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A64647	The great necessity of unity and peace among all Protestants, and the bloody principles of the papists made manifest by the most eminently pious and learned Bishop Usher ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1688 (1688)	Wing U178; ESTC R23183	27,278	20

the Wiseman that What hath been is now and that which is to be hath already been Eccles. 3. 15. and be not so inquisitive why the former days were better than these for we do not enquire wisely concerning this Ibid. 6. 10. When like troubles were in the Church heretofore Isidorus Pelusiota an ancient Father moveth the question what a man should do in this case and maketh answer That If it be possible we should mend it but if that may not be we should hold our peace Lib. 4. Epist. 133. The Apostles resolution I think may give sufficient satisfaction in this point to all that have moderate and peacable minds If in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you nevertheless whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Phil. 3. 15. 16. It is not to be looked for that all good men should agree in all things neither is it fit that we should as our Adversaries do put the truth unto compromise and to the saying of an Achitophel whose counsel must be accepted as if a man had inquired at the Oracle of God. We all agree that the Scriptures of God are the perfect rule of our faith we all consent in the main grounds of Religion drawn from thence we all subscribe to the articles of doctrine agreed upon in the Synod of the year 1562. for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and the establishing of consent touching true Religion Hitherto by Gods mercy have we already attained thus far therefore let us mind the same thing let not every wanton wit be permitted to bring what fancies he list into the Pulpit and to disturb things that have been well ordered I beseech you brethren saith the Apostle mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Rom. 16. 17. If in some other things we be otherwise minded than others of our brethren are let us bear one with another until God shall reveal the same thing unto us and howsoever we may see cause why we should dissent from others in matter of opinion yet let us remember that this is no cause why we should break the Kings peace and make a rent in the Church of God. A thing deeply to be thought of by the Ismaels of our time whose hand is against every man and every mans hand against them who bite and devour one another until they be consumed one of another who forsake the fellowship of the Saints and by a sacrilegious separation brake this bond of peace Little do these men consider how precious the peace of the Church ought to be in our eyes to be redeemed with a thousand of lives and of what dangerous consequence the matter of schism is unto their own souls For howsoever the schismatich secundum affectum as the Schoolmen speak in his intention and wicked purpose taketh away unity from the Church even as he that hateth God doth take away goodness from him as much as in him lieth yet secundum effectum in truth and in very deed he taketh away the unity of the Church only from himself that is he cutteth himself off from being united with the rest of the body and being dissevered from the body how is it possible that he should retain communion with the Head To conclude therefore this first use which we are to make of our communion with the Body let us call to mind the exhortation of the Apostle Above all things put on love which is the bond of perfectness and let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one Body Col. 3. 14. 15. Behold how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity Ps. 133. 1. What a goodly thing it is to behold such an honourable Assembly as this is to be as a house that is compact together in it self Ps. 122. 3. holding fit correspondence with the other part of this great body and due subordination unto their and our Head Such as wish not well to the publick good and would rejoyce at the ruin of our State long for nothing more then that dissensions should arise hete betwixt the members mutually and betwixt them and the Head. Hoc Ithacus velit magno mercentur Atridae They know full well that every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every house divided against it self shall not stand Matth. 12. 25. nor do they forget the Politicians old rule Divide impera make a division and get the dominion The more need have we to look herein unto our selves who cannot be ignorant how dolorous Solutio continui and how dangerous Ruptures prove to be unto our bodies If therefore there be any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit fulfil our joy That ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind and doing nothing through strife or vain glory Phil. 2. 1 2 3. Remember that as oft as we come unto the Lords Table so oft do we enter into new bonds of peace and tie our selves with firmer knots of love together this blessed Communion being a sacred seal not only of the union which we have with our Head by faith but also of our conjunction with the other members of the body by love Whereby as we are admonished to maintain unity among our selves that there be no schism or division in the body so are we also further put in mind that the members should have the same care one for another For that is the second use which St. Paul teacheth us to make hereof in 1 Cor. 12. 26. which he further amplifieth in the verse next following by the mutual sympathy and fellow-feeling which the members of the same body have on with another For whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it And then he addeth Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular shewing unto us thereby that as we are all concorporated as it were and made copartners of the promise in Christ so we should have one another in our hearts to die and live together 2 Cor. 7. 3. And hereupon is that exhortation in Heb. 13. 3 grounded Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them and them which suffer adversity as being our selves also in the Body it being a perilous sign that we be no lively members of that body if we be not sensible of the calamities that lie upon our afflicted brethren We know the Woe that is pronounced against such as are at ease in Sion and are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph Amos 6. 1 6 7. with the judgment following Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive We know the Angels bitter curse against the inhabitants of Meroz Curse ye Meroz said the

the nature of this hainous sin of Idolatry is such that it can no ways stand with the fellowship which a Christian man ought to have both with the Head and with the body of the Church To this purpose in 2 Cor. 6. 16 17. we read thus What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you And in Colos. 2. 18 19. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puft up by his fleshly mind and not holding the head from which all the body by ioynts and bands having nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God. In which words the Apostle sheweth unto us that such as under pretence of humility were drawn to the worshipping of Angels did not hold the Head and consequently could not retain communion with the Body which receiveth his whole growth from thence Answerable whereunto the Fathers assembled out of divers Provinces of Asia in the Synod held at Laodicea not far from the Colossians did so solemnly conclude that Christiana ought not to forsake the Church of God and go and invocate Angels and pronounced an Anathema against any that should be found to do so because say they he hath forsaken our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God and given himself to Idolatry Declaring plainly that by this Idolatrous Invocation of Angels a discession was made both from the Church of God as they note in the beginning and from Christ the Head of the Church as they observe in the end of their Canon For the further understanding of this particular it will not be amiss to consider what Theodoret a famous Bishop of the ancient Church hath written of this matter in his Commentary upon Colos. 2d that is They that defended the Law saith he induced them also to worship the Angels saying that the Law was given by them And this vice continued in Phrygia and Pisidia for a long time for which cause also the Synod assembled in Laodicea the chief City of Phrygia forbid them by a Law to pray unto Angels And even to this day among them and their borderers there are Oratories of St. Michael to be seen This therefore did they counsel should be done using humility and saying that the God of all was invisible and inaccessible and incomprehensible and that it was fit men should get Gods favour by the means of Angels And this is it which the Apostle saith In humility and worshipping of Angels Thus far Theodoret whom Cardinal Baronius discerning to come somewhat close unto him and to touch the Idolatry of the Popish crue a little to the quick leaveth the poor shifts wherewith his companions labour to obscure the light of this testimony and telleth us plainly that Theodoret by his leave did not well understand the meaning of Pauls words and that those Oratories of St. Michiel were erected anciently by Catholicks and not by those Hereticks which were condemned in the Council of Laodicea as he mistook the matter As if any wise man would be perswaded upon his bare word that the memory of things done in Asia so long since should be more fresh in Rome at this day than in the time of Theodoret who lived 1200 years ago Yet must I needs confess that he sheweth a little more modesty herein than Bellarmine his fellow-Cardinal doth who would make us believe that the place in Revel 19. where the Angel saith to St. John that would have worshipped him See thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant Worship God maketh for them and demandeth very soberly Why they should be reprehended who do the same thing that John did and whether the Calvinists knew better than John whether Angels were to be Adored or no And as for invocation of them he telleth us that St. Jacob plainly prayed unto an Angel in Gen. 48. when in blessing the sons of Joseph he said The Angel which delivered me from all evil bless those children Whom for answer we remit to St. Cyril in the first Chapter of the third book of his Thesaurus and intreat him to tell us how near of kin he is here to those Hereticks of whom St. Cyril there speaketh His words be these That he doth not mean in that place Gen. 48. 16. an Angel as the HERBTICKS understand it but the Son of God is manifest by this that when he had said The Angel he presently addeth who delivered me from all evils Which St. Cyril presupposeth no good Christian will ascribe to any but to God alone But to come more near yet unto that which is Idolatry most properly An Idol we must understand in the exact propriety of the term doth signifie any Image but according to the Ecclesiastical use of the word it noteth such an Image as is set up for religious adoration And in this later sence we charge the adherents of the Church of Rome with gross Idolatry because that contrary to Gods express Commandment they are found to be worshipers of Images Neither will it avail them here to say that the Idolatry forbidden in the Scripture is that only which was used by Jews and Pagars The Apostle indeed in this place exhorting Christians from Idolatry propoundeth the fall of the Jews in this kind before their eyes Neither be ye Idolaters saith he as some of them were 1 Cor. 10. 7. 8. And so doth he also add concerning another sin in the verse following Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed As well then might one plead that Jewish or Heathenish Fornication were here only reprehended as Jewish or Heathenish Idolatry But as the one is a foul sin whether it be committed by Jew Pagan or Christian so if such as profess the Name of Christ shall practise that which the word of God condemneth in Jews and Pagans for Idolatry their profession is so far from diminishing that it augmenteth rather the hainousness of the crime The Idols of the Heathen are silver and gold the work of mens hands saith the Psalmist and so the Idols of Christians in all likelihood mentioned in the Revelation are said to be of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk The description of these Idols we see agreeth in all points with Popish Images where is any difference The Heathen say they held the Images themselves to be Gods which is far from our thought Admit some of the simpler sort of the Heathen did so what shall we say of the Jewish Idolaters of whom the Apostle here speaketh who erected the golden Calf in the wilderness Can