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A67234 The duty and obligations of serving God a sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-hall, July xxix, 1694 / by Christopher Wyvill ... Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711. 1694 (1694) Wing W3785; ESTC R38323 12,959 34

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Do this went instantly without any more adoe about it And should not we then testifie our Subjection to Almighty God and make as full proof of our being his Servants by yielding as great a deference to his Injunctions With what readiness do Men usually obey the Commands of their Masters according to the Flesh even sometimes in wicked and unrighteous Actions And should not we then as readily obey the Commands of the great Majesty of Heaven who commands us nothing but what is just and reasonable nothing but what tends to our present and future Happiness If mortal and sinful Men expect entire Obedience from their Dependants upon the account only of their own bare Word how much more reasonably may the Eternal and Righteous God lay claim unto and expect the like Obedience from all of us If we pretend to be his Servants Him we must obey without dispute the least intimation of whose Commands none of which can be any other than holy and just and good is a sufficient Warrant for our immediate Compliance with them And what those Commands of his are he hath so plainly and so fully revealed and declared in the Holy Scriptures that it must be our own fault if we are ignorant of them but then we must withal remember what our Blessed Lord hath told us That he that knoweth his master's will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes Now the Commands of God are such as enjoyn some things to be done or forbid us the doing of others and if we would serve him as we ought do we must have a special regard to all these we must take care to perform all those things which he positively commands and decline from all those things which he expresly forbids he commands us to be holy as he is holy to be temperate and chaste charitable and kind upright and just in all our Dealings and he forbids Intemperance and Luxury Sensuality and Pride and all kind of Uncharitableness and Injustice one to another In a word he commands us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world These are the Divine Sanctions and Edicts which are good and profitable unto men which tend to the Welfare and Happiness of Mankind and which He our great Lord and Master doth expect and require should be observed and obeyed by us And how then do they approve themselves to be his Servants that all along go contrary to these his just and equal Commands How can they hope to enter into their Master's Joy What can they expect hereafter but that they shall be cast with all such wicked and evil Servans into That place of utter darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth 2. Secondly We may serve God by promoting his Glory and Honour in the World and by shewing upon all occasions a zealous and a prudent regard for it An honest and good Servant that loves his Master will be ready to do such things as may tend to his Honour and further his Credit he will preserve and support his esteem so far as it is in his power and endeavour to vindicate and assert it when he finds it is assaulted No less should the Servants of the Almighty God be concern'd for his Honour yea rather much more inasmuch as his Honour is far to be preferred and ought to be dearer unto us than that of any mortal Man and therefore if we be resolved to serve God and to approve our selves unto him his true and faithful Servants we must make the Advancement and Preservation of his Glory a great part of our care We should endeavour to promote his Glory and Honour in all Places and among all Persons we converse with To the doing of which we have several ways and means that may conduce very much and we may meet with divers Occasions and Opportunities for it which without great Blame to our selves and wrong to God we cannot pass by or let slip from us without their due Improvement To this end We should embrace and lay hold of or rather we should look for and seek out all fit Times and proper Occasions of speaking honourably of him publishing and declaring his noble Acts and praising him with our lips according to his excellent Greatness extolling and magnifying his holy Name for the great Works of Creation and Providence for his admirable Wisdome in contriving the Means of our Redemption for his great Mercies and Blessings at any time conferred upon us ascribing all happy Events and prosperous Successes to his Goodness only and rendring him all Praise and Glory for the same We should testifie our Dependence upon him and our Acknowledgment of his Dominion and Power by entirely submitting our selves to his blessed Will humbly expressing our Content and Satisfaction with our Allowances and Provisions those wages which he as our Master affords ●s as knowing him to be Lord of all patiently also enduring all Afflictions and Crosses those Corrections and Punishments which he shall think fit to inflict upon us as knowing that they come from him in all such Cases being ready to say with good old Eli It is the Lord let him doe what seem eth him good or rather with our blessed Saviour not my will but thine be done We should use with especial Respect all things peculiarly relating unto God such as are the Holy Scriptures which deliver to us the Word of God the Holy Sacraments which convey to us the Grace of God the Holy Places of God's Publick Worship those Places where his Honour dwelleth together with whatever else is dedicated and set apart for the peculiar Service of God These we should never prophane speak ill of or misuse it doth not become those who make profession of Serving God to use these things any otherwise than with very great Esteem and Veneration because the Honour of God is very much concerned in the right or ill Use of them And that we may be happy Instruments of glorifying God and of causing him to be glorified and honoured by all Persons we should heartily endeavour to promote the sincere Practice of P●●●y and Religion in the World for nothing can more naturally tend to God's Glory than That 'T is the universal Practice of Piety and the sincere Profession of God's true Religion that will make his Name venerable and cause it to be blessed and reverenced among Men when Men are eminently good and vertuous regulating their Lives and Actions according to the Laws of God they thereby make it manifest That they reverence his Authority which enacted them that they admire his Wisdome which contrived them that they dread his Justice which can punish Men for the neglect of them There is a kind of Lustre and Brightness in the Works of Piety and Religion done with a good Conscience and in Obedience to God's Commands which cannot but attract the Eyes and captivate the Hearts of all