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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81104	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Philip and Jacob, in the city of Bristol on Wednesday the 15th of July, 1691. Being the monthly-fast. By Thomas Cary, M.A. Vicar of the parish of St. Philip and Jacob, in the city of Bristol.	Cary, Thomas, 1648 or 9-1711.	1691 (1691)	Wing C743B; ESTC R232684	7,176	30

Internal Holiness is absolutely necessary to Salvation because without it no man shall Heb. 12. 14. see the Lord let us then live in Peace love one another and honour the Gospel with holy Lives and then we shall answer God's end in our great Deliverance when God promiseth Blessings to his People he foretels them what Returns he expects then shall ye remember your own evil ways and Ezek. 36. 31. your doings that were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations Let us consider the greatness of our Deliverance that we may understand what Obligations are laid upon us to Repentance and Reformation God hath preserved us from Captivity under a mystical Babylon from the Roman Yoke a Burthen so Intolerable that neither we or our Fathers were able to bear it we are secured from Aegyptian darkness and all those Oppressions the faithful People of God would meet with in that Land We are Delivered from a Church whose Doctrines contradict common Sense the most evident Principles of Reason the plain Rules of Morality and the known Laws of Christ a Church that Magisterially imposeth upon mens Consciences makes as many new Articles of Faith as it pleaseth and bindes all under the Penalty of Damnation to an implicite Faith and Obedience to all its Decrees and Rules A Church that pretends to an Universal Monarchy to have Power to dispose of all the Kingdoms of the World to pardon Sins by Absolution and to give leave to Sin by Dispensations A Church Idolatrous in the Worshipping of Images the Adoration of a piece of Bread the Invocation of Saints and Angels and veneration of holy Relicks and Crucifixes A Church that would Rob you of one half of the Sacrament take one of the Commandments out of the Moral Law deprive you of the holy Scriptures the Key of Knowledge impose Prayers in an Unknown Tongue and take much pains to increase Ignorance as they call it the Mother of Devotion A Church that teacheth Doctrines not known in Scripture that choke's Religion with numerous and insignificant Ceremonies and incourageth Sin by Pardons Indulgences easie Penances and Dispensations A Church whose Principles are Inconsistent with Human Society and whose Religion is as bad as none at all because it indulgeth Sin gratifies Carnality and makes Internal Holiness unnecessary A Church made up of Fraud and Cruelty whose Arguments to propagate their Faith are Prisons Fagots and Missionary Dragoons that keeps no Faith with such as they call Hereticks and think 's it a meritorious Act to destroy them A Church that allow's the most wicked Methods to carry on its own bad Cause among whom Murtherers are reputed Saints and Men of Blood have their Names in their Rubricks A Church that would in time have devoured your Estates seized your Lands corrupted your Blood and inslaved you in Soul and Body Blessed be God that he hath preserved us from such a Church he suffered Popery to come to the Doors of our Churches but would not permit it to enter in he suffered our Enemies to make a great Progress and then blasted all in a Moment he delivered us 2 Cor. 1. 10. from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us That Disobedience after a great Deliverance doth highly provoke God to inflict more terrible Judgments Should we again break thy commandments and joyn in affinity with the people of these abominations would'st thou not be angry with us till thou had'st consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping God hath indeed been very Gracious unto us he expects an impartial Reformation from all orders and degrees of Men among us his Mercies should ingage us to walk more Humbly and Religiously But if God's end is frustrated if his Mercies are abused if we still dishonour our Holy Religion by ungodly Practices then the Mercy of God will be converted into fury he will Deliver us no more but cast us off for Ever It was a lasting aggravation of the Sins of the Jews that they rebelled against that God who had brought them out of the Land of Aegypt and from the House of Bondage it was a great aggravation of Davids Sin that God had done such and such things for him and yet he offended in the matter of Vriah it was an aggravation of King Solomon's Sins that he forsook that God who had Appeared to him twice and it will be a terrible Aggravation of our Sins that such a great Mercy such a wonderful Deliverance hath not reduced us to Obedience God may justly say to us as he did to the Incorrigible Jews You only have I known of all the Families of Amos 3. 2. the Earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Let us not think our selves past all Danger let us not put far from us an evil Day Alas they are never safe who are secure in their Sins he who hath Miraculously Delivered us at one time can easily Destroy us at another if we Repent not O let every one take up the Resolution of Holy David I have sworn and I will Psal 119. 106. perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments let us all answer as the Children of Israel did Joshua The Lord our God Josh 24. 24. will we serve and his voice will we obey God by his Providence speaks now to us as once unto the Jews O that there Deut. 5. 29. were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep my commandments always that it might be well with them and with their children for ever O that my people had harkened Psal 81. 13. 14. unto me and Israel had walked in my ways I should soon have subdued their Enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries I shall conclude all with the Profession and Exhortation of Samuel Moreover as 1 Sam. 12. 23 24. for me God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you but I will teach you the good and the right way Onely fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you but if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king To God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be Honour Praise Love and Adoration henceforth and for ever more FINIS