The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. Author(s): Tillotson, John, (1630-1694) Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Description: Volume X. contains Sermons CCXLV-CCLIV, Prayers, A Form of Prayers, and ªThe Rule of Faith.º i Contents Title Page. 1 Prefatory Material. 3 Contents to Vol. X. 3 Sermons. 4 Sermon CCXLV. The Grounds of Bad Men’s Enmity to the Truth. 5 Sermon CCXLVI. True Liberty the Result of Christianity. 14 Sermon CCXLVII. The Duty of Improving the Present Opportunity and 24 Advantages of the Gospel. Sermon CCXLVIII. The Folly of Hazarding Eternal Life for Temporal Enjoyments. 34 Sermon CCXLIX. The Reasonableness of Fearing God More than Man. 44 Sermon CCL. The Reasonableness of Fearing God More than Man. 52 Sermon CCLI. The Efficacy of Prayer for Obtaining the Holy Spirit. 58 Sermon CCLII. The Efficacy of Prayer, for Obtaining the Holy Spirit. 68 Sermon CCLIII. The Bad and Good Use of God’s Signal Judgments upon Others. 77 Sermon CCLIV. Of the Rule of Equity to be Observed Among Men. 91 To the Reader. 110 Prayers, Composed by Archbishop Tillotson. To Which Is Added, a Short Discourse 111 to His Servants Before the Sacrament. A Prayer before the Sermon. 112 A Prayer which (it is conjectured) he used before composing his Sermons. 114 Prayers used by him the Day before his Consecration. 115 A Discourse to his Servants, concerning receiving the Sacrament. 121 A Form of Prayers, Used by His Late Majesty KIng William III. When He Received 122 the Holy Sacrament, and on Other Occasions. >A Prayer to God, that he would be pleased to assist and accept my Preparation 123 to receive the blessed Sacrament. ii A penitent Confession of Sins, with an humble supplication for mercy and 124 forgiveness. A Prayer for the grace and assistance of God’s Holy Spirit, to enable me to resolve 125 and to do better for the future. An humble Intercession with God for all mankind; for the whole Christian church, 126 and more particularly for that part of it which is planted in these kingdoms; for the Queen, and for all under our government; for my relations and friends; for my native country, and for my allies, &c. A thankful Acknowledgment of the mercies of God both temporal and spiritual; 128 and above all for the redemption of mankind by the humiliation and sufferings of his Son in our nature. A Prayer to God, to prepare my heart for the worthy receiving of the Holy 129 Sacrament, and to make me partaker of the blessings and benefits of it. Short Meditations and Ejaculations at the Communion. 130 The Rule of Faith, or An Answer to the Treatise of Mr. J. S. Entitled Sure-Footing, 132 &c. Dedication. 133 The Rule of Faith. 134 Part I. The Explication and State of the Question. 135 Sect. I. 136 Section II. Mr. S’s rule of faith. 139 Sect. III. The protestant doctrine concerning the rule of faith. 143 Sect. IV. How much protestants allow to oral tradition. 150 Sect. V. How much Mr. S. attributes to his rule of faith more than protestants 155 to theirs. Part II. Concerning the Properties of the Rule of Faith; and whether they agree 157 solely to Oral Tradition. Sect. I. 158 Sect. II. That the properties of a rule of faith belong to Scripture. 162 Sect. III. Mr. S.’s exceptions against Scripture examined. 165 Sect. IV. That Scripture is a sufficient rule to the unlearned, and to the most 182 rational doubters Sect. V. That Scripture is sufficient to convince the most acute adversaries, and 191 that it is sufficiently certain. Sect. VI. That the properties of a rule of faith do not belong to oral tradition. 195 iii Part III. In which Mr. S’s Demonstrations and Corollaries are examined. 197 Sect. I. Considerations touching his demonstrations in general. 198 Sect. II. Mr. S.’s demonstration a priori. 202 Sect. IV. The second answer to his demonstration. 209 Sect. V. [The third answer to his demonstration.] 212 Sect. VI. Mr. S.’s demonstration a posteriori. 218 Sect. VII. The first answer to his second demonstration. 220 Sect. VIII. The second answer to his second demonstration. 232 Sect. IX. The third answer to Mr. S.’s second demonstration. 234 Sect. X. The fourth answer to his second demonstration. 248 Sect. XI. Concerning some other advantages of tradition, &c. 254 Mr. S’s corollaries considered. 256 Part IV. Testimonies concerning the Rule of Faith. 258 Sect. I. Mr. S’s testimonies examined. 259 Testimonies on the behalf of Scripture. 267 Original Indexes 273 Index I. Of the principal Matters contained in Mr. BIRCH’s Life of ARCHBISHOP 274 TILLOTSON. Index II. Of the principal Matters contained in these Ten Volumes of 288 ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON’s Sermons. Index III. Of the several Texts of Scripture, which are the Subjects of the several 375 Sermons. 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This PDF file is copyrighted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. It may be freely copied for non-commercial purposes as long as it is not modified. All other rights are re- served. Written permission is required for commercial use. v Title Page. Title Page. THE WORKS I OF DR. JOHN TILLOTSON, LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY THOS . BIRCH, M.A. ALSO A COPIOUS INDEX, AND THE TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE CAREFULLY COMPARED. IN TEN VOLUMES.—VOL. X. 1 Title Page. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. F. DOVE, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE; FOR RICHARD PRIESTLEY, HIGH HOLBORN. 1820. II 2 Prefatory Material. ContentsPrefatory toMaterial. Vol. X. CONTENTS TO VOL. X. SERMONS. Page CCXLV.— The Ground of bad Men’s Enmity to the Truth 1 CCXLVI.— True Liberty the Result of Christianity 18 CCXLVII.— The Duty of improving the present Opportunity and Ad- 36 vantages of the Gospel CCXLVIII.— The Folly of hazarding eternal Life for temporal Enjoy- 54 ments CCXLIX. The Reasonableness of fearing Godmore than Man 72. 87 CCL.— CCLI. CCLII.— The Efficacy of Prayer for obtaining the Holy Spirit 99-117 CCLIII.— The bad and good Use of God’s signal Judgments upon 133 others CCLIV.— Of the Rule of Equity to be observed among Men 160 PRAYERS composed by Archbishop Tillotson: to which is added, A short 196- Discourse to his Servants before the Sacrament 210 A Form of Prayers, used by his Majesty King William III. when he received 213- the Holy Sacrament, and on other Occasions 223 The Rule of Faith, in Answer to Mr. Sergeant 225 III 1 3 Sermons. Sermons. SERMONS. 4 Sermon CCXLV. The Grounds of Bad Men's Enmity to the Truth. Sermon CCXLV. The Grounds of Bad Men’s Enmity to the Truth. SERMON CCXLV. THE GROUNDS OF BAD MEN’S ENMITY TO THE TRUTH. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.—JOHN iii. 20. MONG all the advantages which God hath afforded mankind, to conduct them to Aeternal happiness, the light of the Christian religion is incomparably the greatest; which makes it the greater wonder, that, at its first appearing in the world, it should meet with such unkind entertainment, and so fierce and violent an opposition. Of all the blessings of nature, light is the most welcome and pleasant; and surely to the mind of man, rightly dis- posed, truth is as agreeable and delightful, as it is to the eye to be hold the sun; and yet we find, that when the most glorious Light that ever the world saw visited man kind, and Truth itself was incarnate, and came down from heaven to dwell amongst us, it was so far from being welcomed by the world, that it was treated with all imaginable rudeness, and was op- posed by the Jews, with as much fierceness and rage, as if an enemy had invaded their country, with a design to take away their place and nation. No sooner did the Son of God appear, and begin to send forth his light and truth among them, by the public preaching of his doctrine, but the teachers and rulers among the Jews rose up against him as a common enemy, and were never quiet till they had taken him out of the way, and by this means, as 2 they thought, quite extinguished that light. Now what can we imagine should be the reason of all this, that a person who gave such clear evidence that he came from God, that a doctrine which carries such clear evidence of its Divine original, should be rejected with so much indignation and scorn?” that light and truth, which are so agreeable to mankind, and so universally welcome, should be so disdain- fully repulsed?” What account can be given of it, but that which our Saviour here gives in the text?” “Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light; because their deeds were evil.