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A70625 A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, November 5, 1667 by ... George Lords Bishop of Winton ... Morley, George, 1597-1684. 1683 (1683) Wing M2796; ESTC R12589 21,545 39

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A SERMON Preached before the KING AT WHITE-HALL November 5. 1667. By the Right Reverend Father in GOD GEORGE Lord Bishop of Winton WHILEST He was Dean of the CHAPPEL-ROYAL LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome 1683. A SERMON ON 1 COR. Cap. XIV Ver. XXXIII For God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace THAT there is a God and that this God was the Maker and is the Preserver and Disposer of all things is a Truth generally consented to by all Mankind Again that this God who made us and preserves us and provides for us is to be Worshipped and Adored and Obeyed by us no Man that acknowledgeth there is such a God can be so unreasonable as to deny Lastly that there can be no Way of Worshipping or of Serving God so Fit so Safe or so Acceptable unto him as that which himself prescribes I presume there is no considering Person but he must needs grant And therefore all Wise Men that ever took upon them to teach Religion or the Way to serve God howsoever they have differed in the Matter of their Doctrine they have always agreed in the Manner of proposing or Tradition of it whilest either they pretended falsly or professed truly some Divine Revelation or other to authorize and countenance whatsoever Religion it was which they taught the People Thus Numa Pompilius though he himself devised all that ridiculous rabble of Superstitious Ceremonies with which he taught the Pagan Romans to Worship their false Gods yet he pretended a Divine Revelation from the Goddess Egeria for them all And thus Mahomet that impious and impure Impostor pretended an Inspiration from the Holy Ghost by the whispering of a Dove into his Ear for all that Farrago or Hotch-potch of lies and blasphemies in his cursed Alcoran whereby so great a part of the World hath been so grosly abused and so strangely seduced for above a thousand years together To conclude there never was any Religion in the World whosoever was the Deviser or Teacher of it but it was always fathered upon God whereby it plainly appears that even those men that taught others to Worship God falsly did themselves believe that none could be taught to Worship God truly but by God himself or by such as were taught of him what they were to teach others And therefore what the Devisers and Teachers of all false Religions pretended falsly the very same did the Teachers of true Religion profess truly namely that they were sent from God and that the Doctrine which they taught others was neither more nor less than that what God himself had taught them Thus Moses the Lawgiver of the Old Testament was but Gods mouth whereby he spake unto the Jews as Aaron was his mouth when he spake unto Pharaoh nay thus even our Saviour Christ himself the Law-giver of the New Testament tells us that he spake not of himself but as he had heard of his Father For my Doctrine saith he is not mine but his that sent me Joh. 7. 16. Now as the Doctrine which Moses and the Prophets at first taught the Jews so the Doctrine which Christ and his Apostles at first taught the Christians was evidenced to come from God or to be the Truth of God by their doing of such things for the Confirmation of it as none could do but God or could not be done but by the power of God But then as in the Jewish Church after Moses and the Prophets were dead and gone there were some that sate in Moses Chair who did in the name of Moses and the Prophets teach the People to believe and do such things as never were taught either by Moses or any of the Prophets so in the Christian Church likewise after Christ and his Apostles were gone there were some that succeeded them in the Governing and Teaching of the Church especially some of those that pretended to sit in St. Peter's Chair who in the name of Christ and his Apostles have introduced such Doctrines and Practises into the Christian World as never were taught by Christ or any of his Apostles nay such as are quite contrary to the Belief and Practise of the first Christians Again as some of those who sate in Moses's Chair perceiving there was nothing in the Writings of Moses or the Prophets rightly understood to countenance them in their own Ambitious and Covetous Designs and yet not daring in terminis or point-blank to contradict the Doctrine of Moses or the Prophets for fear of the Jews they did either wrest what Moses and the Prophets had written to their ownsense by false Glosses and Interpretations as the Scribes did witness Christs Sermon upon the Mount to convince them of it or they did pretend to unwritten Traditions successively derived to them from Moses and the Prophets and consequently of equal Authority to the Prophetical Writings themselves as the Pharisees taught the People and thereby did not only teach them to Worship God in vain by teaching for Doctrines the Traditions of men Matt. 15. 9. but to make the Word of God it self of none effect Mark 7. 13. The former when by some of their Traditions they made more than God had commanded by Moses or the Prophets to be necessary the latter when by other of their Traditions they made that which God had commanded by Moses and the Prophets not to be necessary even so or just in the like manner and to the same ends there be some that pretend to be the true nay the only true Successors of Christ and his Apostles who not finding in the Gospel of Christ as it is recorded by the Evangelists and the Apostles enough to serve their turns in order to their own Ambitious and Worldly Designs and yet not daring openly to avow any other Gospel for fear of St. Paul's Anathema and of discovering themselves to be Antichrist or at least the fore-runners of Antichrist they make men believe that to be the Doctrine of Christ which indeed is not partly by interpreting the Apostolical Writings in their own sence and partly by pretending Apostolical Tradions for that which cannot by any Interpretation be wrested from the Apostolical Writings And by this means in process of time they have made Christ's Kingdom which he himself tells us is not of this World to be of this World and themselves to be the Governours of it and whosoever will not be Perswaded must be Compell'd to believe it And thus the Evangelical Dove is made a prey to the Roman Eagle whilst Maxims of Humane Policy are taught for Articles of Divine Faith and men are made to believe that God is the Author of such Doctrines and Practices as are contrary not only to the Truth of his Word but to the Holiness of his Nature I mean such Doctrines and Practices as tend to the Distraction and Destruction of Kingdoms and States as if Christ came not to save the World as he saith he did but to destroy it which he saith he did