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A33292	A Lent-sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, March 3, 1699/1700 before the Right Honourable the Ld. Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London / by Sam. Clerke ...	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.	1700 (1700)	Wing C4493; ESTC R35642	10,761	30

that Faith doth thus identifie God and Believers it necessarily follows that they must have God-like Qualities and abound in doing good They must bring forth Fruit as Believers This the First As Christians we must be Fruitful and that not only because we bear the Name of Christ but because we were purchased with the Blood of the Holy Jesus We were his before for he made us and upon this very Account we owe him our Service But we are now more his than before for he hath made us and payd for us We therefore much more owe him our Service for that The great Benefit of our Redemption Oh how should it oblige us The Apostle urgeth it as a Matter of great Equity 1 Cor. 6.19 20. What know ye not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your own For ye are bought with a Price Therefore glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit which are Gods Christ dyed for us that we should not henceforth live unto our selves but unto him 2 Cor. 4.10 11. When Christ redeemed us by his Blood his purpose was to redeem us unto God Rev. 5.9 His design then was to redeem us from our vain Conversation not to it 1 Pet. 1.18 God therefore delivered us from the hands of our Enemies that we might the more securely and without fear serve him in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our Life Luk. 1.74 This this is our Duty it is our reasonable Service and we have much to Answer for if we make not conscience of it to perform it accordingly How doth the Prophet Jeremy upbraid the Jews Jer. 7.10 Will ye say we are delivered to commit all these Abominations Do ye thus requite the Lord ye foolish People and unwise Is not he thy Father which hath bought thee Thy Father not by Creation only but by Redemption too Now our Redemption our Holy Calling what doth it but call unto Holiness Our Adoption and being made not only Servants but Sons Doth it not require a suitable Conversation It should beget in us St. Pauls Resolution Whether we live that we live unto the Lord and whither we dye that we dye unto the Lord. God hath done his Part in Creating us and Christ in Redeeming us Let us Christians do ours in faithfully serving the Lord which nothing can better prompt us to if we have any Ingenuity in us than oft thinking of our Redemption by Christ for this end we make use of the means of Grace Do we not partake of the Lord's Supper as it is a strengthening Ordinance to fortifie us against Sin and corroborate our Graces Do we not go to hear the Word of God to improve our selves by it and walk according thereunto We must hear to do or we do nothing For if we be barren Christians whatever we talk of our Profession whatever we boast of our Knowledge or our Honourable Names all is to no effect or purpose Christians must live answerably to their Names we must in Gospel-Times live up to the Benefits of the Gospel we must be fruitful Christians So much of the Name In the next place our relation to Christ calls for Fruitfulness And that First As we are Branches of him the Vine What more fruitful than the Vine is Is it not fruitful among the fruitfulest Every one knows it I shall not need discourse of it Nor need I insist on the Second neither which is that we are the Spouse to him our Husband For for the Spouse of Christ to be fruitful what can be more natural And so I have done with this Particular We must bring forth Fruit. I pass now from the Fruit to its Qualification which was the Third in course Bring forth Fruits meet for Repentance that is Fruits of Righteousness and of Holiness Fruits contrary to the Sins and Unrighteousness we have lived in before Rom. 6.19 Like As ye have given over your Members to the Service of Uncleanness from one Wickedness to another So now also give over your Members to the Service of Righteousness unto Holiness To this end Christ was born into the world to this end Christ lived here amongst us to this end Christ preach'd his Gospel to us Even that we by his Example and the Doctrine of the Gospel might lead an upright and pious Life Newness of Life becomes new Creatures such as the reclaimed Penitent is If we have been passionate we must now be patient and bear one anothers Burthens as the Holy Ghost does ours Rom. 8.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Word in the Original He helpeth our Infirmities that is he worketh together with us and strengthens us being weak If we have been Envious if Defrauded any we must now make Restitution and be Charitable If we have been Earthly we must be the more Heavenly and if Covetous we must be the Freer to do good If we have been Profuse we must be the more Sparing and if Careless of our selves we must be the more Watchful If we have been Proud we must be the more Humble and if Incontinent we must be the more Chast Have any sinned through excess of Luxury Let them not run themselves more into Temptation Let them not purposely open their eyes those Casements of Uncleanness to let in every Object that may provoke to it Let them not frequent such Company that they know will heighten it But let such take some holy Revenge upon themselves by Abstinence and bring under their Bodies We should all do as St. Paul did not pamper but pluck down our Bodies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he The Expression is of great Import I beat it down I club it down I beat it black and blew So emphatical is the signification of the Word St. Augustine after his Conversion was tempted by his bad Companions he retracted his Errors and reformed his Life He shook them all off with an Ego non sum Ego I am not I. Such my Brethren were the Life of Christians in the beginning of the Church they subdued their Flesh they mortified their Members they gave them over wholly unto Christ As they had before yeilded their Members Servants of Unrighteousness unto Sin so afterwards they much more yeilded them Servants of Righteousness unto Holiness To have the Name and not the Goodness of Christians is odious in the Eyes of an Holy God Therefore in short to be really what we our selves profess and our Christian Names bespeak us We must be as fruitful in Holiness as ever we were in Wickedness we must double our Diligence for the time lost and must bring forth fruits answerable to the most precious Opportunities God graciously affords us This for the Qualification of the Fruit we are to bring forth Bring forth fruit meet for Repentance The Reason follows in that Illative therefore Bring forth therefore fruit meet for Repentance Which refers to a cogent Argument drawn 1.

LEVET Mayor Martis xix die Martii 1699. Annoque RRs Willielmi Tertii Angliae c. duodecimo THis Court doth desire Mr. Clerke to Print his Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Sunday the Third Day of this instant March before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Goodfellow A Lent-Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. PAUL March 3. 1699 700. Before the Right Honourable the L d. Mayor and Aldermen OF THE CITY of LONDON By Sam. Clerke B. D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the LORD CUTTS Optima aptissima Poenitentia est nova Vita Luther LONDON Printed by T. M. for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet 1700. To the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levet Kt. LORD MAYOR OF THE City of London My LORD PResuming it as acceptable from the Press as pleasing in the Pulpit I humbly Dedicate the following Discourse to Your Honour Both in Gratitude for Your Manifold Favours towards me and as a Specimen of the high Value and Esteem all have for You being as Good as Great and no less an Ornament to the Chair than That an Honour to You. May it be as Profitable as Seasonable and but in the least Measure promote True Piety which I have therein endeavoured to Advance Then shall I have the utmost intended or designed by Your LORDSHIPS In all Christian Duty to Command SAM CLERKE MAT. 3.8 Bring forth therefore Fruits meet for Repentance WE being Men and bearing about us this Body of Flesh the steps whereof are so unstay'd and walking in this World the ways whereof are so slippery Not to fall not to erre not in the least to do amiss is an higher Perfection than humane Nature can attain to It is an Apostle that saith it In many things we offend all Jam. 3.2 And another tells us 1 John 1.8 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the Truth is not in us It is too too evident we cannot avoid the Offence but we may shun the Woe tho' we cannot be free from Sin yet we may get freed from God's Wrath ensuing it The Text puts us in a way Bring forth therefore Fruits meet for Repentance Is not the whole Race of Mankind by the Fall degenerated Are we not all in some Sense Prodigals Have we not erred and strayed like lost sheep Have we not left our Father's house that is by Sin set him at a distance from us Elongat nos à Deo Peccatum Sin is a Cloud of Separation or a Wall of Partition 'twixt our God and us Now there is nothing like Penitency to break down this Partition-Wall and dissipate this Cloud Believe it Christian Brethren There is nothing so advantageous to fallen Man nothing so becoming a returning Prodigal nothing so proper for a Convicted Sinner nothing so acceptable to GOD nor to Man so satisfactory as a genuine and free Confession a sincere and hearty Repentance a Repentance big and fruitful in good Works I mean accompanyed with Amendment of Life The best and truest Repentance is a New Life Humiliation is to no Purpose without Reformation Repentance for Sin without Repentance from Sin There must be Fruits meet for Repentance that is answerable to Amendment of Life Tantamount as Repentance and that weigh just as much as it Bring forth c. These Words will bear a fourfold Division 1. Here is the Act of Production enjoyn'd Bring forth 2. Here is the Matter of this Production Fruit. 3. Here is the Qualification of this Fruit Fruit meet for Repentance 4. Here is the Reason of this Duty Therefore bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance First As to the Act of Production Bring forth The chiefest end of God's Creating Man was for His own Glory but one great end why God Created Male and Female was for the Propagation of Mankind Man must bring forth his as other Creatures bring forth their Kind God therefore had no sooner made an Help-meet for Man but His Command was Increase and Multiply Now as the Production of Children was one thing enjoyn'd the First Adam and his Sons Gen. 1.28 so is Production also enjoyn'd the Sons of the Second Adam by this His Harbinger St. John Baptist Bring forth and if you ask What In the Second Place you are resolved Fruit. In that the Two Kidneys and the Fat that is upon them and the Cawle over the Liver and the other inward Parts were reserved for the Altar and Dedicated to God Lev. 4.9 Doth it not teach us as Pellican noteth on the Place that we should offer the use of all our Members in Obedience to God Good Men should abound in good Works and Christians in Name should be Christians in Deed. Hence is that of St. Paul Phil. 1.27 Onely let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ Onely As much as to say it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is the main and chief Charge I lay upon you it is the upshot and sum of all my Exhortations to you Let this therefore sink deep into your hearts mind this and above all things remember it that your Conversation be Christian like and suitable to the Gospel Sad is it when our Lives answer not our Profession When our Practices bear no proportion to our Speeches Such as say Lord Lord but are Workers of Iniquity they are like coarse Cloth with a fine List They look white like Silver but draw black Li●es They are meer Impostures such Christians that would cousen God of Heaven if they could putting upon Him false Coin a little silver'd over and circumventing Him if it lay in their power But as St. Bernard speaketh truly Sapiens Nummularius Deus est Nummum fictum non recipiet God is a wise Mint-man there is no beguiling Him with Counterfeit Coin Let us therefore I beseech you dear Christians weigh well what we do Shall any of us presume to impose upon Wisdom it self Who has such a stock of Impudence as dares to give God the Lye Now for a Man to say he is a Christian and not follow Christ's Example is to lye and contradict himself There is a Lye in Works as well as in Words Hos 11.12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lyes and the House of Israel with deceit That is they profess one thing they do another They have the shell of Godliness but want the kernel they have the form but deny the power The form of Religion which at best is but a slight Mark is not that God will be satisfyed with He requires a deep stamp and impression The Mark is a seeming to be Religious the deep stamp is the bridling of the Tongue the visiting of the Fatherless and Widows and the continuing unspotted from the World These and the like Works formal Christians have no mind to Who will be God's Servants but they will chuse their Labour My Meaning is they are mighty busie about the means and instruments but neglect its end They