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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56700	A sermon preached in the chappel of St. James's before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 20th of January, 1688 by Symon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing P846; ESTC R23233	16,187	39

only put you in mind which is the last thing under this Head that this Faith and these Duties our Lord hath bound upon us by such strong Obligations of his exceeding great and precious Promises and of his most dreadful Threatnings which were confirm'd also after a wonderful manner that if we laid them to heart they could not fail to draw us as irresistibly to the Belief of his Doctrine and to the observation of his Precepts as our Obedience to them it is certain would make us all more happy than either these words of the Prophet or any other can express Herein chiefly his Doctrine excels that of the best Philosophers who taught many excellent Lessons but could not inforce them with such an assured hope of Immortal Life or fear of Eternal Death as our Saviour and his Apostles have done who thunder this in our Ears Follow Peace with all men and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Hebr. XII 14. To be where our Lord is and behold his Glory is the great Hope of Christians John XVII 24. It is the very Joy that is set before them But they are out of the way to that high and holy place where our Lord is and shall never come thither who do not study to be pure and undefiled and whose Purity doth not make them peaceable nay Followers of Peace and that with all men This is as sure as that Christ is in Heaven and we have as good security of that as can be given us by the coming of the Holy Ghost from thence in wonderful plenty of miraculous Gifts which declared him to have all Power in Heaven and in Earth and puts it out of all doubt that he is able to give to all them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality eternal Life But to them that are contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of man that doth evil Rom. II. 7 8. And now I hope no man will question the Application of this Prophecy to our Saviour meerly because he doth not behold such happy days as are here described since things are so ordered I have demonstrated that we may see them if we will. It is senseless to think that God intended to force Mankind to agree together and to be quiet as if they were indeed a company of such Beasts as the Prophet here mentions and not meerly induced with such qualities The Prophet explains his own meaning when in the Conclusion of this Description of the peaceable Reign of Christ he assigns this cause of it v. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy Mountain for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea. This Felicity was to be the effect of abundance of Divine Knowledge which in its own Nature is apt to produce it But as no Knowledge can be acquired without diligent Studies so when we have it it can do us no service unless we will be governed by it And therefore if men either will not entertain this heavenly Wisdom or having entertain'd it do imprison and smother it they deprive themselves of the Blessing of Peace But they cannot make this Word of God of none effect because he never intended to bestow this Happiness upon the Ignorant and the Negligent but upon those who receive and improve the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ So much the sober Jews themselves confess particularly Maimonides * More Nevoch Par. III. c. XI in these remarkable words The Evils which men create one to another flow from their different Opinions Perswasions Affections Wills and Studies and all these spring from Ignorance and want of Wisdom As a blind man not only stumbles himself but runs upon others because he sees not his way so in every Sect of men they who are wedded to it do one another a world of Mischiefs by reason of their blind Ignorance All which would be remedied if they had Wisdom which is to a man's Soul what the faculty of Seeing is to his Body When the Truth is known then Hatred Envy Contention whereby men tear one another in pieces is at an end which God himself teaches us by his Prophet who after he had first said The Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb c. then subjoyns the cause which should take awaythis Enmity and that is the Knowledge of God the Creator wherein men ought to be instructed They shall not hurt nor destroy c. for the Earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord c. But the time calls me to hasten to the third and last General Head which is this III. That the knowledge of our Lord was so fitted and so sufficient to make men thus happy that there was actually to be seen such brotherly Love and Peace as is here foretold among the first Converts to his Religion who embrac'd each other with such an hearty and servent Affection that what one shall rarely find an instance of between two single persons might have been beheld in some thousands of Men and Women who had but one Heart and one Soul in so many several Bodies Act. IV. 37. that is were perfect Friends who had their Possessions so common that no man called ought of the things he had his own And if we list by these wild Creatures in my Text to understand the Gentiles it is evident they were in a little time brought to live in such Unity Love and Peace with the Jews that they maintain'd the Communion of the Saints in the most proper sense thereof For they communicated their Goods to them most freely and liberally when they were reduced to great straits in Judea contributing to the Relief of their Necessities not only to their Power but in some places beyond their Power praying St. Paul with much intreaty that he would receive their Gift and take upon him the Fellowship of ministring to the Saints 2 Cor. VIII 3 4. Many Instances might be given of their frankness in their Hospitality to Strangers whom they readily entertain'd though they had never seen them before meerly because they belonged to the same Body of Christ with themselves and they look'd upon them as their Brethren But I should transgress my bounds if I should pursue such like things any further which deserve a Discourse by themselves And I have said enough to my present Purpose which was to shew how compleatly this Prophecy was fulfilled in the actual effecting of that which our Saviour designed and for the producing of which he employed the most proper means From all which it would not be hard to find had I time to make the Enquiry Why those happy days in the beginning of our Religion WHen the multitude of them that believed were of one Heart and of one Soul were of so short continuance and the days are long ago become