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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65268	A sermon touching schisme, lately preached at St. Maries in Cambridge by R. I. Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1642 (1642)	Wing W1095; ESTC R22989	20,193	38

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All such things as are not conteined in the authority of sacred Scriptures nor found decreed in the Councels of Bishops nor confirmed by the practice of the Catholick Church ubi facultas tribuitur sine ulla dubitatione resecanda existimo When power should be given he thought all without doubt to be cut off and rejected For the first of these they like it very well if themselves may be the onely interpreters And herein their errour is the same with that which the Father otherwhere discovered among some of his time Errant homines non servantes modum cùm in unam partem procliviter ire coeperint non respiciunt Divinae autoritatis alia testimonia quibus possint ab illa intentione revocari in ea quae ex utrisque temperata est veritate ac moderatione consistere Men saith he erre keeping no mean and when they begin to be propense toward one part never regard other testimonies of Divine authority whereby they may be recall'd from that inclination and fix themselves in that truth and moderation which is made up by the due temperature of both When they come to the second they are so farre from admitting their Canons as instead of that they cry down their functions scoff at their titles accounting them Ecclesiasticall solecismes as Buchanan their forefather did those honourable phrases of Majestie Highnesse and Lordship soloecism●s barbarismos aulicos mere solecismes and barbarismes of the Court Tell them of the third which was the practice of the Catholick Church then all their Theologicall knowledge is nothing but Platonicall remembrance extending no farther then their own memory or the monuments of some few Reformed Divines such it may be as were rather Deformers Authours of Schisme and renouncers of our Ecclesiasticall Discipline in the first Reformation And this their impatience when it hath made a Panicall flesh-quake at their hearts breaks out at their mouthes like a storm which scatters the true Church of Christ that chaff as they call it so that it had better endured the fire For I think I may use the words of S. Austine against the letters of Petilian the Donatist changing Evangelium into Ecclesia Quae mitiùs pertulit saevientium Regum flammas quàm vestras patitur linguas The Church better endured the flames of Tyrants then the tongues of Schismaticks Nam illis incendentibus unitas mansit vobis loquentibus manere non potuit For while they burned unity remained but while these rail the Church must needs be divided Now let them make use of S. Pauls remedie walking worthy of their Christian vocation {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with long-suffering or patience {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith Antiochus one of the lesser Fathers In long-suffering the Lord doth inhabit but the devil in impatience He therefore that would have the Spirit of God dwell within him must himself keep the unity of that Spirit and continue with patience within the pale of the Church {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith Blessed Ignatius Lest any of you be found a desertour or run-away from the Church Let Baptisme be your armour Faith your helmet Love your spear but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Patience capape your whole armour of defence He must not separate himself with Korah and tell Moses and Aaron they take too much upon them or make themselves Princes over the people He must not murmure at Moses his stay in the Mount and in the mean time cast in his eare-ring to the making up of a calf that is He must not envy the leaders of the Church their free accesse to Kings and Princes those gods upon earth Dixi enim Dii estis and that in their mounts their erected Thrones and stately Palaces and in the mean time contribute any trifling principle which it may be some Presbyteriall Divine hung at his eare at the last Exercise towards the making up of a new imaginary Discipline in the Church Nay I 'll go farther with him If the Church should set up a calf of her own as God forbid that is be so farre corrupted as to command the practice of idolatrous worship that 's not sufficient to justifie Schisme or make good his desertion Here 's room still to make use of his passive obedience though I advise not his active He may he must here suffer the punishment whatsoever it is to be inflicted for the omission and be guilty of no commission at all Not that I would hereby stop the mouth of any reverend Prelate Priest or Deacon entrusted by God with the souls of the people whose then unseasonable exemplary silence may be interpreted by the ignorant at least connivence if not encouragement to communicate in the sinne I think him bound to rebuke the same by what authority soever countenanced But if his conscience yet be so farre mistaken as to perswade him That his not renouncing of an externall communion in things either indifferent or commendable implies a guilt of positive communion in those corruptions which are absolutely sinfull I pity his case he is like a serpent between the shadow of the ash and the fire but let me tell him It is cooler being in one then the other and therefore he must be a little more subtil then with her to skip into the heat of contention the fire of Schisme Flagitium Schismatis constat gravius esse quàm scelus idololatriae It is manifest that the haynousnesse of Schisme is farre greater then the wickednesse of idolatry saith an ancient Authour in his Tractate concerning the Unity of the Church and he draws his reason from the difference of punishments allotted in Scripture to Idolatry the sword to Schisme the strange opening of the earth and swallowing up Korah with his contentious company And thus much likewise concerning the third productive of Schisme together with its contrary vertue set down by S. Paul {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with long-suffering The fourth and last is Inordinate zeal the opposite vertue to which is not named but implied in these words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} supporting one another through love And now we are got under the torrid zone of unruly passion and illimited ambition among such a nation as he that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly must be a cohabitant with devouring fire and dwell with everlasting burnings contrary to that the Prophet Esay promiseth Esay 33. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith S. Paul in his fourth Chapter to the Galatians It is a good thing indeed to be zealously affected but it must be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in a good matter And not onely so for the same Apostle bears record of some who had the best of zeals Zelum Dei the zeal of God and yet in them too there was somewhat wanting they had it not secundùm