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A30432	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, on Christmas-Day, 1689 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	1690.0		.xml	application/xml	9555	211	50	We have St. Paul here in my Text concluding a charge that he had given to Timothy , and in him to all that should minister in holy things , that he should from the Rules here set him , learn how he ought to behave himself in the Church of God : for since the World that is ever apt to be implicit in its thoughts of Religion , will judge of that which they do not know , nor understand , I mean the Doctrine , from that which they do see and know , I mean the lives of those who do teach and profess it ; and since the Majesty that is in some Mysteries requires a suitable authority and gravity in those that handle and propose them ; therefore the obligation that lies on Church-men to a great exactness of deportment , appears particularly from this , That the Mystery of their Religion is without controversie great ; and that it is likewise a Mystery of godliness that leads to Right thoughts of God , and to a way of worshipping him , that is suitable to his Nature and Attributes : both which considerations agree to point out this to us , That the Bishops and Pastors of the Church ought to be Men of a sublime pitch of mind , and of an unaffected strictness of holiness . It seems also unreasonable to think that God has given us Faculties which yet we must contradict and over-rule in matters of Religion .	cache/A30432.xml	txt/A30432.txt
