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A11457	Tvvo sermons: preached at tvvo severall visitations, at Boston, in the diocesse and country of Lincolne. By Robert Sanderson, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and late fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1622 (1622)	STC 21708; ESTC S112208	62,742	104

meddle no further we may reasonably thinke a Eadem velle eos cognosces da posse quantum volunt Senec. Epist. 42. it is not for want of good will to doe it but because they dare not Secondly though they preach not against these things in the publique Congregations yet in their priuate Conuenticles it is not vnknowne some doe Though their Pulpits doe not ring with it yet their houses do though their ordinary Sermons ad populum be more modest yet their set conferences are sometimes but too free especially when they are required their opinions by those that inuite them And what themselues for feare of Censure thus preach but b Mat. 10. 27. in the eare their Lay-Disciples openly preach on the house top Thirdly although both their Pulpits and Tables should be silent yet their Practice sufficiently preacheth their dislike And who knoweth not that a Re●ll and Exemplary seducement maketh the Author guilty as well as a Verball and Oratory Saint Peter did not preach Iudaisme but only for offending the Iewes forbeare to eate with the Gentiles yet S. Paul reproueth him for it to his face and interpreteth that Fact of his as an effectuall almost compulsiue seducement Cogis Iudaizare Gal. 2. c Gal. 2. 14. Non imperio sed facto Lyra. Non docentis imperio sed conuersationis exemplo Gloss. Ord. Why compellest thou the Gentiles to Iudäize Lastly it is to be considered whether it may be enough for a Pastor not to meddle with these things whether he be not in conscience bound especially in case he liue among a people distracted in opinions to declare himselfe expressely either for them or against them If they bee vtterly vnlawfull and he know it so how is hee not bound in conscience to reproue those that vse them or require them otherwise hee betrayeth the d Otherwise what else doe we but deny and betray the truth Defence of Min. reasons part 1. Pref. to the Reader truth of God by his silence and suffereth men to goe on in their superstition without rebuke But if hee be sufficiently resolued of their lawfulnesse how is hee not bound in conscience to reproue those that refuse them or oppose them otherwise hee betrayeth the peace of the Church by his silence and suffereth men to goe on in their disobedience without rebuke Nay more euery Minister that hath receiued pastorall Charge hath twice or thrice if not oftener witnessed his allowance of all and singuler the 39. Articles of the Church of England Once at his Ordination before the Bishop then at his Institution into his Benefice before his Ordinary and both these by Subscription vnder his hand and then after vpon his Iuduction before his owne Flocke and that by verball Approbation By which Subscription and Approbation hee hath not onely acknowledged e Artic. 20. in the Church the power of ordaining Rites and Ceremonies Act. 20. but hee hath after a sort also bound himselfe f Act. 34. openly torebuke such as willingly and purposely breake the Traditions Ceremonies of the Church as offenders against the common Orders of the Church and wounders of the Consciences of the weake brethren Act. 34. He then that for any respect whatsoeuer is meale-mouthed in these things wherein he is bound both in Conscience by vertue of his owne voluntary Act to speake freely neither is constant to his owne hand and tongue nor is g Heb. 32. faithfull in Gods House as was Moses in discharging a good Conscience and reuealing vnto his people h Act. 20. 27. the whole Counsell of God Thus haue I endeuoured § 38. The conclusion hauing the opportunitie of this place as I held my selfe both in Conscience and in regard of my Subscription bound to deliuer my opinion freely so farre as my Text gaue occasion concerning the Ceremoniall Constitutions of our Church and therein laboured to free not onely the Conformer from all vniust Censures but euen the Non-conformer also so farre as he hath reason to expect it from all scandalous Despisings I beseech you pardon my length if I haue been troublesome I had much to say and the matter was weighty and I desired to giue some satisfaction in it to those that are contrary-minded and I haue no purpose for any thing I know at all to trouble this place any more hereafter Let vs all now humbly beseech Almightie God to grant a blessing to what hath been presently taught and heard that it may work in the hearts of vs all charitable affections one towards another due obedience to lawfull Authoritie and a conscionable care to walke in our seuerall callings faithfully painefully and peaceably to the comfort of our owne soules the edification of Gods Church and the glory of the euer-blessed Trinitie the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost three Persons and one God To whom bee ascribed by vs and whole Church as is most due the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for euer and euer Amen FINIS THE SECOND SERMON 24. April 1621. ROM 3. 8. And not rather as we be slanderously reported and as some affirme that we say Let vs doe euill that good may come whose damnation is iust A Little before § 1. The Occasion at the fourth verse Saint Paul had deliuered a Conclusion found and comfortable and strengthened it from Dauids both experience and testimony in a That thou mightest be iustified in thy sayings and mightest ouercome when thou art iudged Psalm 51. 4. Psalm 51. A place pregnant and full of sinewes to enforce it The Conclusion in effect was that Nothing in man can annull the Couenant of God Neither the originall vnworthinesse of Gods children through the vniuersall corruption of nature nor their actuall vnfaithfulnesse bewrayed through frailtie in particular tryals can alienate the free loue of God from them or cut them off from the Couenant of Grace but that still God will be glorified in the truth and faithfulnes of his promises notwithstanding any vnrighteousnesse or vnfaithfulnes in man But neuer yet was any Truth so happily innocent § 2. Coherence as to maintaine it selfe free from Calumnie and Abuse Malice on the one hand and Fleshlinesse on the other though with different aymes yet do the same worke They both peruert the Truth by drawing pestilent Carollaries from sound Conclusions as the Spider sucketh poyson from medicinable herbes But with this difference Malice slandereth the Truth to discountenance it but Fleshlinesse abuseth the Truth to countenance it selfe by it The cauilling Sophister hee would faine bring the Apostles gracious Doctrine into discredit The carnall Libertine he would as faine bring his owne vngracious behauiour into credit Both by making false yet colourable Inferences from the former Conclusion There are a Triplex inconueniens Lyranus hic three of those Inferences but neuer a good The first if so Then cannot God in reason and iustice take vengeance of our vnrighteousnesse The Colour