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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26827	A sermon preached at Bury St. Edmonds before the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of Norwich, at the third session of His Lordship's primary visitation holden there on Wednesday May 5th, 1668 by Michael Batt ...	Batt, Michael, 1653-1706.	1686 (1686)	Wing B1145; ESTC R20079	13,966	42

before-hand that the forementioned Means would prove insufficient that let Him write or send what or whom soever He pleas'd the Height and Haughtiness of some was such as would not be curb'd nor taken down thereby Nay and which was more and which call'd upon Him to make the more hast to them it should seem that His Absence had already caus'd them to entertain low and contemptuous thoughts of Him too For so does the Learned Hammond paraphrase the 18th ver Now some are puff'd up as though I would not come to you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because I come not to you my self personally some among you have taken occasion to despise me that am absent And hence it is that He resolves ver 19. I will come to you shortly if the Lord will and will know not the speech of them that are puffed up but the Power That is I 'le make trial of those confident boasters not of their plausible words and fine talk at which I know they are excellent but of their solid worth and the real good they do with all their ostentatious braggings For the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power ver 20. Christianity does not consist in speaking but doing not in vaunting but performing great Things And hereupon follow the words of the Text. What will ye shall I come unto you with a Rod or in Love and in the Spirit of Meekness Which the now-mentioned Hammond thus introduces and explains And now I talk of coming to you I pray consider which will you chuse As you behave your selves so at my coming will I exercise either my Power of inflicting punishments or the milder way of kindness toward you and therefore according as ye like best so prepare your selves for my coming In the words of another Paraphrast Bish Hall a Reverend Prelate of our Church and sometime of this Diocese Let it be your own choice after what manner I shall come unto You My carriage must be directed by your deserts and dispositions Will you that I shall come to You with a Rod of Censure to correct your Exorbitances or in Love and in the Spirit of Meekness to commend and cherish your Holy Proceedings and Christian Carriage I shall do either of them as I shall receive occasion from You. Thus you see the Occasion and Connexion of the Words in discoursing on which I shall endeavour to do these four Things 1. To explain the Power the Apostle intimates Himself to have in the Church in these words shall I come unto you with a Rod 2. To shew how far or in what measures and degrees that Power is continued to the Bishops and Governors of the Church now 3. To take notice how loth and unwilling the Apostle was to exercise this Power of His but in case of absolute Necessity And how desirous He was as appears from the manner of His expressions that He might have occasion to use only the fair and gentle Methods 4. To exhort Christians to be more obedient to their Spiritual Pastors and Fathers by an orderly and regular Conversation than to force Them to the Vse of that Severity which They are otherwise averse from In speaking to which Particulars I hope I shall do in some measure Right to the Text and no improper or unsuitable Service to this Solemnity 1. First for the Power the Apostle intimates Himself to have in the Church in these words shall I come unto you with a Rod Our Blessed Saviour after he had publish'd His most excellent and Heavenly Doctrine to the World and lived here a considerable time an Example of the Practicableness of it and had by divers unquestionable miracles and at last by His Death and Resurrection abundantly confirm'd the Truth of it in sine after having finish'd the Work that was here given Him to do being to return again to the Bosom of His Father He could not any longer manage in His own Person the Interests and Concerns of His Church But still being touch'd with an infinite Pity and Compassion for it and well knowing to what hazards its infancy and tenderness would expose it left it not till He had constituted and appointed divers Orders and Officers in it to whom He committed the Care and whom He invested with Power sufficient to administer from time to time to all the Exigencies and Necessities of it The precepts of His Religion were not like the later Impostures of Mahomet calculated on purpose for the gratification of Mens lusts and for humoring the looseness and wantonness of the World No they were quite of another nature and as opposite to those as Light to Darkness requiring mortification and self-denyal and enjoyning Men to Crucify their carnal Appetites and Affections And was it likely that such an Institution as this should readily gain footing and Countenance in the World or rather was it not sure to meet with the utmost hatred and opposition imaginable Most certainly our Saviour plainly foresaw it was and therefore took Care before His departure to settle certain Persons viz. His eleven Apostles whom He had before selected for that Purpose as His immediate Deputies and Vicegerents giving them in charge to feed His flock to watch over and provide for His Church at present themselves and empowering them as Occasion should require to depute and Ordain others for the same service afterwards giving them in short the same commission to execute that He received of His Father at His coming into the World according as we read Joh. 20.21 As my Father sent me even so send I you Now as for our Saviour's Mission it will be sufficient for my present purpose if I give you only St. Peter's account of it Acts. 10.38 where in His Sermon to Cornelius and his Company He tells them That God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with Power And accordingly were His Apostles breath'd on by Him in order to their installment to a Succession in His Office and had the same Spirit and Power assured to Them Which not many days after His Ascent they likewise receiv'd and were thereby enabled both to gather and govern the Church effectually to establish Christianity and to propagate the Doctrine of the Gospel both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth as it is Acts. 1.8 Though they were destitute of all Secular Helps and had no worldly Advantages to assist or further them and yet were to encounter with Mens riveted opinions ancient customs and inveterate habits to beat them off from those Practices and Courses they had been used to ever since they were born and to impose upon them a new and quite contrary way of life reducing them from the smooth and delightfull paths of Sin into the more rugged and tiresom tracks of Virtue yet so effectually were they endued with power from on high as St. Luke expresses it Ch. 24.49 that by their means the