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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03409	The Churches authority asserted in a sermon preached at Chelmsford, at the metropoliticall visitation of the most Reverend Father in God, VVilliam, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace, &c. March 1. 1636. By Samuel Hoard B.D. and Parson of Morton in Essex.	Hoard, Samuel, 1599-1658.	1637 (1637)	STC 13533; ESTC S104116	44,865	76

THE CHVRCHES AVTHORITY ASSERTED IN A SERMON Preached at Chelmsford at the Metropoliticall Visitation of the most Reverend Father in God VVILLIAM Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace c. March 1. 1636. BY SAMUEL HOARD B. D. and Parson of Morton in Essex HEB 13.17 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your soules as they that must give account that they may doe it with joy and not with griefe for that is unprofitable for you LONDON Printed by M. F. for JOHN CLARK and are to be sold at his Shop under S. Peters Church in Cornhill MDCXXXVII To the Christian and courteous Reader SO Sweet a thing is Peace that God is pleased to put it into his owne title and to style himselfe the God of Peace 1 Thes 5.23 Nay Peace and Love it selfe 1 Joh. 4.16 and to pronounce him that seekes and makes peace a blessed man Blessed are the Peace-makers Mat 5.9 But much more amiable is the peace of the Church being the principall thing that our blessed Sauiour next to mans peace with God came into the world to procure Ephes 2.15 and that which makes Gods family on earth like to the State of innocency in Paradise and of glory in heaven This peace therefore should every sonne of peace pray for Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Psal 112. and pursue with all endeavour possible as men doe their game for so the word may signifie Hob. 12.16 Follow peace with all men But what peace can be expected without unity like Hypocrates twins they decay and thrive live and die together And therefore S. Paul puts them both together Ephes 4.3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and for the procuring of agreement in affections he conjures the Philippians by all the arguments enforcing concord among Christians to a consent of judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be of one minde Phil. 2.2 to beleeve and think the same thing And therefore it should be every mans care contrary to the custome of too many turbulent dispositions who can fish best in troubled waters and gaine most profit or respect to themselves by kindling contentions among brethren not only to marke them that cause divisions and avoide them Rom. 16.17 but fix● pede with a s●eled resolution and courage to oppose them as S. Paul did S. Peter Gal. 2. when he saw that he did not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walk with a right foot and take a right course for the uniting of the mindes and by consequent the hearts of Jews and Gentiles As therefore it hath alwayes been my desire that we who are of the same saith might be if possible in all things of the same opinion so I thought it my duty at this time having so faire an occasion by the command of my superiours to preach the Visitation Sermon put into my hands to cast in my mite toward the purchasing of this pearle and to set one small prop under the house and Church of God in our Israel too much tottering by our mutuall dissentions and for that end to justifie the authority of our Church in requiring an uniforme subjection in judgement and practise at the hands of her children to the comely and good orders therein established and to perswade a generall good opinion of and obedience to her just authority in these things Some there be so obstinate in their error and undutifulnesse that like Solomons fo●le though they be brayed in a morter and sufficiently convinced of their false and disorderly opinions and practises will not leave their folly others there be I hope of more teachable and tractable tempers and willing if better informed to frame their courses to more moderation and subjection Now sermons of this nature may be of use to both these to the first to take off their fig-leaves and present them naked as troublers of Israel to the deserved stroke of justice to the rest to make them peaceable members of the body wherein they live and obedient children to the heads by whom they are governed Whether I shall effect this last and best end of such discourses by preaching or printing this small peece I know not I doe not altogether despaire the former I doubt not I shall in some measure compasse at least liberabo animam meam I shall hereby discharge mine owne conscience and famam meam redeeme in some degree my reputation too Words being then most liable to envious mistakes and mis-reports when they are but taken in by the eares of some few partiall and prejudging hearers not exposed to the eyes and view of more indifferent and charitably minded Readers Bring an obedient and peaceable spirit with thee and then reade and censure as thou seest cause Sa Hoard REcensui concionem hane cui titulus est The Churches Authority asserted in qua nihil reperio quò minus summâ cum utilitato Imprimatur March 28. 1637. SA BAKER THE CHVRCHES AVTHORITIE 1 COR. 14.40 Let all things be done decently and in order OF the Devils practises against the Church The Cohaerence of the Text. which our Saviour gives notice of Mat. 13.25 while men slept the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way the Corinthians were too true an example For no sooner had S. Paul after much paines taken to sowe the good seed of saving truth among them and to make them one of Christs cornfields departed from them to plow up other grounds to plant other Churches but the enemy of Christ and his deare Church began to sow the tares of ungodlinesse among them which as ill weeds for the most part doe sprang up apace For they became 1. Sectaries dividing themselves among Christ Apollos Paul and Cephas 1 Cor. 1.11 12. and making men the Lords of their faith and consciences which they should have captivated to Christ alone 2 They were Heretiques denying a fundamentall Article the Resurrection 3 Polluters also of Gods sacred worship and ordinances First by their base indecencies Their women sate before God with their heads uncovered and the men with their hats on 1 Cor. 11.4 5 they mingled intemperate and carousing bankets with the spirituall feast of the blessed Eucharist ver 21 their women beyond the modesty that becomes that sexe presumed to chat and talke their shares in the congregation c. 14.34 Secondly By their disorders likewise for they received not the holy Communion together but by snatches one before another came cap 11.33 they interposed unseasonable questions while their Ministers were preaching and rudely interrupted them in their discourse cap 14.29 Thirdly By their empty and unprofitable assemblies for their trumpets made an uncertaine sound they prayed in their Churches in a tongue they understood not All these were great scandalls 1 Cor. 1.11 The Apostle therefore being informed by some of Cloes family of their declined condition like a loving pastor labours to remove these tares and reduce