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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50417	A sermon concerning unity & agreement preached at Carfax Church in Oxford, August 9, 1646 / by Iasper Maine ...	Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1647 (1647)	Wing M1477; ESTC R32062	36,818	45

a glass window or because the Minister wears white or because marryed people come together by a Ring or because the Lords Prayer is more then once repeated is not only Schisme and I may safely say Schisme upon scandall taken not giuen but t is directly contrary to S Pauls advice here in this Text who is so far from tolerating any such needless divisions and separations of presences and bodies that he will not allow in the same Church and Congregation the least dissent or division of minds But makes it the least part of his Petition to his disagreeing Corinthians that they would not only meet together in the same place of Gods Worship but that they would be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judg-ment which is the last part of the Text To which I shall only adde some brief Application of some things in this Sermon to you my hearers and so commend you to God 'T was well said of one of the Philosophers which saying of his hath since almost grown into a Prouerb of truth Nihil est in Intellectu quod non fuit priùs in sensu That there is nothing in the understanding or mind within which was not first in the sense without T is as great and measured a Truth that there is nothing in our speech or words or actions without which was not first in our mind or wil or affections within For what our Saviour Christ said that Out of the heart proceed evill thought's murthers adulteries thefts false witness blasphemies and the like to every one of which sins without belongs some secret invisible spring within As I say to every Adultery without belongs some hidden lust within and the uncleannesse of the body is but the soul issue and off-spring of the soul And as to every murther without belongs some secret envy or hatred or thirst of revenge within and the rancour of the heart only clothes it self in the violence and bloud-shed of the hand so we may say of our Divisions and Disagreements too All those odious words and names of mutuall infamy and reproach all those perverse crossings and thwartings and contradictions of speech all this duell and skirmish and quarrelsomeness of language Lastly all this shunning and lothing of one anothers company all this separation and denyall of communion which we so ordinarily see exercised and practiced without are but so many unchristian behaviours which take their originall and birth from as unchristian grudges and prejudices and jealousies and mis-apprehensions within Never man yet dissented from another in speech but he first dissented from him in opinion And never man yet separated from another in communion but he first separated from him in affection and will To remove therefore the root and spring of all disagreements as well as the current and stream and to beget a peace and concord and reconciliation without Saint Paul like a skilfull Artist who reserves the hardest part for the last proceeds from mens words and actions to their opinions and thoughts and like those who fet Watches and Clocks where the Hand upon the Dyall without cannot move regularly unless the weights and springs which guide it move orderly within the better to make us go all alike and strike the same time he endeavors to setle and compose those inward wheels by which our words and behaviors without are to be ruled and governed The thing then for which he here so earnestly Petitions is Unity and Agreement and Consent of minds Which in plain terms is to exhort us that as we are all men of one and the same reasonable kind formed and created like one another in the shape and figure of our body so that we would approve our selves to be men of one and the same reasonable kinde in the Musique and Harmony of our souls too Which would then come to pass if every one of us would by the impartiall search and examination of his own mind dislodg those mists and clouds of errour which blind him towards himself and benight him towards others Or if he cannot do this by the strength and diligence of his own naturall Forces that he would have recourse to those who are most able to pluck this beam out of his eye and whose work and business it is so to apply their Cures as by proposing that one constant immutable eternall Divine Truth to his mind in which t is possible for all minds well enlightned to concenter and agree by degrees to reduce him from his blindness and errour and to make him not only speak but conceive and think the same things with him that taught him It was wel said of him who compared our minds to Looking-glasses or Mirrours For certainly if we could but keep them open and unclouded they carry this property of Mirrours with them not only to return the images and shapes and truths of things which pass before them as they are but all minds in a clearer or less clear degree have a capacity to receive into them the truth of the same things alike As a thousand Glasses if they be true successively lookt in wil shew us the same faces But then as Glasses if they be false wil cast false resemblances or if they be discoloured wil transform all things which flow into them into their own die So t is with us I know not how it comes to pass or whether I may ascribe the fault to Education or Custome or to our parents or to our Affections too much knit and wedded to the Religion or Doctrin or Opinion or Teacher which most complyes with our Fancies but there are certain ill-cut false-reporting minds which look upon men and things in another size and figure then they are Other minds there are stained and died as it were with certain weak prejudices and corrupt opinions through which as through so many deceiving colours they discern no truths which wear not that hue As he that looks through a green Glass takes all things for green and he that looks through a blew Glass takes all things for azure And this was the very case of these Corinthians here in the Text They first addicted themselves over-partially to severall Teachers and from their severall Teachers took in severall apprehensions as they pleased to like or affect him above others whose Disciples they called themselves Some though they did not well understand what they held resolved without any examination what they were to be only of Saint Pauls opinions Others resolved to hold only what had been taught them by Apollos Others resolved to hold only what had been preacht by S. Peter All which three taught and preacht one and the same Gospell yet that Gospel was not alike entertained by all hearers Whilst some disliked it in S. Paul because as himself complains he was of an humble presence and of an ungrateful utterance Others dislike it perhaps in the mouth of Apollos because it came Rhetorically from him