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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96073	A modest discourse, of the piety, charity & policy of elder times and Christians. Together with those their vertues paralleled by Christian members of the Church of England. / By Edward Waterhouse Esq;	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1049; Thomason E1502_2; ESTC R208656	120,565	278

by the Emperour and Counsell of Nice and their books commanded to be burned that there might be no record kept neither of Arius nor his corrupt doctrine yet after the death of Constantine they rallyed and made a most dangerous charge on the Church obtained by fraud Bishopricks in the most eminent Cities gather Counsels by power abrogate and constitute what Laws they pleased though contrary to the Laws of God and the Nicene Councell deprive the good Bishops and banish them Falsiy accuse blessed Athanasius and in short prosecute generally the Orthodox by banishments whippings and exhaeredations more like Barbarians then Christians The world then may view the tricks of these degenerous Church-wolves who are all for ruin and blood whose moderation is utmost mischief and whose mercy is cruelty such an one was the varlet Hacket who in a private injury was so merciless that as he was embracing an engenious Schoolmaster who came to be reconciled to him bit off his nose and being intreated to restore it that it might be sown on the face while the wound was green he refused and like a dog devoured it What would this fellow extraordinarily called from God as he and his accomplices gave out have done had he had people and power would he not have been a John of Leyden a Ket an every thing of menace and ruin There are no enemies so pestilent to the Church as Apostates which made Plinius secundus a witty man cull out such as had been revolted from the faith twenty years and before his face sacrificed to the gods and worshipped the Emperours Image as informers against the Church lib. 10. ep 79. I am not for fire and sword Verberari Christianorum proprium est flagellare Christianos Pilati Caiphae est officium yet am I of the minde of Cardinal Richlieu whose Note is notable Tolerata a Regibus Religio legitimum Regem vix tolerabat I beleeve God is not ever in the thunder and lightning of severity but I know he is second to a thorow-paced and rightly religious courage for him It was no argument of Henry King of Navarr's zeal who being a Protestant and pressed by Beza to appear for those of the Religion made answer That he was their friend but he resolved to put to sea no further then he could return again if a storm arose Religion ever hath a still fire to try and refine though not ever a piercing one to melt and dissolve The least holy Magistrates can do is to disown error and to keep it under that it say not as did the bramble in Jothams Parable I will be King Holy S t Augustine cannot hold but he professeth He knowes no reason but the Church may compell prodigals to return as well as those miscreants compell others to accompany them in their mischief and a little after he gives this caution Sic enim error corrigendus est ovis ut non in eo corrumpatur signaculum redemptoris that is so the error of the sheep is to be corrected that the mark of the owner may not be defaced 'T is good to be scrupulous in punishments and I shold ever desire to erre of the right hand that is by moderation I like not passionate revenges acted upon pretensions of zeal for God Nor ought life and death to hang upon the thin twine of mistakes where first comes to hand goes to p●t He that passes sentence of reprobation on any man upon a bare difference in opinion is as rash a Christian or rather as unchristian as he was a rude rash Knight Provost-Marshall to Ed. 6. his Forces in the West who hearing a Miller had been very active in the Western Rebellion came to his mill and called for the Miller who then was abroad his man came and made answer Quoth the Marshall Are you the Miller of this Mill yes quoth he How long have you lived here About three years Come along then sirra quoth he to yonder tree you shall be hanged as a notable Traytor But the fellow cried Sir I am not the Miller but his servant the Marshall hangd him for his falseness notwithstanding and when it was told him by some that he was not the man aymed at but his servant he put them off with this jest Can he shew himself a better servant then in being hangd for his Master Had the braving Knight had sentence from the Divine Law he that thus causelesly shed mans blood should have had the Law of retaliation What Powers and Judiciall Magistrates may do is too high for me to determine but my conscience according to Gods Canon must be the rule of my particular I do not find craft and cruelty in the catalogue of Virtues God sealed in Rev. 7. of all Tribes but only of Dan now ● Dans character Gen. 49. is to be a Serpent by the high way an Adder by the path that biteth the horse heel so that his rider shall fall backward S t Jerom blames Theophilus for too much easiness and layes the increase and expatiation of error to his lenity adding That such persons are never afraid to offend where 't is but ask and have pardon and good men are much discouraged when patience gives aid to the factions of error and by not disturbing encourageth them I know 't is hard to please parties and almost impossible to be a good Christian in difficult times I do as little beleeve God to be in the flaming bush of fierce and disorderly zeal as in the soft prefaces of flattery That German Prince who in the quarrels about Religion in Germany was tormented so much with the importunities of Calvinists and Lutherans each desirous to gain him that he professed Quid faciam nescio quo me vertam non invenio tells me the ridg they go upon who are in high esteem in ticklish times the Esaus and Jacobs in Nations wombs put the Rebeckahs of integrity to grievous straits and hard throbbs Christ● commands to put out the right eye and cut off the right hand that offends us and we would fain please our selves in moderation 〈◊〉 would have the younger blessed and we would fain blesse the elder Holy Abraham makes as bold with God as he may in the case of Sodom and I cannot blame him for his prayer for Ismaell that he might live in his sight they are not sonnes of Zyon that cry Down down with enemies even to the ground that make men offenders for words that spoile a man and his her●tage and can never forget and forgive an injury It shall be my everlasting practice to be tooth and nail for Candor where I my self am concerned no malice I hope can provoke me to revenge orobdure me against preterition of enmities but where injuries veirg upon Christ where they encroach upon his Seigniory in my soul I le not displease my Lord by concealing what 's an injury to