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A62739 A sermon preached near Exeter on Cant. c. vi. v. 13 being an exhortation to all Protestant dissenters to joyn together against popery. Tanner, Thomas, 1630-1682. 1677 (1677) Wing T146; ESTC R1224 22,033 31

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ours and under God I might as boldly promise even greater things than these But though there be but little hopes of this and but just reason to expect and fear that all our labour which is thus applyed is like to be in vain yet it is our duty to desire and endeavour it And with that I shall conclude Return Applica return ô Shulamite return return that we may look upon thee You that have been offended with our Church and have left us that have sadned our hearts and weakned our hands thus long return at last to comfort us that we may look upon you with delight and that our hearts may be stayed for you and our fears stinted Are you nothing moved by the force of duty considering that peace and love is the Legacy which our Lord hath bequeathed unto all his followers to the worlds end and the great bond of perfectness which his Apostles laboured to preserve entire knowing that Unity and Charity cannot be divided Doth it nothing move you to anticipate Christs intention which is our Union and to further Satans which is our division Are you nothing moved with the deluge of prophaneness that carrieth such a multitude headlong into hell whilst you dispute which is the way to save them and agree not on it Are you nothing moved with the growth of Popery which is like to over-run all and if it did would make you glad to digest the hardest morsel about which you are now so nice considering that there is no other way in probability to prevent this but your return into the Tents that you have left Are you nothing moved by the judgments which have followed upon our dissentions and do still lye upon them as a just punishment O God Psal 60.2 thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us thou hast been displeased with us thou hast made the land to tremble thou hast broken it O heal the breaches thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewed thy people hard things And nothing is more hard than this that our hearts are hardned against the wayes of peace after all our wars and unspeakable calamities Our blood hath been shed in vain Quintili Vare redde legiones quas perdidisti O Church-divisions restore again the blood that hath been spilt like water on the ground never to be recovered Return the spirits which we have lost We have undone the Posterity which is to come The children yet unborn are accursed in their Parents loins by reason of our divisions and the issues that are thence to be expected for as long as there is such a temper that doth over-rule the Genius of the Nation God who is offended with our prayers and services must needs with-hold that good that should establish us and though He should grant it yet should we with-hold it from one another and sooner rend and tear it into pieces than to let the publick be the better for it It can never be well with us till there be an healing and till Reformation do begin as was sometimes preached to the Parliament at the House of God To your Tents therefore To your Tents ô Israel not for war but for peace not to set up many Altars but to compass about the Tabernacle Cant. 1.7 for why shouldst thou be any longer as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions O thou that hast turned thus aside hast thou any light more than others We are the darker for the want of it Hast thou any good affections more than others We are baren and unfruitful for the want of them Hast thou any power to add unto the Ministry of the word We are destitute thereof while it seems to be spent upon such as do the least need it Dost thou look upon us as being yet not fit nor worthy of thy Communion Return and strengthen us with better members if thou hast any such to add to us and we shall be thereby the more enabled to amend what is amiss Canst not thou serve God with so much purity and power amongst us as in separate Assemblies Remember whence thou hadst that purity and power and restore the benefit thereof to the same Church from which thou didst at first receive it Remember that heretofore thou couldst be richly edified in the bosom of the same Church and since thou hast left it both the purity and the power whereof thou speakest according to our estimate is much decayed and impaired Nay thou callest that the power of godliness which we take to be another thing Thou dost but make excuses not only against thine own duty but against an invaluable priviledge which is the Vnity of the Spirit and if the Church cannot be compleat without Thee much less canst Thou be made perfect without the Body either edified in the true faith or love by which alone thou canst expect to come to that peace of God which passeth all understanding Phil. 4.7 which should keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus Wherefore let me end my own Exhortation with that of the same Apostle in another place Col. 3.14 15. Above all things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to which ye are also called in one Body and be ye thankful FINIS Some Books printed for Henry Brome since the dreadful Fire in London DR William Lloyd's Sermon before the King against the Papists His Sermon at the Funeral of John Lord Bishop of Chester A Seasonable Discourse against Popery Dr. Heylin on the Creed in fol. A Sermon at the Assizes at Reading by Jos Sayer M.A. Mr. Stanhopp's four Sermons on several Occasions Mr. Hampton's Assize Sermon A Sermon at the Funeral of Dr. Turner Dean of Canterbury by Dr. Du Moulin The Anthems of the Church The Controversial Letters or Grand Controversie concerning the pretended Authority of Papists over the whole Earth Popery Manifested or the Papist Incognito made Known Toleration discussed The Vindication of the Clergy The Godly mans Companion The Guide to Heaven with a Brief Rule of Life Manuductio and Coelum or a Guide to Eternity extracted out of the Writings of the Holy Fathers and Antient Philosophers Writen originally in Latin by John Bona.