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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50417	A sermon concerning unity & agreement preached at Carfax Church in Oxford, August 9, 1646 / by Iasper Maine ...	Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1647 (1647)	Wing M1477; ESTC R32062	36,818	45

and he was guilty of that unedifying crime forsooth of being eloquent in the Pulpit Others perhaps entertain'd it coldly from S. Peter because he had not been bred up in the School of Demosthenes nor tasted of the finer Arts and educations of Greece In short one and the same saving Truth for want of a little right judgment in the Hearers to compare it comming from several mouths past into divers opinions first and then these opinions broke forth into divers factions And is not this my Bretheren our very case Do but consider the present distempers of our poor divided Kingdome and pray what hath been the true root and spring of so much variance and hatred and heart-burning among us What hath crumbled us asunder and turn'd one of the purest and most flourishing Churches of the world into a heap of Heresies and confusion Hath it not been the very word of God it self In which all minds I confess should agree and which should be the rule to compose all our strifes and before whose decisions the greatest Scholars Disputes and the meanest mans Doubts should fall down and mutually imbrace and kiss each other How comes it then to pass that Religion which was ordained by God to be the oyl to cure our wounds should prove only the oyl to feed and nourish our combustious Whence is it that the Scripture that Sword of the Spirit should prove to us only {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a two-edged sword and that no other use should be made of it by us but only to be the weapon of our Conflicts by committing the edges and making them enter duell and combat with each other Truly my bretheren all the reason that I can give you for this is That some perhaps wel minded people but not of understandings either strong or learned enough to reach the true sense and meaning of some places have stept beyond their measure and have presumed to interpret more then they have well understood Others of a more modest but credulous composition have thought that only to be the right meaning of the Word of God which they have heard from the mouth of the Preacher which they most affect Others of a more dangerous policy finding that the Scripture rightly expounded would extreamly make against the plot of their dark proceedings and that the holy Ghost cannot be bribed to finde Texts to make covetousness sedition or the slaughter of their Brethren or Rebellion against their Prince lawfull have with some formall helps of piety and zeal put to their expositions made the Scripture speak only those plausible untruthes which most complied with their ends and the peoples Fancy Hence the better to arrive to their Estates by the distractions of their minds they have dealt with them as cunning Anglers do with silly fishes troubled the stream and blinded them and then made them their prey The way to do this was to affront and disgrace clamour down all the primitive Truths for some Generations taught among them and to recall from their sepulchres and dust all the old intricate long since buried Opinions which were the madnesse of their own times and the Civill Warre of ours With which opinions they have dealt as the Witch of Endor dealt with her Familiar raised them up to the people clothed in a long mantle and speaking to them in the shape and voyce of a Prophet Hence come those severall acceptions and interpretations among you even in your ordinary discourses of one and the same plaine but sinisterly understood places of Scripture One following the practice of all the purest ages of the Church thinkes the Sacrament of Baptisme is to be administred to Infants Others who would certainly be a strange sight to the Congregation if they should appear the second time at the Font of late are taught to thinke that none are to be baptized but such as are old enough to be their owne Godfathers and can enter into Covenant with God and promise for themselves Some because it hath beene called a binding of the spirit to fetter their devotions in a set forme of Prayer have banisht that Prayer which Christ prescribed to his Apostles out of their Closets as well as Temples Others of as rectified a piety think no Prayer so likely to finde acceptance with God as that which was conceived and put into forme by his Sonne I should tire your patience too much to give you an exact Catalogue of all the rotten opinions which at this present swarm among us One who hath computed the Heresies which have sprung up in this Kingdome within these five years sayes they have doubled the number of those which were in Saint Austins time and then they were very neer fourscore One is a Chiliast and holds the personall Reigne of Christ upon Earth Another is a Corporealist and holds the death of the Soul with the Body Nay as 't is said in Africke a Lyon will couple with a Tyger from whence will spring a Libbard so certain strange unheard-of double-sex't Heresies are sprung up among us not able to understand what he would hold himselfe You shall have an Arrian and Sabellian lodged together in the same person Nay which is yet worse whatever Celsus spoke in scorn and Origen in vindication of our Redeemer Christ and his Mother hath of late trodden the Stage again and appeared to disturbe the World One I tremble to speak it hath called the Virgin Maryes chastity into question And others have spoken of the Saviour of the World so suspiciously as if he had been a thing of a stoln unlawfull Birth In short there want only some of those Munster men among us of whom Sleydan writes where one calleth himselfe God the Father another God the Sonne A third Paraclete or God the holy Ghost to make our Babel and confusion of wilde opinions at the height In this miserable distraction then where Heresie and Errour hath almost eaten up the true Religion And where all the light at the Gospel which shines among us is but like that imperfect light at the Creation which shined before the Sunne was placed in the firmament A light creeping forth of a dark Chaos and blind masse and strifefull heape of jarring Elements In this thick fogge of strange Doctrines I say which hath condenst it selfe into a cloud which hath almost overspread this whole Kingdome from which Truth seemes to have taken slight and made way for Ignorance to stile it selfe once more the Mother of devotion what way is there left to reconcile our minds or to beget one right knowledge and understanding of the wayes of God among us Truly I know none but that which Saint Paul here prescribes in the Text which is that we endeavour as near as we can to be of one mind and of one judgment But how shall this be brought to pass unless all judgments were alike clear and unbiassed Or unless laying apart all partiality and affection to their own