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A29214 A sermon preached at the opening of the lecture at Maldon in Essex, lately established by the Lord Bishop of London in vindication of the antiquity of the doctrine of the Church of England / by William Bramston ... Bramston, William, d. 1735. 1697 (1697) Wing B4243; ESTC R18304 16,131 26

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eager to suppress and disgrace can be no friend to Popery No be not deceived my Beloved the infamous names and characters such as Schismaticks Hereticks and the like which they fasten upon us and wherewith they attempt to blacken the brightest services of all our holy ministrations the continual succession of Plots Stratagems and Intrigues which from Age to Age we have heard and seen formed by Papists against our holy reform'd Church from the very first appearance of its establishment are and have been Arguments sufficient to convince all Generations of the irreconcilable distance between the Doctrines of Rome and the principles of the Church of England It must be astonishing therefore to consider what Sport and Pastime Rome makes of us after all when she still so far intoxicates our heads by her snares of Division wherewith she lyes in wait to deceive and shatters all the foundations of our wisdom and understanding by those winds of Doctrines which she has raised and let loose amongst us that we turn the wrath and disaffection we profess to Popery against that Church which has in so many in such illustrious instances manifested her self the noblest bulwork against Popery which we may with modesty express to be the only terror and envy of the Papists Is not this the most formidable master-piece of those deluders to work up a profess'd enemy to such a thoughtless zeal of indignation as to make him fall foul upon his friends and under the pretence of wounding his enemy give the mortal stroke to his own strongest defence which must be the accomplishment of all those shou'd they ever have their end which God forbid who labour to overthrow the Church of England whom Rome has ever treated as her most deadly foe in order to the reforming Religion in such a manner wherein it may remain out of all danger of Popery this is such an undertaking wherein I am sure the hearts and hands of Romanists will never be wanting The most weak and feeble Animals are seldom to be caught twice in the same Ginns neither will the silliest of Creatures run with open Eyes upon the naked Toil nay is it not a common proverbial Observation among us that even the burnt Child dreads the Fire and shall we with our singed Fingers catch at those flames of Disunion wherewith our Adversaries have so often reduced us to the most terrible Extremities wherewith in the last Age they had well nigh consumed both us and our Religion When we have so fatally smarted under the Sting and Poison shall we still hug and cherish the Viper that breeds it O no let not us who really wish well to the true Israel of God who have experienced and must be abundantly sensible of the Uncleanness and Abominations lodged in the inworks of Babylon let not us I say fortifie her Walls by the works of our Hands let us not protest against her Pollutions and at the same time do the Drudgeries of her Tyranny exclaim against her Superstitions and pull down the Holy Temple of God's Truth carry the name of Protestants and Reformists and apply all our Parts and Wisdom and Counsels in the undermining the sacred foundations of that Protestant Church which is the most solid and beauteous Pillar in the Reformation no I beseech you my Beloved in the name of our Lord Jesus that ye be rather cloathed with Meekness and like that glorious Author and Finisher of our Faith put on Bowels of Love and Reconciliation that this may appear before all the World to be the true natural and proper Character of an English Protestant That he is one who is more large in his Charities and humble in his Censures more compassionate to his Brethren and forgiving to his Enemies more devoted to God and inseparable from the Services of his Church than all other Sects and Professions of Christians whatever To conclude all let not us to whom God has vouchsafed the inestimable Blessing of a right Knowledge and Faith in Christ suffer so glorious a Treasure to lie dead and languid and fruitless in our Souls for want of Works Let us convince the World of the Excellency of our Faith and Religion in the Uprightness and Purity of our Lives always bearing in our Minds this Description of the Holy Apostle in which he explains to us the end and intention of our Christian Faith saying the Grace of God which bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men teaching us that denying Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts we shou'd live Soberly and Righteously and Godlily in this present World FINIS