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world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29515	The easiness and difficulty of the Christian religion in a sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor, and court of Aldermen of the city of London, at Guild-Hall chappel, on Sunday May 26. 1689 / by Isaac Bringhurst ...	Bringhurst, Isaac, d. 1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing B4695; ESTC R14226	21,221	40

't is most easy because agreeable to the Nature of Society In this respect our Saviour hath given us an Epitome of all he requires of us in very few words To do as we would be done unto Matth. 7.12 This is the Law and the Prophets which he came to fulfil and perfect Mat. 5.17 So Mat. 22.39 Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self How safe and easy must every Man be in all his Concerns and Interests by Observation of these Rules We should never offend one another but if it should so happen to forgive and forget is the next thing we would do for that certainly every Man would have done to himself were he the Offender The Apostle St. Paul gives us all our Duty to one another in this one word Love and proves it to be so Rom. 13.8 9. There is no Fear or Jealousy one of another in Love but perfect Love casteth out such tormenting Passions as these are and makes Men confident in one another and that is the great Security and Perfection of Society In a word There are but two things which make Men uneasy to one another Aptness to provoke and to be provoked How effectually our Religion hath provided against these we read in 1 Cor. 13. It makes Charity the Root or Spring of all our Religious Actions so necessary that without it we are nothing neither can we do any thing in Religion ver 1 2 3. and then tells us how it secures the World against both these troublesome Humours Verse the 4th Charity suffereth long and is kind therefore is not easily provoked envies not vaunteth not it self therefore is not apt to provoke ver 5. doth not behave it self unseemly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rudely or disobligingly seeketh not her own therefore does not provoke is not apt to be exasperated so is the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thinketh no Evil but candidly interpreteth but if the Evil be evident it rejoiceth not in it ver 6. but in the Truth or Goodness of any Body therefore not easily provoked Verse 7. Beareth all things because it believeth all things may be well meant at least hopeth so of all things but if the Evil or Malice be apparent and indisputable then Charity endureth all things as long as pleaseth God so that Charity can never fail to make Men easy to themselves and one another and fits Men for a happy Enjoyment of one another here as well as the blessed Enjoyment of God altogether hereafter Thus I think it is clearly demonstrated that Christ's Yoke is easy and his Burden light because 't is agreable to our Natures considered either in our private or publick Capacity either in our selves both in respect of our Souls and Bodies or in our mutual Relation to one another And as an indisputable Confirmation of all I have said from this Topick be pleased often to read and consider Tit. 2.11 12. where the Apostle tells us that the great Lesson the Gospel teacheth us is to deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World These three Words soberly righteously and godly mean all that I have said upon this Subject and thus used as they are here are an undeniable Confirmation of it Object But it may be objected Doth not our Saviour himself say we must pluck out our right Eye and cut off our right Hand in order to eternal Life if they happen to stand in our way to it which supposeth they may do so And doth he not Luke 14.26 27. tell us we must hate our dearest Relations and our own Lives for his sake and take up our Cross and come after him or else we cannot be his Disciples Are not these hard Sayings very uneasy and difficult to be born if not immoral and sinful and also that the Gate is narrow and many shall seek to enter and not be able Answ Because the time will not give me leave to make a nice and distinct Explication of the words I shall only tell you that by hating Father and Mother c. and our own Life is not hating in a proper and strict sense but loving of them less than our Saviour or his Religion which he valued above his own Life And so it is expressed Matth. 10.37 He that loveth Father and Mother more than me c. And so Gen. 29.30 31. Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah in ver 30 31. 't is said and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated I now proceed to my Answer 1. Though the Words thus taken import nothing that is sinful or immoral but what is very rational because our Saviour loved us so as to dye for us and his Religion for our sakes so as to seal it with his Blood yet they do signify something that is not easy and do seem to put upon us a Burden too heavy for us to bear 1. But then consider in the first place When a Man is sick mortally and his Physicians tell him if he will take such a Medicine it will certainly or at least very probably cure him and no other will If he believes his Physicians will he not readily suffer this Medicine to be applied to him will not the bitterest Potion in this case be tollerable if not pleasant And will not a Man in his Wits chuse it rather than a more pleasant or more gustful draught And what we have reason to make matter of our choice may in a just sense be called easy or light to us This case if we apply it our Religion is our own our Soules are mortally sick and wounded by our Sins our Religion the only Medicine that can help us restores us to our Health and that certainly will do it if we apply it Now though this requires of us to live no longer to this World or our selves but to him that died for us is it not a plain case what we are in Reason to do and doth not the Plainness of the case make our Duty if not easy yet not intollerable But the following Reasons make it easy 2. The great strength it affords us that may be to a Man but a Diversion which to a Child is insupportable no Man ever had more Difficulties put upon him than St. Paul. The utmost sense of the Objection was his frequent Exercise How many times did he venture his Life for the Gospel of Christ yet he made it easy 2 Cor. 11.23 to 28. as sorrowful yet always rejoicing 2 Cor 6.10 and he gives a very good reason for it in Phil. 4.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I can do all things easily so the Word imports through Christ which strengtheneth me And this strength wherewith Christ assisted him was no less than the Power of his Resurrection chap. 3.10 that is the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead made him do all things easily for this was an experimental Knowledg as the whole Verse demonstrates That this is our case as