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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80865	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, January the 9th 1675[/]6 By Thomas Cartwright, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty. Published by His Majesties special command.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1676 (1676)	Wing C702B; ESTC R4730	14,227	36

A SERMON PREACHED before the KING AT WHITE-HALL January the 9th 1675 6. BY THOMAS CARTWRIGHT D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY Published by His Majesties special Command In the SAVOY Printed by T. Newcomb and are to be sold by Jonathan Edwyn at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street 1676. St. JUDE Vers 22 23. And of some have compassion making a difference And others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh THe Man whose Soul is once Effectually wrought upon by the Spirit of Grace bestows his first and chief care in pursuit of Salvation for he then sees how deep how spreading and how mortal an infection Sin is and is throughly convinced of the manifold danger of every particular Iniquity in as much as it puts a Man into a state of Enmity against God and his Laws and so Rom. 7. 13. worketh Death and that Eternal and therefore he cannot rest until he be resolv'd of that Important Quaere which was started by the Pagan Jaylor to Paul and Silas Sirs What must I do to be saved And being converted himself he becomes very sollicitous as St. Peter was commanded to be for the Luk. 22. 32. strengthening of his Brethren and doth what in him lies 〈◊〉 rouze them out of their Sensuality that they may not sleep securely in their Sins till Eternal Flames become their first Awakners This is indeed a Catholick and comprehensive Duty and directed accordingly as this Epistle is Vers 1. Omnibus Christi Fidelibus To all that are Sanctified by God the Father But because that which is every Mans Work is no Mans Work as God sent his Angel to bring Lot out of Sodom and conduct him to Zoar so that you might never want Men to guide you to the City of Refuge when the Avenger pursues you God hath committed to us the care of your Souls and given us Commission to invite you to be Reconciled to him and to accept of that Everlasting Entertainment which he hath provided for you and rather then fail to Compel you to come in to his Mansions of Glory And because we shall meet with Men in the World of as different tempers as complexions he hath also given us sufficient Instructions how to demean our selves towards them bids us not serve all our Patients out of the same Box but like skilful Physitians apply different Medicines according to the difference of their Maladies to manage the Word of God and our Ministery of Reconciliation with such Spiritual Skill and Wisdom as to give every one his proper portion Some Mens Hearts are like soft Wax the heat of the Hand will make them yield without that of the Fire a gentle Admonition will prevail more with them than a dreadful Commination they have Ingenuity enough to be sham'd out of their Sins upon the least discovery Others are so hardned in their Villanies that they must be scar'd or whipt out of them as the Buyers and Sellers were out of the Temple before they will leave them they who sin out of infirmity may be won with gentle means but Obstinate Offenders are to be humbled with terrours Every Man hath his Ignorances and Inadvertencies his Mistakes and Errours Infirmities and Indiscretions in any of which if he be at any time overtaken or sin out of blind Zeal you must neither insult over his fall nor despair of his rising but restore him with meekness for he sins not by Design but Folly he falls not by Malice but by Surprize not by the Strength of his Will but by the Frailty of his Nature If he be wavering and unsteady in the Faith you must recover him with mildness and if his fault be small cover it with the Vail of pity and compassion and use gentle means to cure him But yet make a difference if you meet with Men whose Distempers are Inveterate and Incorporated into their Natures by Evil Customs your Remedies must be sharp and quick if their sin be bold your reprehension must not be bashful The Chirurgion must bring the Saw and the Caustick to such Gangreen'd Members proclaim the Terrours of the Lord to them who will not stand in awe but Heb. 10. 26. sin wilfully after they have received the Knowledge of the Truth Sheathe the Two edged Sword of Gods Word in their Bowels give them a Prospect of the Approaching Destruction which will suddenly overtake them if they do not flee for their Lives Suffer them not to look upon the Wrath to come at the wrong end of the Prospective-Glass but knowing the Terrours of the Lord use an holy Violence and snatch them rudely out of that Fire which will Singe them if they stay but a minute in it and will Devour them if their continuance be any longer and bring them if it be possible to the hatred of all the beginnings and least degrees of Impurity and Uncleanness make them so afraid of the Infection of Fleshly Lusts as to avoid the very Garments that are spotted with it If private Admonitions do not Reclaim them proceed to publick and rather than not pull them out of the flames of Hell Cut them off from the Communion of the Faithful and deliver them up to Satan to which the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 refers Reprove them sharply when they are Convinc'd or Separated by Church-Censures when they are debarr'd from sitting at their Fathers Table with the rest of their Brethren which although they may be an instance of Severe Discipline are yet with designs of great Mercy the most dreadful of them being Medicinal not Mortal that by punishment of the Flesh the Soul may be saved in the Day of the Lord And of some have compassion making a difference And others save with fear pulling them out of the Fire hating even the Garment spotted by the Flesh These words may possibly have an eye to Church Discipline and be intended as a Direction to the Governours of the Church for the Exercising not only of the milder part of the Apostolical Office but also of those higher degrees of Censures call'd The coming with a Rod which in case of Obstinacy is not only Seasonable but Vnavoidable But I shall rather consider them at present either as they concern our selves in the Actions of Repentance or our Brethren in those of Fraternal Correction and so may Instruct all Men but especially us of the Clergy how to behave our selves towards all even the worst of recoverable Sinners Now as our Patients and their Distempers are different so must also our Prescriptions and Directions be a Green Wound and an Vlcer are not to be Cured with the same Application And that I may make no other difference but what our Apostle himself hath done nor be tempted to forsake the Scope and Method of my Text I shall distinctly sort what I have to say into a Practical Resolution of these Four Inquiries I. Of whom it is that we are