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A63917 A sermon preached at Epsom upon the 9th of September, being the day of thanksgiving appointed by His Majesty for the discovery and disappointment of the Republican Plot, and now made publick to obviate false reports by John Turner ... Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50. 1683 (1683) Wing T3317; ESTC R38379 29,169 46

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Societies and particular Persons He will not eat the Flesh of Bulls nor drink the Blood of Goats but he requires that we should offer unto God thanksgiving and pay our vows unto the most high To obey in his esteem is better than Sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of Roms and he hath solemnly declared That the Sacrifice of the Wicked is an abomination to him that his Soul hateth it and that he cannot away with the Sabbaths and the New Moons and the Solemn Assemblies though of his own appointment when joyned with the practice of Intemperance and Injustice to the dammage and detriment either of our selves or others The second sort of Superstition is when Men look upon God under the Notion of a touchy and uncertain Being that is angry for nothing and pleased with as little and therefore they worship him with ridiculous Rites and childish Expiations to procure his Favour and to avert his Displeasure and try almost as many and as extravagant Remedies against the anger of Heaven as if it were the Tooth-ach or a Tertian-Ague And the Evil of this sort of Superstition consists in this That it destroys the Quiet and Tranquillity of Humane Life by frighting it with causeless Fears and imaginary Dangers by making men perpetually solicitous continually out of tune and by producing in the habit of their minds a Peevish Fretful Suspicious Dissatisfied Unsociable and Unfriendly Temper To conclude this matter Not only the practical Doctrines of the Gospel as well as of Natural Religion are founded in the interest of Mankind but also the Articles of Belief and the Miracles by which those Articles were confirmed The Articles of Belief which I shall mention are these two First the Doctrine of the Trinity and Secondly that of the Resurrection For the Doctrine of the Trinity as puzling as it is though after all the Scoffs of the Arians of old time and of the Socinian Hereticks of late I do not despair to make it out as clearly as any Proposition that is never so certain I say as puzling as it is and upon Supposition that it were in it self every whit as unintelligible as it is pretended to be yet thus much we know for certain that God being an Infinite and by Consequence an Incomprehensible Being there may be some Propositions true concerning him whose truth we that have only finite Understandings cannot possibly comprehend for nothing certainly can understand or comprehend the whole extent and latitude of the Divine Nature but the Divinity it self and therefore in this case the Counsel of Joseph Scaliger is excellently good Nè tu semper audax quaere causas omnium Quaecunque libris vis prophet arum edidit Afflata caelo plena veraci Deo Operta sacri supparo silentii Vel tange parcus vel pudenter praeteri Nescire velle quae Magister maximus Docere non vult erudita inscitia est But now if this Doctrine were not only unintelligible in it self but also of no use in common Life to what purpose should it be revealed For certainly God does not design in the Scripture to puzzle and confound his Creatures to no purpose but only to teach and inform them for their benefit and advantage and therefore though the Doctrine of the Trinity by reason that it is conversant about an Infinite Subject cannot so easily be made out by a Finite Understanding yet if we can shew any use of it for the Benefit of Life this is an argument to us of its truth though it be not the Object of our Comprehension And the use that is to be made of it in life is this That if we are verily perswaded of the truth of this Doctrine if we believe that Jesus Christ was not only sent by God but that he is really and truly God himself this ought certainly to possess the Hearts of all his true Disciples with the greater Reverence and Esteem for his Laws and if we believe the Holy Ghost not only to be an Effect or Emanation of the Divine Power which is all that the Socinians understand by it but that he is really and truly a Divine Person that he is not barely an Attribute of God or an Effect of the Divine Power and Will but that he is really and truly God himself we shall then certainly give the greater heed to all the good Motions and all the Virtuous Inclinations of our minds for fear of quenching and doing despite to the Spirit of Grace of doing violence to the God within us whose Temples in Scripture our Bodies are said to be And this by the way among other very good Arguments that have been urged against it is a very good Argument of the falsity of the Doctrine of Transubstantiation which besides that it is a contradiction to our Faculties and our Senses besides that it is conversant about an Object of which we may pretend to be Competent Judges that is about an Humane Body I say besides this though we should suppose it to be true we can assign no use of it for the bettering our Lives or for the interest of Mankind but on the contrary it would be much better for us that it should be as it is a false and absurd Doctrine because the belief of it puts so many Indignities upon the Person of Christ and by consequence weakens the Authority of his Gospel as that the Body of God should be eaten not only by Men but sometimes by Rats and Mice and other Vermine that in the Visitation of the Sick the Priest shall carry God Almighty in his Pocket together with his Snuff-Box his Tooth-pick and his Tabaco that he is champed between the Teeth that he descends into the Stomach and the Bowels and from thence into the Draught and other very reproachful and ignominious Circumstances which it is a shame to mention and yet this is one of the great reasons of all the Romish Persecutions because we cannot perswade our selves to believe so impious and so absurd a Doctrine as this Quod panem aut furfur similamve aut dona Lyaei Nolumus esse Deos summàque in sede locare Mystica quae sacris adhibent ur pocula mensis Quaeque salutiferas fundunt bellaria vires Quòd non foetenti Drvinum stercus ab alvo Ejicitur salsumque perennat ab inguine Numen Quod Servatores nostros non tradimus Orco Christophagi cives Christicida Sacerdos For the Doctrine of the Resurrection though it cannot be denied but there are Difficulties in it though they are not so great neither but that they are capable of being explained as I have endeavoured to do upon another occasion yet this is certain that the belief of it must needs have a very potent influence upon the manners of the World and that it is an equal Argument of the truth of this Doctrine and of the goodness of God together that he hath made the performance of those Duties the Conditions of a Blessed Immortality