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A86289	A sermon preached before the Kings Majesty at Whitehall on Friday the 22 of March anno 1660. / By John Hacket D.D. chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty. Publisht by his Majesties appointment.	Hacket, John, 1592-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing H172; Thomason E1086_7; ESTC R202486	15,388	41

not enter into them all through one the same perswasion Cloth of the same making hath not alwayes the same die And they that are propense to glorifie one God in the same Church with the same Charity do not allwayes build with the same materials Paul loves the Church as well as Barnabas but he would not offend it for want of Justice Barnabas loves the Church as well as Paul but he would not offend it for want of clemency and compassion Here 's one Wooll one Cloth but dipt in two colours Then I let you see that for their part that do equally consent to maintain the true Gospel the inequality of their judgements may be inoffensive I would I could say for our own parts that the dissentions of our Reformed Churches were unblamable and that there were no transgression against charity in our discords But there are two wounds deeper than others which can not be concealed that stink and are corrupt through our foolishness The one continued by the unrelenting Vbiquitaries among the rigid Lutherans never ceasing to cry out and yet never proving that with the substance of bread remaining Christs fleshly body is in the Sacrament of his Supper by the communication of the properties of the Divine Nature to the Humane In vain they have been urg'd to fall back to a more moderate sentence For Scholars love the opinions wch themselves have broacht more than Monarchs do the Kingdoms which themselves have conquer'd Our other rent falls upon a less subject but the breach is no less that it hath made between party and party Therefore do not imagine that I mean those hard Disputes about Gods eternal decrees and strange working of his grace These are canvas'd alike by all part wch will never cease never be decided I mean in the second place the struggling to admit or not admit some antient innocent out ward forms of worship In whose forbearance I could never perceive why Learned and Wise men should be Incorrigible The question is whether every Christian should observe those decencies or circumstantial parts of reverence which the Church wherein he lives hath appointed While they that resist stand upō their own liberty they take away that liberty which is inherent in the Church their Mother to prescribe comliness and order for the better beautifying of God service These which I have named these are the two quarrels at which the Papists clap their hands to see us brawl among our selves I confess we cannot triumph in a perfect Peace But do they insult upō us for it what they whose janglings are ten for one of ours and twice ten times greater as a Mill-stone is bigger than a pebble Let them and none but them that have no contentions in themselves cast the first stone at us It is not their dependence upon one Supreme Head that can keep them from divisions To fit it with a similitude Job describes Leviathan or rather God himself c. 41. 15. His scales are his pride shut up close together as with a seal they stick together that they cannot be sundred It is not that Leviathan hath one grout head which keeps him from offence his safety must be that his scales ly close and cover him But how uneaven the scales of this beast lye let it be judged from the irreconcilable opposition of seculars and regulars of Dominicans and Jesuits of Tridentine and Anti-Tridentine Catholiques And no wonder it there be turbulent opinions in the congregation of malignants for the best of Gods servants draw not the same yoke without a little jogging of the Ark there was a contention between Paul and Barnabas Nay to our wonder it rested not there it exceeded the bounds of meekness for in the third point my Text saies it was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a sharp contention An unanimity of opinions is not necessary to friendship saies Aristotel very well Dear friends may retain the sweetness of love together and yet vary in some conclusions of judgment A little more may be granted That each may be earnest in their own way to win the other to assent as Martha prest it home and complain'd of her sister Mary that she did not joyn with her in the same houshold care It was a light word and no violation of kindness Concertationes apud benevolos non lites sunt sed jurgia saies Cicero The dissentions of them that keep benevolent minds are not fallings out but wranglings As Paul resisted Peter to his face Gal. 2. 11. boldly but charitably His confidence for the truth became him and his inoffensiveness commended him It was otherwise at this bout between him and Barnabas passion provocation transported them both so far that it was a sharp contention The Greek word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} hath a curst meaning it it When a disease hath intermitted a while and begins it access and violence again that 's call'd a paroxysm of sicknesse and when a brable is worse and worse lowder and lowder that 's a paroxysm of contention These two that had been fellow Souldiers under Christ's banner in so many travails in so many perils in so many persecutions they cannot bear with one another with patience and they that were ready to die together cannot live together they that were the strongest confederates in the world are the strongest opposites O what a fickle and fallacious thing is the concord of men Anger is ready to run into enmity and wrath tears off the seales from the bond of love Yet I must not say that the sharpness between two such sweet Olive-Branches had any tast of the vinacre of reproach or that they peirced one another with opprobrious speeches I do not onerate them with any such accusation That 's sitter for Jobs deformed beast lately mentioned Out of his mouth go burning lamps and sparks of fire sly out Job 41. v. 19. Have they no regard of their common brotherhood in Christ who are not satisfied to contend but they must mix sharpness with it And no small quantity A sting is a little matter they tear one another in pieces as with the paw of a Lion Their pen drops nothing but gall venom as if their quill were pluckt from the wing of a Cockatrice Then they think they write strongly when they rail lowdly indeed when they lye lowdly And he that should strive to be more powerful in truth thinks he hath prevail'd when he is more bitter than his adversary Quis leget haec what man of Godly temper can read such lines which stink of malice in every sentence as if they had been wrot in dog-dayes Michael the Archangel would not speak to the Devil in a railing accusation Ep. Jud. v. 9 Though Satan deserved the worst that could be said yet an Archangel was too good to utter such filthiness Let every reader enjoy his own judgment for my part I seldom expect Truth Argument in that book where