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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16944	A sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, May 30. 1626 vvherein may be seene whom we are to repute hereticks, and schismaticks, what sleights they vse to deceiue, Gods iust iudgements on them, and how we may escape those nets which they lay for vs : also good councell to the magistrate, minister, and subiects, necessary for these times / by Mattheuu Brookes.	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1626 (1626)	STC 3837; ESTC S4166	26,742	50

fire of hell and to send the blessed Angels to fetch bring deliuer and carry soules out of Purgatory into heauen with as good discretion as sometimes King Xerxes commanded the great Mount Athos in Macedonia to stand still and not to stirre one foote out of his place and to cause no trouble vnto him or his Army vpon paine of his high displeasure Let him learne humilitie well suiting with Apostolicall sanctity let him stoope to the meanest Christian as to his brother let him note but the Apostles spirit who though as an Apostle hee might command them yet doth he beseech them as his brethren rather choosing to preuaile by loue than rigour And there are two reasons why the Apostle doth rather intreate then command First he is ardently zealous the greatnesse of the cause moued him to be so For what is the danger the publike scandall of that blessed name by which we are redeemed the propagation of the Gospell hindred those that giue care to the inchantments of these Syrens seduced and their soules destroyed the more the danger is to be feared the more ardent is his obsecration I beseech you brethren Secondly it is more suitable to the nature of a brother to bee requested then commanded by a brother the faithfull hee will set free from their Schoole-master those that are led by the spirit he subiecteth not to the law And therefore in all his Epistles you shall finde him seldome or neuer commanding alwayes intreating and beseeching vt precibus flecti possint to bow them and bend them to their duties with his earnest suite I beseech you brethren I beseech you brethren by the mercy of God that yee present your bodies a liuing sacrifice I beseech you brethren for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake and for the loue of the Spirit that yee striue together with mee in your Prayers to God for me I beseech you brethren marke them which cause diuisions and offences And from his humble Introduction hee proceeds to his learned description which is the second thing that I obserued in the first part Which caùse deuisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee haue learned He inditeth them of two capitall crimes Diuisions and offences by them caused which how o 〈…〉 ous and insufferable they are lay but against them saith he the doctrine which yee haue learned and yee shall easily perceiue for Contraria iuxta se posita magis illucescunt Contraries layed one against another doe appeare more plainely and are more easie to be discerned now these are contraries therefore you must compare them and see how bad the one is by the goodnesse of the other Deuisions the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth discord or disagreeing and it is here properly referred to opinions so that it must necessarily implie sects and devisions in Religion divers doctrines contrary to the truth of Christ for so the text expounds it selfe The diuell was the first deuider for when God had ioyned all things together in the best order his studie was to separate that which God had vnited Hee first caused a faction among the Angells in heauen and with those whom he found to adhere to his part he left his habitation Hee stirred vp Schisme He deuided himselfe from God and from the societie of the blessed Angells Hee deuided man from God that if it were possible hee might also deuide God from man Hee was the first that preacht Hereticall doctrine in Diuinitie for when God had said vnto Adam Of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Euill thou shalt not eate of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Or as it is in the Hebrew dying thou shalt die Contrary to this the diuell preached Yee shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day yee eate thereof then your eyes shall bee opened and yee shall be as Gods knowing good and Eu●ll In the persons of Cain and Abell he deuided the brother from the brother He was the first that brought in that ancient destinction the sonnes of God and the sonnes of men By his studie he is a deuider and therefore properly called in our English tongue the diuell from the word Diuello which signifieth to vnioyne or pull in sunder for hee is alwayes labouring to dissolue that which God hath ioyned And hence it is that when a Schisme was made in old time in the Church they had wont to call the author of it the diuells sonne Paul called Elymas the Sorcerer the childe of the diuell St. Iohn being at Ephesus bathing his body in a Bath in which Cerinthus the Hereticke was also bathing fled away as if the diuell had beene there because Cerinthus the diuells sonne was there And when Marcion the Hereticke meeting Polycarpus said vnto him Cognoscenos pray know vs take notice and acquaintance of vs Polycarpe made him this answer Cognosco te primogenitum Satanae Yes I take notice of thee and I know thee well enough thou art the diuells eldest sonne Vpon this Irenaeus maketh this graue conclusion Tantum apostoli horum discipuli habuerunt timorem vt neque verbo tenus communicarent alicui corum qui adulterauerant veritatem So greatly stood the Apostles and their disciples in feare lest Heresies and Schismes shou●d preuaile that they would not communicate no not so much as in exchange of a word with any of those who had depraued the truth of Christ Vpon this ground divisions are noted they deuide vs from God and God from vs they deuide vs from the Communion of the faithfull and the faithfull from vs nay they subdeuide for by Heresies and Schismes euen the wicked are deuided among themselues they are the workes of the diuell and they that cause them doe as the diuell did they are all ingenerall the diuells sonnes but those that deuide by heresie are primogeniti Satanae the diuells eldest sonnes and heires apparant to his kingdome Offences The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say any manner of things whereat a man stumbleth and taketh harme as stones or blocks cast in our brothers way occasions of sinne and such like These are caused either Dictis or factis by their wicked doctrine or by their lewd liues and indeed those that cause deuisions cannot choose but cause offences vpon the same reason because they cause deuisions and therefore the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diuisions and offences because the one is bred by the other as the fruite is nourished by the tree or rather false doctrine and schisme is the vegetatiue power of offences It is true that there is sometimes Scandalum acceptum where there is not Scandalum datum an offence taken where there is no offence giuen as it is like that a blinde man may stumble and fall in a plaine foote-path where there is nothing layed in his way But we are now disputing De dato