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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05171	A sermon preached on Munday, the seauenteenth of March, at Westminster at the opening of the Parliament. By the Bishop of Bathe and Welles.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1628 (1628)	STC 15305; ESTC S102879	18,331	48

a iust cause to breake it Now to be one here whether in Church or Common-wealth is not properly taken as if all were to be shrunke vp into one Body But One is taken here saith Paulinus pro multorum vnanimitate for the vnanimitie and consent of many in one And the Church and Common-wealth take them seuerally or together they are they can be no otherwise One then Vnione multorum by the vniting and agreeing of many in one And so S. Luke Acts 4. The Church was a multitude of Beleeuers sed co●vnum but they liued as if they had had but one heart among them This Vnity then is so One as that it is the vniting of more then one yet such a vniting of many as that when the Common Faith is endangered the Church appeares for it as One. And when the common safety is doubted or the common peace troubled the state appeares for it as one As Israel was said to be knit together as One man Iud. 20. And indeede when One Man is not more at Vnitie in himselfe for his owne defence then the Church and state are for publike defence then both are iustly said to be at Vnitie You see what Vnitie is Will you see what hurt followes vvhere t is broken First Fraction makes vneuen reckonings And t is hard very hard for a man that breakes vnitie to giue either God or man a good account of so doing Hard to giue account but that 's not all For if Vnity be broken if a Diuision bee made the parts must be aequall or vnaequall If the parts be aequall neither of them hath more then halfe its strength If they bee vnaequall one hath not so much And that which hath more vsually hath more pride and so lesse will to vnite And yet for all this pride farre weaker it is then when there was Vnity and altogether Nay in breach of Vnity there is not alwaies safetie for the greater against the lesse For in that greeuous breach in Israel when the Eleuen Tribes came out against Beniamin foure hundred thousand strong and their quarrell good yet they fell twice before them Iudg. 20. Nay this is not all not any almost of the hurt which followes in either Church or state when discontents haue swallowed vp their Vnity For the Church Nothing saith S. Chrisostome doth so prouoke God to anger as to see diuisam Ecclesiam his Church purchased by one blood to be One Body made more made other then One. And for the Common-Wealth A people is as one Cittie yet such a one saith Saint Augustine cui est periculosa dissentio as to whom all breach of Vnity is full of danger For Church and state together It was a greeuous Rent among the Iewes when Manasses deuoured Ephraim Ephraim Manasses and both fell vpon Iudah Esay 9. What followed was God pleas'd with this or were the Tribes in safety that were thus diuided No sure For it followes The wrath of the Lord was not turn'd away but his hand was stretched out still Still How long was that How long Why Till Ephraim and Manasses which could not agree at home were with the rest of the ten Tribes carried away into perpetuall captiuity And Esay liued to see his Prophecy fulfilled vpon them For they were carried away by Salmanasar in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah when Esay flourished This wrath of the Lord was fierce and the people dranke deepe of this Cup. Therefore I goe a farre off both for time and place to fetch this Instance And doe you take care not to bring it neerer home And I pray obserue it too The hand of God was stretched out vpon Ephraim and Manasses but there 's no mention which was the first or which the greater offender Ephraim or Manasses What 's the Reason 'T is because the breach of vnity scarce leaues any Innocent and the hand of God is stretched out vpon all I presse Vnity hard vpon you pardon me this Zeale O that my thoughts could speake that to you that they doe to God or that my tongue could expresse them but such as they are Or that there were an open passage that you might see them as they pray faster then I can speak for vnity But what then will any kinde of Vnity serue the turne Surely any will doe much good But the best is safest and that is the Vnity of the Spirit The learned are not altogether agreed heere what is meant by the Vnity of the Spirit For some thinke no more is meant by it then a bare concord and agreement in minde and will Lett 's keep this and both Church and state shall haue a great deale of freedome from danger But others take the Vnity of the Spirit to be that spirituall concord which none doth none can worke in the hearts of men but the Holy Ghost And I am apter to follow this sence because if you take it but for a bare agreement in iudgment Saint Paul had said enough by naming Vnity Hee needed haue made no Addition of the Spirit And because in the Text 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which for the most points out the Holy Spirit And because else Saint Pauls words which Bucer calls Ardentia verba zealous and burning words adde nothing to any euen the Coldest exhortation of the Heathen to Vnity The Vnity then of the Spirit to which the Apostle exhorts includes both Both concord in minde and affections and loue of charitable vnity which comes from the Spirit of God and returnes to it And indeed the Grace of Gods Spirit is that alone which makes men truly at peace and vnity one with another Ei tribuendum non Nobis To him it is to bee attributed not to vs saith Saint Augustine T is Hee that makes men to be of one minde in an house Psal. 68. Now one minde in the Church and one minde in the state come from the same fountaine with One minde in an house All from the Spirit And so the Apostle cle erely ver 4. One Body and one Spirit that is One Body by one Spirit For 't is the Spirit that ioynes all the members of the Church into one Body And 't is the Church that blesses the state not simply with vnity but with that vnity with which it selfe is blessed of God A state not Christian may haue Vnity in it Yes And so may a state that hath lost all Christianity saue the Name But Vnity of the Spirit nor Church nor state can longer hold then they doe in some measure obey the Spirit and loue the Vnity This vnity of the Spirit is closer then any corporall vnion can bee For Spirits meete where Bodies cannot and neerer then Bodies can The Reason is giuen by Saint Chrysostome Because the Soule or Spirit of man is more simple and of one sorme And the Soule apter in it selfe to Vnion is made more apt by the Spirit