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world_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,003	5	11.3372	5	false

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A65324	Universal Christian charity, as comprehending all true religion and happiness, demonstrated from scripture and reason in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Treby, at the assizes held at Maidstone in Kent, March the 17th, 1696 / by Tho. Watts ...	Watts, Thomas, 1665-1739.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1159; ESTC R38960	15,491	32

well-founded Government which if any will venture to disturb and to break the Peace will dare to injure other Mens Persons or invade their Properties c. the Sword of Justice which the Magistrate is not to bear in vain must be drawn upon such Yea to punish Malefactors is both Justice and Mercy wherein themselves can't complain of any wrong done them when they receive their Reward the just retribution of their own Demerits Yet all due care must be taken of their Souls and Repentance may plead for Pardon as the Great Judge of the World so mercifully condescends to the vilest Sinner Thus Rulers are ordain'd of God with an irresistable Power Rom. 13.1 to suppress the Wicked and protect the Righteous to Condemn the Guilty and Absolve the Innocent But woe to those that do otherwise Prov. 17.15 Isa 10.12 Now this is the Blessing of all Good Government as particularly to right the Poor the Fatherless and the Widow and what is all this but reasonable Charity and to do as we would be done by Even so are we justly oblig'd to speak and act without guile to be True Sincere Upright and Honest in all our ways and dealings for our common Welfare and Felicity The longest day has a night and the most continu'd Serenity a full Period in which Storm and Tempest Darkness and Horror succeed The uncertain variety of Man's Condition makes the Application very easie and natural The longest Felicity upon Earth is but short-liv'd and never fails to meet with an interruption at last And in what a wretched condition were the best and strongest of us all if left to our selves in our Calamities if God had not made Compassion a natural Inclination as well as a Law if Mens Consciences had learn'd no such Language as Pity if there were no Springs in Nature to stir up our Affections not only to Commiserate but to be Helpful and Assistant to one another I say without an Obligation to this Vertue we should be left alone to struggle with those Diseases which we often find enough for our selves and our Friends and be forsook by our Neighbours in the greatest Extremities of Oppression Poverty or Sickness as the wounded Deer is abandon'd by the Herd So for Temperance and Chastity what can be better Calculated to serve the Interests and provide for the Safety of Mankind Which is notoriously evident from the dismal inconveniencies that Excess and Debauchery bring upon Men. Shortness of Life and Rottenness of Bones Pains and Aches Diseases and Infirmities are the constant attendants upon the constant breach of these Commandments which to practise with the rest upon this Principle of Universal Charity is certainly more easie and pleasant and more becoming Rational Souls and Christians than all the contrary Vices and Transactions Wherefore in love to God should we abominate all manner of Prophaneness Irreligion Perjury and Sacrelige In Charity to our selves should we avoid all manner of Intemperance and Uncleanness Pride Vanity and Hypocrisie And in Charity to our Neighbour should we abhor all manner of Injustice and Unmercifulness Malice Detraction and Covetousness the Root of all Evil 1 Tim. 6.10 Thus a Charitable Disposition will eschew evil and do good Seek Peace with God and Man and ensue it 1 Pet. 3.11 will ever encrease it selfe in all Godliness and find it truly profitable unto all things as it hath the promise both of this life and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 Thus is every thing good and happy included in Charity Charity the immediate Off-spring of Heaven Man's summum bonum the Fountain of all Goodness and Felicity the Joy of Angels and Glory of Men Now who wouldnot thus with Love it self go about doing good Acts 10.38 whatever he may suffer for the same when God must be obeyed rather than Man Act. 4.19 c. wherein Love knows no Difficulties nor fears any Tribulations He that is made perfect in Love being free from all distracting Cares Worldly Anxieties or servile tormenting Fears 1 Joh. 4.18 Love secures him in the Pious Filial fear of God alone and to make him undoubtedly persist with his loving Favour in all well-doing and contented suffering Following his steps as call'd thereunto 1 Pet. 21. as in cases of Persecution happy are they that suffer for Christ's or Righteousness sake Mat. 5. tho' it is not our Love and Obedience but others Hatred and Disobedience that does us any mischief thereupon For all Christ's Love and Commandments are not only consistent with but productive of the common Peace and Good of Mankind and therefore if all Men would unanimously obey his Gospel as they ought then no body could ever suffer by it However is it not more commendable and glorious to suffer patiently for well-doing than evil doing in any case whatever 1 Pet. 2.19 20. and will not Charity rejoyce exceedingly in being revil'd and persecuted for Conscience sake and even Bless and Pray for all its Slanderers Enemies and Persecutors when so great a Blessedness as the Kingdom of Heaven will be the Reward and everlasting Glory Crowns the Martyr Matth. 5.10 11 12. Nay who would not upon any account even through many Tribulations enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Acts 14.22 When all who thus love their God and Saviour are assur'd of enjoying that Mysterious endless Bliss and Happiness in the Beatifical Vision which can neither be seen express'd nor conceiv'd on this side Heaven 1 Cor. 2.9 as those Charitable Persons shall be pronounc'd Blessed in the last General Assize of all by our great Lord and Judge himself and joyfully admitted into that Kingdom prepar'd for them where Charity hath fed the Hungry cloathed the Naked visited the Sick c. Matth. 25.34 35 36. hath reliev'd the Oppress'd and redeem'd the poor Captive and Prisoner whether Friend or Enemy This is Generous and God-like thus to love Mercy This is preferr'd before Sacrifice by our Divine Law-giver and this with the Acts of Justice and Piety instead of all the costly laborious Services and Sacrifices of Nature God hath shewed thee O Man to be good under the Old Law Mic. 6.8 as thus the Gospel teacheth us to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this present World looking for that blessed Hope and Glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who will then receive us into the Arms of Eternal Love who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People Zealous of Good Works Now these things we most Charitably teach and exhort and as we may too rebuke with all Authority and let no Man despise us for thus the Love and Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men Tit. 2.11 to the end So I come in the third and last place to manifest some grand Obligations to the due practice hereof but very briefly from the points of Duty Gratitude