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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40716	The necessity of keeping our parish-churches argued from the sin and danger of the schisms in the Church of Corinth and of the present separations : in a sermon before the honourable judges, at the last assizes, held at Exeter / by Francis Fullwood.	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1672 (1672)	Wing F2510; ESTC R35475	15,123	33

are not only Rites of Custom but of positive Laws too Though our Rites are such as the Communion of the people is little concerned in Yea though they are such also as all former Non-Conformists stiffly contend none ought to Separate from our Churches for and much less to gather themselves into new Churches as it is at this day when you know you are indulged to omit them without penalty or Separation The last Charge of Schism in Corinth a dividing at the Communion in the Text. LAstly these Corinthians were guilty of Schism also by their Divisions in their Communions reproved in the Text explained in the Verse before it In eating every one taketh before other his own Supper and one is Hungry and another is Drunken i. e. saith Calvin they drank too freely and merrily at their feasts joyned with the Lords Supper wherein also the Rich excluded the Poor and Factiously denied them to Communicate with them and after the Rich had done the Poor were suffered to eat together only of what the Rich had left Thus they Divided in their Love-feasts as most consent but Pareus thinks also in the lords-Lords-Supper it self Thus Vnity was broken and that 's Schism Thus saith Grotius it happen'd in their Times which is faln out much more in ours that the thing instituted for the incorporating and uniting of Christians in vexillum Schismatis vertitur is made the occasion of Division and Schism This kind of Schism is too easily applicable to our present Separation which cannot escape alike yea a far worse Accusation For do not our brethren avoyd Communion with us especially in the Eucharist Hath not this Communion been the only matter of their Division when they so long joyned with us in all things else None can deny it But their Schism is now commenced much higher by the following Circumstances 1. The Corinthians divided only in one Ordinance with partial Schism our brethren in all with total Separation 2. The Corinthians held their divided Communions in the same Publique Place our brethren Ver. 18. 20. leave our Publique Churches and have Private Houses for Publique Worship 3. Their divided Communions were successive and not at the same time but some before some after other v. 21. but our brethren set their new Verse 21. Altars directly against ours in point of time in plain opposition 4. The Corinthians communicated with the same Pastors in the same Modes of Worship and Government yet for dividing among themselves were Schismaticks and who can excuse those that renounce their Pastors and heap up new ones of another Ordination to serve another Altar under another Mode of Worship Government and Discipline The Sum is the Corinthians were Schismaticks for dividing only in one point But our brethren divide from us in all things in our Pastors Temples Assemblies Worship and Government Yea they have new Pastors Places Assemblies and all things else concurring both to Negative and Positive and Total Separation and if this be not Schism in the Rankest sence imaginable say what is Of the Contempt which falls upon Church as a Publique Place of Worship by Schism YOu have heard the first Evidence viz. Schism but because your patience would fail me to speak of the Second viz. Prophaneness though doubtless we have too much reason for that also I shall employ the time remaining in lamenting the Contempt which necessarily falls upon the Church of God by Schism and Separation beseeching you at last for Pitie's sake to have no hand in it Despise ye the Church of God Whether we understand the Locus or the Coetus the Place or the Assembly such as Separate shew plainly that they despise the Church of God First they despise the Publique Place of our God's usual Worship as the Synogogue is properly the Meeting of the People and improperly the Place in which they meet so the name Church saith Grotius hath both Significations but here as he conceives and is plain enough in Vid. ver 20. with 22. the Context we are especially to understand the Place For so early it seems the Church had Places peculiarly devoted to divine Service and Eusebius observes it was evidently so in Dioclesians time These Churches or Temples were then distinguisht from their Private Houses by their proper uses these were to eat and to drink in Have you not houses to eat and to drink in and for Civil Conversation but the Church for divine things Prayers Doctrine Sacraments the Publique Exercises of Piety and Religious Worship therefore called as in the Text the Churches of God Despise you the Church of God Not that divine Worship is to be wholly shut out of our Private Houses Yet it ought to be such as agrees with the Nature of them viz. Family-Worship Publique Worship in Private Houses when we may have Publique hath been ever a Solecism in Religion So we must also eat and drink in the Church yet in such wise as agrees with the Place not after a common and carnal manner as these Corinthians did but in Christian Communion after our Lords Institution as the Apostle commands Now by Schism this Church or Publique Place of God's Worship was despised among them thereby they made it as their own houses they gave it nothing of its due Reverence they despised the Worship of it and the God of it by turning it into a Den of Thieves stealing from God and the Poor and a Sty of Swine by their Sensuality and Luxury a House of Pride and Faction of Envy and Division which ought to have been a House of Prayer and Piety a House of Purity and Unity in the Communion of Saints Did they thus despise God's House and do Applicat not we much more P. Martyr complains of his Times now the Temples lie open all the day long for walking news and all sort of prophane business and minds us of our Saviours whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple and it cannot but seem strange to us that such especially as despise the Temple in its holy uses should yet thus prophane it But this is not the Contempt I chiefly bewail for while men forsake this Publique House and build others for Divine Service can they more shamefully despise it While they forsake it especially upon such Grounds as they imagine should carry away all others as well as themselves can they take a more effectual course to render it contemptible If after these cross Examples others should be tempted to do so wickedly what would become of our Temples They may stand a while indeed as forlorn and neglected Monuments of our Irreligion and Atheism but at length must fall and the Magnificence of England fall with them to the imparallel'd reproach of our Church and Nation they may serve a while for meaner Offices than our own Houses as some of them lately did but too soon we may have cause to lament with the Prophet Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations