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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40091	A sermon preached at the general meeting of Gloucestershire-men, for the most part inhabitants of the City of London in the Church of St. Mary le-Bow, December the 9th, 1684 / by Edward Fowler.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1685 (1685)	Wing F1718; ESTC R10668	14,518	40

World as they wickedly presume God Almighty will deal with them in the other And whatsoever Furious People will Own 't is too likely that most of them think that God is a Being like themselves and saves and damns men not by fixed and standing Laws but by mere Will and Power Again This Strife and ill Will c. destroys all the Comfort and Pleasure of Conversation And that as they engage the Company in Siding against one another and in wrathful disputing when they meet together for mutual Enjoyment And also as they cause Fear and jealous Mistrust and so destroy all Freedom in Converse Again when this ill Will Emulation and Strife c. come to be between great Numbers they have a most mischievous Influence upon the Government Nothing makes men so ungovernable And therefore Traiterous Heady and High-minded do well follow False Accusers Incontinent Fierce 2 Tim. 3. 3. It is not possible that the Government should carry it with such an Even and Steady hand as not to favour one side more than the other nor is it indeed fit it should because it hardly ever so happens that one part hath no more right on it's side than the Opposite And it would be Strange too if both should be equally guilty of Injustice and Transgressing the Laws Now nothing is more natural than for men of Wrath and Fury to take high offence at those who are in the least favourable towards their Adversaries especially if they perceive them to be one jot more in their favour than themselves And I think they are far more apt to take this heighnously at their Governours hands than at their fellow-Snbjects Because they always on each side pretend to be most faithful to the interest of the Government Now when once offence is taken at the Government whilst People are so generally acted by Interest much more than by Principles of Religion and Conscience I need not say that the Government can be no longer secure from open Violence or private Conspiracies than till the offended Party grows strong enough to hope for Success Oh how sad a Felling have we of this Nation had of the Truth of this Moreover this evil Spirit when 't is gotten into Societies tendeth mightily to the Debauching of them This it doth as it takes men off from following the Business of their Callings as it makes them Idle and Gadders about The Heads of those who are engaged in Strife and Contention are too much heated to mind as they should do Serious Business And therefore they commonly employ themselves as the Athenians did who spent their time in nothing else than to tell or to hear some new thing VVhen they should be in their Shops and about their necessary Affairs you may find them in the Coffee-Houses or in the Taverns Caballing together And as in the one they spend many pretious hours one while in vain prating and another while in Seditious Talking or Unchristian Censuring Railing and Reviling So in the other in adding to these and the like Immoralities Excessive Drinking which I need not tell you draweth after it other vicious and leud Practices I add also that by this means they become great Sufferers in their Fortunes and Abundance Break and run-out of all and bring themselves and Families to a Morsel of Bread VVhat a number of sad Instances of the Truth of this have we of late years had in this City And lastly Strife and Variance if not timely abandoned brings upon that Kingdom City or other Society utter Ruin and Desolation This our Lord Himself hath told us Mat. 12. 25. Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to dosolation and every House divided against it self cannot stand And he intimates to us in the following words that the Devils are so wise as to be aware of this and therefore will agree together as natural as Malice and Contention are to them and as great pleasure as they take in imbittering Mens Spirits towards one another There are innumerable instances of the truth of that saying of our Blessed Lord and the Experience of those to whom He spake it found it Verifyed within about half an Age after with a Vengeance The horrible Feuds that were in Jerusalem did the Romans business to their hands and brought them under a Fatal Necessity of a total Destruction and Desolation Again 2. As the Community must needs Suffer thus by the means of those Vices that are Opposite to Love so are they the heaviest Plague to those Particular Persons in whom they reign that can befal them But the time will suffer me to say but a very little to this Argument In short therefore thus Malice Revenge and Fury c. are mightily Uneasy and Restless Vices they are a very Hell to him in whom they dwell They give not so much trouble and vexation to others but that they give more to those men themselves who entertain and gratify these Lusts. All corrupt Appetites whatsoever are of a Tormenting nature but 't is most especially true of them in whom the Spirit of ill will is found that They are like the troubled Sea which cannot rest whose waters cast up Mire and Dirt. This farthermore is the true Spirit and Temper of the Devil S. James saith Chap. 3. 15. If ye have bitter Envying and Strife in your hearts Glory not and Lye not against the Truth this Wisdom descendeth not from above but is Earthy Sensual Devillish The Pharisees who were acted by this Spirit our Saviour calls the Devil's Children Ye are saith he of your Father the Devil and the Works of your Father ye will do he was a Murtherer from the beginning c. In this saith S. John the Children of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil he that doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his Brother Or the man who is guilty of this instance of Unrighteousness Hating his Brother is in a more especial manner the Child of the Devil No man doth Resemble him so exactly as doth this man And Envious and Malicious Kain is said by the same Apostle to be of that wicked one of his Spirit and Temper as if he were his Natural Off-spring and Begotten of the Devil Consequently This Spirit and Temper sets us at the greatest distance imaginable from God who is a most Kind Gratious and Benign Being whose tender mercies are over all his works Who is a Being most Placable and Reconcileable towards Repenting Sinners A Being of Wonderful Patience and Long-Suffering not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance A Being that considers our Frame and remembers that we are dust and is Compassionate in all Cases that are Compassionable And Lastly 'T is apparent from the foregoing Account that this Spirit of Malice and Revenge c. puts men into the Hellish State and completely qualifies them for the Place called Hell and the Company thereof and for the worst of Company