A sermon preach'd at St. Brides before the Lord-Mayor and the Court of Aldermen: on Monday in Easter-Week. 1711 / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

  • Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
Date:
1711
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Credit: A sermon preach'd at St. Brides before the Lord-Mayor and the Court of Aldermen: on Monday in Easter-Week. 1711 / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bafe a Thought as to fell any of the Rights of his Country, either to ferve his own Ends, or to gratifie his own Pafiions 5 and yet fuch Mon- fters there are, and have been in the World : I hope we have none of them among us, and God for ever preferve us from them. The Third and chief Confideration here pro¬ pos’d for endeavouring to preferve Peace, is for the fake of the Houfe of the Lord our God. It was then but a Tabernacle in Mount Sion, but was foon after ere£ted in a moft ftupendious Structure by Solomon on Mount Moriah. That which anfwers to this among us is the true Re* ligion; for tho’ it is a part of the Glories of this City, that befides that vaft and Noble Pile erefred in it to the Service and Honour of God, the inany Houfes of Prayer that fome Years a* go were laid in Ruin and Afhes, are now Re- built with a Magnificence, and by a fpeedy Dif- patch, to which nothing in Hiftory can be com¬ par’d $ yet our Religion does not lie in Walls, and is not confined to a Place, neither at Jeru¬ salem nor on any Mountain. But in every'Place God loves thofe who rnrfhip Him in Spirit and in Truth ; the true Religion then is to us inftead of the Temple of Jerusalem, and this ought to be the chief motive ofuor Zeal for Peace, becaufe as nothing is more neceflary, fo nothing can more effectually preferve it: Living peaceably is one of the moft indifpenfable Precepts of the Chriftian Religion, and nothing does more cer¬ tainly deftroy it than bitter Zeal and Contenti¬ on, which muft introduczConjufion and every evil Work,