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A13578	A sermon teaching discretion in matters of religion, and touching certayne abuses nowe in the Churche preached at Paules Crosse the 21. of Nouember by Robert Temple Bachelor in Diuinitie sometimes of Magdalene Colledge in Oxforde.	Temple, Robert, Bachelor in Diuinitie.	1592 (1592)	STC 23869; ESTC S100993	26,698	73

grewe to that temeritie and madnesse that they tooke vnto themselues the titles places of Bishopes boasting of Eleusius the author of their election But sayth hee there is one Eunomius and his sect the inwarde plague and mischeife of the Church who thinketh it a great deale out of his waie if hee drawe not all with himselfe into destruction and daunger yet these things are tollerable But of all church trobles the Apolinarists libertie is most licentious I am to certefie youre reuerence he meaneth Nectarius that a litle booke is come to my handes of Apollinaris wherein such thinges are written as exceedes all peruerse heretickes that euer were Conueticles of Schismatickes daungerous I will haue you consider that if these haue common liberty of priuat metings it is nothing else but to esteeme their doctrine truer then ours and you know that in euerye thing nature suffereth not two contrary doctrines of one the same point to be true Any that will may verye well consider the same to be the present calamitie and ieopardy of our Church and as Gregorie to Nectarius so I appeale to our magistrates for redresse First and for most wee haue among vs Paules Iesuites Chem. Exa● prefat par ● a murren sect of hereticks that infect the purenes of the Gospell a cruell sort of bloody ones that abiure a lawefull allegiaunce to their Prince ●●s Hum. ●m Cur. ●ax naturall loue to their Countrie and by forreine conspiracie abroade put in practise at home the death of the one and destruction of the other ●suites These thinke they doe God good seruice to slaye his anoynted ●sebius lib. ● cap. 40. murther his saincts endeuoring as did the Imposters in Alexandria in the dayes of Decius to inflame the peoples desire with a customed superstition of the Countrye and make them beleeue that the worshipping of Idols and murdering of Protestants is pietie August exclaimes against such a zeale ●gust Iho. ● tract 93. ó error horrendus ò execrabilis cecitas Zelum Dei habent sed non secundum scientiam obsequium se putant praestare deo interficiendo famulos Dei Oh horrible error oh execrable blindenesse they haue a zeale but not accordinge to knoweledge they thinke they doe GOD good seruice in killinge the Seruauntes of GOD. But I will not make manye wordes aboute them onelye this I saye as they be our countrie men by Nation pity their liues as they bee Papistes in weakenesse labour to conuert them but as they be heretiques in popeperie and Traytors to their Countrie let the Lawe punishe them and I praye God either turne their harts from whetting anie more swordes to shed the blood of the Lordes anointed or returne the sharpest swordes from the pointe with a cutting edge on bothe sides in vp to the verye hiltes in their owne heartes blood Oh Lorde lette ELIZABETH florishe with a Crowne of glorye vppon her heade and a Scepter of Tryumphe in her hande and still washe her feete in the bloode of her enemies Psal 58.9 We haue againe among vs Libanius Martinistes I vse that name Socrat. eccl hist lib. 3. cap. 19. Because as Libanius the Sophister in a ridiculous libell against religion flattered Iulian that hipocrite in profession vntill hee came to the empyre but afterwarde a Tyrant in persecution ●artinistes So Martin publisheth manye his friuolous Pamphlets bewraying in this a spirite rather of scorne and slaunder then learninge and loue because hee handleth diuinitie with scurrillitie scripture with laughter more pleasant to a sight of gospell Libertines and Churchrobbers then medling at all with the matter in hande muche lesse deciding the controuersies by moment and wayght of argument and therefore better answered alreadie by some merie mates like himselfe then to bee vouchsafed so muche as a silable by learned replye These irregular fellowes derrogate from Bishops both title and place in Churche and common wealth A verie sore plague to the good estate and constitution of the Church and a great deale the sorer because domesticall and inwarde and yet shall I saye my conscience and speake indifferentlye Fie for shame both Martin and Antemartin Paciscamur sayth Augustine to Petiliā si placet vt nec tu malos nobis obijcias quos putas nostros Aug. petilia● lib. 2. cap. 3. nec ego vestros vobis Agreed sayth August to Petilian If you please that neither you vpbrayde vs with those on our part whom you thinke to be bad Nor wee cast you in teeth with such on your side as wee iudge verie ill of So do yee both and goe to the matter Ciprian lib. ● Epist 9. Brownistes But wee haue as mischieuous as anye the other Puppianus Brownistes for they rightly follow his steppes who as Ciprian writes would be perfect alone vnspotted holy pure and not ioyne himselfe with the rest but alone as it were in Paradise in the kingdome of heauen swelling with such a pride and puffed vp with such arrogancie of minde that he would reduce all bishops cleargie men to his owne knowledge to be purged before him and to bee absolued by his sentence so that for the space of 6. yeares neyther had the fraternitie any Bishop nor the people an ouerseer nor the flocke a Pastor nor the Church a gouernour nor Christ a Prelate nor God anie Priest These set forth their bookes beyond all impudencie of all Schismatickes Magistrates ●egligence ●he cause of ●ectes if they be let alone as either impunitie or securitie of magistrates I will not saye perciallytie must needes further their faction what maye the silie people thinke whom they seduce daylie and drawe into error but that their doctrine is truer then ours as they fasly obiect our Church of Englandes ministerie preaching ●ocrates lib. ● cap. 33. prayer sacraments discipline is of no warrant frō God Eustathius somtime Bishop of Sebastia in Armenia after his abdicatiō by a generall counsel set a broch many wicked opinions among other he did perswade the people detesting other churches to haue their cōmon meetings in priuate houses drawing away seruaunts frō their maisters by simulation of religion Brownistes Conuenticles the like are among vs condemning all other assēblies in accustomed churches gathering themselues togither in houshold conuenticles alienating prentices by coulor of religion from all duty of obedience dwelling with their maisters I wish this saieng of Ciprian were well learned of such Ciprian ibid Scire debes Episcopū in ecclesia esse et ecclesiā in Episcopo et si qui in Episcopo nō sunt in ecclesia non esse et frustra sibi blandiri eos qui pacem cum sacerdotibus Dei non habentes obrepunt et latenter apud quosdam communicare se credunt cum ecclesia quae catholica et vna est scissa non sit neque deuisa sed vbique connecta et coherētium sibi