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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59072	God, the king, and the church (to wit) government both civil and sacred together instituted ... and throughout all, the Church of England ... vindicated : being the subject of eight sermons, preached ... / and now published by George Seignior ...	Seignior, George, d. 1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing S2417; ESTC R19835	158,466	284

their hands to the most high God in a most wicked and seditious Covenant though by Oath they were obliged to a Canonical Obedience that they would not onely destroy the hewers of wood and the drawers of water from amongst us but sacrilegiously take away both wood and water from the sanctuary leaving us nothing but a strange fire that would have consumed every thing that was sacred from the midst of us These men were like Saul of old of a most bloody house O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly let me not be united Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel in their anger they flew a Man a Man that was worth ten thousands of men nay two Men unto which the Ages before did never shew the like Moses and Aaron fell both under the same stroke in their self-will they digged down a wall broke through all inclosures to lay our Sion waste and for these sins unrepented of and still persisted in has not our Jerusalem been made a heap of Stones But blessed be our God who raised up Jacob when he was small and have we not seen with our eyes the reward of rebellious sinners God hath scattered them in Jacob they are at this day divided in Israel thus their sin of Division and Separation is the worst of judgments from Gods permission upon them whilst their hearts are hardned through their Disobedience and Vnbelief These are not like David men after Gods own heart the Zeal of Gods house devoured him yea and the Son of David when he twice whip'd the the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple but their Zeal has been to consume the house of God either to brake down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers to destroy all the Synagogues of God in the Land or to prophane those they leave standing some evil Angel or other appointed to hover over the Mercies Seat the Houses of Prayer made so many Dens of Thieves in a word these are like Saul in the New Testament before his conversion Philip. 3. As concerning zeal persecuting the Church not like St. Paul having embraced the Faith of Christ Zealous toward God in that which is good herein always exercising himself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward all men That in this Digression whither our unreasonable Zealots as evil workers have carried me I may not loose the scope of my Text These seditious Gnosticks who disturbed the Peace of the Church by obtruding upon the Disciples Mosaical rigours and so bewitching these foolish Galatians from the stedfastness of their obedience both Schism and Rebellion are as the sin of witchcraft had a Zeal for God St. Paul bears them witness but it was not according to knowledge or if they had as their very compellation signifies nothing less then Science yet it was falsly so called the understanding of all mysteries and of all knowledg neither was their Zeal mistaken or blind so much the worse for it was not according to Godliness since they were not careful to square their actions by that Rule of obedience which they did profess They were zealously affected but not well Bu● on the contrary while St. Paul fights it is the good fight of Faith does he contend earnestly It is for the word of truth which he had received for and delivered to them according to the Scriptures while he does withstand the adversaries to the face it is not his forward zeal or his pious eagerness but their back-sliding their frowardness and peevishness their Dissimulation and Hypocrisie was to be blamed for this he had secured in the first place that the thing for which he contended was just and good and this he was assured of to the last that having no sinister or by designs it was good to be always zealously affected which is the Third and last Thing In which zeal is good in relation to the Object when it is rightly qualified and stated directed to a good end because where there is such a pious care that the thing contended for be good there likewise we do charitably believe that the zeal is guided by a good intention not being over-byassed or over-ballanced by any sinister or by-respects The Pious Zealot is many times counted singular this may be a more charitable reason for the compellation then is usually urged He is indeed singular that is he is neither double-tongued nor double-minded the preparations of his heart are from the Lord. Some mens Zeal is not from an inward principle of Conscience but some outward reason or motive to incite them as was hinted in the close of the former Discourse either the thing for which they are so zealous makes for their interest or else they will make it so while their design is to get a name and to appear some-Body in the world or as bad nay worse then both these because it comprehends them both a sordid and an unworthy compliance for there is a kind of zeal in luke-warmness it self a Complemental congenial Religion in suiting our selves to the company with whom we converse changing faces with every one we meet is an hypocritical principle by which too too many act and walk amongst us These are they who would fain have every ones good word care not much to venture their credit to be evil spoken of in the cause of Piety they are altogether for a good they cannot go thorow a bad report and it is observable that such persons who do thus ambire famam court every ones applause seldom speak well of any but those with whom at present they are conversing their Detraction is as notorious as their flattery and be it for their advantage to steal into the heart to win upon the affections of some leading men of whatsoever Perswasion they are as good at their Satyricks as at Panegyricks they are furnished at all adventures and can as smartly declaim against as possibly not long before to another company they did ingeniously commend the same thing And sad it is but too notoriously apparent that such a humour as this doth transport many men in Religion it self who because of advantage can have Schism and Faction in admiration Men who have as different Behaviours as they have Habits suting themselves to the untowardness of those with whom they have to do rather then to the strictness of that profession to which they are obliged by all the ties imaginable these can urge the severity and Letter of a Law though it be for Uniformity strain it contrary to its meaning against any that will not comply with them in their luke-warmness that so they may have the less disturbance in the promotion and strengthning of schism and sedition This is their keeping wind-ward of the Law It is but their moderation to deviate from an established Rule pro hic nunc according to time and place to sute themselves to the humours of

it it will never be forgiven us Nay sad it is to consider it but too really true there are those in the world who should teach as well as they know better things who call those their Patrons which exercise authority over or have any influence upon them transporting them to act either lukewarmly in or indirect opposition against that Religion to which they have already given up their names so often both by Obligatory Oaths and Promissory subscriptions they are sufficiently enough convinced that this is and ought to be the worship of the God of our Fathers but alas what need they concern themselves for that which they shall never be able to help must they venture upon the bad and lose the good report of such who for the present are kind unto them and may hereafter as things may come about reward their pert pragmatical zeal with ruine and destruction like Naaman the Syrian they will worship no other God then the God of Israel but as for bowing in the House of Rimmon when their Masters lean upon their shoulders they shrink up their shoulders and as to this they have a Latitude the Lord pardon them in this Well let them go in peace they are loth it seems to be put to any trouble in the service of their God alas poor low-spirited wretches they are to be pittied since they have not faith to trust that God whom they worship beyond their present injoyments who are for living at case in an earthly Sion and that they may keep their present station turn their books upon the Temple But let it not be so with us let it be known to the world maugre men and Devils that we dare be honest Oh! why should we be as those who turn aside onely that we may go with such who will have company that they may be froward and perverse whatsoever our dependancies upon greatness may be we must be careful as in humility so also with resolution not in the least to let go our integrity in our patience we must possess our souls and yet we must be so far watchful over our selves that our hearts do not reproach us so long as we live Consider we that God is not a man that he should lie neither is he as the Son of man that he should repent he hath said it and it was the Truth himself that spoke it concerning Eli and his sons when they prevaricated in his service 1 Sam. 2.30 He that honoureth me him will I honour and he that despiseth me shall be lightly esteemed Above all things in our Religion which is the onely tye or chain of Communion betwixt a Man and his Maker let us not be swayed by so timorous so sordid so Hypocritical a principle as is that of base unworthy compliance sneakingly to gratifie the humours of such who lie in wait either for to deceive or to be deceived and that against the dictates of our own Minds and the principles of that visible Community which in a settled Oeconomy we have already professed heartily to embrace and that if for no other reason let it be for this lest in time we grow to that height of wickedness as to persecute that way of worship to which once we did conform God forbid that we should ever live to see it but so it may come to pass that none shall prove more rigid and severe against then such as have been timo●ous lukewarm and unsettled under the strictness of discipline and order May we not set our countenances upon some men amongst us stedfastly to behold them till both they and we are ashamed and while we look upon them fall a weeping as the Prophet Elisha did upon Hazael who was to be King of Syria 2. Reg. 12.8 I weep saith the Prophet because I know of the evil which thou wilt do unto the children of Israel their strong holds wilt thou set on fire their young men wilt thou slay with the Sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their women with child But Hazael replyed what is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing the Prophet was more then a Prophet in this instance the Lord had shewed all this unto him And though we do not pretend now adays to New Revelations it is well if we give credit to what has been revealed of old God grant that this Prophesie may never be made again a History whilst we may sadly weep over some amongst us who should they once more have opportunity would destroy all our pleasant things pull down all the houses of God break the carved work with Axes and hammers tell them what are our just fears what say they Are we dogs that we should make all this havock but we need not urge a Spirit of Prophesie let us look a little backward and our later dayes of misery and confusion will tell us that such things as these have been done by those who did more than ever they intended to do in the work of Deformation in the midst of us God grant that we may never have occasion to stand in need of their pity even their mercies are cruel meer y pretending friends when ever they have opportunity prove most insolent enemies especially if once it makes for their Interest to be malicious if they can but thus recover their credit which by a former neutrality they have hazarded they will leave no stone unturned yea though it be by laying of the Temple waste Down with it Down with it will they say in the day of their fierce wrath and who shall withstand them But is this their kindness to their Friends must it be to lay Sion waste and to make Jerusalem an heap of Stones It can hardly be otherwise imagined but that these great Minions in the Text proved at length to be the worst Persecutors who though they might be perswaded of what they heard and of what they saw yet for fear of the powers which were set over them did not dare to own that word which to them was accompanied with power These very men to shew their readiness of Subjection or to take off all manner of suspition that they were never heartily of that Perswasion no further than was consistent with their Self-preservation might be the first to lay hands upon the Apostles to imprison them to deliver them up had they not been over-ruled unto death it self But this was Gods never-ceasing care and providence over his Church that should hand joyn in hand they should be able to do no violence they even thus considered as now turned enemies shall not approach to hurt them upon second and better thoughts they do yet again give back and these are the Third sort of Persons who are said in the Text to keep this remoter Distance even the Adversary himself though an open and professed enemy yet he durst not draw near for mischief God is terrible in his Judgments Signs and wonders are wrought by the

next Generations sake which is to come they would not further promote the establishing of this iniquity by law lest whilst they do gredily catch at the portion of meat which is upon Gods Altar they unawares bring a burning coal along with it not to cleanse their lips but which will burn their nests and kill their young ones destroy their whole Family Whosoever thinks to raise his House upon the Churches ruines let it be in a literal or a metaphorical sense both the Ground is holy and so is the portion likewise that is alloted for the maintenance of the Building lays his Foundation if not upon Sand yet in Fire the Fire from Gods Altar hid as it were in its own Embers at the bottom sometime or other will break out afresh the ruine and destruction will be inevitable a sad Desolation not at all to be withstood Not unlike this were in a great measure the Signes and Wonders in the Text which were causal of a reverent esteem in the people of the administration of Gods service to wit Gods sore displeasure manifested against the sin of Sacrilege and this should have the same effect now were there not a Generation of Vipers amongst us who delight in nothing but in Eating through the Bowels of their Mother-Church who notwithstanding the judgments of God so visibly terribly in the earth will not be perswaded to learn righteousness 2. Signes and Wonders still and those the occasions of a great Veneration being there were Wonders of Mercy to all those who stood in need of healing whilst the People took so great a delight under and found so much benefit in St. Peters shadow they could not but have respect for the substance nay though Multitudes came out of the Cities round about bringing sick folks and those that were vexed with unclean Spirits they were all healed every one Thus from the beginning the fruit of the Tree of life was for the healing of the Nations that so the people might find a place of rest under and at the same time satisfie themselves in admiration of the Branches of it The Gospel of the Kingdom was ordained of God in the hands of Jesus as a Mediator in the Mouths of the Apostles as the Dispencers of it to be for health both unto Body and Soul forgiveness of sin to the one taking away all manner of Distempers from the other and so a perfect salvation unto Both whilst unto those who fear and reverence the word of God which is to be magnified above all his name Christ as the Son of righteousness his Apostles and their Successors as the Stars in his right hand they have their sweeter influences and He Himself ariseth nothing less from all but healing in their wings And although at this day these extraordinary benefits are with-held there being no need of such wonders now to confirm that word of life into which we are no sooner born then baptized and we all of us may or should suck in the sincere milk of the Word with that which we draw from our Mothers brests our parents according to the flesh being as Tutors and Governours to bring us to God our Father to Christ our elder Brother and to the Church our best Mother yet methinks there are some Wonders of Providence like those antient Miracles of Mercy still continued to consider that outward peace plenty and prosperity which God usually gives in as a Temporal advantage to that Nation or people amongst whom his worship is celebrated in the Beauty and Glory of it when the Tribes of Israel go up to the Mountain of God to serve the Lord in that place which out of all the Tribes he has chosen to himself lo in the same City where is the Temple of God do they behold with admiration and count her Towers mark well her Bulwarks and reckon up the Fortresses thereof this the security and strength of the City but then for its glory and splendor see there also Majesty as most excellent there are the seats for judgment and the throne is there established for the House of David But on the contrary whence come wars and tumults intestine broils or hostile invasions are they not most usually directed providentially as to the ultimate end of them in order to the removal of the Candlestick from those who do not value it who care not to rejoice in the Light that is fixed in it hence the Kingdom of God is taken away from those who lightly regard it given to those who will reverence its Dispensation bringing forth the fruits of holiness in Patience and Sobriety Where is the Church of Corinth now or where are the seven Churches of Asia what is become of Antioch where our Religion was first Christened the name of our Lord called upon his followers I might mention the rest to whom St. Paul writes his Epistles how were they once exalted unto heaven in their glorious and great injoyments but now they are almost reduced to their former Gentilisme for surely they did not continue stedfast to the goodness of their God Nay closer yet to make the case our own if the Administration of the Gospel of peace doth not still keep along with it as its concomitant the miraculous gift of healing all manner of diseases and bodily infirmities yet certainly it continues health where it doth not restore it or at least the prophanation of it is that which kindles Gods wrath against us and provokes him to plague us with divers Diseases and sundry kinds of death as our Liturgy in the preparatory exhortation to the Communion most piously observes to consider what ruines have been made by Pestilence Famine and Sword in Christian Common wealths may we not say with the Apostle that for this cause many have been sick many weak and many have fallen asleep so that in some sense it is manifest that the due and right ministration of the Mystery of Godliness has the continuance of this Life as well as the promise of that which is to come would we have our days prolonged in the Land which the Lord our God has given us this is the Commandement and it is the first with a Promise Remember we the performance of it as of children by our holy Church we have been taught That we submit our selves to all our Governors Teachers Spiritual Pastors and Masters that we order our selves lowly and reverently to all our betters in a word which is the sum of all the rest that we magnifie that Religion the due solemnities of which in its wonted beauty is under God who to be sure will take care of his own worship either to vindicate or promote it the only means to make us externally happy if the fence be well set about the Sanctuary this will heal all our other breaches and restore us places to dwell in to be sure provide for us everlasting habitations God will upon this account onely delight in us to build and to