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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80830	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, upon the fast-day appointed, February 4. 1673/4 By Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford.	Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.	1674 (1674)	Wing C6974; ESTC R225556	12,618	34

reward We shall be great gainers by all such losses if we bear them patiently It is then the contention and fighting we have within our selves which doth us all the mischief they are our own passions which fight against our reason and these are the enemies that wound our souls which no other enemy can peach Nor do our passions war against our reason only but contend and fight one against another As our body is composed of several elements very opposite as fire and water earth and air so the affections and passions which spring from the body are as disagreeing and cross to each other as these elements and are at perpetual discord As for example The passion of covetousness how doth this force a man to pinch both back and belly to rise early and trot about and though he lie down wearied at night with many turmoiling affairs yet then solicitous care for the morrow forbids him sleep or to take any rest and all this to satisfie his greedy appetite of wealth which he hath no sooner scraped together and hoorded up in his Closet but a clean contrary passion of vain-glory forces open the Closet doors tumbles out the bags for his Neighbour hath built him a fair House richly furnished and he is resolved to out-do him whatever it cost thus Covetousness and Vain-glory war in his own breast Again an amorous lustful passion makes a man flatter and adore some beautiful imperious Dame observing all her freakish humours till at length she growing insolent and desiring to shew her domineering power puts some scornful affront upon him which cuts him to the heart and raises in him a fierce indignation requiring him even to kick out of doors this insulting Creature yet she in spight of all his wrath and fury holds him fast with her amorous hook by the nose like a Bear making him still dance after her pipe Just so the ambition of gaining some honourable and powerful place at Court will make the most haughty aspiring man crouch to and fawn upon all those whom he thinks may be instrumental for the gaining of it be they ever so unworthy in his own estimation yet his eager Ambition will force him to stoop and humble himself to these pitiful Creatures which his proud heart abhors Many more such contradictory passions are perpetually clashing and fighting in the breasts of worldly and wicked men never suffering them to enjoy any peaceful tranquility All this is briefly set forth by our Prophet in the Verse forgoing my Text The wicked are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Gregory the great Moralist descants upon this place in a pious meditation adding to this passage of Isaiah that of David Psal 104.26 where he speaks of that great Leviathan taking his pastime in the Sea which Sea he interprets Corda mortalium tumidis cogitationibus fluctuosa and by Leviathan he understands Antiquum hostem qui in eorum lubrica cogitatione natat The various passions which the hearts of carnal men are subject to like furious winds blow where they list without any controul of Grace tossing them up and down like boisterous Waves of the Sea wherein the great Leviathan Satan takes his pastime endeavouring to raise the Tempest and Confusion to the heighth When he first tempts men to sin he turns the lessening end of his Prospective-glass unto their eye representing the greatest horrid Crimes as small harmless Peccadilioes but when he hath raised the mass of their sins to a vast deformed bulk fit to terrifie them then he turns the multiplying end to their affrighted consciences he raises up the mire and dirt thereof as our Prophet saith representing all in as foul and fearful a manner as possible he can never ceasing till he hath overwhelmed them in the depth of despair and this is his masterpiece his chief pastime to see men thus distracted and confounded Miserable wretches made by sin at last such mortal enemies unto themselves as in raging despair to cast themselves body and soul into eternal flames There can be no peace to the wicked who are not at peace with God who have not the assistance of his Divine Grace to repel the furious blasts of Satan God only and his Christ are able to say effectually to the Winds Peace and to the Sea Be still and his Disciples only can obtain this favour at his hands So saith David Psal 85.8 He will speak peace unto his people and to his Saints Be the Storm ever so great and the Vessel ready to sink a word from his Divine powerful mouth composes all Therefore David saith again Psal 119.165 Great peace have they which love thy Law and nothing shall off end them But the wicked have no share in this and therefore can have no setled peace neither within their own hearts nor one with another which is my third and last division of Peace Peace with others God is as it were the Center of all things from whom innumerable Lines issue forth towards the Circumference of the whole Universe and these Lines the nearer they are to the Center the nearer they draw to each other and in the Center are all conjoyned the farther they draw from the Center the more they are disunited one from another And from hence is that Maxime approved of as well in natural Philosophy as Divinity Omne quod fit unum participatione unius fit unum There can be no unity but by participation of the prime Unity and Entity which is God Ens unum verum bonum Now the wicked man partakes only of Gods Entity but hath no participation of his goodness or unity and therefore cannot be at any unity with himself or with others The same disordered passions which disturb his own peace and quiet disturb the peace of others also and his receding from God the prime Unity is the cause of all division and distraction And on the other side the nearer the godly draw unto God the more they are composed in their own breasts the more at peace and unity with others and in God are all as one This we see verified in that blessed multitude mention'd Acts 4. The whole multitude were of one heart and of one soul Thus it was with the Primitive Christians who drew near unto God but we Christians of this Age as we are more remote in distance of time from Christ so are our hearts far more remote from him and far divided one from another strangely different from those blessed Primitive Christians who were of one heart and one soul Where can you now find a whole Multitude a whole Congregation a whole Family of one heart of one soul alas of as many hearts almost as men Are we then Christians By this shall all men know saith Christ that ye are my Disciples if ye love one another Then by this do all men know that we are not Christs Disciples because we love not one another but instead of