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doctrine_n	church_n	false_a	teacher_n	2,669	5	9.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20724	An apostolicall injunction for unity and peace. Or, a sermon preached by George Downame Master of Arts of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, to the parishioners of Saint Stephens in Walbrooke, at his departure from them	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1639 (1639)	STC 7108; ESTC S110125	23,771	45

bruised reed shall He not break and the smoaking flax shall He not quench He shall bring forth judgement unto truth It is true indeed the wound must be launched before we can expect a cure At qui vulnus sauciat non obligat carnifex latro potius est quam medicus Hee that openeth a wound and bindeth it not up again is a hangman and a robber liker then a Physician There must be the oile of comfort as well as the wine of terrour powred into our wounded soules There was a great and strong winde which rent the Mountains and brake in pieces the Rocks before the Lord but the Lord was not in the winde and after the winde an Earthquake and after the Earthquake a fire but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire a still small voyce and there was the Lord. They that are continually thundring out threatnings preaching nothing else but hell and damnation doe preach without the Lord and without his Spirit for the Lord is the God of mercy and the Father of all consolation and his Spirit is the Spirit of meeknesse the Spirit of Grace the Spirit of Life and the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse c. Thus the Saints of God have been alwayes wont in converting sinners to God wisely and discreetly to temper and mingle mercies with judgements promises with threatnings as being like the Sun and the light like the fire and the heat unseperable Thus Nathan the Prophet did to David first hee strikes terrour into his soule by laying his hainous and crying sins unto his charge with a Tu es homo Thou art the man but he leaves him not long troubled but immediatly upon his confession peccavi I have sinned he administred comfort the Lord also hath put away thy sinne So Saint Peter when he had terrified the people untill they were pricked in their hearts and cryed out men and brethren what shall we do hee tels them presently Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes and yee shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost Thus when Saint Paul had brought the Keeper of the prison into a strait so that hee came in trembling and cryed out Sirs what shall I do to be saved hee straitway eased his minde Believe on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house And so did he here with the Corinthians after that he had wounded them with many menaces and threatnings and laying many grievous things unto their charge hee here applyes the playster for the cure Consolatione fruimini be of good comfort Yet hee would have them goe upon good grounds too they must amend their faults which hee formerly had told them of they must lay aside all discord and dissention and live in Unity and Peace and so might they comfort themselves with the expectation of Gods blessing upon them that the God of love and peace should be with them Idem sapite in pace agite be of one minde live in peace Vt à pace exorsus in pacem desinit vir vere Apostolicus As he began with peace so hee ends with peace a man truly Apostolicall for you may observe how aptly do agree those things that are spoken in the end of this second Epistle with those that are spoken in the beginning of the first There hee faith I beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ that yee all speake the same things and that there be no divisions among you but that you be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement which is here repeated in fewer words Be of one minde live in peace These are two distinct things to be of one minde and to live in peace and so I will handle them Id ipsum sapite de fidei dogmatibus accipiendum est pax vero seditiones toll it to be of one minde is to be understood in matters of faith or in those things which concerne Religion but Peace is opposed to discord and dissention Sunt enim qui quoad fidem idem sentiunt tumultuantur autem aliis de causis there be some that are of the same minde in matters of Religion yet are together by the eares for other things wee will take them therefore severally First the Apostle wisheth them to be all of one minde that is in matters of Religion which is opposed to two things Heresie and Schisme Haeresis errorem fundamentalem in fide tuetur Heresie mayntaineth some fundamentall errour in the Faith Schisma unitatem Ecclesiae ob minuta discindit Schisme doth cut in sunder the unitie of the Church for small and triviall matters First for Hereticks that doe mayntaine some fundamentall errour in the Faith of whom St. Peter prophecieth saying There shall be false teachers among you which privily shall bring in damnable Heresies 2 Pet. 2. And of such Saint Paul chargeth the Romans to beware Rom. 16.17 I beseech you Brethren mark them diligently which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee have received and avoid them for they that are such serve not the Lord but their owne bellies and with faire speech and flattering deceive the hearts of the simple This is the malice that Satan beareth the Church of God by suborning Hereticks and false Teachers to bring in damnable Doctrine to seduce men from the true Religion this his practice from the beginning for no sooner had God finished his work and perfected man but Satan sets himselfe incontinent to pervert him In the two first Chapters of Genesis you shall finde God alwayes speaking Deus dixit God said thus and thus but in the beginning of the Third there comes in Serpens dixit and the Serpent said The Devill will have a word for evill for every word that God shall have for good yet it is to be marked that howsoever errour be old yet truth is elder for first Deus dixit and then Serpens dixit first God said and then the Devill said If then the Devill were so malicious at the beginning Then how much more now since his time is so short like the birds of Norway that because the dayes there are so short make the more haste in flying even so doth Satan because his time draws on when hee shall be bound in everlasting chains under darknesse he doth therefore with the more rage and fury seeke to worke our destruction Therefore since Satan is so busie to rayse up his wicked instruments that hold not the doctrine of Christ in truth but mayntain errours against the tenour of holy Scripture and the profession of the Church how should wee labour to mayntain faith and a good conscience and not suffer our selves to be withdwrawn there from And if thou finde thy judgment weak