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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57509	A sermon preached at Blandford-forum in Dorset-shire, December the 19th, 1682, at the Lord Bishop of Bristol's visitation by Richard Roderick ...	Roderick, Richard, 1647 or 8-1730.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1770; ESTC R7208	11,789	30

Bethshomites for looking into and upon Uzzah for rashly supporting it When that wandring Seat of his Glory was at length after above a thousond Years fixed in Mount Sion thither the Tribes were bound in Duty to go up to give Thanks unto the Name of the Lord. And since such antiquated Shadows being ceased God has chosen him a more lasting Habitation built him a Church and cemented it with the Bloud of his Son and promised that shall be his Rest there will he dwell for ever certainly to it shall the Gentiles seek All are invited yea obliged to come in that his House may be filled The Members hereof who ought to be a Body fitly joined together and compaited by that which every joint supplyeth dishonour their Head and make him the Authour of Confusion when they do not approve themselves of the Household of Faith by a common profession of it and united Endeavours to shew forth and advance it This Union in Judgment and Practice was zealously observed by the Primitive Christians They continued dayly with one accord in the Temple Justin Martyr calls their Devotions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 common Prayers Upon the first day of the Week and this constantly as Ecclesiastical History assures us the Disciples came together to break Bread that is to partake of the Lord's Supper Nay it is said that the Lord added to the Church such as should be saved intimating the Difficulty not to say the Impossibility of Salvation out of the Pale of it in a State of Non-communion with it The truth is there remain but slender hopes of Glory to such as live and dye unacquainted with or in the neglect of the Means of Grace It was then thought an indispensable Duty not to forsake the publick Assemblies At first the Temple the Place set apart for religious uses was their House of Prayer And when they were driven thence and Divine Providence had ordered the Malice of Men which scattered abroad the Professours to enlarge the Borders of Christianity how distant soever in their abode they that embraced the same Truth still preserved Unity and Concord An external Fellowship in the Word and Sacraments with their Brethren with all their Brethren as occasion presented it self was judged necessary this transient Communion never to cease 'till swallowed up by that which shall be to everlasting in the Heavenly Jerusalem in the general Assembly and Church of the first born which are written in Heaven No care was neglected to prevent or reconcile Divisions These were seldom known it being by no means accounted a sign of Grace and Holiness to fly off upon every dislike and forbear Society And when they did break out the Churches Peace was for the most part secured Men laying aside their private Animosities in Religious Concerns as Marcus Lepidus and Marcus Fulvius in Civil in order to the common Good and allowing that Communion was necessary whenever not sinfull and that difference in Rites and Ceremonies in things in themselves indifferent was never sufficient to excuse the breach of it When that great irreconcileable Controversie arose about the keeping of Easter Polycarp being sent from the Eastern Churches to Anicetus chief Patriarch of the Western though they could not agree as to the matter in hot Dispute yet all other Endearments passed between them they received the Blessed Sacrament together and mutually consented in behalf of the Parties for whom they treated that however the Business they met about could not be composed Peace and Communion should not withstanding be religiously maintained Such was the Unity of the then Christian World even among those of different Denominations and Interests and that were independent upon one another Such from the beginning was and continued to be the practice of all except that now and then that fretfull humour called Zeal which when not according to Knowledge is at best but a well meaning Phrenzie or else Ambition carried on or defeated made Men forsake the Communion of the Church and disturb its Peace Let the present Troublers of our Israel assign which they please perhaps it would be hard to excuse some of them from either of these Incentives to Separation By the impulse of the former the Catharists in the East the Novatians in the West and the Donatists in the South all Types of modern Zealots with a Pharisaical Haughtiness thank'd God that they were not as other Men and concluded themselves too Holy to join in Prayers and Sacraments with their Brethren To the later to wit Ambition Eusebius refers the Heresie of Montanus Tertullian that of Valentinus When Aerius had in vain aspired to a Bishoprick the disappointment moved him after the barbarous usage of that Tyrant who cut on stretch'd others to the Proportions of his own Stature to deny the Distinction of Order and shrink a Bishop into a Presbyter And however the Lord Bacon and other learned Men thought Arianism took its rise from an aversion to Pagan Dotages precipitant Zeal against many Gods hurrying on to acknowledge but one Person in the God-head yet Theodoret affirms that Alexander's being preferred before Arius incensed the rejected Competitour to set on foot and propagate his detestable Doctrines 'T is true indeed many all along apostatized from the Truth or held it in unrighteousness the Enemy presently sowed Tares in Christ's Wheat There was a Judas among the Apostles And when the number of Professours encreased to an hundred and twenty there were half Christans that durst not openly own false that soon forsook the Gospel Among the seven Deacons Nicholas was the Founder of an abominable Heresie Six of the seven Asian Churches are accused of deadly Sin In succeeding Ages sundry Heresies arose St. Austin reckons eighty eight Bellarmine about two hundred Nay once Christ's Promise of being with his Church unto the end of the World seem'd to be forgotten by him and the Gates of Hell to prevail against the truely Apostolical Religion while Arianism that subtile Serpent which crept before and flyly insinuated it self now slush'd with Success raised its Head and threatned ruine to all that durst oppose its Reception For after the famous Battel where the Cross was first the Banner on each side and Christians first fought against Christians Constantlus having totally defeated Magnentius freed the Eastern Empire and gain'd the Western Valens an Arian Bishop as Numa to establish his Idolatry Mahomet his Impostures pretended a secret Message from Heaven and easily persuaded the Conquerour to owe his Victory and therefore afford all imaginable Protection to that Doctrine which he had espoused and the Almighty was judged in so signal a manner to approve Hence that blasphemous Heresie secured in the Favour and assisted by all the Power of the Emperour mightily encreased and its Title to Universality like that of an Usurper's Race to Soveraignty seem'd to be unquestionable when the onely one and without a Rival But to return