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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64478	A discourse concerning the basis and original of government with the absolute and indispensable necessity of it : wherein the excellency of monarchy above any other kind is evidently demonstrated : as it was delivered by way of charge to the grand-jury, at a quarter-sessions of the peace held at Ipswich in the county of Suffolk / by F.T., Esq., one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county.	Theobald, Francis, Sir, d. 1670.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.	1667 (1667)	Wing T849; ESTC R10094	25,159	44

may be some may be as fondly ridieulous in their Concertations as those in Luther's time when one said I am of Martin another I am of Luther whereas they did but divide Martin Luther for they were both of his Religion Certainly The Eucrasy and good Constitution of the Church consists in a due Symmetry and Agreement of all the parts in reference to the whole But Gentlemen now that I am speaking of Order lest there should be an Ataxy and Confusion in my Discourse you are to know there are two principal Pillars which bear up the Church viz. Doctrine and Discipline Doctrine that is as essential to the Well-Beeing of the Church as the Foundation is to a Building Discipline that is the Cement of it for it Cements the lively Stones of the Church to wit Christians for they are meant by that Allegorical Phrase in St. Peter and joyns them close together Order and Discipline are as the Ligaments in the Natural Body they knit every Member fast to the Mystical Body of the Church by one Uniform way of Worshipping God therefore you have Uniformity Emphatically represented under the Notion of Bands in Zechary because it tyes Christians fast together in Love thereby we come to serve God with one consent as it is phrased in Zephany 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Expression in Hebrew that is with one Shoulder viz jointly 'T is a Metaphor taken from Oxen that draw equally in the same Waggon And therefore the Syriack Version is very significant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are the words i. e. pari jugo This is a Blessed thing indeed and becoming the People of God when they with one Mind and one Mouth Glorifie God Munster in his Exposition upon that place in Levit. 19. Thou shalt not let thy Cattle gender with a divers kind quotes a certain Jew who saith that God by this precept shews that he dislikes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any heteregeneous Mixture amongst People in his Worship But he would have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a perfect Vnity and Concord in Professors of the same Religion For God as he would not have the several Species of things to be Mingled and Confounded so neither would he have Men of the same Church to be Schismatically divided Doctrine and Discipline are like the Two Pillars which you read of in the first of Kings Jachin and Boos called so from their strength for both Names signifie the same thing These I say are the Chief Supporters of the Church But there are some Persons That were they as Powerful as Malignant would Sampson-like pull down these Pillars although they ruined themselves by it The Idolatrous papist he labours to undermine the Foundation The Doctrine of the Church The Schismatical Separatist he pulls with all his might and main at that of Order and Discipline They are both dangerous Enemies to the Churche's Peace These Foxes as Luther speaks are tyed together by the Tails though by their Heads they seem to be contrary But as for the former of these The Papist Some may haply say He is no such great Enemy he is not irreconcileable for we have heard That there is no such great distance between Vs and Rome but that we may meet together shake hands and become friends For my part I am not of that Faith and it is not unknown to me That many Divines of great Fame for Learning are of another opinion Amongst whom hear what a Reverend Father of our Church Bishop Hall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith in his Treatise Entituled No Peace with Rome The Church saith he is at once one in respect of the Common Principles of Faith and yet in respect of Consequences and that rabble of opinions which they have raked together so opposed that nullo Concordiae glutine aut Unitatis vinculo copulari possint It cannot by any glue of Concord as Cyprian saith nor bond of Vnity be Conjoyned And Dr. Worship upon the same subject expresseth himself thus There is saith he such an Antipathy between a Protestant and a Papist as is between the two Birds the Siskin and the Muskin which will sight eagerly alive and being dend if you mixe their Blood it will run apart and dissociate They are like the two Poles of Heaven saith another which stand for ever directly and diametrically apposite As for the second sort The schismatical separatist under which Sect may be comprehended Fifth-MonarchyMon Anabaptists Brownists Familists Quakers or any others of the same stamp by what Names or Titles soever they are notified and distinguished These do all strongly oppose the Discipline of the Church but now light soever these Men make of it this is no smal Offence to rend themselves from the rest of the Body by their Separation Aquinas affirms Schism to be the greatest of all Sins against our Neighbour and that not only in respect of the many Circumstances which attend it but like wise in respect of its own Nature because it is the most contrary to Charity and the Love of our Neighbor for it is Contra Spirituale bonum multitudinis Against the Spiritual good of a Multitude And besides this is an undoubted Truth That we can never gratifie the Divel so much by any thing as by our Dissentions There is no Musick sounds so melodiously in his Ears as that which is made up of Discord he will tripudiate for Joy and Dance at such Musick And this also you may be confident of viz. That subtle Old Serpent the mischievous Agent of Darkness doth no less easily than slily insinuate and winde himself into such persons whose ignorant minds are obnubilated and darkned with Erronious Principles Now Separation is a fruitful Mother and Nurse of all Errours and the Source and Sluce of all Heresies and it hath this Evil evermore accompanying it That the Ring-Leaders thereof have a strong and vehement Appetite of propagating their Factious Tenets and endevour after nothing more than to have their Names and Opinions serve to the same end as Zisco when he dyed appointed for his Skin who being Leader of the Taborites a Faction in Bohemia commanded That a Drum should be made therewith as Dubravius saith that something of Zisco might still be heard to sound in the Ears of his Followers and their Enemies But Gentlemen That you may the better know these Sectarian Persons when you meet them give me leave a little to describe them to you They are the very Antipodes of Authority a giddy wild Generation of Men that are impetuously carried out and ravished as it were with every Novel-Opinion and Narcissus-like they fall in Love with their own Speculative Shadows and court frigid Sceptical Controversies instead of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Radical Fundamental Principles of Religion The old way of Serving God is loathsom to them and they are only taken with new things in Religion being like unto Materiae prima which always desires and seeks after New Forms They will Espouse