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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86358	The right separation incouraged; in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the House of Lords, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, on Wednesday, Novem. 27. 1644. being the day of the monethly publick fast. By Thomas Hill, B.D. pastor of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire, and one of the members of the Assembly of Divines.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2026; Thomason E23_1; ESTC R369	31,606	44

holy things If you please to consult with Exod. 28. 38. you shall finde there a course prescribed how Aaron was to beare the iniquity of the holy things among the children of Israel that they may bee accepted before the Lord Which cleerly intimates that there are not onely evill doings but also evill of our good doings there are Sermon sinnes Prayer sinnes Communion sinnes Humiliation sinnes many Sanctuary sins which doe defile both our spirits and performances and cast more mudde into Englands unclean streames whereby wee become more obnoxious to the displeasure of the Holy God Hence you may observe Ezek. 9. 6. God gave commission to the destroyers to begin at the Sanctuary For the most part pollution beginnes at the Sanctuary and there should they beginne destruction Fourthly Possibly besides all your owne personall sinnes whereby the Land is so much defiled you may by compliance owne them yea and helpe to make the Kingdome guilty of all the sinnes that are committed by any in the Kingdome Hereby you who are advanced to such authority in the State may make those sinnes which were too common before in some kind to become Nationall and leave a destructive guilt upon the Kingdome As Ministers by not reproving their flock so Magistrates by not punishing the offenders st●nd charged with their sinnes The Lord teach you wisely to consider how angry hee was with Eli for his connivence 1 Sam. 3. 13. God would ruine his house because his Sonnes made themselves vile and hee restrained them not It is high time to looke about you lest your indulgence to any other mens sinnes multiply so much uncleannesse as may both ruine your own-houses and hazzard the whole Kingdome If God expects his Saints should separate then give mee leave here to enter a Caveat against rash censuring and condemning of all Separation God himselfe by his Word and by his practice teacheth there may there must bee some Separation First in his owne eternall counsels hee makes a separation his electing love singles out some chusing them to grace and glory passing by others Secondly his Spirit in the Ministery of the Gospel makes a separation picking out here and there one drawing them to communion with Christ Thirdly when the Son of man shall come in his glory with all the holy Angels hee will separate the sheep from the goates the sheep on his right hand the goates on the left And here Paul invites you to a separation and therefore doubtlesse there is no reason you should bee offended at the Name or Thing when it is rightly stated and practised This I shall indevour to represent in these two following Conclusions There must bee no Separation made from fellowship with the Catholick Church Such a separation would rend the very body of Christ himselfe Hee is pleased to call the Church his body the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all Ephes. 1. 23. This would dis-joynt that sweet Harmony which is the beauty and strength of that body Ephes. 4. 16. The improvement of the Gospel is the advancing of Saints to this honour and happinesse Heb. 12. 22 23. But yee are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God c. To the Generall Assembly and Church of the first-borne In this your pilgrimage you must still bee comming to this Church but never separating from it because in comming hither you come to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant ver. 24. You need not make a separation from a particular Church because there are some defects found in it If you are bound to separate because of defects to what particular Church will you associate which shall not bee defective Onely the Church Triumphant in Heaven is absolutely perfect weeds will incessantly bee springing up in all Gods Gardens here on earth This hath evermore been taken for granted amongst all sober spirits that imperfections doe not presently unchurch a True Church and so though they cry for a Reformation yet doe not warrant a Separation Quest But what if some wicked persons continue in Church Society doth not that give a just occasion of separation unto others Answ. Such Divines to whom God hath revealed much of his minde concerning Church-affaires give divers reasons why the tolerating of some wicked persons in a Church is not a sufficient ground for others to separate suddenly from it First because that tolerating may bee onely an errour or infirmity of the Church wherein you are to beare with it and not thereupon to separate from it Secondly Patience is to bee used towards a particular Brother when hee is overtaken Gal. 6. 1. Much more must you in such a case expresse it towards a Church Thirdly The suddain separating of the godly is not the best method to cure a sick Church but rather puts it into a more desperate condition c. Quest Doth not the fellowship of wicked persons in the Ordinances make them ineffectuall Answ. Their wickednesse may make the precious Ordinances of God ineffectuall to themselves yet not to such others whom the Lord invited and for whom he prepared these Gospel-dainties Will a loving Father deny his owne children their bread because some dogges creep under the Tables Indeed as in Hag. 2. 13. If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it bee unclean And the Priests answered and said It shall bee unclean To whom was this uncleannesse contracted not to others but to themselves And hence 1 Cor. 11. 28. Let a man examine Himself and so let him eate Hee doth not say let him examine all others that come It is indeed a very desirable and beautifull thing which would much increase our Communion comforts to see none but Christs Members at his own Table Yet how can the very being of an ungodly person there enervate the power of the Ordinances unto thy soule It is most true A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 1 Cor. 5. 6. That incestuous person and so others leaven a Church Physically not by their presence simply because they are there Then the being of an Hypocrite in Church fellowship however hee creep in would leaven all if bare presence did it But Morally by his Impurity hee being suffered without censure for so great an offence doth imbolden and harden others in sin whereby the whole Congregation might in time bee sowred with such leaven The presence of an unclean person cannot hurt you further then you make his uncleannesse yours by not doing your duty against it What though 1 Cor. 10. 17. they being many are one bread If an unclean unworthy person by creeping unto Gods Ordinances and enjoying communion with the Saints therein doe obtain this advantage so as by profession to seem one bread with them yet this doth not imply that the Saints are thereby made one with him in his wickednesse If an unclean person challenge more then belongs to him this doth not