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A30672	Not fear, but love a sermon preached before the governors of the Charity for Relief of Poor Widows and Orphans of Clergy-men, at St. Mary le Bow, on the 7th day of Decemb., 1682 / by Ar. Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1683 (1683)	Wing B6203; ESTC R37172	30,572	54

Not FEAR but LOVE A SERMON PREACHED Before the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Orphans of Clergy-men at St. Mary le Bow on the 7 th day of Decemb. 1682. By Ar. BVRY DD. Rector of Exon. Coll. Oxon. Ama fac quicquid vis D. Aug. OXFORD Printed by L. Lichfield Printer to the University in the year 1683. ADVERTISEMENT THIS following Sermon dear Reader I send to wait upon the foregoing Treatise as being thereto both very neer of Kin and very Serviceable Neer of Kin as being a Restorer of Communion with our Lord for This laboreth to Restore our Communion with the Father and the Son to that Full joy which St. John declareth to be the Summ of his message as That doth to Restore our Communion with the Son in his Flesh and Blood to that Constancy which himself made due to it And Serviceab'l not only in casting out the spirit of Fear which is the common enemy but particularly in caling to a more strict account that Self-examination which as prescribed and practised by the best is the greatest discorager from the Lord's Supper Here tht Sermon advanceth beyond the Treatise denying it so much as adviseabl to a good person either upon That or any Other occasion I say to a good person For to others I acknowledge the Prophets admonition always necessary that they search and try their ways and turn unto the Lord but for those who have already do'n this necessary work I see no Reason to be always repeting it Many exhortations I find encoraging them to rejoice in the Lord alway but not one to be always tormenting themselvs with examining their interest in him This and another no less heterodox assertion concerning Repentance my design invited me to Touch but my time forbad me to Handl in any proportion to the need which defect I have now endeavoured to supply by additional Annotations wherein I have accounted for such texts as seem to discountenance them More or Less than this cannot be required A sound mind cannot acknowledg the Scripture to be the adequate rule of faith and manners yet fear to appeal to it But to manage the appeal is not every one's work it requireth good acquaintance with the Original language som Academical improvement of the understanding a Carefuley a Free Heart and a Good Key For the last of these we stand obliged to the great Erasmus who hath furnished us with This as the best key to understand mystical Scrpture that we observ what the speaker aims at With this key I have unlocked such texts as stood in my way And I add this to Erasmus's rule That as every particular word must be unlocked by the Author's aim as by its proper key so must every text and its particular key conform to the Universal Aim of the Gospel as their Common and Supreme King-key This then I say and inculcate and wish the whole Christian world would hear it As sure as St. John hath proclamed that this is the design of the Gospel that our joy may be full as sure as St. Paul hath determined that the Kingdom of Heaven is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost c. so sure it is that the King-key wherewith we must unlock every abstruse text of Scripture the Test whereby we must try every Doctrine of Faith or Manners the Oracle which we must consult in all doubts of Conscience is this Whatever will most exalt the Joy of the Wise and Good is most properly Evangelical and most certainly True Were this as generally believed as throghout the whole New Testament it is plainly declared how great how happy a change would it work in the Christian world How would it advance both the Honor and Power of the Gospel How would it promote both the Joy of the Godly and the Conversion of the Profane How would it exalt the Glory of Gods love trward Us and the Ardor of Ours towards Him Whereas not to know what spirit we ate of is the most pernicios Ignorance It made our Lord's Apostls uncharitabl to the Samaritans and it still makes his best intentioned disciples Tormentors to Themselvs and Scare-crows to Others How serviceabl the discovery may be God grant Experience may verify as much as Reason promiseth beyond what this poor Sermon can express which that it may contribute its mite offers its self and its unvulgar assertions to thy most deliberate examination But remember we appeal from All Human authority to Divine Rom. X. 15. How shall they preach except they be sent as it is written How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of Peace and bring glad tidings of good things WE shall not now consider these words as Part of an Argument but as an Entire one And since an Argument moveth more Gracefully perhaps from the Consequent to the Antecedent but more Strongly from the Antecedent to the Consequent it will be reasonab'l we should invert the Apostl's order for so we find a Sorites of three pieces The Gospel is glad tidings therefore the Messengers feet are beautiful therefore no man may preach except he be sent A Gospel A Gospel of Peace Glad tidings Good things How doth the Apost'l travel to bring forth an expression suitab'l Such glad tidings of great joy an host of Angels found worth a jorny from Heaven to bring and perhaps for that reason its first Preachers were stiled Angels of their Churches And their reception was suitab'l both to this title and those tidings You received me saith our Apost'l to the Galatians as an Angel of God even as Christ Jesus If it had been possibl you would have pluckt out your own eys and have given them unto me And here he saith not much less How beautiful are what the Lips the Eyes the Countenances yea the very Feet the very feet of Messengers the feet of Messengers in those countries where they must needs be Dirty bicause naked The charms of this beauty like Aaron's ointment run down from the Face to the very Feet And for this reason no man may take this high honour to himself but he that is caled of God as was Aaron For as this encoraged our Apost'l in his work so did it temt popularly ambitios spirits to dubl his task he must not only Execute his commission but Assert it His next words speak him no less troubled with Rivals than with Persecutors and This makes it necessary to urge as in my Text they must not preach except they be sent Thus may the order of my Text be inverted thus may it make a weighty argument not perhaps so proper to the Apost'ls own design as to that which hath brought us together If the beauty of the Preachers descend from their Heads to their very Feet needs must it descend from the head of the family to its neerest members and you may justly expect that from this expression I should take occasion to plead the right