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A45346 A sermon preach'd before Her Majesty the Queen Dowager in her chappel at Somerset-House, upon the fifth Sunday after Easter, May 9, 1686 / by William Hall. Hall, William, d. 1718? 1686 (1686) Wing H447; ESTC R30723 19,128 42

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A SERMON Preach'd before HER MAJESTY THE Queen Dowager In Her Chappel at Somerset-House upon the Fifth Sunday after Easter May 9. 1686. By WILLIAM HALL Preacher in Ordinary to His MAJESTY Published by Her Majesties Command LONDON Printed by Henry Hills for William Grantham in Cock-pit-Alley near Wilde-Street 1686. A SERMON Preach'd before the Queen Dowager On Rogation-Sunday May 9. 1686. Amen Amen dico vobis Si quid petieritis Patrem in nomine meo dabit vobis Petite accipietis ut gaudium vestrum sit plenum Joh. 16.23 24. Amen Amen I say to you If you shall ask the Father any thing in my Name he will give it you Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full OUR Blessed Saviour in that incomparable Sermon at his last Supper of which his Beloved Disciple St. John has given us a Copy from his thirteenth to his seventeenth Chapter reads a Lesson to his Apostles of the highest importance to their future Conduct and Comportment He exhorts them with an Eloquence Divine in its Original an Eloquence Divine in its Force and Energy to the performance of many things as hard and difficult as they were necessary to be put in practice Besides the Command he gave them of loving one another and that according to the measures of the Love he bore them Sicut dilexi vos He gave them a clear and ample View a full Prospect of all those Pains and Afflictions of all those Torments of that Death they were to undergo for his sake He acquainted them with the nature of their Sufferings with what they were to endure from the Jews and Gentiles who would both combine like as Herod and Pilate to the Death of our Saviour in the Contrivance of such exquisite Torments as should put a period to the Lives of the Apostles with the most intolerable Pains that could possibly be invented The Jews would think themselves obliged to destroy them as Impostors as Preachers of a false and pernicious Doctrine a Doctrine so opposite to the Tenor of their Belief as that was of their Messias being already come whom they obstinately blind through Ignorance as gross as criminal expect even to this day The Gentiles would perform their utmost Endeavours to offer up these Men a most acceptable Sacrifice to the Divinities they ador'd inasmuch as the Apostles were to wage War against them to become their profess'd and irreconcileable Enemies I need not mention with St. Chrysostom upon this place the rest of the Contents of this great Sermon of our B. Saviour I need not give you a more copious Account of his farther Orders or Commands You know how he encourag'd them to raise themselves above the Concerns or Cares of this World He press'd them to an assimilation or likeness in Holiness to his Heavenly Father He did not bid them aspire only to the Sanctity of Angels Cherubins or Seraphins of any of the seven ministring Spirits that stand before God they were to bear up to the Eternal Father and from thence to take a pattern of Perfection You know how he enjoyn'd them not only to acquire such Vertues as were to adorn or embellish themselves but to plant them in the Souls of others to prescribe Rules and Methods of a new Life of a new Belief to preach Penance Afflictions Crosses Persecutions even to death to Men indulging themselves all sorts of inordinate Pleasures to preach Poverty of spirit at least as absolutely necessary to Salvation to Men boundless in their Riches boundless in their Desires of scraping them together by all means possible good or bad to preach Humility to the Proud Patience to those that brook not Affronts Chastity to the Impure Temperance to the Glutton to controul lawless Usurpation and Tyranny to level immoderate Flights of Ambition to transform the Idolaters of Vice into the Admirers and Proselytes of Vertue In a word to transplant Men from Sin to Grace from Grace to Glory It was very hard for the Apostles before whose clear view was plac'd such a Scene or Landskip of future Events so disagreeable to Sense and corrupted Nature not to be discourag'd not to shrink back not to cry out as upon another occasion Quis ergo poterit salvus esse Who is it then that can be saved Our B. Saviour therefore who well knew how easily Men are deterr'd from doing good even at the distant view of ensuing Dangers to animate and encourage his Disciples to an Enterprize so highly conducing to their own Advantage that they might not be disheartned or dismay'd at the mighty Task after he had convinc'd them in his precedent Discourse that there was nothing that lay under his Commands but what was so far from being not feasible that it was easie confers upon them more sensible Encouragement in the Verse foregoing that of my Text. In which he promises to give them unconceivable Comfort and Consolation in the midst of all their Troubles and Afflictions and then for the obtaining of it in the words of my Text advises exhorts nay commands them to have recourse to Prayer as the necessary Means to render all Burdens light all Yokes sweet all Labours and Pains easie Amen Amen dico vobis si quid petieritis Patrem in nomine meo dabit vobis Petite accipietis ut gaudium vestrum sit plenum Amen Amen I say to you if you shall ask the Father any thing in my Name he will give it you Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full As if he had said as St. Chrysostom remarks You must not think you must rely upon your own strength to surmount the Difficulties you are to encounter with You must implore in your daily Prayers the Assistance of Heaven and you 'l never fail of its Protection Petite accipietis Ask and you shall receive offer up your Petitions to the Father in my Name and he 'l bless your Endeavours he 'l strengthen them with his all-surmounting Grace he 'l enable you to withstand and overcome whatsoever would obstruct your Proceedings Petite accipietis c. Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full Since therefore our Holy Mother the Church in a Season sacred to Prayer do's propose to her Children the Gospel wherein our Saviour encourages his beloved Disciples to addict themselves to that holy Exercise as being the only Sourse or Origin from whence flows the fulness of joy in this World and the assurance of the ineffable Bliss of the World to come I think it will not be unseasonable from the words of my Text to exhort you likewise D. Christians to apply your selves with joynt consent with united affection and fervor to the devout and holy Exercise of Prayer and that not for these ensuing Days only wherein we are more strictly engag'd by the Church to pay our respective Duties to Almighty God the better to dispose us on Thursday next to ascend with Christ in Spirit