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Jesus is God, or, The deity of Jesus Christ vindicated being an abstract of some sermons preach'd in the parish-church of St. James, Clerkenwell / by D. Pead.
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Pead, Deuel, d. 1727.
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own Orthodox Confession and Regular Life and doth not contribute what lieth in him to Discountenance and Suppress such Blasphemers and their Blasphemy is but Almost not so Altogether a Christian * Jude 3. We are Exhorted Earnestly to contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints Once delivered so that when once delivered and received if it be corrupted or lost we have great Assurance of a Second Edition It was Israel's Fault that when Elijah was Contending hard with the Prophets of Baal for the Honour of the God of Israel * King 18.21 The People answered him not a word they seemed wholly unconcern'd as if Religion had been a Matter onely for the Men of God the Prophets and Priests to trouble themselves about or as if it were all one to them to Serve God or Baal The Prophet had called them to Recollect themselves and Judge which was the True God and to Follow Him I grant the People were so Mannerly as not to oppose the Prophet but what was this when in a matter of so great Importance they should have spoken on his side But in this untoward Generation How unconcernedly doth one Christian hear another Nay How patiently doth the Magistrate hear most Men Rend Tear and Blaspheme the Precious and Honourable Names of this Holy Son of God yet show little or no zeal exert not the least shadow of their Power to Controul them and which aggravates the matter by so doing they are Injurious both to God and the Poor Such Persons may be reputed Civil Magistrates but their over-much Civility is the Shame of their Office the Growing Contempt of their Power and the General Reproach of Christianity I will yet Pray against this Wickedness that if such Careless Magistrates may not be overthrown in Stony places for their too great Easiness and Connivence yet that the Accustomed Swearers would hear my Words and they must find them sweet You that can Deafen Mens Ears and even Chill the Blood of Conscientious Christians with the Vollies of most Desperate Oaths and Curses what Answer will you shape at the last day Think you that you shall not blush and be confounded when you behold him Arrayed with Glorious Majesty and sit on the Great Tribunal whose Name you have made so Vile and Trivial whose Blood you have despised and Trampled under Feet whose Wounds your Mouths have Torn Wider and Rankled here Men look'd upon you as desperate Fools so Often so Loudly so Heartily to Imprecate what you would not for the World should have befallen you there you shall find your Jest converted into Earnest and feel that Punishment Inflicted that had you Ten thousand Worlds to give you could get no Release from Oh that Men were wise and would consider what shall befall them in the end who in stead of Confessing Jesus Christ the Son of God so Monstrously Blaspheme his Name and Deity Upon this Foundation that Jesus Christ the Son of the Virgin Mary is the Son of God and Head of the Church next to that of our open Confessing of him we may raise this other Story * Rom. 13.14 Put on the Lord Jesus Christy and make not provision for the Flesh to fullfill the Lusts thereof Their Conversations who are called by the Name of Christ and profess to believe him to be God ought to be in all Purity as becometh the Gospel of Christ they are oblig'd to act as is most suitable to their being Members of that Body of which the Son of God is Head they must in all things live as true Disciples in that School of which the Holy Jesus is the head Master not entertaining themselves with carnal and sensual Delights Hypocrates ordered each of his Followers to take this Oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will maintain my Professtion unspotted and my Conversation uncorrupted If he judg'd it so expedient for the Honour of Physick that the practisers thereof should be so Upright and Vertuous how much greater care may the Institutor of our Religion challenge from us that in no good thing we come behind other Men insomuch as the Precepts he has commended to our Observation are of a more Sublime and excellent Nature and lead to a greater perfection than ever was attainable by that or any other Art whatsoever A Christian ought to be no other than a lively pattern or representation of Christ exhibiting daily in his Conversation those admirable Graces and Vertues which were so eminent in the Original therefore are such commanded to put on Christ by a most strict imitation of him Qui Christum induit omnem virtutem habet he that puts on Christ must become Holy in every respect as he was moreover this putting on must be without any intentions of depositing again I grant there are some would their number were less who put on Christ after the same manner that the resemblance of a man's Face is put on a Glass which is but for a moment no longer than the Person stands by thus some have put on Christ by Baptism and others for a fit ad Sacramenti perceptionem in order to receive the Sacrament but this is not the putting on which is required for that ought to be usque ad vitae sanctificationem to the sanctifying of the whole life their Souls and Bodies Minds and Spirits their Thoughts Words and Deeds ought to be influenced and directed altogether by their Profession We Christians are bought with a price * 1 Cor. 6.20 viz. The Blood of the Son of God and therefore must glorifie God in our Bodies and in our Spirits which are Gods our Bodies as well as Souls were his purchase and therefore both are to be devoted to his service no Christian is Vir sui Juris his own free Man we are not to serve our selves nor to live unto our selves but unto the Lord. It is said of Scipio that when at a Feast where it might have been thought his Blood had been heated an Harlot beautiful and gay presented her self such a Temptation together with such an Opportunity was gallantly resisted upon this single consideration Vellem si non essem Imperator were I not a General I should comply Menedemus preserved Antigonus in the like Assault by timely advising him to remember that he was a King's Son Christians have the advantage of far greater considerations to put back all evil Suggestions we are Sons of God Friends of Christ we are a peculiar People a Royal Priest-hood nay Co heirs with Christ and therefore as saith the Apostle * Phil. 2.5 The same mind ought to be in them as was in Christ i. e never to condescend to any thing repugnant to their Principles or beneath their present Dignity and future Expectations How monstrous a sight is it to see such who believe in God offering themselves in Vassalage to Sin and Satan or such who are acquainted that it is God's pleasure to give them an Heavenly Kingdom losing themselves