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A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties chappel at Windsor, on Trinity-Sunday, May 30. 1686 by the Reverend Father John Persall ...
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Persall, John, 1633-1702.
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much for the Adversity of another and rejoyce for his Prosperity as if it were our own we must redress the Necessity of another as much as if it were our own we must as earnestly concur to one anothers Preferment as to our own and rejoyce as much for it then Almighty God will look upon us as making one with his Servants and what our tepidity do's not deserve he 'll bountifully confer upon us for their sakes with whom Charity has united us But tho' you are endow'd with never so great Gifts and Vertues si charitatem non habuero if Charity be wanting if you make not One with all the Faithful Believers all is nothing Away then with all Piques all Misunderstandings all envious Practices let us all become one Soul by a perfect Love Our Great God Incarnate has so united himself to us that he takes as done to himself whatsoever is done to another and when he comes to judge will reward charitable Actions done to our Neighbour as done to himself and revenge all Injuries as offer'd to himself He will invite the Elect to an eternal Happiness not as having done charitable Actions to their Neighbours but to himself and condemn to eternal Torments the Reprobate as injurious to himself He will not say Come you Blessed because you gave an Alms to such a poor Man but because you gave it to me nor Go you Cursed because you refus'd to redress the Necessity of such a poor Body but of me If then Christ makes himself One with his Servants he who permits himself to be separated by Envy and Malice from his Fellow-servants doth in effect separate himself from Christ In the second place we must imitate each Person in their Proprieties The Father speaketh according to his Knowledge conforming his Speech to his Thoughts and expresses all in one only Word This must teach us Sincerity to speak what we think and no more than we know The Eternal Father is the Father of Truth the Devil his deadly Enemy the Father of Lies Chuse what Pattern you 'll follow Besides we must learn to avoid multiplicity and idleness of Speech The Eternal Father expresses all in one Word and that necessary let us use our selves to speak little for happy is he who exceeds not in Speech and many Words always involve an Offence of God From the Son let us learn to express things as they are in reality not as our inordinate Passions would have them The Eternal Word proceeds per Intellectum by the Understanding not per Voluntatem by the Will but our Words often proceed not from our Understanding from a certain knowledge of the thing but from our Will so if any Absurdity be done we presently lay it at their Doors we have a Pique against So in the Primitive Church the Heathens ascrib'd all Mischiefs and Mischances to the Christians as we read in Tertullian and others Those damn'd what you please did it From whence comes this Word from a knowledge of the Fact No but from the malice of our Will This is preposterous our Words must proceed as the Eternal Word do's from the Understanding from a perfect Knowledge of what we speak From the Holy Ghost we must learn what and how to Love The prime and final Object of our Love must be Almighty God other things we are to love only in relation to him he is the fountain of all good and therefore we must remember when we meet with any thing amiable that it is but a Rivulet flowing from that great Fountain and to be found in greater perfection there The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father speaking and the word expressing the Divine Being infinitely amiable Let all our Love proceed so not from a false delusion of our Senses making us fix on Creatures tho' very meanly amiable and that with an amability meerly participated and deriv'd from the Fountain of Amability As often as we feel our Hearts mov'd to a tenderness and kindness let us consider from what it proceeds is it from a word speaking the Creature amiable without meutioning the Creator O then it comes from a false from a lying Word 't is Illegitimate it must not inherit your Heart you must cast it out 't is a base servile affection ejice ancilam but the true Legitimate Possessor of your Heart must be a Divine Love proceeding from a word expressing the Divine Fountain of all Perfection But I must draw towards an end not to abuse your Patience we have then learnt in my First Part to believe what we cannot understand seeing that God would not be God could he not reveal of himself more than we can comprehend My Second Part has led us to the Fountain of all Amability and pointed unto us the true Center of our Hearts In my Third Part we have learn'd to imitate all three Persons in tending to a perfect Unity by Charity and each Person in their Proprieties the Father in being Sincere speaking what we know and in as few words as we can the Son in seeing that our Words proceed from Knowledge not from Affection from Reason not from Passion The Holy Ghost in loving God only as our End and all things else meerly in relation to him There only now remains that with the Tears of Penance Acts of perfect Contrition we wash away whatever deformed the Sacred Image of the Trinity in our Souls and beg Strength Light and Grace to keep it entire for the future O Omnipotent Father whose Power is without Limits give us strength to believe what we cannot understand to love what our Senses cannot reach to keep thy Image in our Souls entire against the World Flesh and Devil who endeavours to dis-figure it O Eternal Word Increated Wisdom Illuminate our Souls with thy Divine Rays that our Interiour and Exteriour Words may speak according to Faith and Reason prefere Eternity before Time Heaven before Earth the Creator before the Creature O Holy Spirit diffuse thy Grace and Charity in our Souls that we may all in a perfect Vnity be One as the Father Son and Holy Ghost are One that appearing in the last dreadful Day of Doom we may appear not separated but united with the Elect and be received into Eternal Happiness as carrying clearly Imprinted in our Souls the Characteristical note of a Christian grateful to Heaven terrible to Hell beneficial to Earth the Sign of the Holy Cross In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for Henry Hills Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty for his Houshold and Chappel 1686. And are to be Sold next door to his House in Black-fryers at Richard Cheese's REflections upon the Answer to the Papist Mis-represented c. Directed to the Answerer Quarto Kalendarium Catholicum for the Year 1686. Octavo Papists Protesting against Protestant-Popery In Answer to a Discourse Entituled A Papist not Mis-represented by Protestants Being a Vindication of the
Papist Mis-represented and Represented and the Reflections upon the Answer Quart Copies of Two Papers Written by the late King Charles II. Together with a Paper Written by the late Dutchess of York Publish'd by his Majesty's Command Folio The Spirit of Christianity Publish'd by his Majesty's Command Twelves The First Sermon Preach'd before their Majesties in English at Windsor on the first Sunday of October 1685. By the Reverend Father Dom. Ph. Ellis Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict and of the English Congregation Publish'd by his Majesty's Command Quarto Second Sermond Preach'd before the King and Queen and Queen Dowager at their Majesties Chappel at St. James's November 1. 1685. By the Reverend Father Dom. Ph. Ellis Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict and of the English Congregation Publish'd by his Majesty's Command Quarto The Third Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen in their Majesty's Chappel at St. James's on the third Sunday in Advent December 13. 1685. By the Reverend Father Dom. Ph. Ellis Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict and of the English Congr Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty Publish'd by His Majesty's Command Quarto The Fourth Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen in their Majesties Chappel at St. Jame's on Newyears-day 1685 6. By the Reverend Father Dom. Ph. Ellis Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict and of the English Congregation Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Quarto The Fifth Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties Chappel at St. James's upon the Feast of St. Frances Sales Jan. 29. 1685 6. By the Reverend Father Dom. Ph. Ellis Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict and of the English Congregation Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty Publish'd by his Majesties Command Quarto Sixth Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen in their Majesties Chappel at St. James's upon the first Wednesday in Lent Febr. 24. 1685. By the Reverend Father Dom. Ph. Ellis Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict and of the English Congregation Publish'd by his Majesties Command Quarto An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Matters of Controversie By the Right Reverend James Benigne Bossuet Counsellor to the King Bishop of Meaux formerly of Condom and Preceptor to the Dauphin First Almoner to the Dauphiness Done into English with all the former Approbations and others newly Publish'd in the Ninth and Last Editions of the French Publish'd by his Majesty's Command Quarto A Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties Chappel at St. James's upon the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady March 25. 1686. By Jo. Betham Doctor of Sorbon Publish'd by his Majesty's Command Quarto An Abstract of the Douay Catechism for the Use of Children and Ignorant People Now Revis'd and much Amended Publish'd with Allowance Twentyfours A Pastoral Letter from the Lord Bishop of Meaux to the New Catholics of his Diocess Exhorting them to keep their Easter and giving them Necessary Advertisements against the False Pastoral Letters of their Ministers With Reflections upon the Pretended Persecution Translated out of French and Publish'd with Allowance Quarto The Answer of the New Converts of France to a Pastoral Letter from a Protestant Minister Done out of French and Publish'd with Allowance Quarto The Ceremonies for the Healing of them that be Diseased with the Kings Evil used in the time of King Henry VII Published by His Majesties Command Quarto in Latin Twelves in English A Short Christian Doctrine Composed by the R. Father Robert Bellarmin of the Society of Jesus and Cardinal Published with Allowance Twelves A Vindication of the Bishop of Condom's Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church In Answer to a Book Entituled An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England c. With a Letter from the said Bishop Permissu Superiorum Quarto A Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties Chappel at St. James's on the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Octob. 25. 1685. By the Reverend Father John Persall of the Society of Jesus Professor of Divinity Publish'd by his Majesties Command Quarto