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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07952	Christs suite to his church a sermon preached at Paules-crosse the third of October 1613 / by Thomas Myriell ...	Myriell, Thomas, d. 1629.	1613 (1613)	STC 18322; ESTC S100664	42,412	119

of a Church and therefore they separate themselues from the true spouse of Christ because of some pretended blemishes and frame to themselues a Donatisticall conuenticle chusing for the loue of an imagined puritie to become obstinate and vaine-glorious Puritanes But alas what comes of it whilest they would be the onely Church they become indeede no Church o Petrus Bles●ns epist 12. Quidam insipientiam simulando sapiunt saith one quidam nimis sapiendo desipiunt Some men by the shew of folly are wise and others againe by shewing their wisedome become fooles And what else doe these men by all their endeuours but bewray their owne folly whilest they make of a remedy to vs a disease to themselues For our part wee know the difference betweene the Church militant and the Church triumphant p August ad Glor. epist 162. Illa in terris non amittit nisi malos haec in coelum non admittit nisi bonos The one looseth none but bad men from her on earth the other receiues none but good men to her in heauen The Church militant may haue her imperfections but must not therefore be forsaken It is her owne request q Cant. 1.6 Nolite considerare me quod fusca sim Cant. 1.6 Esteeme mee not so much for my brownnesse as for my soundnesse And therefore for our part wee had rather be of the browne Church then of Brownes Church rather defiled in something as wee stand then filed away to nothing as they be their reformation being like childrens pilling of an Onion pilling alway till all be pilled away Leauing therefore both these let vs goe the middle way and that we may haue an vndefiled Congregation let vs striue to haue an vndefiled conuersation For our Church is not stained with the lies of her foes but with the liues of her friends r Bern. super Cant. ser 33. Omnes amici inimici and necessarij aduersarij They are her friends that most fight against her and her mothers sonnes that are most s Cant. 1.5 angry at her Cant. 1.5 Shee may say with Dauid t Psal 51.2 Peccatum meū contra me semper It is my sinne my sinne that hurts mee v Bern. Dom. adu ser 6. Peccatum morbus animae corruptio mentis Sinne it is that is the soules sore and the minds misery And therefore God complaines of his Church v Isa 1.6 From the sole of the foote to the crowne of the head there is no soundnesse but wounds of swelling and sores of corruption x Bern. Nulla sanitas quia nulla sanctitas No vvholenesse because no holinesse Couetousnesse is like a thirsty dropsie For euen as men sicke of an hydropicall disease y Chrysost in Matth. hom 64. non solum non extingunt ardorem potu verum etiam incendunt sayth Chrysostome by drinking are so farre from alaying their heate that the more they drinke the more they may Euen so such as are sicke of Couetousnes the more they get the more they thirst for and neuer leaue swallowing till z Leo de iciun dec mens Serm. 6. Foenus pecuniae proues funus animae as Leo speakes the birth of money proues the death of man Enuy is a ranckling stripe in the soule And therefore it is called a Lyra in Isa 1. Liuor because the enuious man doth continually beate himselfe blacke and blew vvith spight as Cyprian truely b Cypr. de zelo liuore Dum ab inuidis liuor nunquaem exponitur die bus ac noctibus pectus obsessum sine intermissione laniatur Whilest enuious men continually pine at other mens happinesse they doe day and night but gash and wound their owne heart Pride is a swelling tumour for as a noxious and noysome humour being met together in the flesh makes the body swell so pride seated in the soule makes the heart to swell Hence comes high thoughts in the minde big lookes in the face great words in the mouth as so many outward Symptomes of that inward disease Hence exoticke fashions in the apparrell fantasticke gestures in the body and disguized lookes in the countenance as so many vlcerous scabs of such a ranckling sore Wee men are ashamed of our owne fashions and women of their owne faces therefore the one seekes to be new shaped and the other to be new dyed But ô that men would chuse Tertullians stuffe c Tertul. ' Vestite vos serico sanctitatis byssino probitatis purpura pudicitiae Clothe you with the Sattin of sanctitie the Silke of sinceritie and the Purple of puritie And women Gorgonias complexion of whom her brother Nazianzen reports d Nazian orat in laud Gorg. Vnus isli placebat rubor quem gignit pudor vnus candor quem parit abstinentia The onely red that pleased her was the mayden blush the only white the palenesse of fasting Oppression is a deuouring gangrene For as that corrupts and putrifies so farre as that it leaues the member without any thing to keepe life in it so oppression deuoures and wasts so long that it leaues a man nothing to maintaine his life vvithall But howsoeuer all iniquitie doth inquinare all sinne doth soyle yet of all adultery is commonly and properly to called the sinne f 2 Cor. 12.21 Col. 3.5 2 Pet. 2.10 of vncleannesse and is said g Pro. 6.33 turpitudinem congregare to gather filth vpon him that commits it Hence it is that h Lexicon Theo. D. Boyes Fr. Holyoke peccare is pellicare all sinne is named of adultery For as adulterie is the leauing of a mans owne wife and going to a i Pro. 2.16 strange woman whereupon k Iac. de vorag adulter quasi ad alter so sinne is a falling away from God to whom our soule is ioyned in mariage and a coupling with Satan with whom wee ought to haue nothing to do Now if each sin be a kind of adultery then adultery hath kinred with each sinne and kinred with sin is like kinred with sinners the neerer the worser l Deut. 7.3.7 2 King 8.26 as Scripture shewes both in expresse words and euident examples This sinne is one of the principall which defiles the Church of GOD. For it is lamentable to see how men staine and spot themselues with the lusts of the flesh whilst as Beares for a bone so they for the flesh doe euen rend and teare one another in pieces Hence so many loathsome diseases in the body hence so many duels and combates in the field hence so many franticke butcherings and stabbings in the house O that euer valour should come to be prostituted in so vaine a cause But vvee are like m Vide Iunij adag Sybar Sybarites and haue chaunged manhood into womanishnesse that if Diogenes vvere passing his iourney from them to vs he would say as once of his iourney from the Lacedemonians to the Athenians n Diog. laer de vit