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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28223	Prosecution no persecution, or, The difference between suffering for disobedience and faction, and suffering for righteousness and Christ's sake truly discussed and stated in a sermon upon Phil. I. 29, preached at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk on the 22th of March, 1681, being the time of the general assizes there held / by Nath. Bisbie ...	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2983; ESTC R18612	20,745	38

shouldst thou and two or three more Scepticks like thy self be the only faithless Tomboys in the world who like Zeno shall walk and talk prate and dispute and yet not believe that there is any Sence or any Motion in Nature To you it is given to believe in Christ in opposition Secondly to the Falsifidians who will believe any thing at first ear that is obtruded upon them though loaded with never so many Absurdities never such scaring Solaecisms never such seeming Impossibilities Insomuch that they will take and adore a rotten Sign-post for the true Cross of our Saviour a piece of Bakers Bread breath'd upon by a Priest for the natural Body of the eternal Son of God believe a Deity in the work of their own hands swallow down the most uncouth Doctrines of Transubstantiation Ubiquity Infallibility c. as roundly as men do Pills Conceptions oftentimes befalling Wisemen yet as absurd as the apprehension of Fools and as incompatible as for another brood of Believers among us to say That Rebellion is good Allegiance and to be a Schismatick the only way to be a Saint That to be Factious is to be Religious and to renounce their Bishops and Deacons as necessary as to renounce the Devil and his Works A Faith so large and prodigious that I could be Gebal Ammon Amalek and abundance of hard Names more and yet set up for a True Believer or as the word now is a True Protestant This I do find that all and every one of these will be Believers and in some degree or other Saints into the bargain but in truth and indeed the Turkish Musselman nay Janizary may put in for a share and for ought as I do know not be very much worse Believers To you it is given not only to believe but to suffer in opposition Thirdly To the Solifidians who will do nothing but believe Be all Faith no suffering for that Faith all pure imagination and phansie without action or the least of passion Like unto the Bird of Paradise whose Nature is to be almost all Mouth or all Feathers Mouth to suck in the air for the maintenance and continuance of its Being and Feathers to support it in that air where it lives and feeds and breeds Not but that Faith gallantly doth and valiantly re-encountreth all difficulties It prevaileth against Satan it conquereth Sin it hath Death in derision Principalities and Powers must stoop under it it leadeth the World captive and bringeth every Enemy that riseth up against it to confusion and shame What shall I say more saith the Apostle to the Hebrews It stopped the mouths of Lions quenched the violence of the fire rebated the edge of the sword And in truth to say no more it will undoubtedly quash the Consults of the bloody Jesuites nay frustrate the ASSOCIATIONS of their elder Brother the Church-rending and Nation-confounding Puritan But then it must not be alone for if it be It is dead saith St. James Nay It is nothing saith St. Paul though in this unhappy Age of ours it goeth often for an Heresie to add Works unto Faith or Obedience unto Christ's Righteousness It being as it were against the Liberty of the Subject to prescribe them any Rules of duty and thereby make Slaves of Free born men but rather suffer them to live as if Christ had never dyed for them or rather as if his Righteousness and Obedience without any act at all of their own were to be imputed to them whereupon because Christ lived innocently and in subjection to the Higher Powers therefore the unruly disobedient Factionist which is said and thinks himself to believe must be accounted a good Subject by the imputation of his Righteousness and Obedience A Doctrine that hath so confounded our Church and Nation that I dare say the Lives of ten hundred thousand yea and perhaps twice times told have been lost nor is that issue of blood yet stancht but without a Miracle of providence it is like to run afresh and as fast as ever And it is remarkable that where-ever this sort of Believers these Solifidians take place there Peace and Obedience to Lawful Authority have been constantly cast out It is a Sect that doth infallibly bring along with it Sedition and Tumults and Bloodshed and therefore eminently deserves to have a special mark of Reprobation set upon it that you may for ever beware of it You the People without whose aid and assistance they had never been able nor never again shall to do such infinite mischiefs and you the Deacons without whose hallowed Lungs the Trumpet had never sounded to Battel nor ever either Romish or English Host been consecrated to the destruction of the Church and State among us My advice therefore to you my Brethren and Fellow Christians is First To keep unto your Faith Secondly To add Obedience to your Faith that especially which is due to your King who is the true and careful Defender of your Faith First To keep unto your Faith a Faith every ways perfect and sound consonant to the Institutions Precepts and Practices of the holy Jesus and to the Preachings and Writings of the blessed Apostles A Faith answerable to that which is yet to be found in the holy Scriptures and to that which at first was planted in all Churches of the World that had an Apostle or Apostolical man for its Founder of kin naturally neither to the Trentine Fathers nor to the Geneva Brethren but of the blood Royal and descended from Christ himself the eternal Son of God foster'd and nurs'd up by the hands of his immediate Apostles and Ministers and in being throughout all Ages of the Church to this very day A Faith that hath stood tryal through the Ten Persecutions endured and quenched the Marian Flames weathered out the bloodshed and confusions of Babel and is so good and so sound still that it will never want Kings to be its Defenders nor multitude of Believers to bleed and to dye for it Keep I say to this Faith neither scared with the damning Anathemas of the Pope and his Catholickship as if there were no Christianity out of his Communion nor with the pious Pretences of the whirlegig Protestants as if there were no Reformation nor Saintship without them Your Cause is good and the very same with the Primitive Christians the very same with your Forefathers in Queen Mary's days the very same as it was when Cromwel and the stinking Rump play'd the Devil in Christ's Name Give not over this Faith whatever the Posterity of the one or the present Brood of the other threaten you withal Justum tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava jubentium So good so accountable a Faith is not to be reprobated no nor deserted for any heat of Citizens for any faction of Senators for any madness of the People Wherefore though the whole World almost as they did in Athanasius his days should Arrianizare turn mad and Conventicle