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A33292 A Lent-sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, March 3, 1699/1700 before the Right Honourable the Ld. Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London / by Sam. Clerke ... Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701. 1700 (1700) Wing C4493; ESTC R35642 10,761 30

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that Faith doth thus identifie God and Believers it necessarily follows that they must have God-like Qualities and abound in doing good They must bring forth Fruit as Believers This the First As Christians we must be Fruitful and that not only because we bear the Name of Christ but because we were purchased with the Blood of the Holy Jesus We were his before for he made us and upon this very Account we owe him our Service But we are now more his than before for he hath made us and payd for us We therefore much more owe him our Service for that The great Benefit of our Redemption Oh how should it oblige us The Apostle urgeth it as a Matter of great Equity 1 Cor. 6.19 20. What know ye not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your own For ye are bought with a Price Therefore glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit which are Gods Christ dyed for us that we should not henceforth live unto our selves but unto him 2 Cor. 4.10 11. When Christ redeemed us by his Blood his purpose was to redeem us unto God Rev. 5.9 His design then was to redeem us from our vain Conversation not to it 1 Pet. 1.18 God therefore delivered us from the hands of our Enemies that we might the more securely and without fear serve him in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our Life Luk. 1.74 This this is our Duty it is our reasonable Service and we have much to Answer for if we make not conscience of it to perform it accordingly How doth the Prophet Jeremy upbraid the Jews Jer. 7.10 Will ye say we are delivered to commit all these Abominations Do ye thus requite the Lord ye foolish People and unwise Is not he thy Father which hath bought thee Thy Father not by Creation only but by Redemption too Now our Redemption our Holy Calling what doth it but call unto Holiness Our Adoption and being made not only Servants but Sons Doth it not require a suitable Conversation It should beget in us St. Pauls Resolution Whether we live that we live unto the Lord and whither we dye that we dye unto the Lord. God hath done his Part in Creating us and Christ in Redeeming us Let us Christians do ours in faithfully serving the Lord which nothing can better prompt us to if we have any Ingenuity in us than oft thinking of our Redemption by Christ for this end we make use of the means of Grace Do we not partake of the Lord's Supper as it is a strengthening Ordinance to fortifie us against Sin and corroborate our Graces Do we not go to hear the Word of God to improve our selves by it and walk according thereunto We must hear to do or we do nothing For if we be barren Christians whatever we talk of our Profession whatever we boast of our Knowledge or our Honourable Names all is to no effect or purpose Christians must live answerably to their Names we must in Gospel-Times live up to the Benefits of the Gospel we must be fruitful Christians So much of the Name In the next place our relation to Christ calls for Fruitfulness And that First As we are Branches of him the Vine What more fruitful than the Vine is Is it not fruitful among the fruitfulest Every one knows it I shall not need discourse of it Nor need I insist on the Second neither which is that we are the Spouse to him our Husband For for the Spouse of Christ to be fruitful what can be more natural And so I have done with this Particular We must bring forth Fruit. I pass now from the Fruit to its Qualification which was the Third in course Bring forth Fruits meet for Repentance that is Fruits of Righteousness and of Holiness Fruits contrary to the Sins and Unrighteousness we have lived in before Rom. 6.19 Like As ye have given over your Members to the Service of Uncleanness from one Wickedness to another So now also give over your Members to the Service of Righteousness unto Holiness To this end Christ was born into the world to this end Christ lived here amongst us to this end Christ preach'd his Gospel to us Even that we by his Example and the Doctrine of the Gospel might lead an upright and pious Life Newness of Life becomes new Creatures such as the reclaimed Penitent is If we have been passionate we must now be patient and bear one anothers Burthens as the Holy Ghost does ours Rom. 8.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Word in the Original He helpeth our Infirmities that is he worketh together with us and strengthens us being weak If we have been Envious if Defrauded any we must now make Restitution and be Charitable If we have been Earthly we must be the more Heavenly and if Covetous we must be the Freer to do good If we have been Profuse we must be the more Sparing and if Careless of our selves we must be the more Watchful If we have been Proud we must be the more Humble and if Incontinent we must be the more Chast Have any sinned through excess of Luxury Let them not run themselves more into Temptation Let them not purposely open their eyes those Casements of Uncleanness to let in every Object that may provoke to it Let them not frequent such Company that they know will heighten it But let such take some holy Revenge upon themselves by Abstinence and bring under their Bodies We should all do as St. Paul did not pamper but pluck down our Bodies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he The Expression is of great Import I beat it down I club it down I beat it black and blew So emphatical is the signification of the Word St. Augustine after his Conversion was tempted by his bad Companions he retracted his Errors and reformed his Life He shook them all off with an Ego non sum Ego I am not I. Such my Brethren were the Life of Christians in the beginning of the Church they subdued their Flesh they mortified their Members they gave them over wholly unto Christ As they had before yeilded their Members Servants of Unrighteousness unto Sin so afterwards they much more yeilded them Servants of Righteousness unto Holiness To have the Name and not the Goodness of Christians is odious in the Eyes of an Holy God Therefore in short to be really what we our selves profess and our Christian Names bespeak us We must be as fruitful in Holiness as ever we were in Wickedness we must double our Diligence for the time lost and must bring forth fruits answerable to the most precious Opportunities God graciously affords us This for the Qualification of the Fruit we are to bring forth Bring forth fruit meet for Repentance The Reason follows in that Illative therefore Bring forth therefore fruit meet for Repentance Which refers to a cogent Argument drawn 1.