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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28223	Prosecution no persecution, or, The difference between suffering for disobedience and faction, and suffering for righteousness and Christ's sake truly discussed and stated in a sermon upon Phil. I. 29, preached at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk on the 22th of March, 1681, being the time of the general assizes there held / by Nath. Bisbie ...	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2983; ESTC R18612	20,745	38

PROSECUTION NO PERSECUTION Or the Difference Between Suffering for Disobedience and Faction AND Suffering for Righteousness and Christ's Sake Truly Discussed and Stated IN A SERMON Upon PHIL. 1. 29. Preached at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk on the 22 th of March 1681. being the time of the general Assizes there held By Nath. Bisbie D. D. LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1682. To my ever honoured Patron Sir John Cordell of Long Melford Baronet one of His Majesties Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Suffolk and to the Vertuous and truly Religious Lady Dame Elizabeth his Wife Continuance of Health and everlasting Happiness WHen this Sermon was first Preached it was vulgarly said that it was boldly done but if I mistake not it is much more bold and daring to cause it to be made publick Speed it as it may I am sufficiently pleased that in this juncture of Affairs when Allegiance is made a Crime and Conformity little better than Infidelity I have Patrons able and ready to assert the interest of them both The one a lineal descendant of my Original Patron and I hope Succession in this case is no ways Criminal the other of a Family no less Loyal and if that be Criminal I beg no ones pardon My Prayer is and ever shall be That none of you may degenerate or in the least be tempted to look awry and howbeit others are too too apt to despise the Priesthood and perhaps the more because they are Loyal and True to David and his Family yet may the Blessing thereof always descend upon you and upon all that descend from or belong unto you and this is and shall be the daily Prayer of Your faithfull and ready Servant in all Priestly Offices and humble Gratitude Nath. Bisbie Long Melford Suff. 29 May. 1682. PHIL. 1. 29. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake HE that would gain upon his Auditory and win the Attentions and Affections of the people must not onely be as the Orator saith ready and prepared to speak but he must do it seasonably and sutably to the matter and duty of the day Insomuch that this Lenten Fast should have a Lenten Sermon and you indeed hear of nothing but Fastings Watchings Penanceings together with the more severe Doctrines of Mortification and Repentance The Preacher should have come like the Baptist clad in his Rayment of Camels hair and been the voice of one crying in the Wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord and make his paths straight But considering withall the confluxe of people and the more than usual Solemnity of the time I thought good to change my Subject and instead of Repentance to preach up Faith instead of Penanceing to encourage unto Sufferings And certainly whosoever will but seriously consider the Present condition of the Church how it is oppos'd by the Papists on the one hand and the Phanaticks their Sworn Brethren in iniquity on the other as if it were a Den of Thieves rather than a Church of God as also how the Ministers and Managers thereof are discouraged flouted maligned passing sometimes under the name of the Prophane at other times under the hated appellation of Papists though as to the one they may as well be Jews and as to the other Devils may conclude it a task not unsutable to the day to set forth the true nature of Suffering in opposition to the misrepresentations that are made of it in the World and to encourage you who are of the Communion of the Church to stand firm and constant to the Faith that hath been delivered to you So that though the World frown and throw its slavor and indignities upon you you may notwithstanding bear and suffer all rather than desert her establishment founded by your Ancestors in a blessed and desirable Reformation and not only Heroically and Christianly by them defended but by their Sufferings and Martyrdoms propagated and handed down to us and ours In short There are Two things that all vertuous and good men ever have always ought and at all times will carefully labour after and upon no account whatsoever be discouraged in or frighted from and they are To do well and to Suffer ill To be true to God dutifull to their Sovereign honest and just one to the other and rather than do otherwise to endure any hardship The rough hands of Esau the gainsayings of Corah the afflictions necessities distresses stripes bonds imprisonments that St. Paul endured This was the great commendation of the Philippians in my Text For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake In which Words First The Persons Commended You Philippians To you it is given Secondly The Things they are Commended for and that is First for their Faith To you it is given to believe in him Secondly For their Fortitude To you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake Begin we First With the Persons Commended You To you it is given or as it is Ver. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To you the Saints at in or about Philippi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Bishops and Deacons there To you it is given To you the Saints Qui Sanctitate saltem Sacramentali sancti who have been Hallowed and Sanctified into a Church of Christ through Baptism in his Name To you it is given Yet not so as if your Bishops and Deacons who have not only the same but by virtue of their Office and Order a further Sanctification were not alike Holy or alike Saints This were to have infus'd into them a Spirit of Pride and Scorn like that of the Saint-like Jews Isa 65. 5. to cry out Stand by thy self come not near me for I am holier than thou and really to have planted in them the Factious Seditious Humor which was found in Corah and his Fellow Schismaticks against Aaron and the rest of the Priesthood Numb 16. 13. You take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation is holy Crimes too too incident now adays to the inferiour and more ordinary sort of Believers No To you the Saints with the Bishops and Deacons To you the Saints at large To them the Bishops and Deacons in particular and by name giving the honour mostly to the last and making the last in place to be the first in Suffering thereby shewing that if the true Faith the Faith that was by the Apostles first planted in the Church be to be kept up the Bishops and Clergy must be the men by name that do it Or if Persecution chance to arise either from Enemies without or from false Teachers or Brethren within they must be the Antesignani the first in the Conflict and the Leaders on of the rest it being natural to