or nothing of your own so much as the Glory of God the things of Christ and the good of the Publique To perswade whereunto as it is the chief scope and drift of the following Discourse so that these may still be the principal things that ye aym at in all your great and weighty Undertakings is the unfained desire and earnest Prayer of Your Servant in the Gospel John Cardell Morbus Epidemicus OR THE DANGER OF Self-Seeking PHIL. 2.21 For all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs THe Apostle directs this Epistle to all the Saints that were at Philippi Coherence Chap. 1. ver 1. as you may perceive from the first verse of the first Chapter of it And after his Salutation of them wherein he wishes them Grace and peace from God our Father ver â— and from the Lord Jesus Christ in the next place he gives solemn Thanks unto God for their constant fellowship in the Gospel In the 3d 4th and 5th verses ver 3 4 5. I thank my God says he upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now Note It is certainly matter of great joy and rejoycing and that unto others as well as unto themselves to see Believers constant and unwearied in the fellowship of the Gospel There are other fellowships that a man may soon be weary of by reason of the many sad Distempers and Distractions that are to be found in them but the fellowship of the Gospel where it is rightly apprehended and accordingly imbraced that's so easie a yoke and so well lined with love that it can be offensive to none but such whose shoulders are very sore and not able to bear any thing Three discoveries of the Apostles tender care over the Saints at Philippi walking together in the fellowship of the Gospel The sight of this fellowship among the Saints at Philippi made the Apostle very tender over them and very respective towards them as may appear by sundry remarkable expressions in this Epistle of his unto them Discov 1 At the eigthth verse of the first Chapter God is my record says he there at the 8 ver of the 1 Chapter (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quantoperè expetam Mihi videtur in gevere vehementissimuÌ„ in illos amorem suum Apostolus hoc verbo significare ex Hebraeorum idiotismo ut autem significet ex quo fonte promanet affectus iste quò etiam feratur additam visceribus nomen magnum pondus addit seutentiae ut intimus amâ—r significetur Solent enim Hebrai 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rachamim id est viscera omnes teneros ac veluti maternos affectus vocare Bez. in loc how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ which are words that have a fulness of love in them or a fulness of care and tenderness that he should long after them and after them greatly and greatly after them all and after them all in the bowels of Jesus Christ and that he should be so serious in it as to call God himself to bear witness unto the truth of his heart herein saying God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Choist This was a very full expression of his good affection towards them Discov 2 But besides this a little after in the same Chapter he goes yet higher and at the 24 ver ver 24. of the 1 Chapter he tells us of a great strait that he was in and his strait lay between these two things He knew not well whether he should desire to be with Christ in heaven fully and absolutely or to continue still among the Philippians Pauls strait I am in a strait between two says he having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you Like some tender-hearted Mother Simile that hath her Children about her in one Countrey and her Husband inviting her to a place of