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A30669	The mystery of iniquity discovered to work in the children of disobedience whereby the pretended godliness of schismaticks appeareth to be the greatest ungodliness : in a cathedral-lecture at St. Peters in Exon / by Arthur Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6198; ESTC R43074	27,889	48

enstatically 1 Cor. 3.1 The Greek Philosophers would not admit young men to be fit hearers of their grave Lectures as being yet in the second region of life the animal life and unfit to be fed with rational discourses until their judgements were better ripened and the scumme of their youthful lusts passions boiled away St Paul treateth the Corinthians according to their own principles telleth them they are as uncapable of the mysteries of Christianity as children of their Philosophical discourses for they were yet but sensual their affections childish and brutish uncapable of spiritual discourses And I brethren saith he could not speak unto you as unto spiritual but as unto carnal even as unto babes in Christ I have sed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able For ye are yet carnal And this their carnality he proveth by their factiousnesse as by a most undoubtable demonstration While ye are some of one party and some of another are ye not carnal Is it not most evident that factious men are carnal men Do not then please your selves in that humor as if it were an argument of I know not what excellency when it is a manifest evidence of your sensuality As well may a child pretend himself fit to command in an army because he hath gotten a fine Hobby-horse or to be a privy counseller because he hath a guilded Primer as you can pretend your selves to be good Christians because you separate into parties Those gathered Churches and purer ordinances that separation and non-conformity and whatsoever other Phrases the Spirit of faction delighteth to play withall are but so many gaudes and the more you please your selves with them the more childishnesse you betray Untill you lay aside these toyes and betake your selves to the more substantial duties of Christianity Love and a sound minde however you may pride your selves in a conceit of being higher Scholars in Christs Schoole yet know you are not yet perfect in the very first and plainest lesson very babes not come so far forth as to be ABC darians mere animals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unable to understand the things of God 1 Cor. 2.14 that are spiritually discerned And the same Apostle 1 Corinthians 3.3 proveth that their dividing themselves into parties demonstrateth them to be carnall and walk as men or as the Syriack rendreth it to be bodily and walk in the flesh i. e. to be such as like beasts attend onely their bodies and serve the flesh men in shape beasts in conditions It is not only the nasty sow that trampleth pearls under feet which must be reckoned for a beast the quarrelsome dog that flyes upon men and rends them Wolves and bears foxes and lyons are to be reckoned for beasts and so are all those that bite and devour So the factious man is sensual as well as the debauched The good old Iacob seeing his sons Coat torn and bloody concluded it the work of some wild Beast he was not much mistaken the cruel brethren were no better Nay they were much worse They were Divels For strife and envy is not onely sensual but 3. Divelish and herein our Apostles brother St. Iohn agreeth with him 1 Iohn 3.11 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Divil c. Cain was of the wicked one and slew his brother v. 12. and whoever hateth his brother is a murtherer vers 15. And St. Paul agreeth with both Ephes 4.26 27. Let not the Sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the Devil let not your wrath stay with you till it fix into hatred for hatred is a Devil the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth hatred And surely hatred is directly opposite to Love Intemperance is only a stranger to love hatred an enemy The Atheist is without God the factious man is an antitheist an adversary to him Debauchery is unchristian hatred is Antichristian sensuall sins are more palpable but spiritual sins are more odious Those are crude and gross these are distilled and Alcolisated not so massive but more mischievous Is it not worse to be a Divel then a beast Who ever saw the Divel drunk or when was he taken in adultery His debaucheries are of another region he that hath no flesh cannot be guilty I mean formally guilty of the sins of the flesh his are properly sins of the spirit sins of the body are but the body of sin the sins of the spirit are the spirit of sin And those that will describe the divel may as well be thought to describe a schismatick The Divel having no body cannot be described by bodily deformityes it is not a black colour or a cloven foot a horned forehead or an ugly visage a long taile or hideous claws that can paint out his deformityes which are of another kind but greater uglinesse Pride malice slandering censoriousness envy rebellion c. Thus rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft maketh them of the Divels party in opposition to God The earthly and sensuall are a kind of neuters in comparison of malice which carrieth men quite over to the opposite side This containeth all the wickednesse of the oother and addeth greater of it's own What one said of ingratitude may better be said of contentiousnesse Call me factious you call me all things you call me thief drunkard whoremonger nay you call me Devil These are the works of the Devil which Christ came into the world to destroy The Divel is the great make-bate Christ the great peace maker He would not come into the world untill there were a general peace over all its face and as soon as he came the Angels came from heaven to proclaim peace on earth He came and preached peace and that all evenues might be secured against strife he required us to love our very enemies Love was his royal law and we may say of it as Samuel of King Saul see ye him whom the Lord hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people All the Officers of Christ are Ambassadors of reconciliation their work is to edify the body in love what are they then that preach contention but messengers of Satan to buffet us The Divel can transform himself into an Angel of Light 2 Cor. 11.13 14. But when he goeth to work division how is it that we do not discover him by his cloven foot his instruments transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ they come in sheeps clothing but when they fall to worrying us how is it that we do not discover them to be ravening Wolves How hath our Saviour condemned the Spirit of pride and separation in the Pharisees the word Pharisees signifieth Separatists How have all the Apostles declamed against it in their rivals how have all the ages and regions of Christianity complained of it in their Heretiks and especially how have our selves smarted under it

said to stand in the Church like the ugly Anticks in buildings which with great shew of bending and straining pretend to bear up the weight of the whole fabrick but are not thanked by wise men for the service they do so much as laught at for their false pretences and real deformityes How much they have contributed to the supporting the Protestant cause witnesse the English Nunnery at Antwerp witnesse the many sporades both of Nobles and others that were tempted by our unsettlednesse to think better of the bosome of the Church of Rome though polluted then of the wilderness pestered with so many sorts of fiery serpents But how much that Episcopal party which they ridiculously call Popish have resisted the groweth of Popery witnesse the invincible armies of Jewels Andrews Fields Potters Ferns Cosins Bramhals Hammonds Taylors c. and especially Laud and Chillingworth whom the schismaticks have done the Pope so much service as to destroy whereas if they had any true affection to the Protestant cause the best of them might say to either of those Martyrs as the people to David Thou art worth 10000 of us Such Popery as these men many others either wrote or died or both in defence of such Popery as flourished in the first and purest ages of Christianity such Popery as by the blessing of God we were reformed to in the dayes of King Ed. 6. such Popery as many zealous persons defended with their lives in the dayes of Q. Mary that Popery for which Rome hateth and feareth our Church more then any other of Christendom That Popery which Mr. Calvin would with all his heart have established in Geneva if the place had been capable of it that Popery which the most learned of the Outlandish Reformed do strongly wish and faintly hope for That Popery God be blessed is coming in apace The fable of the Fox that was caught in a Gin by the tail and forced to bite it off and afterward persuaded the other Foxes to bite off their tails too under pretence that they were both burthensome and needlesse is a perfect resemblance of our controversy But what if the Church of Geneva were necessitated to maime her self and prevailed upon some other Churches to be her apes and glory with her in their naked buttoks but the Church of England would onely wash and cleanse and flea but not maime her self reform her errors and superstitions without losing that Government which is so manifestly ancient doth this deserve so much clamor Is our Church Popish because it is governed by Bishops as well may the King be called a Fanatik because he upholdeth vertue But certainly whoever hateth any thing because his enemy useth it betrayeth a malicious spirit and such Doctrines deserve to be marked for causing divisions among us 2. That nothing may be brought into the worship of God but what is warranted by the word of God and to do it is Popery and superstition If they mean an Explicite and particular warrant then this opinion pleadeth to be rejected as Popish and superstitious for it hath no such expresse warrant in the word as it requireth If they mean a general and implicite warrant The Church hath such an one 1 Cor. 14.40 Let all things be done decently and in order This had been superfluous if all particulars had been expresly prescribed and it had been too large if the Church were not a competent judge of what is orderly and decent Me thinks if not his reason yet at least the authority of so judicious a Father as Mr. Calvine should prevail in this case his words ad literam are these Quin etiam hinc colligere promptum est has posteriores viz. pias Ecclesiae leges non esse habendas pro humanis traditionibus quandoquidem fundatae sunt in hoc generali mandato Et liquidam approbationem habent quasi ex ore Christi ipsius But my present designe calleth upon me not to confute but mark the causers of division and yet indeed the very marking of any Doctrine for such is an abundant confutation Mark then whether this doth not and will not perpetually quarrel with any kind of worship that shall be injoyned Let us e. g. suppose it required that the two Sacraments should be celebrated after their own new mode That for Baptisme a fine drilled frame should be set up by the Ministers Desk and a bason set in it and that the Father should come c. May not their own questions be in this case demanded What warrant for this did the Apostles so c. Suppose again we should be required to sit at the Lords Supper Might it not again be demanded whether Christ did so The more unlearned may think he did But it is manifest that they did not sit but lye down to meat and if we must celebrate that Supper after the same manner as Christ did We must get an upper Chamber and that a guest Chamber too and we must have beds set to lye upon round a table and there we must eat a Lamb for Supper Nay we must remember that it is particularly described by the Apostle as a signal circumstance that all this was done in the same night that Christ was betrayed Must then the Minister be betrayed and crucified that all may be done after the Original form where shall we stop How shall we avoyd division if this Doctrine stand Do we not perceive that upon this principle we still crumble into further separation Was it not upon this foundation that the Quaker built his Fanatik Religion The circumstances being not so publikly known I shall here set them down as I credibly received them from one that was present and if I be called to it shall name the person time and place A company of Seekers being met and ready to begin their prayers One of them thus spake Brethren what do we We profess against forms and we separate from others because they use forms And do we our selves use a form How to avoid so manifest an objection they knew not and therefore concluded to wait upon God and expect how he would reveal his mind They sate silent all of them almost two hours when suddenly a young women tumbled out of the window into the middle of the room no other signe of life appearing in her but this a general shaking of the whole body yet so that every joint had a particular motion and so impossible to be counterfeit After much endeavour to recover her out of her supposed swoon at length of her own accord she rose up saying that God had called her to speak to them at that time and that he would in the same manner continue to call those that should hereafter speak to them Iudge now what kind of spirit this was which for a while did thus abuse that frantick sect and now leaveth them when growen of age to stand upon their own feet Do you think it was the spirit of God which