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A65469	The profitableness of piety opened in an assize sermon preach'd at Dorchester, March 24 1670/1 : before the Right Honourable Sir Richard Rainsford Knight, one of the judges of the Kings Bench at the request of the Right Worshipful Robert Seymer Esquire, His Majesties High-Sheriff of the County of Dorset / by Richard West, D.D. ...	West, Richard, 1614-1690.; Rainsford, Richard, Sir, 1605-1680.; Seymer, Robert.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1380; ESTC R8228	19,335	34

wit that they were Conformable to the Image of the Son of God as 't is Rom. 8. 29. Summa Religionis est imitari quem colis it is the summ and substance of Religion to Imitate Him whom we worship Those that are truly Godly must be God-like What the Devil in heighth of Pride once said concerning Knowledg and Power the same should every Christian in all Humility say concerning Holiness and Righteousness Ero similis Altissimo I will be like the most High This S. John calls a walking as Christ walked 1 John 2. 6. And observe I pray how that was in some few acts of his ordinary Obedience 1. Look on him in his Devotions and he is Hearing Reading Kneeling on his Knees and Praying again and again in the same Form of words and that in the Temple and Synagogues the publick places of Gods worship where he carefully observed the Rites and Ordinances of the Church though some of them were of bare Humane Institution and held Communion with it though the Priests were corrupt in their Office and a Judas was amongst the Apostles 2. Take him in the Kingdom or Common-wealth and he is subject to Authority He payes Tribute and Renders unto Caesar the things that are Caesars yea though Caesar gave not to God the things that are Gods 3. Once more look upon him in his Carriage and Converse with men of inferior rank and order and you shall find him Meek and Lowly Peaceable and Patient alwayes going about to do good even to them who made it their business to do him evil And now thou that callest thy self Saint though thou wilt not vouchsafe the Evangelists and Apostles that Name how walkest thou in these respects In the Church thou art a stranger yea a separatist thou breakest the Peace despisest the Orders and contemnest the Officers thereof yea and thou neglectest and revilest that Liturgie or Divine Service which is double-refined from Popery and wherein the Reformation it self is Reformed and art thou conformable to Christ Thou resistest the lawful Powers thou despisest Dominion and speakest evil of Dignities and art not afraid to offend Him who is the Defender of Thee and the Faith and art thou conformable to thy Saviour Again in thy private behaviour and conversation Thou art haughty turbulent and censorious rendring Evil for Good and Hatred to those who are at Peace with thee and art thou conformable to the Son of God On the other side amongst Those who think themselves Conformable in the aforesaid particulars yet many of them O what Antipodes are they to Christ in other matters In Christs lips was found no guile and He sayes Swear not at all but let your Communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil But yet their mouths are full of Cursing and Blaspheming running over the Passion in a most horrid Litany and using Gods Name more in their Oaths than Prayers making thus their Sins most shew their Christianity in so much that if according to the custome of the Jews we should rent our Clothes as oft as we hear Gods holy Name prophaned we should scarce have a Rag left upon our backs Again Christ kept Holy the Sabbath and only Heal'd and did good Works upon it But O how is that Day made the most sinful Day of the Week the time of leisure for Iniquity or of Rest to mens Sloth Many labour six dayes in their lawful Callings who shamefully Play and Sin away the Seventh which may justly occasion the revival of what Alstedius once said of the Germans If the day should be call'd according to some mens observation of it Daemoniacus potiùs quàm Dominicus it should not be call'd the Lords day but the Devils Once more briefly What a miracle of Temperance and Charity was Christ Though he turned Water into Wine yet upon all his Cups was writ Holyness to the Lord. When he sate down to feed himself he multiplied Loaves and fed Thousands so that all his Meals were consecrated as it were into a Communion and as strict and sober as our Sacramental Suppers But alas how is the old English Hospitality turned into a Dutch Debauchery Variety of Liquors is now the chiefest Entertainment while in our Feasts more is spent in Sauce than in Meat in Smoak than in Fire in Wines than in Loaves as if we meant to abrogate the old Petition in the Lord's Prayer and say no more Give us this day our daily Bread but Give us this day our daily Drink These doubtless are spots in our Feasts I cannot say of Charity but of Wantonness and Riot when more care is taken to fill the Brain than the Belly the Rich than the Poor as if we would Correct the Magnificat and invert also the words of the Blessed Virgin-mother Filling the Full with good things and sending the Hungry empty away There is no better remedie to retrive Christian Charity and Temperance than instead of making men Blind and Lame to call in such as are so and to be as liberal at the Door as in the Dining room causing the Basket to go about more and the Bottles less This this would be to be conformable to Christ But now if true Godliness be thus a likeness to God where O where is it to be found Betwixt the Atheists in Heart dissembling Hypocrites on the one hand and Atheists in Practice the prophane Hectors on the other betwixt Scribes and Pharisees here and Publicans and Sinners there How is sincere Piety decayed and lost so that we may justly take up the Psalmists complaint and say Help Lord for the Godly man ceases the Faithful fail from amongst the Children of Men. Once Orbis ingemuit factum se videns Arrium The whole world groaned to see her self made Arrian but now she groans much worse Factum se videns Atheum to see her self turned Atheist In some there is but a Form of Godliness in others not so much as a Form In few is found the Power and Exercise thereof which is the Act here mentioned and the next thing to be insisted on Exercise thy self unto Godliness The word in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a making bare or stripping our selves of all incumbrances in the Christian course of Piety as Racers Wrestlers and Combatants do in their preparations for victory Grotius tells us it alludes to Gymnasium a School and imports our being as diligent in Religion as we would have our children that go to School be in Learning And indeed there is nothing that we ought to make our Business so much as Godliness Pietas est pro pietate sumptus saies Tertullian This is Godliness to be at cost for God Holy David would not serve God of that which Cost him nothing And if any man be otherwise minded and thinks much to take pains