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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59581	The reward of diligence By Lewes Sharpe, rector of Moreton-Hampstead in the county of Devon.	Sharpe, Lewes.	1679 (1679)	Wing S3007D; ESTC R220244	49,063	109

poyson her by Heretical Doctrines or Schismaticks to destroy her by Divisions Sect. 70. Give me leave to mind you That Religious Dissentions amongst all sorts of Persons in all Ages have been transacted with vehement Passion and Violence and have proved most Fatal and Bloody For this Cause saith our Saviour the Brother shall betray the Brother to Death Father the Son and Children shall rise up against their Parents and shall cause them to be put to Death Mar. 13.12 For Religion being the greatest Interest in the World Religious Affections are strongest and more prevalent than Natural and consequently Men will resist with greatest Earnestness whatsoever tends to subvert and destroy it and they will spare the Destruction of no man to preserve it This was the ground of Campanella's Speech to the Spanish King Religio semper vicit praesertim armata Religion especially being armed hath alwayes conquered And therefore Innovations in Matters of Religion must needs be of dangerous consequence to the publick Peace for he that pretends one thing false may easily question the truth of another and so by degrees bring the whole under suspicion And if once the People apprehend that their Rulers have abused them in a matter of dearest Concern and that they do not Rule them from Principles of Conscience and Reasons of Religion but from Design and Reason of State they will soon become as weary of them as of their Religion and answerably will seek out other Rulers as well as another Religigion as your own experience hath taught you Sect. 71. It is therefore a Prudential way for the securing the Ends of Government that the Penalties inflicted on the Violaters of Ecclesiastical Orders respectively to Gods publique Worship have respect not so much to the simple Nature and Merit of the Offence in it self considered as to the malignant destructive Influences and dismal Consequences of it respectively to the publick safety of Church and Common-wealth Behold how great a matter a little Fire kindleth saith Saint James James 3.5 small matters in Nature Art Providence and Religion too in their progress and ultimate Issue become very great You know the immediate Issue of a departure from uniformity is diversity and because every man is well affected to that which is his own thinks his own Opinions and Practices best he that worshippeth God one way dislikes censures and condemns him which worshippeth God another way and most commonly the lesser the difference the greater and more severe the mutual Animosity and Censure because then each concludes that 't is Humour Pride Faction Faction and Interest and not constraints of Conscience and Religion which is the ground of the Distance and Separation And from this spring Debates Rancors Enmities and Oppositions in the Church and thence by a most natural progress Factions Seditions Tumults and Rebellions in the State For they that will not patiently admit and submit unto other mens Opinions Impositions and Practices they cannot endure that their own should be neglected contradicted and rejected Sect. 72. Factious minded men are always proud and erroneous Opinions being fermented with Pride efferate the hearts of men make them touchy fierce and contentious Prov. 13.10 And finally urge them to go in the way of Cain as the expression is Jude 11. The instances of the Circumcellions Arrians Donatists of old and of the Sectaries of latter time both at home and abroad attest that false Doctrines and new ways of Worship and Discipline which are weak in themselves cannot be supported without Blood and Cruelty And when once men pretend to be so certain of the Truth of their conceits as if immediately inspired by God and arrive to an infallibility they that can judge and do nothing amiss being most fit to sway all they presently by a very easie step of advance arrogate to themselves a Supremacy too and then 't is their unquestionable prerogative to throw down and destroy all that oppose them Presumptuous are they saith the Apostle self-willed they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities 2 Pet. 2.10 And when men are so bold and insolent as to speak contumeliously how easily are they induced to proceed from words to blows and to act rebelliously Sect. 73. It is therefore certainly the Magistrates Interest as well as Duty to restrain open and professed Dissentions and Divisions in the Church and by Coercion and Penalties to compell those which profess the same Religion to Glorifie God with one mouth Matt. 14.23 Rom. 15.6 Thus Josiah 1 Chron. 38.2 Asa 2 Chron. 14.13 Solomon did 1 King 8.1 2 Chron. 8.14 and 18. and herein they did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. And the reasons from whence they did it to wit in Zeal to Gods Honour and for the prevention of Infection by Evil Examples for the curing of Offenders and the preventing or removing of Judgments Deut. 13.5 and 11.16 17. 1 Tim. 1.20 Zech. 13.6 are reasons of Immutable Equity and Moral Obligation and extend to Magitrates indifferently in all Times and Ages And you shall find when Artaxerxes decreed that whosoever will not do the Law of God and of the King that Judgment shall be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto Death or unto Banishment or to confiscation of Goods or to Imprisonment Ezra blessed God that he had put such a thing into the Kings heart Ezra 7.26 27. This being done by an Ethnick Prince 't is easie to collect from it that there is a Naturalness in the thing and belongs to Magistrate as such to compell men professing a Religion publickly to own and observe the Institutions and Ordinances of it and consequently 't is not a Persecution of the Professors of Religion as such but a just Prosecution of them as Evil Doers Enemies and Rebells against the Government of Jesus Christ to punish them for refusing to attend and observe the Ordinances of that Religion they profess Sect. 74. And let me beg the liberty to tell you that 't is not the contriving and Enacting but the Execution of good Laws which gives them a Real and an Effective Being to the purposes of Government Our large Volumes of good Statutes without a due Execution and their Penal Enforcements are like a Picture curiously drawn only to shew the skill of the Limner or a bundle of antiquated Almanacks or the Laws of an Vtopian State matters of meer Form farther than to be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a reproachful Sarcasm to us that though we had the Authority and wit to make good Laws we had not the Honesty and Prudence to use them Sect. 75. I have conceited that our late Indulgence or Toleration was designed by some politick Statesmen and if it were not so I hope it will prove so to be to us as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stobaeus speaks of the five Days lawless Liberty was to the Persians upon the death of their King in which every man might do as he pleased without fear