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A47024 A brief vindication of the late farewell-sermon preached to the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Wool-church-Haw in Lombard-Street By David Jones, student of Christ-Church, Oxon. Jones, David, 1663-1724? 1692 (1692) Wing J934D; ESTC R216509 3,805 6

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canted and recanted But every Man to his Trade 't is as necessary to a Poet as to a Statesman or Mariner to Tack as the Wind and Current shall serve him But we are fix'd to our Centre and have no Circumference but that of Heaven of which only we discourse or at least ought to which we invite our sometimes nay too often unwilling Guests If the Author out of his Zeal has endeavoured to frighten any of his Friends to that Blessed Place to his own supposed present Loss by gaining their displeasure I hope they will Pardon the Sufferer as they think him At what Rate would he not purchase Eternal Salvation to them yet to what Injuries or Necessities would they not expose him Is this the Return of a Christian of a Moral Man of a Jew No! certainly their Lex Talionis wou'd have allow'd him better Measure and fairer Play But no matter since the great Author of all Bliss has not taken from him the Power or Will to assist these or the very worst of his Enemies I say these because the Dialoguist has as much pretence to the Authors Charity on any occasion which Heaven defend them both from Thus far for the Authors Circumstances And now the Cause is evident the Author is become an Enemy to many who were counted his greatest Friends because he Told them the Truth And in this Cause he is resolved to venture farther than he has hitherto done when ever occasion shall present For he will not omit his plain and friendly Exhortations for the advantage of a Prelacy No not for an Arch-Bishoprick Therefore if Friendship here on Earth be only to be made by obsequious Adulation he will endeavour to contract a better and a more lasting elsewhere And Heaven be Prais'd he is not quite Deserted for he Preaches now to those who will hear him with Devotion and who will thankfully receive his friendly Admonition and kind Reproof of their Faults Here his Talent will not be lost but will return to himself and Auditors hereafter an Hundred-Fold encrease tho' he is forsaken by his Friends in Lombard-Street his God has not forsaken him His Heavenly Father has rais'd up Bretheren to him true Sons of the Church of Christ Modest Humble and Lowly of Spirit who comes unfeignedly to hear of their Sins A most certain Mark of a living Saint which distinguishes him from the Froward and Ungodly whose festring and putrifying Wounds of the Soul cannot endure the Pool of good sound searching Sermon What tho' it makes 'em smart a little 't is for their good the more likelyhood there is of their being cur'd He wou'd have 'em smart He wou'd touch 'em to the Quick It may prevent an Eternal Mortification of their Souls But he cou'd wish a Mortification of their Sins were already began He wou'd not plaster up their Sores before he had throughly cleans'd 'em Nor besmear or daub 'em over with the Oyl of smooth Words No He must apply Corrosives to eat up the Proud Flesh and Rancarous Venome that lurks at the very Bottom I think it is enough to convince any reasonable Man of the Necessity that obliges every faithful Minister and Dissenter of God's Word to tell his Congregation of their secret and most beloved Sins and to denounce Heaven's Vengeance on the impenitent hardned and persevering Sinner That on the contrary 't is not their Business to sooth and flatter Men into Eternal Damnation But to speak the Truth fearless and to to strip every Man's darling Sin stark naked and lash it before his Face And this the Author I thank God has not omitted upon any Consideration whatsoever And this this alone has gain'd him so many Enemies whom that the Lord will pardon and turn their Hearts is the dayly Prayer of The AUTHOR London Printed for T. P. and B. A. and Published by I. Weekly 1692.