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A27173 A sermon preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall, December the 27th, 1685 / by Luke Beaulieu ... Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723. 1686 (1686) Wing B1577; ESTC R16491 13,439 28

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A SERMON PREACH'D Before the Right Honourable THE Lord Mayor AND THE Court of Aldermen At GVILD-HALL December the 27 th 1685. By LVKE BEAVLIEV B. D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable GEORGE Lord JEFFREYS Lord High Chancellor of England and one of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council Licens'd Z. Isham Jan. 7. 1685 6. LONDON Printed by T. Moore for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West-end of St. Pauls 1686. Geffery Major Curia special ' tent ' die Dominica in festo Sancti Johannis Evangeliste xxvii o. die Decembris 1685. Annoque Regni Regis Jacobi secundi Angl ' c. primo This Court doth desire Mr. Beaulieu to print his Sermon this day Preached in the Guild-hall-Chappel before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe To the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Geffery Lord Mayor of LONDON My Lord THat wrangling and violence some have used for the Faith as they pretended hath been much to its prejudice and hath appear'd to be rather for a Secular Interest Fighting for the Gospel is as preposterous as if a man should fight to shew his meekness and patience It is that contention with God and our selves which I here recommend that hath had the approbation of the best Ages of the Church and been blest with success The state of things as they are at present doth severely admonish us of our former miscarriages and our present duty 'T is seen that a furious and ungovernable Spirit which some have miscall'd Zeal is of pernicious consequence God Almighty to keep us within the bounds of our duty and make us seek our safety in its performance would not permit unlawful means any ways to conduce to the preservation of his true Religion Long experience hath now shew'd us that to disturb the Peace in Church and State to break the ties of Allegiance and disobey the Church promotes nothing but Licentiousness and Irreligion So that 't is to be hop'd they that have lik'd and follow'd those methods are now sensible of the iniquity and the mischief of them and that the remembrance of their mistakes and misdoings will make them now the more humble and quiet and effectually persuade them to the Union and Obedience of this Church whose Doctrine is the Creed or Christianity it self whose Government is truly Apostolick and whose Rituals and Devotions are most Primitive and Pious An understanding man would blush to own himself before the Christian World to be of such or such a Sect and to confess that his publick Worship depends upon the abilities and extemporary effusions of a person not inspired besides the mischief of such divisions there is a shame that goeth along with them But the Church of England as now establish'd hath had many cheerful Martyrs and Confessors Many wise and good men glory to own Her for Mother and dare profess and justifie that according to that way She prescribes and some count Heresie so they worship the God of their Fathers God Almighty hath appointed that devout Prayers good Lives should at first propagate and ever after preserve the Religion of the Blessed Jesus If we but double our Zeal in these we shall infallibly secure its Purity and still make it flourish To excite us to this duty I preach'd the ensuing Discourse to the same end I make no doubt Your Lordship commanded it should be made publick Your approving the good Design made You pass-by the defects of its management My Lord I have obey'd much pleased that we have Magistrates who so much countenance and befriend Religion as to accept of such mean endeavours for the service of it May the succession of them still preserve Peace and promote Truth and Righteousness and may Your Lordship after a long and prosperous life in this World obtain the endless and perfect Bliss of a better So prayeth heartily Your Lordships Most Humble and Obedient Servant Luke Beaulieu A SERMON Preach'd before the Lord Mayor AND Court of Aldermen Epist of St. Jude v. 3. And exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints FOR the solemnity of this great Festival the Church appointed three sorts of Martyrs to wait on the Prince of Sufferings who at this time was born to die for Mankind St. Stephen who actually died for Christ and made it his choice so to do St. John whose memorial the Church observes this day who was willing to die and yielded up himself but was rescued by a miracle and the holy Innocents who unknown to themselves lost their lives for Christ and became his Martyrs without concurrence of their will An Exhortation therefore at this time to contend for the Faith may very well agree with the joyful celebration of His happy Birth who is the Author and the Finisher of it Especially having before our eyes the Example and the Memorial of those great Contenders who resisted unto blood and cheerfully gave up their lives for the cause of their Christian Faith To this St. Jude here exhorts us He is writing against those Hereticks who subverted the foundations of Christianity turning the grace of God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ Men that would comply with any thing rather than expose themselves to Persecution and would accomodate the Profession of our Saviour's Doctrine to their lusts and to their safety Against these whom here the Apostle describes to be very bad and dangerous men he cautions those Christians who as yer adhered to the simplicity of the Gospel which he calls the Faith once delivered to the Saints Delivered first by our Blessed Saviour to his Apostles and by them preach'd to the world and committed to faithful men who should teach others And lest that oral Tradition should be corrupted written by the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the sure and certain instruction of after-ages This Faith profest by the Christian Church the Congregation of God's Saints he here exhorts them to maintain pure and undefiled Not to admit of those mixtures which evil men had devised to serve their lusts and their worldly designs not to shrink from their adherence to Christ and confessing him before men by obedience to his Laws and a constant profession of his true Religion but rather constantly own and keep the same against all oppositions and temptations whatever This is here call'd a contending for the Faith and this contention we may say consists as well now as in the Apostles time in these following particulars First In making an open and constant profession of the Christian Faith Secondly In conforming our lives to its Rules and Precepts Thirdly In a devout performing of those acts of Worship and Piety which are enjoyn'd by it And fourthly and lastly By giving it all that credit and establishment in the world of which we are capable in our several places Whil'st I insist upon these as briefly as I can I shall sufficiently explain