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death_n	body_n	live_v	sin_n	8,670	5	5.0764	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20724	An apostolicall injunction for unity and peace. Or, a sermon preached by George Downame Master of Arts of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, to the parishioners of Saint Stephens in Walbrooke, at his departure from them	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1639 (1639)	STC 7108; ESTC S110125	23,771	45

multorum But with a Propheticall spirit hee declares Gods iudgment that the punishment of two might be a warning to many But may we do as much now no but we are bound in Charity and Piety to wish well to all and to curse none the reason is because now that gift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the discerning of spirits whereof the Apostle speaketh 2. Cor. 12. is ceased by the which Saint Peter could say to Simon Magus Pecunia tua tecum pereat Thy mony perish with thee And unlesse we did see a man sinne a sinne unto death that is to sinne a sinne against the Holy Ghost for which wee are forbid to pray 1. Iohn 5. which case is very rare and hard it is to say who is guilty of that sinne Otherwise then in these cases wee in Christian Charitie which thinketh not evill but hopeth the best of all must pray for all men yet making a difference preferring alwaies the Church of Christ as the Apostle prayeth heere for the Corinthians valete fare you well And so we passe the valediction and come to speake of those Dutiea which he injoyneth the Corinthians which are in number foure First Be perfect Second Be of good comfort Third Be of one mind Fourth Live in peace First Be perfect The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies two things Compingere vel componere complere proficere absolutum reddere either to compound or put together or to make a thing absolute and compleat I will let goe the first heere because I shall meet with it again and I will here fasten upon the latter as Saint Chrysostome and Oecumenius and divers others doe expound it And this Aquinas divides again there is saith hee perfectio gloriae perfectio viae the one absolute and perfect the other imperfect of both which the Apostle speaketh evidently of the absolute perfection he saith not as though I had already attained either were already perfect Phil. 3.12 and of the other immediatly after Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Saint Paul denied that hee had the one kinde of perfection and well he might since there was never any that have attained it in this state of imperfection For the whole law is required of every one in so much that Whosoever offendeth in any one point is guilty of all but in many things we offend all though many things wee know yet many more wee do not know Who can tell how oft hee offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret sinnes The Law requireth the whole man all his heart all his minde all his soule all his strength but we as we know but in part so we love but in part we do but in part yea and the least part too of what we ought Wee may happily delight in the law of God after the inner man but still there is another law of our members warring against the law of our minde which often brings us into captivity to the law of sinne The Law is spirituall and perfect Rom. 7.14 but we are partly carnall and therefore imperfect We have the heavenly treasure in earthen vessels 2 Cor. 4.7 Whereby wee faile in our best actions wee are corrupt in our best works all our goodnesse is as the morning dew All our righteousnesse as polluted rags If I wash my selfe saith righteous Iob whom God himselfe proclaimed perfect and upright with snow water and make my hands never so clean yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shal make me filthy What is this Ditch but Natures corruption drawne by a perpetuall trench through all mankind from the loines of our first Parents and what are those filthy cloathes but the carnall motions which being fashioned to our corrupt hearts do like our garments Easily beset us and can never be cleane put off untill Nature it selfe be dissolved This this was that which made the blessed Apostle to crie out Aerum nosus ego homo O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death The wise man puts the question to all men living Quis dicere possit who can say I have made my heart cleane I am pure from sinne The best that are have Levia breviaque peccata little and small sins At quamvis parva quamvis pauca non tamen nulla though they be little though they be few yet they are not none at all There was I thinke as much said of Zachary and Elizabeth as could be said of any that They were both righteous before God walking in all the Commandements and Ordinances of the Lord blamlesse Yet all this while they were but walking The Spouse in the Canticles was faire among women and yet her beautie was not such but that the iustly complaineth of her Blacknesse In one word There is not a just man upon Earth that doth good and sinneth not Sed cur praecipitur homini ista perfectio cum in hac vita eam nemo habeat Peter Lombard asketh the question why are we commanded in the Scripture to be perfect if no man in this life can attain unto it Be yee perfect as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Aquinas answers him That same Sieut As imitationem notat non aequalitatem it noteth imitation and not equality though it be impossible for us to be absolutely perfect as our heavenly Father is yet we must all imitate Him as neere as we can alwayes striving and labouring after more perfection and this is that second perfection which is here intended called by Aquinas Perfectio viae Saint Chrysostome and Oecumenius jumpe upon the same words Be perfect that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make up that which is wanting Ministerio Ministro both to the Ministery and to the Minister First Complete quae desunt Ministerio Make up that which is wanting in the Ministery Hee that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still not standing at a stay but increasing more and more in righteousnesse and holinesse So Saint Paul exhorteth the Thessalonians I beseech you Brethren that yee increase more and more verbum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non tam est abundare quam excellere se ipsum quotidie in bene operando superare saith Salmeron The word signifies not only to abound but also to excell and goe beyond ones selfe every day in well doing There is no standing still in the way to Heaven but with Saint Paul wee must be alwayes pressing forwards towards the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Iesus Christ. Non progredi est regredi Not to go forwards is to goe backward like a Vessell upon the water if it go not up it must needs fall down there is no