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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65074	Sermons preached upon several publike and eminent occasions by ... Richard Vines, collected into one volume.; Sermons. Selections	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing V569; ESTC R21878	447,514	832

quicken up your zeale for God and his truth search out and remove the obstructions that are in and amongst your selves whether private ends or State ends or whatsoever they be Let not Reformation and religion be cryed up for designe and to serve turnes settle it speedily Send forth the Confession that it may testifie to the world that you hold the forme of sound and wholsome words Let some governement and order be established religion is the ball of contention many mens hopes lye in our differences and their interests are served upon them We have profest enough for reformation and purity and have covenanted to endeavour it The world is weary of words they looke for fruit Let this day set an edge upon you No man take a breake-fast of this fast let not our ruine be under your hand There was a But in Naamans story he was such and such a man but a Leper You have done worthily Covenanted seriously But the matter of Reformation lyes most of it as yet in the Covenant and is but little crept out of that shell It may be the foolishness of many opinions on foot makes you slight them as a Calvin in opusc de Serveto Calvin said of Servetus his first onset securum me reddidit ipsa dogmatum fatuitas but be not secure b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Socrates lib. 1. de Arrio a great fire may rise out of a small spark Let the soules of so many thousands of people be precious in your eyes and the Lord make your name like the name of those that have built the house of God I pray you let mee not bee understood to ship in one and the same bottom every error or mistake with damnable haeresies some differences in opinion are as the strivings as c L. Verulam Advancement of learning one elegantly saith of one Israelite with another and these Moses quiets and parts them fairely and some namely haeresies fighting against the very foundation are like the Egyptian striving with the Israelite whom Moses smites down There must be differences made between errour and haeresie erroneous and Hereticks seducers and seduced I would I might intreat nay presse it upon those that are called pure Independents that they would zealously and sincerely declare against the doctrinall errours and haeresies of these dayes that such pernicious opinions may not shelter themselves under their name or wing nor ever any indulgence or toleration be either desired or granted upon such a reason as all may come in at the same breach or port for that would bee but a selling of the Church into a liberty of being in captivity to destructive confusions and errours FINIS Pag. 11. lin 5. for doat r. doceat P. 30. l. 15. for sigmenta r. sigmenta p. 43. l. 30 for because r. being p. 45. l. 29. for formerly r. fermally Die Jovis 11º Martij 1646. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament that Mr. Rows and Mr. Gewen doe from this House give thankes unto Mr. Vines and Mr. Hodges for the great paines they tooke in their Sermons preached on the 10. Martij 1646. at Margarets Westminster before the House of Commons being a day of publique Humiliation for the growth of Errours Haeresies c. And they are to desire them to print their Sermons wherein they are to have the like priviledge in printing of them as others in the like kinde usually have had H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Abel Roper to Print my Sermon RICHARD VINES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OBEDIENCE TO MAGISTRATES Both Supreme and Subordinate In three SERMONS Preached upon the Anniversarie Election-day of three Lord Majors successively viz. Sr. THOMAS VINER Elected September 29. 1653. Sr. CHRISTOPHER PACK on the same day 1654. Alderman JOHN DETHICKE Esq now Lord Elect chosen the same day 1655. At the Church of Lawrence Jewrie London Together With a fourth Sermon tending towards a description of the corruption of the mind Preacht at Pauls on the 24th day of June 1655. By RICHARD VINES Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye that are Judges of the earth Kiss the Sonne c. LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Sun against Dunstans Church in Fleetsteet 1656. To The right Honourable Sir CHRISTOPHER PACK Lord Major of the Citie of London and the Honourable Court of Aldermen there RIGHT HONOURABLE IN compliance with your Order and my own dutie I have imbarked into this service of committing these Se●mons to publick view which did both receive life at first and do now begin to walk abroad by your Command not doubting of the same Candour from your eye which was afforded by your ear there being little in them that might commend them to the world or You beside their seasonablenesse to the Occasion and time in which they were born Though the Government of this Citie be worthily renowned through the world yet it must be acknowledged unto the good will of Him that dwelt in the Bush that our eyes have seen and do see this our Ierusalem a quiet Habitation And though the Magistrate be called the Corner the Shield the Naile the Stay c. of the Common-wealth yet all things would doubtlesse soone swerve into Anarchie and discomposure if he that puts a Bridle into the mouth of the Sea should not still the querulous disposition of the People and make them subject There is one thing which makes the burthen of this great people somewhat more tolerable as I hope and that is Religion planted within your Jurisdiction which teacheth subjection for Conscience sake even to the most Morose much more to the Godly and benign Magistrate For sober Religion teacheth us to obey the Minister and Sword-bearer of God both for the Lords sake who giveth him his Commission and for our own who receive the benefit And indeed no man that is wise for himself would if he might either lop the Tree whose shaddow shelters him or goe about to weaken subjection and so pluck away the Ivie from the Tree that supports it especially when He that climbs the Tree doth it not to fill his own pocket but to shake down the fruit to them that are under it But my Lord I must not make too great a porch to a small building and therefore shall onely say this that a publick Spirit most becomes a Publicke Person and that the whole work of Magistracie is a self-deniall so as if he keep that in his eye that he is to rule propter Dominum his example will the better teach the subject to obey propter Domiminum for the Lord and the true Bounds and Bonds of this Relation between Magistrate and Subject shall be inviolably kept which shall be the prayer of your Honours Octob. 15. 1655. most humble servant in the Lords work RI. VINES The Reader is desired if the Printers mistakes following be not correctted to his hand that he will take notice of them in the reading In the first Sermon