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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
A41043	A sermon preached before the House of Peers on December 22 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation / by the Right Reverend Father in God John, Lord Bishop of Oxford.	Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1680 (1680)	Wing F621; ESTC R6374	13,806	33

that wide desires do look for large supplies which still engage in eager competitions as a defeat brings rage and anger and new contentions and designes so a success creates fresh wants and keener appetites and yet more vigorous pursuits so that whatever happens there is an endless circle of rage repining and contest We lust and have not saies St. James we kill and desire to have and cannot obtain we fight and war and yet we have not because we ask not we ask and receive not because we ask amiss that we may consume it upon our lusts Till this voracious humor is appeasd till that necessity is the measure of our wants and use the rule of our desires and the providence of God and his disposal the certain gage of both our divisions and hostilities can never have an end But thirdly there is another sort of lust no less destructive to the interests of peace then the foregoing it is that of misguided zeal which from the authority of St. Paul I must declare to be as errant sensuality as is that of the stews and brothel house The works of the flesh saies he are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleaness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance zeal which we render emulation wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkeness revellings and such like We might a little wonder to find zeal which in our world usurps the enclosure of godliness placed in so ill company did we not find the same St. Paul at the third of the Philippians acknowledging that by zeal he persecuted the Church and so became the chief of sinners Indeed as the Apostle tells us t is good to be zealously affected in a good thing but when t is levened with pride and singularity when it becomes embitterd and is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which St. James complains of there is nothing in the world more mischievous then it if any one think otherwise let him read the story of the Zelots in Josephus he will be abundantly convinc'd This is that diabolical carnality by which men deflour the Spouse of Christ and adulterate the Word of God the leaders wherein are describ'd by St. Paul to be traitors heady highminded lovers of plesures more then lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof of which sort are they that creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts And by St. Jude they are declar'd to be they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit The Holy Ghost in his first descent came down in Tongues of fire and the false pretensions to the Spirit come with like appearances even there the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity it sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire of hell Jam. 3. Let us not deceive our selves with emty shapes and vain appearances whatever habit Concupiscence puts on tho it transform it self into an Angel of light t is still but Lust and so long as it remains howere disguis'd we shall not fail of wars and fightings among us The wicked saies Isaiah are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt There is no peace saies my God unto the wicked And here t is to be considered that the Apostle do's not say t is the ambition of the Statesman the disputing of the Scholar the faction of the Mechanic the oppression of the Rich or disobedience of the Poor the dissolution of this sort of men or hypocrisy of that from whence are Warrs and fightings but saies inclusively to all T is from your Lusts and till that we do say so too till each man speaks it to himself there will be no removal of the incumbent judgment for that there is not an amendment of the provoking guilt Let every one sweep before his own dore and then but not till then the whole Street will be made clean If then we are in earnest if really we would have Peace that there be henceforth no decay no leading into captivity and no complaining in our streets we know upon what terms tis to be had Is it worth the severities of repentance the denying of ungodliness and worldly lust and living soberly and righteously and godly in this present world Is it worth the putting off the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts and being renewed in the Spirit of the mind so as to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness if it be behold the purchase lies before you Mark the perfect man saies David and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Ps 37. and again When a mans waies please the Lord even his enemies shall be at peace with him Wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eies cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgement relieve the oppressed judge the father less plead for the widdow Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord tho your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow tho they be red like crimson they shall be as wool If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devourd of the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it Isa 1. Be thou reconcil'd to the Almighty he shall deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evill touch thee in famin he shall redeem thee from death and in war from the power of the sword Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh At destruction and famin thou shalt laugh neither shalt thou be afraid of the Beasts of the earth for thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great and thine Ofspring as the grass of the earth Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a Shock of Corn comes in his season Job 5. Yet more the transient Blessings of this world shall be a pledge and antepast of those hereafter when the pious soul shall be receiv'd into the Regions of eternal peace when faith shall cease in vision hope in enjoyment and grace be swallow'd up in glory I have hitherto addrest to every Christian man that hears me this day But now I desire in a few words to apply my self and what has bin now said to the Great Audience to whom I am peculiarly sent MY LORDS You being justly sensible of the Calamitous divisions of these unhappy Kingdoms which if not closed must bring it to desolation and likewise sensible how unavailable