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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27360	A sermon preached at the funeral of M. Anthony Hinton late treasurer of St. Bartholomews Hospital on the 15th of November, 1678, at St. Sepulchres Church / by William Bell.	Bell, William, 1626-1683.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1811; ESTC R24054	16,767	41

of cursed Cham as he who will be called a servant of servants Gen. ix 29. yet like servants on horse-back bring Princes to his foot and exalts himself above all that are called Gods Eccl x. 7. And if any pretending Protestants among us have done otherwise they went out from us because they were not of us We are taught not to hew out Reformation by the Sword whose mouth is an ill Advocate for the truth It is usually drawn in the quarrel of a Curtizan but not of a chaste Wife If any thing be amiss we expect the amendment from those Powers that did at first orderly and authoritatively reform us whose Supremacy in all Causes Civil and Ecclesiastical we humbly recognize as exclusive of all Foreign Jurisdiction without giving them what they claim not the Administration of Gods Word and Sacraments And as our Church as a tender Mother denies not pardon to her Children even for wilful sins committed after Baptism so like a prudent Mother she heals not their hurts slightly by the palliate cures of easie Confession and hasty Absolutions on meer Attrition or pecuniary Commutations or slight corporal Penances She approves of no sorrow but that godly one that worketh repentance never to be repented of 2 Cor. vii 10. Such tears as quench the fire of Lust and such a Reformation as withdraws the fuel We are so taught by her the tremendous mysteries of Predestination and Election as to steer evenly between the two equally dangerous rocks of Presumption and Despair She imposeth not on her Ministers or others the hard yoak of Celibacy or single life but teacheth them and by them Heb. xiii 4. that Marriage is honourable among all and the bed undefiled is true Chastity That Continency is not as Faith Hope Charity Repentance and Fear common to all Christians but peculiar to some and is a gift that may be denied to them that ask it in Prayer since where it is not God hath by Matrimony provided a remedy Nor doth she bind any to Poverty and a Mendicant state Prov. xxx 8. which wise Agur did deprecate as if that could be a blessing under the Gospel which was a curse under the Law to serve in the want of all things Deu. xxviii 48. She obligeth not by any Vows Num. xxx 7. but what are free deliberate in things possible and lawful and with consent of Superiours She deprives us not of half our Legacy in the New Testament of our dying Saviour by entertaining us at a dry Communion and denying us the Cup of blessing Nor doth she rob us of all our reason and the better half of our senses by the incredible Doctrine of Transubstantiation that pregnant Mother of Errors that would perswade us that is flesh which we see taste and feel is a Wafer That there are but the accidents of Bread shape and colour and accidents without a subject 1 Cor. xi 26. whereas it is truly called bread as before so after the Consecration That with the same mouth we can make and eat our God First change his glorious body into the likeness of our sinful ones and then cast him out into the viler draught That every loaf and bit shall be the whole man and at the same time in so many several places But it is not flesh and bloud Mat. v. 6. but righteousness that we hunger and thirst after and have the blessing of satisfaction in Yet we receive that Sacrament not as a meer badge of our Profession but as a sign and seal of God's mercy to us and of his grace thereby working in us which grace depends not upon the worthy or unworthy qualifications of him that administers but of them who receive that Sacrament Which while we celebrate in remembrance of an absent Christ we yet own a real presence of him who is every where While we pray that we may so eat and drink that our bodies may be cleansed by his body and our souls washed by his most precious bloud And the whole office performed with as much respect as is required or was practised by the Primitive Church though we proceed not to a preserving enshrining procession with and adoration of the Host or any other elevation but that of the lifting up of our hearts And so let us ever lift them up in thankfulness to that God who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous light in a Church and under a Government old as Christianity it self whose gray hairs are its Crown Prov. xvi 31. as found in a way of righteousness It is called Heresie and Novelty yet it is the good old way wherein we worship the God of our Fathers a righteous though a dolorous way as by which the King of Kings and one of the best of Kings walked to their Cross In this Profession died the true Defender of the Church in its ancient Faith and fruitions equally abhorring Sacriledge and Apostacy Who by no Arts or force could be brought to subject her to parity or poverty to gratifie those who would have her go as naked out of the world as she came into it He took care not to have his nest fired by a coal snatched from God's Altar earnestly praying that neither he nor his might ever be accessary to it And God be thanked he hath been hitherto heard in what he desired Thus he was the most Christian King by a better title than that to France as purchased not by his Subjects blood but by his own He was content to exchange a Crown of Gold for a Crown of Thorns and for which he now wears a Crown of Glory And may that Religion which such a Saviour founded in and such a Soveraign sealed with his bloud be our Religion for ever Amen and Amen Application to the Occasion AND now it is time to give you an instance of a fit Servant and Subject to such a Christ and such a King And you have one before you that of our deceased Friend He kept a Conscience void of offence toward God and toward man To trace him as high as we can he was of a generous Family and therein the obedient Son of an obliging Father and from thence he was the honest Servant of a good Master and afterwards the kind Master of many Servants But what is here most proper to consider him in is his better Profession that of a Christian that of a Protestant And herein he was a steady Professor too well ballasted to be carried about by every by any wind of Doctrine whether it blew from Rome or Geneva He lived to see Religion in its splendour and its eclipse and he equally loved it in both conditions or if there was any difference he exceeded in the latter When those Vipers who suck'd the breasts of the Church were ready to tear out her bowels she took sanctuary in his house and there frequently dealt out her bread of life in the Word and