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A47024 A brief vindication of the late farewell-sermon preached to the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Wool-church-Haw in Lombard-Street By David Jones, student of Christ-Church, Oxon. Jones, David, 1663-1724? 1692 (1692) Wing J934D; ESTC R216509 3,805 6

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A BRIEF VINDICATION Of the Late Farewell-Sermon Preached to the UNITED PARISHES Of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Wool-church-Haw IN LOMBARD-STREET By DAVID JONES Student of christ-Christ-Church Oxon. You seek to kill me a Man that hath told you the Truth which I have heard of God John 8.40 I am in Derision daily every one Mocketh me Jer. 20.7 He that hateth Reproof shall Dye Prov. 15.10 Blessed are ye when Men shall Revile you Mat. 5.11 PErsecution Tribulation and Scandal are so proper Marks on a true Christian that a real good Man thinks himself Happy in that his Reputation suffers amongst his Persecutors And yet that is the most sensible Part that an honest Man can receive a Wound in However it doth not in the least grieve the Author that he has lately done unjust Pennance in other Mens Sheets for a Crime never committed in his own 'T is well for them they did not nor cou'd deprive him of a Being tho' I cannot doubt their Rigour of their Intentions and Inclinations since he still lives an Apostle and cou'd willing dye a Martyr of that Truth which has so much offended Heaven's Adversaries and his He is blessed to think that he can innocently hear what they injuriously charge upon him and that there is yet one true Christian alive whom Fire and Faggot Dragoons nor any Evil can deter from living accordingly No nor whom Avarice Vain-Glory nor hope of Advancement can corrupt to their own likeness And I doubt not but there are many Thousands but the Honour is now so particular to the Author that were he not arm'd by the Grace of God he would certainly be in great Danger of Falling under the Temptation of a Spiritual Pride How little did the Animadverters on his Farewel Sermon design him so great a Satisfaction and Advantage yet how industriously does he labour for their's And is resolved still to speak and write what may be of Service to them in a double Capacity For they may make the best Use of it for their Souls or a worse against their Temporal Necessities by emptying their Brains in their nauseous Pamphlets scoffing at my Doctrine But well go on my Friends you may thus chance to fix a Glory on his Head where you intended a Bramble or a Pot-sheard The wicked Attempts of the Unrighteous do generally deviate from their first Intentions and the Curse they utter and wou'd fast●n upon another very often seizes and destroys them And yet why shou'd it afflict you if he endeavour'd the Life of a Saint Nay or if he shou'd after Death become such a Blessed Creature Have you lost e're a Friend by that do you imagine or rather shall you not get a better whilst he is yet endeavouring 'T is odd methinks to observe how generally ill Nature prevails and how rarely the World applauds a Vice in another which they adore in themselves unless it be what they call a Sociable Vice a Whoring Drinking Gaiming or gainful Vice with which none of our Moralists have yet had the hardiness to charge the Author tho' they were pleased to urge that he would not own his own Father at Oxford because he was a Hind or Pesant such as he was he never wanted their Assistance to shew an honest Man and the Author as he often has done does still make it a Challenge to all Mankind that ever he deny'd that he was the Parent of him who now forgives the Calumny I am not altogether unacquainted with the Characters Practises and Necessities possibly of those who have pretended to ridicule what I last deliver'd in Lombard-Street It is an easie Matter to some People to despise what they can never attain to without the Blessing of God To talk to such of Peace Obedience Continence and Self-denial were to preach Resurrection to the Sadduces or Divine Justice to our Deists who only believe That Ludit in Humanis Divina Potentia rebus Of these to his Sorrow he has found but too too many when either he has publickly or privately Instructed otherwise And yet his Instructions did never tend to Infallibility what ever may have been objected to him in that Case unless directed by happy Writ and the undeniable Authority of the best Church of England-Men and they very nicely too Tho' perhaps an unkind and perverse Curiosity brought many to hear and observe his Doctrine more than the Gospel that the Author thanks God he truly Preach'd and Admister'd which he is said to know little or nothing off because happily to some he has made it so obvious and open that they cannot mistake their Way to Eternal Happiness when it shall please God to let them see that he dealt it fairly to them notwithstanding they have nil in Contempt for his Ministry which is his Province which is his Talent which is his Fund and Hope of Salvation and of which no Man can spoil him so long as he speaks according to the Word of God and his own Conscience Alas what imports a Mans Transitory Kindness shall God's Minister for this hazard his Eternal Happiness How weak you would think that Man who should sell his Paternal Unengag'd Inheritance for one Year's purchase Did I tell my Lord that he Lost more at a Horse-Race in one Day than would Relieve and Preserve all the Poor in his Parish for a Month That he threw away at Play in one Night more than would Feed 'em Seven That he followed the Chase of a Deer or a Fox closer than he purchas'd the Means of his Salvation And must I become his Enemy for telling him those Truths Must I be dismist his Favour and his House for this In the Name of God Amen I had rather be a Door-keeper in the House of God than dwell in the Tents of Kedar But this comes of his Prating perhaps you 'l say Yet why should he hold his Tongue or Pen when the Poet tells you who give me leave to say had not altogether so particular a Command if any to remind you of your Vices Difficile est Satyram non Scribere If therefore he only to gratifie his own Humour unknown to your Vices might have the Liberty to Rail at you may not the Author beg the freedome to Advise you In good Truth I think 't is hard But you have all the World before you and might have Heaven too if you would hear with his Ears and see with his Eyes Now for the Authors circumstances and the Cause of his Farewel Sermon Truly for the first I must needs say that they are not altogether yet so miserable as to descend to the Entertainment of an unthinking Rabble who only hear with their Eyes For to such I hear it 's the Province of one of the Calumniators to Appeal to Could the Author prevaricate like him he might hope a Preferment amongst those Sectaries of whom the Calumniator already esteems him a Minister tho' himself in few years of one Monarchs Reign obliged and disobliged