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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42779	An assize-sermon preach'd before Judge Twisselton and Serj. Bernard at Carlisle September the 10th, ann. 1660 and now publish'd and recommended to the magistrates of the nation, as a means by God's blessing to quicken them to a serious pursuit of the honourable and truly religious design, for the reformation of manners, which is now on foot, and countenanced by the nobility, bishop's and judges, in the late account of the societies for the reformation of manner's and applauded by the serious and religious men of all perswasions / by R. Gilpin ...	Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing G775; ESTC R5869	17,722	40

but proud Hypocrites I answer I will ask no stronger Conviction against you than what may be drawn from hence The Objection shews and grants the Necessity and the Truth of the Thing I plead for If others are Hypocrites where is the Fault Not in doing these Things for they are expresly commanded but in doing them no better first then come up to these Things that others do and then go beyond them in sincerity of Performance I pray Scorn not these Truths the Great Judge is at the Door My Second advice to you is that you oppose not Christ's Kingdom Now this may be done two Ways 1. By obstructing his Designs in the Means he appoints to propagate it the preaching of the Word is his Scepter his Sword his Chariot of Salvation the Word of the Kingdom c. it is opposed too by discountenancing the Work of his Kingdom the Practice of his Laws these are the King 's high Way caled the Royal Law by the Apostle James Now Christ's Design is obstructed 1. When Men call for Darkness and puts out the Light 2. When they bind heavy Burthers and lay them upon the Shoulders of the Ministers 3. When they forbid them the plain and conscientious Exercise of their Duty saying Prophesy to us smooth things 4. When they take the advantage of their conscientious Dissatisfactions to stop the Course of their Ministry laying a Snare on Mizpah and spreading a Net on Tabor If you should do thus The Lord grant he take you not at your Words See how he threatens this Opposition Hos 5.1 Hear ye this O Priests and hearken ye house of Israel And give ye ear O house of the King for Judgment is toward you because ye have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor c. And in Isa 30.10 13. They say to the Seers See not and to the Prophets Prophesy not c. Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant Consider also how suitable the Punishment is to such a Sin Hos 9.7 8. They had laid Snares for the Lord's Prophets and he punisheth this iniquity by giveing them Prophets that should be Snares to them The days of Visitation and Recompence are come Israel shall know it even by this He will give them Fools for their Prophets and Madmen for their Teachers It follows the Watchman of Ephraim was with my God that is as some expound it they never let him alone till he dy'd and then he had rest or as others think he was with God in earnest Prayers and Groanings They put him to complain Well! How doth God avenge himself Even thus They shall have Prophets that shall be a Snare of a Fowler in all their Ways to blind and delude them till they bring on God's hatred and Judgment upon them all So also Mic. 2.11 He that will Prophesy of Wine and strong Drink he shall even be the Prophet of this People Again The Work of Christ's Kingdom is discountenanced when God's People are abus'd revil'd scorn'd and hated for Holiness for Praying Hearing c. or when they are restrain'd from or interrupted in the Exercise of Religion if you do thus they will cry to their God or to speak in the Language of Children they will go tell their Father and when he examines the Matter you will be found fighters against God and he will undoubtedly deliver them out of your Hand he hath assured us of it Psal 12.5 For the oppression of the Poor for the sighing of the Needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him Take heed therefore what you do and give not any Occasion for Men to read that of Rom. 13.3 backward saying Ruler's are not a terror to evil works but to the good Thirdly Set your selves strenuously against the Works and Kingdom of the Devil you have good Laws which are as Banks against the Floods of Ungodliness look well to the Execution of them Wickedness is Fruitful it needs no planting nor watering it grows like Hemlock in the Furrows of the Field all that the Devil will ask of you is but to let him alone all that wicked Men long for is that the Yoke may be taken off that they may go to Hell without controul See how the Land breaks forth Impieties like the Frogs of Egypt make the Land to stink Judge of the Nation by this one County in this little time of Solstitium in the Change of Justices Wickedness that was under restraint for Sin is cowardly is now become a staring daring Cockatrice What Sabbath Breakin gs and Drunkenness have we had of late I impute not this to any in Authority look but into the Tempers of debauch'd Wretches and you 'l find that their hopes of Licentiousness is the ground of their Love to any Change of Government Civil or Ecclesiastical and the fear of Restraint the ground of their Dislike When the King came in then some rejoyc'd that now they might Drink and Swear without the fear of the Stocks some of you that hear me know the Truth of this but when he publish'd his seasonable Declaration against Debauchery then as much as they were for the King before they could speak against him as being a Puritan and Presbyterian These have been the Words of some and indeed what better can you expect from those that know no other joy but Drunkenness and Excess That can delight in no Thank-offering but such as is fit to be given to some drunken God that can make no better use of the King's Name but such as a Farrier makes of his Drenching-horn to force Drink down their Throats beyond the Measure and Desires of their own Stomachs Rise up then in the Strength and Might of the Lord against these Impieties Break the Jaws and Teeth of Wickedness spare none of Amalek great nor small if you do however privately it may be the bleating of the Sheep and lowing of the Oxen will discover you to be no Friends to Christ's Kingdom Fourthly Make not your Power subservient to your Passions and Desires of Revenge this is not to do Christ's Work but to serve your own Turn of him Remember not former Provocations and when you come to Punish any that formerly have Offended you put no more into the Scale of Justice then the present Crime requires this is a seasonable Advice though hard and difficult to Flesh and Blood Manet altâ mente repostum c. to this Purpose I might apply a Story which we have of Themistocles who coming into a School asked what Art they profess'd They told him the Art of Memory He reply'd that the Art of Memory was but an unprofitable Art and that he had rather learn the Art of Forgetfulness To forget Things that might provoke our Fury and Passion is certainly a Divine Art and the best way to