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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54872	A sermon preached at the assizes at Lancaster, on Sunday, March 19, 1675/6 by H. Pigott.	Pigott, H.	1676 (1676)	Wing P2219; ESTC R33409	12,066	41

candid Character upon 'em c. 19.37 Let 's consider therefore the quality of their Accusers that make this present out-cry for be they Judges or be they Preachers they are Elders a sort of Reverend persons if they abuse not their Calling and against such an Accusation should not be heard nisi testium qualitate prius examinatâ unless the persons be of good note who bring it If so there is some good hope our despised Apostles will be found innocent for every word increaseth the hard Character of the Accusers They were Jews consequently apt to be fierce and insolent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soon fired and moved withal to Envy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Unbelievers so Diametrically opposite to the Believers who at Antioch were first called Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make a Hubbub Ryot and Rout. And break the publick peace while they tax others And suitable are their Confederates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mules for knowledge as for drudgery light-headed scoffing mercenary Fellowes That disturb the whole City Invade property in the House of Jason Falling furiously upon him and others when those they seek were not found Address to the Multitude an unruly Beast and carryed with a hurry and on the sudden Carry on the Accusation in a way as culpable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Noyse shall procure Audience since they know that they want Justice in their cause Against these none are safe They will first fight for David and on the first pet if Ziglag miscarry be for Stoning him Cry Hosanna to Christ and in the next breath Crucifie him Worship these men at Lystra cap. 14.13 and as lightly down with them This to the Green Tree to David to Christ and to Christ's Apostles what will they do in the dry Alas The Best of us shall be deemed by 'em to be out of our places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are come hither also Thus we have opened the Case Let us now hear the proofes If these men deserve not to be answerd yet let the Accused clear themselves to the World Enquire we therefore 1. If the World be turned thus or essayed to be so 2dly If this were to the World any just cause of Complaint 3dly If not why those and such like make it 4thly What in such case the Accused are to resolve and do To the first of these That the World had undergone a great alteration will appear 1. From a Continual 2dly Consentient out-cry or charge 3dly From the Defendants own Confession though they acknowledge no guilt First the clamour of many crys out upon them and such like as continual troublers of all ever since Cain disrelisht Abel whether they were Ministers or Magistrates that were struck at Lot though by Office to Preach Righteousness is looked upon as too much assuming when being scarce took in as a Free-man he will become a Judge Moses and Aaron are flatly told they take too much upon them while they lay the same charge to the Sons of Levi. Elias is declared to be him that troubleth Israel The Herds-man Amos as so pernitious that the Land cannot bear his words Jeremy as weakening Israel and siding with the Caldeans Christ as drawing the whole World after him Joh. 12.9 The substance of the charge against these in the Text. Whose Partners were censured before for filling Jerusalem with this Doctrin and bringing this mans blood upon the Rulers After these the succeeding primitive Christians for having almost as many vices as their Enemies pretended as the other arrogated vertues Our Reformed Churches for novelty in Her Doctrine if you will hear the Romanist for Antichristianisme in her Discipline if you will believe the Schismatick 2dly In this charge consent both Jew and Greek this Doctrin being to the one a stumbling-block and foolishness to the other And as Aegypt Amalec and the Children of Lot all set themselves against Moses Aaron and their Congregation So did Gebal Amalec and an omnigathrum against the Church succeeding Herod and Pontius Pilate late Enemies to each other against Christ. Both the same Herod and Pilate with the Gentiles and people of Israel against the Apostles at their first appearing Act. 4.27 And some of these acknowledge that Bonds and Afflictions awaite them in every City 3dly Themselves could not deny but rather rejoyce in it that things were much altered They say God had so promised A new Heaven and a new Earth the old Earth being to be shook and not that only but the Heaven also Whereas men slept securely he had sent men with Voyces like Trumpets who would awake ' em Nor might Ephraim vindicate himself upon Manasses or he on him or both upon Juda. The Lyon-like posture averred of Juda as his honour in his Fathers blessing being turned to that of the Lamb. A man must not struggle for his own Cloak but let the Coat go after it impart all his substance to his Fellow-members And the spirits be so softned that a blow taken on one Cheek must exact the other to be turned to the Striker And if any despitefully used any of them those they must heartily pray for Old Sacrifices were Antiquated and the liberty of Poligamy and Divorce at pleasure quite Abolished The old aestimat of points of Honour Interest and Liberty quite altered to another Standard And it to be now accompted a priviledge to break Swords into Plow-shares and Spears into Pruning-hooks That the great Prince of the World who Ruled in the dark was by Christ the light Ejected Joh. 12.31 That according to Christs own Profession he was become Superiour to him in all three sorts of causes Joh. 16.8 1. In Criminal causes in the publick Judicature he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Convince that Princes world of sin 2. In the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Equity that himself should have a glorious reward for his own grand undertakings and their hard usage of him 3. In the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Tryal betwixt Party and Party that Satan was Ejected from his Dominion lost his Worship and the issue would ere long be that through Christ's death he should be destroyed who had the power of death Heb. 2.14 That Christ himself yet came not to send Peace upon the Earth but a Sword and to set Relations at variance among themselves As this Paul did betwixt the Sadduces and Pharisees though of the same Synedrium That the Master saw cause to ask Am I become your Enemy And the Apostles to complain to their Master For thy sake we are killed all the day long and are accounted as the off-scouring of the World And can we now in answer to the second enquiry find that this was to the World no just cause of complaint To Answer this we first take it for granted that where two charge each other both cannot be in the right Nor are all Troublers of the World that are styled so or that do alter the course of it viz. when its courses are Evil.