W OR K S Of the MosT REVEREND Dr JOHN TILLOTSON, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. IN TEN VOLUMES.. VO L.. III. EDINBURGH: Printed by WAL. RUDDIMAN & COMPANY, AN D A. MURRAY & J. COCHRAN.. MDCCLXXII.. iii The CONTENT S. SER. XLII. Against evil-speaking. Tit. iii. 2. To speak evil of no man, page I SER. XLIII. XLIV. XLV. XLVI. Concerning the divinity and incarnation of our blessed Saviour.John i. 14. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we bebeld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father), full of grace and truth, 24. 42. 68.83 SER. XLVII. Concerning the facrifice and fatisfaction of Christ, &c.- Heb ix. 26. But now once in the end of the world hath be appeared to take away fin by the facrifice of himself, SER. XLVIII. Concerning the unity of the divine nature, and the bleffed Trinity, &c.—1 Tim. ii. s. For there is one God, 122 SER. XLIX. Concerning refolution and stedfaftnefs in religion.Joh. xxiv. 15. But as for me and my house, we will ferve the Lord, SER. L. Concerning family religion. 144 Jofh. xxiv. 15. But as for 163 Prov. xxii. SER. LI. LII. LIII. Of the education of children.6. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it, 177, 196. 212 while the evil SER. LIV. Of the advantages of an early piety. Ecclef. xii. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them, The RULE of FAITH. In answer to Mr Serjeant, 230 The explication and state of the question. Sect. I. The explication of the terms of the question, Page. Sec. III. The Proteftant doctrine concerning the rule of faith, 258 Sect IV. How much Proteftants allowed to oral tradition, 266 Sect. V. How much Mr S. attributes to his rule of faith more than . Sect. I. The properties of a rule of faith, Sect. II. That the properties of a rule of faith belong to fcripture, Sect. III. Mr S.'s exceptions againft fcripture examined, Sect IV. That scripture is a fufficient rule to the unlearned, and to Sect. VIII. The second answer to his fecond demonstration, Sect. IX. The third answer to his fecond demonftration, Sect. X. The fourth answer to his fecond demonstration, Sect. XI, Concerning fome other advantages of tradition, &c. 395 SER- Against evil-fpeaking. Preached before the King and Queen, at Whitehall, Feb. 25. 1693-4. G TIT. iii. 2. To fpeak evil of no man. ENERAL perfuafives to repentance and a good life, and invectives against fin and wickedness at large, are certainly of good ufe to recommend religion and virtue, and to expofe the deformity and danger of a vicious courfe. But it must be acknowledged, on the other hand, that these general difcourfes do not fo immediately tend to reform the lives of men; because they fall among the croud, but do not touch the confciences of particular perfons in fo fenfible and awakening a manner, as when we treat of particu lar duties and fins, and endeavour to put men upon the practice of the one, and to reclaim them from the other, by proper arguments taken from the word of God, and from the nature of particular virtues and vices. The general way is, as if a phyfician, inftead of ap plying particular remedies to the distemper of his patient, fhould entertain him with a long difcourfe of difeafes in general, and of the pleasure and advantages of health;: and earnestly perfuade him to be well, without taking his particular difeafe into confideration, and prefcribing remedies for it. But if we would effectually reform men, we must take to talk the great and common diforders of their lives, and reprefent their faults to them in fuch a manner, as may convince them of the evil and danger of them, and put them upon the endeavour of a cure. And to this end I have pitched upon one of the com mon and reigning vices of the age, calumny and evilfpeaking; by which men contract fo much guilt to themfelves, and create fo much trouble to others; and from VOL. III. which, |