No cross, no crown

_The Testimonies of several great, learned, and virtuous personages among the_ Gentiles, _urged against the excesses of the age, in favour of the self-denial, temperance, and pi...

1. Solomon.--2. Chilon.--3. Ignatius.--4. Justin Martyr.--5. Chrysostom.--6. Charles V.--7. Cardinal Wolsey.--8. Sir Philip Sidney.--9. Secretary Walsingham.--10. Sir John Mason...

XV. Democritus would say, that he had lived to an extraordinary age by keeping himself from luxury and excess. That a little estate went a great way with men that were neither c...

1. But men of more refined belief and practice are yet concerned in this unlawful self about religion.--2. It is the rise of the performance of worship God regards.--3. True wor...

them, for their fidelity and affection to their husbands, for their tenderness and care over their children, and for their diligence and circumspection in their families. There...

1. The customs, fashions, &c. which make up the attire and pleasure of the age, are enemies to inward retirement.--2. Their end is to gratify lust.--3. Had they been solid, Adam...

1. What is the great work of the cross? The answer to this is of great moment.--2. The work of the cross is self-denial.--3. What was the cup and cross of Christ?--4. What is ou...

VII. Machiavel,[48] no mean author, in his Disputations, assures us, "That the first promoters of Christianity were so diligent in rooting out the vanities and superstitions of...

1. The judgments of God denounced upon the Jews for their luxury; all ranks included.--2. Christ charges his disciples to have a care of the guilt of it: a supplication to the i...

content with such things as ye have; for God hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." What then? Must we conclude that those who are not content, but seek to be ric...

1. But if these customs, &c. were but indifferent, yet being abused they deserve to be rejected.--2. The abuse is acknowledged by those that use them, therefore should leave the...

1. Another piece of nonconformity to the world, which is our simple and plain speech, thou for you.--2. Justified from the use of words and numbers, singular and plural.--3. It...

1. The Doctrine of Christ, from Mat. v. about denial of self.--2. John the Baptist's example.--3. The testimonies of the apostle Peter, &c.--4. Paul's godly exhortation against...

1. Of the way of living among the first Christians.--2. An exhortation to all professing Christianity, to embrace the foregoing reasons and examples.--3. Plain dealing with such...

1. Luxury, what it is, and the mischief of it to mankind. An enemy to the cross of Christ.--2. Of luxury in diet, how unlike Christ, and contrary to Scripture.--3. The mischief...

1. Of pride, the first capital lust; its rise.--2. Its definition and distinction.--3. That an inordinate desire of knowledge in Adam, introduced man's misery.--4. He thereby lo...

1. The third evil effect of pride is love of honour and respect. Too many are guilty of it.--2. It had like to have cost Mordecai dear. Great mischief has befallen nations on th...

1. By this Christendom may see her lapse, how foul it is, and next, the worse for her pretence to Christianity.--2. But there is mercy with God upon repentance, and propitiation...

1. Pride leads people to an excessive value of their persons.--2. It is plain, from the racket that is made about blood and families: also in the case of shape and beauty.--3. B...

1. The character of a proud man: a glutton upon himself: is proud of his pedigree.--2. He is insolent and quarrelsome, but cowardly, yet cruel.--3. An ill child, subject, and se...

1. Of unlawful self; it is two-fold: 1st, in religion; 2nd, in morality.--2. Of those that are most formal, superstitious, and pompous in worship.--3. God's rebuke of carnal app...

by the Holy Ghost, the mother of harlots and all abominations: because degenerated from Christian chastity and purity, into all the enormities of heathen Babylon; a sumptuous ci...

1. Luxury should not be used by Christians, because of its inconsistency with the spirit of Christianity.--2. The cup of which Christ's true disciples drank.--3. O! who will dri...

1. Avarice, the second capital lust, its definition and distinction.--2. It consists in a desire of unlawful things.--3. As in David's case about Uriah's wife.--4. Also Ahab's a...

I. Of the necessity of the Cross of Christ in general; yet the little regard Christians have to it.--2. The degeneracy of Christendom from purity to lust, and moderation to exce...

to scorn. Never tell me, I am too rash; it is the devil that says so; he has got two scriptures by the end in these days: one, that there is none that doth good: and why?[71] Th...

1. Pride craves power as well as knowledge.--2. The case of Korah, &c. a proof.--3. Absalom's ambition confirms it.--4. Nebuchadnezzar's does the like.--5. The history of Pisist...

1. What the cross of Christ is. A figurative speech, but truly the Divine power that mortifies the world.--2. It is so called by the apostle Paul to the Corinthians.--3. Where i...

IX. These are yokes without restraint, and crosses that never contradict: a whole cart-load of them would leave a man as unmortified as they find him. Men may sooner knock their...

that saw no comeliness out of Christ, and the eye of lust became unclosed again by the god of the world; and those worldly pleasures that make such as love them forget God, thou...

man. Christ uses the word thus, where he says, "A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country;" (Matt. xiii. 57;) that is, he has credit, and is valued, save at home....

Joshua. (Josh. vii. 15.) The Psalmist expresses thus: "My wounds stink, because of my foolishness:" (Psalm xxxviii. 5:) that is, his sin. And, "The Lord will speak peace to his...

the churches to walk as they had them for examples. (Phil. iii. 1, 7; 1 Pet. ii. 21.) And to shut up this particular, they gave this pathetic account of the holy women in former...

employment, or preferment: they require virtue, wisdom, integrity, diligence, with which fools are unfurnished. And yet if the respects and titles in use amongst us are to go fo...