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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

40. for having called the Apostles and beaten them they commanded that they should not speak in the Name of Jesus Pass we next to St. Stephen the Proto-martyr of the Christian World and we shall find the Multitude gnashing on him with their teeth and stoning him and for no other Crime Acts 7. 54. than that he preached to them concerning one Jesus whom they had betrayed and murthered Next to Paul the Proto-persecutor of the Saints Acts 9. 2. who when he found any of that way whether Men or Women he brought them bound to Jerusalem in order to their further Suffering and the only reason was Ver. 21. because they called on the Name of Jesus Nay see what it was that this Paul when he was Converted first Preached and verily no more Acts 13. than that God had raised one Jesus for the Forgiveness of Sins whom the Jews had slain And for Preaching this Doctrine and this Doctrine alone it was that he was Persecuted and Stoned Acts 14. 5. for this Accused and Imprisoned Acts 24. 21. for this sought for to be Condemned Acts 25. 19. for saith Festus They brought no Accusation against him but concerning one Jesus which was dead but affirmed by Paul to be alive So that when these or any other places and texts of Scripture are brought by our modern Sectaries to adjust and justifie the troubles and miseries that their Disobedience and Sedition brings upon them they are utterly perverted their Auditors cheated and their Proselytes gull'd into Schism and unnecessary Suffering And indeed if some speedy stop be not put to their exorbitant Proceedings I cannot see but that ere long we may have no Christ to preach no Church to go unto no King to govern us They may talk of Christ and of preaching of Christ but were they all Silenced or would they rather be Silent as in Duty and Conscience they are bound to be Christ would no less be preached his Death and Resurrection no less published but Schism not so Sainted nor the Nation so disturbed the King would live more at ease the Church be more at quiet and Christianity flourish more among us Secondly Our Sufferings are then warrantable and justifiable when they are on Christ's behalf or for those things which more immediately concern him his Precepts his Doctrines and Institutions so near unto the Faith as that our Religion would be in danger of being notoriously corrupted perhaps utterly lost most certainly altered if there be not a full adherence to and a stout profession made of the same Our Saviour chides the Pharisees for teaching for Doctrines the traditions of men and by that very means making the Commandments of God of no effect intimating that there may be such Doctrines obtruded upon the Church and superadded to the Faith that may cassate and evacuate the very Doctrines of Religion deface Christianity and make the Faith another thing and of another colour to that which Christ brought along with him into the World And therefore our Ancestors would rather themselves suffer than suffer a piece of Bread to be Worshipped by them for Christ or in Christ's stead rather suffer their own Blood to be spilt than Christ's Blood to be taken from them in the Sacrament rather be broke themselves than to bow down to Saints and Images when God with his own tongue hath said Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them rather undergo the utmost fury of Adversaries than derogate from Christ's plenary Satisfaction by advancing their own Merits into equal claim with his and for this they have worthily obtained the Name and the Honour of being Martyrs But then there are other Doctrines more remote and rather points of Speculation than of Faith or Practise nay the World is grown to that pass that there are no less variety of Opinions than of Faces and what is worst of all and tends most to the disturbance of the Church on the one hand and to the dishonour of our Religion on the other we call all these by the name of Religion and by the appellative of Faith laying many times as great a stress upon the least of them as upon the fundamental Articles of Christ's Resurrection nay of Christ's being Prince and Saviour and from these it is that there are such feuds and bussels in the World or that there is such an out-cry of Persecution Whereas God knows it would be more for our comfort and the Churches peace more for the good of our own Souls and the salvation of others not to spread divulge much less to confront an establishment with them Most certain it is That the Apostles in all their Preachings established no one Doctrine more next to the coming of Christ than that of Peace Hence we are exhorted To speak the same things to have no Divisions among us to be perfectly joyn'd in the same mind and in the same judgment to follow the things that make for Peace and if it be possible to live peaceably with all men Telling us That if we are Factious we are Carnal that if we are refractory to Government and Governors we are Devilish nay that if for such things as these we do suffer we are no less than Malefactors Let none of you suffer as a murtherer or as a thief or as an evil-doer and I may justly add not as a Schismatick nor as a Rebel yet if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God on this behalf I have only hinted this to shew that while I Preach for honour to be done to those who really and truly suffer for Righteousness or for Christ's sake I might not seem to advocate for such mens enormities who may be said to Preach the Gospel no o●herwise than as they set the Father against the Son and the Son against the Father turning all to Confusion under pretence of having the Gospel of Peace in their mouths And thus you have seen what those Sufferings are that are the gift of God unto his Church and of what nature those other Sufferings are that are for Faction Sedition Treason and not for Righteousness or for Christ's sake Wherefore my Brethren and Fellow-sufferers in the Faith be once more advised First Not to let the fear of Suffering scare or deter you from your Faith or Duty Secondly That though you Suffer for Christ and in his Name yet not to Suffer all that come in his Name First Not to let the fear of Suffering scare or deter you from your Faith or Duty Be not faint nor weary in well-doing What if the World do hate you abuse you design and work evil against you Is it not for the support of your Loyalty for the safety of your King for the benefit of your Country and for the continuance of a well-reformed Establishment among you Bonds and Fetters in such Cases as these are as Chains of Gold unto the Neck and as Jewels and rich Ornaments to the Breasts