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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53432	The best guide in the worst of times delivered in a sermon at the Guild-Hall Chappel on March 27, 1681 before the honourable the aldermen and several eminent citizens of the city of London / by William Orme ...	Orme, William.	1681 (1681)	Wing O437; ESTC R23123	28,642	60

There is nothing next to Divine Wisdom and Power which can preserve our Kingdom and Religion but that which nourish'd Christianity in its Infancy and gave It strength to Travel into all Countries and that was God's Blessing upon the faithful Endeavours and exemplary Holy lives of its Professors Secondly Let us Seriously and Earnestly apply our selves to those other Vertues call'd Meekness Moderation and Peaceableness of Mind Our blessed Saviour gloried in this Character that He was meek and lowly in Heart and proposed it to all Men as worthy their Learning and Imitation And whatever the conveniency and comforts are which accrue to every particular Person by following and promoting Union Brotherly Love and things that make for Peace I am sure the Publick will have the Greater share in it and flourish the better for it It was the saying of our Saviour That a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand And I heartily wish that our Popish Enemies do not believe it a Greater Truth than We do For upon this Maxim they make our Divisions as firmly believing they will certainly Ruine us And we at this very Time keep up our Divisions as supposing they will do us no harm or as if we believed that Christ was a Good Divine but no Statesman Oh Consider therefore and Mournfully Pity the Distressed and Distracted State of this our Protestant Jerusalem And let us like men of Prudence and Valour countermine this Popish Plot of ruining us by Divisions with Resolutions of Uniting to the Maintenance and Defence of our Established Government and Religion REV. 14. 13. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth Yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them HAd Man continued as he was made Innocent without Sin he might have been what his Maker would have had him to be Immortal without death for God created him to be Immortal and to be an Image of his own Eternity he made not Death neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living but death came into the world through the envy of the Devil and the disobedience of man had it not been for this we should have been like so many Enoch's and have passed from Earth to Heaven not by death but by a Translation But because we sin'd God sentenced us all to Die and to return to the Dust out of which we were first taken It was Sin that made the first gap whereby death entred into the world death entred by sin and so death hath passed upon all men for that all have sinned The Noble the Honourable and the Rich they sin like other men and therefore they die like other men neither Riches nor Honours neither Profit nor Pleasure neither Favour nor Friends can exempt them from it Heavens decree is past that all that sin must die and there is no appeal hence death is called in Scripture the way of all flesh and the way of all the earth all must go this way though not at the same time nor after the same manner some go suddenly others by degrees not one half of the world arrives to the natural age of man threescore years and ten and those that do their bodies become their burthens and their years then but labour and sorrow Man that is born of a woman saith Job is of few daies and full of trouble he cometh forth as a flower and is cut down he fleeth as a shaddow and continueth not he dieth and wasteth away he giveth up the Ghost and where is he This is the startling and amazing question that troubles the greater part of man-kind namely what will become of them after death Some are ready to cry out with the Heathen I have lived in doubt I die in fear and I know not whither I am going Others that are taken up with the profits and pleasures and other enjoyments of this world dream of enjoying the like in another like the Mahometan's who believe that after death they shall live again to enjoy large estates stately houses curious gardens beautiful women and the like Others that live like Brutes think they must die like them too perish and come to nothing But we that have learned Christ better are assured that there shall be a life after death unto which all shall rise some to go on the right hand into joy and happiness others on the left into woe and misery They that die in their sins shall be accursed they that die in the Lord shall be blessed So the voice from Heaven bid St. John write blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them That John should hear a Voice from Heaven may be believed without any wonder if we do but remember that he was a special Favorite of Heaven he is dignified with the title of The Disciple whom Jesus loved he had the honour to be still next his Master and to lean on his bosom a sign that he had greater favour and familiarity with him than the rest he was one of the three that were admitted to Mount Tabor at the glorious Transfiguration of Christ where he saw his face shine as the Sun and his rayment white as the light and where he heard a voice out of a bright cloud that over-shadowed him and the rest saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him he was the person to whose care Christ commended his Mother the Blessed Virgin Mary for by his last Will and Testament made upon the Cross where there were witness enough by he appointed him to be her Guardian whereupon he took her into his own house and made her a principal part of his charge and care He being then so greatly beloved of Christ it was no wonder that he had some Heavenly Secrets revealed unto him and so it was for being in the Spirit or a spiritual rapture extasie or transportation he heard a voice from Heaven of which voice I may truly say what the Jews out of flattery blasphemously said of the Voice of Herod when he made an Oration unto them It is the voice of a God and not of a man Or if it were the voice of a man it was the voice of Christ the Son of God as well as the Son of man it was a voice from Heaven and therefore the more to be regarded for when Heaven speaks it is fit that the Earth should hear there never yet came any voice from Heaven but it concerned the Earth to hear it A voice from Heaven was heard by Moses on the Mount and it was to confirm the Law and establish our Faith in God the Creator A voice from Heaven was heard by Peter James and John at the Transfiguration and it was to confirm the Gospel and establish our Faith in Christ