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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25204	Decus & tutamen, or, Practical godliness the ornament and muniment of all religion being the subject of several sermons preached at Westminster upon Titus ii, 10 / by V. Alsop ...	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing A2907; ESTC R16042	63,995	144

word in season even amongst the Profane has proved a seed of God lodged in the mind which Divine Grace in due time has awakend to Conversion Let us therefore earnestly beg of God this mixture of holy Zeal and holy Prudence That when Providence shall cast our Lot into evil Company though we must have some Commerce with wicked Mens Persons we may have no Communion with them in their wickedness I conclude this Head with that blessed Advice of 1 Pet. ii 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorisie God in the day of visitation 1 Pet. iii. 13. Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as evil doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ. 8. In all things In all those Relations wherein the goodness and wisdom of God has placed us It has pleased the Soveraign disposer of all things in his own World which he powerfully made and wisely Administers to set his Rational Creatures in several Relations some he has appointed to govern others to obey but whatever Post the Divine Pleasure has allotted us to keep our business must be to Adorn the Doctrine of our God and Saviour in All things Rom. xii 6 7 8. Having therefore gifts differing according to the grace that is given us whether ministry let us wait on our one ministring or he that teacheth on teaching or he that exhorteth on exhortation or he that ruleth with diligence that so we may fill up that Relation with a holy Zeal to glorifie our God and Saviour 1. There is the Master and his Servant the Master perhaps may think he 's above the Control of his poor Servant but he must know that he has also a master in heaven Col. iv 1. Let him then remember that with this God there is no respect of persons Let them make a Conscience to give unto their servants that which is just and equal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It 's just that they receive the Reward of their Labour which by Compact or Desert they may claim It 's Equal that as Masters exact of their Servants time for their Service that they allow them competent time for the service of God nor let Servants think that their Relation to God does exempt them from Fidelity to their Masters on Earth 1 Tim. vi 1. Let as many servants as are under the yoak count their own masters worthy of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed To plead or pretend Christian Liberty as a Manumission from Christian Subjection and Duty is an open blaspheming of the Doctrine of God But because the Case of Servants seems hard the Divine Goodness has made the Promise adequate to the Precept Col. iii. 23 24. Whatever ye do do it heartily as to the Lord knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance This Exhortation is inculcated in our Text and Context Ver. 9. Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things not purloining but shewing all good fidelity and all upon this great Consideration which has its influence upon all other Relations and their respective Duties that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things 2. Upon the same Reason and account it is that Wives are strictly commanded 2 Tit. iv 5. To be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands and all this enforced with the same great Motive That the word of God be not blasphemed All inferior Relations carry some inconveniences with them they have the labouring Oar which renders their Case somewhat difficult and furnishes corrupt Hearts with matter of discontent but still this one thing may abundantly satisfie them that in whatsoever Station the wise God has fixt them they are yet capable of adorning the doctrine of our God and Saviour 3. This consideration is also pressed upon the Consciences of Subjects 1 Pet. ii 13 14. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for so is the will of God that by well doing ye put to silence the ignorance of foolish men Abundance of reproach has been thrown in the Face of Religion on this score which we can never wash off without Tears 't is well it was not washt off with our Blood nor shall we be able to do it till Obedience for Conscience sake shall convince the World that though the Ordinance be of Man yet the Authority is of God by which they Reign and for which we obey Ver. 10. As free and yet not using our liberty as a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God 9. Lastly In all things In all those various Conditions to which we are obnoxious in this Life Plenty or Want Sickness Health good or evil Report Liberty Restraint in all these or whatever other diversities of Providence the wise God shall try and exercise us with the Gospel of Christ must be Regarded and Advanced As Poverty gives no dispensation to Murmur Repine or Steal so Riches gives no indulgence to Oppression Luxury or Riot The Doctrine of the Gospel reacheth the highest bindeth the lowest Hath God favoured thee with Prosperity Bless his Name but humour not thy self in Vanity Hath God humbled thee Humble thy self under his mighty and righteous hand that he may exalt thee in his due time 1 Pet. v. 6. A Garment may be made decent and comely as well for a Funeral as a Wedding In Prosperity God invites us to Rejoice Eccles. vii 14. But yet to wear our Garments of praise with humility In the day of Adversity we are called to Consider that God has set the one over against the other Of this excellent Spirit was the Apostle Phil. iv 12. I know both how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need This one instance fairly Copied out upon our Hearts and expressed in our walking would convince the World of the excellency of the Doctrine of the Gospel and the Grace of God that can teach the Soul to maintain an equipoise of Mind in all Estates To have a humble Heart in an elevated and a high Faith in a low condition Afflictive Sorrows and exalting Comforts divide our whole Lives between them yet both of them are capable of glorifying God Jam. v. 13. If any man be afflicted let him pray Prayer under Affliction witnesses that we believe our God to be good and gracious in it that he can support us under it can do us much good by it and deliver us from it But if any be