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A73285	A sermon, pointing out the chiefe causes, and cures, of such unruly stirres, as are not seldome found in the church of God Preached at Sawston in the countie of Cambridge, at the arch deacon of Elie his visitation held there, upon the nineteenth day of September, 1638. By Iohn Swan.	Swan, John, d. 1671.	1639 (1639)	STC 23515; ESTC S125547	12,451	34

bee wrought by home bred enemies yea those among us shall not bee alwayes of us but will sometimes arise to speake as saith the text perverse things Or as some glosse upon it Verba distorta obliqua minimeque sincera Which is enough to shew the ill qualited behaviour of these Agents and to point them forth as the Churches enemies Should the words that they speake bee spoken for and not against I would bee willing to grant them truly zealous but speaking to disturbance harme and detriment I cannot but affirme them truly viperous For pitch but upon the cause and then goe on Can that bee zeale when Men arise Ambition a cause because they find they cannot bee raised Or be those words warrantable which bee spoken against because the speakers cannot as they would bee spoken for I cannot thinke it nor should I make any mention hereof but because I find that the Heads of most Factions have beene fretted by the faylings of ambitious hopes Thus doth Eusebius tell us of one Thebulis Euseb lib. 4. hist Ecclesiast cap. 21. who in the Virgin dayes of the Churches puritie corrupted it by reason of a repulse from his wished preferment The like is recorded of that heretick Aërius who taught for Doctrine Presbyterum ab Episcopo nulla ratione debere discerni Aug. Dehaeres c. 22. that by no meanes there was a difference to be made betweene Priests and Bishops And all this because hee himselfe was denied the place of a Bishop Theod lib. 1. cap. 2. So also saith Theodoret of the Arian heresie that it was first set abroach because Alexander had that dignitie which Arius desired And as for Donatus it was likewise so with him For when hee could not attaine to the Bishopricke of Carthage but saw Cecilianus preferred before him he turneth hereticke and drawes away no few Disciples after him Nor doe our owne times but produce the like presidents For as wee have lately heard the perverse words of that fierie spirit who both in his pulpit Pasquil and those seditious rayling Pamphlets which came to the hands of many people laboured what hee could to set all in combustion So have wee also heard how hee bemoanes himselfe as an out-cast Courtier thereby betraying the true cause which first moved him to crie aloud among the people and bee the direfull fomenter of unquiet stirres And yet wee thanke our God the mischiefe intended was prevented He made his madnesse to bee manifest and so as the Scripture speaketh he prevailes no further 2. Tim. 3.9 for like Esops Camel Dum cornua quaerebat perdidit aures But because all men are not proane to one vice there be befide this a multitude of other causes I list not to mention all but touch at some And next after this alreadie mentioned Selfe-conceit a cause there is a Philautian Spurre Selfe-conceit Immodicus amor sui Immoderate love of a mans selfe This breedes him up in sin gularitie This makes a mans owne fancies bee the best pleasing And then from hence ariseth obstinacie pride and contention dilating it selfe so farre that when others shall oppose or be unwilling to consent unto him hee shootes out his arrowes even bitter words he speakes as saith the text perverse things To which may bee added thirdly Vain-glorie a cause that itching desire of vaine tumid glorie with which whoso is taken hee is a man made fit for faction applies himselfe to the people speakes distort and crooked words tangs up and downe to draw away Disciples after him accounting it as a jemme of admirable worth to bee gracious in the eyes of the common multitude and if Vox populi proclaime him Learned no matter though the Learned know him to bee indeed the true-borne child of an Irnoramus Fathers nor Councels nor Schoole-men hee may not touch or if hee doe it is not to light His candle by Their torches but to make the people beleeve that his owne Lampe hath better light Convince him therefore they that can his timpany is sure to ever swell and though the bladder be broken by force of truth opposed to his errours yet seldome or never expect to see him yeeld For as one truely speaketh Ex hac gloriae cupiditate oritur pertinatia nusquam flexibilis Alfons de Castr advers haeres lib. 1 cap. 2. adeo etiam ut cum in certamine suecubuerit cedere tamen nolit And againe as saith the same Authur Qui cupidus est gloriae quid pro hac assequenda facere non audebit ad illam metam gressus omnes dirigit ad hoc loquitur pro hac re scribit hac de causa contentionem excitat That is Hee who is desirous of vaine-glorie what will hee not dare to doe for the attaining thereof this is the marke to which hee directeth all his goings to this he speaketh for this hee writeth and by reason of this hee stirres up contention Yea and so goes on Populo ut placeret that hee may draw away Disciples after him 5. But is it not pittie that the birth of the child should endanger the life of the Mother and that men of the Church should leave off to bee the Daughters of Ierusalem Verely the qualitie of offenders addes not a little to the depth of the fault and makes it to worse taken at their hands who should rather reduce than bee the Leaders to a fierie Faction For as when Caesar was slaine in the Senate it troubled him much to see others rise up against him but most of all that his owne sonne Brutus should bee one amongst them whereupon hee cries out Sueton in Julio Caesare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What and thou my sonne So also that the Church bee troubled by any is griefe enough but that They who should bee chiefly for it that They should rise up against it is Infandum facinus a wickednesse which cannot bee uttered but with the highest and greatest detestation It was not an open enemie that did mee this dishonour for then I could have borne it but it was thou even thou my familiar friend as the Psalmist speaketh Psal 55.12 And that thou shouldest doe it is too too much who could have thought it Christ I am sure hath set a Copie to bee better written For perdidit vitam potius quam per deret obedientiam Hee would rather part with his life than lose his obedience And yet these men had rather disgorge their stomacks to excite their Disciples against Superiours than studie to reduce them to a more quiet and dutifull way They therefore startle them with feares as if both Tyrannie and Poperie were comming in only because their Consistorian tenets concerning Kings may not be allowed nor They no longer suffered to violate that decent Vniformitie which best becommeth Gods publike worship I speake these things againe of our present calamities for these very dayes of ours have as great a share in the truth of

A SERMON POINTING OVT THE CHIEFE Causes and Cures of such unruly Stirres as are not seldome found in the Church of God Preached at SAWSTON in the Countie of Cambridge at the Arch Deacon of Elie his Visitation held there upon the nineteenth day of September 1638. By IOHN SWAN ACTS 20.30 Of your owne selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them LONDON Printed by I.D. and are to be sold by Daniel Pakeman at the signe of the Raine-bow in Fleet-street neere the Temple gate 1639. A SERMON POINTING OVT the chiefe Causes and Cures of such unruly Stirres as are not seldome found in the Church of God ACTS 20.30 Of your owne selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them WHen I consider the course that was taken by the greatest Visitour that ever was I cannot but observe that the only way to make Religion take the more place among the people is to cleanse the Church of ignorant erronious Schismaticall and vitious Priests Luk. 19.41.45 For when Ierusalem was out of order and that the Saviour of the World sheds teares at the sight thereof hee travels to the Temple as pointing to the cause and there begins his zealous Reformation in which I doubt not but hee hath set a patterne for after-ages to see that those among us bee likewise of us lest otherwise the Sheepe which wee are set to keepe from wandring doe stray from what is right I held it but my dutie therefore to make choice of such a text as in the handling might somewhat serve to scrutinize the cause of such unruly stirres as are not seldome found in the Church of God And not to bee long before I bring you to it it was as you know the fourth Station mentioned in this Chapter which was the most famous and remarkable For when Saint Paul was come to Melitum and had sent for the Elders of Ephesus thither hee sounds forth a Goncio valedictoria or a patheticall Vale to those Churches which hee was then about to leave and hath it chiefly in his heart and tongue that They whom hee left behind him should both looke unto themselves and the Cures committed to their charge imitating herein that fatherly love which carefull Parents use to afford to their deare children Impii enim essent Parentes qui liberos à se genitos non etiam summa cura alerent morituri illis in posterum quoque non prospicerent From which this our Apostle was free enough and therefore labours what hee can to provide well for the Church in the dayes and yeares which were to bee after him He speakes to them all assembled but chiefly to those who were not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which though Saint Hierom writing to Evagrius passed over yet it no way appeareth that either Sosipater Aristarchus Secundus Gaius Timotheus Tichicus or Trophimus all mentioned at the fourth verse were departed from him Doroth. Synops ubi narratur quod Sosipater erat Episcopus Iconii Timotheus Episcopus Ephesi Tychicus Chalcedone Bithyniae Three of which are certainly knowne to bee Episcopi as Doretheus hath recorded Nor was a fourth but a Bishop afterwards as in the same authour well appeareth For Ephesiorum Episcopus post Timotheum Gaius factus est Now as in this his Sermon hee useth many arguments to stirre them unto heed and watchfulnesse so chiefly two in which hee prophesieth First that after his departure grievous Wolves should enter in among them not sparing the Flocke And secondly that from among themselves also should arise men speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them My text then is the latter of these two Prophecies and is so much the more lamentable by how much the parties pointed out are the neerer to that body which they rise against I shall name it therefore in the generall Vaticinium pro certo flebile a sad mournfull prophesie and shall consider in it First the persons seducing Secondly the parties seduced The persons seducing Men that shall arise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from among your selves The parties seduced The Disciples which they draw after them The first as Ring-leaders The second as they that follow The first as Heads the second as the Bodie of a fatall Faction The first as those from whom a man would thinke farre better things should bee expected The second as they who might have beene farre otherwise if they had beene as is required better instructed In the first observe with me these five particulars 1. The Denomination of the Agents Men. 2. Their Manifestation Shall arise 3. Their Vnde or Originall From among your selves 4. Their Qualification Actions or Behaviour Speaking perverse things And all this fiftly and lastly to helpe forward their intention which is To draw away Disciples after them And then secondly for the parties seduced we have also their Denomination first and their miserable condition next For though they be intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as were those of Christs owne schoole yet are they but the Disciples of them who vexe the peace of their holy Mother by speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them These I make the parts And of these as severally and distinctly as shall best sute to the present occasion 1. And loe here 's first of all an inviting title a promising and faire Denomination Wolves in the former verse Men in this And though there the name bee enough to wipe away the hope of any gentle or humane actions yet here 's a name which in it selfe proclaimes invites and calls to an expectation of better doings 2. But because a beautifull front may sometimes prove deceitfull and bee as Pandora's box faire without and foule within 't is fit we take a second step viewing their persons as they come abroad to present themselves on the stage before us And sure faire weather still appeares for Men may arise and shew themselves and yet no danger 3. No thirdly though their Vnde or original be verely and indeed from among our selves For did not Moses arise and stand in the gap to turne away the wrath of God from his people Nay did not Aaron arise with a Censer in his hand take fire from the Altar put Incense therein to make an attonement and standing betwixt the living and the dead the plague was ceased Phineas also rose up in zeale executed judgement and so befriended the sad sicke sorrowfull dying multitude 4. Thus they And if all else could thus honour their Manifestation and Originall there had beene a want of those many wounds with which the Daughters of Ierusalem doe not seldome vex the quiet peace of their holy Mother But the text goes fourthly farther clouds each faire former promise with a sad Catastrophe and though it be a fatall prophesie to relate of such an off spring yet Inimici hominis Domestici ejus Our harmes are foretold to