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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35528	Of the unity of the church a discourse written a thousand four hundred and thirty years since, in the time of Decius the persecuting emperor / by Cyprian, bishop of Carthage and martyr ; most usefull for allaying the present heats, and reconciling the differences among us.	Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7714; ESTC R29694	19,253	46

bond of peace He cannot be a martyr who is destitute of brotherly love Saint Paul both teacheth and contests this saying Altho I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing And tho I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and tho I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth nothing Charity suffers long and is kind charity envieth not charity vaunts not it self is not puffed up doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things charity never faileth This shall continue in that kingdom we look for this shall remain to all eternity in the brotherhood and never to be divided union of glorified saints Discord cannot enter heaven nor recieve rewards from Christ who has declar'd to his disciples This is my commandment that ye love one another even as I have loved you He can have no relation to him who violates his love by perfidious dissention Whoever hath not charity hath not God It 's the blessed Apostle John's assertion for he saith God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him They cannot dwell with God who thro dissention will not abide in his Church Tho they fry in flames tho cast into the fire or to wild beasts they lay down their lives therein they recieve not the crown of faith but the reward of disobedience not the glorious exit of religious fortitude but the final destruction of despair Such a one may be killed but cannot be crown'd The schismatic assumes the Christian name no otherwise then the Devil do's when he counterfiets Christ according as he forewarn'd us saying Many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall decieve many Now as Satan is not Christ tho he falsly takes his name so neither is he to be lookt upon as a Christian who perseveres not in the truth of his Gospel and faith thereof It is indeed a sublime and wonderful privilege to prophesy cast out Devils and to perform on earth works of power And yet whosoever he be who hath these gifts doth not thereby attain to the Kingdom of heaven unless he tread in the strait and even path of duty The Lord hath pronounced such a one's doom in these words Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out Devils and in thy name don many wonderful works And then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye workers of iniquity 'T is righteousness alone that can recommend us to God when he comes to judgment We must obey his commands and counsels that the good works which we have don may be rewarded Our Lord in the Gospel when he would guide the progress of our faith and hope in the shortest track tells us The Lord thy God is one And Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul and with all thy strength This is the first and great commandment and the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets In his instruction he joyns together love and unity and in two precepts comprised the Law and the Prophets But how doth he retain unity or preserve love or so much as think on 't who furiously mad with the poyson of discord mangles the Church destroyeth the faith disturbs the peace dissipates charity and profanes all holy mysteries This mischief my beloved Brethren began long since but now the destruction occasion'd thereby is apparently encreased and the poysonous bane of heretical perversness and separation hath shot up and shews it self For the holy Spirit foretelling admonishing us by the Apostle declares that in the declination of the world it was necessary so it should be In the last days saith he perilous times shall come For men shall be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traitors heady highminded lovers of plesures more then lovers of God having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof Of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth But they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men as theirs also was What hath been foretold hath been exactly fulfill'd and the world now drawing to an end the times and men are a proof thereof The adversary now raging more and more in like proportions error decieves stupidity thrusts forward envy enflames avarice blinds impiety depraves pride puffs up discord provokes anger transports Yet notwithstanding all this the abounding of iniquity ought not to shake and disturb us but rather the truth of the prediction ought to confirm and strengthen our faith Therefore should the brethren rather take heed of such for that all things were foretold of them our Lord himself teaching us and saying But take ye heed behold I have foretold you all things Avoid I beseech you such men and walk not with them and keep your ears shut and your selves far from their infectious communication which carrieth death along with it as it is writen Set an hedge of thorns about thine ears and hearken not to an evil tongue And again Evil communication corrupts good manners The Lord instructs and counsels us to withdraw from this sort of persons They are blind leaders of the blind And if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch Whoever he is that lives in separation from the Church he is to be detested and shunn'd He who is such is perverted and sinneth being condemn'd of himself Can he concieve himself to be on Christ's side who acts against his Priests who departs from the communion of his Clergy and people Such a one bears arms against the Church against God's ordinance is an enemy to the altar a rebel against the sacrifice of Christ instead of being faithful is a traitor instead of religious sacrilegious an undutiful son an ungodly servant an hostile brother contemning the Bishops and renouncing God's priests he presumtuously sets up altar against altar makes new and unlawful praiers profanes by false sacrifices the true offering of our Lord not deigning to consider that they who resist the ordinance of God recieve to themselves damnation Thus Corah Dathan and Abiram who challeng'd to themselves the power of sacrificing in opposition to Moses and Aaron the priest were immediately punisht for