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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54463	A sermon preached in the Cathedral of St. Peters in York on the fifth day of Novemb. 1689 by William Perse ...	Perse, William, 1640 or 41-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1654; ESTC R7086	17,801	43

cause them to desist from their interprize This but whets their anger and inventions Animos a vulnere sumunt Like Antaeus they seem to receive vigour from their very falls This shows their Obstinacy and inveteracy 3. They have many ways to execute their Fury and to bring their hidden purposes to perfection The Sword and the Mattock open Force and hidden Treachery I might put in the Pen likewise none of the least invenom'd Weapons they make use of to accomplish their wicked designs Besides a thousand little Arts they have to delude the Vulgar and to hold silly ignorant people Captive this shows their Cunning. They do as Balaam did at the request of Balak Num. 23.13 if they cannot curse Israel from one Hill they will try another and another after that to see if at length some one lucky hit may render their Fascinations and Enchantments prosperous and successful 1. The Enemies of the Church are many Too many for me to speak to within the compass allotted for this Exercise too many for the poor Church by her own strength to encounter but not too many for her Almighty Patron and invincible Champion to deliver her from For though all the Legions of Darkness should combine in one against her and call in all their Auxiliaries to their assistance all those who for the Virulency of their Principles and the maliciousness of their practice may be stil'd Devils incarnate yet should they be as chaffe before the wind and the Angel of the Lord scattering them as the fire burneth the Wood and the flame consumeth the Mountains so shall God persecute them with his Tempest and make them afraid with his Storm Though they come about her like Bees yet shall they be extinct as the fire amongst Thorns so suddenly shall they vanish and be no more Though the Red Dragon open his mouth wide to devour her and her offspring yet God will prepare a place-in the Wilderness for them to retire unto And though he follow her thither yet he shall give her the wings of an Eagle that she may fly away and be at rest and though the Serpent cast whole Floods of Water out of his mouth to overwhelm her yet the Earth shall preserve her by receiving them into her large and vast Treasury As the Air before so the Earth now yea even all Elements shall by the direction and command of their Superior Agent contribute to her security and preservation The Enemies of Sion are many She may well say as David did in her person All nations have compassed me about they have consulted together with one consent and are confederate against me the Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagaerens those indeed who to our great trouble and the greater because assisted by one who calls himself the most Christian King have overspread a considerable part of the once Christian Empire Though the late prosperous successes of the Churches Arms make us to hope that notwithstanding those indirect and unchristian practices their late Half Moon is hastily declining to its utmost Waine Gebal also and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre Assur also is joyned with them and have holpen the Children of Lot. The Enemies of Sion you see are many The Vineyard which God hath planted for himself with his own right hand is infested and troubled with many Adversaries that envy her Felicity and endeavour her utter extirpation There are wild Boares that break down her Hedges and would lay her open and make her common to the Beasts of the Wide and unmanured Wilderness And there are little Foxes that creep through them and crop her tender Budds There are Sacrilegious Caterpillars that devour her fairest Clusters her best and richest possessions And there are Teredines little Creatures that worm themselves into the body of the Vine and corrupt it and others that gnaw at the very Root thinking to kill and destroy it I shall passe by her Forreign Adversaries Atheists and Infidells who deny the very Principles and first Grounds of our most excellent Religion whose Eyes the God of this World hath so blinded that they cannot see the wonders of Gods Law and come to some of her domestick and homebred Foes those that eat of her Bread and drink of her Cup that partake of the same Ordinances Communicate of the same Sacraments that acknowledge the same faith and yet either out of Pride or Ignorance Folly or Conrempt lift up their heel against her 1. Some of those many Enemies of Sion that molest and disturb her are those who joyning with her in her outward worship in the observation of her excellent Discipline and the belief of her sound and Orthodox Doctrine do notwithstanding to their own shame and the Churches prejudice depart from her in their practice and manner of outward conversation whose lives are no ways answerable to that most holy Religion which they profess Qui aliud aiunt aliud vivunt That speak the words of Simon Peter and live the life of Simon Magnus And truly these are none of the least Enemies that the Church of Christ hath for there are no wounds like the wounds of a Friend they strike deepest and are most unkindly resented Such as these give advantage to the Gainsayers of the Truth and make them speak evil of that most innocent Gospel that is first pure and then peaceable Methinks I hear our blessed Saviour saying to the sinning Christian that lives indirect opposition to those divine Precepts which he left to be the Rule and Guide of our Actions something not unlike what the chast and dying Arria said to her beloved Paetus Vulnus Iudaeus quod fecit non dolet inquit Sed quod tu facies hoc mihi crede dolet The Wounds that the malicious and blood-thirsty Jews made in my Hands my Feet do not trouble me being they were given me for thy sake do procure an Attonement for thee but they are those which thou my Friend and Companion whom I loved as my self those which thou who art a part of me a Member of my Body givest me with thy Blasphemies with thy Oaths and Execrations those are the Wounds that stabb me to the heart that crucifie me afresh that put me anew to open shame Pitty it is that those who are right as to their understanding should be perverse in their Wills and irregular in their Affections That those who are so far inlightned in their minds should mix Heaven with Earth light with Darkness for what Fellowship or Communion is there between them Oh! if there be any such here let me beseech them by the Mercies of God by the Bowels of Christ Jesus not to Eclipse the Light of their Profession by the dull interposition of their carnal and Earthly desires 2. Another sort of the Enemies of the Church which do her and themselves no small prejudice are those who by opposing her Doctrine and separating from her Communion