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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67684	Divine rules for Christian unity opened and urged a sermon / preach'd in the Cathedral Church of Norwich, October 16, 1692 by Erasmus Warren, rector of Worlington in Suffolk.	Warren, Erasmus.	1692 (1692)	Wing W964; ESTC R28908	20,645	38

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Populace or Mob of the Soul mutiny against and overcome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ruling Faculty And so to speak in Lucian's Language 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lordly part of the Soul which he says is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Daemon given to every one and in Plato's stile is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the GOD within us and dwells 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Top of the Body is sunk below its own Dignity and indecently subjugated to base Extravagancies So that if through want of Meekness we be habitually Wrathful and subject to vehement Transports of Anger we must needs be unfit to keep Unity as being at variance with our selves and quite unhing'd and out of order by reason of intestine Feuds and Jarrings And they that have lost the Government of themselves cannot but be destitute of that Gentleness and Moderation and of that prudent Care and winning Conduct which is necessary to preserving Unity with others But then a cholerick ireful Temper untam'd being so utterly inconsistent with Unity and destructive to it how ready should we be to listen to the Apostle where he adviseth in the last Verse save one of this Chapter Let all Wrath and Anger be put away Let us quell those fierce and blustering Storms which are apt not only to blow up Autocracy by the Roots but to ruffle Vnity by ruining Self-government And let us labour hard for a sedate and calm for a quiet and composed Frame of Mind for so mild and smooth and meek a Temper as may dispose us to Unity and fix us in it as may glue us together in a regular Communion and make us stick close and fast to each other by a firm and inseparable Spiritual Cohesion But if we will not take the Holy Council given us and curb our hot and turbulent Spirits but will carry Gun-powder Passions about us that are ready to take fire from every spark of Provocation which is struck into them no marvel if at last we be miserably blown up and broken and shattered all to pieces Fourthly Arm your selves with Long-suffering The three former Rules proved against our giving Offence to others But Unity may as well be hindred or destroyed by taking the Offences which they give And therefore to fortifie us against that and so the better to secure Unity the Apostle desires us in the Fourth place to walk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Long-suffering We are infallibly assured that Offences will come some of a lower and lighter others of an higher and heavier Nature Some single and transient others complicated and more permanent Some through the Weakness of simple and unwary others through the Willfulness of ill-meaning Men. Now our part it is to be roiled and provoked by none of these but to suffer them all so far as we may and as evenly as we can for dear Unity's sake And so let us do Let us be patient toward all Men 1 Thess 5.14 If any affront us if any abuse us if any injure us let us take all patiently receiving their various Wrongs and Contumelies just as a Feather-bed or Bank of Sand do Stones thrown against them without noise or rebounding back upon those that threw them Not that Christians are at any rate to become Stoicks That 's not only improper but impossible for they who are tenderly to simpathize with all can never be senseless in themselves nor possessed with dull Apathy as to their own Concerns But let us so improve in the Grace of Long-suffering as to be able generously to overlook Indignities and to stand under Injuries with so little uneasiness and ill Resentment as that when we feel the worst Harms which Men can do us they may seem as if they were not done Ye have not injured me at all said the great inspired Doctor to the Galatians And this he spake when they had aspersed him with black and bitter Calumnies and vehemently opposed both his Doctrin and Practice and even question'd his very Apostolical Commission Than which what could go nearer to him Fifthly Exercise mutual Forbearance Bear ye one anothers Burdens says the HOLY GHOST Gal. 6.2 Though the Infirmities of People or their Faults be such as to become an heavy Burthen to us yet still we are bound in many Cases and with much Patience to bear with them The last Rule intimates so much But that Toleration or bearing with them is not enough to preserve Unity unless we go farther and forbear them also And therefore to this the Apostle leads us in the fifth place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forbearing one another And this Forbearance must be express'd in these five Instances at least Forbear Despising Censuring Aggravating Reproaching Revenging First Forbear Despising Honour all Men is the Divine Command and therefore we can slight none scornfully and be blameless Differ from Men we may and in some things we must but Despise them we may not That 's a Sin and if we commit it 't is at our Peril Thy way is strait and even and safe and pleasant and in it thou walkest smoothly on while many unhappy Travellers about thee do otherwise Some of them slip and some of them fall and some of them wander they know not whither But wilt thou despise them for this Tell me first Why art not thou of their unfortunate number Perhaps thy Education was better or thy Apprehension is quicker or thy Judgment is sounder O think then who gave thee these Advantages and be thankful to Him And because he hath denied the like to others be not slighty but pitiful to them If thine Eye-sight be clearer than theirs make good use of it but by no means laugh at the Blind for losing their way They would be glad with all their Hearts to have as good Eyes as thine in their Heads and if they had them might use them as well it may be better than thou dost Pity them therefore in that they want what it may be they are willing to have and what it were better for them to enjoy Should any leave such a Church as this wherein are all things Necessary and Decent to worship GOD in a raw and wild kind of Room we should be apt to think them guilty of Weakness And so we should likewise believe them to be who go out of such a lightsom Church into one more Gay and Splendid but withall so dark that in it they cannot see either to read the Scriptures or to discern Bread from Flesh or to distinguish Wine from Blood But then the more our Brethrens Weakness appears to us the more Commiseration we must shew to them But if instead of Compassion we express Scorn we mistake unhappily as well as they and worst our selves by evil Carriage as they do themselves by an evil Choice And shall be so far from drawing them to Unity that we shall rather drive them farther from it Secondly Forbear Censuring 'T is good to have a piercing