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A sermon preached before the right honourable the Lord mayor and the court of alderman at Gvild-Hill-Chappel upon Good-Friday the 29th of March, 1689 by George Royse ...
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Royse, George, 1708.
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mighty Redemption is wrought for you and how shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation That we may not therefore trample upon the Bloud of the Covenant nor baffle all the great ends of our Saviour's undertaking we must remember that as he has done great things for us so there is something to be done on our sides too Though he has deliver'd us from one Obligation yet he has laid upon us another to Obedience It was for this end that he deliver'd us from the hand of our Enemies that we might serve him without fear and he therefore bought us with a Price that we might glorifie God with Body and Spirit which are Gods. Which is the Fourth and last thing to be consider'd viz. The obligation that does arise from this consideration that he has bought us and that is that we should glorifie God both with Body and Spirit which are Gods. That we are purchas'd by the Bloud of Christ is the most powerful Motive and unanswerable Argument for our Obedience to him for he that purchases any thing as he has a just Title and Dominion over it so there is all the reason in the World that he should have its use and service This is nothing else but what is agreeable to the standing Rules of Justice For by the ancient Laws to which the Apostle here alludes the Servant was but the property of the Master and his Service as much due as that of any other Tool or Instrument 'T is a known Rule in the civil Law Servile eaput nullum jus habet The Servant has no power or disposal of himself no right to possess any thing but all things are at the pleasure and for the benefit of his Lord. I appeal to your selves and you may be judged by your own measures who ever bought a Vine without the reasonable expectation of the Fruit of it who ever purchased a Field without appropriating to himself its encrease and productions And 't is the very same Case here you are not your own but bought with a price and I know no other consequence than what the Apostle makes that we should therefore glorifie him with Body and Spirit which are his And then wilt thou rightly discharge this duty when every part that is in thee shall recognize this Title of a Redeemer by a pecular Consecration to his Service when every faculty and power shall own the Lord that bought them by an entire resignation to God's Will and Disposal Then wilt thou truly glorifie God in thy Body when thou doest bear in thy own Body the marks of Christ Jesus when thou caust shew the power of his Sacrifice by the Sacrifice of thy Lusts and can'st view in thy own Flesh the Triumphs of his Cross when thy crucified Flesh shall represent the Crucifixion of thy bleeding Master when every mortified Member shall give a publick Attestation to thy belief of a mortisied Saviour and all thy conquer'd Inclinations shall set forth the glory of his Purchase Then wilt thou truly value the Price of his Bloud when every sensual Appetite does share in the Agonies of his Passion when that Body of thine is delivered from the body of sin and death and when all those Members that were the Instruments of sin unto uncleanness shall be made the Instruments of righteousness unto God. And as we must thus glorifie him with our Bodies so likewise with the Spirit of our Minds Thy Soul was to be made an Offering to him that saved it as his was an Offering for thy Sin and all its powers were to be put upon the stretch and vigorously exercis'd in the advance of his Glory The Pride of thy understanding was to be humbled under the sense of his Meekness and Humility Thy Reason and Judgment must submit to all those misterious Doctrines of that Faith which he publish'd to the World. Every proud Imagination was to be cast down and every Thought as the Apostle expresseth it was to be Captivated into the Obedience of Christ. All the desires of thy Will were to be regulated by those Eternal Laws of Holiness which he has preacht to us Thy Affections must be rais'd as high as the Throne of thy Lord and Master and screw'd up to a passionate Love and Admiration of his Goodness In short then will thy Body and Soul glorifie God and the Lord that bought them when all thy Heart all thy Strength and all thy Soul shall be strongly engaged in promoting his Honour in submitting to his Will and fulfilling his Commands And this certainly when all is done was the great end of his dying for us that they which henceforth live should no longer live unto themselves 2 Cor. 5.15 but unto him that died for us And the reason of it is strong and forcible because whether we live or die we are the Lords Rom. 14.8 For this purpose did he redeem us with his Bloud that he might redeem us too from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works that henceforth we should no longer be the servants of Sin but alive unto God Wherefore if this be the great Design of our Saviour's undertaking if all that he has done and suffer'd for us was to deliver us from our Crimes and to fit us for his Service in order to our happiness how just is our Damnation if we don't act up in congruity to those ends If our own Interest on one side or the principles of Justice on the other can't have a due Influence upon us yet a Sense of Ingenuity and Gratitude may justly prevail over us For who can be so insensible to a Curse as to neglect grateful returns and suitable requitals for such an undeserved and mighty Deliverance Do but consult all Ages what Honour and Esteem have been bestowed on those that have redeemed their Countries from Slavery and unjust Dominion what solemn acknowledgments have been paid to such publick Benefactors even in the most barbarous and uncivilized Nations how they have erected Altars Statues and Monuments adored their Memories and eterniz'd their Names by fixt and establisht Solemnities of Worship And if the deliverance of our Bodies from a Temporal Slavery if the recovery of our Civil Rights and Properties be worthy of such hearty Acknowledgments what must be expected from us who are redeem'd both in Body and Soul from Principalities and Powers from the Terrors of Darkness and the Shadow of an Eternal Death How should this inflame all our Passions make our Hearts hot within us kindle the Fire till at last it breaks out into publick Acts of Praise and Thanksgiving Let them give thanks says the Prophet whom the Lord hath redeem'd and deliver'd from the hand of the Enemy let every Knee be bended in the Adoration of this Mighty Redeemer let every Tongue be talking of his wondrous Works and telling of his Salvation from day to day And let us all affectionately joyn with that Heavenly Host above crying out and saying Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive Power and Riches and Wisdom and Strength and Honour and Glory and Blessing And therefore Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore FINIS
Pilkington Mayor Martis 16º Die April Annoque R. Regis Reginae Gulielm Mariae Angl. c. THis Court doth desire Mr. Royse to Print his Sermon Preach'd at Guild-Hall-Chappel on Good-Friday last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City Wagstaffe IMPRIMATUR April 10. 1689. Z. Isham R. P. D. Henrico Epis Lond. à Sacris A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Mayor AND THE Court of Aldermen AT GVILD-HALL-CHAPPEL Upon Good-Friday the 29th of March 1689. By GEORGE ROYSE Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford And Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of BERKLEY LONDON Printed for Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head-Alley over against the Royal Exchange MDCLXXXIX TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Tho. Pilkington Lord Mayor OF LONDON And to the Court of ALDERMEN Right Honourable 'T IS as usual on one side to give Reasons for Publishing as 't is on the other to demand them If your Honours Commands won't pass for a Reason to satisfie others yet this is my Comfort that in compliance with my Duty I can satisfie my self The subject of the Discourse is the great Mistery of our Redemption purchased by the Blond of Christ a Doctrine that has suffered just like its Author By enduring the Contradiction of Sinners The Socinian has lessen'd all the Glory of the Vndertaking and the Libertine has advanced it so far as to destroy the great ends of it The one brings down the Price of Christ's Bloud and the other impiously tramples upon it And since the Opinions of the former have been unjustly charg'd upon those of my own Profession I am glad I have this occasion if not of vindicating the Truths of our Church yet of clearing one of its Members from the Imputation of those Errors To advance a Truth is a most admirable Service and the next step to it is to attempt it The one bespeaks greater Abilities but the other may carry with it an equal Zeal I am sure I may put in for my share in the latter and as to the other however it may fall under Censure yet I have this satisfaction in what I have done that as it is backt and recommended by an Honourable Authority so it has presented me with a fair Opportunity of making a publick Acknowledgment how much I am Right Honourable Tour most Humble and Obedient Servant George Royse A SERMON Preached before the Lord Mayor 1 COR. VI. 20. For ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God with your body and spirit which are God's SHould I trace all the Steps and Mazes of God's Providence should I recount all the marvellous Acts and the wonders that he has done for the Children of Men yet all these together can never so display the Riches of his Mercy or the Glory of his Kingdom as that happy Redemption which we this day commemorate Never was such an everlasting Memorial of his abundant Kindness never such wretched Monuments of Pity that either more needed or less deserv'd it When Nature groan'd under the weight of its Crimes when all its Powers lay fetter'd under the strongest Oppression and Tyranny when they that hated us became Lords over us Then did God arise and laid help upon one that was Mighty Heaven conspired and those glorious Persons of the Blessed Trinity took sweet Counsil together they enter'd into Covenant form'd the Design and laid the Scene of an unheard Deliverance When Justice and Mercy had strove together when Paternal Affection had been strugling with a sense of Honour and Authority then by an Almighty Counsil were all those Attributes admirably reconciled as in the Mutual Illustration of each other so in the glorious Redemption of the poor Captive man. So deeply was Providence engaged for the Salvation of Mankind that the Son himself must come down from Heaven be humbled as low as those Slaves he came to purchase and be at the Expence of his own Bloud as the Price of their Redemption Ye are bought with a price c. In which words I shall insist on these four things all which are either formally express'd or imply'd I. That we may understand how we were bought I shall shew how miserably we were sold under Sin and plagued with Guilt before this Redemption was wrought for us II. The Price that was laid down to procure our Release and Discharge and that was the Bloud of Christ III. The Effects and Benefits of that Bloud in reference to the Dominion and Guilt of Sin and in what Condition it has instated us IV. The Obligation that does arise from this Consideration that we are thus bought with a Price and that is we should glorifie God with our Body and Spirit which are God's As to the first it consists in these two things 1. As we were Sinners we were the greatest Slaves and Captives to our Lusts until we were released by the Bloud of Christ 2. We lay under such Guilt and Obligations to Punishment as could not have been cancell'd without the Bloud of a Redeemer 1. We were the greatest Slaves c. Though every Sinner does make the greatest pretensions to Liberty yet there is no Captive whatever that does exercise less whilst he impiously glories that he has shook off all the Fetters of Laws he does miserably sink under those that are much heavier his Crimes for as every Crime is an abuse of our natural Liberty so the growth and advance of it does continually lessen and impair it Our Slavery is advanced in proportion to its Dominion and the more Arbitrary that is the more the Rights of a reasonable Creature are invaded So many Vices as we harbour so many Lords rule over us and as they pass from strength to strength so we are led on into Captivity into the Enemies hands There is no such Tyrant in the World as an old-grown Lust no such despicable Slaves as those that serve it He that works at the Galleys is much more free than he that works Drudgery to the Flesh and to be sold under Sin is far more intolerable than to be sold under the Roman Spear All other Slavery is extended only to the Body but this does bear down and conquer the whole man. The most Arbitrary Power on Earth can command only our Exterior Service it can neither bestow nor invade the freedom of our Wills but the Tyranny of Lust does force a servile resignation of both Whatever Fetters are laid upon us by Humane Powers yet there is this Comsort still that our inward Thoughts and Desires are free but when we are the Servants of Sin. our Minds are as much enslav'd in a Spiritual Sense as our Bodies can be in a Natural And this which I mention in general may he exemplisied in particular Instances Do but set before your Eyes the Example of a covetous Slave he has no more Liberty left him than he that is stak'd to the Ground For the Exercise of all true Liberty does depend upon the large