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life_n	example_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	29	3	9.5277	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94352	Demetrius his opposition to reformation. A sermon very necessarie for these times. As it was delivered (this last vvinter) before a great assemblie in the city of London. by John Tillinghast, sometimes rector of Tarring-Nevill, now rector of Streate in the county of Sussex.	Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.	1642 (1642)	Wing T1169; Thomason E151_26; ESTC R12132	52,893	59

4 5. last dayes perillous times such as the golden age never knew wherein men shall be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankefull unholy without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traitors heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then levers of God Having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof There was indeed a time when this Kingdom fell so fast to commit wickednesse that to be ignorant of sinfull crimes was held to be a crime as q Geruasius Dorobanensis one living in those times affirmeth r Camden Britan hist Darnorum the Common-wealth was full of an infinite sort of vices the Priests were idle the people given to riot and loose life but pride above all whose waiting maid is destruction was come to a mighty head Oh that our times might not as sometime Jerusalem did Sodom justifie those times that our Nation were not the Pontificiall seat of sin where these abominations are never non-resident but such is the continuall concourse of all kinds of people from other countreys that all manner of iniquitie by a generall confluence meets here as the lines at the center Idolatry from Rome whoredomes from Venice Atheisme from Turkie drunkennesse from Germany the ambition of Spaine the pride of France and what not insomuch that I scarcely perswade my self that Sodom lieth in ashes for a greater offence then hath been found amongst us within these few dayes Whither shall a man turn his eye into what place what Profession what calling and not behold that which may truly t 2 Pet. 2.8 vex his righteous soul All these fight against Reformation and therefore the more and greater the vices are to be reformed the stronger will the opposition be 4. Last of all I would to God this work were not opposed and in some regard hindred even by some persons who I verily beleeve seek and desire it For observe it alwayes in the Churches reformation there are certain publique persons appointed and set apart by God for that purpose by whose prescripts and rules the rest of the people are to be ordered and governed as Josiah Nehemiah and others in the reformation of the Church of the Jews who made a great alteration in the face of the Church purging the Idolaters changing the office of the Levites commanding a Passe-over and under these there was an election of some eminent and able ones to further this work as in the dayes of Josiah Hilkiah was the high Priest and executed these things under him and whatsoever he enjoyned was done juxtapraeceptum Josiae c. Now then if any private person out of a forward though a misgoverned zeal as w Robert Sanderson Serm. 2. ad Clerum 3. ad Magistratum one calls it shall take upon him to reform what he thinketh amisse either in Church or State as to refuse with the publique congregation to partake in the Sacrament because some unclean persons presume to come unto it to deny the ordinary administration of it in that regard though it be probable that our Saviour suffered Judas whom he knew to be a thief and a traitor to partake of it with his disciples not to bury the dead to marry with rings and such like especially things of indifferencie which in the judgement of a great x Omnia indifferentia in Ecclefiae libertate posita sunt Calv. instit lib. 4. ca. 17. Sect. 43. Divine ought not to be ordred by one or two private persons but wholly left to the disposition of the whole Church I say for any private man to refuse these before such time as Authoritie which first enjoyned them have again repealed them I see no warrant for this their forwardnesse what is it but to execute and perform the office of a Magistrate and so go before them in this work of Reformation who are appointed for it That fact of y Numb 25.7.8 Phinehees being but a private man and no Magistrate so often objected in such cases as these makes nothing for this purpose He was indeed of the Tribe of Levi of the sons of Aaron and so of the family and linage of the high Priest therefore not to meddle in matters of Judicature either to give sentence or to do execution His fact notwithstanding approved of God and rewarded with a● z Vers 12.13 everlasting Priesthood it was a Psal 106.31 accounted to him for righteousnesse Yet we are to know and it is the common opinion of the learned that he had an extraordinarie notion and a peculiar secret instinct of the Spirit of God powerfully working in him and prompting him thereunto Id fit afflatu peculiari Divini Spiritus as b Simlen in Exod. 32.19 Simlenus speaks of that fact of Moses in breaking of the Tables it was done by the peculiar notion of Gods Spirit Now those opera liberi spiritus as Divines call them c Non sunt exigenda ad regulas communes nec trahenda in exemplum vitae Chytr in Gen. 14. and in Exod. 32. they are not to be measured by common rules of life nor to become exemplary unto others they were never intended either by God that inspired them or by those worthies that did them for that purpose Therefore the errour will be dangerous from the priviledge examples of some exempted ones to take libertie to transgresse the common rules both of life and of laws Let no man think I speak this to quench any mans zeal no my desire is rather to increase it and I would to God that all the sons of Levi were more earnestly zealous for the Churches pure reformation then they are that so the true worship of God may be performed without the mixture of humane corruption But what I say in this case is rather to regulate and keep us within the due bounds of Christian sobrietie and our particular callings that we may not disadvantage the truth nor this work of Reformation by an over-hastie and unseasonable zeal I know there are some who are not afraid to say though for my part I desire to judge more charitably that these men presume too much upon their own zeal and through an affectation of singularitie preach and commend themselves unto the people though in the mean time by consequence and an underhand judgement they do not onely give an occasion of an uncharitable censure upon the rest of their brethren that they are overcold in religion but also upon the Magistrate and such as are put in authoritie for the Reformation that they are too slack and unmindfull of Gods affairs Nor is it my private opinion but the opinion of the learned whose judgement in this case is not to be sleighted that such men who inconsiderately will run before those who are put in authority to effect the Reformation may as well take upon them to establish Laws raise powers administer justice execute