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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64233	Pray for the peace of Jerusalem a visitation sermon. / preached at Gainsbrough, May 7th 1691 by Nathanael Taylor ...	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1691 (1691)	Wing T547; ESTC R33904	20,217	32

So our Church of England allows of nothing for Doctrin but what is plainly made known in Scripture or may be genuinely deduced from it Our Faith is founded on the Sacred Word of God epitomized in the Apostle and explained by the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds confirmed by the Writings and Decrees of the Primitive Fathers and Counsels and sealed with the Blood of Martyrs Our Church in her Articles adores the holy and undivided Trinity without any Rivals of Saints or Angels receives the Faith of Christ without any thing that destroys his Divinity as Images and Pictures or that nulls his Humanity as Transubstantiation and owns all his Offices without the Doctrins destructive to them of the Pope's Supremacy and Infallibility of Merits and Purgatory and so Believers of the Gifts and Graces of the Holy Ghost as to be free from Enthusiasm or Prophaneness She admits of no Doctrin concerning many States of Creation Apostacy Grace and Glory that any way ecclipseth God's Glory and Mercy and Christs Merits and Satisfaction but all things in her Articles and Homilies are so proposed as may most set forth Gods goodness and Mans vileness our Misery by Sin and Happiness through a Saviour and all this in so plain and familiar a Stile and in our own Language that no Member of her can justly plead a cause of Ignorance of her Principles Let us then be Unanimous in our Doctrins and have a care of basely betraying or denying her or Apostatizing from her It becomes not us to prostitute our dear Mother to the pleasure of every Malecontented Adversary to substract from her Ancient Catholick Principles or to add to their new Opinions as this or the other Party pleaseth whose Zeal against our Church outruns their Knowledge of her Doctrins And when I earnestly beg to lay aside prejudice and heat and employ that Liberty of Conscience granted them in searching impartially and seriously weighing our Doctrin in the 39 Articles and Book of Homilies I doubt not but they would soon find Reason and Religion perswading them to repent of their past Folly and Sin of Schism and to unite with us and pray for the Peace of our Jerusalem Our Church of England which is the envy of all Dissenters and the Glory of the whole Christian World For us Ministers in publick or private to detract from the Doctrins of our Church is Judas like to kiss and betray her And let us but seriously ask the Dissenters or consider with our selves should we recede from our Received Principles where should we center Are our Adversaries agreed what to ask And if we should grant what they now desire would they adhere to their present Proposals or oblige their Congregations to unite with us How indeed can this be thought on when there are so many Sects contrary to us and to one another amongst us The Papists deny the Truth of our Church because of their Multitude The Dissenters separate from us because we are so many and not selected Congregations The one upbraids us with Novelty the other dislikes our Antiquity and would have us change our Religion as often as they please To gain some we must part with the Apostolick Regimen of our Church by Bishops and instead of one have every one to Lord it over us To bring in others we must throw away Infant-Baptism and reduce the Church to Heathenism again and make it always gathering never gathered To engage a third Party we must deny all Christianity in a manner Christ's Incarnation both Sacraments the Resurrection of these our Bodies and must own an Infallibility in every one whenas now but one pretends to it and he grandly mistaken in it too To reconcile the Papist we must disown almost all the Articles of our Church and not only them but of our Creed also and receive Twelve new ones on necessity of Salvation tho' of no longer Date as such than the Trent Conventicle Nor is this all to unite with them we must not only lay aside Christianity but our Humanity also and must deny our Reason and Senses to believe Transubstantiation For tho' we see smell taste and feel Bread and Wine yet must we believe it to be Christs Flesh and Blood the same he had of the Virgin Mary And now consider where we should stop or what a Chaos our Church would thus be Jerusalem would become a Babel and it would be a strange Reformation in order to our being purer and better reformed to lay aside Religion Reason and our Senses and turn any thing but Christians and Men. The Heathens had a Form of Doctrin delivered down to them to which they so adhered that one saith * Cotta in Cicero de Nat. Deorum l. 3. Opiniones a majoribus acceptas defendam defendi semper nec me ex ea opinione quam a majoribus accepi de cultu Deorum immortalium ullius unquam oratio aut docti aut indocti movebit Much more reason surely have we to keep to our Religion which is truly Apostolical was that Faith once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. Rev. 2.10 and in which being constant to Death we may expect a Crown of Life Let us then not be wheedled or frighted to recede from Antiquity or be imposed upon by Novelty We have subscribed the Thirty Nine Articles and they include the Book of Homilies Let us not then against our Judgment our solemn Profession and serious Subscription of them turn from or be ashamed of the best of Churches 1 Tim. 7.20 Such Persons may remember that Hymeneus and Philetus are stigmatized for their Apostacy to all Posterity Let us rather propagate this Faith by Catechising that the People committed to our Care when Men may not be Children tossed to and fro with every wind of Doctrin Eph. 4.14 and after some years preaching among them Heb. 5.12 have need to be taught again what are the first Principles of the Oracles of God The Heathens own the necessity of instructing Youth * Theog v. 1001.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Roman Orator † Cicero l. 4. ad Heren accounts it a great piece of Wisdom and the greatest Service we can do in our Generation God calls for it and our Church enjoyns * Can. 59. it Prov. 22.6 punishing its continued neglect with Suspension and Excommunication most if not all Dissenters practise it And shall they be industrious to propagate Error and we not careful to train up our People in the true Faith God forbid Let our past remisness make us more zealous in this Practice Our Church injoyns a Catechism which contains the Summ of the Christian Religion the Credenda in the Creed the Agenda in the Ten Commandments the Petenda in the Lords Prayer and the Recipienda in the Doctrin of the Sacraments and she explains them all concisely obliging her Members to their performance from their Vow in Baptism and the Benefits they receive

the State See how St. Paul brands those who cause Divisions and deters us from them Now I beseech you Rom. 16.17 mark them which cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrin which ye have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own Bellies and by good Words and fair Speeches deceive them that are simple And the same Apostle tells us of some that withstood Moses and Gods Institution among the Jews as Jannes and Jambres 2 Tim. 3.5 to 9. and he parallels the Christian Schismaticks with them who having a shew of Godliness but not the power of it creep into houses and lead silly Women captive Lev. 10.2 We read also of some that usurped the Priests Office under the Law as Nadab and Abihu but their false Fire provoked God to burn them Nemb 16. and Korah doing the like the Earth opened and swallowed him up and Fire burnt his Companions Let this deter all from Schism and usurping of the Priests Office who are not called to it as God under the Law and Gospel appoints called by God Heb. 5.4 Exod. 28. and consecrated by Men in Authority to do it as Aaron was Yea Christ himself tho' endowed with a greater measure of the Spirit than any now can pretend to yet took not on him that Office without a Commission from his Father 1 Joh 3.1 2. as Nicodemus grants And as God sent him he sent his Apostles ordaining them to the Work of the Ministry 1 Joh. 20.21 and they ordained others 1 Tim. 5.22 and appointed Bishops over Churches and charged them to lay hands suddenly on no man and to ordain them whom they found fit for the Ministerial Office Titus 1.5 Let the black Mark St. Paul as is premised sixeth on the Schismatick deter from it and surely none can be fond of becoming their Proselytes whenas twice St. Paul stiles all such simple People and silly Persons Titles with which few are pleased And as the ill Consequences of Schism in the Church may incite us to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and oblige us to unite among our selves so surely the Danger and Fears of a Civil War in the Nation the usual Effect of Schism in the Church will enforce us to the Duty Methinks that dreadful Account of the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey Lucan l. 2. v. 102.3 Lucan gives us may affright us Stat cruor in Templis multaque rubentia caede Lubrica saxa madent nulli sua profuit aetas Non senis extremum pinguit urgentibus annis Praecipitasse diem ne primo in limine vitae Infantis miseri nascentia rumpere fata Infandum Domini per viscera ferrum Lucan lib. cit v. 145. Exegit famulus Gnati maduêre Parentis Sanguine certatum est cui cervix caesa parentis Cederet V. 180. Avulsae cecidere manus exsectaque lingua Palpitat muto vacuum ferit aere motu Hic aures alius spiramina naris aduncae Amputat c. But we need not go so far for sad Instances of the Effects of Civil Wars if we look back into our late Times might we not find our Church a Chaos and the Nation an Aceldama when Persons out of a pretended Zeal against Popery murdered their Lawful Soveraign and were imposed on by Popish Emissaries in their several Conventicles What Person was then so sacred What Place so secure but it was profaned and injured The Royal Diadem and Sacred Mitre trod under-foot and no tye of Religion or Nature hindred them from Sacrilege and Murder From which Wounds our Church and Nation yet retain Scars and the Original of all our late or present Fears may be thence dated Let then the fiery Zeal of those of the Roman Communion whose most cogent Arguments are Sword and Faggot make us abhor that Religion which the Christian World grows weary of and I hope will in short time throw off Let the Commotions in Germany the sad Catastrophe of our Royal Martyr and the dreadful Effects of those times disswade us from being imposed on by such Incendiaries and oblige us to pray for and to our utmost power endeavour the Peace of Jerusalem Because Lastly of the Motive in the Text They shall prosper that love thee Buxtorf Bithner ●ansenius Prosper where the original Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes from the Radix 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which fignifies Tranquilli erunt faelices erunt they shall be happy both in Mind and Body all inward Contentment all outward Felicity shall be enjoyed by them that are at Unity with and uniform to our Jerusalem our Church of England which I am consident will be continued and preserved by God as long as he hath a Church upon Earth Let then all Dissenters from us I beseech them see the design of their and our Enemies of Rome whose grand Endeavour is to divide us and so destroy us by our selves and let it influence them to unite with us against a common Adversary Let them lay aside that unreasonable and unjust Prejudice against our Church of being Popishly affected by asking themselves seriously What Party of Dissenters did or dared to speak or write against Popery a few years since when they at the same time did apprehend it coming in like a Deluge Nay they rather then closed with and are now fond of a Liberty of Conscience whereby Popery is most probably to be promoted and the Dissenters imposed on in their own Meetings by Popish Emissaries It was as must be confess'd the Church of England Men alone who from their Pulpits and the Press as they had no Reason to be ashamed to own their Religion so were not afraid to defend it and have shewn that 't is our Church which is the greatest Bulwark against Popery by daring rather to suffer for it than betray it to arrive at the greatest Honours or keep the grandest Priviledges And would our dissenting Brethren but unite with us which they have just cause to do 't would free them from the Trouble and Distracting of halting between divers Opinions this would free the Nation and Church from Schism and Faction cause both to enjoy peace make us all happy at home and formidable abroad This would in a word prepare us for Gods Spirit and its Graces in the Church where all its Members were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 2.1 of one mind when the Holy Ghost descended on them and would entitle both Church and State to Gods protection that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against us And therefore with the words of my Text let Tongue and Heart of every one of us pray earnestly for and let all our Endeavours be to the promoting of the Peace of our Jerusalem and we need not doubt but the God of Mercies who ever took care of his Church amongst us will grant us the gracious Answer of the next words They shall prosper that love thee To which God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Three Persons and one God be ascribed of us and all the World all Praise and Thanksgiving now and evermore Amen FINIS