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A59561 A sermon preached before the Queen at Whitehall on the 11th of April, 1690 / by John Sharp ... Sharp, John, 1645-1714. 1690 (1690) Wing S2989; ESTC R6722 14,971 38

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I have been now recommending especially under the two last heads is not intended to be a rule or direction to any Hypochondriack or Melancholy Persons or such as are apt to be over-scrupulous about their actions For indeed to such persons it is the worst advice that can be given For they are apt to doubt and boggle at every thing be it never so innocent and free from blame They dare not eat a hearty meal for fear of being Intemperate And for fear of not being devout enough they exhaust their Spirits and spoil their health through the continual intention of their minds to serious things Now Persons that are of this temper are rather to be encouraged to take more liberties than they do than to abate any that they make use of But their case is of another consideration and foreign to my present purpose and therefore I here say no more about it It being sufficient to have given this intimation to such people that they do not make an ill use of any thing that I have now represented for assuredly what hath been now said doth not much concern them 2. The other thing I have to say and that by way of Encouragement is this I doubt not but some will be apt to think that the Rules I have now given about the exercise of our liberty are much too strict and severe and that if they must be tied up to such measures then farewel all the joy and pleasure and comfort of their lives But to such People I would crave leave to say that they have very wrong notions of this matter The using of their liberty in such a manner as I have been recommending would not rob them of one true pleasure or comfort that this World affords So far from that that I am very sure whoever frames his life according to these measures shall live a hundred times a happier Life and shall enjoy the World and all the pleasures and advantages of it much more to his own content and satisfaction than if he put no check to the craving of his Appetites but always indulged and gratified them in every thing and as much as they desired Assure your selves Vertue and Religion will never hinder you from enjoying any pleasure or satisfaction that is natural On the contrary there is great reason to believe that the practice thereof will extreamly heighten and advance the satisfactions you can receive from your Worldly Enjoyments I doubt not in the least but to a sincerely pious and vertuous Man and that hath a regard to God in all his actions even the very pleasures and comfotts of this Life are more gratifying and affecting than to any sensual or wicked Man For such a one as he is more capable of enjoying them so do they come to him likewise without the mixtures of those uneasy troublesome bitter reflections that other Men feel in the very best of their Enjoyments Let no Man therefore apprehend any loss of his pleasures by entirely devoting himself to God's Service and using his liberty in that careful way I have been recommending Let him not think that he shall hereby be too much straitned and confined For certainly this is the true means not only to keep him for ever from being a Slave to any thing but also mightily to improve and encrease his liberty For by thus exercising himself all the powers of his Soul will be vastly inlarged and he will hereby attain both leisure and will to employ all his rational Faculties about the best and the noblest objects in the World which will yield him the greatest pleasure that is to be had on this side Heaven Whereas if he had given up himself to be govern'd by any of his sensual Appetites he had been a poor narrow confined Creature indeed not capable of any greater satisfactions or pleasures than what the Brutes do enjoy as well as himself but with less uneasiness and fewer disturbances It is true indeed a sensual Man hath no notion of this kind of pleasures no more than a Beast hath of the pleasures of a Man And therefore it is no wonder that such Men entertain all talk about them as little better than meer Cant and Iargon But I seriously appeal to all Men that have ever made any trials in the way of Religion and Vertue whether the Contentments and satisfactions they have received from the rational use of their liberty and the thoughts and reflections that hereby they do approve themselves to God and live in hopes of his Favour and have a fair prospect of a glorious Immortal State in another World I say whether they do not find the pleasures and contentments that arise from hence to be infinitely more solid and substantial and durable than any of those that they receive from the gratification of their sensual Appetites in a vitious unreasonable manner Oh therefore Let none of us make any scruple of devoting our selves entirely and without reserve to God Almighty's Service Let none of us be afraid to put reasonable restraints upon our Passions and Appetites Assuredly the thus using our liberty is the certain way to preserve and encrease it and with it the pleasure and comfort of our Lives and not only so but to render us Everlastingly Happy and Blessed in the other World Which that we may all be God of his infinite mercy grant c. FINIS Books Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Theory of the Earth containing an Account of the Original of the Earth and of all the general Changes which it hath already undergone or is to undergo till the Consummation of all things The two first Books concerning the Deluge and concerning Paradise The two last Books concerning the burning of the World and concerning the new Heavens and new Earth fol. Bishop Overal's Convocation-Book MDC VI. concerning the Government of God's Catholick Church and the Kingdoms of the whole World 4 to A discourse concerning Conscience the first Part wherein an account is given of the Nature and Rule and Obligation of it And the case of those who separate from the Communion of the Church of England as by Law established upon this pretence that it is against their Conscience to join in it is stated and discussed A discourse of Conscience The second Part concerning a doubting Conscience A Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons April 11. 1679. on Revel ii 5. The Duty and Happiness of doing good in two Sermons the former Preached at the Yorkshire Feast Feb. 17. 1679. on Eccl. iii. 10. the other before the Lord Mayor at the Spittle Apr. 14. 1680. on 1 Tim. vi 17 18 19. A Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor Sept. 29. 1680. on Psal. cxii 4. A Lent-Sermon at Whitehal March 20. 1684. on Luke xvi 31. These seven last by the Reverend Dr. Sharp Dean of Canterbury Mr. Ieffery's Religion the Perfection of Man 8 vo Mr. Raymond's Pattern of pure and undefiled Religion 8o 's Exposition on the Church Catechism 80. The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man The third Edition 12o Dr. Pelling's Sermon before the King and Queen Dec. 8. 1689. Mr. Lamb's Sermon before the King and Queen Ian. 19. 1689. 's Dialogue between a Minister and his Parishioners about the Lord's Supper 8o Mr. W. Allen's Nature Series and Order of Occurrences c. 8o