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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58210	A sermon delivered at Maidston in Kent, at the assizes there held, August 23, 1641	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1642 (1642)	Wing R451; ESTC R14322	18,070	30

A SERMON Delivered at MAIDSTON IN KENT At the ASSIZES there held August 23. 1641. Cant. 3.5 I charge you O ye daughters of Ierusalem by the Roes and by the Hindes of the field that ye stirre not up nor awake my Love till she please 1 Cor. 14.33 For God is not the Author of confusion but of peace as in all Churches of the Saints Augustin in Iohan. tract. 104. ut in illo pacem haberent propter quod totum agitur quod Christiani sumus Haec enim pax finem temporis non habebit sed omnis piae nostrae intentionis actionis què finis ipsa erit LONDON Printed by E. G. for Iohn Stafford and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancery-lane over against the Rolls 1642. To the Reverend Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Mallet Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench and Iudge of Assize in the County of Kent And also to the Honourable Sir Edward Deering of Surenden Dering in Kent Knight and Baronet one of the Knights of the shire for Kent health and happinesse eternall in Christ Iesus Right Honourable THe reason why I adventure this Sermon to the publique view is because I understand it was in the delivery mistaken by some hearers whose second thoughts I am confident upon their better scanning it will bee more charitable my whole scope being to perswade to an holy unity in Christ which every sonne of peace wisheth with me Our present necessity may satisfie a considering man why I put it under the Sanctuary of both your names one being our Judge and interpreter of the Lawes and the other one of the law-makers in the most honorable high court of Parliament seeing wee now want both good lawes right interpretation of the same for the suppressing the disturbers of the Churches peace and for the setling of an happy unity to which I onely adde the hearty prayers for the good successe of your prudent endeavours and the humble tender of the love and service of The least of Christs Ministers Io. Reading Dover Octob. 25. 1641. Rom. 16.17 I beseech you brethren marke them who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned and avoid them RIght Honourable and the rest beloved in Christ Iesus your knowledge of the relation betweene Moses and Aaron magistrate and minister state and church religion and policy dischargeth all Apologie for choyce of this Text which like the worlds great eye upon the hemisphere limited to no region city or person looks upon all duties humane and divine therefore I beseech you The summe is an exhortation to vigilant constancy Church and state are as a besieged city some assaile aperto Marte they are more easily discovered some insidiis more mischievous are they who sting the bosome which are shut up in the infected veines therefore I beseech you brethren marke them He had carefully prescribed now he prohibiteth the most divine precepts cannot profit us if some contrary evill corrupt us He had by name described those whom they should follow he giveth a character of false brethren without name 't is the candor of holy writ liberall in honouring the Saints memories to forbeare unnecessary branding sinners 't is the vice not the person which is dangerous therefore I beseech you brethren marke them who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned and avoide them The parts are the 1 Forme which is hortatory wherein note the 1 Obtestation I beseech you 2 Compellation Brethren 2 Matter which is an advertisement to a grand inquest marke them in wch observe the 1 Duty enioyned 1 Marke them 2 Avoid them 2 Delinquents concerning whom the Apostle useth this vehement entreatie authors of dissention which cause divisions and offences 3 Marke by which they may be knowne or the offence enquired after divisions and offences with the secret danger thereof in that they are beside and neere but contrary to the doctrine 4 Aggravation of the offence from the 1 Rule against which the transgression is the doctrine 2 Example which themselves have given which yee have learned it were desperate levity to desert it now 1 I beseech you By a milde and humble entreaty he putteth on the person of a suppliant not for the advance of his owne profit but theirs That which the ministers intreat you is your owne good peace and salvation If thou be wise thou shalt be wise for thy selfe Prov. 9.12 so Rom. 12.1 I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God to what end that ye may prove what is the good will of God so Phil. 2.1 if there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of loue if any fellowship of the spirit to what end that nothing be done through contention that 's your owne good Her 's no vobis coniunctim et divisim committimus et firmiter iniungendo mandamus not that he had not power of mandats we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you through us we pray you in Christs stead that ye be reconciled unto God that 's your owne good but because lenity can doe more then rigour a mild hand maketh better impression then then a rigid and imperious injunction can sanctity cannot be forced neither will opinion if God should compell he left no place for sinne or sanctimony which are onely in actions voluntary the Devill cannot compell to sinne neither will God to obedience where necessity enforceth ther 's no sinne where compulsion extorteth obedience no sanctity No man can be holy or wicked except he will the will must have a part in either to denominate the good or evill The softned wax best takes the impression therefore the Apostle placed this maine exhortation amongst his salutes which gave that temper to their affections t is a great matter to have a good opinion of the speakers love and integrity therefore meekenesse and lenity is the onely way to prevent and retrench discords there is place for rigour that 's when lenity is impiously contemned there are that carry not the sword in vaine but our part is intreaty Pastores facti sumus non percussores our commission is that which was given Peter Ioh. 21.15.16 pasce oves meas not that Act. 10.13 kill and eate When things especially adiaphorous are too rigidly pressed it woundeth the infirme and scandaleth the strong Lactantius said it well in generall religion cannot be compelled verbis potius quam verberibus res agenda est when Peter smote Malchus in Christs defence Malchus one of them who came to lay impure and violent hands on Christ he not only prohibited Peters violence but healed Malchus eare When the Holyghost descended on Christ 't was not in the forme of an imperious eagle or bird of prey but in the likenesse of an harmelesse dove Violence and religion are unconsistent not that the corrupters thereof and state-threatning schismatiks may not be restrained or