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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63846	Moderation recommended in a sermon preached before the lord mayor and court of aldermen at Guild-Hall Chappel, May 12th, 1689 by George Tullie ...	Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3241; ESTC R38916	15,335	35

PILKINGTON MAYOR Martis XIV Die Maii 1689. Annoque Regine Willielmi Mariae Angl c. Primo This Court doth desire Mr. Tully to Print his Sermon lately Preached in the Guild-Hall Chappel before the Lord MAYOR and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe LICENSED Z. ISHAN June 5th 1689. MODERATION Recommended IN A SERMON Preached before the LORD MAYOR And Court of ALDERMEN AT Guild-Hall Chappel May 12th 1689. By GEORGE TVLLIE M. A. Sub-Dean of York LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXXXIX TO THE Right Honourable Sir THOMAS PILKINGTON LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY of LONDON My Lord THO I am sensible of the obligations I have to your Lordship and the Court for your approbation of this plain Discourse yet I am apt at the same time to believe that it may chance to meet with a different sort of entertainment from some or other in the World For when Mens prejudices are awakened their passions up and they resolve before hand on division 't is in vain for a Man to expect from either side any instances of that Moderation he advises both to it being natural for Men when unhappily divided into parties gradnally to contract an aversion to those who give them not countenance enough by running into the same Excesses with themselves However my Lord I have very little concern upon me for any mens unreasonable heats and extravagancies as being sure to have them of my mind when they return to themselves and think soberly and Religiously on things for then of necessity they cool into that very temper I here perswade to In short my Lord I am sure moderation is a virtue and a very excellent and useful virtue too notwithstanding that in our late years of extremities it was almost jested and rail'd out of Countenance I am farther perswaded that the sincere practice of it on all sides would go a great way to the uniting us both in interest and affection and that it more especially becomes those of whatsoever Denomination they are otherwise to whom God has committed the Ministry of Reconciliation On these considerations alone I first Preach'd and now in Obedience to your Lordship's and the Court's Command publish this Discourse which if it chance to dispose but any small number of Men to Amity Temper and Brotherly Love and thereby contribute to the support of our Holy Religion against its common and immortal Enemies I have my end an end for which I am content to undergo all the unreasonable obloquy and reflexion in the World. My Lord I am your Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant GEO. TVLLIE A SERMON OF MODERATION PHIL. IV. 5. Let your moderation be known unto all Men. T IS one of the great Excellencies of the Christian Institution that the Virtues and Graces it recommends to our Practice do not only render us good and holy in our individual capacities in order to our everlasting welfare hereaster but modest prudent and wife in our political Relations in order to our well being here as we are form'd into Bodies or Communities of men that they all of them tend mightily to the sweetning of Societies and to the preventing or healing those differences which are apt to imbroil us And upon this prospect partly no doubt it is that we find those homiletic or if I may so speak conversable Graces of meekness gentleness forgiveness forbearance c. so frequently press'd upon us in the Sacred Writings and are particularly required in the Text to let our Moderation be known unto all men In speaking to which words I shall do these three things First I shall explain what I here understand by moderation in the Text. Secondly I shall lay down some Rules or Instances of moderation so explain'd And Thirdly and Lastly Shall conclude with a Motive or two to the practice of it And first What is here meant by moderation And this the rather because that as some of late out of design and others from mistake have declaimed against it so there are really several Vices as temporizing halting betwixt two Opinions cowardise and a fear of disobliging that usurp its name and fraudulently hang out its Colours Now for the more distinct understanding of the the thing it will be necessary to have recourse to the Original word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an adjective according to the Greek idiom put for the Substantive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the different Translations and Usages whereof we may be able to pick out and frame to ourselves a sufficient notion of the virtue recommended in the Text. Some Versions render it in this place by the word Mansuetudo Meekness Others by the word Humanitas Humanity a just sense of the dignity of humane Nature and a behaviour suitable thereto Others render it Modestia Modestie an obliging sort of demeanour towards others proceeding from low apprehensions of a mans self Our Translation render'd it formerly by the word Patience and so I find some Interpreters would still have it importing thereby an even and equable disposition of mind under all events at the 24 of the Acts the 4 ver 't is rendred Clemency which is but another word for Mildness the one in private Persons the other in Men of Power and Authority as Felix was to whom the words are there addressed In the 2. Epist of the Corinthians 10. chap. 1. ver 't is joyned as Synonimous with the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mildness or Meekness and is there rendred Gentleness Now I Paul my self beseech you by the meekness and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gentleness of Christ c. by that facile and tractable disposition which was visible in our Lord and Saviour Aristotle to omit several other places of Scripture where it is render'd to the same effect uses the word in a more narrow and confined sense than any we have yet mention'd for that to wit which we call Equity a readiness to judge of things not according to the strict rigour and letter of the Law but rather as occasion shall require and prudence suggest according to the circumstances and exigences of particular cases as it may reasonably be supposed the Law giver himself would have judg'd and acted had such emergent cases come before him Now tho this acceptation of the word is more particular and furnishes us with a more distinct notion than any of the other yet as Grotius observes the word is not limited to this forinsic sense here but according to him it imports partly a disposition of mind whereby a Man is inclined to recede from his own Right upon occasion and partly is studious of all fair opportunities of being useful and advantageous to others from all which I think we may collect that Moderation in general will amount to the due observation of a mean betwixt all unjustifiable excesses in matters of difference and contest amongst Men proceeding from a just amplitude and ingenuity of Spirit and aiming alwaies at