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A61500	Three sermons preached by the Reverend and learned Dr. Richard Stuart ... to which is added, a fourth sermon, preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Harsnett ...; Sermons. Selections	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5527; ESTC R20152	74,369	194

intimates the Pharis●es were ●ffen●ed nay and his Disciples from hence seem to intre●t his silence Master seest thou not t●at th●y are ●ffended But did our Saviour regard it Let them alone saith he They are blind leaders of the blind Christ meant to teach us when men grow discontented at the Truth it selfe the offence is taken onely not given and they be said then rather to make then to receive a scandall But yet is it Rome that cavils wil that See censure as if she meant to call our Doctrine Scandalous Hypocrite Let her first cast out the Beames out of her owne eyes and so perhaps those things which in ours are thought Motes s●ee'l then account for ornaments In her there is murthering of Princes maintained by Mariana Aequivocation by Cardinall Tolet and some other Casuists Dispensations and prices upon Remission of sins Inprimis for Adultery so much Item for Sodomy so much it is urged by their own Espansaeus upon the first of Titus from the Book call●d Camer. Apost. Desperate conclusions plain enough in their Writings and yet made more legible by the bloudy Commentaries of their detestable attempts witnesse the death of the late King of France and Garnets Examination in England But I leave her they are not her crimes that can make us innocent Our Doctrine may soon be cleared but these take offence at our bad lives too and both sorts of opposites appear most eager in this hot pursuit Bellarmine proclaimes it openly With the Catholiks saith he there are some wicked but not one good among the Protestants in his 13 Chapter de Not. Eccl. Indeed our answer to this may be a smile and let it suffice the Iesuite that we now know his Faith by his Charity 't is magna proposito sed nimiùm audax saith their wandring Spalatensis The Cardinall by his place perhaps did there speak big indeed but yet 't was very rashly and for ought I know he hath not yet recal'd it He that reads S. Bernard to Eugenius or Petrarch or Mantuan would wonder the Divines of Rome should grow so censorious since ●hey have so displayed the foul abominations of that impious City that I am sure the Scripture scarce speaks worse of Sodome I dare not call Sanctity of life a true note of th●Church for then Plato when he had feigned a Common●wealth had almost feigned a Church too but yet I am sure it is a Duty ●and concerns thi● place no less nay perhaps more then Corinth She had a Church Christian indeed but 't was corrupt it had abuses in the H. Eucharist and doubts too about the Resurrection But wee professe our Faith reformed and what shall wee answer when men demand Shew us this Faith by your Works 'T is easie to say the Beliefe is reformed but shew it in your manners For do not they live in the midst of ignorance whose works are works of darkness If our People remain still profane our Gentry Luxurious and our Clergy careless If our Devotions be grown so cold that they scarce afford either Almes to others or Prayers to our selves If our poor yet pine before us and our wealthy become most maliciously covetous possident ad hoc taentum ne possidere ●lteri liceat as S. Cyprian speaks in his second Epistle they grow rich for spight and hoard up the fruits of the Earth not so much that they may fee●themselves as that they may starve others If corruption bear Rule in our Courts of Justice inter leges docetur quod Legibus int●rdicitur as the same Father speaks in his Book de Spectac and men learn crimes from those that profess the Law themselv●s If Felix blush not to turn Tertullus and rather then Saint Paul shall evict a cause a Iudge will be an Orator If our Trades be grown to Cozenage and he accounted the best bred Artisan that knowes to cheat most smoothly if our streets still smell of Sur●ets and our whole Land mourn for the Riot of her People Say gives not this scandall to those without will not they deride our Faith which bears no better manners I hope far otherwise But if these things be so may we not then take up those words of Aeschines {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} we are borne the Paradox and Riddle of our Times A Reformed Church without a Reformation Know Beloved to win those who now scorn our Communion not so much our Tongues as each of our Lives must Preach They 'l not heare us speake to wh●m yet the sound of our good workes will prove most shrill and audible Your strict upright carriage will teach them how pure our Doctrine is Thus may you turn each place into a Temple your Examples will be for Sermons and so un●wares these men will be at Church in ●espite of their Recusancy But if Charity hath not as yet wrought in you such tendernesse of heart as to regard Iews and Gentiles yet forbear notorious offences at least in favour of the Church of God the second part of this application N●t to the Church of God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in my Tex● S. Paul might with more ease have sayd Neither to the Iewes nor Gentiles n●r to the Christians VVhy these words Neither to the Church of God He meant sure to add some strong perswasion unto a Law so requisite For see 't is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a selected number and you know choice things must be handled with care It is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the choice of God and who dares offend what hee delights in For this Churches s●ke cease from open sins their sight is contagious we wo●nd not our selves alone we murther out Spe●ta●●●● Goodness indeed may dwell by it selfe as Lot in the midst of Sodome but Sin is far more plausible her winning carriage will soone gain Troops and quickly invite whole multitudes Iudas may with more ease be an Apostle alone then a Traytor without company Heare this ye Rulers of the People whose actions are as commanding as your Authority who by reason of your eminency in place have as many to imitate as obey you let this feare you into innocency ponder hence the weight of your future account For their transgressions are begotten by your Examples other mens sins increase your reckoning It was Satans Master-peice that the Gods of the Gentiles were for the most part feigned Criminous Vt vitiis hominum saith Minutius quaedam Authorita● p●raretur That men might then think they sinned by Authority For what Pagan would not be angry or wanton when Iupiter his greatest god did as well lust as Thunder I have sayd ye are Gods saith the Psalmist Yea Magistrates are gods and therefore when their sins grow open to the World each mean man will think●●●●●elf priviledged I said Ye are Gods but ye shall dye like men and therefore Saint Cyprian can best forewarn you Faenore quan●ò fuerit