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A09677	Two sermons on these wordes of Peter the apostle, honour all men, loue brotherly felowship ... preached at Marlebrough the seuenth of Nouember, and fifth of Ianuarie 1595 / by Charles Pynner, minister of the Church of Wotton-Basset in Northwiltshire.	Pinner, Charles.	1597 (1597)	STC 19946; ESTC S2280	32,938	99

but still we scare them as a quauer mice that shal●eth vnder vs sometime or other they will deceiue vs. The Apostle in the eleuenth of the second to the Corinthians reckoning vp all his ●e●illes to make vp●e the heape 1. Cor 11 26 at last addeth this I● perilles amongst false brethren And who of vs my Brethren in casting vp the summe of all our troubles can leaue out this In perils of false brethren or if for the present wee can the time may come that it may be added For the broode of Ismael doth spawne apace Hee that eate bread with me Psal 41 10 Ioan. 13 18 hath lift vp his heele against me saith Dauid saith Christ And how should anie Christian looke for better Most men saith Salomon in the twelfth of Prouerbs Do prayse each man his own kindnesse but who can finde a faithfull man Prou. 3 6 to wit which sheweth so much as hee saith he is Thus many say they loue but proofe maketh all VVherefore saith the Apostle to the Corinthians 2. Cor 8 24 in the second Epistle and eight Chapter Shew towardes them to wit Titus and another brother sent vnto them shew saith he towardes them and before the Churches the proofe of your loue and of the reioycing that wee haue of you And what proose or testimonie of our loue my Brethren shall I call for heere surely none at this time but this which none will denie but loue will yeelde it or none at all it is so light it is so little and yet I would to GOD our loue would yeeld it And this it is namely that at the least we would come together and see one another and talke together as louing brethren of our father and of our mother and of our elder Brother in whome and whose loue wee are adopted children of theyr loue towardes vs and our faith towards them as likewise of our loue one towardes another of our necessities of our afflictions of our ioyes and comforts of our hope of our happinesse of the crowne of our inheritaunce laide vp in heauen further to instruct to exhort to comfort to admonish and edifie one another Without the which I see not how loue can worke Wherefore the Apostle in the tenth to the Hebrewes exhorteth thus Heb. 10 24 25 Consider sayth hee one another to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes Then hee sheweth the meane Not forsaking saith hee the fellowshippe that wee haue amongst our selues as the manner of sonne is And who are those some but euen wee which shoulde consider one another to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes which wee do verie little and all because wee forsake the fellow shippe that wee haue or should haue amongst our selues each man contenting himselfe with himselfe when lawfully and without let wee might ioyne with many Brethren Did Christ so who neuer almost went without his Brethren or did Paul so who so earnestly prayed for a iourney to Rome to see the faithful For I long saith he to see you that I might bestow among you some spirituall gift that you might be strongthened that is that I might be comforted saith out Translation together with you But the words of the Originall I interpret thus That there might be ioynt exhortation amongst you that is that I might exhort together with you or ioyne my exhortaion togither with yours For this is the spirituall gift which beforech saith he reth to bestow vpon them by their ●●●tall faith that is by each others gift and knowledge in the faith or doctrine of faith both theirs and his But all are not Apostles all are not ministers Yea but are all brethren as the Thessalonians and the Apostle in the sift of the first exhorteth thus 1. Thes 5 11 VVherefore exhort one another and edifie one another euen as yee do Which how can it be better done then whē we come together Which though it be not alwaies nor cannot be yet as ofte as it may bee let it bee my brethren and when it may not be let it be as it may And howe is that let the hand be the mouth and the penne our speech and our Epiftles and Letters as the liuely characters of our hearts and mindes let them present vs vnto the bretheren For I am ashamed almost to thinke that wee are not ashamed of so many bunches and bags full of Letters written onely for the things of this perishing life and scarse one or two in a yeere if anie at all sent or receiued of this kinde I meane concerning the loue of Brethren As if neither Saint Peter here nor any Apostle besides had euer saide Loue the brotherhood or as if we could loue them and do nothing for them neuer so much as fee them speake with them or heare how they do And this deerely beloued maketh our greater and publike assemblies which what are they also but certaine holy communications betweene God his people when either hee by the word preached doth speake vnto vs or wee by our prayers do speake vnto him this I say maketh them so colde and fruitlesse that afterwards wee putte our sparkles on the cold hearth single our selues one from another haue not these priuate and lesser meetings betweene our selues to confer of the things which we heard before As if before we had assembled but for a fashion onely which is not to assemble but to dissemble Paul though absent in the flesh Colossi 2 5 yet was present in the spirit reioycing as himselfe sayth and beholding the order of the Colossians in comming together But wee as present in the body but absent in the spirit which is absence indeede haue no such ioy in the vnities and societies of our holy Brethren Whereby wee euen hazard the loosing of our Fathers blessing who loueth to call vs and to see vs togither and then and there to blesse vs as Iacob his ' children Gen. 49 1 2 whome hee called togither and then hee blessed them For this is a promise to the plurall number not so expressely giuen vnto the singular VVhere two or three are gathered togither in my name Matt. 18.20 there am I in the middest of them And in the hundred thirtie and third Psalme Psal 133 Beholde sayeth Dauid howe good and pleasant a thing it is brethren to dwell togither in vnitie It is like the precious Oyntment vppon the heade that ranne downe vnto the bearde euen vnto Aarons beard and went downe to the skirtes of his cloathing Like as the dewe of Hermon which fell vpon the Hill of Sion And why so precious and why so pleasaunt The reason is added Verse 3. For there this worde hee vseth significantlie and as we say emphaticallie there as if hee sayde there and not else-where as there The Lord promiseth his blessing and life for euermore Balaam beguiled with the wages of vnrighteousnesse Iude ver 11 Num. 22 13 woulde haue cursed the righteous And yet hee cryeth out Let my soule die the death of the iust Num. 23 10 and let my latter ende bee like vnto theirs All woulde die the death of the brethren and manie professe the faith of brethren but all will not liue the life of the brethren for the life of the brethren is their loue which dieth not but liueth euer 1. Cor. 13 13 As Paule sayeth Nowe abideth faith hope and loue euen these three But the chiefest of these is loue For it abydeth nowe and euer Whereupon Saint Iohn concludeth thus and with this I conclude also By this wee knowe that we are translated from death to life 1. Iohn 3.14 because wee loue the brethren For wee and our loue must liue togither The God of peace and loue encrease this loue and knowledge in vs and present vs blamelesse in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be prayse for euer Amen FINIS