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p'M O U know, My Brethren, that the Re-
/afiofi, I now bear to You, makes it my Du.
ty, upon the prelent Occafion, to fay
fomething to You. And, as this is the
firft time of our coming together for that
Purpofe : I think, I cannot better employ it, than by call-
ing to your Minds, and my own, fome of the molt Im-
portant and General Toinfs, which are of equal Concern
to You and Mc ; and of the greateft Weight to Us all in
the Difcharge of our feveral Duties. And, for this good
End, nothing appears to me to be more proper than

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I. To confidcr our felvcs, not only as Chriftians, but as,
Minijlers of Chriji 5 and as having particularly devo-
ted our fclves to the Service of God, and of the Souls
of Men, in the Chrifttan Church.

II. To confidcr our felves as Vroteftants i and as Mini-
jlers in a Trot eft ant Church. And

III. To confider our felves as Minifters in the Church
of England, peculiarly fo called, as it is at prefent
Eftablifh'd amongft Us.

The Divifion of our Thoughts under thcfe Three Heads
will be of great Ufe to Us : as it will lead Us more di-
ftindly to confidcr the fcvcral Adverfaries We have to
deal with, and the true Line and Meafure of our Duty
with refpedt to Them ; as well as the \A^cight of our Of-
fice, and Our great Concern in the due Performance
of it.

I. The firft and great Point, is, often to confider that Wc
are not only Chriftians i h\xt Minifters oi Chrift, who have
voluntarily and delibcrafely taken upon our felvcs a Sacred
Office in the Chriftian Church ; and have devoted our
felves peculiarly to the Service of Thofc Souls for which
Chrift died.

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This is an awful and folcmn CoufiJcratiou, which ought
to govern our whole Conducl, and fpread its influence
over Every Part of our whole Behaviour. As We have
chofen this Office, I truft, upon fuch good Grounds and
Motives, as will juftify Us, before God, in what We fo-
lemnly declared at the firft Step We took towards it, Viz.
That \Ve truftcd We were moved to it bj the Holy Spirit
of God ; it behoves Us, as much as We value the Favour
of God, and our own Eternal Salvation, to take the great-
eft Care that No One of Thofe committed to Us, fall {hort
of the great Reward which all Chriftians have in their Eye.
If fVe be not wanting, on our Part, towards this ; no Wick-
ednefs or Wilfullnefs of Others will be charged upon Us,
But if there be any wilful Defeft in our Care and Watch-
fulnefsj Thofe whoperifh will not perifh without w/r Guilt
mixt with their o-jon: and We muft anfwer at the Great
Tribunal for our Share in fo unfpeakable an Evil.

But not only this. The frequent Confideration of Our
felves, as Minifters of Chrijl, will be an infallible Rule
of Judgment and Aftion to Us, in every Circumftance
of our Office. It will guide Us into the true Notion of
the "Dignity of it : And it will lead Us to keep up, in
iomc degree, our whole Conduct to that 'Dignity. There
is, without doubt, a great and highly valuable 'Dignity
in our Office. But it is in vain, my Brethren, for Us to
boaft, or fo much as to fpeak, of it, unlefs We underftand

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what it is ; and, after We do underftand it, unlefs
Wc live and ad, as if We our fclvcs were fcnfi-
blc of it. We muft firft reverence Ourfelves, before We
can expect that Others fhould reverence Us : Reverence
ourfelves--, — Not by demanding outward Marks of Refpcft ;
but by fuch a Behaviour, as will naturally command them,
by attracting the Real Efteem of thofe around Us ; and by
fuch a Condud, as will convince all who are WitnefTcs to
it, that We are in earneft, and know what We mean by
the juft Value We fct upon our Office.

Our ^Dignity is our nearer Relation to Chrift : And
this nearer Relation is contradted by means of that parti-
cular FunBion which We have, under his Eye, and accord-
ing to his Will, deliberately and fcrioufly undertaken; the
Office of helping forward and promoting, in the World, the
great End which He propofed in coming down from Hea-
ven, and living and dying for Mankind. Now, all Relations
to Chrifi, are either our Honour, or Reproach j our great
Glory, or our great Shame -, our higher Reward, or our
deeper Condemnation ; according as We our felves behave
our felves in them. A wicked Chriftian has indeed a wor.
thy Name, viz-, that of a Chrifiian : But He himfclf has
noDi<^nity by taking upon Him that Name, whilft He con-
tinues wicked. He reflects Shame upon the belt Name in the
World ; and the Name He has alTumed reflects Shame and
lanominy upon Him, whilft He fhews himfelf utterly un-
worthy of it. So it is, and fo it muft be, mjf Brethren,

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with Us. The O^ce We have undertaken, is a Glorious
Office ; I will fay, a Godlike Office, — to carry forward tlic
Purpofes of God himfelf, in the Dircftion of Mankind to his
Favour and their own Eternal Happinefs. There is a T)ignityt
and an Honour in it, confider'd in this View, not to be equal'd
by any of the higheft Offices of this World, deck'd out with all
their Pomp and Shew. But Pf^e can have no'Dignity accrue to
Us from this Office, if We be fo unhappy as openly and
plainly to oppofc our fclves to the mainDcfign of it. The
higher the Honour, the greater the Dignity of the Office ^
the more confpicuous will it render every wilful
Deviation of ours from it. In a Word, It is impoffible.
He fhould have Dignity in Himfelf, or conciliate Refped
and Honour to himfelf j who, making the beft and moft
glorious Profeffion with his Mouth, is fcen openly to con-
tradift it in the Tenor of his Conduct. i/<? only receives a
'Dignity from it, who adds fomc Dignity to it, in his pro-
portion, by his excellent Life and ChriftianDodr inc. And
it is He only who cannot fail of procuring to Himfelf the
Refpe^i of All whofe Refpcft is valuable, who fhcws
that He relpctts himfelf j and, not in Words but in Deeds,
looks upon himfelf as more nearly, than others, related to
his great Lord and Majler. This, I fay, is tfw^" great Ufe of
our confidering our fclves as the Minifters oiChrifi i that it
will lead Us to the true Notion of the Dignity of our Office,
in the imitation of Him whofe Minifters We have under-
taken to be. And this Notion, thoroughly imbibed, and
received into our Hearts, will fpread it felf over our whole

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TJves ; and engage Us to frame and fafhion our vholc
Deportment in inch a manner, ns that V/iiat is, in it fclj\
the Higiicft Glory, may not, thro' onr <?tC« WiUfuhiefs,
become our Shame -, and tend to our Indignity and Con.
dcmnation, when wc fhall come to appear before our
Righteous Judge.

BuTtlicre is another and very importantUic tobc ftill made
of this frjl and principal Point, viz. the Confideration of
Our fclves as the Minifters oVJeJus Chrift : and that is, to be
perfuaded, from thence, to take all our Direclions ; all our
Maxims ; all our Rules both of Life and Dodrinc } from Him
alone, whofe Minijlers "Wc profcfs our f«dves to be. From
the firfl: Moment of our devoting our fclves to his Miniftry,
We become totally engaged to him. We are no longer under
any other Guidance but His. This is implied in the thing it
fclf. It is an Abfurdiry, a dircft Contraditlion, to call or
think our fclves The Minijlers of Chrijl, unlcfs Wc c-
fteem our fclves under the ftridlcft Obligation to con-
fult and follow Him alone as our ultimate Dircdlor and
Guide. This is indeed, at once our Honour ; our Hap-
pinefs ; and our T^uty. It is our Honour ; becaufc it is
our Adherence and Refemblancc to Him, to whom God
hath given a Name above Every Name. It is our Hap-
pnefs •■> becaufe Wc may be fure. We cannot err, or wan.
dcr from the Truth, or from any thing neccflary, fo as
to hurt our fclves, whilft We follow fuch a Guide in the
Uprightnefs and Sincerity of our Hearts. And it is our
^uty i becaufe We have made our fclves his Servants and

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Mtnijiers : and, as placed in fuch a Relation to Him, muft
be guilty of a great and unpardonable Sin in not doing
it.

From hence it will appear to Us, that We muft throw off
all regard to Our felves, to our own Wifhes or Inclinations,
to our own private Opinions and Notions, any farther than
as they are perfedly agreeable to his exprefs 'Declarations,
And from hence it as plainly appears, that We muft not be
the Follo'-juers or Minifters ol Men, in any fuch Scnfe as is
inconfiftent with our conftant Uniform Regard to Chrijl
and ^/jWill. There is no other infallible Oracle for Us,
but This : And This will be fufficicnt for all our Furpofes,
if We have no Purpofcs but what become Chriftians, and
are fuitable to our Holy Profcfllon. In our Lives and Con-
verfations, This is common to Us with all other Chrijlians,
that from his Laws, from his Promifcs and Thrcatninc;s
We muft take all our Rules of private Behaviour : And We
have This to add peculiar to our felves, that, from the fame
Director we muft learn efFecIually to be Examples to the
Flock ; to cxcell in good V/orks ; and to let the light
of thofe good Works fo Jhine before Men-, that They may
from them be led to glorify our Father which is in Heaven..

And then, as to our Trenching, and that Great Duty in-
cumbent upon Us of inftrucling Others i how can Wc pofli-
bly hope to do it, either with Satisfaclion to our own Con-
fciences, or with the Hope of God's Favour accompanying

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our Labours, unkfs We frame and faOiion all our Teaching
upon the Gofpel dclivcr'd by Chriji, or by his immediate
'Difciples from Him ? 'Wc fay. We arc the Alinifters of
Chriji \ bcfccching Men, in his Name, to be reconciled to
God through Hiin ; and to be what He has declared They
ought to be, in order to be accepted by God. How there-
fore, can We be the Minijiers of Chriji in this Work,
unlefs We take all our Dircdions from Him : when it
is fo very evident, that, as far as We negleft to do this ;
as far as We follow our own Imaginations and Con-
ceptions, or the Imaginations and Dircdions of any
other Uninfpircd Men, without comparing them with
the Will of Chriji ; fo far, We ceafe to be His Minifters or
Servants, and become the Minifters of our own Will and
Pleafure, or of the Will of other weak Men like our fclves?
And how can Wc teach and advifc and befeech Men to be
reconciled to God ; and to behave themfclves fo as to be
accepted by Him ; without declaring to them thofe Terms,
«pon which alone They may be thus accepted ? And how can
Wc lay before them thofe Tertns, unlefs We know them our
felves ? And how can Wc pofllbly know them our felves,
but from Hint, who alone had Authority from God to
propofe them to the whole World, where- ever the Sound
of his Gofpel fhould be heard ?

You will forgive Mc, My Brethren, if I infift upon
this as the Principal of all Confiderations in which
We have any Concern. It is in order to imprefs That upon

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my <ywn Confclcnce, as well as Tours, without which We
cannot take One right Step in our whole Duty > but under
the conftant influence of which, We may be happy, and go
on fecure in the Satisfaclion of doing our Duty thro' every
Branch of it. I fhould efteem my felf utterly unworthy
of the Name of a Minifter of the Gofpel-, and much more
fo, of the Relation which I now ftand in to You ; if, in
putting you in remembrance of any Inflanccs of your Duty,
I could ever forget this Great Foundation of all j or fhould
ever ceafe to inculcate this upon Tou and My felf. That it
is in vain we call our fclves the Minifter s or Servants of
Chrift, unlefs we take Him and his Gofpel, as He left it Us,
for the Rule of our Preaching his Will : and that it is in
vain we preach to Men the glad Tidings of Salvation, unlefs
We ftudy thofe Sacred Books in which alone thofe glad
Tidings are to be found ; and ftudy them fo efFeftually. and
with fo juft Conceptions of them, as from Them only to lay
before our Hearers thofe Terms of Salvation, which They
alone can teach us. And happy will it be for \Js, if We
continue conftant to this Rule. It will be our Guide, and
our Support, in every Branch of our Office. It will over-
rule our Hearts, and Pradice, in every Circumftancc of
it. It will be a Fountain of Infallible TiireElions to
our Flocks. And it will entitle our felves to the Favour
of that Great Mafter^ from whofe Mouth alone we thus
feek for True Knowledge.

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II. The fecond General Point, I mentioned at firft, was,
That We ought often to confidcr our felvcs as 'Proteftants ;
Members and Minijlers of a Church reformed from the
Superftitton and Tyranny of the Church of Rome. And
I mention this, to put our felves in remembrance of
what Length of Time, and our own feeming Security
from Danger, may too often remove from our View ; and
yet, what is of great Importance to have often before our
Eyes. I would not have it thought, that I intend by
this to ftir up any undue Zeal, or Refentment, againfl the
Perfons of Any who are Members of that Communion.
I think They have the Common Right, with All others,
as to their Religious Tenets, (properly fo called) to be
treated with Humanity, and to be convinced only by Ar^
gument. What their 'Principles lead to, with refped to
the Cinjil Government ; or what their Prafticcs threaten j
This is the piroper Concern of the Civil Government.
But as to Us, whofe only Concern, as Preachers of the
Gofpel, is with their Religion, (which is to be treated by
Us with Spiritual Weapons only,) the prcfcnt Confidera-
tion will be of a double Ufe.

The firfl arifes from hence, That it is very apparent,
from the Experience of every Week, and almofl every
Hour ; That Thofe of that Communion ceafe not, Day or
Night, to perpetuate and prefs all their antient Claims ;
that Tlicy watch every Opportunity, aiid make ufe of

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every Art, to Ingratiate, firft Themfelvcs, and then their
'Do£irines, to the Minds of the Unftabic, and the Un-
thoughtful Part of our World ; to infufc into Thofe who
come in their Way, the mofl: agreeable, but falfe, Notions
of their Rchgion ; and to fcducc Many out of the Flocks
committed to our Care. From hence, I fay, arifes One
Rcafon for our frequent Confidcration of our fcivcs as
Minifters in a ^roteftant Church; That \Ve may not be lull'd
aflecp, whilft fuch an Enemy is fo'juing Tares in the
Field of it ; That we may not be led to think that the
antient Controverjies between Us and Them arc of no
Moment : but that We may frequently review them in the
Courfc of our Studies; and fo thoroughly comprehend them,
that We may be ready and prepared to rcfolve the Doubts,
and anfwer the Scruples, which may at any time be
artificially conveyed into the Minds of our People j and
be always arm'd with every thing neceffary to combat the
Sophiilry, and to wipe off the Falfc Colourings, of the
Adverfary i and fo to preferve Thofe who, without our
Help, muft too probably be carried away with the fair
Outfide and Appearance of things.

AnoTHER Ufe of this Conjideration will be. That, right-
ly apprehended, it will prevent Us from giving Thofe fame
Adverfaries that great Advantage which they have always
made Ufe of moft effedually againft Us, by preferving
Us from all Incenjijiencies, in our Arguings and Praftices,
as Trotejiants. 1 mean, by leading Us (as it mnft do, if

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we purfue it juftly and finccrely) to an Uniform Set of
Principles and Behaviour; by (hewing Us theneceflity of
not Claiming, or Pradifing, Anything our f elves, which
We utterly condemn in Them ; and for the fake of v/hich
{chiefly, if not only,) Wcfeparated from them. [Viththis,
Wc have nothing to fear from any the ftrongeft Attaque that
can be made from that Qiiarter, in the Way of Debate
or Argument. But without it, I will be bold to fay.
They are fo well inftruftcd, and know fo well the Force
oiTopics tzkcn from o«r Weakncflcs, and Inconfiftcncies,
that it is in vain to hope for much vSuccefs againft them :
Not to mention here a very important Confideration ; That
All Truth muft of necellity be Uniform and Self-Con-
Jiflent. I pafs on now,

III. To the laft G^wer^j/Point I propos'd at firft : which
was. That Wc muft confidcr Our felves as Minifters in
the Church of England, peculiarly fo call'd, as it is at
prcfent Eftablifh'd amongft Us. And this I am To far from
wifhing to be ever left out of our moft ferious Thoughts,
when we are confidering our Office, or our Duty ; that,
I think, We are under all the Obligation to the contrary,
which the Voluntary and Serious Engagement of Our Selves
to this Church can poflibly lay upon Us. I have time
only to mention one or t'is:o Particulars under this i/frf*;^ ;
which yet will comprehend moft of What may, at another
Opportunity, be more largely infiftcd upon.

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We have deliberately chofcn, not merely Conformity
to this Church, but the Minifterial Duty in it. And if
We have acted iincercly in this, as I truft We all have ;
This Choicey 1 think, muft have been made, becaufe It
appears to Us, (who muft be determined by our o'X'n
Judgments, as Others are by Theirs^ after the moft ma-
ture deliberation, all things confidcred, to be the moft
Unexceptionable and moft Excellent of All which have come
•within our View : Or, in other Wordsj TiChurch, in which^
We truly think, We can do GOT), and the Souls of Men^
moft fervice. This therefore. We are obliged, agreeably to
our voluntary Engagements, to defend by our Arguments •
as Perfons always ready to give a Reafon for the Choice
We have made. This wc are obliged to comply with, as
to Its Rules and Orders, in all our Adminiftrations i
as well as to adorn by our Examples, whilft We continue
Minijiers in it.

In all our "Defenfes of It, againft Thofc who differ
from Us, on each Hand, We muft never forget the Tisi'o
former Confiderations, that IVe zicChriftians, and Tra~
tejiants ; and that This Church is a Chrifiian and a Tro-
tefiant Church. The View of thefe two Toints will make
all our Arguments Powerful and Confiftent. The Meek
and Good Spirit of Chriftianity will govern all our Zeal,
and give it not only a Beauty, but an Ejfe^, beyond
what it could othcrwifc have. And the great Pouudation-

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-{lone of iiWTrotcftantifm laid down always for the Ground-
work, will probably make whatever Wc fhall build upon
it> Uniform and Strong beyond ail Danjzcr. Thcfc Two
abiblutcly necclVary Points, will teach us to cndeavour
to convince the Judgments of Thole who differ from
Us, but not to confound or injure their 'Terjons i and
will, at the fame time, ftiew Us the Ofil/ good Method
of doing it.

I N our Minijlrat'ions in this Church, Our Engagements
oblige Us to keep to the Rules and Orders laid down plain-
ly and cxprefly in it : Which, as it is eflablilhed by Laixj,
has by that fame Law tied Us down to the Orders and
Ceremonies appointed in it 5 and indeed, has cffcdually and
plainly forbidden all other, befides Thofe frefcribed in the
Book of Common-Trayer.

These Orders and Prefcriptions, I think, wc are ftridly
obliged to obfcrve, as the Rule and Mcafure of our Beha-
viour in all the Adminiftrations belonging to our feveral
Offices. And this Rule, I truft, (as We ought, fo) We
may all follow, as the fafeft : without being cenfurcd, ci-
ther on one hand, for not adding Other Ceremonies, Arbi-
trary and Unprefcribed ; or, on the other hand, for not
omitting or varying Any of Thofe which arc ajp-
pointed.

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W E muft add to this a Conftant Gate to perform the
publick Services of the Church in a Manner that may
fhew Us to have a Mind to prefcrve and to conciliate a
Rcfped and ferious Regard to them : behaving our fclvcs
in all owiAdminiftratmis, with the utmoft Decency and
Gravity: reading the 0/^ffj with a diftinft, deliberate, and
manly Pronunciation 5 without the Affectation of anything
Theatrical on one hand ; or any thing Low, Carelefs,
Dead, and Spiritlefs, on the other. And to all We mud
add the ftriclcft regard to our own Lives and Gonverlati-
ons j That our Conduft may adorn our Profelllon ; that
our Gare of our Flocks may be fuitable, in fomc Degree,
to our Obligations ; that our Examples may teach : With-
out which, all our IVords and all our Treaching, will not,
I fear, teach Any who attend upon Us j or reconcile any
One of our Adverfaries to the Communion We would moft
willingly recommend to Them.

And thus I have given You my beft Thoughts, upon-
Thofe principal Points, which I propofed to fpeak of at
this time. To Thcfe, all other Particulars relating to our
Duty in our Fundion, and our Behaviour with refpcft to
All around us, (whether agreeing ij:jith Us, or not,) may be
reduced ; and rightly judg'd of, from them. But the Time
does not now allow Me to fhew this dillindly in the fe-
veral Inftanccs which might be named ; or to enter into
any other Important Conriderations, as I once defign'd to do ;

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and as I {hall ftill hope to do, upon another like Oppot-
tunity, if it (lull pkaic God to bring us together again.

And now, My Brethren, having put You, and My
felf, in Mind of Thofc General Leflbns, in which You
and My felf arc equally and conftantly concern'd, in the
Execution of our Office ; Give me leave to add one Word,
before I conclude, with relation to that Terfonal Inter-
courfe which muft necefl'arily be between Us. And, as to
this; I fincercly fpcak it, I deru-eNo7?^^^r^from7<?«, but
in Proportion to the Regard You fhall ever meet with from
Me. If You find that No ditference, real or fuppo-
Icd, in our Opinions upon any fort of Matters, fliall at a-
ny time hinder or obftrud the Impartiality of Jnflice in
all my Proceedings with You ; if You always fhallmeet
with a Kind Reception, an Open Ear, a Ready Affiftance,
the Sinccreft Advice, and Every Inftance of Friendfhip in My
Power, always prepared to exert it felf for your Service :
I may then hope. You cannot refufe Me the juft and na-
tural rcfult of all this ; the return, on your Part, of what
I {hall always highly value.

M Y B R E T H R E N, It is my Heart's Defire, that
our whole Behaviour, in the Relation \Vc have con-
traded) may be to our mutual entire Satisfaftion. No-
thing, I promife, fhall be wanting on my Part, which
is agreeable either to Juftice, or AfFeftion. I (hall always
be glad of any Afliftances or Advices from You,, as Occa-

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flon fhall offer. And I ("hall now end All, by praying God fo
to dircd both Tou and Ale^ that Wc may live together
here in a well-grounded Peace and Love; and, after our
Courfe of Duty run, may meet one another, at the Great
Day of Accounts, with Joy unfpeakablc and full of Glo-
ry : When Our Great Lord, (whofc Minifters Wc arc, if
We follow his Diredions,) fhall come to judge the World
in Rightcoufnefs ; and to render to Us all, not according
to the Opinion of Others about Us, but according to our
o-ji'n Works, and to what Wc our felves have taught and
afted, during oux Miniftration here below.

F I N I s.

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Books Trinted for James and John Knapton at the
Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

Books Written by the Right Reverend Father in Gody
Benjamin, Lord Bijhop of Salisbury.

THE Reafonablenefs of Conformity to tKe Church of
England. With the Defenfe of it, and the Pcriuafive
to Lay-Conformity. To which is added, the Brief
Defenfe of Epifcopal Ordination. The 4th Edit. 8vo. pr. 6 s.

The Meafures of Submijfwu to the Civil Magiitrate confidered.
In a Defence of the Doftrine delivered in a Sermon preacli'd
before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens of Z.5«^(5», Sept. 29. 1705. The 5th Edition. In which
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