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A73288	VVaters of Marah, and Meribah: or, the source of bitternes, and strife, sweetned and allayed by way of aduice, refutation, censure, against the pseudo-zelots of our age: by Humphrey Sydenham, master of arts, late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1630 (1630)	STC 23574; ESTC S125548	26,958	48

Brethren-Contribution more fats them then al the Fortunes they were masters of before and this beloued cannot be zeale but Schisme or if it bee zeale 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 10.2 it wants Eyes and Intellectuals 't is not according to knowledge For what Iudgement would expose our Body vnto prison our Calling to the staine of Separation and Reuolt for a thing meerely of indifferency and Ceremony No there is more in it then This the Rochet Tippet and the Surplesse is not that they shoot at but the thing call'd Parity Moses and Aaron they like not for the Ephod and the Rod they speake power and command and so intimate obedience But these struggle for equa lity the Ecclesiasticke Hierarchy they would demolish Episcopall corruption is the great Eye-sore Downe with it downe with it euen to the ground And yet I dare say there are some subtle Pioners and secret Mutiners in Common-wealth pretending plausibly to the flourishing of Religion which if they could once glory in that Babel they endeuour to erect they car'd not if erusalem were An heape of stones 'T is impossible that Ciuill Authority can euer subsist without the other and if there be once a full rent flaw in Church-policy what can we expect from that of State or either but vast Anarchy and Confusion Thus he that strikes at the Myter God grant he catch'th not at the Scepter and if he could graspe it the very Thunderbolt no Bishop no King and so by consequence no God He proclaimes himselfe the God of Order and These would make him the Father of Confusion and so in circumstance disgod him too seeing his greatest glory consists in the Harmony of his Creatures the Peace of his Church and vnanimity of his Saints and Seruants and therefore brethren let me beseech you in the words of the Apostle Marke them which cause Diuisions Rom. 6.17 18. and offences contrary to the Doctrine which you haue heard and auoyd them For they that are such serue not our Lord Iesus Christ but their owne Belly and by good words and faire speeches deceiue the hearts of the simple Rom. 16.17 18 ver I haue yet but Beseech't you in the words of an Apostle Let me warne you also in the Language of a Sauiour Beware of Those which come to you in sheeps clothing with such a Cast of Mortification and Integrity as if their conuersation spake nothing but Immaculatenesse when within they are rauening wolues such as will not onely tondere pecus and deglubere but deuorare too subuert whole houses for filthy lucre Tit. 1.13 You shall know them by their fruite Their fruite vnto the eye beautifull and glorious but to the finger Dust and Smoake or if not by their fruite by their Leaues you may a few wind-falne vertues which they piece and sowe together to couer their owne Nakednesse Will you haue them in their full Dresse and portraiture Take the draught and paterne then from the Pharisee Mathew 23. There the character is exact where if you obserue They are twice called Blind Guides Blindnesse of knowledge brings on Blindnesse of Heart and therefore twice also Fooles and Blind ver 17.19 To this Blindnesse of Heart Pride is annex'd They make broad their Phylacteries and inlarge the Borders of their Garments ver 5. To this Pride vaine-glory They loue greetings in the Alarket vppermost roomes at feasts and chiefe seates in the Synagogues ver 6.7 To this Vaine-glory Hypocrisie They make cleane the out-side of the cup and platter and for a pretence make long prayers and all to be seene of men v. 14.25 To this Hypocrisie Spirituall malice They shut vp the Kingdome of Heauen against men for they neither goe in themselues nor suffer them that are entring to goe in ver 13. Lastly to this Malice there is vncharitablenesse They bind heauy Burdens and grieuous to be borne and lay them on mens shoulders but they Themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers ver 4. Rare perfections doubtlesse for the Sanctified Child of God! Obserue the Catalogue Blindnesse of Heart Pride Vaine-glory Hypocrifie Malice and Vncharitablenesse Let vs make it out Enuy and all Vncharitablenesse and then Libera nos Domine Good Lord deliuer vs deliuer vs from all false-hood in his Seruices and faction against his Church that we may be his Ministers in Sincerity and not in shew as those false Teachers were of old or our Braine-sicke and discontented Neotericks at the present whom Saint Paul discouers by a double Attribute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vaniloqui Seductores vnruly and vaine-talkers and Deceiuers Titus 1.10 They talke it should seeme They doe not Teach and talke vainely too I stius in cap. 1. Tit. v. 10.11 and not onely so but this vanity must be nois'd vnrulinesse goes with it Lectio Hieron in 1. cap. Tit. v. 10.11 and Those which in their Doctrines are vaine and vntuly too sometimes proue Deceiuers Mentium Decepteres as Ierome reades it on the Text Deceiuers of mindes 2. Tim. 3.6 of weake and simple mindes Mechanicks and captiu'd women which haue beene the disciples of all Schismes and all Heresies in al Ages And such indeed are the chiefest Proficients in their Schooles now for none are so pinn'd to the strict obseruation of their Precepts Vide 2. Tim. 4. ver 3.4 as these Silly ones There is nothing so furious as an ignorant zeale so violent as a factious Holinesse and therefore when their Doctrines or their practices are touch'd vnto the Quicke and made once the subiect of a Pulpit Reprchension their Charity is presently on the Racke the Brasse sounds loud and the Cymball tinckles shrill their Censures are full-charg'd and come on like a peale of Great shot thicke and terrible The Cymball as Caietan obserues was an Instrument of old Vide Estium in 1. Cor. 13.1 Magis sonorum quàm musicum not so musicall as loud and of more noyse then melody and such as women onely vsed both in their times of Triumph and Deuotion A pretty Inuention for weakenesse and child-hood to play withall and be it spoken without disparagement of some glories in that Sexe a fit type of women and their frailties who for the most part are taken rather with the sound of things then the things themselues and are seldome without this Instrument of Noise about them The Tongue is their proper Cymball Psal 150. not the well-tun'd Cymball Dauid speakes of but the Loud Cymball with which they doe not so much praise God as sometimes disparage men Their Morality and their zeale are neere one a shrilnesse as well in their Deuotion as their Actrons and their practice in both is a very Tinckling Tinckling with their Feete leade the Daunce to the next Conuenticle Tinckling with the tongue too Great talkers in Diuinity and if they could exchange a Parlour for a Church or a stoole for a Pulpit they would