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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15068	Londons returne, after the decrease of the sicknes in a sermon (appointed for the Crosse) but preached in St. Pauls Church. Ianuary 8. 1637. By O.W. p.	Whitbie, Oliver.	1637 (1637)	STC 25371; ESTC S119857	17,928	38

the more they approach the Center by how much the nearer you approach to your neighbour in love by so much the nearer you are to God In the old Law the Iewes were commanded to lift an Oxe or an Asse out of the Pit into which they were fallen Numquid Deo cura de Bobus What hath God care of Oxen surely he hath more of men by how much man comes nearer to his Nature than does the Oxe or the Asse And it was our Saviours charge to St. Peter Luke 22. Thou being converted strengthen thy brethren Peter lovest thou me then feede my sheepe Wee are members of that one body whose head is Christ and as in the naturall so in this mysticall body one member has neede of another member the head is to instruct the hand and the hand to guard the head the eye must see for the foote else they will both fall into the Ditch And this St. Paul calls the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 13.10 For the Law commands no more than to love And a more delicate warre saith Chrysologus was never heard of than to conquer all by love and St. Cyprian observes that all the volumes of the Scriptures are to be found in this one word Love in this all religion hath her consummation Surely Charity is a sacred flame kindled in our breasts by the God of Nature 't is the soule and life of the whole World it knowes no more how to hide it selfe than fire does in straw for as fire will bewray it selfe by light and heate so will Divine Charity it gives light by holy examples and heat by pious admonition teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3.16 The Donatists would to heaven alone as wee have some who will allow salvation to none but them of their faction whereas the blessed St. Paul would have ventured to be accursed for the salvation of his brethren and these good men here judged it in glorious piety a piece of repentance to be repented of to returne to the Lord alone fearing perhaps GOD would give them that answer which Ioseph did the Patriarchs Gen. 42. You shall not see my face unlesse you bring your brother with you this made them move together like the fingers of one hand like the eyes of the same head and in love that might invite the eyes of Angels locke arme in arme and as if they had had but one soule to say with one voyce venite come let us Note againe out of their venite what we may think of those who neither returne to God themselves nor suffer others but are as the Authors of their Schisme so the hinderers of their conversion Truely we may fafely judge that they are not of Christs fold who mis-leade his sheepe and it was a sinne which made Lucifer the Divel to draw the Angels away from God and they who on earth goe about to divide Christs seamlesse coat the Church shew that they are not members of his body Union builds Gods Church but Schisme puls it downe and judge you whether it be not a greater sin then Idolatry when it was punished with a greater vengeance then Idolatry the greatest Idolatry of Israel was to be punished with the Sword Ex. 32. but to destroy Church Rebels the Lord did a new thing on earth and made that earth which fed the peacefull devoure the factious Israelites who went downe quicke into the grave and because they were so unworthy to live the Lord scarce permitted them to dye but gave them that deadly vae of our Saviour Matth. 11 7. Woe to them by whom offences come It was Ieroboams brand set upon him by God himselfe that he made Israel to sinne and brought that Schisme into the Church which rent 10 Tribes not onely from the Scepter but the God of Iudah As for himselfe hee lived to see his Altars cracke under the horrour of his new religion and his posterity were so closely pursued by the wrath of God that in the revolution of a short time there was not a handfull of the dust of his house left alive upon the face of the earth and the miserable Tribes whom he seduced were lost in forraigne captivity and scattered as so much dust before the wind or as so many strawes upon a wrought sea And thus in Eusebius the famous Schismaticke Novatus swore all his Communicants upon the Sacrament that they should adhere to his Sect and never more returne to the Orthodox Cornelius The Church at unity with her children is the fairest among women but when once torne in sunder by severall Factions she prooves like the Levites divided Concubine the horrour and detestation of every eye The speediest way to set a man at variance with God is to be at opposition with his brother and what a shame is it that Theeves and Murderers should goe more friendly to hell than Christians doe to he even O that our Novatian brood they of the separation would consider this who dispose Heaven to 〈◊〉 but them of their brother and sisterhood would they would remember That heaven was made for more then for themselves though they entitle God to a cruell Decree and passe the sentence of Reprobation upon all that are not as mad as themselves Yet maugre their malice all are their brethren that can say Our Father brethren by a threefold tye that is not easily broken by the same Father God by the same mother the Church by the same Redeemer Christ And therefore I will beseech all Christians in the powerfull words of an Apostle 1. Cor. 1.10 by the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ that they would be perfectly joyned together in the same judgement and the same minde that yee all speake the same things And if ye now hope to reestablish your broken peace with God The newes Carryer of Ipswich you must be at unity with his Church Let the seditious man who sowed his tares by night his Pamphlet in your streets rayle on till the accuser of his brethren the Devill who set him on worke pay him his wages as for our selves the way to recover our union with God lies in the happy agreement with one another when you all say with one heart and one voyce what Israel here did venite revertamur ad Dominum come let us c. And so I passe from the proposition with its adjuncts faith and charity to the reasons whereof the first is drawn A Iustitia Dei from Gods Iustice For he hath torne and he hath smitten us ANd this may seeme a strange reason that a man should returne to him by whom he is sore wounded and kisse that hand to whose severity he owes the losse of blood as if David should embrace Saul for running at him with a javelin Yet such is the wholesome power of affliction that whom faire words could not returne rough blowes will bring backe againe and the Prodigall childe did more at the urgence of hunger and could than at the teares