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A77100 Paideia Thriamous. The triumph of learning over ignorance, and of truth over faleshood. Being an answer to foure quæries. Whether there be any need of universities? Who is to be accounted an hæretick? Whether it be lawfull to use coventicles? Whether a lay-man may preach? VVhich were lately proposed by a zelot, in the parish church at Swacie neere Cambridge, after the second sermon, October 3. 1652. Since that enlarged by the answerer, R.B. B.D. and fellow of Trin. Col. Camb. R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675. 1652 (1652) Wing B3760; Thomason E681_10; ESTC R206793 32,371 43

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who labour to draw the people's mindes from the love of the publick Congregation and engage them to their private meetings whereby they commonly intangle them in their errours and Haeresies Therefore if they say as the Vid. August Ep. 48. Donatists once did that Christ is onely amongst them in their Crypts and Conventicles beleeve them not for they doe contrary to the precept and practise of Christ He wills or enjoynes us to † Luk. 12.8 confesse Him and his Truth before men i. e. to make an open profession of our Faith both in times of persecution and peace He himselfe ever * Joh. 18.19,20 taught publikely as he witnessed of himselfe before Pilat He † Luk. 4.15.44 did so to teach us this lesson That Truth seeks not corners but loves the light therefore it is sometimes called light in the Holy Scriptures Eph. 5.8 Walke as Children of the Light Vid. Act. 26.18 But they that * Joh. 3.19 Men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evill hate the Truth delight in darknesse dare not say that in an open Congregation what they spawn and vent in a Conventicle or private meeting Therefore avoyd them joyne not with them beware of making a Schisme in the ●hurch or making that rent wider which was first begun of late by the Presbyterians Adhere not to Schismaticks whose portion without a deep repentance for so great a sinne as wounding Christs Church shall be after death in the Land of darknesse because they loved darknesse rather then light I never read that saying of August Aug. Ep. 204. but with horrour and dread when I considered the common guilt Foris ab Ecclesiâ constitutus separatus à communione unitatis vinculo charitatis aeterno supplicio punireris etiamsi pro Christi nomine vivus comburereris i. e. He or She that out of pride or peevishnesse separates himselfe from the bodie of the Church whose members are knit together by the ligaments of one faith and bond of love that man shall be punished with everlasting torments although he should die in the flame and be burnt for the name of Christ Such biting Truths as these are the cause why Schismaticks and Hereticks love not to read the Fathers nor vouchsafe so much as to name them in their Sermons or writings Therefore let no man deceive you with vaine words for for such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of Disobedience Be not then companions with them for ye were sometimes darkenesse but are now light in the Lord walk as Children of Light Eph. 5.6,7,8 And conforme your selves to the * Christi actio nostri debet esse instrinctio Aug. example of our Lord and Master Jesus who † Luke 19.47 preached in the Synagogues and the Temple notwithstanding they were places full of disorder and corruption He * Mat. 21.13 called the Temple a Denne of theeves and are there not too many in ours † Mat. 15.3 The Doctrine of the Law was then corrupted by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the false glosses of the Scribes and Pharisees is not the Doctrine of the Gospel as much corrupted by ours Besides all this they were loose and wicked in their lives witnesse that charge of our Saviour to his followers and Auditours against the Jewish Doctours Mat. 23.23 Doe not after their workes c. Notwithstanding all these corruptions and deformities in the Jewish Church yet our Saviour Christ made no separation from it but came and preached in those places of publick concourse where the Seducers and false Teachers were If this example and practise of our Saviour will not convince and startle into feare and obedience the Separatists of our age both Teachers and Disciples I know not what will doe it Area Dominica nondum ventilata est sine paleis esse non potest Nos eremus atque agamus quantum possumus ut palea simus Aug. Ep. 203. If Christ should have trodd in their steps been led by their fond opinion he would have made a Separation and fled from the Society of the Jewes and not so much as once gone into the Temple or taught in their Synagogues but he did otherwise and from what he did we may conclude that the practise of those Phanaticks who separate themselves from all Assemblies or publick places of Gods service pretending either a want of gifts or a defect of holinesse in the Ministers I say the practise of such men doth speake them to be those Antichrists which the Apostle S. John mentions in his first Epistle 1 Ep. Ioh. c 2. v. 18 19. Now there are many Antichrists whereby we may know it is the last time They went out from us c. i. e. They turn'd Separatists therefore Antichrists because they went flat against the practice and precept of Christ who commands us by his Apostle Phil. 1.27.2.2 to be of one heart and of one minde to thinke and speake and doe the same thing in good to love as Brethren who forsake not one anothers company and desert not their family when they discocover any infirmity in their Father or any deformity in their Mother but keep close to both in observance and humble duty We may have communion or fellowship with mens persons in publick worship and not partake in the guilt of their Sinnes I lle communicat malis qui consentit factis malorum Aug. Ep. 171. He communicates with the wicked that consents to their wickednesse abhorre and forsake his sinne then maist thou without feare or danger communicate with a wicked man Si malos odistis vos ipsi mutamini à Scelere Schismatis Si malorum permixtionem timeretis Optatum inter vos in apertissimâ iniquitate viventem per tot annos non teneretis Thus Augustine bespeakes the Donatists So may I the men of our times If you hate the ungodly shew your hatred towards your selves by repenting and turning from your Schisme and Heresies And if you feare the mixture or company of the wicked shun the Society and abhorre the persons of your Leaders by whom you are seduced and corrupted To conventicle on the Lords day a breach of the fourth Commandement A third Argument against such meetings in private on the Lords day may be deduced from the intent and scope of the fourth commandement whose morality in the judgement of all both Fathers and moderne writers consists in this that God be worshipped in the Congregation with publicke service in an open confession of our Faith and a profession of our love and thankfulnesse to him for all his mercies and blessings those which concerne our Soules and those which respect our bodies c. But to wave this and other Arguments which might be produced to confirme my former Thesis I proceed to reasons against Conventicles First Reason suggests this Truth to our Spirits that our Soules being as it were so many sparkes of the
the Church the place where Gods people his servants do congregat I fear that it wil happen to you as it doth to the silly Sheep that strayes from the flock which becomes a prey to the devouring Wolfe or as it did to Dinah the daughter of Leah Gen. 34.2 who leaving her Fathers house to see the daughters of the Land was met with and ravished by Shechem So they that forsake their Ministers and out of curiosity resigne and devote themselves to be followers of those who are none they must expect to be defloured of their faith and manners by such seducers who are spirituall Adulterers and Murtherers who corrupt mens Judgements and feast it with the Souls of their simple Disciples whom they grinde with the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril in Hos Teeth of errour and poyson with that cup which they themselves have drunk of a guilded cup of Haeresies full of † abomination and filthinesse The Lord prevent us with his grace and preserve us from these Corruptions S. Augustine in his fourth booke de Doctrinâ Christianâ * Rev. 17.4 c. 10. notes that the word in Latin which signifies a Conventicle or place of privat meeting it is conventiculum tantùm singularitèr dicitur is onely used in the singular number improperly in the plurall as if by God's Spirit the prime Authour of words in the hearts and by the Tongues of men this was thereby intended to be implyed that there must not be more places then one for Gods people to meet in in their severall parishes that is each particular Church the onely place allowed and appointed by God for his publick worship and service Psal 107.31.32 Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare his wonderfull workes before the Sonnes of men That they would exalt him in the Congregation of the people leaving their Conventicles wherein God cannot be so highly praised nor so much honoured as in a place of publick concourse a Church I must for a close of this third Quaere freely vent my thoughts which have beene ever in my brest The Classicall Presbyters made way for these abuses and corruptions in our Church by making an unhappy breach in it when they brought in their Motlie Directorie into the Church by which meanes they drove many out of it into Conventicles and like the Sonnes of Eli 1 Sam. 2.17 by their unjust Usurpation made men to abhorre the offering of the Lord and caus'd the people to trespass ver 14. They too by their usurping the power of Ordination contrary to the rule of Christ and the established order of the Church were the cause that others in opposition to them did and doe now preach without Orders By this we see what good friends and Servants how dutiful Sonnes the Presbyters have been to their Mother the Church All the hurt that I wish them is this that they were confin'd and doom'd Scotorum pultibus saginari to be fellow-Commoners live repent and die amongst their wretched brethren the Scots the first fomenters of our divisions and Authours of our miseries Vossius Hist Pelag. saies of Pelagius that he was Socotorum Pultibus Saginatus Heavenly Father forgive them They know not what mischiefe they have done The fourth QUERE Whether it be lawfull for a Lay-man to preach I Remember a saying of Isocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is not proper for an Oratour or any one to spend many words about a businesse or Theme that is cleer and common Therefore seeing that the Quaere is not attended with any great difficulty and hath been so much discussed by the pens of the learned I shall not spend many words about it Onely this I shall say for the benefit and conviction of the Vnlearned to whose capacity I desire to fit my discourse and suit my phrase If by preaching we understand as we are to doe the * 2 Tim 2.15 dividing of the word aright i. e. The applying of it according to the diversity of persons times and places 1 Cor. 7.20 to the consciences of the Hearers in publick which application of it implyes a reproving of sinne in a judiciall authoritative way and a denouncing of Judgment against sinners and lastly a laying forth or unfolding of sweet promises of the Gospell of pardon and forgivenesse to the faithfull and penitent who renounce their own and rely upon Christs merits To affirme that to doe this in a constituted or setled Church is lawfull for a Layman is as incongruous and carryes with it as great an absurdity as to say which is impious that S. Paul was mistaken and did not speak from Christ when he enjoyned every one to abide in that calling to which he is called † Art thou then called to be a Weaver a Taylour or a Cobler desert not thy calling and thrust not thy selfe into that which belongs to another For one to invade the proper duty of a Minister without a speciall calling from the Church is altogether unlawfull so sayes Amesius himselfe lib. 4. de Cas consc cap. 25. Secondly He that can maintain it lawfull for a common Soldier because he hath good skill at his weapon and in the feats of Warre to challenge the place of a Colonell or chiefe Commander without the consent of the superiour Officers He that can prove it that Korah and his two confederates sinned not in rising up against Moses and Aaron and usurping the Priests Office Num. 16.3 Moses I am sure checked their boldnesse thus * Ver. 17. ye take too much upon you c. it was so much and so weighty a burthen their usurpation so great a sinne that the earth could not beare them but opened and swallowed up them and all their proud associates Thirdly He that can convince my Judgement that † 2 Sam. 6.6 Vzzah sinned not in touching the Ark That the men of * 1 Sam. 6.19 Bethshemel did not offend by looking boldly into it That † 1 Sam. 13.11 Saul and * 2 Chr. 26.18 Vzziah did not commit a great trespasse in taking upon them the Priests Office 2 Ch. 26.17,18 Thou hast done foolishly so said Samuel to Saul 1 Sam. 13.13 He lost his Kingdome by it as appears Ver. 14. Now the Kingdome shall not continue c. they are the words of the Prophet Azariah the Priest and with him fourscore Priests of the Lord Valiant men they withstood Uzziah the King and said unto him It belongeth not to thee Uzziah to burne incense unto the Lord but to the Priests the Sonnes of Aaron that are consecrated for to offer incense goe forth of the Sanctuary for thou hast transgressed and thou shalt have none honour of the Lord thy God You may read ver 19. How that he was punished with Leprosie a soul disease for his foul fact and that in the forehead the seat of Impudencie he was too bold His open sin was