Sermons on several subjects Author:William Beveridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Vol. VIII. cannot mifs of either. By this means every Sow) here prefent may be fo purified as to be admitted into the Num- .ber of God?s peculiar People, zealous... more » of good Works; and by Confequence be ad .jnitted e'er long to Heaven , there tq praifa him who gave himfelf, i ; ' Chrift's . 3 . Chrift s Life a Pattern of Ho- linefs to Chriftians. In Two SERMONS On 2 Pet. I." 15. But ay he which bath called you is holy, fo be ye holy m att manner of converfation. ' - j NOthing being more certain then that without Holinefs no Mm jhal l fee the Lord. Nothing furely can be more necefTary phan to know what this Holinefs is, and how tp attain unto it. A Queftion which all Mankind of whatfoever Eflate or Condition they be, are equally concerned to underftand, in order to their being happy. For as it is impotfible for any one to be K 4 happy Vol. VIII. happy that is not firft holy; fo it is impof- fible likewife for any one to be holy that doth not firft know what it is to be fo. Isjleither is this fo eafie a matter to know as it is generally thought to be; as is plain from the various Opinions there are in the World concerning it. For if we confult the Lives and Actions of Men, efpeciaHy of thofe that make the greateft Pretences to Holinefs, we may eaTily obferve how ftrangely they differ in their Notions aboyt Holinefs. For fome place Holinefs. only in external Rites and Ceremonies, in faying a great many A-ve - Marias and Pater- Nojlers, in living a Monaftical Life, in going in Pilgrimage to Ibme Monument or Relick of a canonized Saint, in bowing to Images, in hearing Mafs whether they un- derlland it or no, and efpecially in falling down before a confecrated Wafer when it is carried triumphantly in Proce/Ilon. Others are of a quite contrary Opinjion, placing...« less