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A13262	The arraignment of the Arrian. His beginning. height. fall In a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Iune 4. 1624. Being the first Sunday in Trinitie terme. By Humphry Sydenham Mr. of Arts, and fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1626 (1626)	STC 23559; ESTC S101838	24,628	39

incollequio persuadens animas blandiens In his discourse no lesse sweet than powerfull and where he gaines no conquest by perswasion he mines by flattery Thus by the sorceries and enchantments of a voluble tong simplicity is betrayed and vnder a pretext of truth silly women who are euer most affected with leuity and change are first led captiue and these for the enhancement propagation of their new doctrine commerce with their allies and these tickled with new fancies applaud the designe entertaine the noueltie conuenticles are both consulted on and summoned and in a short time Septingentas virginitatē professas in vnam contraxit So Epiphanius Aduers Haeres Their Religion is yet in the blade and greene onely in a few she disciples anone it growes by their league with others Amb. 1. de fide cap 4. Eudoxius Eunomius Aetius and Demophilus plura nomina sed vna perfidia Coheires though not to the same title the same villany so that those dangerous tumults in the body of the Church could not but now startle the head and gouernour Constantine is informed of those pernicious and desperate proceedings who calls a Councell of 318 Bishops for the condemnation of the heretique Some conuersant in subtiltie of question as there was neuer opinion so deformed but found a Champion to propugne it fauoured Arrius but at length most of them decreed with one mouth Christ to be 〈◊〉 17 a while sticke fast to the opinion of the Heretique 11 whereof by the menacing of the Emperour subscribed Manu solum non mente and the other 6 are now with Arrius vpon termes of exile they betake themselues to Palestina where partly by strength of Argument partly by the insinuations of a smooth tongue they gaine other Bishops to their opinion Anon Constantius and Valens Emperours some they seduce by subtilty some by gifts some by power some by cruelty those that affied constantly to the profession of Christs diuinity they inuade by persecutiō all the witty tortures that malice or tyranny could deuise are now put in practise for the torment of those professors insomuch that the hearts of their very enemies could nor but thaw into pitty to heare the cries but constancy of little children vnder the barbarous hands of their mercilesse tormentors Christianus sum Christum verum Deum credo adoro as the author in his historia tripartita de persequutione Vandalorum This heresie now is full blowne and at the growth one Act more makes it ripe and ready for the sickle Alexandria is yet infected and foule dregs of Arrianisme reigne not onely here but in the neighbour Prouinces Insomuch that Alexander then Bishop daily pestered with those damned innouations on a Sunday for so my Antiquary tels me Epiphanius earnestly prayed that God would either take him away lest he should be defiled with the like contagion or that he would shew some miracle either for the conuersion or confusion of the Heretique Not long after the desires of the holy man were accomplished and in such a way of iudgement that the relation would sute better with a ring of Scauengers than a noble throng his bowels burst as sometimes Iudas did Et sic finem adeptus est in loco immundo graueolenti his death was equally odious with his life and that with the place he died in no sad retinue or pompe of exequy to embalme him no hearse or winding sheet but his owne intrailes and grau'd vp with excrements insteed of earth an end as odious as vntimely as if it proceeded from the hand of vengeance and not Fate And so Saint Ambrose dilates on it 1 de fide cap. 5. Non est fortuita mors vbi in sacrilegio pari poenae parile pregessit exemplum vt idem subirent suppliciū qui eundem Dominum negauerunt eundem Dominum prodiderunt It is no casuall but a destinated end that in a like sactiledge there should be a like example of punishment and so both meet in one way of ruine which had denied and betrayed their Master I haue now brought this heresie to her graue but the funerall of this is the resurrection of another and the re-intertainment of that of a third No part of Christ either in respect of his diuinitie or manhood but is the mint of a new heresie which if I should indeuour heere either to confute or open would proue an vndertaking fitter for a volume than a discourse and for a Library than a volume It cost the houres of an intire age and the sweat and elaboratenesse of all the Fathers Those few sands which are now in their constant course will be runne out in the very nomination of Marcionites Valentinians Hebionites Apollinarians and the residue of that cursed rabble and so I shall be cast vpon your censures if not as I haue been weake yet as I haue beene tedious I will then open the mouthes of very heathens and they shall both speake and confirme this truth and no lesse appose our aduersaries than conuince them an authority I know not how vnsauory or vnseasonable to a diuided Auditory where a prophane quotation sounds sometimes as heathenish as a tradition which in the very name is cri'de downe as apocryphall and Romanish but I must put that vpon the hazard not esteeming the froth either of popular censure or approbation Heathens indeed are little aboue the condition of beasts if that onely actuate a man which animates a Christian the soule of faith yet if God please to cast his pearles before these swine wherefore hath hee made vs Lords ouer them but to vindicate those hallowed and pretious things from the hands of vniust possessors Praeclara Ethnicorum dicta Theologica ab ijs tanquàm iniustis possessoribus in vsum nostrum transferenda It is Augustines in his second booke De doctrina Christiana 4. chap. Diuine truth in Heathen mouthes is like the Iewels in Egyptian hands their wants no Alchimist to refine the mettle onely some discreeter Israelite to transferre the vse he that was brought vp at the feet of Gamaliel preaching to the ignorant Idolaters of Athens concludes against them from the mouth of their owne Poets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some of your owne Poets haue said Acts 17.28 Text enough to gaine I say not authoritie but applause to his discourse and to conuince the Heathens shame if not their faith Diue with me a little farther into their secrets and we shall find amongst much Hay and Stubble some Gold and Pretious stones doctrines which want no truth to make them sound onely diuine authoritie to make them authentique It was not impossible that the true light which shines on euery man that commeth into the world should glimpse into those that sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death For old Simplicianus in S. Augustines Confessions 8. Booke 2. Chapter giues incouragement to a particular enquiry and concludes in certaine books of the Platonists Deum