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A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-hall, on Sunday the 26th of October, 1690 by Charles Hickman.
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Hickman, Charles, 1648-1713.
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When we have got our selves in private then is the time to ransack our hearts to throw off all that lumber that has clogg'd our Religion and give our Vertues room to grow This is the only place to rally the scatter'd Forces of our Soul to view all our strength and see what supplies are to be rais'd out of our own Spirits and what recruits are to be begg'd from the Holy Spirit of God 'T is a shameful thing to think how long some Men can live and yet never know themselves How they can be so earnest in prying round about them that they have no leisure to look nearer home so inquisitive after other Mens affairs and so much strangers to their own But the truth is they suspect the poverty of their stock and therefore are loath to look how near it is to the bottom To find out their own faults they think is all irksome ungrateful pains and to search for their own Vertues perhaps is not worth the while And hence it is that they dare not reflect upon their own actions nor so much as venture themselves alone for fear their sins should stare them in the face and for that little knowledge which they have of themselves they are commonly beholden to the standters by But whatever our condition is 't is good to be acquainted with it in time that we may be able to supply what is wanting and reform what we find amiss and to examine the state of our accounts before we come to give them up to an Impartial Judge If therefore we would know our selves and have an exact survey of our own estate we must withdraw from the multitude and stand alone Retire into our Closet and there we may learn to know not our selves only but our God There we have an easie access to Heaven and whilst we commune with our own hearts and in our Chamber and are still God himself is pleas'd to enter into the Conference with us to assist our Contemplations remove our Doubts and encourage our Endeavours And when we and our own hearts are met together again in his name he will not fail to be in the midst of us For such Conversation as this who would not set aside all the Pomps and Vanities of the World and think it his greatest freedom to be so confin'd his greatest happiness to be banisht into Paradise Here we cannot chuse but look down with scorn upon our former sinful delights and with pity upon those who know no better Recreations When our retirement has wean'd us from that fondness which we had for the common road of practice and our Closet shews us all the actions of Men in their own proper Colours our very inclinations will be alter'd and we our selves shall wonder what pleasure we could ever have in those things whereof upon second upon cooler thoughts we are now asham'd When we have thus prepar'd and qualify'd our selves in private then we may expect that our publick devotion shall be effectual But to come into the House of God with all our vain imaginations and Worldly thoughts about us is invading of his Presence and affronting of his Courts 'T is not only an indecent but a dangerous thing God once set bounds about his holy Mount that Men should not break in upon him and perish Though the bounds are now removed yet the reason of them still remains and so much ceremony we owe him at the least as to make our sins keep a distance not to touch his Ark with polluted hands nor approach his Throne with Unsanctified Hearts That we should deck our Souls also in their best attire when we come to present them before our Maker and recommend our selves to his Acceptance under the Ornament of a meek and vertuous Spirit which is in the sight of God of great price When this is done then is the time to go to the Altar and confirm those pious resolutions which we began at home Then the Word of God will come like good Seed upon a fruitful ground and bring forth a wonderful increase then all our Prayers will make their own way to the Throne of Grace and all bring us a good return To conclude all in one word The Church is the nearest way to Heaven but our Chamber is the only way to Church God grant that we may all follow this way and then no doubt but it will bring us to a happy end FINIS Books Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St Paul's Church-Yard BIshop Overall's Convocation Book MDCVI concerning the Government of God's Catholick Church and the Kingdoms of the whole World 4 to Dr Falkner's Libertas Ecclesiastica 8 vo 's Vindication of Liturgies 8 vo 's Christian Loyalty 8 vo Dr Scott's Christian Life In three Vol. 8 vo Dr Fowler 's Libertas Evangelica 8 vo Mr W. Allen's Tracts 8 vo Mr Raymond's Pattern of pure and undefiled Religion 8 vo 's Exposition of the Church Catechism Mr Hesketh's Piety the best Rule of Orthodoxy 8 vo 's Serious Exhortation to frequent Communion 8 vo 's Case of eating and drinking unworthily 8 vo Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man 12. The Third Edition Dr Pelling's Sermon before the King and Queen Dec. 8. 1689. 's Vindication of those that have taken the Oath 4 to Mr Lamb's Dialogues between a Minister and his Parishioner about the Lord's Supper 8 vo 's Sermon before the King at Windsor 's Sermon before the Lord Mayor 's Liberty of humane Nature stated discussed and limited 's Sermon before the King and Queen Jan. 19. 1689. Dr Grove's Sermon before the King and Queen June 1. 1690. Mr Jeffery's Religion the Perfection of Man 8 vo Dr Worthington of Resignation 8 vo Dr Kidder's Christian Sufferer supported 8 vo Dr Sharp's Discourse concerning Conscience The first Part wherein an account is given of the Nature and Rule and Obligation of it And the case of those who separate from the Communion of the Church of England as by Law established upon this pretence that it is against their Conscience to join in it is stated and discussed 's Discourse of Conscience The second Part concerning a doubting Conscience 's Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons April 11. 1679. on Revel ii 5. 's Duty and Happiness of doing good in two Sermons the former Preached at the Yorkshire Feast Feb. 17. 1679. on Eccl. iii. 10. the other before the Lord Mayor at the Spittle Apr. 14. 1680. on 1 Tim. vi 17 18 19. 's Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor Sept. 29. 1680. on Psal cxii 4. 's Lent-Sermon at Whitehal March 20. 1684. on Luke xvi 31. 's Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall Apr. 11. 1690. on Gal. v. 13. 's Fast-Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons May 21. 1690. on Deut. v. 29. Reflections on a French Testament Printed at Bordeaux An. Dom. MDCLXXXVI Pretended to be Translated out of the Latin into French by the Divines of Louvain By Richard Kidder D. D. and Dean of Peterborough