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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73908	Euodias and Syntyche, or, The female zelots [sic] of the church of Philippi mis-led, mis-guided, seduced by those of the concision, those evill workers of the said church : set forth in a sermon at Brent-wood, in Essex, Febru. 28, 1636, at the metropoliticall visitation of the most reverend Father in God, William, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury / by Iohn Elborrovv, vicar of S. Pancras, alias, Kentish-towne by London.	Elborow, John.	1637 (1637)	STC 7551; ESTC S100365	14,977	27

there should have one and the same worship bee of one and the same minde But one Altar Vt vinculum esset sacrae unitatis that it might be unto the rude people a bond of sacred unity But one Altar typifying one religion one heart one judgement and one minde of all true Christians 4. Vnder the Gospell And under the Gospell those primitive and first Christians that ever were those 3000. soules converted by Peters Sermon It is said of them that they Act. 2. 46. Act. 4. 32. were all of one heart and of one soule and that they all continued daily in the Temple with one accord when they prayed they prayed all together when they heard they heard altogether when they brake bread they did it altogether unanimously uniformly Tria millia domum unam mensam unam animam unam Chrys 30. Hom. on Mat. 16. habuerunt And that multiplication of unities one body one 5. Eph. 4. 3 6. spirit one hope one Lord one faith one baptisme one God and Father of us all declare that we should be all of one minde in the Lord all keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace all stand fast in Phil. 1. 27 28. one spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the Gospell If this will not doe it in the 2. The dangerous consequents upon the defect of it next place look with the other eye upon the dangerous consequents that follow upon the want and defect of it by that time I dare say you will all assent with me that it is a work worthy of all our best helps 1. As Unanimity is the life and soul of the Church 1. Jam. 3. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Ephes hom 11. so schisme and faction is a dangerous malady in the same for where strife is there is confusion and every evill work Which made S. Chrysostome Hom. 11 on the Ephes so earnestly protest against it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I say and protest that to make schisme in the Church is no lesse evill than to fall into heresie Indeed it is the next way to it schisme is a green heresie and heresie is a grown schisme And non semper servatur unitas in credendo ubi non est unitas in colendo there will not alwayes bee unity of doctrine in that Church where there is not uniformity of discipline Disunanimity disuniformity is a breaking not only of the Kings but of Gods and the Churches peace It causeth distraction hinders devotion chills the spirits of men deads and indisposeth them unto religion and clouds the understanding in the disquisition of the truth whereby our assemblies in Gods house become gregations not congregations The con is gone disgregations rather and Turba gravis paci placidaeque inimica quieti Schisme is the Churches rupture solutio continui a discontinuation of parts a disjoynting a dislocation and dissociation of the members of the body of the Church It is a routing of our ranks puts us out of temper order out of joynt and makes us fall a pieces one from another S. Paul implyed as much when he 1 Cor. 1. 10 saw such siding amongst them in the Church of Corinth some to hold of Paul some of Cephas some of Apollos some of Christ that they were out of joynt when he exhorted them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they Beza annot in loc be set againe for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth properly to set a bone that is out of joynt For as joynts are in the naturall Greg. mor. l. 19 cap. 14. body so is unity in the Church Sancta Ecclesia sic consistit in unitate fidelium sicut corpus nostrum u●● tum est compage membrorum Take away joynts in the body and the body will be dismembred take away unity in the latter and the Church will be distracted and there will follow rents schismes disorders and fractions For instance and example 1. What a stir made Corah 1. Israel Num. 16. 3. Dathan Abiram in the congregation of Israel What contentions were there in the Church of 2. Church of Corinth Corinth and how did they one swel against the other some would pray and prophesie bare-headed others with their head covered and when they came unto the Lords supper one was hungry and another was drunken in as much as S. Paul wrote his first Epistle to dissolve those factions and represse those dissentions that were amongst them In the Church of Philippi what broiles and fractions 3. Church of Philippi were there by reason of the variance strife and dissention and that not O economicall about meum and tuum but Ecclesiasticall and in matters of religion of Evodias Syntyche the female zelots in my Text otherwise godly and religious that by their over-credulity were mis-led mis-guided seduced by those of the Concision those evill workers as S. Paul cals thē So in our Church of England to come home to our 4. Church of England selves what lamentable fractions and miserable distractions are now amongst us what scandalous and irreligious libels what indiscreet and satyricall pamphlets have been lately dispersed against the Governours and government of our Church what heart-burning betwixt Minister and Minister betwixt Minister and people and how do you one swell against another For Sions sake I cannot hold my peace and with Moses Liberabo animam meam You must pardon me if I be down right and speak home in the Churches cause And here I cannot but lament deplore the want defect of the practise of this ancient and heavenly duty of unanimity amongst us in the words of S Bernard Vbi ubi nunc illud unanimit at is exercitiū How disunanimous disuniform disorderly are yee in the house at the service of God what rude contentions and uncivill contestations are in your Churches how unservice-like is your service there how homely are ye in speech and gesture with God in and at the participation of Gods ordinances as if Arrian like ye were haile fellow and familiar with him how stout are your hearts how stiffe are your knees that will not bow at the name of Jesus no more than the seats you sit on or the pillars of the Church how is the authority of the Church out-faced how are the Canons and Constitutions of the same neglected vilified by every ignorant illiterate Artizan Mechanick high-shooes by every self-willed peevish Evodias and Syntyche Quasi lege putant se teneri nulla Yea by too too many ministers too O tell it not in Gath they who should bee ringleaders in obedience and conformity yet proh dolor become factionum discordiarū duces as it was said of the Syndichs of Geneva It is lamentable to consider that abundance of knowledge should produce such ill effects as rebellion dis-unanimity disuniformity that every woman will be a Bernice dare to interpret