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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19153	A sermon preached at Paules-Crosse, vpon the 1. of Nouember, being All-Saints Day, anno 1607. By Sa: Collins, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and fellow of the Kings Colledge in Cambridge	Collins, Samuel, 1576-1651.	1607 (1607)	STC 5564; ESTC S108507	41,043	100

wood that is the Gospell of Christ Iesus lignum vitae and lignum crucis relishes the Marah of Gentile learning whose waters are bitter and end in desperation without such mixture Therfore S. Hierome was buffited by an Angell for studying heathen Authors too much but an Angell made S. John not giue ouer the booke of wholsome wordes that hee brought him till he had eaten and swallowed it downe But as J said I may not stand hereupon no nor yet vpon the 1. part of this rule The words of Christ and that same hunc audite heare you him which was spoken when all the rest were vanished and disappeared out of the Mount both Moses and Peter Elias that we might knowe his singular prerogatiue ouer the Church wherin neither Moses nor Elias nor Peter nor any communicate vvith him Hovvbeit still vve must remember that there is another audite left for somebody else too another heare you him though in their rank and in their place as qui vos audit c. he that heareth you heareth me spoken of the Prelats Pastors of the Church that shall succeed continually to the end of the World and si non audit ecclesiam if hee heare not the Church in in her determinations let him be counted among the heathen and the Infidels let him lose the verie right that hee hath of his Christendome For so saith the second part of this rule heere in my Text And the doctrine according to godlinesse For perswading wherof the better that we seem not to open a floodgate to popery to rush in vpon vs all amain it may please you to distinguish two kindes of Verities which holy scripture hath distinguished long before vs in the Ep to the Col. 2.5 Som of Faith som of Order Now the verities of faith are so plentifully set downe in the Olde and New Testaments as he addeth to his own plagues that shal presume to add one iot therto For the wil of an or dinary man that dead is no man dareth to enterline saith the Apostle how much less then his that witnessed a good confession vnder Pōtius Pilate sealed his Couenant with his own blood Yet som do it cannot be denied In this net sticks the Boar of Rome at this day is gored with more Anathemaes for his presumptiō than Absolon was with darts hanging between heauen earth in the tree though the beagels of the secte mistaking their sent leaue him to pursue vs with open volly crie The books of the two Testaments they are all in all for euidence of our faith demonstration impregnable the two pillars to conduct vs out of Egypt into Canaan one of smoke dark like the Old Testament another of fire bright like the New the two great lights that God reared in the firmament and aduanced and yet the sun to rule the day the moone the night so much clearer is our planet than was the Fathers the two Cherubins that face the Mercy seat with mutuall counterview now the Mercie seat is Christ whom the two Testaments equally argue demonstrate the two spies loaded with a cluster of grapes most delicious to ghostly taste the two Oliue branches that stand before the Lord of the whole earth the two milstones that neuer Tyrant yet tooke to pawne from the poore church the two dugges of the Spouse the 2. sticks of the widow the 2. wings of the Eagle the tvvo mites of Gods treasure-house exceeding all that was cast in before or besides the bagg that hath both old and nevv in it able to make a Scribe learned towarde the heavenly Kingdom O bevvare hovv you disparage the sufficiency of scripture for matters of faith O bevvare hovv you detracte from the fulness therof cuius plenitudinem adoro sayth Tertullian vvhose absolute perfection I admire at my very heart and vvorship vvith my face bovved dovvn to the ground But there are other matters of Order beside those vvhich though they be far less in valuation than the former yet their littleness is not to be drovvned in the others greatness Et haec facere oportuit illa non negligere saith our Sauiour these things you ought to doo and yet not despise those Faith Faith I say as great as she is cannot maintaine her self without the rules of good Order in any state or ctedit nomore than the king can consist vvithout the fielde that is tilled as Salomon sayth And these things are not expressed in scriplure they are not For neither neede they neither could they they need not because so obuious and they could not because so numbrous but Reliqua cum venero ordinabo sayth the Apostle Other things J will set in order when J come these things must be ordered as they may be by occasion Dauid did not all things during his life as he meant should be done in process of time but he gaue order to Salomon to see to the execution of them by leasure because he was a wise man as himself saith thou art wise and knowest what is fitte to be done therfore after my departure see that thou doe thus and thus c. So the Christian Magistrate and Regent of the Church whome God hath indued with the spirit of wisdome and with whom he is assistant to the consummation of the world supplies in this case that which was no imperfection for the scripture to leaue out but rather an impossibilitie for the scripture to comprehend I dare be bolde to say it the scripture which is Christs letter of of loue penned to his Church as S. Austine sweetly calls it must haue exceeded not onely mensuram Epistolae the measure of so small a composition which should neuer fill more than the left hand of the Reader if we belieue Seneca but euen swollen in quantity aboue the Popes Decretals which LVTHER of zeale burnt in the market place they were so irksome and so tedious if all things of this nature had been to be registred ingrossed in them Fonts plates pewes belles deskes can you want them can you spare them yea Churches Chappels too by your leaue which the Apostles had none nor diuers successiōs after the Apostles and therefore the Brownists like good honest fellows pull them down as fast as they can by vertue of this principle neuer dissemble for the matter If al things were written that our Sauior did saith S. John I suppose the world woulde not containe the books but I may say if all things were written that are lawfully incident to the particular worship seruice of God a world of worlds would not containe the books that should conteine them Yet are not our Ceremonies therfore so many that they should oppress vs with their multitude load as they vniustly cauil at vs they are in number as few as possibly can bee in a Church in substance as grave in choise as discreet in sight as comly in obseruatiō as easy in significance as natural