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A01344	Ioseph's partie-colored coat containing, a comment on part of the 11. chapter of the 1. epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians : together with severall sermons, namely, [brace] 1. Growth in grace, 2. How farre examples may be followed, 3. An ill match well broken off, 4. Good from bad friends, 5. A glasse for gluttons, 6. How farre grace may be entayled, 7. A christning sermon, 8. Faction confuted / by T.F.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 11466.3; ESTC S4310	83,852	200

then with Micaiah wee must alwayes prophesie evil unto them In this I prayse you not Ministers must not commend their people when they doe ill 1. Dishonourable to God 2. Dangerous to the Ministers That Embassadour who being sent to proclaime warre pronounceth peace to Rebels There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Esay 57.21 deserves at his returne to bee preferred to the Gallowes 3. Dangerous to the people who are soothed in their sinnes Honey-dewes though they be sweet in taste doe black and blast the corne So those who prayse their people without cause are cruelly kind unto them it is pleasant to the pallate of flesh but destroyeth and damneth the soule It were to be wished that as those that live under the Equinoctiall at Noon-day have no shadowes at all so great men should have no shadowes no Parasites no Flatterers to commend them when they least deserve it But why doth Saint Paul deale so mildly with the Corinthians I prayse you not Me thinkes hee should have made his little finger as heavie as his loynes O yee Corinthians I excommunicate every mothers child of you I damne you all to the pit of hell and deliver you to Satan for your sinne of Drunkennesse at the receiving of the Sacrament never to be absolved but on your most serious and solemne repentance Otherwise considering the corrupt humour in the Corinthians the Apostles purge was too gentle for them Theophylact answers that Saint Paul reproves the rich men the more mildly lest otherwise they should be implacably incensed against the poore fretting against them as the causers of the Apostles anger 2. It was the first time hee told the Corinthians of their fault and therefore used them the more gently on hope of their amendment This corrupt humour in the Corinthians was not as yet growne tough bak't and clodded in them by custome and therefore the easier purged and removed Ministers must use mildnesse especially at their first reproving of a sinne Yea God so blest the mild serveritie of Saint Paul that the Corinthians reformed all their errours for no fault reprehended by the Apostle in them in this first Epistle is taxed againe in the second Epistle a very strong presumption that all those faults were amended Now whereas wee find such abuses in the Church of Corinth presently after it was newly planted we may learne Corruptions will quickly creepe into the best Church Thus Saint Paul no sooner went back from the Galatians but they went back from his Doctrine Gal. 5.7 Yee did run well who did hinder you And as we reade of Mezentius a cruell Tyrant who joyned dead corpes to living men and so killed them with lingering torments So some Seducers in the Church of Galatia sought to couple the lively grace of God and active faith with the dead Letter of the Law and old legall Ceremonies long since dead buried and rotten in the Grave of our Saviour If it be done thus to the greene Tree what shall be done to the dry If Primative Churches whilst the Apostles which planted them were alive to pruine them had such errours in them no wonder if the Church at sixteene hundred yeares of age may have some defaults Moses said unto the Israelites Deut. 31.27 Behold while I am alive with you this day yee have beene rebellious against the Lord and how much more when I am dead So if while Saint Paul survived Churches were so prone to decline what can be lesse expected in our dayes It was therfore well concluded in the 39. Session of the Councell of Constance * That every ten yeare at the farthest there should bee a Generall Councell held to reforme such errours in the Church as probably in that time would arise VERSE 23. For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you that the Lord Iesus the same night in which hee was betrayed tooke bread AFter hee had fully reproved the corruptions of their Love-feasts commeth he now to reduce the receiving of the Sacrament to the first Institution of Christ It is the safest way to correct all the Errata's in the Transcript according to the Originall Copie Thus did Christ in the matter of Divorce Mat. 19.8 But from the beginning it was not so Excellently Saint Cyprian Wee must not heed what others did who were before us but what Christ did who was before all Were this used betwixt us and the Papists to cleare the streame of Gods service by the Fountaine of its first Institution how soone would seven Sacraments shrinke to two how quickly would Creame Oyle and Spittle fly out of Baptisme and leave nothing but faire water behind How soone c. For I have received of the Lord How could Saint Paul receive it of the Lord with whom hee never convers't in the flesh being one borne out of time as he confesseth of himselfe He received it 1. Mediately by Ananias who began with him where Gamaliel ended Besides lest the Corinthians should say that they received it likewise at the second hand as well as Saint Paul he had it immediately from God Gal. 1.12 For I never received it of man neither was I taught it but by the Revelation of Iesus Christ I also delivered unto you The Greeke is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Latine Tradidi vobis English it as you please I traditioned it unto you Nota saith A Lapide on this place Hunc locum pro traditionibus quas Orthodoxi verbo Dei scripto adjungendas docento Bellarmine also starts Traditions out of the same place What eye-salve are their eyes anoynted with that can see unwritten Traditions here when the Apostle delivereth nothing but is recorded in 3. Evangelists Mathew Marke Luke However hence we will take occasion briefly to speak of unwritten Traditions the Church of Rome maintayning that the Scriptures of themselves are too scant to salvation except the course list of unwritten Traditions be cast in to make measure and this they will have of equall authority with the written Word Marke by the way 1. This is the Reason why Romanists are so zealous for Traditions for finding themselves cast by the Scriptures they would faigne appeale to another Judge yea hereon are founded those points which get them their gaine as Purgatory and the Appurtenances thereof Hath not Demetrius then reason to stand for Diana Act. 19.25 when his goods and her Godship must go together 2. Though they lock up the Scriptures in an unknowne language and forbid the Laity to reade them yet they suffer Traditions to bee preached and published to all in generall Such woodden Daggers will never hurt Popery to the heart and therefore they suffer their children to play with these dull tooles though not to handle the two-edged Sword of Gods Word 3. Romanists will never give us a perfect List and Catalogue of their Traditions that we may know

their set number how many there be of them but still reckon them up with an Et Caetera leave still a Plus ultra to place more in if need require And as the Athenians for feare they should omit any Deity erected an Altar to the unknowne God So the Papists in summing up their Traditions will not compleat their number but are carefull to leave Blankes and void places for a Refuge and Retreating Place that in case they be prest in Disputation and cannot prove their point by places of Scripture they may still plead it is a Tradition 4. Whereas the word Tradition is taken in severall senses and there be many kinds of them Papists jumble and confound them together As Cheaters use to cast their counterfeit coyne amongst good gold hoping so to passe it away currant and undiscovered So they shuffle false and true Traditions together in one heape that the bad may goe off under the countenance and protection of the good Wee will marre their Mart by sorting them into these severall Rankes 1. Traditions in a generall sense are taken for things delivered though in Scripture by Christ and his Apostles thus Saint Basil cals Baptising In the name of the F S. and H G. a Tradition 2. For such matters of Faith which are not found in Scripture totidem verbis in the words and sound but yet in the same sense and substance or at least may by faithfull consequence bee thence deduced as the Trinity of Persons two wils in Christ his Consubstantiality with God the Father Thus Lindan a Papist cals Originall sinne a Tradition 3. For such opinions against which nothing appeares in Scripture and the Church in all times and ages have maintained them condemning the Opposers for erroneous As that the Mother of Christ was ever a Virgin 4. For such Rites and Ceremonies of the Church no matters of Faith which therein have beene used from great Antiquity and therefore probably might have their Original from the Apostles As Fasting in Lent though the manner time and continuance in keeping it was very different in severall Churches Take Traditions in the first and second acception wee account them to have equal force and authority with the Written Word In the third sense wee honour and embrace them as true In the last Acception wee approve and practise them as decent and ancient provided alwayes they be not obtruded as things necessary to salvation but indifferent in their nature But all this makes nothing for the blacke Guard of Romish Traditions which lag still behind some of them frivolous As this Apostolical Tradition That a Priest if against their wils they receive any money from wicked men they must in no case expend it on meat but to buy wood coals Some impious and blasphemous worshipping of Images prayers to Saints the Sacrifice of the Masse Purgatory c. having nothing for them much against them in Gods written Word To draw to a conclusion Scriptures besides many others have two most principall priviledges above Traditions First their Infallibilitie as being inspired by the Spirit of God 2 Pet. 1.20 So that yee first know this that no prophecie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation vers. 21. For the Prophecie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost As for the authors of Traditions they might both falli and fallere be deceived themselves and deceive others They might be deceived themselves either by mis-understanding the Traditions delivered unto them or by mis-remembring or by mis-relating them againe They might deceive others either unwillingly by these forenamed slips and infirmities or else willingly and wittingly by venting those things as received from the Apostles which they had not received from them And by usurpation intitling the fancies of your owne heads to bee Apostolicall Precepts 2. The Providence of God plainely appeares in his preserving of the Scriptures against all oppositions Many a time from my youth up may the Scriptures now say yea many a time have they fought against me from my youth but they could not prevaile against me Neither Antiochus before Christ nor Iulian the Apostate since him nor the force of Tyrants nor the fraud of Heretikes though the world of late hath scarce yeelded a wicked sharpe wit that hath not given the Scriptures a gash could ever suppresse them Their treading on this Cammimell made it grow the better and their snuffing of this candle made it burne the brighter Whereas on the other side the Records of Traditions are lost and those bookes wherein they where compiled and composed Aut in curia hominum aut injuria temporis or by some other sinister accident are wholly miscarried and no where appeare Papias is reported by * Eusebius in five bookes to have contained all the Apostolicall Traditions which they call the Word not written by Bellarmine himselfe confessed that these are lost Likewise Clemens Alexandrinus as the same Eusebius storieth it wrote in a booke those Traditions which hee received from the Elders and they from the Apostles which booke the Papists themselves at this day cannot produce I will conclude all with Gamaliels words Act. 5.39 But if it be of God yee cannot destroy it Had these bookes beene inspired by Gods Spirit no doubt the same Providence would have watched to preserve them which hath protected the Scripture Let us therefore leaving uncertaine Traditions stick to the Scriptures alone trust no Doctrine on its single band which brings not Gods word for its security Let that Plate be beaten in peeces which hath not this Tower-stampe upon it That the Lord Iesus the same night wherein he was betrayed Christ bestowed the greatest courtesie on mankind when hee foresaw that hee should receive the greatest cruelty from them O that wee were like minded with our Saviour to move fastest in Piety when wee draw neerest the Center of Death and then chiefly to study to fasten favours on our Enemies Why did Christ institute it then and not before Because dying men bequeath not their Legacies till they make their wils nor departing friends bestow their tokens till they take their farewell 2. Because till then the Passeover a Sacrament in the same kind did continue in full force and the Lords Supper was not to bee lighted til the Passover was first fairly put out Seeing Christ appoynted it a Supper how comes it now to be a Dinner God hath instrusted the discretion of his Church on just occasion to alter some circumstances in the Sacrament True it is such circumstances as are Sacramental not only of the Commission at large but also of the Quorum nomina whose absence or alteration maims and mangles the Sacrament are unchangeable But Common and ordinary circumstances such as is the Time Place Kind of Bread and Wine the Church hath power to alter by vertue of a Warrant left