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<P>SIXTH SERMON Preach'd before the King and Queen, IN Their MAJESTIES Chappel at St. <HI>James</HI>'s, upon the fir&s;t <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> in <HI>Lent,</HI> Febr. 24. 1685.</P>
<P>By the Reverend Father <HI>Dom. PH. ELLIS,</HI> Monk of the Holy Order of S. <HI>Benedict,</HI> and of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Congr.</P>
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<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by His Maje&s;ties Command.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, for his Hou&s;hold and Chappel. 1686.</P>
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<HEAD>SIXTH SERMON Preach'd before the KING and QUEEN, Upon the Fir&s;t <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> in <HI>Lent,</HI> February 24. 1685.</HEAD>
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<Q><P><HI>Viri</HI> Ninivitae <HI>&s;urgent in judicio cum ge|neratione i&s;ta, &amp; condemnabunt eam: quia poenitentiam egerunt in predicati|one Jonae.</HI>
<BIBL>Matth. <HI>12.41.</HI></BIBL></P>
<P>The Men of Ninive &s;hall ri&s;e at the Day of Judgment, again&s;t this Generation, and condemn it; becau&s;e they repented at the Preaching of Jonas.
<BIBL><HI>Matth. 12.41.</HI></BIBL></P></Q>
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<P>_THE Holy Fathers (mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty) taking a general View of the &s;inful World, and diving into the Cau&s;es of its Irregula|rities and Corruptions, divide Sinners into
<PB N="2" REF="3">three Cla&s;&s;es or Degrees. The Fir&s;t con&s;i&s;ts of &s;uch as offend out of <HI>Ignorance,</HI> proceed|ing from a criminal neglect either of their own, or of their <HI>Teachers.</HI> The Second is compo&s;ed of &s;uch as fall through <HI>Infir|mity</HI> and Inadvertence; who&s;e Lap&s;es are le&s;s hurtful, and more ea&s;ily recovered. In the la&s;t are ranged the <HI>Impenitent</HI> and Ob|durate, who wanting neither Knowledge of their Duty, nor Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance to comply with it; neither Strength to &s;tand firm, nor Grace to recover their footing when they are down, &s;tretch them&s;elves on the Ground, fall a&s;leep in the Mire, re&s;t becau&s;e they will not Think, and owe their <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> to their <HI>In&s;en&s;ibility.</HI></P>
<P>To the Fir&s;t &s;ort of the&s;e Men we <HI>Preach,</HI> that they may be enlightned; For the Se|cond we <HI>Pray,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aug. in En|chir. cap.</HI> 38.</NOTE> that they may be &s;trength|ned; But the La&s;t, &s;ays St. <HI>Augu&s;tine,</HI> we turn over to the Ju&s;tice of God, <HI>as &s;inning again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t:</HI> for, <HI>Such as will not &s;hake hands with their Errors and darling Vices,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bern. Serm.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Advent.</HI></NOTE> &s;ays St. Bernard, <HI>will not &s;tretch forth their Arms to embrace the Truth when it pre|&s;ents it &s;elf before them,</HI> are &s;ei&s;ed with a
<PB N="3" REF="3">mortal Lethargy, nay with ob&s;tinacy of De|vils, <HI>Ob&s;tinatione Diabolica;</HI> and <HI>It is a folly,</HI> adds <HI>Hugo</HI> of S. <HI>Victor,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hugo Victo|rin. de In&s;t. Novit. cap.</HI> 14. Eccle. 1.15.</NOTE> <HI>to go about to Convert them; Ob&s;tinatos corripere in&s;ipientia e&s;t.</HI> In|deed the Scripture warns us that it is a hard Province; <HI>Perver&s;i difficile corriguntur.</HI> But while the Holy Gho&s;t only declares it very difficult to reduce the Ob&s;tinate to a &s;en&s;e of their Mi&s;ery, the &s;ame words that &s;eem to di&s;encourage the <HI>&V;ndertaking,</HI> gives hopes of the <HI>Succe&s;s.</HI> For tho' we read of a <HI>Nabal</HI> &s;o inebriated with Wine and Plea&s;ures, that neither the peaceful Admonitions of a friendly <HI>David</HI> could per&s;wade, nor the Power of an incen&s;ed Enemy could terrifie him, when De&s;tru|ction was almo&s;t at his Gates: Tho' we read of a <HI>Pharaoh</HI> &s;o infatuated with Pride and Pre&s;umption, that neither the &s;mooth Tongue of <HI>Aaron,</HI> nor the rough Hand of <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> neither the <HI>Eloquence</HI> of the one, nor the <HI>Cha&s;ti&s;ing Rod</HI> of the other, could mollifie him, when the Judgments of God pour'd in upon him like a Torrent: In fine, tho' in this <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> we behold one of the mo&s;t a&s;toni&s;hing Pieces of <HI>Obduracy</HI> in
<PB N="4" REF="4">the <HI>Jews,</HI> who after a Devil ejected out of a Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed Per&s;on, and this before their eyes, and this demon&s;trated to be performed by the Power of God, &s;till call for a <HI>Sign:</HI> Yet after all the&s;e Di&s;encouragements, I will not de&s;pair of this <HI>Generation,</HI> &s;ince a <HI>Ninive</HI> was converted at the Preaching of <HI>Jonas;</HI> &s;ince a <HI>Ninive</HI> not only <HI>did Pen|nance in Sackcloth and A&s;hes,</HI> but al&s;o Preach|es it to this Generation, before &s;he ri&s;e in Judgment again&s;t it. If I &s;hould compare <HI>this Generation</HI> to the <HI>Ninivites;</HI> this <HI>Me|tropolis</HI> of our Kingdom, to that Head and Seat of the Famous <HI>A&s;&s;yrian Monarchy,</HI> it might be a Complement in any other Sub|ject then that of <HI>Impiety:</HI> But if the Com|pari&s;on were drawn upon the Re&s;emblance of our Lives, it would reli&s;h too much of the Satyr; and therefore neither to di&s;gu&s;t nor di&s;encourage my Audience, I am de&s;i|rous to make the <HI>Parallel</HI> upon our <HI>Repen|tance. Secutus es errantem, &s;equere poeni|tentem,</HI> &s;aid once a great <HI>Preacher</HI> to a great <HI>Offender,</HI> but a more Illu&s;trious <HI>Peni|tent.</HI> If we have tran&s;crib'd the Lives of the <HI>Ninivites</HI> with all their Faults, let us not
<PB N="5" REF="4">be a&s;ham'd to correct and blot out the <HI>Er|rata:</HI> If we have followed clo&s;e at their Heels in wicked Cour&s;es, let us not be a&s;ham'd to acknowledge <HI>we are tired in the ways of iniquity,</HI> and &s;it down with them, if not in <HI>Sackcloth</HI> and <HI>A&s;hes,</HI> at lea&s;t to <HI>repent.</HI> We have the &s;ame <HI>Opportunity,</HI> it was at a Sermon; the &s;ame <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity,</HI> as &s;evere Puni&s;hment threatned, with this ad|dition, that tho&s;e individual Per&s;ons <HI>&s;hall ri&s;e in judgment again&s;t us;</HI> the &s;ame <HI>Me|thod</HI> chalk'd out to us, with this advantage, that it was &s;ucce&s;sful to them, and will cer|tainly be &s;o to us.
<MILESTONE UNIT="Divi&s;ion."> Their Sorrow was <HI>hearty,</HI> their Pennance was <HI>exemplary,</HI> their Repentance was <HI>&s;peedy.</HI> The la&s;t of which &s;hall be the peculiar Subject of my Second Part: the other Two &s;hall be di&s;cour&s;ed in my Fir&s;t; while I endeavour to bring the Hi&s;tory of their Conver&s;ion home to our &s;elves, after I have begged the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> the Author of <HI>Repentance,</HI> by the u&s;ual Addre&s;s to <HI>Innocence, Ave Maria.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The men of Ninive &s;hall ri&s;e, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>IT is obvious to every one within The&s;e Walls,
<MILESTONE N="I"> that the Son of God made this terrible Commination not only to &s;trike a <HI>Terror</HI> into his Auditors, but al&s;o to rai&s;e in them a whole&s;om <HI>Confu&s;ion;</HI> not only to reproach their <HI>Stupidity,</HI> but al&s;o to ani|mate them to a generous Emulation; pro|te&s;ting, that if the <HI>Ninivites</HI> could not be an Example to provoke their Repentance, they &s;hould one day become their invinci|ble Accu&s;ers. And to what end do's our Holy Mother the Church yearly repeat this Pa&s;&s;age of the Go&s;pel, and daily inculcate the Sen&s;e of it, but to invite her Children to an Imitation, as the only Plea remain|ing, as the only Defence we can make again&s;t &s;uch a <HI>cloud of witne&s;&s;es,</HI> who will certainly bear us down, and convict us at the Day of Judgment, if they prove not our In&s;truction in this Day of Salvation.</P>
<P><HI>Ninive,</HI> the Capital City of the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> Monarchy, was the <HI>Babylon</HI> of tho&s;e Times, Ema&s;culated with a long Peace, Effeminate
<PB N="7" REF="5">with Ea&s;e, di&s;&s;olv'd in Luxury, Banquet|ting, and Wantonne&s;s, under the Reign of a Sen&s;ual Prince, a <HI>Sardanapalus,</HI> who&s;e Life, &s;ays the Hi&s;torian, was <HI>more &s;oft and infamous,</HI> then his Name; <HI>turpior vit&acirc;, quam nomine;</HI> and who&s;e Example had &s;o cor|rupted the Manners, and &s;tifled the War|like <HI>Genius</HI> of his People, that they were no longer <HI>formidable,</HI> but for their horrible Exce&s;&s;es; no longer <HI>Ma&s;ters of the World,</HI> but by drawing others into an imitation of their Crimes; no longer the <HI>Brave A&s;&s;yri|ans,</HI> but for defying Heaven, and a&s;&s;ailing the Throne of God, not as their Prede|ce&s;&s;ors with the <HI>Tower of Babel,</HI> which they could not fini&s;h; but with the height and enormity of their Sins, which they brought to a point;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jon. 1.2.</NOTE> <HI>A&s;cendit malitia ejus coram me; Their wickedne&s;s is come up before me;</HI> and reaches to Heaven. Now it was high time for <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Mercy</HI> to enter into deliberation, whether this Seduced People, and Seducer of Nations, &s;hould out of hand be converted or de&s;troy'd; but while the one was preparing its Thunder
<PB N="8" REF="6">and Lightning, its Showrs of Fire and Brim&s;tone, the other di&s;patches a <HI>Herald</HI> to warn them of their approaching Ruine. But the Prophet <HI>Jonas,</HI> the Man pitch'd upon to carry the unplea&s;ant Me&s;&s;age, out of a Humane Prudence, and too warm a Zeal, declines the Office. He was unwil|ling to expo&s;e his Ma&s;ter's Honor, and his own Per&s;on, among a People where he was like to be &s;o little con&s;ider'd, that the <HI>God</HI> was as unknown as the <HI>Prophet.</HI> But if po&s;&s;ible they &s;hould own his <HI>Character,</HI> and take the Subject of his <HI>Emba&s;&s;ie</HI> into con|&s;ideration, That <HI>yet forty days and Ninive &s;hall be de&s;troy'd,</HI> probably they might re|pent, and more then probably God would pardon them if they did &s;o, and <HI>Ninive</HI> would not be de&s;troy'd, and by nece&s;&s;ary con&s;equence <HI>Jonas</HI> mu&s;t bear the Ignomi|ny, if a <HI>fal&s;e Prophet;</HI> which once dete|cted, as it mu&s;t be if the Judgment fol|low not the Sentence, the very <HI>Motive</HI> of their Conver&s;ion would prove a dangerous <HI>Temptation</HI> to return to their former Im|piety. Wherefore the Prophet finding no
<PB N="9" REF="6">other way to avoid the Points of this <HI>Di|lemma,</HI> not only flies from the Employ|ment,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jon. 1.3.</NOTE> but al&s;o hopes to <HI>e&s;cape from the face of God;</HI> he puts to Sea, makes all the Sail he can, and &s;teers his Cour&s;e as wide from the Coa&s;t of <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> as the Wind and his Fear could bear off. When behold, the Storm he would not progno&s;ticate to others, was gather'd over his own Head! Be&s;ides his own Guilt, the Divine Hand points him out as the Occa&s;ion of it; yet he chu&s;es rather to be ca&s;t over-board, then to tack about and make for <HI>Ninive;</HI> and tho' a <HI>Whale</HI> was ready to receive him to that end, yet his <HI>Will</HI> and his <HI>Prayers</HI> ran &s;o &s;trong the other way, it was three Days be|fore &s;he could unload her miraculous Bur|then upon the dete&s;ted Shore.</P>
<P>But he was no &s;ooner out of the <HI>Whales</HI> Belly, then he enters into him&s;elf; and terrified with the Idea of the Dangers he had pa&s;&s;ed, admiring his own no le&s;s won|derful Stupidity, and revolving his &s;trange Deliverance, <HI>incredible</HI> almo&s;t to him&s;elf,
<PB N="10" REF="7">he joyfully embraces the Employment he had &s;o ob&s;tinately refus'd, and abating both of his Zeal and Apprehen&s;ion, he was con|tented <HI>Ninive</HI> &s;hould fal&s;ifie his Prediction, and by a timely Repentance prevent the De&s;truction he was going to denounce.</P>
<P>He enters the va&s;t City, and &s;topping in one of the mo&s;t frequented Places, he &s;ummons the Inhabitants, <HI>Adhuc quadra|ginta dies &amp; Ninive &s;ubvertetur; Yet forty days and Ninive &s;hall be no more.</HI> The no|velty of the Thing, the &s;trange Figure of the Man, his Mien, as if he had newly ri&s;en from the Dead; the particularity of his Habit, as if he came out of another World; the brokenne&s;s of his Dialect, &s;oon drew the Herd about him, to li&s;ten and gaze a while, and then to laugh; and without doubt the <HI>Wits</HI> and Libertines to rally him, and &s;ome in Office to threaten him. But the <HI>Preacher</HI> go's on as in&s;en&s;ible to their Affronts, as they were at fir&s;t to his Do|ctrine; he follows his Text, and they him, till at la&s;t, as <HI>Laughing</HI> and <HI>Crying</HI> are per|form'd
<PB N="11" REF="7">with the &s;ame <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the Eyes and Face, &s;o the &s;ame Words which at fir&s;t provok'd their Laughter, now &s;pread Sorrow, Fear, and Amazement upon their Countenances, and fetch Tears out of their Eyes, but could not work a <HI>thoro' Refor|mation</HI> in their Hearts; till the Voice of this <HI>&V;nknown</HI> penetrated thro' the Town into the Court, and reach'd the Ears of the King, <HI>Pervenit verbum ad Regem Ninive.</HI></P>
<P>This King had as little rea&s;on as any of his Subjects to be &s;atisfi'd with his own Life, and more rea&s;on to apprehend the verity of <HI>Jonas</HI>'s Prediction, being con&s;ci|ous to him&s;elf into how dreadful a Preci|pice his ill Example had drawn a People, never &s;o Complying, never &s;o Obedient to the Prince as in his Vices. In fine, he be|lieves the threatned Judgment &s;o much more probable, as he knew it was too much de&s;erved. He ri&s;es therefore from his Throne, lays by the <HI>En&s;igns</HI> of <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> puts him&s;elf in the &s;tate and po&s;ture of a Cri|minal, Preaches and Enjoyns the Pennance
<PB N="12" REF="8">that he Practi&s;es; Fa&s;ting and Sackcloth become the Mode, the Court and Town are pre&s;ently in it, and follow it with &s;o much eagerne&s;s, vigour and per&s;eve|rance, that the Storm which was ready to break upon their Heads, di&s;per&s;es of it &s;elf, the Heavens clear up, the Anger of God is di&s;arm'd, and as the Prophet fore&s;aw, he draws in the menacing Hand.</P>
<P>Let us make a &s;tand here, Chri&s;tians, and re&s;t a while in Contemplation of a Hi&s;tory as In&s;tructive as it is A&s;toni&s;hing; a Record of what pa&s;s'd in <HI>Ninive,</HI> an Account of the pre&s;ent State of mo&s;t Cities in the World, and I hope a Prophecy of our Repentan|ces. It is like a good Picture, which &s;eems to fix the Eye upon every one that regards it. I promis'd not to offend your Ears with any rude Compari&s;on, or to apply <HI>Cau|&s;ticks,</HI> to u&s;e a burning Iron where a Bal|&s;am, a gentle Remedy may work the Cure. Yet I beg leave to put you in mind, that <HI>Ninive</HI> is &s;till threatned, but is not yet de|&s;troy'd; that it &s;urvives in every City
<PB N="13" REF="8">who&s;e Impieties, who&s;e Irreligion, who&s;e Extortion, who&s;e in&s;atiable Avarice, and dete&s;table Luxuries, cry to Heaven for Ven|geance, and to avert who&s;e total <HI>Overthrow</HI> a <HI>Jonas</HI> is di&s;patch'd. <HI>Et plus quam Jonas h&icirc;c.</HI> And how far we are &s;hort of <HI>Ninive,</HI> how little we want of equalling their Crimes, and <HI>filling up the number of our Sins,</HI> he only can tell <HI>who is more then Jonas,</HI> who numbers the Sands of the Sea.</P>
<P><HI>Ninive</HI> a Pagan Town, the Centre and Fountain of Super&s;tition and Idolatry, buried for &s;o many Ages in the darkne&s;s of Gentili&s;m, where the <HI>Sun of Ju&s;tice never &s;hone,</HI> the &s;aving Faith never &s;hed a Beam; amid&s;t an infinity of Deities without the Knowledge of God, labouring under a double Night, of Infidelity and of the blacke&s;t Crimes.</P>
<P>But <HI>Ninive</HI> at the Preaching of a <HI>Jonas,</HI> a meer Stranger, without any thing to make him&s;elf Con&s;iderable; a Man never heard of before, a Man contemptible for his Per|&s;on,
<PB N="14" REF="9">with Di&s;traction and Amazement in his Countenance, &s;till frothy and reeking from the Belly of the Whale; without any Credentials or Proof of his Mi&s;&s;ion, with|out any Miracle to back his Doctrine, or other Te&s;timony to &s;upport it, then what he gave him&s;elf; and this to a People &s;o little prepar'd to receive it, that in all like|lihood, he might as well have Preach'd to the Rocks and Waves, from the Entrails of the Leviathan. Yet this <HI>&V;nknown</HI> Preacheth, the&s;e Infidels Believe, the&s;e wicked Men, the&s;e Mon&s;ters of Nature, even <HI>Sardana|palus</HI> is Converted: <HI>Sardanapalus</HI> &s;heds manly Tears, <HI>Sardanapalus</HI> do's Pennance; &s;uch exemplar Pennance, that the Holy Gho&s;t thought it material to tran&s;mit each Circum&s;tance to Po&s;terity; <HI>Surrexit de So|lio,</HI> &s;ays the Text, <HI>He ri&s;es from his Throne,</HI> he dete&s;ts that <HI>unfortunate</HI> Power which enabled him to &s;in without <HI>controll: Abjecit ve&s;timentum,</HI> he ca&s;ts the Purple from his Shoulders, which he had not only &s;tain'd, but even drench'd with his repeated Crimes: <HI>Indutus e&s;t Sacco,</HI> he changes it for
<PB N="15" REF="9">Sackcloth, to cha&s;ti&s;e that Fle&s;h he had &s;o pamper'd and indulg'd: <HI>Et &s;edit in cinere,</HI> and is not contented till his Mortification is accompanied with the profounde&s;t Humility; and therefore he pro&s;trates and rowls him&s;elf in A&s;hes. <HI>Res admiratione digna, &amp;c.</HI> (cries St. <HI>John Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI>) O what a Spectacle! delightful and new to the Heavens, and worthy the Admira|tion of the whole Earth! Sackcloth and Haircloth imperiou&s;ly invade and bani&s;h the Purple; A&s;hes and Du&s;t tarni&s;h the lu&s;tre of the Crown. He had Sinn'd, and he Repents like a King. He re&s;olves the Example, which had been &s;uch an Incentive to <HI>Vice,</HI> &s;hould be no le&s;s ex|citing to <HI>Repentance.</HI> He depo&s;es the Marks, but not the Power of a King. His Obedience to the Voice of God, do's not abate of his Authority with his People: While he lies pro&s;trate as a <HI>Criminal,</HI> he Enacts Laws, and Enjoyns a &s;olemn Fa&s;t thro' all his Dominions; <HI>Homines &amp; ju|menta non gu&s;tent quicquam.</HI> And when did he i&s;&s;ue forth this <HI>Proclamation?</HI> after he
<PB N="16" REF="10">had call'd a Board to debate it, after he had taken the thing into Deliberation, or Advis'd with his Council and Sages? No, &s;ays the Text, <HI>Et pervenit Verbum,</HI> as &s;oon as this Word came to his Ear, without ballancing, without he&s;itation, <HI>Motu proprio,</HI> immediately at the very in|&s;tant he falls to work: He was already doing Pennance while he was command|ing it; binding his People to comply fir&s;t by <HI>Example,</HI> and then by <HI>Precept.</HI></P>
<P>But where is it that I &s;peak? Is it not to a Chri&s;tian A&s;&s;embly, to a Chri&s;tian Town, an ancient Theatre of Religion, and once the Metropolis of this Kingdom as well in Piety as in Grandeur and Commerce? Is it not to a Court once Peopled with Saints, once a Nur&s;ery of Heaven, illu&s;tra|&s;trated with the Morning-brightne&s;s of the Go&s;pel, and reflecting its Light thro' the whole World? Is it not before the Succe&s;&s;or of St. <HI>Lucius,</HI> the fir&s;t Chri&s;tian King, and to the fir&s;t Chri&s;tian Kingdom of the <HI>We&s;tern</HI> World? Is it not to a Peo|ple
<PB N="17" REF="10">early Born into, and long Edu|cated in the Bo&s;om of the Church, having Kings for <HI>Nur&s;ing Fathers,</HI> and Queens for <HI>Nur&s;ing Mothers,</HI> nou|ri&s;h'd with the <HI>Bread of Heaven,</HI> and the <HI>Fat of the Earth?</HI> and yet amid&s;t &s;uch an overflow of Divine Ble&s;&s;ings, &s;uch infallible Helps, &s;uch efficacious Sacraments, &s;uch moving Exhortati|ons, we remain un&s;haken to the Me|naces, in&s;en&s;ible to the Promi&s;es, re|bellious to the Light, and deaf to the Voice, not of a <HI>Jonas,</HI> but of a <HI>JES&V;S.</HI> One unknown Preacher Converted the mo&s;t Heatheni&s;h, the mo&s;t corrupted, the mo&s;t populous City of the World, at one Sermon; while we who &s;peak your own Language, nay even your own Sence; Preach what you believe, and Menace what you apprehend; &s;peak what you know to be ju&s;t and rea&s;onable; We, who&s;e <HI>Mi&s;&s;ion</HI> you acknowledge, who&s;e <HI>Character</HI> you re|verence, who&s;e <HI>Authority</HI> you do not di&s;pute, Think it a great Victory if we
<PB N="18" REF="11">Convert the meane&s;t of this crouded Auditory, after a <HI>hundred</HI> Sermons. And do you wonder that the <HI>Ninivites &s;hall ri&s;e in the day of Judgment again&s;t</HI> this more <HI>Criminal,</HI> (I mu&s;t &s;ay it) becau&s;e more <HI>Obdurate</HI> Generation; which amid&s;t &s;o much knowledge of its Duty, amid&s;t &s;uch pre&s;&s;ing Motives, &s;uch &s;trong Convictions, &s;uch cogent Arguments, &s;uch illu&s;trious Examples, puts off its Repentance from day to day? But to pre&s;s this is my Second Point.</P>
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<P>It was a notable Advice,
<MILESTONE N="II"> and becom|ing its Author,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 5.8.</NOTE> the wi&s;e&s;t of Men, <HI>Non tardes converti; Do not &s;lacken to be converted to our Lord, nor put it off from day to day.</HI> For one of the mo&s;t crafty Slights of the Devil to keep an unhap|py Soul in his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, one of the fal&s;e&s;t Steps we make, one of the mo&s;t dangerous Errors we &s;lide into, is the deferring our Repentance from time to time, till it be pa&s;t <HI>time.</HI> An Error not
<PB N="19" REF="11">only mo&s;t pernicious, becau&s;e in the highe&s;t Concern, but al&s;o the mo&s;t wicked, as proceeding not from Sur|pri&s;e, Weakne&s;s, Inadvertence, or Ig|norance, (the Heads whence other Mi|&s;takes ari&s;e) but &s;pringing from the mo&s;t affected Wilfulne&s;s, and down|right Malice. People will not believe daily Experience, will not credit their common Sen&s;e, will not hearken to their own Rea&s;on and Conviction; but in de&s;pite of Sen&s;e, Rea&s;on, Con|&s;cience, and Experience, will &s;till per|&s;i&s;t in a vain and groundle&s;s Pre&s;umpti|on, That <HI>after forty days their Ninive &s;hall not be de&s;troy'd;</HI> that they &s;hall have a much longer time to repent in. Yet you &s;ee Funerals pa&s;s every day under your Windows, you meet them in the Streets; you behold your Friends, your Children, your Husbands and your Wives expiring under your Roofs, gi|ving up the Gho&s;t in your Arms; you &s;ee them die, who had as much rea&s;on to promi&s;e them&s;elves a longer Date of
<PB N="20" REF="12">Life; you &s;ee them die, you &s;ee <HI>Ni|nive</HI> fall, (for when one dies, all the World dies to him) you &s;ee them die unprepar'd, one without any &s;en&s;e of a future Life, another in De&s;pair; one is &s;uddenly cut off, another falls in a Du|el, in Drink, in Adultery: And the&s;e are dreadful, but late and almo&s;t daily Examples. You &s;ee them die impeni|tent, and hear them bid you beware of the &s;ame Pre&s;umption, which brought them to their eternal Ruine; and yet you are deaf to all Per&s;ua&s;ions. And if you will be &s;o, who can help it? But then you mu&s;t not wonder that the <HI>Ninivites</HI> &s;hall ri&s;e at the Day of Judg|ment again&s;t you; for they repented at the Preaching, at the fir&s;t Sermon of <HI>Jonas.</HI> Be&s;ides, they had forty days al|low'd them to prevent their Ruine; but you hear Truth it &s;elf prote&s;ting, that you neither <HI>do,</HI> nor <HI>&s;hall know,</HI> not only a certain Period of days to prepare your &s;elves in, but not &s;o much as <HI>one day,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 25.13.</NOTE> no <HI>not an hour; Ne&s;citis diem neque
<PB N="21" REF="12">horam.</HI> You hear the Judge menacing that Death, that Judgment &s;hall &s;teal upon you <HI>like a thief in the night,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Apoc. 16.15.</NOTE> that is, when you re&s;t &s;ecurely, and dream of no &s;uch thing; when you are di&s;|&s;olv'd in your Plea&s;ures, when you are intoxicated with Wine, when you are extended in Wantonne&s;s, that even this Night perhaps your Soul &s;hall be ra|vi&s;h'd from you, <HI>Stulte h&acirc;c nocte, &amp;c.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 12.20.</NOTE> and yet in the &s;ound of this dreadful Alarm, in &s;ight of the threatning Hand which is writing your Sentence upon the Wall of your Chamber, upon the brink of this frightful Precipice you lie as &s;upinely, as unconcern'd, as <HI>if you had the Works of the Ju&s;t,</HI> or rather as if you were already dead, and a&s;leep,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aug.</NOTE> not in your Beds, but in your Graves, <HI>Ad tan|tum tonitruum qui non evigilat, non dor|mit, &s;ed mortuus e&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>This Stupidity, this affected In&s;en|&s;ibility of ours, provok'd our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour to &s;uch a Degree, that, con|trary
<PB N="22" REF="13">to his u&s;ual Meekne&s;s, he calls &s;uch People <HI>Fools, Stultos,</HI> in&s;en&s;ate, &s;tu|pid, bruti&s;h, and irrational, beyond all that can be imagin'd. Your God is your <HI>Accu&s;er,</HI> and the <HI>Ninivites</HI> are your <HI>Judges;</HI> but you pronounce the Sentence upon your &s;elves; all the other Actions of your Life are your Condemnation. For who of you all is &s;o &s;en&s;ele&s;s as to tru&s;t the &s;malle&s;t Temporal Concern to &s;o great a ha|zard, as to expo&s;e your Life and your E&s;tate, when you may ea&s;ily &s;ecure and enjoy both the one and the other, and to run the ri&s;que of lo&s;ing all, for want of a little Care, of Compounding for a &s;mall Fine, a little Trouble, a well|tim'd Sigh, or a &s;ea&s;onable Tear? Should your Hou&s;e take Fire, and your Friends and Neighbors run in to give you no|tice of it, before the &s;preading Flame has taken hold of the main Timber; would you phlegmatickly reply, There is no ha&s;te in the Bu&s;ine&s;s, it will be time enough to bring the Engines
<PB N="23" REF="13">when the Fire has reached the Founda|tions? Would a Man need a great Stock of Philo&s;ophy to convince you that you are a <HI>Fool,</HI> or a Madman, which is all one, &s;ince Madne&s;s is but a <HI>raging Folly?</HI> Why, your Soul is all in a Flame with a long Habit of Sin; <HI>Ignis in o&s;|&s;ibus;</HI> you are burnt up with unlawful and lawle&s;s De&s;ires, with Pa&s;&s;ions more raging and more de&s;troying then Fire. The <HI>Preacher</HI> comes as a Friend to ad|verti&s;e you of it, bids you make ha&s;te to &s;top the Conflagration, le&s;t it &s;wal|low you up in <HI>unquenchable Flames.</HI> You bid him not trouble you with that yet a while, Thirty or Forty years hence perhaps you may give him a hearing, that is to &s;ay, &s;peaking your Sen&s;e in the other Circum&s;tance, Let me alone till the Fire has in&s;inuated it &s;elf into the very Heart of the Building, till it has taken &s;uch hold upon me, that it will be impo&s;&s;ible to lay it, impo&s;&s;ible to re&s;cue me from the devouring Ele|ment, beyond hopes of your A&s;&s;i&s;tance,
<PB N="24" REF="14">or Power to help my &s;elf, when Hor|ror reigns without, and Confu&s;ion within, till I know not where I am, what to do, which way to turn me, which way to go about to draw Tears out of my parched Eyes, or pre&s;s Sor|row out of my petrified Heart, which is the only Water can quench the Cri|minal Flame.</P>
<P><HI>Stulte!</HI> Fooli&s;h and in&s;en&s;ate Man! Should you find your &s;elf overcharg'd with a heavy Burthen, which even grows upon your Shoulders, and which you are oblig'd to carry, or &s;ink; would you refu&s;e to &s;tir a Step while you are in the Flower of your Age, in the height of your Strength? Would you tell &s;uch as advi&s;e you to <HI>work while it is yet day,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">John 9.4.</NOTE> <HI>before night come upon you,</HI> to get to your Journeys end as &s;oon as you can, That it is time enough, you will begin when you grow Old? that is to &s;ay, you will begin when you &s;hould end, when your Nature is de|cay'd,
<PB N="25" REF="14">your Spirits exhau&s;ted, your Nerves debilitated, and have more need of being carried your &s;elf. Sinner, your Crimes are a great Load:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37.5.</NOTE> <HI>Sicut onus grave gravata &s;unt &s;uper me;</HI> Even your God, <HI>the Strong one of I&s;rael,</HI> groans un|der the Weight, he can bear them no longer; he gives you warning that he is ju&s;t ready to withdraw the Hand of his long-&s;uffering patience, and leave you to your &s;elf;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 6.5.</NOTE> <HI>&V;nu&s;qui&s;que onus &s;u|um portabit.</HI> 'Tis in your own choice whether you will, now you have &s;trength and opportunity, work them off, and lay them down at the foot of the Cro&s;s, by embracing a Penitential Life, or &s;weat under them till they &s;ink you into Hell. And do you &s;till deliberate upon the Point? Is the Matter &s;o difficult, is the Ca&s;e &s;o perplex'd, that you can|not tell which Party to take? or rather, is not the Nece&s;&s;ity &s;o evident, &s;o pre&s;|&s;ing, &s;o irre&s;i&s;tible, that to demur one Day upon it, is to renounce as well your <HI>Sen&s;es</HI> as your <HI>Faith,</HI> as well your
<PB N="26" REF="15"><HI>Rea&s;on</HI> as <HI>Religion?</HI> You promi&s;e your &s;elves late Years to repent in, when you have not the a&s;&s;urance of one Day; Is not this as great a Shock to <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> as it is an Affront to <HI>Religion?</HI> Is it not to invade the Prerogative of God, by <HI>pla|cing the times and moments in your own power and di&s;po&s;ition?</HI> And certainly tho&s;e Purpo&s;es of Repentance you &s;o much relie on, tho&s;e Re&s;olutions you &s;o often break and &s;o often renew, tho&s;e Promi&s;es which have &s;o often deceiv'd both your &s;elf and your Confe&s;&s;or, can|not be true, real and unfeigned, if the <HI>Term</HI> you a&s;&s;ign be fal&s;e and imagina|ry. But there is no &s;uch thing as <HI>Forty years hence,</HI> there is no &s;uch thing as <HI>Twenty years hence,</HI> there is no &s;uch thing as <HI>To morrow:</HI> Procra&s;tinated Repen|tance is <HI>nothing,</HI> but a pre&s;ent Impeni|tency.</P>
<P>Now go and complain you are hard|ly dealt with, you have not time allow'd you to <HI>repent,</HI> becau&s;e you have not
<PB N="27" REF="15">more Years allow'd you to <HI>offend:</HI> Com|plain that the <HI>Ninivites</HI> had more fa|vour &s;hew'd them then you have, be|cau&s;e they had <HI>Forty days,</HI> and you have had <HI>Forty years.</HI> Quarrel with the Di|vine Providence, becau&s;e <HI>they</HI> were call'd, and repented the <HI>fir&s;t day;</HI> you were call'd the fir&s;t, and think much to repent on the la&s;t. Be very angry at the Preacher for di&s;compo&s;ing you, and &s;topping you &s;hort in the career of your Sins, with a Whi&s;per in your Ear, That the Term is ju&s;t expiring, that the Sword is un&s;heath'd over your Head, and the Hand of Vengeance is lifted up to give you the fatal Blow: Tell him he is trou|ble&s;om and impertinent, becau&s;e he does you the be&s;t Office in the World, and bid him go Preach to <HI>Ninive.</HI></P>
<P>He has done, and is ready to leave the <HI>Chair;</HI> but a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves, the Men of <HI>Ninive</HI> will immediately &s;uc|ceed in his Place; you &s;hall not be able to impo&s;e Silence upon them, their
<PB N="28" REF="16">Voice &s;hall ring in your Ears, either till their Preaching convert, or their Sen|tence bur&s;t your Hearts. They &s;hall follow you thro' all the windings and mazes of Sin, they &s;hall meet you in every crooked path which them&s;elves traced out, and you follow; They know your Haunts, which them&s;elves fre|quented; They &s;hall meet you at the Theatre, at the Ma&s;querade, at the Rendezvouz, at the Gaming hou&s;e, at the Tavern; They &s;hall in&s;inuate them|&s;elves in your Cabinets, and your mo&s;t &s;tudied Rece&s;&s;es &s;hall not exclude them. <HI>Clamabunt etenim &amp; non &s;ilebunt;</HI> Their <HI>Sackcloth</HI> &s;hall confound your Nicene&s;s and Gallantry; Their <HI>A&s;hes</HI> &s;hall con|demn your Pride and Vanity; Their <HI>Fa&s;ting</HI> &s;hall upbraid your Gluttony and Drunkenne&s;s; Their <HI>Humiliation</HI> &s;hall check your Ambition; Their <HI>Sighs</HI> &s;hall play the Ground to your Mu&s;ick and Merriment in this time of Sorrow; Their <HI>ready Obedience</HI> to the Voice of the <HI>Preacher,</HI> &s;hall ex|probrate
<PB N="29" REF="16">the in&s;en&s;ibility of your &s;eared Hearts; And their <HI>Examples</HI> &s;hall give the Lye to all your Excu&s;es. In fine, tho&s;e lamentable Cries of Men, Wo|men, Children, and Animals, &s;uing to the Throne of Mercy to prevent the Overthrow of that City, &s;hall cry Ven|geance again&s;t this, and eccho it thro' the whole World, that God de&s;ires not the Damnation of <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> who was &s;o Merciful to <HI>Heathens;</HI> That you de&s;erve indeed not &s;o much warning, becau&s;e your whole Life has been one continued Adverti&s;ement; That be|cau&s;e they offended again&s;t the Law of Nature, they de&s;erv'd an Eternity of Suffering, and to pa&s;s out of one Dark|ne&s;s into another: But becau&s;e you have openly re&s;i&s;ted the Holy Gho&s;t, <HI>Rebelles lumini,</HI> Mi&s;erable, not for want of Light, but Impious becau&s;e you rebell'd again&s;t it, you have merited the <HI>Outward darkne&s;s,</HI> the <HI>Nether hell.</HI> Yet to &s;hew that <HI>God wills not the death of a Sinner, but rather that he &s;hould be con|verted
<PB N="30" REF="17">and live; Extendit terminos tuos,</HI> He &s;u&s;pends the Sentence of your Con|demnation till the remainder of this <HI>Forty days,</HI> this <HI>Penitential Sea&s;on</HI> is elap&s;ed; and &s;ends his <HI>Prophets,</HI> the <HI>Interpreters of his Word,</HI> to acquaint you with the peremptory Term.</P>
<P>And now to &s;um up this Di&s;cour&s;e, as Mo&s;es did all his Remon&s;trance to the People of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 30.19.</NOTE> <HI>Te&s;tes invoco bodie coelum &amp; terram, quod propo&s;uerim vobis vitam &amp; mortem,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>I take heaven and earth to witne&s;s, that I have propo&s;ed to you life and death,</HI> and &s;et the Ble&s;&s;ings and the Judgments of God before your Eyes, and within your reach, to &s;tretch out your Hand to which you plea&s;e; The <HI>Heavens,</HI> which are Peopled with Saints, who <HI>de&s;ir'd to &s;ee tho&s;e things which you &s;ee,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 13.17.</NOTE> <HI>and did not &s;ee them; to hear tho&s;e things which you hear, and did not hear them;</HI> who were de&s;titute of the many Advan|tages which you enjoy; The <HI>Earth,</HI> a great part of who&s;e Inhabitants is &s;till
<PB N="31" REF="17">cover'd with <HI>Egyptian</HI> Darkne&s;s, and in|volv'd in the Sins of <HI>Ninive,</HI> yet at the fir&s;t Sermon would repent in <HI>Sackcloth and A&s;hes.</HI> And I call even <HI>Hell</HI> to witne&s;s, which is Throng'd with &s;o many ju&s;tly Con|demn'd for Crimes incomparably le&s;s then you daily commit; That God has not been wanting on his part, that the Bow|els of his <HI>Mercy</HI> are as fruitful, that his <HI>Arms</HI> are as much extended, that his <HI>Heart</HI> is as open, that his <HI>Call</HI> is as vigorous, that his <HI>Hand</HI> is as powerful and as ready to &s;ave this Generation, as when he pardon'd the <HI>Ninivites,</HI> whom we Copy in our Vices, and who &s;it to us as a perfect Model of a <HI>hearty,</HI> of an <HI>exemplar,</HI> and of a <HI>&s;peedy</HI> Re|pentance,</P>
<P><HI>Which God of his infinite Mercy,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<P>IN the Fir&s;t Sermon Preach'd before their Maje|&s;ties at <HI>Wind&s;or, pag.</HI> 18, <HI>&amp;</HI> 19. are the&s;e follow|ing Clau&s;es. <HI>And tho' Almighty God, by inforcing this Precept</HI> (of the Love of Him&s;elf) <HI>with &s;o many almo&s;t Synonimous Words, intended principally to &s;ink this Fir&s;t and Greate&s;t Commandment deeper into our Hearts; yet it has produc'd &s;o contrary an Effect, even in the Minds of Learned Men, that &s;ome have not wanted Confidence to pronounce the Commandment Impo&s;&s;ible.</HI>] This Sermon was Printed in the Words it was &s;poke, (tho' &s;ome endeavour to per&s;uade the contrary;) I alledg'd no Authors then, and thought the Critical Reader would not have call'd upon me, to produce tho&s;e <HI>Learned Men,</HI> it being the Do|ctrine in &s;o many late Writers, and &s;o much in|&s;i&s;ted on, and &s;o frequently repeated by <HI>Martin Lu|ther;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cen&s;. Pari&s;. de Praec. Le|gis Prop. 1.</NOTE> <HI>Qui negat Deum nobis impo&s;&s;ibile ju&s;&s;i&s;&s;e, pe&s;&s;im&egrave; facit, &amp; qui hoc fal&s;um e&s;&s;e dicit, plu&s;quam pe&s;&s;im&egrave; facit: He that denies God hath commanded what is impo&s;&s;ible, do's very ill; and he that &s;ays, This is fal&s;e, do's &s;till wor&s;e.</HI> And he in&s;tances in the Com|mandment of the Love of God with all the Heart, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and <HI>Non concupi&s;ces, Thou &s;halt not covet;</HI> which he frequently declares cannot be ob&s;erv'd in this Life. It follows in the Sermon, <HI>Indeed if he that lays it upon us, did not withal promi&s;e us Strength to per|form it,</HI> Pelagius <HI>and his Followers would never have been condemn'd for that Doctrine.</HI> Where it is vi&s;i|ble
<PB REF="18"><HI>That</HI> is put for <HI>Their,</HI> by an over&s;ight of the Corrector; the Sen&s;e of the two Clau&s;es being, That if God, who lays the Commandment upon us, did not give us Grace to perform it, neither <HI>Luther, &amp;c.</HI> would have err'd in declaring it Impo&s;&s;ible, nor <HI>Pe|lagius</HI> have been condemn'd for teaching, That it might be fulfill'd by the Strength of Nature, with|out the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of Grace: For, take away the Ef|ficacy of Grace, it matters not which of the two Opinions prevails, whether the <HI>unperforming</HI> Grace of <HI>Luther,</HI> or the <HI>No-Grace,</HI> or at the mo&s;t the <HI>non-nece&s;&s;ary</HI> Grace of <HI>Pelagius.</HI> This is the Sen&s;e of the Propo&s;ition; and it could be no other; my Bu&s;ine&s;s being to &s;hew how the Doctrine of the Church runs between the&s;e two Extreams (an Impo&s;&s;ibility with Grace, and a Po&s;&s;ibility without Grace);
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aug. de Nat. &amp; Grat. c. 4.3.</NOTE> <HI>Non enim Deus impo&s;&s;ibilia jubet, &s;ed jubendo admonet, &amp; fa|cere quod po&s;&s;is, &amp; petere quod non po&s;&s;is: For God do's not command impo&s;&s;ible things; but by his Com|mand he admoni&s;heth us to do what we can, and to call upon him to enable us in what we cannot do.</HI></P>
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<ITEM>Copies of Two Papers Written by the late King <HI>Charles</HI> II. Together with a Paper Written by the late Dutche&s;s of <HI>York.</HI> Publi&s;hed by his Maje&s;ty's Command. <HI>Folio.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Spirit of Chri&s;tianity. Publi&s;hed by his Maje&s;ty's Com|mand. <HI>Twelves.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t Sermon Preach'd before their Maje&s;ties in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> on the fir&s;t <HI>Sunday</HI> of <HI>October</HI> 1685. By the Re|verend Father <HI>Dom. P. E.</HI> Monk of the Holy Order of S. <HI>Benedict,</HI> and of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Congregation. Publi&s;hed by his Maje&s;ty's Command. <HI>Quarto.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Second Sermon Preached before the King and Queen, and Queen Dowager, at Their Maje&s;ties Chappel at St <HI>James</HI>'s, <HI>November</HI> 1, 1685. By the Reverend Father <HI>Dom. Ph. Ellis,</HI> Monk of the Holy Order of S. <HI>Benedict,</HI> and of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Congregation. Publi&s;hed by his Maje&s;ty's Com|mand. <HI>Quarto.</HI></ITEM>
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