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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50683	A sermon preached before the King at White-hall July 30, 1676 by John Meriton ...	Meriton, John, b. ca. 1630.	1677 (1677)	Wing M1821; ESTC R744	12,431	32

A SERMON Preached before the KING AT WHITE-HALL July 30. 1676. By John Meriton M. A. Chaplain to the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of Arlington Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold Printed by His Majesty's special Command LONDON Printed for Simon Miller at the Star at the West-end of St. Paul's 1677. MATTH iii. 8 9. Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance And think not to say within your selves We have Abraham to our Father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham THese words were spoken to the Pharisees and Sadduces who were the great Zealots of the Jewish Church especially the Pharisees whom Saint Paul calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most strait Sect amongst the Jews Act. 26. 5. Which knew me from the beginning if they would testifie that after the most strait Sect of our Religion I lived a Pharisee These were zealous and punctual in the observation of the Law of Circumcision and all other Rites and Ceremonies instituted of God by Moses under which for a time were contained the Mysteries of true Religion and Godliness Heb. 9. 9 10. which was a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices for sin which could not make him that did that service perfect as pertaining to the Conscience Which stood in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal Ordinances imposed on them only until the time of Reformation In which Institutions consisted the external Profession and Form of true Religion and outward Communion with the visible Church until the coming of Christ in the Flesh but by a blind zeal for the Form without the Power of Godliness the Pharisees and Sadducees thought themselves privileged against the wrath menaced by the Baptist which contained a Prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem and other great calamities then approaching to the Jews under Titus and Vespatian and also the terrour of eternal punishment in the damnation of Hell The multitude came and were baptized of him in Jordan confessing their sins but these righteous in their own eyes had no sins to confess and came only to his Baptism out of a vain curiosity to see and censure deriding rather than believing that wrath they were warned to flee from reasoning as is evident from the Baptist's words in the Text We are zealous of the Law of Circumcision and all things enjoyned us of God by Moses and have Abraham to our Father Tush God cannot destroy us being righteous nor according to the Oath which he sware to Abraham and his Seed for ever but with Ixion in the Fable they embraced a Cloud instead of Juno whilst they thought they had found the clearest and the brightest truth it proved but a Cloud of palpable errour and darkness For the Baptist accuses their Righteousness of insufficiency admonishes them to repent and upbraids their vain oftentation and fruitless boasting of succession from Abraham from whose faith and vertue they were so far degenerated as they were more like a brood of Vipers than his Children They had proceeded all this while upon a false Hypothesis about that Righteousness wherein consisted the power and substance of true Religion and Godliness and upon which the Covenant of God in Christ was confirmed to Abraham four hundred and thirty years before the giving of the Law by Moses Gal. 3. 15 16. So that unless they would now upon means of better information recant their errours and recall their mistakes and reform their manners which is indeed to repent they could not secure themselves from being involved in the common Miseries then approaching their Land and Countrey under Titus and Vespatian or for ever escape the damnation of Hell For the Promise that he should be Heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith Rom. 4. 13. Religion is not a Complement but a real thing and that righteousness whereby we are righteous in the sight of God is not external obedience of the body to instituted Righteousness or positive Laws but internal obedience of the heart to the Law of Moral goodness and the Dictates of right Reason engraven upon the conscience of every man Rom. 2. 14. Explained and made more evident by the several Revelations of God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past to the Fathers by the Prophets and in these last days unto us by his Son Heb. 1. 1. The former which is our righteousness in the sight of men and but the shadow and carcase of Religion is called a righteousness of our own which is according to the Law Phil. 3. 9. As being the performance of the letter of the Law by the act and operation of the body through mere natural vertue which is our own But the latter which is our righteousness in the sight of God is called in the same Text The righteousness which is of God by faith in Jesus Christ Of which words I think my self obliged to give a distinct and full account and that according to the demonstration of truth to my own Conscience in the sight of God they being the directions of our present life to a future happiness which makes an errour dangerous and truth to be valued in opening them then I must give solution to these three Particulars 1. In what sence called the righteousness of Faith 2. Of God 3. Of God by faith in Jesus Christ 1. It is called the righteousness of Faith in a double respect 1. As being the most proper object of our Belief so to conceive of God as is most agreeable to natural notice and supernatural Revelation 2. As being the only Principle to the practice of all the Duties and Obligations of the Will of God so revealed Faith being the first Principle of all Religion both natural and revealed Heb 11. 6. He that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him 2. It is called the righteousness of God 1. As being the Copy or Image of that righteousness which God is in himself of which God himself is the Original and Perfection 2. As being that righteousness which God only approves and will reward Rom. 2. 28. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly nor is Circumcision that which is outward in the flesh but that which is inward in the heart whose praise is not of Men but of God 3. It is called the Righteousness of God by Faith in Jesus Christ 1. As to the performance of which we are assisted by the grace of God obtained by faith in Jesus Christ in whose Name whatsoever we ask believing we shall receive and the grace of the new Covenant consists in these three things 1. To encline our wills to accept the conditions 2. Upon our acceptance to assist our weakness 3. To accept our sincerity through many defects and imperfections the integrity of