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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48505	A sermon preached before the Queen, at Whitehall, Jan. 24, 1690/1 by J. Lambe ...	Lambe, John, 1648 or 9-1708.	1691 (1691)	Wing L223; ESTC R3371	10,648	28

thou the Law by chusing some and neglecting other duties as the Apostle himself expounds it For the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles through you Rom. 2.23 But besides unless our Obedience be intire the beauty of our Religion will be obscur'd There is a connexion a dependency of Christian Graces one upon another wheresoever therefore the Chain is broken there is a kind of inconsistency an harshness a disagreement But if our Life shall be all of a piece acted by one and the same Christian Principle in all things we shall then lay open and expose our Religion to view in its proper colours We shall display its symmetry and proportion to the eyes of all men If thy whole body says our Saviour to our present purpose be full of light having no dark part the whole shall be full of light St. Luk. 11.36 If no faculty be left unwrought upon no evil affection unsubdued if we are intirely united to our Religion if we understand believe desire and act by the laws thereof we shall advance its honour in the World both out Religion and our Life will be the common object of respect and love That is the first 2. Secondly That we may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour considered as a Rule of Life it is necessary that our Obedience be free and chearful that we part with our selves with our own self-will and sensual Appetites without hesitation or complaint not by constraint but willingly For such a ready practice will express the Graces of our Religion more smartly more to the Life and those who observe it will have reason to be in love with it for it selt and to be throughly reconciled to such a Yoke which they find is so easy so pleasant to those who bear it Do all things says the Apostle without murmuring and without disputing let your Obedience be prompt and chearful forward and without regret that ye may be blameless without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation amongst whom ye then shall shine as lights in the World Phil. 2.14 15. That is the second 3 Thirdly We shall adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour considered as a Rule of Life if in cases doubtful we determine our practice on the side of the Law and of our Duty No institution of Religion can be so particular as to provide for all the circumstances of duties because they are as infinite as the relations means and tendencies of things If we therefore shall look beyond the letter of the Law if we consider what is Lovely and of good report as well as what is barely Just and Necessary if we walk by the analogy of Faith if we endeavour to be perfect as God it perfect to proceed from one degree of Grace unto another we shall certainly bring our Religion into honour and esteem It will be believed that we heartily embrace it that we truly love it when it is evident that we have wholly resolv'd our selves into it By such a true Affection by such a prudent Zeal it will appear our choice our delight and our ultimate end which cannot but subdue the prejudices of its Enemies Who could withstand the power of our Religion if it were thus sincerely and throughly imbib'd Whereas a shrivell'd narrow Vertue that stands upon terms with God and considers how far we may indulge our selves without the violation of some great and notorious Law dishonours our Religion and depresses the credit of Christianity How should it be thought any other than a tyrannous superstition when it appears a disease a burden an abhorrence to the Disciples of it That is the third 4. Fourthly and lastly We shall adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour as it is a Rule of Life by an eminent practice of some particular Vertues as of Mercy and Charity wheresoever these are express'd to the Life habitually bountifully freely all that observe it will esteem the Religion from whence such a Spirit flows Who is not apt to favour his Opinions whose Goodness is conspicuous or who has done us any signal favours Is it not the common sentiment of all Mankind that Religion is design'd to mend the World to correct the roughness that is superinduc'd upon our nature and the selfishness of our ends to inlarge our spirits into a generous respect to each others good to fix the Laws of our nature more close upon us by the accession of Divine Command Wheresoever therefore the social Vertues universal Love a Catholick temper humanity mercy bounty and a readiness to forgive shine and are eminent there our Religion will be honoured and esteem'd as a Doctrine that is a publick blessing to the World And thus our Saviour commanded the multitude five thousand persons to sit down on the grass and fed then by a Miracle till they were fill'd And what was the effect of this Miraculous Bounty Why they were in love with such a Teacher and said of a truth this is the Prophet which should come into the World St. Jo. 6.14 And thus ye may see both the meaning and the practice of this duty And if we well observe these rules and measures I have now laid down we may certainly know whatsoever our calling station or profession may be whether our Christian conversation is such as adorns the Doctrine of God our Saviour nay we may judge of every action we do whether it tends to the honour of our Religion or no. Every Man that is honest and sincere may easily apply these general Rules to any particular instance that shall be before him For all that has been said is no more than this That a Man that would render his Religion lovely and amiable in the World must entertain it in all its parts and Articles promote it zealously confess it steddily practise it chearfully depart from his Liberty in doubtful cases freely in all his actions express a prudent Zeal but above all that he have Fervent Charity that God in all things may be Glorified 1 Pet. 3.8 And were our Religion received and practis'd according to these just directions how would all the World be subdued and vanquisht by it It would be the power of God to salvation both to the Jews and Gentiles 1 Cor. 1.24 when all dissembling and equivocation when all disguises and hypocrisie when sullen selfishness and private interest shall be banished the dominions of this Religion when no man shall seek his own Mat. 7.12.22.39 but every one anothers weal when we shall Love our Neighbour as our selves and do to others as we would they should do to us How would Christendom be throng'd with those that would come from the furthest parts of the East to behold the golden Age renewed and to pay their respect to that Religion which has thus restored the beauty of the humane nature And thus much for the Duty III. I proceed but very briefly to consider the reasons which oblige us and the