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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42622	The genuine epistles of the apostolical fathers, S. Barnabas, S. Ignatius, S. Clement, S. Polycarp, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the matyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp, written by those who were present at their sufferings : being, together with the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament, a compleat collection of the most primitive antiquity for about CL years after Christ / translated and publish'd, with a large preliminary discourse relating to the several treaties here put together by W. Wake ...; Apostolic Fathers (Early Christian Collection) English.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing G523A; ESTC R10042	282,773	752

For they went down Alive into the Grave Death swallowed them up Pharaoh and his Host and all the Rulers of Egypt their Chariots also and their Horse-men were for no other cause drowned in the bottom of the Red Sea and Perish'd but because they hardened their foolish Hearts after so many Signs done in the Land of Egypt by Moses the Servant of God LII BELOVED God is not Indigent of any thing nor does he demand any thing of Us but that we should Confess our Sins unto Him For so says the Holy David I will Confess unto the LORD and it shall please him better than a Bullock that hath Horns and Hoofs Let the Poor see it and be Glad And again he saith Offer unto God the Sacrifice of Praise and pay thy Vows unto the most Highest And call upon Me in the day of Trouble and I will deliver Thee and thou shalt Glorifie me The Sacrifice of God is a Broken Spirit LIII YE know Beloved ye know full-well the Holy Scriptures and have thoroughly search'd into the Oracles of God Call them therefore to your Remembrance For when Moses went up into the Mount and tarried there Forty Days and Forty Nights in Fasting and Humility God said unto Him Get thee down quickly from Hence For thy People whom thou broughtest out of the Land of Egypt has committed Wickedness They have soon transgressed the way that I commanded Them and have made to themselves Graven Images And the LORD said unto Him I have spoken unto Thee several times saying I have seen this People and behold it is a stiff-necked People Let me therefore Destroy them and put out their Name from under Heaven And I will make unto thee a Great and a Wonderful Nation that shall be much larger than this But Moses said Not so LORD Forgive now this People their Sin Or if thou wilt not Blot me also out of the Book of the Living O admirable Charity O insuperable Perfection The Servant speaks freely to his Lord He beseeches him either to forgive the People or to destroy Him together with them LIV. WHO is there among you that is Generous Who that is Compassionate Who that has any Charity Let him say If this Sedition this Contention these Schisms are upon my Account I am ready to depart to go away whithersoever ye please and do whatsoever ye shall desire of me only let the Flock of Christ be in Peace with the Priests that are set over it He that shall do this shall get to himself a very great Honour in the LORD and there is no place but what will be ready to receive him For the Earth is the LORD'S and the Fullness thereof These things they who have their Conversation towards God not to be repented of both have done and will always be ready to do LV. NAY and even the Gentiles themselves have given us Examples of this kind For we read How many Kings and Princes in times of Pestilence being warned by their Oracles have given up Themselves unto Death that by their own Bloud they might deliver their Country-men from Destruction Others have forsaken their Cities that so they might put an End to the Seditions of them We know how many among our selves have given up themselves unto Bonds that thereby they might free others from them Others have hired out themselves to the most Servile Employments that with the Wages of them they might feed their Brethen And even Women themselves being strengthned by the Grace of God have done many Glorious and Manly things on such Occasions The Blessed Judith when her City was besieged desired the Elders that they would suffer her to go into the Camp of their Enemies And she went out exposing her self to Danger for the Love she bare to her Country and her People that were Besieged and the Lord delivered Holofernes into the Hands of a Woman Nor did Esther being perfect in Faith expose her self to any less Hazard for the Delivery of the Twelve Tribes of Israel in danger of being destroyed For by Fasting and Humbling Her self she intreated the Great Maker of All things the God of Ages So that beholding the Humility of her Soul He delivered the People for whose sake she was in Peril LVI WHEREFORE let us also pray for all such as fall into any Trouble or Distress That being endued with Humility and Moderaration they may submit not unto Us but to the Will of God For by this means they shall obtain a Fruitful and Perfect Remembrance with Mercy both at the Hands of God and of his Saints Let us receive Correction at which no Man ought to repine Beloved the Reproof and the Correction which we exercise towards one another is good and exceeding Profitable For it unites us the more closely to the Will of God For so says the Holy Scripture The LORD corrected me but he did not deliver me over unto Death For whom the LORD loveth he Chastneth and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth The Righteous saith He shall instruct me in Mercy and reprove me but the Oyl of Sinners shall not make fat my Head And again he saith Happy is the Man whom God correcteth therefore despise not thou the Chastning of the Almighty For he maketh sore and bindeth up He woundeth and his hands make whole He shall deliver thee in six Troubles Yea in seven there shall no Evil touch Thee In Famine he shall redeem thee from Death and in War from the Power of the Sword Thou shalt be hid from the Scourge of the Tongue neither shalt thou be afraid of Destruction when it cometh Thou shalt laugh at the Wicked and Sinners neither shalt thou be afraid of the Beasts of the Earth The wild Beasts shall be at peace with thee Then shalt thou know that thy House shall be in peace and the Habitation of thy Tabernacle shall not err Thou shalt know also that thy Seed shall be great and thy Off-spring as the Grass of the Earth Thou shalt come to thy Grave as the ripe Corn that is taken in due time like as a Shock of Corn cometh in in his Season Ye see Beloved how there shall be a Defence to those that are corrected of the Lord. For being a good Instructor he is willing to Admonish us by his Holy Discipline LVII DO YE therefore who laid the first Foundation of this Sedition submit your selves to your Priests and be Instructed unto Repentance bending the Knees of your Hearts Learn to be subject laying aside all proud and arrogant Boasting of your Tongues For it is better for you to be found little and of good Reputation in the Sheepfold of Christ than to seem to your selves better than others and be cast out of his Fold For thus speaks the excellent and all-vertuous Wisdom Behold I will pour out the word of my Spirit upon

Brethren to follow such Examples as these for it is written Hold fast to such as are Holy for they that do so shall be sanctified And again in another place he saith With the Pure thou shalt be Pure but with the Perverse Man thou shalt be perverse Let us therefore keep our selves firm to the Innocent and Righteous for such are Chosen of God Wherefore are there Strifes and Anger and Divisions and Schisms and Wars among Us Have we not all One God and One Christ Is not one Spirit of Grace poured out upon us All Have we not One Calling in Christ Why then do we rent and tear in pieces the Members of Christ And raise Seditions against our own Body And are come to such a heighth of Madness as to forget that we were Members one of Another Remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said Wo to that Man By whom Offences come It were better for him that he had never been Born Than that he should have offended one of My Elect. It were better for him that a Mill-stone should be tyed about his Neck and he should be cast into the Sea than that he should offend one of My little ones Your Schism has perverted Many has discouraged many It has raised Doubts in many and Grief in us All. And yet your Sedition continues still XLVII TAKE the Epistle of the Blessed Paul the Apostle into your Hands What was it that he wrote to you in the very Beginning of his Instructions to you Verily he did by the Spirit admonish you concerning himself and Cephas and Apollos forasmuch as even then ye had begun to fall into Parties and Factions Nevertheless your Inclinations then led you into a much less Sin Forasmuch as ye placed your Affections on Apostles Men of Eminent Reputation in the Church and on Another who was greatly try'd and approved of among you But consider we pray you who are they that have now led you astray And lessen'd the Reputation of that Brotherly Love that was once so Eminent among you 'T is a Shame my Beloved yea a very great Shame and unworthy of your Christian Profession to hear that the most firm and antient Church of the Corinthians should by one or two Persons be led into a Sedition against its Priests And this Report is come not only to us but to those also that are without Insomuch that the Name of the LORD is Blasphemed through your Folly and even ye your selves are brought into Danger by it XLVIII LET us therefore with all hast put an End to this Sedition and let us fall down before the Lord and beseech him with Tears that he would be favourably reconciled to us and restore us again to a seemly and Holy Course of Brotherly Love For this is the Gate of Righteousness opening unto Life As it is written Open unto me the Gates of Righteousness I will go in unto them and will praise the LORD This is the Gate of the LORD the Righteous shall enter into it Although therefore there are many Gates that are opened yet this Gate of Righteousness is that Gate in Christ at which Blessed are All they that enter in and direct their way in Holiness and Righteousness doing all things without Disorder Let a Man be Faithful let him be Powerful in the Utterance of Knowledge let him be wise in making an exact Judgment of words let him be Pure in all his Actions But still by how much the more he seems to be Above others by reason of these things by so much the more will it Behove him to be Humble-minded and to seek what is profitable to All Men and not his own Advantage XLIX HE that has the Love that is in Christ let him keep the Commandments of Christ. For who is able to express the Obligation of the Love of God What Man is sufficient to declare as is fitting the Excellency of its Beauty The Heighth to which Charity leads is inexpressible Charity unites us to God Charity covers the multitude of sins Charity endures all things is long-suffering in all things There is nothing Base and Sordid in Charity Charity lifts not it self up above others admits of no Divisions is not Seditious but does all things in Peace and Concord By Charity were all the Elect of God made Perfect Without it nothing is pleasing and acceptable in the sight of God Through Charity did the LORD joyn us unto Himself whilst for the Love that he bore towards us our Lord Jesus Christ gave his own Bloud for us by the Will of God his Flesh for our Flesh his Soul for our Souls L. YE see Beloved How great and wonderful a thing Love is and how that no Expressions are sufficient to declare its Perfection But who is fit to be found in it Even such only as God shall vouchsafe to make so Let us therefore Pray to him and beseech him that we may be Worthy of it that so we may live in Charity being Unblamable and without any Humane Affections to one more than another All the Ages of the World from the Beginning of it even unto this time are passed away But they who have been made Perfect in Love have by the Grace of God obtain'd a place among the Just and shall be made manifest in the Judgment of the Kingdom of Christ. For it is written Enter into thy Chambers for a little space till my Anger and Indignation shall pass away And I will remember the Good day and will raise you up out of your Graves Happy then shall we be Beloved if we shall have fulfilled the Commandments of God in the Unity of Love that so through Love our Sins may be forgiven us For so it is written Blessed are they whose Iniquities are forgiven and whose Sins are covered Blessed is the Man to whom the Lord imputeth no Sin and in whose Mouth there is no Guile Now this Blessing is fulfilled in those who are Chosen by God through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom be Glory for Ever and Ever Amen LI. LET us therefore as many as have transgressed by any of the Suggestions of the Adversary beg God's Forgiveness And as for those who have been the Heads of the Sedition and Faction among you let them look to the Common End of our Hope For as Many as are endued with Fear and Charity would rather they Themselves should fall into Tryals than their Neighbours And chuse to be themselves condemn'd rather than that the Excellent and Just Charity delivered to us should Suffer For it is Good for a Man to confess wherein he has transgressed and not to harden his Heart as the Hearts of those were hardened who raised up Sedition against Moses the Servant of God Whose Punishment was manifest unto all Men