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A42672	Tears shed in the behalf of his dear mother the Church of England, and her sad distractions gathered and brought into this small paper vessell for the use of the vulgar, and common people, not to play with religion / by her adopted son, Daniel Getsius ...	Getsius, Daniel, 1592-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing G632; ESTC R31519	48,008	156

noe certaine stay Therefore the winde of Gods wrath will suddenly scatter and drive them away The Apostle 2 Joh. 10. directs his blessed Lady 1 Not to participate with such indeed that bring not the doctrine of Christ Receive him not into your house why this seemes incivility may we not receive such till they discover what they are and then turne them out Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes You shall have more a doe to eject such then to keepe them out at first therefore shut up the doores of your house against them 2. Not to participate with such in word ver 11. neither bid him God speed as if he should say be sofarre in shewing him any kindness in deede as vouchsafe him not a kind word or greeting wish him no joy no comfort afford him not a good word or familiar speech shew no token of familiaritie to him He renders a reason for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds and if we be partakers of their sins we shal be partakers of their plagues Salutation is a sign of love we may not love them therefore not so much as salute them Marcion the heretick meeting Iohn the Euangelist and asking if he knew him I know thee replyed the other to be the first born of the Devil Wee must not salute such familiarily as we do the saints of God and Brethren in Christ but rather shew a detestation of them and their Doctrine As they be our enemies we ought to love them and may salute them as they be Gods enemies we must hate them David Psal 129.21 Shews the manner do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee yes I hate them with a perfect hatred Wee must love the nature which God made hate the evil which the Devil made Our houses should be open to the Preachers and Professors of the Gospel but not so to corrupt teachers Reasons given are these 1. It is a thing displeasing to God to give entertainement to his Enemies Iehu the seer reproved King Iehosaphat for joyning with Ahab wouldst thou help the wicked and love them that hate the Lord 1 Chro. 19.2 God gave us our houses they must be for his friends and not for his Enemies 2. The Godly will grieve at it and shall we grieve them for whom Christ died Rom. 14.15 3. It may bring a bad report upon our selves that we like of them and approove them whereas wee ought to abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes 5.22 And provide things honest before God and men 2 Cor. 8.21 4. It may endanger our own souls their word fretteth as a canker 2 Tim. 2.17 It may overrun us and infect us ere we bee aware 5. It may encourage them in their wickednesse Ezech. 13.22 6. It may pull Gods wrath on our houses and us God blessed Potiphar and his house for Iosephs sake Gen. 34.5 c. 30.27 Laban for Iacobs sake So the Shunamitish woman for Elisha's sake 2 King 4.17 His curse will light on those houses where the adversaries of his Gospel are harboured Therefore when John the Euangelist heard that Cerinthus the Heretick was in the house with him let us fly saith he lest the bath fall on our heads this was the practise of Gods saints at all times Quest May we not at all converse with vvicked men and the Enemies of Religion Indeed the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 5.11 Seems to affirm the like I have written to you not to keep Company if any man that is called a Brother be a fornicatour or covetous or an idolater with such a one no not to eat Did not our saviour eat with publicans and sinners Resp 1. The Apostles meaning is that we ought not to have any intimate familiarity or common usage and conversation with such other vvise in some case vve are not forbidden simply to eat with such Sith neither the bond of matrimony is broken by excommunication nor such duties hindred much lesse cut off thereby as vve owe one to another children to their parents subjects to their Prince servants to their Masters and neighbour to neighbour to win one another to God 2. Concerning Christs conversing with sinners and Publicanes this the Pharisees catch up to calumniate him to his disciples and so to alienate their affection which many now adayes make use of to excuse their dissolutnesse but let Christs answere serve both them and us They who be whole need no Physitian as if hee said I must converse with these because they are spiritually sick and I am the souls sole Physician They are sinners I am their saviour Christ then converseth with sinners not to approve their sinnes but to bring them off by his exhortations taking all occasions to do good so we should take great care to better man His nature was so pure that he could not be infected Take a Christall glasse pure and clean fill it with clear water shake it never so much it will continue clear but a little mudd in the bottome fouleth all especially being stirred so it is with us the originall dreggs of sin are in our nature and will soon marr all we must therefore take great care how we converse with others Lastly Let the great danger of false Doctrine perswade men to beware of false teachers like a canker it soon spreads and if not look'd into killeth eternalie breaks the bond of nature cuts all sinews of humane society puts variance and implacable discords in families soweth seeds of sedition in the state and ruineth all You will say God forbid I shall be brought to this I answere this is but your conceit 1. First when Religion is once gone humanity will not long stay after what can be look't for from inconstant persons those who cast off Religion and so their God will soon forget and so cast off their neerest and deerest friends Besides this Irreligion is the next way to disobedience 2ly Hazael conceived so well of himself 2. Kings 8.13 Elisha foretold all the evill he should doe to the people of Israel vers 12. burne their strong holds and slay their youth with the sword dashing their Children ripping their women with child Hazaell said but what is thy servant a dog namely as a dog fierce cruell merciless that he should doe this great thing such barbarous and inhumane cruelties as no reasonable man would doe but savage ravenous and unreasonable beasts Hazael at this time did not thinke he should doe such cruell acts The heart is deceitfull above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Ier. 17.9 The following history will confirme it The occasion whereof I shall shew 1. 2 Pet. 2.10 Jude 8. There is a generation of whom two Apostles Peter and Jude speake that despiseth all Government and speaketh evill of dignities out of an erronious judgement seduced by false teachers Anabaptists utterly mislike all Government and subjection amongst Christians It is not without cause that

6.13 Returne returne O Shunamite an earnest invitation and perswasion which the Church of the Gentiles makes to the Jewish Synagogue to come off from her former worship and administrations to the Evangelicall Covenant that so both may be made one in that fullness and union this is promised Rom. 11.25 and not yet fulfilled therefore it is our dutie to pray for it And as we are to pray for Jerusalem the Church so likewise collaterally against all enemies of the Church for it is with the Church and her enemies as it is with a paire of ballances when one scale goeth up the other goeth down so that those prayers that are made for the Church directly reach collaterally against her enemies Quest But what is the thing we must wish or pray for in behalfe of the Church Ans Dauid calls it peace in the fore-quoted place which according to the Hebrew phrase comprehendeth in his lap all good things protection of the Church freedome of those who are in dangers preservation of those who are out of it That God would restore those that are over-runne refine and purge them which remaine That God would enlarge the borders of Christs Kingdome and adde dayly to the Church such as shall be saved But more properly if we consider the peace we are to pray is threefold 1. Peace with God to cause his Churches to walke in the puritie and power of his ordinances to maintaine true religion in doctrine and worship which being left all other things must needs decay Tamper with that and all other blessings will be gon they will betake themselves to their wings and fly away Except we keepe our peace with God all other peace will fall asunder 2. We pray also that we may be at peace amongst our selves enjoying civill peace free from dissention divisions and distraction that all thinke the same thing goe the same way and all unanimously minde the glory of God 3ly We understand also peace forraine from all opposition from without that there may be no hostilitie no invasion of forrain enemies upon the Churches of God and our Church specially One thing more by way of Caution and that is if we dreame of temporall peace only and the blessings upō that it is not worth the while to pray for the peace to the Churches of God It may better prosper in warre and misery The primitive Church as long as it was persecuted by the Dragon was clothed with the sunne crowned with a Crown of twelve Stars having the moone under her feet shee contemneth worldly things But that woman Chap. 17. is all cloathed in scarlet and gold outwardly rich poore and beggarly within we must therefore pray for a sanctified peace and that we may make good use of it I had almost forgotten that which David remembreth in his 51 Psalm 18. That God would build the walls of Jerusalem walls are fences against enemies the Churches walls are discipline and order this is that hedge keepes out the wild beast out of the Lords vineyard late experience hath made it good I will say nothing but as that Roman Emperour si disciplinam amittimus nomen Romanum amittimus and as it is in an Army and Commonwealth so we dayly find it in the Church Motives to pray for the Church 1. In Generall There cannot be a better imployment for Christians then prayer and we cannot ayme at a better blessing then a sanctified peace and settlement both of Church and State There is not a neerer relation we have to any for whom we should wish all good then the Church The neerest relation that a Christian hath to any for whom he should wish good is the Church the greatest blessing is a good peace and settlement The most effectuall meanes to attaine this is fervent prayer 2. He that loves the Church will pray for her it is a most certain signe we doe not love the Church nor Gods glory if we will not so much as pray for her even then when others seeke her ruine 3. Our prayers for the Church give us a share in all the Churches prayers no prayers no share 4. All our prosperity depends on the prosperity of the Church all the good that God doth is for the Churches sake Out of Sion God blesseth and true prosperity belongeth onely to such as love the Church The Church I have shewed is 1. Gods house the spouse of Christ and can there be a neerer and dearer relation to a Christian then this to tender the house of God and spouse of Christ 2. The Church if we be true Christians is the Mother of us all all saints Sons and Daughters Gal. 4 26. have the Church for their Mother whosoever denies her denies also God to be his or her Father In her we are born in her we are new born He is an unnaturall Son and she an unnaturall Daughter who will not pray hard for her Mother in danger who will not open their mouth to keep harme from their Mother 5ly Such is the efficacy of fervent prayer that it stayes the hand of the Almighty and with greatest reverence be it spoken to the divine Majesty in a manner binds the same Prayers rule God Let me alone saith God to Moses Exod. 32.10 The prayers of the faithfull stay his punishments not by the prevayling of humane force above divine but by condescending of divine grace to the desires of the Godly By prayer we obtain all things of God whatsoever Gods divine power is able to bring to passe a Godly Christain may obtain by his fervent prayer 6ly We must of necessity pray if we will obtain Look for no blessing of God without prayer Psal 50.11 Thou shalt call on me 7ly In praying for the Church you pray for your selves if you be a lively member of the same By these motives you may easily find of what temper and mould you are off that shall read this all pretend to Christianity and to be members of Christ now try the truth of this by your affection to the Church The Church is Christs body He is the head you and others if believers are members If so then you feel are sensible of the breaches made in this body can a rupture can a breach be made in a body and a true lively member of the same not be sensible It is a dead member that hath lost feeling or at least benummed and stupified for the present whatsoever you have done hitherto yet now remember your duty to pray for the welfare of your Mother the Church observe the sad estate of the same what the eye sees the heart will mind If we do not minde the Church we will never carefully make our expressions to God for her Take heed of the World which like Ivy will clasp about your heart and hinder it from thriving in Christianity Be not like that Canniball of Christians even the best Protestants bloudy Alva who when Henry demanded of him whether he

had taken notice of the great Eclips Replyed he was so much taken up with matters on earth that he had no leisure to mind heavenly things I fear wee have too many such amongst our Common Christians who whilst heaven and earth are on fire about their ears and the Church in ruine and themselves in danger yet like the Syracusan Archimedes they are in the dust minding nothing but earth what is the Church to them let Churchmen imploy their time this way Such I would have to consider the words of Mordecai to Queen Hester Hest 4.14 If thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time then shall the Churches enlargement and deliverance arise from another place but you and your Fathers house shall be destroyed To close up all do but consider that it is but almost the onely thing left us that we can do for the Church abroad and our Brethren in the Jaws of Anti-Christ to pray for them It is an easy thing and of little cost none therefore may stick at it to give his contribution of prayers and sighs that way If we neglect it it will be a foul blot we shall get as much credit by calling our selves to be Christians Members of the Church as Pilate hath gotten to be named in the Creed 4 th A fourth mean to keep God with us is to adde to Godlinesse Brotherly Kindnesse 2 Pet. 1.7 This is the Daughter of Godlinesse He that loves God for his own sake will love his Brother for Gods sake This is the touchstone of piety This is a demonstration that we love God and his Church his spouse and our Mother with one and the same love we love God and our Brother the difference is in the degrees respects God for himself others for him and in him I wish I might as truely write to you of this duty as the Apostle 1 Thess 4.9 As touching brotherly love we need not that I write unto you for yee your selves are taught of God to love one another Indeed ye do it towards all the Brethren which are in Macedonia in other parts of Christendome But we beseech you Brethrē that you encrease more and more as you are taught of God to love one another It is a thing very unpleasing to God for Brethren to be at variance amongst themselves By natures light though dimme the very heathens have acknowledged one God and him the Author of unity and friendship Plato in his Lysis from the same parents one Father and one Mother as from one seed one root one beginning by natures ordinance do spring two three or more Brethren not for discord or contrariety but that being many they might the better one help the other That Brother that warreth with his Brother saith Plutarch doth voluntarily cut off a member of his owne flesh All enmity breedeth within our soul a thousand tormenting passions especially that enmity which a man beareth towards his ovvn Brother as that vvhich is most prodigious and unnaturall Xenophon May not many novv a dayes complain vvith David If mine enemy had done me this dishonour I could have born it Psal 55.12 if my adversary had exalted himself against mee I would have hid my self from him but it was thou O man my companion my guide my familiar we walked in the house of God as friends Of all the vialls of the wrath of God poured out upon sinners it is one of the forest to be fed with his own flesh and made drunk with his own bloud as with sweet Wine Isa 49.26 When one shall destroy the other and shed the blould of each other as eagerly and greedily as if it were meat and drink to them yea the most delightfull drink to them that could be to be making havock off and spilling the bloud either of other But what will be the end of this O the misery of civill dissensions I had rather mourn for this breach then meddle with it God knows how willingly would I spend life and all that little my good God hath blessed me with for this earthly paradise or Canaan flowing with milke and honey if it would avail any thing But I well see that tears are fitter for this then words onely I beseech you not to lay open the evils which have already come upon us by the discord of Brethren it would be over long tedious note the chiefest evils of this enmity It is 1. A joy and an encouragement to the enemies of the Gospel our discord is their Musick oh what a sight is this Brethren strive While the enemy stands still laughs and triumphs Bellum haereticorum pax est Ecclesiae sayes Hilary of old we invert it upon our selves our war in the Church is the peace of hereticks As it is in an army of men at deadly variance amongst themselves the adverse party against which they should wholly together bend their forces will say we shall not need to do much they will pull down and destroy themselves This is their joy 2. The wounding of the weak is another great evil arising from the discord especially in religion many if they are not cast down or turned out of the way at least wise are much hindred would to God I could either deny this with truth or amend it with tears oh the wofull case How many do learn to fit their faith to the times and are more impatient of a remedy then of the disease 3. Again This discord brings contempt to both parties the Ministers of the Gospel especially which should be had in precious account for their work sake The vulgar doth not distinguish between the substance of Religion and the Ceremony But praysed be God our differences are those of Paul and Barnabas not those of Peter and Magus Rome is cryed up for unity and peace yet Bellarmine a witnesse without exception acknowledgeth and reckoneth up 237. Contrarieties of Doctrine amongst Romish divines But that which is worst of all by discord 4. The glorius Gospel of Jesus Christ is disgraced in the disgrace of men the power of the Ministry is weakned for where the teacher is despised the Doctrine is little regarded 5. A fifth meane to pleace God stay him is delivered by the Apostle 1. Thes 4.11 Study to be quiet and meddle with your own busines and to worke with your own hands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seeke after peace and quietness with a kind of holy ambition even as the ambitious forhonour thinking it our honour to live at peace To calme our turbulent spirits and to live at peace we have here 1. the duty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 study to be quiet 2. Meanes availeable to performe it Hither to turne the streame of our ambition and if we will needes bee judging to vse our judgement in this not to put a stumbling block before the weak Rom. 14.13 The quiet recommended unto us importeth not only peaceableness and shunning contentions and vaine janglings but a contented calme conversation