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A07288	Saint Peters chaine consisting of eight golden linckes, most fit to adorne the neckes of the greatest states, nobles, and ladies in this land, as the chiefest iewell of true nobilitie: and not vnfit for the meaner sort. Digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister. With a praier annexed to the end of euerie chapter.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1596 (1596)	STC 17683; ESTC S112697	95,593	198

speake yet still of naturall kindnes as wee are brothers by nature and creation Insomuch that most certainly we now liue in those last dayes and perillous times which the Apostle S. Paule foreprophesied 2. Tim. 3.1 shoulde come before the end of the world when men shoulde bee louers of their owne selues couetous boasters proude cursed speakers disobedient to parents vnthankfull vnholye without naturall affection truce breakers false accusers intemperate fierce despisers of them which are good traitours headye high minded louers of pleasures more than louers of God hauing a shew of holynesse but hauing denyed the power thereof all which thinges are most certainly fulfilled in our time But leauing to discourse farther of naturall kindnesse and of such vnkinde naturall men as this age yeeldeth I must come to the chiefest thing that ought to bee spoken of in this Chapter euen vnto christian brotherly kindnes which the Apostle Saint Peter in anie case woulde haue vs to linke vnto the sixe former vertues for Christians must not onelye shewe brotherly kindnesse one to another because wee are brothers by nature and creation but chiefelye and principally because wee are also brothers by grace of redemption by profession and religion because wee haue one God one faith one baptisme one sauiour and redeemer And is this brotherhoode neerer and dearer than the other O farre dearer by nature and creation we are brothers according to the flesh but by grace wee are knit Brothers by redemption nearer and dearer then by creation together in vnitie of spirite by nature wee inioye heere in a fraternitie the temporall thinges of this worlde and that neyther but by vsurpation or tolleration but by grace wee inioy through hope those durable riches which shall neuer fade By nature we are the sonnes of men but by grace wee are made the sonnes of God The same spirite bearing witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God If wee bee children Rom 8.16.17 wee are also heires euen the heires of God and heirs annexed with Christ if so be that wee suffer with him that wee maye also bee gloryfied wyth him By nature wee are heires heere of temporall inheritances but by grace wee are heires and coheires wyth Christ Iesus of eternall glorie in a worde by nature or rather by corruption of nature we are the children of wrath and damnation but by grace wee are restored vnto life and saluation If by nature therefore wee ought to shewe kindnesse to our brothers according vnto the flesh howe much more vnto them that are brothers both by nature profession This Argument from the lesser to the greater doeth the Apostle Saint Paule vse when hee would perswade his beloued Philemon Brothers both by nature profession Phile 16. to shewe kindnesse vnto Onesimus an old seruant of Philemons I beseech thee sayth the holy Apostle Saint Paule for my sonne Onesimus whome I haue begotten in my bondes that thou wouldest receiue him for euer not nowe as a seruant but aboue a seruant euen a brother beloued speciallie to mee howe much more to thee both in the flesh and in the Lorde Heere then was brotherly kindnesse to bee shewed both because Onesimus was once Philemons seruant and of his familye in which respect Saint Paule as the learned doo note doeth call Onesimus Philemons brother according to the fleshe as also because hee was now a brother according vnto grace Furthermore as there are degrees of brotherly kindnesse according to nature so also according to grace for though loue whereof wee must speake in the next chapter Degrees of brotherlie kindnes according to grace doeth extende it selfe farre and neere to all the children of God alike that are dispearsed thoroughout the whole worlde yet christian brotherly kindnes doth shewe it selfe by degrees which sheweth a differrence betweene loue and brotherly kindenes according to country kindered affinitie fellowship and so foorth It was godly brotherly kindnes in Moises so earnestly to pray the Lord to pardon his country people Exod. 32.31 the children of Israel though therein he had chiefely respect vnto Gods glory or els to rase his name out of the booke of life In like maner it was christian brotherly kindnes in Saint Paule to wishe himselfe Rom. 9. 3. separated from Christ for his brethren that were his kinsemen according to the flesh And the same brotherly kindnes haue all the faithfull though not in so great a measure euen vnto this daye The faithfull husband doth chiefelie desire the saluation The fruites of brotherly kindnes of his wife the wife lykewise of her husbande faithfull parents the saluation of their children children ought to beare the same affection vnto their parents so brothers and sisters so neighbours and friends so kinstolke countrey folke should beare this Christian brotherly kindnes one to the other For these vertues which wee had first giuen vnto vs by creation are not taken away by grace of redemption but rather restored Therefore Saint Paule saith Be ye affectioned Giftes of nature restored by grace of redemption to loue one the other with brotherly kindnes And the author to the Hebrues faith Let brotherly loue continue And againe forsake not the fellowship that ye haue among your selues as the manner Heb 12. 1. of some is And Saint Peter in the second Chapter of his first Epistle saith Honour 1. Pet. 2.17 all men loue brotherlie fellowship Therefore the saintes of God in the primitiue Church are commended in the third of Act. 3.42 the Actes because they did continue not onely in the Apostles doctrine but also in Christians should liue together in godly fellowship fellowship If these Christians were commended for that they continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship howe are many that beare the names of Christians in this age to be condemned for that they agree neyther in the Apostles doctrine neyther in brotherly kindnes and Christian felowship but deuide separate themselues one from the other How are all the nations in Christendome deuided and rent asunder the one from the other a token that the latter day draweth The bonds of Christian fellowship broken neer Are not almost al the bonds of christiā fellowship brotherly kindnesse broken Doth not one christian nation thirst for the bloude of an other Nay will all the bloude of all the true Christians in Europe quench the thirst of that blouddy beast of Rome that doth nothing els but seeke to make hauocke of the church of God and that vnder the pretence of holines and religion Surely it is most certaine that Antechrist that spirituall whore of Babilon hath not onely made drunken the most part of the Kinges and Princes of the earth with the cup of her fornication but also hath beene the very The pope the bellows of discention bellowes which out of hell mouth hath kindled the coals these many yeares of most parte of the warres