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A52859	Goodness proved to be the best protection from the arrests of all harmes in a sermon preached before the University, upon Innocents Day, in great St. Maries Church in Cambridge / by Robert Neville ...	Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694.	1687 (1687)	Wing N520; ESTC R12406	12,552	33

to the Souldiers who were to be their Keepers and Executioners The sinner is almost always haunted with inward gripes and twinges of guilt though sometimes he is not punisht here visibly nor scourged with a market Lash And who would not rather dye a thousand times than live under such a Conscience whose every Accusation is no less than a summons to Death (ſ) Neque frustra sapientes affirmare soliti sunt si recludantur Tyrannorum mentes ictus posse aspici laniatus It is not for nothing saith the Historian Tacitus that the wisest men have told us that were the hearts of wicked men laid open we should see their Swellings and Ulcers Stripes and Torments Here a bruise by Impatience here a swelling of Pride here a deep wound which malice hath made It is the good man only that leads a Comfortable and Happy Life whereas wicked mens Lives are Toilsome and Miserable Jeremiah chapter 9. verse 5. They weary themselves to commit Iniquity They take as much or more pains to go to Hell than good Men do to go to Heaven (t) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Even the things of the Devil are not attained without Labour and Pains saith St. Chrysostom How Laborious is our Revenge How busie our Cruelty How Watchful and Studious our Lust What Penance does our Covetousness put us to How strangely does our Envy possesse us like an Evil and Malignant Spirit Which one in Stobaeus calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Basest Spirit and yet most Just because it punishes the Delinquent in the very Act doing as Aelian speaks of the Polypus (u) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who when he wants his prey devours his own Arms the secret pangs of his Envy gnaw and feed upon himself Thus Men become as I may so speak Martyrs of the Devil and damnation and the subjects of all those Harms and Mischiefs that are of sins retinue from which they might be freed if they would once become Proselytes to Virtue and Goodness Their very Enemies could say of the Athenians That there was nothing that they could count a Feast but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the having done what they ought and if a Christian cannot outvye those Heathens if he doth not highly esteem of the Feast of a good Conscience within him and the Satisfactions that are to be reaped from a good Life which are present Happiness in themselves and pledges of future Glory his palate is vitiated he is no competent judge of Dainties And as goodness will shield its followers from all those harms and Mischiefs that arise from Sin so Thirdly and Lastly Will it free them from the Eternal Harms and Torments which those who are strangers to Goodness shall suffer in Hell. Lactantius was so hard in believing the roundness of the Earth that he thought that those Homines Pensiles as they call them those men that hang on the other Cheek of the Face of the Earth those Antipodes whose feet are directly against Ours must needs fall from the Earth but whither then should they fall If they fall they must fall upwards towards Heaven So good Men the Spiritual Antipodes to Sin may in some sense be said to fall when they fall to Repentance to Mortification and other good Duties and when they fall off from their Sins but their fall is upwards they fall towards Heaven Hell hath no Power over them for God hath set his mark stampt the Impress of his Goodness upon them and that is their Protection from all the Arrests of Satan That will keep them out of his dark infernal Prison Hell is only a place for Wicked men 't is their proper Center and the Gravity and Heaviness of their sins make them tend thither Psalm 9.17 The Wicked shall be turned into Hell and as the strong Magic of Nature pulls and draws every thing continually to that place which is suitable to it and to which it belongs so Hell wheresoever it is will by a strong sympathy pull in all sin and Magnetically draw it to it self as on the contrary true Goodness is always breathing upwards and fluttering towards Heaven striving to Imbosom it self with God. We may flatter our selves with what conceits we please but so long as we are void of Goodness we do but Dream of Heaven and I know not what fond Paradise we do but Court a painted Heaven and woe happiness in a Picture the glory of Heaven being nothing else but innocence enthron'd and attir'd her in white Robes and Goodness Triumphant Goodness with a Palm of Victory in her hand and a Crown upon her Head And how happy will the Good the Innocent Man be when he shall receive that Crown with this deserved Encomium and Commendation Euge bone Serve Well done Good and Faithful Servant What a Ravishment and Transport will it be to him What an Oleo of High Tasts compounded together O then let us all be Followers of Goodness This This is our best 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the best Charm against all Evils The best Amulet and Preservative against all harms Our safest Port our best Haven here we can never suffer Shipwrack hereno storms can come at us to hurt us here we are above the Sphere of mens Power to harm us in this blessed Station the Torments of Hell cannot reach or fasten upon us Goodness then is our best Asylum our best Sanctuary our safest Refuge from the harms both of Men and Devils for saith St. Peter Who is that will Harm ye if ye be followers of that which is Good Which God grant we may all be for his Dear Son Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be all Honour Glory and Adoration both now and Ever AMEN FINIS Five Sermons lately Published by the same Author and sold by Benj. Billingsley 1 A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-hall 2. The necessity of Receiving the Holy Sacrament declared in a Sermon at a Conference of the several Ministers of the Deanry of Braughin in the County of Hertford appointed by the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London to be held at Ware. 3. The great Excellency and Usefulness and Necessity of Humane Learning 4. The Nature and Causes of hardness of Heart Together with the Remedies against it 5. The Things above proved to be the most Proper Objects of the Mind and Affections All Three Preached before the University at Great St. Maries Church in Cambridge