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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18436	Charity enlarged: or The abridgement of the morall law Delivered by way of sermon, and preached for the maine substance thereof in a publicke assembly, on a lecture day, Dec. 4. Ao. Dom. 1634. and now published according to the authors review, with some new additions, for the farther instruction of the ignorant, satisfaction of the ingenuous, conviction of the uncharitable, and benefit of all sorts of people. By a serious welwisher to the peace of Ierusalem.	Serious welwisher to the peace of Jerusalem.	1636 (1636)	STC 5004; ESTC S119118	61,426	212

apud patres tum Scholasticos quilibet error circa religionem ortus haeresis d●citur inveteratus vero pertinaciter defensus schisma vocatur Immo Zacharias papa asserentes Antipodes aliquas esse haereseos damnavit or if he apostatize from the faith hee is then no Christian at all It was a famous proverbe in the primitive times which now reflects infamy upon our dayes x Tertull. in Apol. ca. 39. vide Act. 4.32 Ecce ut se invicem diligunt Christiani See how the Christians love one another Then hatred of Christians declared men to bee no Christians at all and can it now consist with any new stampe of Christianity I conclude this point with that of Saint Augustine y Aug. de Bap. Cont. donat l. 3. cap. 16. Non habent dei Charitatem qui non diligunt ecclesiae unitatem id est they have not the love of God in them who love not the unity of the Church of God or the Church in unity In the next place let us looke with a tender eye of affection upon our mother Church our Ierusalem which is as a Citty that is compact together whither the tribes goe up to the testimony of Israel Psal 122.3 4. reade the glosse on the place which runnes thus By the artificiall joyning and beauty of the houses hee meaneth the concord and love that was between the Cittizens In like manner let us who are the united members of the same Church in joynt affection though in severall assemblies endeavour all as one man to be of one heart and of one minde as those converts were Act. 4.32 Away farre away with that factious love which is as it were impropriated from the unity of the Church and appropriated to I know not what selected brotherhood● distinguished by new-fangled liveries of religion z This is to make Gods heritage a bird of divers and therefore superstitious colours of which God complaines Ierem. 12.9 whereas the Church should be as an army with banners Cantic 6.10 namely in which all hold together and follow the same colours so let all Christians follow the unvaried ensigne of Christs Crosse Why I beseech you good people have not wee all one father a Quanto dignino fratres dìcuntur qui unum patrem deum agnoscant qui unum spiritum biberunt sanctitaris qui de uno utero ignorantiae ejusdem ad unam lucem expiraverunt veritatis Tertull. Apo cap 39. Did not one God make us Mal. 2.10 yea have wee not all one father as well by redemption as by creation Thou Lord art our Father our Redeemer Esa 63.16 Or be some bastards and not sonnes Are we not fratres uterini borne all of the same mother the same Church by the same Spirit and by the same laver of regeneration brought out of the common wombe of naturall ignorance and originall sinne into the marvailous light of the same divine truth and grace Are wee not all without question in Charities judgement nourished with the same spirituall and sacramentall foode Did not our Saviour pay a sufficient price to redeeme us all or lastly cannot one b Sumus corpus de conscientia religionis disciplina veritate spei foedere Coim●s in caetum quasi manufacta deum precationibus ambimus Tertull in Apolog. cap. 39. Church hold us all in the same faith and hope under the same order of discipline or may not one heaven hold us all hereafter sure I am it cannot hold us and our uncharitable opinions or schismaticall practises the severall roomes there are for severall degrees of glory certainly not for severall factions For if Ierusalem that is below much more shee that is above is a Citty that is compact together or as another translation goeth at unity in it selfe The beauty of a body politicke or naturall consists not so much in the excellency of severall parts as in the Symmetry and proportion of all parts together So that hee that defaces any part deformes and marres all even so the beauty and grace of Christs body the Church consists not in the absolute perfection of some few parts but in the relation which all the parts have the one to the other in the communion of Saints This makes Christs spouse though c Cant. 1.5 blacke by the reliques of sinne yet comely by concord and causeth all her actions to shine forth though not without spot yea in d 1 Cor. 14.40 decency and order as the Moone shines in her season for the Church is faire as the e Cant. 6.10 ibid. Moone even in this life but she is cleare as the Sunne onely in the life to come Now they which break this order of the Church by schisme not onely impaire the comelinesse but alter the very constitution of Christs body and so dispose it to finall corruption Divines prove God to be immortall because he is indivisible and Philosophers prove both the greater world the universe and the lesser world man to be mortall because both consists of contrary elements which by little aad little prepare unto the dissolution of the whole which is then neare at hand when there is excesse of any of them in a notable measure as the f 2 Pet. 3.6 overflowing of water destroyed the old world and a g 2 Pet. 3.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Procellae in morem interprete Erasmo Sic mentio fit pluviae ignis Gen. 19.24 storme or flood of fire shall overwhelme this or in the lesser world as redundancie of watry flegme or fiery choler soone brings us to our end of consumption But wee are united to Christ our head by faith and to one another by love neither doe petty errours dissolve the one band nor petty quarrells breake the other For then Christ should bee as oft re-united to his members and they to one another as h Maecenas toties litem agebat cum uxore toties amorem cum câ redinte grabat ut dictum sit Hunc esse qui uxorem millies duxit cum unam habuerit Sen Epi. 114. Idem lib. de providen c. 3. de scribit eundem Maecenateum amoribus anxium morosae uxoris quoridiana repudi● deflentem Maecenas was married to the same wife as it were a new But capitall heresies which cut Christ the head of the Church quite off or notorious schismes which divide the principall parts of the spirituall body cause the speedy ruine of a Church For as the parts of a naturall so of the spirituall body have no life in them being severed from the head Ierusalem may well stand though a few stones drop out of her walls and draw some that lye nearest unto them out with them but when the intire walls begin to be battered downe at once then her curse is neare viz. that a stone shall not be left upon a stone A Church may still flourish though some busie factionists separate themselves from her and draw a few