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A44819 A sermon preached on the first of January 1698 in the parish church of St. Nicholas Cole-Abby being a New-Years-gift to the society of Christians united there to worship God in a more solemn manner after the way of the Church of England / by Robert Howson. Howson, Robert. 1698 (1698) Wing H3198; ESTC R27121 9,554 34

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these Lusts of their Members which make all the Troubles and Confusions in the lower World you may easily Judge And therefore let Brotherly love continue among us my Dear Friends that we may be what we are all Born for viz. a Blessing to our selves and to the best of Governments we live under and the best of Churches we are Members of This is the very Spirit and Life of Christian Religion which as St. James saith chap. 3. ver 15. Is not earthly sensual and devilish but the contrary divine heavenly and spiritual coming from above A Religion or Wisdom which is all one for Religion is the highest Wisdom that hath infinite Love for its Author and End that gives Spiritual Laws to govern the Hearts and Spirits of Men. Mens Words and Actions fall under the Cognizance of human Laws these are things as Job saith To be tryed by the Judge but the thoughts and imaginations of the Heart fall under the cognizance of the Spiritual Law of the God of Spirits who will Judge the secrets of all Men according to his Gospel A Religion that exalts and perfects Mans Nature that gives him true Understanding Power and Goodness and that as Sin hath ras'd out and defaced the Image of God imprest upon his Divinely created Soul this reprints it there and restores him again in some good measure to his pure Paradisiacal State According as his divine Power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto Life and Godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to Glory and Vertue whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious Promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine Nature having escaped the Corruption that is in the World through Lust 2 Pet. chap. 1. vers 3 4. This is the fulfilling of the whole Law Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Might This is the first and great Commandment and the second is like unto it Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets Mat. 22.37 38 39 40. Love worketh all Obedience to God and sincere Obedience is the greatest demonstration of our Love to him If you love me keep my Commandments He that loveth God with all his Heart will never own another God besides him much less will he make to himself any graven Image or the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven or Earth For whereunto will you liken me saith the Lord He that loveth God truly will worship him in Truth and Spirit for he is an infinite glorious and incomprehensible Spirit and therefore he will be Worshiped in Spirit and Truth Joh. 4.24 All Worship that is not Spiritual of what Mode or Scheme soever it is is no more than the cuting off a Dog's Neck or the offering of Swines Blood nay though it be such as God himself hath commanded as to the matter of it To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices to me saith the Lord I am full of the Burnt Offerings of Rams and the fat of fed Beasts and I delight not in the blood of Bullocks or of Lambs or of He-Goats c. When you come to appear before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my Courts Bring no more vain Oblations Incense is an abomination unto me the New-Moons and Sabbaths though I have bid you remember to keep them Holy are abomination to me the calling of the Assemblies I cannot away with it is Iniquity even the solemn Meeting The New Moons and your appointed Feasts my Soul hateth speaking after the manner of Men they are a Trouble to me I am weary to bear them Isai 1.11 12 13 14. He that worships God truly thinks it highly reasonable to give Him a Worship suitable to his own blessed Nature not only as to the matter but also as to the manner of his Worship And therefore he strives and wrastles he fights and runs he is Fervent in Siprit serving the Lord Rom. 12.11 He that loveth God truly will never lightly use or Prophane his Great Name neither any of his Divine Attributes which are himself nor his Word or Works He that loveth God truly will honour every thing that hath any relation to or beareth any reflexion of his Holiness especially his Holy Day which because of the extraordinary Holiness that God hath imprest upon it is Prefac'd with a Remember Remember to keep Holy the Sabbath Day not only in the external performance of external Worship but in secret Prayer Meditation Self-Examination Holy Conferences and Spiritual Anhelations in which the Souls of good Men have a most Heavenly Communion and Fellowship with God the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that you also may have Fellowship with us And truly our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ The moral part of this Precept is to keep one Day in seven in this Heavenly Work and where this is done it kindles such a sacred fire upon the Altar of the Heart that burns from Sabbath to Sabbath which was lively typified by the Fire upon the Altar under the Jewish Oeconomy and is always attended with all the Blessings of this Life If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy-Day and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own Ways nor finding thine own Pleasure nor speaking thine own Words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father Isa 58.13 14. The Glory of our Law and of his Day too Sir Matthew Hales tells us in his Meditations That when he had been careful in the Work of this day he did observe that all his Business the Week following did well succeed but when he had made a fault in this he soon found it in that He that loveth his Neighbour cannot but love his Father and Mother in the first place and give unto all Men especially to the King and all that be in Authority that Duty and Obedience that is due to them in their several places and relations giving Honour to whom Honour Fear to whom Fear is due He that loveth his Neighbour as himself can never have or harbour any Malice or Hatred in his heart against him much less will he defile his Bed or defraud him in his Estate or go beyond him in any matter And he that loveth God with all his Heart and his Neighbour as himself doth good to himself too for all Goodness and Vertue reflects it self upon him that hath it like an Echo bringing back the Voice to the ear of him that spake it Every good Work that a good Man doth gives him that