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truth_n	mercy_n	peace_n	righteousness_n	4,695	5	7.7703	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36925	Evangelical politie, or, A Gospel conversation a sermon preached at St. Paul's, London, May 20, 1660. : being the Sunday next (but one) before His Majesties happy return to his said citie / by James Duport ...	Duport, James, 1606-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing D2650; ESTC R17238	21,197	39

viz. as it conduces to the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} here in the Text the one onely thing true pietie and religion inward holiness and the power of godliness that so a Christian conversation and a Christian adoration Evangelical walking and Evangelical worship may go hand in hand together in a decent and comely equipage both becoming the Gospel of Christ a conformity whereunto in life and practise is that which I have been labouring to press upon you all along from first to last and so I shall leave it with you and conclude as I begun Onely I shall add this memento as fit premises to the conclusion Remember I beseech you and consider how great things God hath done for you it was Samuels advice to Israel upon the coming in of their King 2 Sam. 12.24 Consider the better to stir you up to practice this duty of the Text what a prevailing argument and engagement thereununto God hath laid upon you by his late miraculous providences and those wonderfull changes and revolutions he hath wrought among you What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me now may England say and now may London say which truly may be called Angliae Anglia as Athens was once {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Greece of Greece Indeed how shall we express our gratitude to God for his great and manifold mercies to this unworthy Nation especially for this so remarkable so extraordinary so transcendent a mercy the very top-stone crown and complement of all his other mercies and deliverances vouchsafed unto this Church and State that mercy I mean never to be forgotten the memorial whereof ye have so lately celebrated by your triumphant gratulations and publick thanksgivings to God that mercy wherein the Lord hath made you of this City among others so signally and so succesfully instrumental even the plucking us out of the midst of our confusions like so many brands out of the midst of the fire the reestablishing and settling the Kingdome upon the good old foundations even the sure foundations of truth and righteousness by so seasonable and so peaceable a restoring of our King to his throne and us thereby to peace and happiness But not to deprive any of that honour and praise due unto them much less that eminent and worthy instrument whose spirit the Lord stirred up to stand in the gap and to assert our liberties and work deliverance for us yet after all we must say This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes And if ye will let us take in that too which goes before The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner And now me thinks I hear every one of you singing Davids song Quid retribuam Domino What tribute shall I pay him or what homage shall I do him What shall I render unto him or what doth he require of me as a token of thankfulness in lieu of so unparallel'd and so unexpected a mercy Will the Lord accept or doth he require thousands of rams or ten thousands of rivers of oyl No such matter no he requires no such thing at your hands he requires not your lands or revenues your goods or estates he requires not all your money in your bags or bonds all your wares in your ships or shops or ware-houses and yet though he should this were no dear price neither to pay for such a purchase it were neither too much for him to ask nor too much for you to give for those two precious nay invaluable pearls of Peace and Truth I am sure it were not above the rate of Mephibosheth's Accipiat totum Let him take all forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace But God requires neither all nor half no nor any of all this all that he requires of you is onely that or rather that Onely of Samuel in the place afore-named Onely fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart and consider how great things he hath done for you Samuels Onely there is almost parallel with S. Pauls here and his exhortation the same in effect with this here in the Text with which I shall conclude Onely let your conversation be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ FINIS Sr Thomas Aleyn The Lady Margarets Preacher Gal. 4.16 Gal. 1.10 Tit. 2.10 Tit. 2.11 12. Tit. 1.11 1 Pet. 2.15 Isa. 9.6 2 Cor. 5 20. Tertull. Apologet Matth. 11.29 Lev. 11.45 Ezek 37.6 2 Pet. 3.11 Tu me defende gladio ego te defendam colamo Dictum Occhami ad Henricum IV. Impe ratorem Which though spoken to the Supreme Magistrate yet in a due proportion may be applied to the subordinate Acts 21.39 Eph. 2.19 Grot. Annot. in Matth. c. 10. v. 10. Davenant Comment. in Epist. ad Coloss. c. 1. v. 10. Stupor mundi Clerus Britannicus Bp. Hall Columb. Noae Psal. 16.6 Epictet Enchirid. cap 69. Alexand. apud Q. Curtium Calcans Platonis stromata dixit Diogenes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cui respondit Plato {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Diog. Laert. in Vit. Diog. Rom. 12.1 Maximè sacerdo●● hoc convenit orr●re Dei templum decore congruo Ambros. De offic. lib. 2. cap. 21. Matth. 21.12 * Mat 26 ● compared with Iohn 12.4 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Theodoret. Hist. Eccles. lib. 3. cap. 11. Niceph. lib. 10. cap. 29. Exod. 4.2 Averroes 1 Cor. 14.33 Psal. 116.12 Antholog Epigr. lib. 3. cap. 25. Psal. 118.23 Mic. 6.7 2 Sam. 19.30

these five especially First The Gospel of Christ is a Gospel of truth and faithfulness sinceritie and plainness {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a faithfull saying 1 Tim. 1.15 the word of truth Eph. 1 13. 2 Tim. 2.15 and truth it self Joh. 1.17 Gal. 3.1 Suitably and agreeably hereunto a Christian conversation should be a true upright single-hearted sincere conversation without fraud or deceit lying or dissembling guile or hypocrisie Secondly The Gospel of Christ is a Gospel of peace expresly so called Rom. 10.15 Eph. 6.15 The main designe of the Gospel is to make peace in the world to compromise all differences to unite all parties to reconcile God and man man and man together therefore it is called the ministery of reconciliation and the word of reconciliation both in one chapter 2 Cor. 5. Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Gospel the great peace-maker the Prince of peace the Spirit of the Gospel the Spirit of peace the Ministers of the Gospel Gods Ambassadours messengers of peace and the Gospel it self the Gospel of peace Now in a conformity hereunto Christians should be men of peace peace-makers as Christ himself was lovers of peace and livers in peace followers of peace with all men men of closing reconciling healing uniting cementing spirits and a Christian conversation a quiet calm and peaceable conversation Thirdly The Gospel of Christ is a Gospel of love and philanthropie grace and goodness and mercy the Gospel is wholly made up and compounded of love or if truth be the matter of it love is the form if truth be the body of it love is the soul it is a designe of pure love and philanthropie of free grace and mercy that is the very essence and genius of the Gospel all along every leaf every line every letter in the Gospel breaths nothing but love and pure love Such is the rule and such should our conversation be this the true character of the Gospel and this the character of a true Christian the badge and cognizance of Christs disciples this the mark and brand of his sheep by which they are known to be his and distinguisht from all other Joh. 13.35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another And this was the mark and character whereby the Primitive Christians used to be painted and pointed out Vide inquiunt ut invicem se diligant See how these Christians love one another If then you would have your conversation suitable to the Gospel of Christ it must be an amicable loving and charitable conversation Fourthly The Gospel of Christ is a Gospel of humilitie and meekne●s indeed the Gospel is nothing else but a continued history of Christs humiliation from the cratch to the cross a Sermon of humility all along Christ the great gift of the Gospel and the Spirit the great promise of the Gospel the one a lamb the other a dove both emblems of humility and meekness and the chief lesson of the Gospel Christ came to teach was humility and meekness Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart Ye see what the rule is would ye frame and square your life and conversation according unto it why then it must be an humble lowly and meek conversation ye must follow the Lamb flee after the Dove be clothed with humility 1 Pet. 5.5 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is the Gospel robe Christs livery the Christian garment even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit 1 Pet. 3.4 Humility the first second third thing in Christianitie as Pronunciation in Rhetorick Fifthly and lastly The Gospel of Christ is a Gospel of holiness and purity Sacrosanctum Evangelium the Holy Gospel is the proper style and epithet of it The Gospel is a glass wherein we behold the glory of the Lord {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2 Cor. 3.18 and it is a pure spotless mirrour a clear crystal glass The fountain of Christs bloud that runs so fresh and so freely in the current and stream of the Gospel it is a clear and a pure fountain the Gospel-promises are purifying and cleansing promises 2 Cor. 7.1 God a holy God the Spirit a holy Spirit the Gospel a holy Gospel Suitably and agreeably hereunto a Christian Conversation should be a pure and holy and spotless conversation A profane unholy impure Christian is contradictio in adjecto Saints by profession should be Saints indeed the Gospel say's to us as God himself does Be ye holy for I am holy Thus I have given you as it were the sceleton of a Sermon already I might lay sinews and flesh upon it and cover it with skin as the bones in Ezekiel and so I would have done in another congregation for indeed these particulars might deserve to be further enlarged and set home upon us as being very usefull and profitable in themselves and likewise suitable to the scope of the Text and not unseasonable for the times we live in wherein there hath been so much profession of religion so much noise and sound and talk of the Gospel of Christ and God knows so little life and practise suitable and agreeable thereunto Yet I shall not go this way neither but wave all these for the present first because these are common themes ordinary beaten tracks and I would willingly go off of the thread-bare common or at least handle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} secondly because these are transcendents of an universal aspect and of general concernment to all and I desire to be a little more particular proper and pertinent in my discourse to such an Audience considering where I am and to whom I speak I shall therefore crave leave to use another method and that is a little to insist upon those two words in the Text which speak the duty of Christians in complyance with the Gospel of Christ the Verb and the Adverb the one expressing the matter of the duty the other the manner the matter we have in the Verb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the manner in the Adverb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} both words very emphatical full and significant the strength and energy importance and improvement whereof I shall endeavour to make out unto you and to fasten upon you First for the Verb take it first in the general as we render it according to Calvin and the Vulgar Latine Conversamini Let your conversation be or as Beza very well Vos gerite Carry or behave your selves or as Castelio not amiss Vitam agite Lead your lives and so it denotes an uniform constant continued course Let your constant carriage and behaviour your whole course and conversation be agreeable to the Gospel of Christ Have a care of your conversation that is of the constant continued frame and model and tenour and course of your carriage Good men may have their flaws and failings