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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96477	Six sermons lately preached in the parish church of Gouahurst in Kent. And afterwards, most maliciously charged with the titles of odious, blasphemous, Popish, and superstitious, preaching. / Now published by the author, I. W.	Wilcock, James, d. 1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing W2118; Thomason E172_30; ESTC R16426	70,070	78

the Baptism of Water which makes them one many Lepers might have washed in Jordan and yet not come out as Naaman the Syrian did The Baptisme of the Spirit doth only that and those that are so born not of flesh nor of water only but of the spirit will keep this union will be one as that is one 5. One House where we are all brought up together the Church Domus Dei is but one I speak not of the materiall house but of the mysticall one Catholike Church in which we su●k of the same breasts we are fed with the same milk are tutored under the same Government partake of the same Sacrament Habitare fratres in unum to be of one minde which be of one house this is no small strengthening of the Union These all of them and many more are Ecclesiastica vincula and belong to the chief Tendon by which this union is made the spirit There are others not to be past ore with silence Humane necessity Civill Commerce naturall Relations are all of them Ligaments to bring the parts together to make up this union Religion and Nature both leane to it Their main intendment is to effect it And yet when this is done and the parts joyned the body is not perfect if there be not a Symmetry and agreement between them if they be not of the same nature all t will be but Humano capiti cervicem jungere equinam if not of a just proportion both will be a like monstrous Their nature we have touched already being in one wombe we doubt not of that of the other there may be some question made in the naturall Body it is the wonder of the Creation to see in what perfect meeter all the parts are made yet there may be some aberrations there the same should be in the mysticall Body The Body of Christ can be no lesse perfect and yet the jarring of the parts as if they had not that Symmetry we speak of their falling into pieces as if they were not in their places makes us make a question of it Look a little into the cause of it God saith the Apostle hath so tempered the parts of the body that there might be no schisme no division in it but that the members should have the same care one for another he hath done the like sor the Church Apostles Prophets Teachers workers of miracles gifts of healing helpers governors diversity of tongues c. are all of them members of this body all of them set by him in their right places to their right offices There are divers causes of the schisme that is among them Dislike of their own places The foot would be the hand or else not of the body it aspires higher yet to be the eye or the ear in the seat of Magistracy as it did of late among the Anabaptists in Germany and in the seat of Ministery as in the experience of our times So it was in that great rent of the Body of Israel in Jeroboams dayes the meanest of the people Mechanicks among them were made their Priests and if they may not be that they will not be of the Body and indeed Gratulandum est cum tales de Ecclesia separentur saith Cyprian Vtinam abscindantur was Saint Pauls hearty prayer Such were Corah and his company Moses answer might serve their turns Seemeth it a small thing that the Lord hath separated you to take you neer to himself Is it not enough that you are of the Body Were all the body an eye where were the smelling Hath not he placed lesser lights in the Firmament as well as great ones All are not there primae Magnitudinis hath not he ordered meaner servants in his family as well as greater ones All are not there primae distributionis There will be degrees of glory in Heaven as there are of places in earth Besides to avoide this dangerous schisme hath not God so tempered the body that he hath given the more honour to that part which lacked the onus is ours the hones yours The head cannot say unto the feet I have no need of you nor the eye to the hand I have no need of thee This scisme whether it be in Church or state one Menenius Agrippa in Livy very fitly confuted by telling to the factious Romans the tale of the falling out of the Belly and the members because it seemed to devour all the hands would not work the feet would not stirre the mouth refused to receive any food till they sound themselves to languish thorough the emptinesse of the stomack and by bad experience proved the belly no lesse profitable to the body then the other members and that the safety of the whole depended upon the society and concord of the parts This Emulation hath been the cause of the dissentions which have ever been in the Church Yet there are some others causes The neglect of their own offices and impertinent surview of others which belongs to the head to censure and not to the parts The want of Sympathy with the infirmities of the fellow members if one suffer not careing to suffer with him not considering if a Joynt be loosed or strained all the parts ought to be painted with it neither of these but are causes of this scisme and these lead me to the fourth particular the offices and administrations of the body A sufficiency of parts a uniting of them into one body a placing them in a true Symmetry and Proportion are all of them for this for their administrations and functions and for them they have received diversities of gifts and by them are to be exercised in severall operations all three are specified by the Apostle 1 Cor. 12. 4 5 6. All the Body is not one member but many all the members have not the same gifts but divers all their gifts are not for the same operations but severall altogether are most wisely disposed both in the naturall and mysticall Body for the furniture thereof edifying of it self in love Ephes 4. 16. We have not leasure now to take a short view of them in particular All that hath been said tends to this conclusion we are the Body of Christ and Members in particular We that are many are one Body a Body in the parts in the union of the parts in the Symmetry and Agreement of the parts in the offices and Administrations of the parts and if we be of his body in earth we shall be sure to be joyned to our head in Heaven Vsurpavimus regnum Dei in Christo we hold Heaven in C●pite already But then if we be all one body there must be no scisme between us no falling off from the parts no falling out without them Ad regnum pervenire non potest qui eam quae regnatura est pacem derelinquit saith Cyprian Hath God tempered them all that there be no division and shall we distemper them by scisme and dissention Will it be enough to