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A73288	VVaters of Marah, and Meribah: or, the source of bitternes, and strife, sweetned and allayed by way of aduice, refutation, censure, against the pseudo-zelots of our age: by Humphrey Sydenham, master of arts, late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1630 (1630)	STC 23574; ESTC S125548	26,958	48

men and partakers of our Nature and not onely in this Generality of loue neither Aquin. secunda secundae q. 25. Art 2. but sometimes more personally In articulo necessitatis secundum praeparationem animi as the Schooles flourish it In an Article of Necessity by some mentall preparation To wit That our minde should euer bee so prepar'd that if Necessity did comply we could loue our enemy in Singulari too more specially more particularly And not onely Thus to our enemie but the Wicked enemy Charity binds there too but there as before Non culpâ quâ peccatores sed naturâ vt diuinae beatitudinis capaces For there are two things considerable in the wicked man Nature and Sin According to Nature which he hath from God he is capable of Beatitude and so the Obiect of our Charity But according to Sinne by which hee stands in Diameter Debemus in peecatoribus odire quòd peccatores sunt et diligere quòd homines sint beatitudini capaces Aquin. secunda secundae q. 25. A. 6. and direct opposition to his God and so finds an impediment of this blessednesse hee is rather the But and Aime of our hatred then Commiseration And therefore whereas the Prophet is often violent against the wicked man debarring him as it were of all Charity with his Conuertentur peccatores in Infernum The wicked shall be turned into Hell Psal 9.17 'T is spoken per modum praenunciationis non imprecationis by way of Prophesie not Curse and therefore 't is not Conuertantur peccatores Psal 50.10 Let the Sinners be turned but Conuertentur in the Future They shall be turned or perchance too per modū optationis by way of wish yet so that the desire of him that wishes be not refer'd to the punishment of man but the Iustice of him that inflicts it Because God himselfe punishing doth not reioyce in the destruction of the wicked but his owne Iustice or else that this desire be refer'd to the remotion of Sinne not the very Act of punishment that so the Transgression be destroyed and yet the Man remaine Secunda secundae q. 25. A. 7. ad 3. And there is Charity in this too great Charity that we wish the preseruation of the Sinner when we desire the destruction of his Sinne But this is Charitas secundùm naeturam also which is not onely expos'd to Man and the worst of men but to Creatures reasonlesse nay to the very Deuils themselues whose nature we may euen out of Charity loue forasmuch as we would haue those spirits to be conseru'd in suis naturalibus Secunda secundae q. 25. A. 11. Genel as they are naturally spirits to the Glory of that diuine Maiestie that created them so Aquinas secunda secundae quaest 25. Art 11. Thus we haue followed Charity in her largest progresse through heauen and Earth to the Horrid pit From God by men to Spirits if there be a place or subiect else where Goodnesse may reside or pitch on Charity will dwell there also It beareth all things 1. Cor. 13.7 beleeueth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Are there Prophecies They shall faile Are there Tongues They shall cease Is there Knowledge 1. Cor. 13.8 That shall vanish but Charity shall neuer faile neuer in matters of Nature or Grace or Glory of the Law the Gospell or their Consummation Charity fulfils the Lawe comprehends the Gospell and compleats Both. All the Morall vertues lye shrin'd here Secunda secundae quaest 65. Art 3. Concl. August Serm. 46. de Tempore 1. Cor 13.23 so Aquinas all the Cardinall saith Augustine all the Theologicall Saint Paul though not ex confesso yet by way of Intimation for Faith and Hope are not onely with it but vnder it The greatest of these is Charity 1. Cor. 13. vlt. The greatest of these All these they are all in Charity and Charity in God In God God it selfe God is Loue and he that dwelleth in Loue dwelleth in God and God in him 1 Iohn 4.16 'T is plaine then where Charity is there is an habitation for the Lord and where 't is not there is a Thorow-fare for the Diuell Religion is but rottennesse without it and all this front of holinesse but drosse and Rubbish Tell me not of Faith without thy works nor of Prayers without thine Almes nor of Piety without thy Compassion nor of Zeale without thy Charity what is Deuotion when 't is turbulent or Conscience when 't is peeuish or Preaching when 't is Schismaticall I loue not Diuinity when 't is stipendary nor purity when 't is factious nor Reprehension when 't is Cruell nor Censure when 't is Desperate Orall vehemency hath more tongue then heart therefore that Zeale which is ouer-mouth'd wee may suspect either for counterfeit or Malicious Beleeue not euery spirit saith Saint Iohn but try the spirits whether they be of God or no 1. Iohn 4. for many false Teachers are gone out into the world Into the world in all Ages and all Churches Let 's particularize in some in that of the Apostles first when vnder a pretence of sincerity and suppressing Innouation labouring to establish the Iewish ceremonies more firmely there were some that subtilly cryed downe the very seeds of Christianity as those false apostles did which came from Iudea vnto Antioch and taught the Brethren That except they were Circum ised after the manner of Moses Acts 15. they could not bee saued whom Paul and Barnabas first and afterwards Peter and Iames and the rest at Ierusalem both zealously did resist and in their Synod or first conuocation powerfully suppresse But this Pseudo-zeale in the time of the Apostles did but smoake and sparkle like fire vnder greene wood In that of the Fathers it brake out into flames when someturbulent and discontented spirits burning in hatred to the true Professors or leaning partially to some faction against the Church notwithstanding out of a meere tickling and itch of glory offer'd themselues vnto death for the confession of the name of Christ Vide Estius in c. 13. ad Rom. as the Montanists Nouatians Arrians Donatists whom the Catholicke Church neuer honor'd with the Title of Martyrs but reprobated and cast out as the wilfull Patriarchs of Schisme herefie as Saint Augustine and Saint Cyprian more voluminously The one in his Disputation against the Nouatian the other against the Donatist And doubtlesse Suffering is not alwayes the way to Glory 'T is not Passion but the Cause of it that both creates and crownes our Martyrdomes Timeo dicere Hieron in cap. 5. ad Galat. sed dicendum est Ierome is loth to speake it but he must That those Corporall tortures which for Religion wee vndergoe euen Martyrdome it selfe if it be therefore vndergone to purchase Admiration and Applause of men frustrà sanguis effusus est That blood was spilt in vaine We honour not Martyrs because they suffer but because for Christ