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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50550	A sermon preached before the King & Queen, at Windsor-Castle, Sept. 21, 1690 by R. Meggott ...	Meggott, Richard, d. 1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1629; ESTC R795	11,158	31

him that justifieth the ungodly I desire to be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is after the law Phil. 3.9 but that which is through the Faith of God and the like are to be understood chiefly of the works of the ceremonial law which the Jews so tenaciously adhered to as is evident by the whole Epistle to the Galatians partly of the works of the moral law which the Gentiles performed by the power of Nature as appeareth by the two first chapters to the Romans but if we speak of the works of the evangelical law which proceed from faith and assistance of the spirit If we turn over the whole new Testament we shall be so far from finding any thing in derogation or diminution of them that it will appear they are the great design of our religion so the Apostle telleth the Ephsians we are his workmanship Ephes 2.10 created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them Tho' there is not such merit in them that we shall be saved for them yet there is such necessity of them that we shall not be saved without them No believing without obedience will avail us for as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also This being so very clear giveth cause enough to spend more than the remainder of the time in lamentation in sad lamentation for the dead I mean for the faith of Christians whose want of works doth so plainly manifest it hath too generally given up the ghost Instead of making it the guide and rule of our lives 1 Kings 9. we use it as a name of faction and distinction wrangling and clamouring as the Harlots did before Solomon about the child one saying the faith is mine the other nay but it is mine only with this woful difference theirs was about a living child ours God knoweth about a dead one What can we think else when we see it on all hands to be so very void works This is sad in any that call themselves Christians but we have the least to excuse our selves of any By how much our faith is the sounder by so much is our sin the greater For however we may flatter our selves it will be more tolerable in the day of account for such as have been serious even in a trifling religion than for such as have been trifling in such a serious one The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink Rom. 13.17 but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost It is a duty indeed and a commendable one to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. but what will it be but a reproach to us if all our zeal be only for the profession of it and we have none for those fruits of it as are most becoming Saints Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Trust ye not then in lying words saying the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord. The Protestant Religion the Protestant Religion It will be but odious to God and fulsom to men if it be not adorned with an unanswerable conversation Who then is a wise man among you James 3.13 and endued with knowledge let him show out of a good conversation his works with meetness of wisdom that so our profession and our practices may meet together our faith and our works kiss each other and glory may dwell in our land FINIS