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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61951	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, May the seventh, MDCLXXVI by John Svdbvry ...	Sudbury, John, 1604-1684.	1676 (1676)	Wing S6138; ESTC R624	13,718	32

serv'd to let them see that it was so well setled upon a sure and strong Foundation that it could not be overthrown And as all the Pillars of Heathenish Idolatry and Superstition which were so many Pillars of Lyes fell before it like Dagon before the Ark of God so that we may say of them as the Angel said of Babylon Revel 18.2 Babylon is faln is faln So we may say of this Pillar and Ground of Truth as Christ saith of the House built upon a Rock The Rain descended Matth. 7.25 and the Floods came and the Winds blew and beat upon it and it fell not for it was founded upon a Rock There have been from the beginning such as St. 2 Pet. 2.1 Peter calls False Prophets who have privily brought in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them and have brought upon themselves swift destruction But that swift destruction which they have brought upon themselves hath served to the Edification of the Church in that Truth which they sought to destroy But this Pillar and Ground of Truth was never in so much danger to be thrown down by all the force and violence which Jews and Heathens have rais'd against it nor to be undermined by all the Heresies which False Prophets and False Apostles have devised as the Truth of it hath been to be perverted by that Church which hath endeavoured defendendo concutere to shake this Pillar and Ground by seeming to defend it For though it hath not removed the Pillar from the Ground but is so far Catholick and Apostolick as to hold the Foundation of which St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 3.11 Other Foundation can no man lay save that which is laid Jesus Christ they have done great wrong to the Truth by defacing the ancient Inscriptions which were first written upon this Pillar with such Alterations and Additions as they have made But all these Alterations and Additions have served to raise up many learned men and not a few of them of this Church of England to revive those ancient Inscriptions and make many Truths which are good and profitable to be known more legible than they were before St. Paul speaks of a time that should come 2 Tim. 4.3 when men would not endure sound Doctrine but according to their own lusts they would heap up to themselves Teachers having itching ears But as he saith in another place 1 Cor. 11.19 There must be Heresies that they which are approved may be made manifest So we may say of these itching ears and the confused multitude of Teachers which they have heaped to themselves They have serv'd to make them that are approved for holding fast the form of sound words and Doctrine which they have received from the Apostles and Apostolick Church the more manifest Some Profane Wits have pleas'd themselves in making Pasquins and clapping them upon this Pillar but they could never make them stick so fast but that they have faln to the ground and been trodden under feet of men But the Pillar and Ground of Truth can never fall The Ground on which it stands is the Rock Matth. 16.18 against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail The Faith by which it stands is the Belief of a Kingdom which cannot be moved Heb. 12.28 The Doctrine which is built upon this Faith is Sound Doctrine Tit. 1.9 and as there have been so there will be so many holding the profession of this Faith and Doctrine without wavering as will keep up this Pillar and Ground of Truth so long as the Pillars of Heaven and Earth shall stand and till He who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith bring us to the end of our Faith which is the Salvation of our Souls FINIS