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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01852	Sermons on St Peter. By Robert Gomersall Bachelar in Divinitie	Gomersall, Robert, 1602-1646?	1634 (1634)	STC 11994; ESTC S103324	78,780	162

bad tongue sets on fire the whole course or wheele of nature as it is in the Greeke if that part of the wheele which runs in our time were free from it But wee see that if a man oppose faction foolish people will give out that hee opposeth religion if hee cause some seditious persons to bee punished for hearing where they should not it shall bee given out that hee is an enemy of the Word that hee punisheth them for hearing But here wee must observe that all are not foolish who speak evil of others no more than all are Saints of whom evill is spoken Of a man that is a perpetuall drunkard swearer or irreformably seditious good cannot bee spoken if we speake the truth and such cannot with any colour challenge righteousnesse unto them upon this ground because they are spoken against I therefore point at this because there are a generation in the world that doe much abuse this doctrine that when ever they heare that foolish men speake against the righteous they take it for granted that they are the righteous and those are foolish wicked people that speake against them whilest yet in the meane time they live in manife opposition against authority and when they are censured one day for a fault like the drunkard in the Proverb the next day they commit it againe If you tell these that these courses tend unto schisme their reply is That by that which we call schisme they worship the God of their Fathers if wee say they are seditious for doing so oh say they men will speake evill of the righteous as of evill-doers thus applying all those Scriptures which the Apostles in a good cause have used against the Jewes and Heathen in their bad cause against Christian Ecclesiasticall Magistrates But doe not they see that they say no other thing than any damnable Heretique would alleage for himselfe in the like case Tell the Anabaptist Familist or Papist that most of their opinions have a strong sent of heresie what will bee readier in their mouthes than You call it heresie but we know that it is the worship of the God of our Fathers so then you see that it is not enough to urge the Text but to have a title a just right to urge it which I deny that any seditious Archdisciplinariā hath the reason is manifest that falsly called heresie was the true worship of God but they shal never be able to make their schisme to bee any part of the worship of God for indeed how specious soever it is against it I instance in voluntary absenting after admonitiō frō their own Church God hath not commanded thē to absent thēselves therefore their absenting is no part of his worship and the Magistrate hath commanded them to present themselves there which neverthelesse they will not doe which must needs bee against Gods worship since that is against his worship which is against his command and it is against his command to disobey the Magistrate When then we shall see such hate to bee reformed they must pardon us if wee call them what they are I hope they will not count us foolish if we shall say that in so doing they are evil-doers But though this Text maketh nothing for the factious it maketh for the good they have the greater incouragemēt to perswade themselves that they are good because they are spoken against by foolish men why then should they bee dejected with such speeches such speeches are but part of their momentany affliction and that petite affliction shall worke a farre more excellent and eternall waight of glory In Exod. 24. 10. God sets his feet upon a paved work of a Sapphire stone the word in Hebrew is Of a Brick which had the shape of a Sapphire stone Wherefore was this apparition of God surely for the comfort of his people to shew that after their bondage they should have glorious liberty their Bricke with which they were plagued in Aegypt should bee changed into Sapphire stones He suffered thee to hūger and he fed thee with Manna Deut. 8. 3. Why after hunger doth hee presently make mention of Manna surely for no other reason but either because that hunger was Manna that afflictiō was a blessing to thē or because that hūger should get thē a better stomacke to their Manna their affliction should make them onely more sensible of their blessing And obseve the phrase it is He suffered thee to hunger but he fed thee c. as if the crosse were but by permission onely the blessing were Gods act And here we may be the more ravished with that mercy which would not so much as suffer our hunger if it were not to feed us with Manna hee would not permit that men should speake evill of us for his names sake but to the end that hee might make us blessed And hereupon it is that whereas wee reade Deepe cals upon deepe because of thy water-spouts Psal. 42. 7. which are expounded for miseries and crosses it may be read Deepe c. because of thy Pipes thy musicke as if miseries to Gods children were to no other end than that they should be his musicke David saith of the wicked especially of his evill-speakers The Plowers ploughed upon my backe Psalm 129. 3. You will easily understand this of the tormenting of David the ground is as it were tormented when it is torne when it is ploughed up but what if it bee for the comforting of David It will seeme strange but yet the ground would not bee fruitfull were it not ploughed and David would not have beene so good had hee not been afflicted thus to injure was to right him thus to tear him was to make him whole And therfore Chrysostome wittily cals the wicked The husbandmen of the righteous Hom. 4. ad pop Ant. the Husbandman ploughes the ground these the righteous ploughing maketh the ground fruitful affliction the righteous wil any man be dismayed with that by which hee is made the more fruitfull But if foolish men speake against thee beware that thou doest not become one of those foolish men and speake evill againe that thou maist give him as good as he brings as too commonly and foolishly they use to say The same Chrysostome saith A woman dispraiseth thee wilt thou turne woman as if to use or returne bad speeches were to fall downe from the noblenesse of our Creation and to new mould us into women and therefore David when hee would reprove Abishai who whetted him unto revenge against Shimei for his evill-speaking saith What have I to doe with you yee sonnes of Zerviah 2 Sam. 16. 10. he cals them from their mother not from their father to shew that they who are too impatient of evill speeches have too much of the mother remaining in them Wee read that Annah suffered harsh speeches from Peninnah wee doe not reade that shee did returne them wee heare the one objecting barrennesse unto her and