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A25204	Decus & tutamen, or, Practical godliness the ornament and muniment of all religion being the subject of several sermons preached at Westminster upon Titus ii, 10 / by V. Alsop ...	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing A2907; ESTC R16042	63,995	144

pregnant Proof that God is with us and Religion in us of a Truth But let thus much susfice to the first general Inquiry viz. what this Exhortation to adorn the Doctrine of our God and Saviour doth presuppose § 2. Proceed we now to the second general Inquiry What doth it imply to adorn the Doctrine of the Gospel in All things To this the answer must be returned in many Particulars 1. That the Doctrine of the Gospel must be Adorned in Civil as well as Sacred Affairs It 's not enough that we demean our selves decently and reverently in Acts of immediate Worship we must walk in the same fear of God under the same holy awe in our secular Businesses Religion must command even our Recreations our Diversions our Converses our particular Callings As carnal earthly Hearts will carnalize their Religious Performances so will spiritual Minds spiritualize their common Employments It 's far short of the Whole Du●…y of Man That we Sanctify the Lord's Day we must Sanctify our own God has indeed graciously indulged us six Days in the Week to labour in but not one of those Days nor one moment in any of those hours wherein we may do the Work of the Devil and the Flesh. If ever we will pretend to Credit our Religion we must evidence Holiness in the Shop as well as in the Church in our own Houses as well as the Lord's we must be Holy in Trading as well as Praying we must Sanctify the Name of God at our own Tables as well as the Lord's Table 1 Cor. x. 31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God And again 1 Pet. i. 15. As he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ' Ev 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In all the windings and turnings of your liv●…s There 's nothing lawful though never so remote from Heaven but may be laid in a right line and due subor●…ination to it and when we cannot actually intend our ultimare end yet must we virtually refer all unto it this is that which has reproach'd Religion that what warmth we get in the Worship of God we presently lose it and grow luke-warm perhaps stone-cold when we depart from it And thus whatever we build up at the Church in one day we are plucking down all the week after 2. We must adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things In second Ta●… Duties as well as those of the first The same God who sees and observes the temper of our Hearts in Dealing with himself observes it also in our Treatings and Dealings with Men would we approve our sincerity before an all-seeing God approve it also in our Treatings Conversings and Transactings with Men. There are some excellent first Table Christians who will not swear lightly not take God's Holy Name into their Mouths profanely that seem to make a Conscience of the Lord's Day that are severe in regulating the Worship of God by his Word And yet if common Fame may be credited are under no such severe Bonds of Conscience in their Covenants Contracts and Engagements with their Brethren but the Doctrine of the Gospel would have taught them another Lesson Tit. ii 12. which teaches us to carry it Righteously towards our Neighbour Soberly towards our selves and Godly towards our God What a rare Pattern was David Psal. ci 2. I will behave my self wis●…ly in a perfect way I will walk in the midst of my house with a perfect heart He will be a Holy King upon the Throne a Holy Judge upon the Bench a Holy General in the Field Holy in the City and Holy in the Country for a perfect Heart had taught him to walk wisely in a perfect way If therefore we design to vindicate the Glory of Religion none must go beyond over-reach or defraud his brother 1 Thess. iv 6. our Covenants must be kept tho' we suffer by it Psal. xv 4. Truth must be spoken to and kept with our Neighbour and that Neighbour must be every one that partakes with us of Humane Nature 3. In all things In holy Works as well as holy Words It 's not well-saying but well-doing that must wipe off the Reproach that has been thrown upon our holy Profession 1 Pet. ii 15. So is the will of God that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of foolish men Foolish Men will be lavish of their Tongues they will be reproaching Religion and the Religious this evil-speaking is the effect of their ignorance but the question is how shall we silence them and stop their Mouths for the future This he resolves as the Direction of God himself 'T is by well doing Words are cheap Works are chargeable and will cost us more to perform them It 's a mortal stab that is given to Religion when the Professors of it talk as high as Heaven and yet walk as low as this dirty Earth When our Ntions and Professions seem too high for this World and yet too low for the next Words without Works are a Language which Men do not understand we speak to them in an unknown Tongue but to be Beneficent Charitable to do them good to relieve the Distressed to deliver the Oppressed to make peace among Contending Neighbours This is a Dialect which is Vernacular to all the World Had we judged of a Pharisee by the Ear and not by the Eye he had been the most excellent Saint on Earth but our Saviour notes them for this Matth. xxiii 3. They say and do not Nay our blessed Saviour rebukes his own Disciples upon this Account Luke vi 46. Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things that I say Let that therefore be ours which was the Motto of a great Man in his time Non magna loquimur sed vivimus Let Men see as well as hear us that our light may so shine ●…fore m●…n that they seeing our good works may glorifie our fath●…r which is in heaven Matth. v. 16. 4. In all things In Passive as well as Active Ob●…dience In suffering according to the will of God as well as acting in obedience to it It 's a very poor Religion that is not worth suffering for We must expect otherwise no better Language than this surely if these Professors did really believe their God to be Faithful and True they would trust him Did they believe th●… R●…compence of R●…ard they would venture their All upon it Did they believe their God able to repay them to reimburse them in what they should lay out and lose for his sake they would generously forsake all at the Call and for the Cause of their God Sufferings have ever been the Test the Ordeal by which Christ has Proved his Disciples Mark x. 17 18. A young man comes running to Christ as if in great haste for Heaven and that he might justifie his Obedience which he hoped would justifie him he avouches

of whom they see fitter for Bedlam than the Church If we could learn to discern the Divine Providence in Mens Provocations and that as the evil one has a hand in them the righteous God has an over-ruling hand in them too it would serve to dash the Ferment of our most boiling Passions and teach us to say with the Psalmist The Lord has ●…idden him to curse me The sense and fear of God vigorous upon our Hearts would fortifie them against the sudden eruptions of these Distempers Prov. xxiii 17. My son be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long and let not thy heart envy sinners And in a word It would abate our Passion and the Pride that feeds it did we but calmly consider that our strongest Passions are our greatest Impotencies and that whilst we indulge this last we do but make work for Repentance And what a folly is it to give way to that which must cost us bitter Tears and Sorrow before we can heal those Wounds which thereby we have given both our own Consciences and our Profession 2. Let my next Advice be to avoid all Fraud Falshood and Over-reaching in your Covenants Contracts and Dealings with your Neighbours Every Christian besides that business he has with his God and his own Soul has Affairs in this World on this side Eternal Life In all these let your Heart be true to God your Tongue true to your Heart and Heart and Tongue both true to your Neighbours Eph. iv 25. Wherefore putting away all lying speak every man the truth with his neighbour for we are all members one of another We are all Members either in the First Adam or in the Second If in the First Adam only yet why should we defraud our own Flesh and Blood If in the Second why should we wrong them that are with us the same spirit 1 Cor. vi 17. The Psalmist Psal. xv 1. Propounds this great Question and propounds it to God himself who alone could answer it Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle And who shall dwell in thy holy hill Who is that blessed Man whom thou wilt admit to Communion with thy blessed self in Grace and Glory And amongst other Characters that describe this person this is one verse 2. He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness that speaketh the truth in his heart And verse 4. He that sweareth to his own heart and changeth not Let others go beyond him in Temporals he will be true to his own Soul to his God to his Neighbour and the Credit of his Religion 'T is a great contradiction to Religion to use falshood in our Commerces and Converses Our God is the God of Truth his Word is the Scripture of Truth In all that Gospel which we Preach there 's not one Proposition but what is truth and the Apostle 2 Cor. i. 18 19. Purgeth himself of all Levity and Inconstancy in his Promises by the Truth of that Gospel which he Preached As God is true our word toward you was not Yea and Nay It was not Yea in Promising and Nay in Performing for saith he the son of God J●…sus Christ was not Yea and Nay Every Yea of Christ is Yea and every Nay of Christ is Nay Fidelity therefore is the Image of God and bears some strokes of his veracity as unfaithfulness bears the Image of the Devil who is a liar and the father of it and when he sp●…aks a lie he speaks of his own John viii 44. And if at any time he speaks a Truth 't is not of his own but either by an over-ruling power extorted from him or from some wicked end of his own used by him 3. Let us be jealous of and watchful over our selves in those things that lie near the Flesh our Corruptions are Tinder one spark struck into them sets all in a flame whatever things therefore are most suitable to those Corruptions must be carefully inspected Let us watch over our selves watch against the Tempter and his temptations and watch as those that watch for their Souls and then Pray that God would watch over us and all our watchings or else we wake and watch in vain The things that lie nearest our Flesh are Food and Raiment which are apt to awaken and draw out sleeping Corruption When we read of some Jude 12. That feed themselves without fear surely they know not what an Enemy they have that lies in wait to surprize them Holy Fear would suggest these Thoughts How know I but the Tempter has laid a baited Snare for me at my Table And when he is Adorning the Body how know I but I may be now preparing a Bait for anothers Soul Let every Man study his own weak point there it is the Devil will be sure to Aslault thee It was a dreadful Prophetick Curse which the Psalmist utters against some Psal. lxix 22. Let their table be made a snare and let that which should be for their good be to their hurt How sad is it to find Death in the Cup or Dish where he seeks his Life And yet how many Eat and drink their own damnation perhaps at Christ's Table and at their own The Wise Man or rather the Wise God has given us this Counsel Prov. xxiii 2. When thou sittest to eat with a Ruler consider diligently what is set before thee and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite And these Thoughts would mortifie the cravings of the Flesh. 1. That after all our studious Catering and Carving for the Flesh yet we must die and are now dying whilst we are Eating and Drinking perhaps whilst Sinning we are still dying the means of Life will not always prove effectual to preserve Life They that fed upon Angels Food yet dyed John vi 19. Meat for the belly and the belly for meats but God will 〈◊〉 ●…oth it and them 1 Cor. vi 13. 2. It would greatly abate the Luxury of the Table to consider that the Rich Glutton who fared sumptuously every day Luke xvi 19. was Dead Buried and in Hell where he could not by all his eloquent begging prevail for one drop of Water to cool his Tongue scorched with those Flames 3. And it might moderate our craving wandring Appetite to consider that Nature is content with little and Grace with less and whatever is beyond these comes of evil and leads to e●…il 4. And that if we cannot deny our selves in the lesser Instances how should we deny our selves in those more difficult Trials which Providence may possibly call us to How shall we be able to want Necessaries when we cannot deny these Extravagancies 5. And what a Reproach is it to a Professor to feel this raging Hunger for the Meat that perisheth when there is such a languishing affection for that which endureth to eternal Lif●… What a shame that we bring sharper Stomachs to our own Tables than to the Lord's § 2. I have given you the Advice of