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A59072	God, the king, and the church (to wit) government both civil and sacred together instituted ... and throughout all, the Church of England ... vindicated : being the subject of eight sermons, preached ... / and now published by George Seignior ...	Seignior, George, d. 1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing S2417; ESTC R19835	158,466	284

made manifest unto all there are mollisma tempora certain times and seasons in which it is most amiable and it is part of Christian prudence so to exert it that it may appear beautiful and lovely unto all in its proper season the present circumstances are to be consulted seriously least our Moderation do degenerate into a sordid and a sneaking compliance an Holy Zeal must sometimes have its perfect work as well as Patience when once Remissness gets the upper hand of Order God himself is neglected whilst his Divine Offices are perfunctorily carelesly and slubberly performed when the publike Solemnities of Religion are if not laid aside yet so managed as if they were altogethar needless and to no purpose the Moderate Man may mourn in secret and by his silence at such a time manifests his prudence because it is an evil time but this seems to be rather an opportunity for courage and constancy in the Resolute that the world may see that we are neither afraid nor ashamed of that which some count madness and folly that we are neither to be complemented by the sly Polititian nor Hectored by the prophane Atheist out of that Faith which we have professed and wherein we stand In a word this is our Moderation when in affliction we are not froward under discouragements we are not discontented when we can love those who persecute us and are ready to do good to those who do despightfully use us when we count it all joy that for righteousness sake we are evil thought of or evil spoke of when we are not over-sollicitous of every ones good word but should God and his Truth require it we can venture through a bad report to shew our Constancy and Perseverance and though the Moderate Man walks circumspectly not as a fool but as wise endeavouring to approve himself to the Consciences of those with whom he has to do yet his heart doth neither mis-give him nor reproach him as his humility is conspicuous so his integrity is solid if he does approve himself it is that the Lord may commend the singleness of his heart and the integrity of his Soul even the Lord who is at Hand And so I press to the Third and Last thing propounded to wit How the Coming of Christ either in the Flesh or to Judgment is an Argument to us to improve this Grace of Moderation The Lord is at hand just now gone from us lately appearing in our Flesh And he is at hand in like manner to come again the day is approaching in which God will Judge the World by the Man whom he hath ordained even the Man Christ Jesus and the Apostle doth in another place joyn both these together to wit that the consideration of Christs first Coming should have this effect upon us that we live in a continual expectancy of his Second Tit. 2.11 12. The Grace of God which bringeth Salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil world Moderation is but one comprehensive word for all these looking for that blessed Hope and the glorious appearance of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ First Let your Moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand not far from every one of us lately appearing in our flesh having Sanctified our inclinations and affections whilst he was subject unto like Passions with us being in every thing tempted as we are yet without sin we might indeed sometime have been foolish deceived by and deceiving one another Status Naturae status Belli in this sense we were by Nature the Children of Wrath not only in relation to God whom we had provoked but also in relation to each other delighting in violence and oppression But Tit. 3.4 After the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward Man appeared we are freely justified by his Grace and made Co heirs together according to the Hope of Eternal Life and this is that which we must Persevere in since we have believed on God that we be alwayes careful to maintain good works and those such which are not in the least Destructive but every way profitable unto men let every one that nameth the Name of Christ Jesus our Lord depart from all iniquity Our Saviour in the Flesh God incarnate in his Birth throughout his Life but chiefly at his Death was not only a most successful example but a prevailing argument for our Moderation First His Birth was the Son of Righteousness arising with healing in his wings it was through the tender Mercies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through the Bowels of the mercy of our God that the Day-spring from on high did visit us and this is our Happiness consequential hereupon that being delivered from our Ghostly and our carnal Enemies we may serve God without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the daies of our lives this was the Angelical Hymn at his Birth that as his coming into the World was Glory to God in the highest so it was in Earth Peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and good will towards Men nay further that our Love upon this occasion might be raised to its due pitch those words are not unfitly rendered by the Vulgar In terris pax hominibus bone voluntatis On earth Peace unto Men of Good will And now shall our Saviour empty himself of his honour that he may accommodate himself unto us and we be puffed up one against another are we not all of us now Brethren doubtly dear unto each other both in the Flesh and in the Lord or rather in the Lord who was made Flesh Secondly Nay yet again not only the fruit of his holy Mothers Womb at his Birth but the whole course of his Life was nothing else but a continued labour of Love could he do any good were it to the poorest and the meanest to the basest and unworthiest it was his meat and his drink he loved much and therefore all along though loaded with indignities he forgave much he had not where to lay his head and yet he wrought Salvation wheresoever he came how glad was he though in a crowd that vertue wentout of him in this chiefly was his humility conspicuous in that he confessed and he denyed it not that He though the Son of Man and so the first born of the whole Creation came not to be Ministred unto but to Minister and to give his Life a Ransome for many And are not we likewise to tread in his steps is not this the Lesson which hence we are to take out that the greatest amongst us be in all good and vertuous offices as it were a Servant unto all remembring alwayes the words of our Lord Jesu Christ that it is better to give than receive we should therefore from his example be ready to give and willing to communicate Thirdly Yet once more and chief of all his Death was

and now with tears Chap. 3.18 That they were enemies to the Cross of Christ whose God was their belly whose glory was their shame who minded earthly things this was to be their Moderation Chap. 11.15 That they be blameless without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation among whom they were to shine as lights and upon this account in their patience they were to possess their Souls not to cast away their hope though afflicted but let it be known unto all men that this was their comfortable expectation through many tribulations that they should enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and this they were to be assured of that whatsoever afflictions did befall them as they were for their sins and why should men complain men that are alive for the punishment of their Sins so were they for their tryal too that patience might have its perfect work neither should their hope make them ashamed this is the hard usage which they that will live godly in Christ Jesus must expect even the Rod of the Wicked sometimes upon their backs and the Righteous must be careful that upon this they do not put their hands forth unto iniquity and so return to folly Let us examine him with despitefullness and with torture saith the ungodly oppressour Wisd 11.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That we may know his meekness and prove his patience So then this grace Moderation as it is here recommended implies valour as well as meekness whilst it is gentle it is couragious too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sylbury Etym. It s Concomitant may not improperly be a stedfast Hope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gloss It is not in the least inconsistent with nay the very word it self doth sometimes import a generous resolvedness a well-grounded immoveable Constancy and therefore it is the APostles advice to these Philippians Chap. 1.27 That they should stand fast in one Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 striving together for the faith of the Gospel Chap. 3.16 Whereunto any of them had attained they were to walk by the same Rule and to mind the same things And ver the first of this Chap. They were thus his dearly Beloved and longed for his Crown and his joy in that they stood fast in the Lord thus while the Apostle recommends to his Philippians Moderation a Spirit of Love and Charity towards all men he gives them this likewise in advice ver the 8th of this Chapter That they follow things that are true and just in themselves as well as honest in the sight of men things that are pure as well as those that are lovely or of good report if there be any vertue as well as if there be any praise and this chiefly to be their Moderation that they think upon and do those things And after all and throughout all that they be sure to have an eye to him and to his both work and reward who is to be their pattern the great exemplar for Moderation Chap. 2.3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem of others better than themselves let the same mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus In the Text Let your Moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at Hand which is the Third Thing I propounded to wit the consideration of this vertue as it was eminent in our Saviour who is proposed here as the pattern for our Moderation the Lord is at hand whilst converseing with our Flesh he went about doing good humility was his cloathing and love was his delight 2 Cor. 10.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Moderation of our Saviour was his Meekness as a Lamb he was led unto the slaughter and as a Sheep before his shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth being reviled he reviled not again being persecuted he threatned not and yet though dumb and answering nothing it is said of him that before Pontius Pilate he witnessed a good confession silentem videmus non audimus confitentem reum his silence was no argument of his guilt but of his well-resolved constancy his courage and fortitude was all the while as evident as were his Meekness and Gentleness and throughout all he committed himself and his cause to God alone that that judgeth righteously We therefore being to learn of our Saviour who was meek and lowly must be careful that our Moderation be manifest as was his in the personal occurrences of our lives His Moderation was not in the least a Dispensation granted either to himself or his Disciples from that Subjection which he acknowledged to be due to the Jewish Polity whether Sacred or Civil under which he lived No in such cases it behoved him to fullfil all Righteousness he wrought a Miracle rather than he would not pay Cesar his due and his command to his Disciples was to hear those who sat in the Chair of Moses to sum up what I have elsewhere delivered at large he went up to Jerusalem according to the custome of the feast every year and though once the Pharisees enquired most eagerly after him what will he not come unto the Feast his presence immediately took off those suspitions and told them and all the World that his Principle was Conformity he kept the Feast of Dedication though of humane institution this being an argument both of his innocence and his Piety that he could thus defend and plead for himself to the very last that he was daily in the Temple and in the Synagogues and that in secret he had said nothing But then where his Person was in the least concerned there his Moderation was conspicuous to shew that he was no enemy to Cesar he with-drew himself when the People would have took him by force and have made him a King he never rode in Triumph but once and then it was to his Passion and at the same time when he owned himself to be the King of Israel he publickly professed and denied it not that his Kingdom was not of this World true he was Crowned but with Thornes the Sceptre in his hand was a Reed the Purple Robe upon him was the Robe of shame his humility was his greatest honour his Cross was his Throne the Proclamation of his Majesty was at Golgotha and whatsoever truth might be in the Title St. Mar. 15.26 The Inscription over his head is styled his Accusation written Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews This is he who is thus proposed to our imitation who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross and despised the shame this was his Moderation Chap. 11.7 of this Epistle in that he made himself of no reputation He took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of man and being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross And thus I have done with the first thing I proposed to