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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

Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arme of the Lord revealed What a partiall age is this we live in men care not what burdens they lay upon the Ministers backs they must preach and preach once twice a week or else they plainly tell them as Pharaoh told the Israelites Desides est is desides yee are idle yee are idle and Wo be to you if you preach not the Gospell but what 's the end of all this preaching that 's nothing to them when wee have done all 's done Thus like Scribes and Pharisees they binde heavy burdens and grievous to be borne and lay them on our shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers they teach us our duty when to preach and how to preach too but they will not learne their own to practise what is taught them they care not for a quod superest for a Finally for any thing to come they have enough already Wee 'll leave them therfore in their plenty and proceed to the next thing considerable which is the title by which the courteous Apostle salutes the Corinthians Brethren quod superest fratres Finally my brethren It was well noted by Saint Hierome against Helvidius that Brethren in Scripture were so named foure manner of wayes First ab utero from the wombe as Cain and Abel Where is Abel thy brother saith the Lord Gen. 4. Secondly A consanguinitate from the kindred As Abraham and Lot Let their be no strife I pray thee betweene mee and thee and betweene my herdmen and thy herdmen for wee be brethren Gen. 13. Thirdly A Patriâ from the Countrey so Saint Paul called the Iews Brethren because they were his Countrimen I could wish saith he that my selfe were accursed from Christ for my brethren Rom. 9. Fourthly A professione from the profession of the same Religion So all Christians are Brethren all Turks Brethren all Papists Brethren all Protestants Brethren Now Saint Paul called the Corinthians Brethren not the first way from the wombe nor the second from the Kindred nor the third from the Countrey but the fourth and last from their profession because they with him did professe the same Religion and did believe the same Gospel of Jesus Christ. Whereby we are taught to hold none so neere and deere unto us as those that professe the true Religion I say not but that wee are to love and to do good to all we must love our brethren love our Kindred love our Country we are bound by the laws of God and Nature to observe all these First you must love your naturall brethren for you are sprigs of the same stock you are branches of the same root you are rivolets of the same fountain and Charity to each particular is the preservation of the whole Very Heathens by the instinct of nature have felt the strength of this bond for so I read of two brothers in the Roman Civill Wars and one of them having slaine the other and perceiving by taking off his Helmet that it was his brother cryed out Victor victo infoelicior The Conquerour is more wretched then the conquered Atque illi●o pectus suum gladio transverberans simúlque lachrymas sanguinem fundens super fraternum sese cadaver abjecit and forthwith running himselfe thorow with his sword shedding teares and bloud together hee cast himselfe upon his brothers carkasse And no doubt but the sinne of Cain was hereby greatly aggravated in that he slue not a man only especially they being then so scarce that hee was the fourth part of the world whom he killed but because hee was his brother and part of his own flesh Yet you must go further and do good to those of your owne house your kindred according to the flesh This was the bond that bound Abraham to Lot because hee was his brothers sonne Gen. 13. And for this cause Saint Paul counselled the widowes by Timothy first to shew piety at home to nephews and kindred 1 Tim. 5.4 And no question to this our Saviour had regard in choosing so many of his kinsmen to be his Apostles Go further yet you must do good to those of your own Country which we may learn likewise from the very heathen for Plato said and Tully after him Non nobis solum sumus nati ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat partem parentes partem amici wee are not borne for our selves alone our Country will challenge one share with us our parents a second our friends a third and very rare examples have been shewed by Heathens of their love to their Countrey as that of Innius Brutus in putting to death his owne sonnes for the love of his Countrey and of Manlius Torquatus who when it was told him that that Army should winne which should have the Captaine slaine rushed furiously into the midst of his enemies and so gained victory to his Countrey by his owne overthrow And of Marcus Curtius who when there was a great gulfe opened in Rome that sent forth most noysome and unwholsome vapours that destroyed the Countrey when he heard that nothing could stop it but that only wherein the Romans most gloried in armed himself Cap-a-pe and leapt in horse and man and so the gulfe became shutup That I may not speake of Codrus Camillus Regulus Cicero and infinite others who shall all rise up in judgment at the last day against our Faux'es Digbies Catesbies Garners and the whole brood of English Jesuits who most unnaturally seeke the Death of that which gave them Life and the destruction of them that gave them Education Yet although we are bound as you see to love our Brethren our Kinsmen our Country both by the Law of God and Nature Yet especially wee must love and doe all the good wee can to those that are of the houshold of faith to the true professours of Religion all others are strangers in comparison they chiefly are your Brethren The carnall fraternity is strong but the Spirituall fraternity is a great deale stronger Sanguinis enim fraternitas similitudinem tantum corporis refert Christi autem fraternitas unanimitatem cordis animaeque demonstrat The fraternity or brotherhood of blood only represents the likenesse of the body but the fraternity of Christ as we are knit together in him doth demonstrate the unanimity of the heart and soule Therefore our blessed Saviour preferred his Disciples that did the will of his Father before his mother and his brethren Who is my Mother saith he and who are my Brethren behold who they be Whosoever doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven the same is my mother my sister and brother Matth. 12. Est enim sanctior copula cordium quam corporum the bond of hearts is more holy than the bond of bodies even Mary herselfe was better accepted Profitendo fidem Christi quam concipiendo carnem Christi