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A49584 Of earnestly contending for the faith a sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, on Sunday, Sept. the 22th, there being that day an ordination by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London / by James Lardner. Lardner, James, b. 1670. 1700 (1700) Wing L436; ESTC R13861 12,315 30

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Christian Faith will undoubtedly be productive of all those good Works to the performance of which our most holy Profession obliges us To proceed therefore further upon this Point would be altogether needless and I heartily wish it were as needless to enlarge upon those several Adversaries who set themselves in opposition to and are the profess'd Enemies of that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Ver. 4. Vngodly Men as our Apostle speaks who either turn the Grace of our God into Lasciviousness or positively deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ even who deny the Lord that bought ' em 2 Pet. 2.1 But we are obliged to observe First That when the Apostle exhorts us to contend earnestly for the Faith there are necessarily imply'd some Persons who will be constantly gainsaying and opposing it some Adversaries which we are to encounter and conflict withal Which being consider'd we shall be naturally led in the Second place to enquire how and after what manner we are to deal with these Adversaries and what peculiar Weapons we are to make use of whilst we endeavour earnestly to contend for the Faith And then lest any one should be discouraged in the discharge of his Duty by the greatness of the Work or the many Difficulties which he is to encounter it will be requisite in the Third place to shew what mighty Encouragements we have to perswade us to a constant perseverance in our Christian Warfare what blessed Assistances are offered to us and what glorious Rewards they shall be Crowned withal who sight the good Fight and do inviolably keep the Faith First We are obliged to observe that when the Apostle exhorts us to contend earnestly for the Faith there are necessarily implied some Persons who will be constantly gainsaying and opposing it some Adversaries which we are to encounter and conflict withal A Consideration as melancholy as 't is serious and every way as sad as it is true To be either Persecuted singled out for Destruction or at least slighted and laugh'd at hath in some measure been the Portion of the true Professors of the Faith in all Ages of the Church And to be mock'd at and derided seemed to make up part of the Character of a Believer in the Infancy of Christianity Nay we may go further even to the Fountain Head and we shall find that the very Author of our Faith himself the Blessed Jesus met with the same Usage No sooner had he left that humble Retirement in which he past the first Thirty Years of his Life to enter publickly upon his Prophetick Office but that Divine Charmer who so spake as never Man spake met with such as contradicted and opposed him the proud haughty Pharisee thought himself too great to listen to the Doctrines of Meekness and Humility and being big with an expectation of a glorious Messiah a Temporal Prince who should rescue their Nation from the Roman Yoak could not discern a Deliverer under the appearance of a Carpenter's Son nor imagine it possible that he should redeem Israel whose Condition was so low mean and despicable that according to his own Expression he had not where to lay his Head The proud Insulter would not see the Finger of the Almighty in those daily Miracles which he wrought nor confess him to be the Son of God with power though the Glories of his Divinity were visibly display'd in all his wondrous Works But still is the Holy Jesus scoffed at and derided and in an impudent manner taunted at Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Mary And when they found that many of the People convinc'd by his mighty Works began to adhere to and embrace his Doctrines lest their beloved Moses should be brought into disrepute they resolve to Persecute both him and them and Lazarus was design'd to be put to Death because that by reason of him i. e. his being miraculously raised from the dead many of the Jews went away John 12 1● 11. and believed on Jesus Nor did their Malice admit of any Abatement 'till they had nailed him to the Cursed Tree and see him there expire and die when his Doctrines they thought would have died with him and the Faith of Jesus they hoped would have been heard of no more And since his Usage was thus very hard and severe it could not afterwards be expected that the Disciple should be above Mat. 10.24 or fare better than his Master nor the Servant above his Lord and when the Apostles were sent out upon that weighty Business viz. to publish the same Gospel which Jesus had Preach'd Mat. 1● 22 no wonder if they should be hated of all Men for his name sake And indeed thus it prov'd for when the Christian Doctrine revived and rose again with it's Blessed Author it no sooner made its publick Appearance in the World but it was as publickly contradicted and oppos'd That Doctrine which was so repugnant to those Notions and Prejudices which had been generally entertained could not undoubtedly without a great deal of difficulty make its way into the Hearts of Men and be received as a Rule of Faith That Doctrine the embracing of which at that time tended to the lessening Mens secular Interest and Advantage would assuredly meet with a great many Enemies and 't is not much to be admired if not only the Ephesian Silversmiths should be against it Acts 19. whose Craft was in danger to be ruined and set at nought but every Man likewise elsewhere whose Interest it threatned to diminish would make a Party against it and raise a Body of Adversaries to oppose it And when the Rage of such a Man as Herod had urged him to kill James the Brother of John with the Sword Acts 12 1 2 3. it was easie to imagine that he who loved popular Applause and prided himself in the Acclamations of the Crowd should when he saw it pleased the Jews proceed further not only to take Peter also but lay violent Hands upon all the Preachers of the Gospel and vex the whole Church I need not in this place for I consider before whom I speak I need not here proceed to the next Ages consequent to that of the Apostles and lay before you a large Catalogue of that noble Army of Martyrs who suffered for the sake of Christ during those several Persecutions which successively raged and laid waste the Church of God I need not lay before you an account of those several Kings and Emperors under whom the Faithful Servants of the Blessed Jesus chose rather to suffer Afflictions with the People of God than deny their Master and desert their Saviour who were tortured not accepting deliverance who had Trials of cruel Mockings and Scourgings yea moreover of Bonds and Imprisonment and yet amidst all their Troubles and Afflictions showed themselves more than Conquerours through him that loved them 'T would be needless to carry your Eyes backward to