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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34014	Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.	Collop, John.	1667 (1667)	Wing C5391; ESTC R16883	68,489	162

by their light to heaven they cannot to mortifie the flesh thus is not the way to quicken the spirit We must rather inform Eliah like in fiery chariots of zeal to mount up to heaven Lend them examples to live well not precepts to contend Christ would not own those spirits who would have fire come down from heaven to destroy adversaries He sent down fire from heaven to save not destroy his enemies in cloven tongues to divide truth not divide by falshood who are divided in their waies show whose footsteps they follow the Devill whose feet are cloven He whose fiery zeal for the least dissention calls his brother to do penance in ashes it must needs be so far from the spirit of God as it is manifest his alliance is with the old Serpent whose food is in the dust The holy Father told the revenge-meditating Catholicks against their blood-thirsty enemies the Arians in the reign of the good Theodosius that Christians are not to recompence evill for evill but blesse them that curse pray for them that despitefully use yet if they cannot arrive to this perfection yet must at least leave revenge to God who in his time will repay it God fan is in his hand I will not snatch it out where God hath an Harvest Belial will have a seeds-time the wicked one will sow tares by night men benighted in black and wicked waies are dispos'd to imbibe the seeds of error God grant the light of Heaven may so shine in us that men may be converted from the darknesse of their waies and we may pluck up error not them we must not question his wil who permits them to grow till harvest he that knows his own it shall be my onely endeavo●r he may own me for his and not for raising flames of contention here be cast into unquenchable fire hereafter I will not renounce Christ because a Judas bears him company nor any Christian communion because a Judas may have his hand in the dish but rather strive I my self prove no Traitor draw near with my lips my heart remote from him cry hail Master when I think to recrucifie him in his members Alasse poor souls though a Judas may veil impiety with kisses the irrepentant wretch will dissipate and discover his black soul naked I will note them that make contentions and avoid the contentions not the men till three or four times admonition if Physitians were to fly from the sick wee should gain little skill and have a poor profession Sect. 77. I can converse with a Jew with no passion beside a sorrow lend tears to mollifie him and not fire to obdurate and should he encounter my ear with a buffet and bid me turn the other to express Christianity I should not with that Christian with a do as you would be done by requite but by my Saviours example for my sake buffeted pray for him who knew not what he did it is a strange humour in some Christians to pray for the conversion of those Jewes they will not admit into their society to effect it by a peaceable cohabitation Wee might teach them by their Chàldean Paraphrast their Messiah and by R. Jonathan or R. Shimeony Son of Ishas or R. Moses the Son of Nicar or R. Haccodesh shew how R. Shahadiahs 1200. years R. Solomon and R. Jehudas 1390. R. Elias 4230. years are expir'd and no Messias come Judas the Son of Marbaeus Theudas Arthronges Barchosba the Senior and Junior imposing even upon their Rabbies the Bethlem which they confesse to be the place of their Messiahs birth having now no being their groundlesse phancies may vanish like it while we show him who had a being with it who dy'd for his people whose hands and feet they pierced and for whose Vesture they cast lots who was humble and sat on an Asse after 62. weeks slain shewing the cause of their miseries because they sold the innocent for silver and the poor for shooes The same day Christ was taken their City taken entred at the Brook Cedron on the same feast day same time of the year thirty Jews sold for the price they sold him We might show their Rabbines their letter and learn their grave Fathers Christs Crosse row we could lend them light out of darknesse while even a Pagan could confesse aut Deus Naturae patitur aut machina mundi dissolvitur we could inform them by the rending of their Temple not to divide from the Church which open'd wide to instruct them of him who was ordain'd to enter into the holiest of holies even Christ Jesus the High Priest though they trifle about Nazarite and Nazareth wee could dilucidate who was Natsar the branch of the root of Jesse but oh in vain we may tell them of him who is love when we want it towards one another how can they believe us to be heirs when wee have lost his Legacy Defective not onely in dilection he bequeath'd his but even that love he commanded to enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or ill savor in Jews so often inculcated as if lies could sweeten them and make not Christianity stink in their nostrills worse then they in ours for crucifying Christ. May all Christian Churches sweep their own doors from pride and malice and uncharitablenesse which are ingendred by trifling questions and unnecessary disputes the dirt and trash which clings to them and keeps them from entrance who are without Lo the Jews who look for a sign and Gentiles who inquire after wisdom may find both and all Christians by reforming themselves may act no lesse then miracles for the conversion of others Si ex avaritiae in liberalitatem transieris s●ccam mancam manum recuperasti si theatralibus ludis spretis relictisque caetos Ecclesiasticos petieris claudicanti pedi incolumitatem si oculos tuos ab alienâ forma meretricum aspectu revocaveris caecum te illuminasti si diabolicos cantus despexeris eorum loco spirituales Psalmos dediceris tum loqueris qui antea mutus esses haec maxima miracula signa eximia such signes and miracles as these might call home the Jews and bring in the plenitude of the Gentiles so may their souls desire to enter into our secrets and their glory be joyn'd to our assemblies while all Churches having their Lamps trimm'd with the oyl of good works by the light of faith may lead to the Bridegroom who biddeth the Bride come and if she hath not the soundnesse of interior charity all the gummes and spices of alms and prayers do not sweeten her breath to her divine Lover Odours after which the Bridegroom runneth smelleth them when he kisses her with the kisses of his mouth Sect. 78. It was the saying of the Doctor of the Gentiles If any man be contentious wee have no such custom nor the Churches of God I could wish those who call themselves the Churches of God had no such custom as being contentious fighting about