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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52727	The right way to promote reformation in a sermon preached at Warrington upon the 18th of Octob. 1698, at the appointment of the ministers there met, and at the request of some, published for the use of others / by James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1699 (1699)	Wing N333; ESTC R31711	24,280	60

Actions And what an odd and absurd thing is it to find fault with others for what we doe our selves How ill doth the word of reproofe Sound in the Mouth of a wicked Person To Steal and yet forbid Stealing to Swear our selves and yet forbid Swearing To be Covetous contentious and yet cry out against these Sins in others What is this but to draw down Judgments upon our selves Therefore that we may discharge this our Christian Office and Duty to our Brother casting the Motes out of his eyes we should First take care to cast the Beams out of our own This is the way and course we should take in Promoting a work of Reformation And indeed we cannot expect to be very successfull in any of our endeavours to reform others till such time as we have done thus much for our selves I Now come to the Improvement and Application of this Point and that First by way of Inference should we Reform our selves before we begin to Reform our Brother Then 1 This may let all of us see wherein we have mist For how often have Magistrates Ministers and private Persons gone Irregularly about this work Let the Magistrate first Reforme himself and then he may better see how to execute Justice upon Offenders Let the Minister first Reforme himself and then he may better see how to Preach this up to others Let a private Christian first reforme himself and then he will see better how to reforme his Brother Let us cast the Beams out of our own eyes first and then we shall see more clearly to cast the Motes out of our Brother's eyes How have we all been guilty of this Hysteron Proteron of putting the first thing in the Second place Have we not begun at the wrong end of our work and inverted the order of our duties True it is a duty to Reforme our Brother but the duty of self reformation should take the First place They are both Duties but in the order of Nature the one should preceed the other we should First cast the Beams out of our own eyes before we cast the Motes out of our Brother's eyes And indeed I cannot but think one great cause and reason why Magistrates have been no more a terror unto evil doers and Ministers no more successfull in their work is because both have been too Remiss in their reformeing themselves They have not been those holy examples unto others as their Office and place required So that all our Sermons against impiety and Prophaneness through our own Personall Miscarriages have been but like arrows shot out of a weak bow that comes not with force Sufficient to prick the Heart of the Proud Sinner Ministers may complaine of the ill Success of their Labours when they take no care to Practice what they Preach to others In vaine doe they think to reforme their People till such times as they first reforme themselves Should we first Reforme our selves before we reforme our Brother Then 2 This brings to all our mindes what is our work to day or where we are to begin the work of Reformation We should begin in the First place with our Selves Whoever would Promote a Reformation work must begin here Let every man Sweep his own door and the Streets will be clean So would every man Purge and cleanse his own Heart this work of Reformation would goe on in every place A generall Reformation hath it's Rise and beginning in Particular There must be a Personall Reformation before it come to a Family City Countrey or National Reformation This is the work of every particular Person So that every one of us may say Particularly this is my work my care we are to begin with our selves and not suffer any unmortified lust to abide in us every eye that Offends every hand that Sins every Lust that provokes is to be parted with tho' never so dear unto us we must begin with our selves and then in our Families our Children and Servants and endeavour the Reformation of all that are under our care and Charge This is the way to promote this Blessed work of Reformation here we are to begin we should take this course and observe this rule and Labour with all care and Conscience to be unblameable in our selves and Conversations And O that both you and I might begin here this day with our selves with our own Hearts and lives and cast the Beams out of our own eyes And to excite you to this work of self Reformation to press upon you the power of Godliness and the practice of Religion I would recommend unto you these following Considerations 1 Consider it is in vain to think the knowledge and Beliefe of the Christian Religion will availe us any thing without the Practice of it † Jam 1 26 27. If any man among you seem to be Religious and Bridleth not his Tongue but deceiveth his own Heart that mans Religion is vain pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the Fatherless and the Widows in their Affiction and to keep himself unspotted from the world * 1 Tim. 6 3 If a man consent not to the Doctrine which is according to Godliness he is proud knowing nothing There must be a decorum kept between our Principles and our Practice Our eyes should direct our Feet and we are called upon in Scripture to act as becometh Saints † Ephe 5 3. As becomes the Gospel of Christ * Rom. 16. 2. As becomes those who profess Godliness There is a † Phil 1 27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or comely Behaviour which if a Christian doth not observe he betrayes his high calling unto Scorn and and contempt to look high and to live Low O how rediculous appears it unto all men It is not a forgetfull Hearer but a doer of the word This man shall be Blessed in his deed It is the doeing Practicall Christian that shall Stand when the empty Boaster of his Faith shall fall His Religion is vain which brings not Letters Testimoniall from an holy Life A Protestant Faith without a Protestant Practice is worth little There are but too many who think it 's enough they are no Papists nor Atheists no Hereticks or Erroneouss Persons but they Embrace the Honest old Orthodox truths they Believe as well as any and they are resolved to live and die in this Faith They are Protestant in Doctrine and Recusants in lives not Considering that Hell is full not onely of Pagans and Heathens but also of ungodly Christians Alas the Kingdom of God reacheth further then the understanding onely The Devils in Hell have admirable Knowledge they both know and Believe for they are said to Believe and tremble And doe we not read of * Mat. 7. 22 23. Many that shall be brought in at that day saying Lord Lord have we not Prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out Devils and in thy name done many wonderfull