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A52435 A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford at St. Peters Church in the East on Mid-Lent Sunday, March 29, 1685 by John Norris ... Norris, John, 1657-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing N1269; ESTC R3053 13,751 36

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Admirer but quarels with all others that are not of his perswasi●n and with the Tyrant of Babylon kindles a fire for those who will not fall down and worship the Image which he has set up Neither does the Leprosy stop here But as it betrays us into many sins so in the Third and last place which is the most dismal Consequence of all It frustrates all Methods of Reformation Gods judgements will but exasperate and inrage him because he thinks he does not deserve them and his Mercies will not indear him because he thinks he does Advice he thinks he does not need and Reproof he cannot bear Besides he thinks so well of himself already that he wonders what you mean by advising him to become better and therefore as he does not endeavour after any of those excellencies which he thinks he has so neither can he dream of mending those faults which he thinks he is not guilty of Thus is the man Seal'd up to iniquity and deeply lodg'd in the strong holds of sin where nothing that has a Salutary Influence can come nigh him And in this he resembles the first Presidents of his Folly who from Angels transform'd themselves into Devils and fell beyond the possibilities of recovery These are some of the fruits of this Root of Bitterness and tho more might be named yet these I think sufficient to justify this Admonition of the Apostle to every man not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith Let us then all endeavour to conform our opinions concerning our selves to this Standard Let us not stretch our selves beyond our natural dimensions but learn to entertain modest and sober thoughts of our own excellencies and indowments and mortify our understands as well as our sensitive affections And thus shall we compleat our Lent Exercise by joyning the mortification of the Spirit to that of the flesh without which the greatest Austerities wherewith we can afflict the latter will not be such a Fast as God has chosen For what will it avail to macerate the Body while the principal part the Soul remains unmortify'd The Humility of Moses must conspire with his Forty days Fasting to qualify a man for Divine Intercourses to make him the Joy of Angels the Friend of God Thus then let us accomplish the Refinings of our Souls and fill up the Measure of our Mortifications To which end let us add this one further Consideration to what has been already said that Humility in the Judgement even of the High and Lofty one that 's inhabits Eternity is a Vertue of such great Excellency and singular advantage to the happiness of Mankind that our Blessed Saviour came down from Heaven to teach it that his whole life was one continu'd Exercise of it and that he has dignify'd it with the first place among his Beatitudes Let us then as many as profess the Religion of the Humble and Crucify'd JESUS make it our strict Care that we neglect not this his great Commandment nor omit to Copy out this Principal Line this main-stroke of the Pattern he has set us Especially let us of this place who are set among the greater Lights of the Firmament and whose profession and business is to contemplate Truth and to think of things as God made them in Number Weight and Measure labour in the first place to take just and true Measures of our Selves that our Knowledge puff us not up nor our Height become our Ruin Now to the only Wise God Father Son and Holy Ghost be all Adoration and Thanksgiving now and for ever Amen The END Dissert de Method p. 1. * See my Discourse of Heroic Piety Pag. 72 and 73. 〈…〉 Dr. Hammond 2 Cor. 12. 7. Hist. Eccles. lib. 2. c. 13. * See Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras 1 Cor. 4. 13. Isai. 14. 13. Acts 12. 23. James 1. 17. Rev. 4. 10. Prov. 22. 1 2 Cor. 10. 13. 2 Cor. 10. 14. 2 Cor. 12. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 21. Neh. 6. 11. Dan. 4. 33. Psal. 10. 4. Gen. 22. 10.