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A80730	Two sermons preached at Christ-Church in the city of Dublin, before the honourable the General Convenion of Ireland. The first on Prov.11.14 at the first meeting of the said convention, March 2. 1659. The second on Jude v.19. at a publique fast appointed by the said convention, March 9. 1659. By Sem Coxe, Minister of the gospel and pastor at St. Katherines in Dublin.	Coxe, Sem.; Ireland. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6726; Thomason E1026_21; ESTC R208752	50,638	72

multitude of unstable spirits in the land who change in their principles upon every occasion of whom ye are admonished to beware Prov. 24. 21. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Hearken not unto them have nothing to do with them that are every day devising a new cut in regard of religious and civil matters And he giveth you fix Reasons against this unsetledness of spirit and against intermedling with them that are so changeable in Verse 22. For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both 1 Calamity shall be the portion both of these changlings and of those that meddle with them their calamity shall rise c. neither of them shall escape danger Gideous idolatry in making an Ephod putting it in his own city became a snare to him and to his house and to all Israel Judg. 8. 27. it brought much misery upon them 2 This calamity shall rise as a bird out of the bush unthought of by such ways and means as are not by us imaginable by some extraordinary hand of God As it fell out with King Uzziah who would needs invade the Priests office to burn incense in the temple but the Lord in a miraculous manner plagued him the leprosy even rose upin his forehead saith the Text 2. Chron. 26. 19. 3 It shall rise suddenly before it can be thought of Prov. 6. 15. Tberefore his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without remedy They shall have no time to parley with it 4. This calamity shall end in ruine in a total destruction the misery of such persons shall be capital Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked saith Habbakkuk in his prayer Chap. 3. 13. God will utterly destroy them 5 It shall be the ruine of them both They that are given to change and they that meddle with them shall fare both alike Not onely Korah Dathan and Abiram did perish for their innovation in matters appertaining to religion and civil government but also those two hundred and fifty princes that were ensnared by them and drawn into that mutany as you find Numb 16. 31-35 6 This ruine shall be unexpressible unconceivable Who knoweth it who is able to declare how great it shall be Ye shall not doubt have many giddy phanatick spirits fawning upon you who will seek to unsettle your judgments and to turn you out of the right and old way for these croaking frogs swarm in every corner Therefore stand your ground be well resolved in your own judgments And as you must be well settled in your judgments so you must take good courage to carry on the work before you and to withstand all difficulties you shall encounter with This befitteth your place Be strong and of a good courage saith the Lord to Joshua Ch. 1. 6 7 9. And stir up one another in the words of Joab 2 Sam. 10. 12. Be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and for the Cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good V. Lastly Ye must also be unanimous of one heart and of one spirit in your counsels and consultations else ye shall never be able to save the people from falling Though Counsellors be many and prudent yet if they fall to division among themselves and side into parties and make factions the people can have no hope of safety and protection from them but must needs be in continual fears and jealousies This was it that put the Israelites into very sad thoughts in the time of their war against Jabin the King of Canaan because that the Reubenites were divided from them in that enterprize and made more account of their own security than of employing themselves any way for the assistance of their brethren in that common danger Judg. 5. 15 16. For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart Divisions and factions in counsels are sad signs to a Land or to a particular person When that Ahitophel counselled Absalom to fall upon David while he was weary and weak-handed and on the otherside Hushai advised to protract the time untill a great army could be prepared to fight a set battel 2 Sam. 17. 1-13 you know what ruine it brought at last upon Absalom and his party It is strange to observe how great miseries and calamities befell both to Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal or Gideon and likewise to the men of Shechem after that God had sent an evil spirit of division between them Judg. 9. 23. they rested not till they had contrived and effected each others destruction But unity and oneness in counsels doth usually procure safety We use to say vi● unita fortior and it is a truth Many arrows bound together are strong but being divided asunder they are weak and easily broken in pieces I know that I am speaking to such worthy Persons as are very sensible of the bitter fruits of divided couns●ls no people in any age have been more disturbed by factions and parties than we have been Wherefore I humbly beg two Petitions of you who are to be our Representatives in this great Council 1 That ye keep a full accord among your selves Fall not out by the way was the good advice of Joseph to his brethren Gen. 45. 24. Satan and his instruments will do their utmost to divide you watch therefore I beseech you against all temptations in this kind you cannot be too heedfull The Apostle Paul giveth excellent counsel which I also give unto you Rom. 16. 17. Mark them which cause divisions and offences and avoid them have nothing to do with such men 2 That ye also hold a full correspondence in your counsells with your brethren in the other nations that live under the same government with you and particularly with the Parliament of England now so mercifully restored to their freedom and with those that they shall leave in Government during the interval of Parliament From them you have received eminent assistance in your national distress O let it never be forgotten by you The Islands of great Brittain and Ireland are like two bottles swimming in the water if they clash they break or rather they are like a gallant ship and a small boat floating in the Ocean if they dash one against the other by reason of winds and tempests the boat is in great danger to be sunk or split in pieces Think not that you are able to stand alone in taking advice with England will be your honour and safety and a threefold cord is not easily broken as Solomon observeth Eccles 4. 12. Some of you have already made a Covenant and league of friendship with them with hands lifted up to the most high God you must not onely vow but pay your vows to God most high Psal 50. 14. Having thus spoken concerning the Qualifications of Counsellors that would save a Nation I am

twelve And Luk. 22. 14. And when the hour was come he sare down c. He would not fail in the very time of this Ordinance though a whole Church digressed from it Though Christians are bound to hold communion with the Church in which they live so far as they walk up to the rule yet in any pollution that is in that Church they need not nor ought to be partakers and such a frame of spirit doth well become every Christian This therefore justifieth the practise of such as flie from the errours that are in the Church not daring to meddle with any impositions which are not of the Lords appointment therein though they may not nor dare separate from her VII Lastly After due admonition given to scandalous sinners who live in the Church if the admonition be rejected and the sinners prove obstinate the Church must separate them and cast them out from her communion This lesson our Lord Jesus teacheth Mat. 18. 15-17 If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother But if he will not hear thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established And if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the Church but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican In which Text our Saviour doth not teach a Non-communion as some call it viz. that when we see Church members to offend and there is in the Church no help to be found for the redress thereof we must therefore decline communion with that Church immediately but he teacheth an Excommunion viz. that such as offend are to be cast out of that Church in case they do not reform upon admonition seasonably and frequently given according to that in Tit. 3. 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject cast him off separate him from your communion This Separation is approvable Thus far you see we may and must be Separatists the Holy Ghost enjoyneth it we sin if we be not so and they that cast a reproach upon any man for this kind of Separation are in a great fault and it will be sin unto them And the Apostle in the 2 Cor. Chan. 6. giveth five reasons to persuade to such a Separation as this when he commandeth to come out from sinners and to be separate 1 Because there can be no agreement between the people of God and such sins and sinners This he proveth and confirmeth by propounding five Questions Verse 14 15 16. The first is What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness The second What communion hath light with darkness The third What concord hath Christ with Belial The fourth What part hath he that believeth with an infidel The fifth What agreement hath the Temple of God with idols As if he should have said These things are diametrally contrary the one to the other they are separated asunder and so must ye be separated from sin and sinners 2 Because the people of God are the house or Temple of God ver 16. For ye are the temple of God And it is unmeet that the temple of God should be defiled by having any society with sin and sinners therefore be ye separate 3 Because God dwelleth in this temple ibid. As God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them And it is treachery yea high treason to lodg any rebels within or near the habitation of this great King therefore separate 4 Because this God who dwelleth in this temple is the living God ibid. Ye are the temple of the living God so as he taketh notice of our behaviour and his spirit is grieved at this as a great miscarriage if we hold any communion with such and therefore we must separate from them 5 Because the people of God are an holy covenant engaged people God is their God and they are his people ibid. I will be their God and they shall be my people According to that which is written Deut. ●6 17 18. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his commandments and judgments and to hearken unto his voice And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people And therefore the people of God ought warily to avoid and separate from such things or persons as may endanger a breach of that love and amity that is between God and them Observe then that I speak not against all kind of Separation there is a Separation that is lawfull holy and strictly enjoyned us in the word of God Second Yet there is an unholy unlawful Separation an ungodly Separatist condemned in the unerring word of God You see that the Apostle Jude condemneth these false Teachers of whom he speaketh in this Epistle for their Separation amongst other vices that they were guilty of and sets a black mark of infamy upon them These be they saith he mark observe them well follow them not who separate themselves Let us therefore make enquiry by the written word of God who these Separatists are that we may know them and avoid them And I shall demonstrate that in six particulars I. Such may justly be challenged as guilty of sinfull Separation who deline as unlawfull all necessary society with them whom they conceive to be unregenerate so as they will not eat or drink or converse with them at all Such were the Pharisees of whom mention is frequently made in the New Testament and they were called Pharisees from the Hebrew Pharash separavit For though that word be metaphorically expounded to declare or to interprete yet properly it signifieth to divide or separate as the learned observe and so the Greeks used to call the Pharisees 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Separatists to this Epiphanius agreeth Dicebantur Pharisaei eò quòd separati essent ab aliis propter spontaneam superfluam religionem apud ipsos receptam Now one main point of their religion lay in this thing That they refused to eat or drink or come into the company of any whom they looked upon as sinners and blamed all those that followed not their example in this matter as you find in that speech of theirs to the Disciples Mat. 9. 11. Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners But our Lord Jesus refused not to converse with them upon just occasion as appeareth by his defense in the twelfth and thirteenth verses But when Jesus heard that he said unto them They that be whole need not a Physician but they that are sick But go ye and learn what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance By which answer our Lord Jesus Christ doth fully declare unto us that the Pharisees were