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A13272	Sermons vpon solemne occasions preached in severall auditories. By Humphrey Sydenham, rector of Pokington in Somerset.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1637 (1637)	STC 23573; ESTC S118116	163,580	323

shall thy seamelesse coate be thus rent and divided how long those wounds in thy side this spittle in thy face these thornes on thy head these lashes on thy body How long these daggers and darts in the bosome of thy beloved Spouse The Church hath the same ground for complaint now that it had of old Filij matris meae pugnaverunt coutra me My mothers children were angry with me or fought against me Cant. 1.6 Et pulchre filios matris meae saith Saint Bernard non autempatris sui illos vocat quia non habebant patrem Deum sed Diabolum Solomon was in the right when he call'd Mutineers in Religion Sonnes of their Mother the Church not of their Father God there are many In and From her that are not of her some by-blowes through Faction and Hypocrify not all legitimate and therefore the sonnes of my Mother not my Brothers nor the sonnes of my Father as if God had nothing to doe with Assacinates and Rebells in the Church nothing as a Father or a God as a Judge he hath as a Father he hath not He saies A Kingdome or Family divided cannot stand as a God hee hath not Hee is called The God of peace not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 14.33 Incompositi status as Beza translates it The God of a state or condition incomposed where there is neither Vniformity of things nor Manners Hee is the God of Order Decency Method Vnity And where these are not God is not to be found no Deus pacis there but that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spoken of by Saint Paul Vnquietnesse Exagitation Tumult or as we newly render it Confusion And indeed that word is most proper to the State and Church where the Deus pacis hath nought to doe Confusion there there necessarily Peace is the Nurse both of strength and plenty if it be Fax Dei But there is a kinde of peace that the Deus pacis will not father and there he is Deus eversionis as Tertullian tolde the Marcionist in his 4. booke 3. chapter In Schismes Heresies Seditions there is a kinde of peace in respect of the Agents though not of their Ends and Agreement in their Intentions though not in their Execution if this be not more properly a combination than an agreement Now God is not there Deus pacis but Deus eversionis 'T is true God is not the God of confusion but of peace saith Saint Paul But where is hee so In all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 So that amongst his Saints onely hee is Deus pacis but amongst their enemies disturbers he is Deus eversionis Of the Arke which was a Type of the true Church and the Flouds on which it was toss'd of the troubles and persecutions of it God was heretofore Deus conservationis But when men to preserve themselves from the flouds of their own fancies will raise up an Arke of bricke a Tower whose top should even reach the Heavens as if the earth were not large enough for their pride and folly God was Deus confusionis And doubtlesse when the Walls of Ierusalem are pulling downe and those of Babel raising up the peace and unity of the Church demolishing and Anarchie building on so fast God will not bee long there Deus conservationis hee will be at length Deus confusionis Though thou build aloft Obad. 4. and nestle among the Clouds yet I will bring thee downe into the dust saith the Lord God And 't is well that what the God of Heaven thus threatneth the Gods of the Earth will put in execution Authority which this way hath been long time asleepe begins to rub up her eyes againe and Aarons Rod which seem'd in our latter times to droope and wither doth at length blossome and bud afresh Canons Constitutions Decrees which were formerly without soule or motion Oh blessed be the religious care of an incomparable Soveraigne a powerfull Metropolitan and by them here an active Diocesan have recover'd a new life and vegetation Ceremonies harmelesse Ceremonies which some in the heat of their foolish spirit had Anathematiz'd and thrust out of our Church as Antichristian and superstitious have gotten their former lustre and state againe The Academicall Hood and Surplesse so long in exile and disgrace amongst us are visible here in our Congregations Churches are new swept of their dust and Rubbish and put on a more decent and ornamentall dresse Those knees that were heretofore so stubborne and stiffe-joynted that they would not stoope at a Sacrament begin at length without feare it seemes of their murmur'd idolatry to bowe at the Name of JESUS Nay those tongues which were set on fire and Mar-Prelated you know of old against the Ecclesiasticke Hierarchy can pray now how humbly or heartily I know not for the most Reverend Arch-Bishops and the Reverend Bishops And whereas that place of * Sacrificium incruentum Sacrifice which not long since was so odious to them that they beslabber'd it with their greasie imputations of Dressers and Oyster-boords they now begin to re-mould their language and restore it to the primitive Title and Stile of The Holy Table at least though not the Holy Altar Though there are still I confesse some black-mouth'd censurers which will not onely barke and snarle at this Reformation but if they were not muzzel'd by Authority bite too Men that this way even hate to be reformed stopping their eares at the voyce of our charmings and crying downe the Ordinances of our Church as the Edomites of old did Ierusalem Downe with them Psal 137 7. down with them even to the ground for such is ordain'd that Apostolicall sword Abscindantur qui disturbant vos Gal. 5.12 Let them be cut off that trouble you Here Aaron and his Oyle must part and exercise his Rod onely remembring that of Saint Ierome to his Heliodorus Solum pietatis genus est in hac re esse crudelem Cruelty in this kinde is a great piety nay a mercy that those who have beene so gratiously invited to this supper of the good King and they refusing to come that of the parable may at last castigate and bring home Coge ingredi Compell them to come in Luke 14.23 There are among us right Reverend and I even bleed to speake it Qui dum volunt esse Iudaei Christiani nec Iudaeisunt nec Christiant Hos 7.8 certaine Hermophrodite Divines meere Centaures in Religion Saint Austines Amphibions in resemblance Iewes and Christians both in truth neither Cakes on the hearth not turn'd certaine dow-bak'd professors which have a tongue for Geneva and a heart for Amsterdam their pretence for Old England and their project for New to the Iew they become as a Iew to them that are under the Law as under the Law to them that are weake as weake but not with the same intention of the Apostle 1 Cor. 9.20 to gaine some but to betray

mind inlightned only not renewed is nothing else but a neighborly discord between flesh flesh but for any solid debate between will and will affections and affections flesh and spirit indeed they have none at all it being true of these which God by Mosis spake of those of the old world My spirit shall no longer contend with them for they are but flesh Gen. 6.3 The other sort we may fitly resemble to the Children of Ephraim who being harnessed and carrying Bowes Psal 78.10 turned themselves backe in the day of Battell Men that make a shrewd flourish in the vant-guard of Religion their Bow is ready bent against the wicked and they shoot their Arrowes even bitter words desperately bitter but when they come themselves to the shocke and brunt of the Battell to the handy-gripe of the Adversary to the tryall indeed of their spirituall manhood they instantly forsake their Colours and the Roe is not more swift on the Mountaines than they to flye from the Standard and Ensigne under which they fought running from one Clime and Church unto another from an old one here founded on a Rock Councels Synods Decrees Harmony of Fathers the practice of the very Apostles themselvs to a new one built on the sands of their owne fancies the brain-sick plantations of unstable souls And such are so farre from any true spirituall valour or wisdome that our Apostle bestowes on them the livery of Fooles their first March and On-set might perhaps bee in the Spirit but their Retrait doubtles was in the flesh their Comming on in lightning and thunder but their Going off in smoake And here in this throng I cannot passe without shouldring a little with the Anabaptist and the Persectist men forsooth so wholly seal'd up by the spirit that they seeme to disclaime the least impressions of the flesh and pretending that they see visions do nothing else but dreame dreames lull'd along in a confidence of their legall righteousnesse and slumbring in an opinion of their perfection in this life as if they were no longer militant but triumphant But as in the mouth of the foolish there is virga superbiae saith Solomon Arod of pride Prov. 13.3 so in the mouth of those proudones there is virga stultitiae A rod of folly If I iustifie my selfe mine owne mouth shall condemne mee if I say I am Perfect I shall also proue my selfe perverse Iob 9 20. Loe here in one text these great vaunters with all their flourishes and bravado's are put unto the foile and the justice and perfection they so wrestle for throwne flat upon the backe even by Iob himselfe as just a man the text saies as any the earth had and yet hee tels them plainely by his owne experience tht if they glory in the one their owne mouth shall condemne them if they but mention the other they shall prove themselves as indeed they are wayward and perverse Shall wee leave the just and enquire after the perfect man David the man after Gods owne heart and such a one was a perfect man you will say if the earth had any wee shall finde him complayning of uncleanesse within and vehemently importuning the Lord for purging and washing Psal 51.7 S. Hieron Regmonach c. p. 15 In carne justorum imperfecta tantum perfectio est saith Saint Ierome the most righteous upon earth here have but an imperfect perfection and those that would bee thought more righteous then others a perfect imperfection And therefore I may say of these phanatickespirits as Hanna the wife of Elkanah said of Peninnah Talke no more so exceeding proudly 1. Sam. 2.3 let not arrogance come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him actions are waighed His hand is ever at the beame his eye looking how it turnes and so when your clipt your washt gold comes to the scale your false stamp'd shekle to the ballance of his sanctuary how will it bee found lighter then vanity it selfe how more vaine then nothing for if Angells before him are charged with folly how much more those that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust that are crush'd before the moth Iob 4.19 That of the Athenians to Pompey the great Ipsd est perfectio hominis invenisse se non esse perfectum D. Aug. Serm. 49. de temp D. Aug. Serm. 44. de temp was a remarkable saying Thou art so much the more a God by how much thou acknowledgest thy selfe to bee a man To bee an excellent man is to confesse himselfe to be a man indeed that is fraile imperfect haec est vera regenitorum persectio si imperfectos se esse agnoscant saith Saint Augustine then is a regenerate man come to his true perfection here when hee knowes that hee hath none here truly And questionlesse 2. Cor. 4.16 2. Cor. 7.1 If the inward man bee renewed day by day and that wee are yet to perfect holines in the feare of God as S. Paul testifies then this renovation and sanctification being not yet absolutely ripe cannot produce any perfect operation untill it selfe bee perfect and therefore our habituall justice is so farre forth compleate and no farther D. Aug. lib. 3. contra 2. Epist pelag cap. 7. ut ad eius perfectionem pertineat ipsius imperfectionis et in veritate cognitio et in humilitate confessio A true knowledge and an humble confession of our own frailties is the greatest justice and perfection we have about us Though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soape yet thy iniquity is still marked before thee Jer. 2.22 And Though I wash my selfe with snow-water and make my hands never so clean yet thou shalt plunge me in the ditch and my very cloathes shall abhorre me Job 9.30 31. There is no perfection then in this earthly Tabernacle None none as wee are Sojourners and in our pilgrimage But at our Iournies end in the Palestina above None of Degrees I meane but of Parts onely As an Infant is a perfect man because hee hath the perfect proportion of a Man there is nothing monstrous nothing defective or superfluous in him in respect of the Organs or Parts but in respect of the Faculties and Functions and the Operation of the Organicall parts which is the perfection of Degrees hee hath none at all for though hee have members yet they cannot doe their office The feet walke not the hands feede not the head judgeth not So it is in our spirituall growth where there is onely perfctio viae not patriae S. Augustine detrmining this point with a Tum erit perfectio Boni quandoerit consummatio mali A perfection of Good and a consummation of Evill have their Joynt-inheritances in the Kingdome of Heaven so the Father in his 15. Sermon de verbis Apostoli No doubt Aegypt here may afford us her Garlike her Onions and her Flesh-pots but the Flowings of milke and honey and the