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A86299	The parable of the tares expounded & applyed, in ten sermons preached before his late Majesty King Charles the second monarch of Great Britain. / By Peter Heylin, D.D. To which are added three other sermons of the same author.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1729; Thomason E987_1	253,775	424

are constant unto nothing halting as once the Israelites between two opinions divided betwixt God and Mammon in great distraction with our selves whether we shall adhere to Christ or follow Antichrist continue in old England or hoyst sail for New And for the sores upon the body the blemishes of our behaviour the stains and scandalls of our conversation by which we grieve the Spirit and disgrace Religion what are they but the frequent though most lewd effects of a perverted understanding and a poysoned will The Heresies of the Gnosticks and the Carpocratians what vile and wretched things they were A man might easily conjecture what fine points they held by the condition of their lives which were so filthy and obscene that for their sakes the name of Christian first grew odious to the sober Gentile Vide Christianos quid agunt In illis patitur lex Christiana maledictum as devout Salvian oft complained The errors of the Church of Rome in point of judgement have they not bred as grievous errors in the points of practice Whence else proceeds it that the Priests are debarred from Marriage and permitted Concubines that open Stewes are suffered and allowed of so they pay rent unto the Pope and supply his Coffers that Princes may have dispensation to forswear themselves and break those Covenants which they have solemnly contracted with their confederates that subjects may take arms against and depose their Princes if the Pope do but say the word and free them from the Oath of their Allegeance And on the other side when we behold men factiously bent to oppose the Church seditiously inclined to disturb the State disloyally resolved to resist their Soveraign rebelliously disposed to excite the people when men refuse to pay the King his lawful tributes and yet consume them on their lusts when they let loose such rogues as Barrabas that they may crucifie their Lord and Master may we not certainly affirm that they have hearkened to the Doctrines of Knox and Cartwright and their successors in the cause Such as the Doctrines are which the eare takes in such also are the lives which are framed thereafter Cavete itaque quid auditis take you heed therefore what ye hear lest whilest you lend an eare to those false Apostles you partake with them of their sins And certainly there is good reason why we should take heed The Devil never was more busied in sowing of his tares then now nor ever had he better opportunity to effect his purpose So dull and sleepy are men grown circa custodiam propriae personae suae in reference to themselves and their private safety that they are angry with the Prelates for being so vigilant and careful circa custodiam gregis sui and having more care of them then they have themselves so that if Satan be but diligent as no doubt he is and send his instruments abroad as no doubt he doth he may disperse his tares securely and bring them to fecissent fructum ere they be discovered And how comes this to passe but for want of heed for want of taking heed what it is we hear and unto whom it is we hearken False factious and schsmatical Doctrines are the seeds of Satan and many instruments he hath both in the Pulpit and the Parlor to disperse those seeds some speaking evil of Authority and despising Dignities others perverting of the people and forbidding to pay tribute unto Caesar some taking up provision of the choicest wits and persons of most power and quality for the Church of Rome and others leading out whole Families to seek the Gospel in the Desert He that doth look for better fruit from such dangerous Doctrines then discontent and murmuring against their Rulers associations and conspiracies against lawful Government and finally a flat Apostasie from the sincerity of that Religion which is here profest may as well look for Grapes from Thorns or Figs from thistles A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit but for these evil Trees which bear evil fruit what are they profitable for but for the fire that as they are the cause of combustions here they may adde fuel to the fire hereafter Thus have I brought you at the length to that which did occasion the discovery of the Devills practise The sowing of these Tares the Sevit we had seen before We have now took a brief view of them in crevisset herba and brought them to fecissent fructum There remains nothing further but apparuerunt that they appeared and how they were discovered but that must be the work of another day SERMON IV. At WHITE-HALL Jan. 27. 1638. MATTH 13. v. 26. Tunc apparuerunt Zizania Then appeared the tares also LAtet anguis in herba The Snake or Serpent doth delight to hide himself under the covert of the grasse so that we hardly can discern them till we tread upon them and treading on them unawares when we think not of it are in danger to be bitten by them when we cannot help it Et sic palleat ut nudis qui pressit calcibus anguem so is it also in the Text. Here is a Serpent in the grasse anguis in herba in the tares when they first peeped out and anguis in crevisset when the blade grew up Yet all this while the enemy was either in his latitat and so was not seen or else disguised and veiled with an alias dictus and so passed unknown And had he not been found in fecissent fructum when the fruit was ripe and men were able to discern him we might have bin worse bitten and more shrewly punished then were the Israelites in the Desert by the fiery Serpents But God was pleased to deal more mercifully with his Church then so And though it seemed good unto him for some certain space to let the enemy rejoyce and admire himself in the success of his designes yet it held not long for when his hopes were highest and his tares well grown so that they seemed to have preeminence of the wheat it self then did the Heavenly Husbandman awake his servants and let them look upon the tares in fecissent fructum when they appeared to be what indeed they were infelix solium frugum pestis and whatsoever other name the Poets and Philosophers have bestowed upon them But when the blade sprung up and had brought forth fruit tunc apparuerunt zizania then appeared the tares also The words you see are very few and so the parts not like to be very many We will observe only these two particulars 1. That the tares appeared at last apparuerunt zizania when or how they were discovered and that we finde in the word tunc then when the blade had brought forth fruit Of these in order begining what the Quod sit first and so proceeding to the Quando Veritas non quaerit angulos Truth seeks no corners saith the Proverb And therefore Christ our Saviour hath compared it unto a Candle set upon an

SERMON I. At CHRIST-CHURCH Septemb. 26. 1643. MATTH 13. v. 28. part ult Vis imus colligimus ea The Servants said unto him Wilt thou that we go and gather them up TAm vari se gessit ut nec laudaturum magna nec vituperaturum mediocris materia deficeret It is affirmed by the Historian of Caius Caesar how he behaved himself in such different manner that there wanted not forcible reasons to condemn yet excuse sufficient to commend him The like may we affirm of our Servants here he that doth look upon them in their sleep and negligence and findes them ut dormirent homines cannot but think them accessary to so great a mischief as Satan brought upon the Church in sowing Tares The opportunity they gave him by their dull security or at the least their supine carelesness makes them parcel-guilty And he that undertakes to defend them in it will questionless as much betray his Client as they their Cause But look upon them when they were awakened when they had seen their own error and the Churches danger and then how many things are there worthy at once of our applause and imitation In servis habemus tam quod laudemus quàm quod imitemur as my Author hath it First their fidelity quòd accesserunt in that they came unto their Master made him acquainted with the accident and so prepared him for the Remedy Their coming was an Argument of their good intentions and that they had not willingly betrayed the trust reposed in them they did not fly on the discovery And next we have their care quòd quaesierunt that they could never be at quiet till they were satisfied in the Original and Instrument of so great a mischief till they had learnt the unde whence the tares should come And when their Master had informed them in the fecit hoc and told them that the Enemy had done it yet they stayed not here as if the question had been made out of curiosity more to inform their understandings then reform the matter They thought it did concern them to redeem the time because their former fact was evill And as the enemy had entred by their sloth and negligence and thereby took occasion to destroy Gods Harvest so they conceived it did belong to them especially to labour in the Reformation and to reduce Gods Field to its primitive lustre by their zeal and courage This was the thing most aimed at in the Accescerunt this the chief reason of their coming No sooner had they heard that the enemy did it and that this enemy was the Devil Diaboli calliditate factum esse as it is in Lyra but presently they make an offer of their service to redress the mischief and by their joynt endeavours to root out those ●ares by which Gods Field was so indangered The servants said unto him Vis imus colligimus ea Wilt thou that we go and gather them up This is the last part which the Servants have to act in this present Dialogue and in this part they give a fair expression of their zeal and wisdom He that will take their Picture right shall finde that it consisteth of these five Lineaments For first we have a noble courage vis imus Sir Wilt thou that we go and give the onset T is not the Devil whom we fear nor any of his wretched Instruments how great soever they may be both in power and malice Vis imus Say but the word only and thy servants go And next we finde an honest zeal to rectifie what was amisse in the Field of God Vis imus colligimus ea Is it your pleasure that those Tares shall be rooted up T is not the Tares we are in love with how fair soever to the eye how plausible soever they may seem in the opinion and esteem of seduced people Say thou but faciat is hoc and thy servants will do it In each we have their readiness and unanimity First imus colligimus we go and gather in the plural number then imus colligimus we go and gather in the present tense and last of all we have their temper and obedience guiding their counsels by their Masters will and governing their zeal by his direction Vis imus colligimus ea This we are ready to perform if you please to have it so if otherwise we neither are so in love with danger nor so ambitious of imployment as not to take your Warrant and Commission with us for our justification And therefore fiat voluntas tua not our will but thy will be done Vis imus colligimus ea Wilt thou that we go and gather them up These are the features which I am to draw though I confess with an ignorant and unskilful pencil leaving them to be better limmed and polished by your more seasonable meditations And first I am to lay before you their heroick courage vis imus wilt thou that we go Scientia parum est nisi accedat virtus Knowledge is little worth when it comes alone when it is neither joyned nor seconded with vertuous purposes Some desire knowledge only that they may be known and this is vanity some only for the thing it self to know and this is curiosity others that they may edifie therewith and this is charity This last kinde was the desire of knowledge which these servants brought when they repaired unto their Master with an unde haec They only laboured to discern whence the Tares should come that so they might bethink themselves of some present Remedy And having found out what they sought for a man would easily have thought they had found enough to save them any further trouble To tell them that the enemy was abroad and that by his false Arts and Practises he had sowen those Tares might well have been a Supersedeas to all further care for who would willingly provoke an enemy especially in matters which concern the publick when by declining of the business quitting an employment of such dangerous nature he may preserve himself both in peace and quietness But when this Enemy is discovered further to be an enemy of no common rank but even the very Prince of darkness qui tot Legionibus imperitat one that commands so many Legions I trow it were no part of wisdom to incur his anger when by a plausible and discreet connivence we may hold fair with him To go against an enemy of such power and quality were a desperate madness such as no man of ordinary brains would be guilty of when he may safely sit at home and take such fortune as the success and issue of affaires should offer yet such was the undaunted courage of the servants here that none of all these cautions or considerations could preponderate with them or hinder them from venturing in their Masters cause vis imus Wilt thou that we go And 't was no mean note of a noble