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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02571	Pharisaisme and Christianity compared and set forth in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, May 1. 1608. By I.H. Vpon Matth. 5.20.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1608 (1608)	STC 12699; ESTC S116595	49,640	218

there bee any of you whose awaked conscience strikes him for these sins and places him below these Iews in this vnrighteousnesse if you wish or care to bee saued thinke it hie time as you would euer hope for entrance into Gods kingdome to strike your selues on the thigh and with amazement and indignation to say What haue I done to abandon your wicked courses to resolue to vow to striue vnto a Christian and conscionable reformation Paul a Pharise was according to the righteousnesse of the Law vnreprooueable yet if Paul had not gone from Gamaliels feet to Christs he had neuer been saued vnreprooueable and yet reiected Alas my brethren what shall become of our gluttony drunkennesse pride oppression bribing cosenages adulteries blasphemies and our selues for them God and men reprooue vs for these what shall become of vs If the ciuillie righteous shall not bee saued where shall the notorious sinner appeare A Christian below a Iew For shame where are we where is our emulation Heauen is our gole we all run loe the Scribes and Phariseis are before thee what safety cā it be to come short of those that come short of heauen Except your righteousnes c. You haue seene these Scribes and Phariseis their righteousnesse and our vnrighteousnesse See now with like patience their vnrighteousnesse that was and our righteousnesse that must bee wherein they failed and wee must exceed They failed then in their Traditions and Practise May I say they failed when they exceeded Their Traditions exceeded in number and prosecution faultie in matter To run well but out of the way according to the Greeke prouerbe is not better than to stand still Fire is an excellent thing but if it be in the top of the chimney it doth mischiefe rather It is good to be zealous in spight of all scoffes but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In a good thing If they had beene as hot for God as they were for themselues it had beene happie but now in vaine they worship mee saith our Sauiour teaching for doctrines the Traditions of men Hence was that axiome receiued currantly amongst their Iewish followers There is more in the words of the wise than in the wordes of the law More that is more matter more authority and from this principally arises and continues that mortall quarrell betwixt them and their Karraim and Minim vnto this day A great Iesuite at lest that thinks himselfe so writes thus in great earnest The Phariseis saith he may not vnfitly bee compared to our Catholikes Some mē speak truth ignorantly some vnwillinglie Caiphas neuer spake truer when hee meant it not one egge is not liker to another than the Tridentine fathers to these Phariseis in this point besides that of free-will merit full performance of the Law which they absolutely receiued from them For marke VVith the same reuerence deuotion do we receiue and respect Traditions that we do the bookes of the Old and New Testament say those fathers in their fourth session Heare both of these speake and see neither if thou canst discerne whether is the Pharise refuse me in a greater truth Not that we did euer say with that Arrian in Hilary VVe debar all words that are not written or would thinke fit with those phanatical Anabaptists of Munster that all bookes should be burnt besides the Bible some Traditions must haue place in euery Church but their place they may not take wall of Scripture Substance may not in our valuation giue way to circumstance God forbid If any man expect that my speech on this opportunitie should descend to the discourse of our contradicted ceremonies let him know that I had rather mourne for this breach than meddle with it God knowes how willingly I would spend my selfe into perswasions if those would auaile any thing but I well see that teares are fitter for this theme than words The name of our Mother is sacred and her peace pretious As it was a true speech cited from that father by Bellarmine The warre of Heretikes is the peace of the Church so would God our experience did not inuert it vpon vs The warre of the Church is the peace of Heretikes Our discord is their musicke our ruine their glory Oh what a fight is this Brethren striue while the enemie stands still and laughs and triumphs If wee desired the griefe of our common mother the languishing of the Gospell the extirpation of religion the losse of posterity the aduantage of our aduersaries which way could these bee better effected than by our dissensions That Spanish Prophet in our age for so I finde him stiled when King Philip asked him how he might become master of the Low-Countries answered If he could diuide them from themselues According to that old Machiauellian principle of our Iesuites Diuide and Rule And indeed it is concord only as the Posie or Mot of the vnited States runnes which hath vpheld them in a rich and flourishing estate against so great and potent enemies Our Aduersaries already bragge of their victories and what good heart can but bleed to see what they haue gained since wee dissented to foresee what they will gaine They are our mutuall spoiles that haue made them proud and rich If you euer therfore look to see the good daies of the Gospell the vnhorsing and confusion of that strumpet of Rome for Gods sake for the Churches sake for our owne soules sake let vs all compose our selues to peace and loue Oh pray for the peace of Ierusalem that peace may be within her walles and prosperitie within her palaces For the matter of their Traditions our Sauiour hath taxed them in many particulars about washings oaths offerings retribution whereof he hath said enough whē he hath termed their doctrine the Leauen of the Phariseis that is sowre and swelling S. Hierome reduces them to two heads They were Turpia anilia some so shamefull that they might not be spoken others idle dotish both so numerous that they cannot be reckned Take a taste for all and to omit their reall traditions heare some of their interpretatiue The Law was that no Leper might come into the Temple their Tradition was that if he were let downe thorow the roofe this were no irregularity The Law was a man might not carry a burden on the Sabbath their Traditional glosse if he carried ought on one shoulder it was a burden if on both none If shooes alone no burden if with nails not tolerable Their stint of a Sabbaths iourney was a thousand cubites their glosse was That this is to bee vnderstood without the wals but if a man should walke all day thorow a city as bigge as Nineuie he offends not The Church of Rome shall vie strange glossems and ceremonious obseruations with them whether for number or for ridiculousnesse The day would faile mee if I should either epitomize the volume of their holy rites