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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30997	A sermon preached before the King at Newmarket April 24, 1670 by Miles Barne ...	Barne, Miles, d. 1709?	1670 (1670)	Wing B860; ESTC R12579	11,761	37

would have blasted the credit of his miracles they used such a ridiculous argument as onely served to prove how well they deserved that character which Christ gave of them viz. that they were of their Father the Devil or more then so since they endeavoured to exceed him in his essential property of lying and calumniating Then as for his Offices He was to be a King Infidel Jews and so he was though not as ye vainly imagined that he should prove a victorious Prince conquer all the Nations of the earth by the dint of his Sword And that all the Potentates of the world should lay down their Sceptres at his Triumphant feet From which of your Prophets could ye fetch this conceit At his coming were not swords to be beaten into Plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks And therefore surely he never intended to march in Battel aray or to engage in any bloudy Conquests Was not he to be lowly riding upon an Ass and a Colt the Foal of an Ass and therefore a despiser of the Pomp and Grandeur of this world Did he not plainly disown all Sovereignty here on Earth My kingdom is not of this World And indeed what though he had been more victorious than Alexander won more Battels than ever Cesar did Would this have given him a renown comparable to those victories which he obtained over hearts their unruly passions and appetites What though he had appeared in more magnificent splendour than Herod when he sat on his gaudy Throne would this have been a Garb half so becoming the Son of God as those Robes of Righteousness which made him shine so bright in the world His Kingly Power was conspicuous in more illustrious Instances through the whole System of the Creation The Angels were ambitious to minister unto him The Devils trembled at his word and fell like lightning before him The wind and the Sea obeyed him Hunger and Thirst those impatient desires waited his leisure Sickness and Health Death and the Grave and Hell it self were forced to acknowledge his Sovereignty As for his Priestly Office The Aaronical part of it he dispatched by offering himself a sacrifice to his incensed Father And doth he not still continue a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek in blessing us and crowning us with the Gifts and Graces of the Holy Ghost As for his Prophetical office which consisted first in making known to us the Will of God This he did through the whole course of his Life but especially in that Divine Sermon on the Mount wherein he added whatsoever was wanting explained whatsoever was obscure in the Old Law and propounded Blessedness upon such easie suitable and pleasant Terms that we cannot miss of Heaven without making our selves miserable on Earth As for the second part of it which consisted in foretelling things to come of this he gave many Instances particularly that sad one of the destruction of Jerusalem which he sighed out in the very anguish of his Soul O Jerusalem Jerusalem Behold your House is left unto you Desolate Which was accordingly accomplished by the Romans under the conduct of Titus about the 70 year of our Lord. When the miserable Jews too late found him a true Prophet to their cost For from that very time they became a most distressed and despised Nation Instead of being any longer the Darlings of Heaven the People of God and the Seed of the Faithful they became the scorn of men the refuse of the Earth and a Proverb of Infidelity An instance so dismal attended with such Tragical circumstances that it alone is enough to strike terrour into all those who will not believe that Jesus is the Son of God But if to this we add the miracles which he performed The Divinity of his sayings For never man spake like him The unblameableness of his Life For he did no sin neither was guile found in his Mouth If to these the infallible testimony of the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost the Confession of the Demoniack What have I to do with Thee Jesus Thou Son of God most high If to these the dismal Prodigies which happened at his Death As the renting of the Vail of the Temple to shew the Abrogation of the Old Law the cleaving of the Rock to upbraid the more stony hearts of his Crucifiers The total Eclipse of the Sun that it might not behold the setting of the Sun of Righteousness If to these his powerful Resurrection and after he had conversed fourty days upon Earth his no less wonderful Ascension And lastly the great esteem his very enemies had of him manifested in the motion which Tiberius made to the Senate for his Apotheosis He who seriously considers these things will be forced to confess with the Centurion truly this was the Son of God Which Confession is that Faith which overcometh the World And that it may prove effectual it must be duly Qualified The second thing to be considered What are the necessary Qualifications to render our Faith victorious 1. Then our Faith must be lively Warm and Active For if a dull languid habit of Faith would do the great work of our Salvation Then might those who are dead in trespasses and sins hope for as fair an inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven as any who by mortifying their earthly members raised themselves to newness of Life Then might those lazy cowardly souls who never had courage enough to give Battle to any one single Lust expect the same recompense of reward with those generous spirits who by the difficult and assiduous Acquists of virtue obtained a noble Victory over themselves Then might the Regions of Purity be defiled by things common and unclean And Heaven be so far from being a reward that it would be as much shunned by all good men as Hell is now dreaded by the wicked If an Historical notional Faith would serve our turn then might Lucifer and his cursed crew hope to regain their first glorious estate For the very Devils believe and tremble notwithstanding we are ascertain'd that they are reserved in everlasting chains under Darkness unto to the judgement of the great Day In sum then that I may neither enter into dispute with the Solifidian concerning Justification by Faith alone nor yet contend with the Romanist whether good works have any part in that glorious Act I am sure Saint James is positive in his determination For as the Body without the Spirit is Dead so is Faith without works also And consequently no more able to obtain that difficult Victory which is here attributed to a lively Faith then a dead Body is to perform the functions of Life And indeed as Epicurus was the greatest Atheist in the world in allowing the existence of God but then as if he had suspected either his Prudence or Justice in managing the affairs of the world complementing him out of his Sovereignty over it for fear of disturbing