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A30703	A warning-piece for the unruly in two sermons at the metropolitical visitation of the most reverend father in God, Richard Lord Archbishop of York, held at Preston in Amondernes in Lancashire, and there preached, the former on that day, the latter the day following / by Seth Bushell.	Bushell, Seth, 1621-1684.	1673 (1673)	Wing B6238; ESTC R24244	23,200	54

A Warning-Piece FOR THE UNRULY IN TWO SERMONS AT THE METROPOLITICAL VISITATION OF THE Most Reverend Father in God Richard Lord Archbishop of YORK held at Preston in Amondernes in Lancashire and there PREACHED The former on that day the latter the day following By Seth Bushell D. D. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Ep. ad Eph. Edit Savil. p. 823. LONDON Printed for Will. Cademan at the Popes head in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand and Tho. Passinger at the three Bibles on London-bridge 1673. TO THE Most Reverend Father in God RICHARD LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My LORD I Have made humbly bold to fix your Name before these Sermons not to entitle your Grace to any the weakness that may have escaped therein in some kind the inseparable attendant of humane frailty but to testifie the respect and duty under which I stand obliged which is deservedly yours Besides the tender of them may seem in point of right firstly to belong unto your Grace being Preached and by appointment at your Metropolitical Visitation The favourable acceptance of them from the Pulpit giving hope of no less candid entertainment from the Press is one main motive to make them publick Perhaps there may be that in them which may conduce not onely to the advantage of the Churches Sons in their Establishments but to the conviction of others who through weakness or perversness may be gone astray and have left the fold and so become instrumental for their orderly reduction Vpon these accounts I was not unwilling to cast them upon the waters Such as they are I here humbly present them to your Grace as a real testimony that I am My LORD Your Graces most faithful servant SETH BUSHEL A Warning-Piece FOR THE UNRULY 1 Thess 5.14 Warn them that are unruly THe Doctrine of the Church hath in no age been so pure and plain but there have arisen Heresies nor the pale of Discipline so compact and good but there have been some Schisms The purity of its Doctrine has not secured malignant spirits from being tainted with soul-destroying errors neither has the excellency of its Discipline preserved tumorous members from going beyond the due bounds of the body 1 Cor. 11.19 As there must be heresies Jud. 19. so there will be such who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit Now as Heresie is a renting from the Head so is Schism a dividing from the Body Heresie does not hold the Head and Schism will not keep to the Body There may be Schism without Heresie but never Heresie without a Schism Now both these as they are evil in their nature so they are pernicious to the Church in their issue For in that body whose strength and beauty does consist in the unity and order of it by the unhappy means of these two fatal sisters the unity is dissolved and the order confused and so its beauty 's blemished and strength impaired The orderly peace of the Church is to he prayed for Psal 122.6 and 137.6 and prefer'd before all outward mercies Now the stress thereof seems to rest upon the two Pillars of unity and verity which Heresie and Schism not only undermine but openly endeavour the subversion of Heresie strikes at verity and Schism would dissolve its unity that so the Church's peace might be broken and confusion and every evil work might follow It should be the design therefore as well as 't is the duty of every true Son to endeavour the preservation of their Mother 'T is no less their interest than their honour to watch on her behalf and to seek her safety and securement not only against the onsets of the professed enemy but the corrosions of those vipers that would gnaw in pieces her intestines that the bowels of their Mother may not be fretted by the worms of faction nor her members distorted by the rack of Schism And as the true Sons of Sion bear upon their hearts this filial respect and duty to her that bare them so this care is not only commended to but commanded them by the Apostle in the words of the Text. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Warn them that are unruly I shall trouble you no further with the coherence of the words than to tell you that they are ranked amongst and summ'd up with divers Apostolical precepts given by the Holy Ghost to be referr'd to Christian Practice The words express a duty wherein there is 1. An Act enjoyned Warn 2. The subject or persons about which this Act is to be conversant viz. the unruly Warn them that are unruly The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred here unruly as used in Scripture is express'd often by disorderly So 2 Thess 3.6 Now we command you brethren that ye withdraw your selves from every brother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that walketh disorderly So Vers 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We behaved not our selves disorderly among you So Vers 11. We hear that there are some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which walk among you disorderly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui faciunt praeter ordinem à Deo constitutum So the Schol. has it Those are unruly which go aside or beyond that order that God hath limited and appointed for them For the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is emphatical and imports not barely a giving warning but so to warn as to press it home and to put it into the mind The word used by the Apostle which is rendred admonition Eph. 6.4 is the same with this and as Hemingius upon that place explains it talem in genere admonitionem notat qua alicui veluti in animam ponas ac ingeras quid factu opus est So the Apostle press'd upon the Ephesians and brought as much as in him lay his warning home Act. 20.31 I ceased not saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to warn every one night and day with tears So that Observ The disordered and unruly are to be warned Warning is so to be given them as to put it into their minds Herein 1. Of the Subject or Persons 2. Of the Act or Duty 1. We are to enquire about the Subject or Persons who these unruly are Is not every way of man right in his own eyes Prov. 21.2 Who follows not a rule The most enormous indeed that are gather some salvo to their thoughts lest their hearts should condemn them thinking either that they are regular or not so chargeable with irregularity as some would seem to make them for that they imagine the rule to have such a latitude as may admit of their transgressions upon some indifferent compensation Now to detect the nature of unruliness and to shew you who they are that justly fall under this charge we shall reduce them to these following particulars First such are unruly who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Christ nor receive the wholesome truths thereof This Doctrine firstly laid down in Scripture is capitulated in the

Articles of Religion and distinctly reduced to Heads into the Doctrine of the Church Now what Article of Religion is there but it has been impinged by some or other in the bosom of the Church There 's no Doctrine so certainly and surely laid down in Holy Scripture which hath not been impugned by men of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning the faith It might be shewed by an enumeration of particulars that all the doctrinal Articles of Religion have been struck at by some or other Some disputing one Article others contradicting a second some denying a third So that from the Alpha of mans Creation to the Omega of the eternal judgement with all the intervening passages of mans Fall Redemption and Resurrection there 's no Doctrine though otherwise never so plain and evident but has met with opposition Surely those must needs be unruly whom the Doctrine of our Saviour cannot rule How can they be acquitted from the just charge of rebellion who refuse to be governed by Christ's Scepter or from the guilt of disorder who will not be ordered by his Law The Apostle hints some such to step into the place of Teachers 1 Tim. 6.3 who consent not to wholesome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine which is according to Godliness but teach otherwise And some such he hints to be hearers too The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine 2 Tim. 4.3 but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears Secondly those fall under this charge who will not submit themselves to the Godly Discipline of the Church The Church is compared in Scripture to a city compact together to an army with banners Psal 122.3 Cant. 6.4 and 4.12 13. Isa 5.2 to a garden enclosed a spring shut up a fountain sealed to an orchard planted a vineyard fenced sheep folded Joh. 10.16 and the like Now look what Government is to a City Discipline to an Army a Closure to a Garden a Door to a Spring a Seal to a Fountain a Wall to an Orchard a Fence to a Vineyard a Fold to the Flock such is Discipline to the Church of God It is a preservative against ruine and rapine and keeps the humble members thereof within their due bounds in safety When the hedge of Discipline is broken down then all that go by the way do pluck her Psal 80.12 and there 's occasion given for her luxuriant members to stray abroad But when the Fence of Discipline is well made up and yet persons will not be kept within the Churches pale what other account can be given of them than as unruly When they turn aside from the footsteps of the flock and will not feed their kids besides the shepherds tents Cant. 1.7 8. but violently break the Fold or wantonly leap over the Wall and pick out a Pasture of their own choice as they expose themselves to the greatest danger so they are the occasion of no small disorder Dum conventicula sibi diversa constituunt veritatis caput atque originem reliquerunt Cypr. de Vnit Eccles We have too many such 't is to be feared in these our days who are led more by a selfish humour than a ruling judgement by a floating fancie than solid reason who rather chuse to indulge a factious and self-espoused interest than to give up themselves to the sober conduct of humble Christian Principles And these would submit to no rule Extra Ecclesiam consistens contra pacem dilectiomen Christi faciens inter adversarios computetur Cypr. Ep. 6. but their own would own no Discipline but of their own framing And they cannot well tell what that is or would be neither but probably as multifarious in its shape as there are persons or interests to promote it We may look upon most of these out-strays as led more by the spirit of contradiction tempered with the two ingredients of pride and self-conceit than by any other principle and we shall hope that a little time through Gods mercy will produce more wisdom in them Nulla ab eis tanta potest fieri correptio quanta est schismatis pernicies Irenaeus lib. 4. c. 62. and that they will account as well the Churches Discipline the means of their safety as her Doctrine of their Salvation Thirdly those justly fall under this charge who obey not the good and wholesome Laws of Magistrates Magistracie is Gods Ordinance to which we are enjoyned subjection not only for wrath Rom. 13.5 but for conscience sake And the good and wholesome Laws they make are to be obey'd therein we yield obedience to God himself whose Vice-gerents they are upon the earth Now to resist these is to resist the Ordinance of God and to deny obedience to their wholesome Laws as it arrives at an high pitch of unruliness so of danger too for the Apostle tells us Rom. 13.2 that they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation When the Magistrate by his known and good Laws does command this to be done and forbids the other and your course is cross to his commands how can you acquit your selves from the guilt of unruliness and of the sin of impinging against Gods Ordinance in the fifth Commandment Do you not in effect say for mens actions are the surest expressions of their minds whatever your pretexts may be Luk. 19.14 that you will not have this man to rule over you The Apostolical command is to submit our selves to every ordinance of man for the 1 Pet. 2.13 Lords sake Tit. 3.1 And to be subject to principalities and powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work as if obedience to Magistrates were the first of and a preparatory to all good works Fear as God's due 1 Pet 2.17 and honour as the Kings are by the Apostle joyned together How fondly conceited may those then be deem'd to be who pretend to Gods fear with the Kings dishonour I mean disobedience to his known and wholesome Laws For as there is no surer demonstration of a reverential respect to the Authority over us than by a humble subjection to their good Laws so there is no greater Argument of a dishonourable esteem towards our Superiours than by a capricious contradicting their constitutions Oh then as you tender the glory of God the quiet of your own estates the welfare of your souls the honour of the Christian Profession and the excellencie of its order take heed you be not presumptuous or self-willed to despise government or speak evil of dignities 2 Pet. 2.10 12. lest you utterly perish in your own corruption Fourthly those are unruly whose conversations are not ordered according to the rule of the new man Gal. 6.16 Irregularity in the Converse justly chargeth the Converser with unruliness He whose life is dissolute and inordinate cannot be said to live by rule to wit that rule

and attestation of friends and brethren for the orderly reduction of such a person but all has proved ineffectual and to no purpose and therefore the way now is to try what the solemn admonition of the Church in this respect can do He that will sleep out the friendly advice of one single brother or more coming to him will perhaps awake and rouse up himself under the Churches admonition The Authority of the Church and power by Christ committed to it will spirit with energy the admonition and strike an awe into the offenders heart Surely if there be left in him any sparks of reverence towards God regard of man or respect to his own soul when the Churches warning is given his ear will open his heart will break and godly sorrow 2 Cor. 7.10 which worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of will ensue and follow Fourthly But what if the Churches warning prove ineffectual Isa 48.4 and the neck of the unruly through obstinacy become an iron sinew what 's then to be done to such contumacious persons Aversandus est talis atque fugiendus quisquis fuerit ab Ecclesiâ separatus Cypr. de Vnit Eccles Answ Such as putrid gangren'd members are to be cut off We say immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum est They are to be separated from the Communion of Gods people and from the enjoyment of his Ordinances And as not fit to be reckoned within they are to be cast out of the Church of God accounted unworthy the society of the Faithful This is the Rule given by our Saviour in such a case Tell it saith he to the Church Mat 18.17 but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a Publican Hence the rule left by the Apostle St. Paul is to reject an heretick after the first and second admonition Tit. 3 10. and to withdraw from him that walketh disorderly 2 Thess 3.6 and to note that man that obeys not the word of Christ and to have no company with him Now all this is but to warn such unruly ones and thereby to prevent their eternal ruin They are cast out of the Church to shame them out of themselves and cut off from the Communion of the Faithful to break their fellowship with their sin 2 Thess 3.14 note that man saith the Apostle and have no company with him that he may be ashamed So that the highest of Church censures is but a warning-sentence the great design whereof is to do the person good by taking away his evil and so to save the soul by killing of its sin The Apostle gives it fully in a few words saying that such a one is deliver'd to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 5.5 Now all these are but as so many several ways of warning in order to the performance of that duty which is incumbent on us in reference to the unruly And thus I have done with the latter part viz. the duty enjoyned and the manner of the performance of it Now for a close in a word My Brethren hence we see what our duty is as touching the warning of the unruly in the faithful discharge whereof we either save a soul from death or leave the blood of the wicked upon his own head 2 Ezek. 33.4 8 9. however we deliver our own souls But if there be a remissness or neglect on our parts in the due performance of what 's here enjoyned the wicked man may dye in his iniquity but his blood will be required at our hand The sacrifice that the Priest was to offer under the Law was you know greater than that of the Kings yea as great as that of the whole congregation for all their sins to shew not only the horrible aggravation of their sins as Ministers but the great charge that was rolled upon them in reference to the defaults of others which by several ways might become their own And this was it made Chrysostom on Heb. 13.17 wonder how any in that office could be saved but that which seems impossible with man is possible with God Now if there be any persons here of what Calling or Rank soever upon whom the former charge of unruliness does in any wise take hold and whose consciences bring home the guilt thereof upon themselves Let my exhortation I pray be accepted with them That they would but consider the excellency of the Churches peace and order with the interest and welfare of the Nation and how much a lawless ruleless disorderly selfish frame and course is adverse to both That what Christ has established and ordered in his Church viz. peace and unity they by such irregular practices are endeavouring to subvert and overthrow Let such now say Job 34.32 If I have done iniquity I will do no more Let them shew themselves men by subjecting all selfish humours to the dictates of that more high and noble principle of an enlightened judgement and no longer hold the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1.18 Oh that Zions interest were engraven upon their hearts and the means for the right pursuance of that interest were understood and in their eyes Let all such now come out of the confused night-walks of their own fancies into the clear light and liberty of the day and no longer put darkness for light Isa 5.20 and light for darkness and let this be freely done from a Principle of Christian ingenuity too Hear the counsel of the Psalmist Be ye not as the horse Psal 32.9 or as the mule which have no understanding whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle Let the fredom of an ingenuous spirit from humble Christian Principles so actuate your souls as preventingly to suspend the execution of all coercive power Remember this and shew your selves men bring it again to mind Isa 46.8 O ye transgressors And besides the evil consequences of a ruleless temper as issuing to your selves let the consideration of the great prejudices done thereby to the Church and the advantage thence given to the common adversary either to turn Atheist or to persist in his false opinion be as so many spurs to quicken your thoughts to a due debate about your way The Churches unity should be no less dear unto us than its peace and order now unruliness strikes at both and if these be disturb'd or broken though its verity will still remain for the Church of the living God is the pillar and ground of truth yet the lustre thereof of will be exceedingly sullied and defaced 1 Tim. 3.15 and so truth comes to be a sufferer through your breach of order Oh that those who are unwilling to come as yet within the Churches rule would but throughly consider of these things We ought to endeavour to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4.3 but while one is of Paul another of Apollo 1 Cor. 1.12 and 2.4 another of Cephas what peace or order can there be expected And if peace be once shaken unity will not be lasting St. Austin has long since express'd his thoughts concerning those who prize not the Churches unity Non habent Dei charitatem saith he qui Ecclesiae non diligunt unitatem Aug. de Bapt. lib. 3. cap. 16. Therefore in a word as you tender the Churches peace and unity which is exceedingly influential to your own and the happiness of a Nation let me prevail with you to accept the word of exhortation given and submit your selves to the good Rule wholesome Laws and decent order of the Church established For certainly next to truth of Doctrine purity of worship and holiness of life there 's nothing more necessary for the promotion of Gods honour and mens salvation for preventing all Atheistical prejudices against Religion and departures to a common Adversary for strengthning the interests of all both governours and governed in the Church than the unity and order thereof is Which that all good Christians may have it upon their hearts to pursue should and ought to be the prayer of us all Now unto him that is able to establish us in the faith and to keep us from falling and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise God our Saviour be glory and Majesty dominion and power now and ever Amen FINIS Books printed for and sold by William Cademan CLarks Examples two Vol. fol. The Protestant Religion is a sure foundation by Charles Earl of Derby Lord of Man and the Isles Sandys Travels fol. Sherleys Philosophical Essay 8 0 Gulielmi Ferrarii de Bello Batavico 8 0 Dr. Cozens Devotions 12 0 VVestminster Quibles 12 0 PLAYES RIvals Cambyses King of Persia Island Princess Town Shifts Juliana Flora's Vagaries Marcellia Dumb Lady Rehearsal Imperial Citizen turn'd Gentleman Catalins Conspiracy Fatal Jealousie Morning Ramble c. FINIS