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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29515	The easiness and difficulty of the Christian religion in a sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor, and court of Aldermen of the city of London, at Guild-Hall chappel, on Sunday May 26. 1689 / by Isaac Bringhurst ...	Bringhurst, Isaac, d. 1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing B4695; ESTC R14226	21,221	40

of Christ shed abroad and rooted and grounded in our Hearts This one Article of Christ crucified thus digested in Succum Sanguinem into the Temper and Nourishment of our Souls producing the most pleasing Acts as all the Acts of Love are upon the most perfect and Satisfactory Object God thus manifested in the Flesh must needs give Power to the faint and to them that have no Might increase Strength So that they shall mount up with Wings like Eagles and run the Ways of our Saviour's Commandments and not be weary and walk continually in them and not faint as the Prophet Isaiah speaks in another case This is a great Demonstration that our Saviour's Yoke is easy and Burden light because when we see our Saviour's Love to us stronger than the bitterest Death in him our Love to him must needs be as strong as any Death can be in us 6. And lastly From the kind Acceptance of our Heavenly Father he requireth not Perfection but Sincerity He knows our Frame and remembers we are but Dust Psal 103.14 remembers how he at first framed Man of the Dust of the Ground And ver 13. As a Father pityeth his Children so the Lord pitieth those that fear him The Apostle saith the same thing in other words 2 Cor. 8.12 If there be first a willing Mind it is accepted according to that a Man hath and not according to that he hath not Now no Man can pretend difficulty in Sincerity our Wills are more our own than any thing else we call ours our inward Thoughts and Inclinations the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that belong to us the Philosopher will tell us Lying and Dissimulation plainly are a force upon us and we feel it so when ever we are guilty Hypocrisy is stoutness against God and Cowardise to Man as my Lord Bacon tells us and is not this the most unnatural and uneasy thing in the World Our own Experience will assure us that 't is much easier to act our selves than the Person of another we act our selves often to our disadvantage because we do it extempore before we are aware but to act another Men learn and try Practice before-hand some time before they will venture to do it in publick This also demonstrates being so acceptable to God that our Saviour's Yoke is easy and his Burden light Thus I have finish'd what I proposed in the second place which was to demonstrate That although the Christian Religion be a Yoke and a Burden yet this Yoke is easy and this Burden light I shall apply it as briefly and seasonably as I can Then let us not make it more uneasy to one another than our Saviour hath made it 1. In respect of our common or ordinary Conversation there is an old Proverb too true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men are Devils to one another to tempt one another to Sin. Hab. 2.15 Wo unto him that giveth his Neighbour Drink that puttest thy Bottle to him and makest him drunk also that thou mayst look on his Nakedness Where the Prophet plainly threatens that sort of Men that make a Mock of Sin especially of that beastly Sin of Drunkenness and for their Sport and Diversion tempt one another to it and vie one with another for the Victory in the commission of it notwithstanding the Prophet Isaiah's Woe which he pronounceth against those who are mighty to drink Wine and Men of strength to mingle strong Drink Isa 5.22 There is the same Reason against our tempting one another to any Sin for by so doing we make the Yoke of Christ much more sharp and uneasy and the Burden of Christ much heavier to one another than otherwise it would be that is our Conversion and Regeneration Heb. 10.24 the Apostle tells us we are to consider one another to provoke unto Love and to Good Works Thus we shall bear one anothers Burdens Gal. 6.2 and so help one another to fulfil the Law of Christ to make his Yoke easy and his Burden light 2. Upon the Account of our Religion which at first I said was the Yoke and Burden mention'd in the Text. We make this uneasier than Christ hath made it to one another 1. When we impose as necessary Articles of our Faith either what it is certain our Saviour and his Apostles never imposed or uncertain whether they did or no. Articles of Faith necessary to Salvation can derive Authority from none but God he only can tell us what will be acceptable to himself so that the Scriptures only of the Old and New Testament by all Protestants being the Revelation that God hath given of his Will in this case to us Whatsoever is made necessary that is not here must be a very uneasy Yoke and heavy Burden for 't is not in a Man's power to believe as Men would have him we cannot believe beyond our Evidence and our Evidence must be as we can understand it So that what is necessary must be supposed to be intelligibly reveal'd to all concern'd in the belief of it This hath often made me think that we should be easier to one another were the Articles of our Faith given us in the very words of the Scripture I am sure that both the Orthodox and the Arrians in the Council of Nice concurred in this that all the Mischiefs of the Church of God were caused by bringing in words into the Creeds of the Church which were not in the Scriptures Consequences indeed are as sure as the express Terms of the Scriptures but Infallibility in these Consequences seems to be necessary for Articles of Faith because infallible Authority only can create them Certainty may satisfy a Man's Conscience for his own Sense and Compliance but for Terms of Communion that may not be sufficient because that is so according to Mens different Capacities and Apprehensions And 't is Humility and Piety to consent with Antiquity but still this will recur we cannot be sure of our Revelation because nothing is infallible but the Word of God. And upon this account the Papists objecting to us the uncertainty or insecurity of our Faith would be to their purpose did not we attribute the same infallible Authority to the Word of God which they do to the Determinations of their Church And did not the Word of God declare what is nececessary to be believed as intelligibly as their Church ever did or can express it self But this necessarily follows that we are to believe no more than the Word of God declares to us and also as it declares it and if we desire more of one another we make Christ's Yoke more uneasy and his Burden heavier than he hath made it I cannot see how this Consequence can be avoided But I speak all this with Submission This sufficiently confutes and condemns the Tyranny of the Church of Rome in making the grand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Character of her Communion the belief of innumerable Contradictions in that one Article of