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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43064	A sermon preach'd before the King at His Majesty's chappel in Windsor-Castle, Novemb. 10, 1695 by Greg. Hascard.	Hascard, Gregory.	1696 (1696)	Wing H1116; ESTC R25417	12,336	29

Antoninus as famous for his Philosophy as for his Empire and several others about the Nature of the Soul and the Justice of Providence whatever strength they have in them as a great deal they have yet are above the ordinary level of Mankind and the Rules and Maxims of their Philosophers for a Virtuous Life as the way to Heaven were many times above sometimes below and some parts of their Religion unworthy of their Practice that they were distracted and confounded among themselves about the best end of Life and the chiefest Good that they drew but imperfect Notions and Features of the first Mover or Supreme Deity and therefore serv'd him by the rude Addresses of the Dii Medioxumi their intermediate Gods and Saints derogatory to his Honour and Greatness And the vulgar World was so enslav'd in their Lusts and Apprehensions that they not only ador'd the Sun or Stars a Lyon or an Oak things that were Great Generous and Useful but like the Sottish Egyptians below their Nature Crocodiles and Monkies Leeks and Onions of which they might have a new Crop of young Gods and Goddesses every Year And besides all this the Pagan had an active Reason and a busy Conscience within and a lively impression of God enstamp'd upon his Soul which he had much abus'd though he could no more utterly deface than put out the Sun and that he should survive this Life and be lash'd and scourg'd crown'd or rewarded in the other World And therefore he cries Allay my Fears and support my Hopes and tell me What must I do to be saved The Christian can prescribe him that Physick which cur'd his own Disease and is approv'd by the Testimony of numerous Converts Believe in the Lord Jesus c. But that he may not wink and swallow this down and cure himself only by a warm Fancy thinking he is well and have no reason for the Prescription the Jaylor here had the mighty Argument of Miracles for his Conversion and all Mankind justly challenge some reason for their Persuasion And therefore the Christian Guide tells the Pagan That the Christian Religion or way of Salvation hath the clearest Evidence on its side being confirm'd by greater and more Miracles than any other Perswasion That its Doctrines are suitable to the reason and dictates of humane Nature highly serviceable to the true Interests of Men here in all Capacities and Relations and an endless Life hereafter That its Authour Jesus had a stupendious Birth his Person Offices and Actions Prophecy'd of long before and exactly fulfill'd in all their due Circumstances A Person he was of an unsullied Life and without any design of secular Interest or Popularity hugely Generous and Charitable to all sorts and degrees of Men who sign'd his Discoveries and Truths with the smartest Agonies and Effusion of his Blood and Crown'd and Confirm'd all his Laws by a greater Wonder his Resurrection from the Grave Who continu'd the Arguments for our Faith in the Mission of his Spirit by the miraculous Gift of Tongues upon his Apostles Men of the greatest Sincerity and Integrity who with the succeeding Ages without any sinister Design convey'd in an undoubted way the History of this Religion to this present Age a way equivalent to the hearing of our Ears and seeing of our Eyes a faithful Tradition supplying our Senses These and many more are the Arguments of our Christian Faith and fit to prevail upon an honest and unprejudic'd Mind What shall the Pagan the Atheist or the doubting Christian who is always for laying the Foundation again but never building up the Superstructure of an holy Life by reason of some particular Vices that he is loth to part withal do to be saved Let them weigh and consider try and examine for the Christian Religion by such Reasons as these hath prevail'd upon the Great and Learned upon all Tempers and Professions of Men and if they will let their Passions and Prepossessions submit to their Judgment they will find Arguments sufficient to believe in the Lord Jesus and to be baptiz'd into the Christian Faith 2. 'T is the Question of a Christian troubled with the Divisions of Christendom not knowing to what Church to adhere The honest Christian sadly finding Religion torn into so many Parts and Pieces and every Division and Sect of Christians confining Christ with all his Privileges and Promises to their private Sect small Fraternities and Cloysters single Families and particular Persons have bestow'd upon themselves the great Names of the only Church and Houshold of Faith and Sentenc'd all the World for Reprobates not within their narrow Bounds and Pale and have chain'd as the Tyrians did their gods to their City Providence and Religion Heaven and Eternity only to their own side and every one with a Damnamus fix'd unto their Creeds The Seed of Isaac in this too much like that of Ishmael he against every Man and every Man against him discharging Censures and Excommunications one against another The plain Christian that thinks a Soul and God infinite Rewards or Miseries are too great to be plaid withal and frighted with the confident pretences of some and acted upon by the sly Methods of others begins to be wavering in his Faith uncertain in his Hopes and Profession and like a bewildred Pilgrim standing where variety of Ways do meet surrounded with Woods and Waters and hearing different Voices crying Come hither and here is Christ go thither and there is Jesus and pointing yonder Lo there lys the way that leads to Sion He begins to tremble and begs of some charitable Guide to lead him by the Hand to the House where Christ dwells asks him the way how we may walk securely What must be do to be saved He is the safest and most faithful Guide that tells him this Believe in the Lord Jesus he is the way the truth and the lise For this is the Summary of the Gospel the Epitome of all true Religion wherein all Christians do agree and a general prospect of that new and living way alone whereby we must be sav'd manifest to Men in the Schools and at the Plow the Learned and Illiterate Faith to whatever God hath revealed in Holy Writ and a Life conformable to his Laws Which Compendium of our Faith when Men of Wit and Interest drew out into longer and smaller Threds and multiply'd Fundamentals defining obscure Notions for Divine-Light and Evident Truth by an Authority more dark than they they sour'd Religion made it a fardle of Perplexities and an indigested heap of Speculations The Apostle forseeing this 2 Tim. 1.13 reminds his Son Timothy to keep close to the form of sound words which was this belief on Jesus and the Doctrine which is according to Godliness Which when Men of Fancy and nice Conception mixt with Secular Designs slighted and contemn'd they ruin'd that Faith that was once deliver'd unto the Saints And when the great Commission was sign'd unto the Apostles