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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46966	A sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor and aldermen at Guildhall-Chappel, on Palm-Sunday, 1679 and now published as it was then delivered / by Samuel Johnson ...	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.; Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703. Second five year's struggle against popery and tyranny.	1684 (1684)	Wing J845; ESTC R2429	11,190	34

Bargains We may as well say that he created the Sun to save Candle No he bestowed them upon us for nobler and higher Purposes that we might know Him and know our selves what Relation we have to him and what Service we owe him that we might distinguish betwixt True and False Right and Wrong and might be able to think and act as becomes reasonable Creatures And those that commit these precious Talents to another's keeping are like to give but a very ill account of them 2. In Doctrines which are contrary to the Holy Scripture Here the People may more easily be abused than before and be misled without being aware of it because the Institutions of Revealed Religion are not so well known nor so obvious to Men as the Dictates of Nature But the Priests very forbidding the People to read the Scripture gives them a just suspicion that they are abused and would make any considerate Man the more eager to examine whether the things they teach be so or no. For which the generous Beraeans are commended in Scripture who would not take the Apostle's bare word but search'd the Scriptures themselves If any Doctrine decline Trial it is a great Argument against it for Truth loses nothing by being brought to the Test. If any Religion be too good to be examined it is too bad to be believed Men would not be thus tamely cheated in Worldly Matters they will not buy or bargain at this blind rate and therefore it is a sign that they less care what becomes of their Souls than of their Mony and Estates So that in the last place this Temper resolves it self into a great indifferency and unconcernedness about Religion which ought to be our first and chief care It proceeds from a brutish degeneracy of mind which makes Men content to be like the Horse and Mule which have no understanding It has in it all the bad Ingredients of Sloth and Negligence of Folly and Credulity and Irreligion And I am sure there can be no safety in such a state of mind for it is far from Truth and far from God We may take occasion from what has been said to thank God that it is otherwise with us For who has made the difference This was the Case of our Forefathers in the dark and long Night of Popery Blessed be God that it is not ours 2. Let us stand fast in that Liberty wherewith God has made us free and never suffer our Souls to be brought into Bondage to any Man whatever becomes of our Bodies 3. Let us heartily pitty and as we are able seek the recovery of those that are in this bad condition 4. Let us take a special care to live up to that Knowledg which God has given us otherwise we have but little reason to pity them they are in a better condition than we Let us think often of those words of our Saviour St. John 9. the last Verse Jesus said unto them If ye were blind ye should have no Sin that is none in comparison your Sin would be the less But now ye say we see therefore your Sin remaineth and will be the harder to wipe out These things require more enlargement than the time will bear I shall therefore leave them as they are to your own Consideration FINIS a Artic. 14. b Artic. 22. c Artic. 31. The 2d Part of the Sermon for Whit sunday p. 286. R. Bechai Reply to K. James Psal. 115. 8. In his Letter to Casaubon De Sacram. Eucharistiae Sect. 25. Rushw. Dial. 1. Sect. 4. Another says the Priest has hereby the Honour of being the Father of Christ whom he has begotten in the Sacrament See this with much other Blasphemy in Andr. Rivet Explic. Decal P. 1364.