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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02520	Christian moderation In two books. By Jos: Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1640 (1640)	STC 12648B; ESTC S103629	96,446	388

concision saith the Apostle of the Gentiles Iustly must wee spit at these blasphemers who say they are Iewes and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan If they be coloured friends but true hereticks such as doe destroy directly and pertinaciously the foundation of Christian religion the Apostles charge is expresse Haereticum hominem devita A man that is an hereticke after the first and second admonition avoyd and reject and such an one as he may be that addes blasphemy to heresie it might be no reall mistaking though a verball of that wise and learned Pontifician who misreading the vulgar made two words of one and turned the Verbe into a Noune De vita Supple Tolle put an hereticke to death A practise so rise in the Roman Church against those Saints who in the way which they call heresie worship the Lord God of their Fathers beleeving all things which are written in the Law in the Prophets in the Apostles that all the world takes notice of it seeming with the rap't Evangelist to heare the soules from under the Altar crying aloud How long Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth Surely were wee such as their uncharitable 〈◊〉 mis-construction would make us their cruelty were not excusable before God or men but now as our innocence shall aggravate their condemnation before the just Tribunal in heaven so our example shall condemne them in the judgement of all impartiall Arbiters here on earth For what Client of Rome was ever sentenced to death by the reformed Church meerely for matter of religion what are wee other to them then they are to us the cause is mutually the same only our charity is more our cruelty lesse Neither is this any small testimony of our sincere innocence It is a good rule of Saint Chrysostome if wee would know a Wolfe from a Sheep since their clothing as they use the matter will not difference them looke to their fangs if those be bloody their kinde is enough bewrayd for who ever saw the lips of a Sheep besmear'd with blood It is possible to see a Campian at Tiburne or a Garnets head upon a pole Treasonable practises not meere Religion are guilty of these executions But however our Church is thus favourable in the case of those heresies which are either simple or secondary and consequentiall yet in the cases of hereticall blasphemy her holy zeale hath not fear'd to shed blood witnesse the flames of Ket and Legat and some other Arrians in our memory And the zealous prosecution of that Spanish Cistertian whom wee heard and saw not long since belching out his blasphemous contumelies against the Sonne of God who after hee was given over to the secular power for execution was by the Spanish Embassadour Master Gondemor carryed backe into Spaine by leave from King Iames of blessed memory in which kind also Master Calvin did well approve himselfe to Gods Church in bringing Servetus to the stake at Geneva As for those which are heretickes onely by consequence and interpretation heedlesly undermining that foundation which they would pretend to establish as we may not in regard of their Opinions in themselves utterly blot them out of the Catalogue of brethren so we must heartily indeavour all good meanes for their reclamation strive to convince their errours labour with God for them in our prayers trye to win them with all loving offices neither need we doubt to joyne with them in holy duties untill their obdurednesse and wilfull pertinacy shall have made them uncapable of all good counsell and have drawne them to a turbulent opposition of the truth for as it is in actuall offences that not our sinne but our unrepentance damnes us so it is in these matters of opinion not the errour but the obstinacy incurres a just condemnation So long therefore as there is hope of reformation wee may wee must comply with this kind of erring Christians but not without good cautions First that it be only in things good or indifferent Secondly That it be with a true desire to win them to the truth Thirdly that we finde our selves so throughly grounded as that there be no danger of our infection for we have knowne it fall out with some as with that noble Grecian of whom Xenophon speakes who whiles hee would be offering to stay a Barbarian from casting himselfe down from the rock was drawne down with him for company from that precipice Saint Austen professes that this was one thing that hardned him in his old Manicheisme That hee found himselfe victorious in his disputations with weake adversaries such men in stead of convincing yeeld and make themselves miserable and their opposites foolishly proud and mis-confident Fourthly that we doe not so farre condescend to complying with them as for their sakes to betray the least parcell of divine Truth I● they be our friends it must be only usque ad aras there we must leave them That which wee must be content to purchase with our blood we may not forgoe for favour even of the dearest Fiftly that we doe not so far yield to them as to humour them in their errour as to obfirme them in evill as to scandalize others And lastly if wee finde them utterly incorrigible that wee take off our hand and leave them unto just censure As for differences of an inferiour nature if but De venis capillaribus minutioribus theologicarum quaestionum spinetis as Staphilus would have theirs or if of matters rituall and such as concerne rather the Decoration then the health of Religion it is fit they should be valued accordingly neither peace nor friendship should be crazed for these in themselves considered But if it fall out through the peevishnes and selfe-conceit of some crosse dispositions that even those things which are in their nature indifferent after the lawfull command of Authority are blazon'd for sinfull and haynous and are made an occasion of the breach of the common peace certainly it may prove that some schisme even for triviall matters may be found no lesse pernicious then some heresie If my coat be rent in peeces it is all one to me whether it be done by a Bryer or a nayle or by a knife If my vessell sinke it is all one whether it were with a shot or a leake The lesse the matter is the greater is the disobedience and the disturbance so much the more sinfull No man can be so foolish as to thinke the value of the Apple was that which cast away man-kinde but the violation of a Divine Interdiction It is fit therefore that men should learne to submit themselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake But if they shall bee wilfully refractary they must be put in minde that Korahs mutiny was more fearefully revenged then the most grievous idolatry §. XV. The eleventh rule of Moderation To refrayne from all rayling termes