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A29386	Division divided, or, Ruines fore-runner discovered and decyphered in a sermon before the right honourable and right worshipfull the Lord Major and Aldermen of the city of London, preached on the Lords-day, September 20, 1646, in Pauls Church, London / by one that wisheth well unto and daily prayeth for unity and uniformity in these three kingdomes.	Bridges, Walter.	1646 (1646)	Wing B4484; ESTC R23810	54,734	72

ruine No surely First ● Division against self of Kingdom division you may read the History of Rehoboam 1 King 12. and of the rending away of 10. Tribes of 12 from him Here now is the ruine but was this Kingdome divided against it selfe O yes for it was divided against counsell and Counsell is the very selfe of a King and Kingdome too v. 14. it is said that the King spake unto them after the counsell of the young Men saying My Father made your yoke heavy and I will adde to your yoke My father also chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions Secondly ● Division For a City division you may read that History Acts 14.4 But the multitude of the City was divided and part held with the Jews and part with the Apostles Here now is a City division you see part siding against part and tending as all divisions doe to tumult and trouble for v. 5. There was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their rulers to use them despightfully and to stone them they were ware of it and faine to fly to Lystra and to Derbe But were these also divided against themselves yes surely they were divided against Religion Preached and wisedome to judge thereof To discerne things that differ is that which Pauls prayer is for Phil. 1.10 Sapientia ceruitur in Comparatis and this wisedome is best discerned when things are in competition and the question is what to choose and what to refuse Thirdly Of House difference you may also read 2 Sam. 6.16 ● Division 20 21. David a good husband doing devoutly and with much zeal before the Arke of the God of Israel Michael his wife is of another opinion and shee lookes on and despiseth him in her heart v. 16 shee saith How glorious was the King to day who uncovered himselfe to day in the eyes of the Handmaids of his servants v. 20. as one of the vaine fellows openly uncovereth himselfe Here you see is a House badly divided and against it selfe too namely Consent and Submission of the wife to the Husbands judgement in the undertaking of things in Gods service severall divisions are doubtlesse severally ominous and to be taken heed of they bode ill But yet fifthly in my exposition they the people 5 Part of Exposition I meane the Jews might take Jesus Christ for an exorcist or Conjurer and if so Satan should then bee against himselfe wee see among the Papists sometimes what a worke they have in their dispossessings and yet Satan doth but cast out Satan if the worke bee done wee read also Act. 19.13 that certain of the vagabond Jewes exorcists tooke upon them to call over them which had evill spirits the Name of the Lord Jesus saying Wee adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth To omit much that might be said to this particular I say onely this 1. Our Lord argues against his blasphemers 1. Arg. Ab absurdo here ab absurdo from the absurdity thus a Kingdome City or House to be divided against it selfe is absurd If Satans should so be it would be destructive thereto 2. Our Saviour argues from example 2. Arg. Ab exemplo I cast out Devils by the same power that your sonnes which can so doe cast them out but aske them and they 'l tell you that they cast them out by the finger of God therefore by that power I cast them out 3. Arg. Ab officio 3. Another Argument our Saviour drawes from his office as if hee should say you would hardly stumble at my casting out Devills did you but know this that Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the Devill 1 Joh. 3.8 Sixthly 6 Part of Exposition a cleare difference is here held forth and ought to bee marked betweene some differences and others for the Text doth not say that all differences in a Kingdome City or House are destructive and tending to desolation but such as are against the self The Scripture gives us to understand that there are Divisions 1 1. Preventionall divisions such as did arise out of care of the glory of God and caution lest Idolatry should bee committed or such sinne as might kindle the fire of Gods indignation and make it burne in yea burne up the Congregation Of such a division wee read Josh 22.16 Thus saith the whole Congregation of the Lord VVhat trespasse is this that yee have committed against the God of Israel to turne away this day from following the Lord in that you have builded you an Altar that yee might rebell this day against the Lord To be divided from them that seeme to divide from the Lord is a good division Divisions 2 2. There are preceptive divisions too divisions by commandement from the Lord such also wee reade of Exod. 32.26 27. Then Moses stood in the gate of the Campe and said Who is on the Lords side let him come unto me And all the sonnes of Levi gathered themselves together unto him And hee said unto them Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Put every man his sword by his side and go● in and out from gate to gate throughout the Campe and slay every man his brother and every man his companion Poenaemirabilis Caie● and every man his neighbour Here is a division you see though bloody yet blessed a piece of Justice acceptably done upon the ring-leaders into Idolatry one of Gods wonderfull punishments as just as secret Divisions 3 3. There are providentiall divisions such as though they seeme never so strange unto the sonnes of men yet are guided by the counsell and providence of the most High without whom Kingdomes are not rent and divided so we read 1 King 12.15 The King hearkened not unto the people for the cause was from the Lord that he might performe his saying which the Lord spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat and what word that was you may see 1 Sam. 11.11 Ferasmuch as this is done of thee and thou hast not kept my Covenant and my Statutes which I have commanded thee I will surely rend the Kingdome from thee and give it to thy servant Divisions 4 4. Wee read of conversionall and convictionall divisions when the God of power makes his Word the power of God quick and powerfull and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soule and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Heb. 4.12 Divisions 5 5. The Ministers duty is it not rightly to divide the word of truth 2 Tim. 2.15 Hee must divide the precious from the vile Lev. 10.10 By all this then is plainly to bee seen that there are divisions which are good and to be observed Seventhly then we are to understand 7 Part of the Exposition that this is a proverbiall speech that our Lord useth here

and we hope in God with the like successe for I begin with the last first preaching against it As for the second difference Our brethrens discovery It was easily blowne over with a faire discovery which mended all when their mindes were once knowne a course which we hope will bee taken in Gods time by our good brethren that jealousies may all bee blowne away and unity shine forth But the third is of most importance The peoples quietnesse that relates to the Reformers and the Reformation too and is of evil consequence some say they give too much to the Parliament some say wee give too little and too many amongst us are like the uncomfortable spies which say this difference will not end without more blood shed I shall impart my minde freely and it is this 1. I dare not but beleeve that the God which brought the Parliament out of the greater will also if our sinnes hinder not bring them out of the lesser difference Faith that wee may once say with Paul He hath delivered us and will deliver us with strength of beleeving comfort 2. Moderation Though it hath been observed that never any people have been earnest for a tolleration but those which have had great and it may be too great power with and influence upon the present Governours yet my councell is that our moderation appeare for feare lest wee spoile some of their prudentialls not yet come to maturity and of which ordinary men are not able to give an accompt with our want of discretion prudence piety prayer things wherein if wee bee obediently and waitingly conversant we act where wee should doe and move orderly in our own spheres For the house Politique in Israel House politick there indeed we read of divisions also and those were either at the time of the setling of the Government or after it was setled or last of all at such time when God for sin of King and people quite took away the Law-giver from between Iudahs feet that he might make away for the birth of the King of kings according to the prophecies of truth which went before of the Lord the Messiah Nothing I see is herein necessary for our marking and some profit Cause but 1. the cause of all these stirres and civill dissensions which I find to be 1. The sinne of the people whom how easily it is to bee perswaded they are not well governed woefull experience tells us thus they rejected Samuel and God in him God himselfe tells them so 1 Sam. 8.7 The sin of the Governours too For if men lifted up to such a top of preferment 2. Then are indeed as Nazianzen phrases it instar Funambulorum like dancers upon ropes all whose safety is in their uprightnesse and they hapned to go awry so that with their sin the people and with the peoples sin the King comes to be smitten then sword and pestilence shewed themselves forth to be Gods servants for to execute his sore displeasure on those that had offended as is to see throughout the History of the Kings and Chronicles of Israel Secondly for the cure Cure we shall apparently find that the sins of the Governours of Israel they were 1. Pride Pride Davids sin in numbring the people 2. Sam. 24. David will see how many hundred thousand he may call himself the king of and the Lord lets him see that he can soon ease him of some of his subjects and cures this distemper by letting a great many thousands fall of the pestilence untill the the same King David come beg that God will spare some of them whom his sin hath spoyled Intrusion 2. Intrusion and usurpation Vzziah's sin hee 'le intrude into an office and destroy an ordinance in Israel a sin which God punished with an earthquake as the Prophets say that speak in his sinne and with divisions then God smote the great house with breaches and the little house with clefts Amos. 6.11 3. Blood the sinne of Manasses blood he filled Ierusalem with innocent blood and the catalogue of his offences stands recorded for posterity to looke upon and dread 2. Chron. 33. Such an affliction God sent this King so sanctified as that he washed away the eternall guilt of blood from his soule but that God may let men see what a sinn blood is there stands a peece of Scripture still as if written with a pen of Iron or the point of a Diamond it is in the 2. Kings 24.4 He filled Jerusalem with innocent blood which the Lord would not pardo● that is to say as to the eternall guilt If in these glasses then we see any glimpse of the face of our housepolitick help with your prayers I pray you you that see the danger that it may be prevented 3. Church-house The New Testament best holds forth unto us the divisions of the church house when the Gospell came to be preached and the Church to be established with Governours government then the envious man sowed tares and in both doctrine and practise men shewed themselves of what seed and side they were the woman or the serpent Some held no resurrection at all so the Sadduces some held it was past already some erred one way and some another and men full of faith and the holy Ghost had their miscarriages and went not with a right foot unto the Gospel I am of Paul saith one and I of Apollos saith another and a third subscribes himself for Cephas Thus was the house of the church divided and one fell upon another some preached Christ of envy some one way some another All this while I observe two Rules to guide men one divine which Paul gives and takes well saith he every way Christ is preached and therin I doe and will rejoyce if any glory acrew to Jesus any way I hope I shall be glad of that and the Lord will gett himself glory sometimes when and where we doe not think of The other rule I walke by is humane and it is this Quisquis vel quod potest arguendo corrigit vel quod corrigere non potest salvo pacis vinculo excludit vel quod salvo pacis vinculo excludere non potest equitate improbat firmitate supportat hic est pacificus ab isto maledicto immunis Esa 5.20 Aug. That is to say he that by reproving corrects that which he can or that which he cannot correct doth peaceably exclude or that which he cannot peaceably exclude disalowes or wisely beares with he is a peaceable man and free from that curse woe unto them that call evill good and good evill that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter House corporall Lastly the houses of clay the houses corporall they 'le be falling one upon another if they be devided against themselves and among themselves and some Spirits make no more of clashing even