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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43855	A sermon preach'd in the cathedral of Lincoln, August 1, 1680 (being the assize Sunday) by Tho. Hindmarsh ...	Hindmarsh, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2063A; ESTC R40988	17,132	40

his mind to none but the simple ones But if these men will be laying a claim to any new Revelations or to such a measure of the Spirit as the Apostles had let them but shew the Letters of Credence which they did let them but work Miracles and we will believe Otherwise we must not be so silly to take all for Gold that Glisters nor the Hypocondriack Vapours in some mens heads for the pure Infusions of Gods Spirit We may allow indeed in any sense that their Speech and Preaching is not with the enticing words of Mans Wisdom but then let them shew them to be as S. Paul did in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power 1 Cor. 2.4 To prevent therefore these pious Frauds for Rome you see hath not engrossed them all to her self S. John says 1 Joh. 4.1 Beloved believe not every spirit but trie the spirits whether they are of God because many false spirits are gone out into the World And this is S. Pauls rule which he lays down for our instruction in the first place prove all things 1 Thess 5.21 and then hold fast that which is good I would not be so far mistaken as if any thing I have said were injurious to Faith for I desire that Reason may be no higher than the Hand-maid Onely I think it no good way to pull her eyes out as if that would make her see the better to follow her Mistress This I am sure of Faith can no where be found but in a reasonable nature and therefore there can be no such implacable antipathy no such irreconcilable jarring between them as some do imagine * V. Culverw Light of Nat. Why may they not then salute one another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Kiss of Charity Why should there be a perpetual feud or strife between Faith and Reason seeing they are Brethren Do they not both spring from the same Father of Lights And can the Fountain of Love and Unity send forth any irreconcileable Streams No no These two great Luminaries may shine together without obscuring each others Light for whatsoever appears to be a truly Divine Revelation must needs be reasonable But I confess all arguments are thrown away upon these men whose very Opinion makes them incurable and uncapable For if we speak reason to them that is the thing which they so much disclaim and if we do not speak reason that were too disclaim it too But thus much for the second particular having considered the manner of the Apostles handling them and that is expressed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a way of Reasoning 3. I come now in order to the third and last which is to take notice of the influence that his Discourse had upon his great Auditor it made him tremble For when he reasoned c. Now all that I shall collect from this particular is reducible to these two Points First The wonderful efficacy of the preaching of the Word And Secondly The smart reflections that accompany the guilty Conscience First It argues a strange efficacy and power in the Word preached that like Lightning it should in a moment and undiscernably pierce the most intimate parts of the soul Who would not wonder that a poor despised Minister of the Gospel should make one of the Grandees of the World tremble That a contemptible Prisoner in his Chain should strike such a chilness into the limbs of his Judge that the warmth of his Robes could not keep him from shaking But yet such is the efficacy of the Gospel preached as that it works wonders upon the most obstinate sinner and wakens him into an affrightment out of the deepest Lethargy It is upon this account that the Word hath so many various appellations in Scripture all expressing the great powerfulness of its operations In the Prophet Isaiah it is stiled A Rod Esay 11.4 Rev. 1.16 and in the Revelations of Saint John it is called A Sword to intimate that at sometimes it will lash and correct and at others if there be greater need it will slash and wound The Prophet Jeremy compares it both to a Hammer and Fire Jer. 23.29 because on some occasions it like the Hammer beats in pieces the Flinty Heart and if the necessity be urgent it can put on the nature of Fire which melting down all the Scum and Dross can make the soul run into such a pure Metal as that she neither fears the Fire nor Touch-stone 2 Cor. 2.16 S. Paul calls it the savour of Life and Death which expression doth closely insinuate the subtle Energy and powerful working thereof which can kill as well by a Scent as by a Wound as well by a Breath as by a Blow And if that of the fourth of the Hebrews at the twelfth was not principally designed to our purpose some learned men understanding it of the Eternal Son of God yet at least we may borrow the words in a secondary notion and avouch with as much truth as confidence that the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of Soul and Spirit and of the Joints and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the Heart Howsoever we are sure that Felix was an Experiment in this kind and that the horror in his soul and the trembing in his limbs did argue the wonderful efficacy of the Word preached But then Secondly The Effect and Consequent of Saint Pauls Discourse Felix his trembling doth with as much clearness argue the smart reflexions of the guilty Conscience S. Pauls Discourse of Righteousness and Temperance touched him to the quick who was highly and notoriously guilty of the breach of both and a preconception which he had of Judgment after death now heightned by the Apostles particular description did make his soul startle within him as if he more thought of being called presently to the Bar as a guilty Prisoner than sitting upon the Bench as a powerful Judge So tender and sensible a thing is the Conscience that though men endeavour by the frequent Wounds they give it to bring a certain kind of brawniness and toughness upon it yet it always keeps some part so soft and quick of sense that they can never go Scot-free without some gripes and twitchings from this Impartial Remembrancer Yet I make no question but the Hot-headed Debauchees of this Age do reproach Felix for his Cowardliness of Spirit and cannot but wonder that a Sermon should raise a trembling in him when if they had been his Auditors it would sooner have raised their laughter What! Shall a sneaking Black-Coat put such Gentlemen of birth and breeding into an affright Shall a Discourse of future Judgment scare them into their Wits Shall any one think to reduce them to Sobriety by telling them they must one day be called to a reckoning No no all this shall produce no seriousness of thought but