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A44414	A sermon preach'd before my lord major at Guild-Hall Chappel on the 30th of Octob., 1681 by George Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2705; ESTC R4457	20,330	39

is in it's own Nature the sweetest the most delightful and most agreeable Motion of the Mind And lastly as we observ'd of Love that it's Motives from Faith and Hope were powerful enough in themselves but invincibly Prevalent when inforc'd by the blessed Spirit so is the Joy that arises from them and Love certain and sure in it's immediate Causes and necessary from their Natural influence but exalted yet more by the Concurrence of the Holy Ghost and super naturally enlarg'd by it's Operations For the Motions of the Holy Spirit within us cannot be suppos'd to be but in the most grateful Cheerful manner It is the Spirit of Comfort and Consolation and in it's Presence are fulness of Joys as the Property of the Wicked one is to torment to infuse Grief and Anguish Sadness and Despair 3. From Love and Joy springs Peace of both kinds of the Mind and Conscience within and to the World abroad In such a breast is no disorder nor trouble nothing but content and satisfaction a Quiet and Serenity as if it were in Heaven no outward accidents nor inferior cares can discompose it And if peace be preserved within it will appear in our conversation and we shall be as easy to others as to our selves In those passions of Joy and Love the Spirits move outwards and diffuse the sweetness and equality of their temper into all our Actions Here will be no Envy Anger nor Discontent we shall not be Turbulent Disorderly nor seditious 4. Thence too Long-suffering not easy to be disorder'd disturb'd or provoked by sufferings by Injuries by failing of better expectations None of these things will move Minds that are wholly set upon their God nor will their divine Joy suffer them to be sensible of the lighter momentary afflictions So far will they be from being hasty froward captious querulous and repining 5. From the same cause is Gentleness or sweetness of Temper to be ready to forgive and easy to be reconcil'd this will be done in imitation of Gods Love to us and out of Love to our Brethren for God's sake Besides that Joy of it self disposes to pardon opens our Heart and our Arms. 6. Goodness too is perfect from the same principle as we here may take it for an Universal Kindness Pitty and Compassion to be ready to do all good Offices to all the world in the most obliging manner out of Affection and with Joy 7. Faith which here follows is as I premised before sitly understood by Integrity or Fidelity and the reason of this rendering may recommend it the more to the better part of this Audience These two words Faith and Meekness as they are joyned here so are they found together in Elder Authors and probably in the same signification Eccles 1.27 As in Ecclesiasticus Faith and Meekness are Gods Delight and afterwards in the Description of Moses he sanctified him with Faithfulness and Meekness Eccles 45 9 4. where faithfulness is in the Greek the same with the Faith before And these two Qualities that make up here the Character of the greatest Magistrate and wisest Governour Moses are the same that are recorded in the Book of Numbers The first this of Fidelity God himself gives him My servant Moses who is Faithfull in all my house The other of Meekness Numb 12.3 the Holy Writer makes his peculiar commendation Now this man Moses was the meekest man in all the Earth Numb 12 3. The Faithfulness of Moses appear'd eminently in the whole course of his Ministry in the Delivery of his Messages and discharge of his Duty but most remarkably amidst the Rebellious Prevarication of the People Israel He never Connived at their Mutinies nor gave Countenance to their Ingratitude His Brother had suffered himself to be led by the People and set up a Molten Image But Moses is never found in their murmurings and discontents He kept his integrity and preserv'd his Loyalty to his God His Meekness too was as singular Not Fierce Proud and Haughty Arrogant and Imperious but Modest Humble and Affable This being that other part of the Character of that holy Governour and the Signification of the Word here translated Meek and answering to the Hebrew Notion of Lowliness and Modesty For this reason we take leave to render the word Faith by Faithfulness When God gave Moses of his Holy Spirit this was the Fruit. And in this Sense it comes here most Properly amongst the other attendants of Divine Love It being here as in Conjugal affection where Fidelity and Truth are the most Proper and most necessary Companions of that and Peace For when our Affection is once engaged to God there will follow a faithful Perseverance in all known Duties Obedience to laws Divine and Humane Loyalty to God and his Representatives But on the contrary when Love and Peace are banished and Hatred Animosity Faction and Sedition take place they presently introduce Prevarication Dissimulation and Treachery they are the constant Causes of Calumny Slander Falshood and Perjury As Satan the first Rebel is the known Father of Lyes 8. The other Grace of Meekness as oppos'd to insolence is too a Fruit that necessarily grows from Love For that disposition of mind as it is Peaceable Easie and Gentle So too does it equal and Level and respects all Mankind but as Brethren of the same House tho under differing Circumstances This causes that the Superiors stoop and Condescend are not harsh nor Supercilious are Civil Kind and Treatable And if it has that Power over Governours and makes the Character of a Magistrate it may well become Subjects and suit with those of a lower degree Humility Modesty Deference and Submission are proper to their Station as Insolence Contemptuousness Affronting of Government is both absurd in Morals and impossible in Charity and neither consists with the Spirit of God nor with Order and Policy 9. The last is Temperance Which is but an Argument of our Love to God in not preferring the Pleasures of the World before him For as the Spirit of God is Holy and cannot dwell in a Body polluted so neither can it be suppos'd that a Soul accustom'd to Divine Love and Spiritual Joys should relish any longer those sensual Satisfactions These are the Fruit of the Spirit with this Connexion and Dependance Heavenly Love is the Original of those that follow and they like the issue of the same Parent have indeed a near resemblance but so that their Natures are distinct and their difference discernable Gifts fit for the Holy Spirit to give and worthy each of a more particular description II. And now after we have known and consider'd them distinctly I shall entreat you to bestow one reflection upon them all together This Fruit how fair it is to the Eye how Lovely not forbid us as that of Paradise but given and presented of which if we have tasted We are restored to a Condition of Happiness greater then that design'd in Eden We

their doctrine does not at last determine and center here it is Christian Religion falsely so called it is counterfeit and has not to it the Witness of the Holy Ghost 1 Tim. 1.5 The end of the Commandment is Charity out of a pure Heart and good Conscience and Faith unfeign'd Gal. 5.6 for in Jesus Christ neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but Faith which worketh by Love So Contradictorily do they Act to our holy Religion who think they may be malicious disorderly false perjur'd in its defence so little do they consider the Nature of God who consecrate their wicked Passions and offer the Service of their Hatred and Anger to his Name who like the Pope give Absolution to all Lusts that List themselves in a pretended holy War For the Works of the flesh are manifest says our Apostle which are these Adultery Fornication Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Aemulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in Times past that they who do such Things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God But as the Text continues the Fruit of the Spirit is Love c. By this Fruit are all Christians to be Sav'd But 2. Those are oblig'd to abound in this Fruit in a more particular manner who make a more peculiar claim to the Holy Spirit Those that pretend to the Gifts of the Holy Ghost happy are they if they have attain'd them They seem sensible of those blessed Influences every good Christian is to expect and to Cherish And pretend to no more then what is necessary to the Salvation of each Believer Neither is he yet partaker in any Measure of the Heavenly gift that shall Envy it to any that are called by the Name of Christ Such a thought suits neither with the Love of God nor of his Brother Would God that all the Lords people were Prophets Num. 11.29 said the meek Moses when those that shar'd of the Spirit were too to have their part in the Government Besides that the Holy Ghost himself has inform'd us in his first Speech after his Descent how largely he intended his Bounty The Promise says he by the mouth of St. Peter is made to you and to your Children Acts 2.39 and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall Call God fulfill his Gracious Promise and make all these Partakers of the Gift that own it But on the other side because a good Opinion of one's self may be taken for the Holy Ghost and we may not impose only on others but our selves because there cannot be a more dangerous delusion then to mistake the lying Spirit for the Spirit of Truth and to be Possessed instead of being Inspir'd we are therefore commanded to make Tryal of the Spirits whether they be of God When then the Holy Spirit its self is content to be tryed he will betray a great want of it that is not meek enough to submit to the Examination And here too the Proof is to be by the Product By their Fruits too shall ye know the Spirits And the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Life will not fail presently to discover it self by sensible signs by strong vital indications But the Effects we are to Expect are not Miracles Curing of the sick or Raising of the Dead they were Illustrious signs of the Divine presence are not heard of after the first Ages nor mentioned here They are not Talents of Eloquence and Discourse Copiousness of Language or a fluent Volubility in publick this seems to be of the same kind with the Gift of Tongues and to have been but of Temporary use here we are sure not expressed They are no other then those you find recounted in our Text they are Love Joy Peace c. Things not so glorious indeed in the Eyes of Carnal men but the most proper most natural Effects of the Holy Ghost as visible Marks and as Convincing Proofs of his Presence as the louder and seemingly more mighty Works He then that lays a more particular Claim to the Possession of the Holy Spirit is to shew it by a Love more exalted towards God and more enlarg'd toward man extended in all its Dimensions Height Breadth Length and Depth to God our Soveraign in chief to his Vicegerent to all Magistrates all Superiors to Equals on all sides and Inferiors of all kinds He is to do Miracles of Charity to be a wonder of Contentedness Peaceableness Gentleness Lowlyness and Condescention His mighty works will be in Temperance Goodness and Fidelity The Fathers of the Hermites of Syria are said to have try'd the Spirit of an Anchorite of a new kind in one of these Qualifications in Meekness if he shew'd Submission and Humility they Presum'd the singularity of his Posture guilty of no Affectation nor Design We may make a more certain Judgment from all these signs the Text affords us Nor will it be a Difficult thing to view the Conversation of men and to discern whether their behaviour be more quiet and Peaceable whether they are Patient freer from murmuring and Complaint Easie Gentle and Tractable not Censorious nor Backbiters not Proud nor disobedient not given to the World and its desires to Ambition Covetousness or Cernality Happy is he on whom the difference is found against him there is no Law He is to be Cherished and esteem'd by all to be Blessed and imitated by all good men But on the contrary when a man is readier to Hate then to Love so far from affecting his Brother for God's sake that he endures not his next Image upon Earth his immediate Representative so full of Rancour and Malice that the abundance of the Heart breaks out at the Mouth where one searches for Occasions of Complaint and is fond of Grievance and Discontent is weary of Peace wishes and prepares for War so little Long suffering that he is under Indulgence as if he were under Persecution Insolent Provoking despising Dominion pardoning not the least defects tho in his Father and Prince Calumniating Slandering Libelling even Autority it self making and delighting in a Lye suborning Falshood and Confounding truth Heady Refractory and disobedient The Evidences against this man's Pretences are so great that did he work Miracles they must find no Credit they too must be ascribed not to the blessed Spirit but to him that works in the Children of Disobedience To assign them to a Divine cause would be a Slander against the Righteousness of God would be to Blaspheme against the Holy Ghost If there are among ye strifes and Envying and Seditions are ye not Carnal and walk as men In the name then of God and of Religion let men in Pretences of so high a Nature at least dissemble well let there be some colour of Love some disguise of Gentleness Humility and Obedience let men see something of the