and a Pint of Thames will make a ftrange Medley, Ballderdash Gallimaufrie (what fhall I call it?) Chrift and Antichrift will not bee thus yoaked, Proteftantifine and Popery, Rome and Gereva can agree, no more than fire and water, Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia ficcis, Lead and Gold cannot agree in the fame Furnace, no union with Lon. 4. A Papist living & dy ing in the trufting to A fourth Principle is this, That a Papift living and dying in the opinion of his own Merits, cannot be faved, because he overthroweth the Foundation, cuts off that Bough whercon he fhould lean, he overthroweth the Righteoufneffe of Chrift, and without his Merits Chrifts righteoufneffe no falvation. 5. That Babylon is Rome, Urbs fepticollis, and fhall bee defroyed: Rome is that Mother of Fornications and Witchcrafts: and herein you have the confent of the moft Orthodox and learned Interpreters of the Revelation, who concurre in this principle: Thefe are the Principles hich I am not afraid to own, and I am perf va ded that few or none of you differ from my judgment, but beleeve thefe Principles to be true. cannot bee faved. 5. Babylon is Rone Use. 3. I will have but one word more for a clofe of all,in my lift ufe, which is for exhortation, and then I fhall difmifle you: My Bre For Exhortas thren, you have heard of the Me-cies of this day, fingular Delive- tion, rances, fingular Teftimoniescf the loving kindnefs of the Lord: Now what eminent thingsfhall we doe for God? What shall we render unto the Lord for all his benefits? Let me be your Remembrancer, after what manner we fhould remember the mereyes of this day, and then I hill commend you to the grace of od. 1. Remember to tranfmit the memory of this day to your Poletity. Let this Anniverfary folemnity be kept in record; let it bee told by the Father to the children, and to the childrens children, from Generation to Generation: Becaufe fome queftion the truth of the day, and look upon it but as a politick invention, and Trick of State, let us bee more diligent to keep it in memory, let us fpeak one to another of the mercies of this day, be well acquainted with the Hillory of the day, and let us freck of this deliverance in the houfe, in the field, at our do vn-lying, and ring up,what things of old, what ancient mercies the Lord hath vouchfated to our FaRrr thers 2 Praise God thers, and to us in them. May this day be wrote in the Kalendar in Letters of Gold, which the Papifts would have wrote in letters of blood. 2. Remember and praife God for this miraculous deliverance, for the Mer. let our mouthes be filled with the praises of the Lord, Pf. 107. 8. cies of this Lets take up the Pf. 124. and make application; let our lips praife day. the Lord, and let us fay the mime of the Lord be praised: let our hearts praise the Lord, let all that is within us blefs his holy 3. Remember and be watch. full 4.Shew fome Loken of name. 3. Remember and be vigilant, watch against Papifts, truft them not, we know their equivocations, we know their blood-thi-fty efs, lets ever deprecate and abhorre any Toleration, any connivance or compliance with the n;no more trufting to them thin to Simeon and Levi, Brethren in Iniquity, in whofe habitations were inftruments of cruelty, Gen. 49. 5, 6. Be cautelous, come not near the brinke, venture not upon Arminion, Familittical, and other mungil ooinions, waich partly fpeaks in the lingunge of the Jews, and partly in the language of Ashdod Give the Devil his Option, he would hive for his Agent a Familift as foon as a Papift: for a Familift can æquivocate, and tell you he means Chrift and him crucified, when as he means not the Christ crucified at Jerufalem, but a phanfie of his own addle brain, a Chrift in him, or a Platonick Chrift. 4. And lastly, fhew fore tokens for good of your joy and rejoycing in the mercy of this day. This day is a day of Thankf hankfulness. giving, let it be a day of Almes-giving, to cloath the naked, and feed the hungry, that their loyns may blefs you; fend to fuch for whom nothing is prepared: This day is a fealing day, and there ought to be a fending of fort ons,one unto another: I come in a good day, I hope you will not fay me my; there are many poore Houfholders, and poor Scholars too, it's farre more charity to help them than your wandring Beggars. In Florence (as I have read) there was fpeciall provision made for fuch housholders as were Florises View poor, , and afhamed to begge; let thefe be the objects of your charity: of Tuscany. Doe good to all, but especially unto the houfhold of Faith; this is the fpeciall duty of fuch a day as this is, to honour God with our fubftance, to diftribute our bread to the hungry: Wherefore forget not this duty, it's a facrifice where ith God is wel-pleafed. I commend this duty unto your practice, and the Lord Airre up your your hearts, and caufe you to draw forth your hearts to the reliefe of the diftreffed, afflicted, efpecially the poor members of Jefus Chrit, that this may be a good day, and a day of rejoycing to you, and a good day, and a day of rejoycing to them; and let the memoriall of this day be Monumentum are perennius. Lets imitate the Jews in the Text,and ufe all the care we can,that fuch dayes as thefe are, may never faile, nor the memoriall of them perish from our feed, 124 Serm. 7. at 00088888888888 The Day of judgement Discovered from Rom. 2.16. In the day when God fall judge the fecrets of men by Iefus A Serious difcourfe of the day of Judgement, is both fefonable and profitable; feafonable, becaufe (as the Apoftle informed long agoe) there fhall come in the last dayes fcaffers, Decemb.9. walking after their own lufts, and (aying, where is the pron fe of .This Do Tonable. 2 Pet.3. 3.4. Ang. lib.de Herefibus ad Quod vult Deum c. 6, VA 1655. his comming? There have been of old multitudes of Hereticks, trine is fea- Who have decried, and endeavoured to expunge this Article out of the Creed concerning the day of Judgement: Such were the Sadduces, Epicures, Dofitbeans, Samaritans, Manchees, Prodianite, Floria, Symmachiant; and of all thefe Sects the vileft were the Borborite, against whom Augustine made an elaborate Confutation. Near of kin to thofe filthy beafts were the Harlots (aginft whon there was long fince by King Hen.2.1 Proclamation fent into Northhamptonshire) and the lewd Ranters, their genuine, abhomin ble offfpring,in thefe laft and worft of times. Now adaies Hell it felfe is broke loofe through the variety of Hereticks, who though diffe.ing from one another, yet all agree against the truth, like Herod and Pilate, who of enemies were made freinds,and they both agreed together againft Chrift. hat fhal we fay when Scepticks, Antifcripturists, Aileiffs in print and practice, in their works and deeds deny the day of judgement? Surely, as at all times, fo now especially the Preaching of this Doctrine of the day of Judgement is exceeding feafonable. Mon.vol.1, 2. This Do 2. This Doctrine is as profitable as feafonable: And this will trine is pro-be evidenc'd by two Reasons, which are of great weight and confe sirable. quence, 1.Pecaufe neffe. 1. Because the Preaching of this Doctrine is an incentive, and à 1. Because it fpecial motive to excite unto the practice of godlyneffe: Why is an Incen doth God command all men to repent?there's a Itrong reafon ufed tive to godlis by the Apoftle to perfwade, Because hee hath appointed a day it the which he will judge the world in righteoufneffe. And from the con fideration of the day of Judgement, the Apoftle draws a strong enggement unto olynefs of life and converfation, Seeing then that all these things fhall be diffolved, what manner of perfons ought wee to be in all holy converfation and godlyneffe, looking for, and kafting unta the coming of the day of God? 2 Pet.3.11,12. foundation of comfort. 2. Fecause this Doctrine of the day of Judgement is the foun- 2 This Do dation of comfort unto the godly. Hence Paul triumphed; I have Arine is the (fith he) fought a good fight, I have finished my courfe, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is layd up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Fudge shall give me at that day, &c: 2 Tim. 4.7, 7,8. Such as have been troubled, who belong to Christ, they fhall have reft (as the Apofile faith) when the Lord Jefus frall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Argels: and the righteou nefs of God is engaged for performance, 2 Thef. 2.6,7 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompe, ce tribulation to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled reft with us. Nov to come nearer the words: Their connexion and dependance is upon ver. 12. For as many as have finned without Law shall alfo perish without Law: And as many as have finned in the Law, fall te judged by the Law. Although they had not the Moral Law promulgated to them by the Minillery of Mofes, yet they had the Law of Nature written in their hearts: And the Law of Nature. though unwritten in Tables of ftone, fhall condemn them that fin ned against the written Moral Law. What elfe is the Moral Law, but a Tranfcript, more fairly wrote, of that Law of Nature, which was firft wrote in Adams heart? Thofe likewife that finned against the written Law (as the Jews did) fhall be judged by it: For there is a dreadfull curfe threatned, Deut. 27. 26. Curfed is he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to dee them. Now if the Queftion be propounded, When fhall this judgement bee executed upon Jews and Gentiles? My Text gives in the Anfwer, In the day, &c. Which words containe a plain affertion, and an evident proof of a grand Article of our Faith concerning the day of Judge menta |