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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16505	The rainebow, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the tenth day of Iune, 1617 by Immanuel Bourne ...	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1617 (1617)	STC 3418; ESTC S725	61,782	73

Isaiah 5.8 Isaiah 3.15 5. Simony Quatuor ecclesias portes intra tur in omnes C●saris Simoni sanguinis atque dei Prima patet magnis numis paetet altera charis Tertia sed paucis quarta patere solet S Greg in Registr●●ab 1. quest 1. cum ●mn●s au ●●●tia id ●●rum sit seruitus quisquis h●n● ma●●●in dan●● 〈…〉 r●g●●●ter ●n 〈◊〉 infideli●●●●is petitionisubijcit●r etia●si ●enere ●tdum verbis ●u●d neque fa●ijs vid●atur and our prophane Atheists will boast of their bawdery Drunkennesse begins to quarrell and is angry that her daughter whoredome is preferred before her but I answer her greeting rayling with the Prophet Woe to the crowne of pride and drunkennesse of Ephraim and woe vnto them that rise vp early to follow drunkennesse and continue vntill night till the wine doe inflame them And ob that this City were free from these sinnes that it might be free from these woes but these are three vicious mothers that bring forth three venemous daughters oppression simmony and sacriledge which like the leane Kine of Egypt denoure all they meete with Hence commeth the crye oppression worse then the crye of the children of Israel against their Taske-masters in Egypt the poore labourer cryeth for vengeance against the Depopulator and the hunger starued tennant against the rent-racking landlord But woe bee vnto them that ioyne house to house and lay field to field till there bee no place that they may be placed by themselues in the midst of the earth and woe vnto them that grinde the faces of the poore saith the Lord or hoasts Simony is sister to Oppression for when the field is depopulated corne groweth scarce and therefore the oppressing Patron must part stakes with the Simonicall incumbant for ease of charge hence it commeth to passe that of those foure ordinary gates of entrance into the Church Caesaris Simon● sanguinis atque dei By fauour of Caesar of Simony of Friends and of God three of them are almost stopt vp and their passages growne ouer with grasse but the path of Simony is made a high way because shee hath played the ingrosser and bought the Monopoly of the rest Sacriledge is fellow heire with Simony and goeth to law with religion Non vndecūque tollere hoc est sacrilegium committere sed de Ecclesia qui aliquid futatur Iudae proditori comparatur for the right of the Church and it is to be feared without the mercy of God and fauour of the King that in many places they will be quite ouerthrowne witnes that abhominable crye of horrible Sacriledge that foundeth in the world where the godlesse depopulators haue inclosed fields townes Churches and all pulling those downe which their religious fore-fathers did build vp stopping their doores with thornes and their windowes with bushes yea couering their roofes with thatch nay leauing them naked or els turning these holy places into barnes or sheepe coates or other prophane vses so that for lacke of people the earth and bruite beasts may complaine to the Lord Psal 79.1 in the words of the Prophet O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple haue they defiled and made Ierusalem an heape of stones many more are the crying sinnes of these daies but two especially had deed to be spoken of the first is Hypocrisie and dissimulation the second Schisme and diuision 7. Hypocrisie There is a crye of hypocrisie euery where to bee heard for how many are there that professe themselues to be the seruants of Christ and yet when occasion serues will haue concord with Beliall and serue the diuell that will make a shew of offering sacrifice vnto God in the temple of the Lord and yet ioyne themselues with Idolatours in the temple of idols that will serue the Lord at Ierusalem and yet offer oblations to the golden calues in Bethel and in Dan that will besure to verifie the prouerbe Run with the Hare and yet hold with the Hound professe simplicitie with the Sheepe and yet practise their subtiltie with the Foxes play on both hands like Ambo-dexters fit and frame and fashion themselues for all companies with the religious they will seeme religious and with the prophane they wil follow prophanenesse with the godly they will seeme to be godly and with the wicked they will practise iniquitie with the sober they will commend sobrietie but yet they will not cease to bee drunke with the drunken with the continent they will extoll chastitie they will not refraine the harlots houses to commit adultery To bee short they are like Ferrie-men looking one way but rowing another way bearing men in hand that they are trauelling forwards in the narrow way that leadeth vnto life when indeede they are walking forwards in that broad path that leadeth to destruction for what kinde of wickednesse will they not commit being intized vnto it by the deceitfull baits of profit and pleasure sabbath breaking sacriledge simonie vsury periury vilanie Stony ground Math. 13.21 and what not making shipwracke of faith and of a good conscience as the Apostle speaketh But such as those are receiue their seede amongst stones and therefore hindring the roote of the word by their stony hearts they obtaine only the leaues of profession and are altogether depriued of the good fruite of a true religion their faith is resisted by the stones of error their hope resisted by the waues of feare and their charitie resisted by the blustering windes of malice and enuy they are composed of inconstancy and therfore wanting the firme and stable pillars of faith hope and charitie their house of hypocrisie is suddainly ouerturned by that strong man the diuell more mightie then Sampson they themselues with their outside profession beaten to peeces in a moment The last sinne is schisme and diuision in the Church 8. Schisme and the cry of this is so grieuous that it grieues me to thinke of it much more to speak of it most of all to behold it amongst our selues In the primitiue Church Acts 2 46. they were all of one minde and all of one heart O happie vnion O blessed time but now how many minds how many schismes how many diuisions in the Church and that many times about shadowes about ceremonies about circumstances while let the substance goe one saith I am of Paul another I am of Ap●llo another I am of Cephas another I am of Christ is Christ diuided did Paul die for you or was Apollo crucified certaine it is that you cannot diuide Christ though you may diuide our selues from Christ O then take heede of rending Christs seamelesse coate of making Schisme Christ seamelesse co●te must not bee rent and diuision in the Church labour to keepe vnitie with veritie and veritie with vnitie least Christ cast ye forth of the Church take his coate of protectiō frō you so being found naked in the stormes of misery ye perish in