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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

And being no longer scared with the howling of the Wolf they are offended at the whistle of the Shephard And they that could press upon their Fellow-servants I know what lumps of pitch and hair able to choke the Dragon in the Apocryphals to swallow them a few imposed forms can not be bolted through the fine fives of their consciences which for almost fifteen Centuries were never chaleng'd to be offensive Thirdly when some cases fall out for which neither Laws nor Canons have provided Custom hath much force to decide them For it can not be thought but in a long tract of time some that are sincere and uncorrupt would hinder the progress of a thing if it were not laudable Long permission is a tolerable confirmation That Custom is an arbiter of peace I refer to St. Paul 1 Cor. 11. 16. If any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom nor the Churches of God As who should say you go against Custom your behaviour is of the new cut therefore your contention is in vain Fourthly if it fall out that Laws are silent and Customes are contrary one to another then by the Privilege which we have above beasts we must resort to Reason I will put you an instance The Churches of Asia observ'd their Easter day upon the Jews Passover accounting their Custom from the time of St. John The Western Churches kept their Easter upon the first day of the week claiming their Custom from the dayes of other Apostles Hear how reason interposeth in this debate Either Custom hath the tradition of the best antiquity for it But the Resurrection of Christ may most fitly be celebrated upon the first day of the week the same wherein our Lord rose from the dead call'd the Lords day Unto this all the Churches gave ear and so it is establisht to this day Fifthly I report me to the Apostles how they handled a discord in this Chapter Some would have all the Ceremonies of Moses kept which would have made the Gentiles become Jews and not Christians Some would have none of them be observ'd no not for a time to satisfie the weakness of the Jew which would have provokt the Jew to esteem the Gentile a scandalous Christian To prevent all Schism the Apostles Elders fall upon that course which we call Media consilia a middle temper Some ceremonies the Gentile shall conform unto that will appease the Jew Some ceremonies the Jews shall forgo that will edifie the Gentile Lastly what think you of arbitration And the fewer arbiters the better When many take the thing in hand commonly it is so long a doing that it is never done Make the appeal then to few Nay why not to one person I am so directed by the Apostle 1 Cor. 6.5 Is there not a wise man among you not one that shall be able to judg between his brethren Not that one or many should have dominion over your consciences but to make him or them the settlers of outward peace This is it as every Scholar knows which S. Hierom delivers to prevent troubles in a Church Nisi exors quaedam dignitas c. Unless you give some prerogative of power to one Bishop in a Diocese to examin external order to maintain sound doctrine you will have so many fashions as there are men and so many Faiths as there are Parishes Though there are so many remedies to stop contention Law Canons Custom Reason Middle temper Arbitration yet my Text tells you they do not alwayes prevail for the most considerable members of Christs body were at odds Paul and Barnabas which is the next point Had they been enmities with Infidels and Pagans with those that are without they had been natural for what agreement hath light with darkenesse But this was a jarr at home among themselves a Civil warr I tremble to speak the word though in a bare metaphor This is not an opposition between Ismael and Isaac of two venters but between Jacob and Esau in one womb nay between the Pilot and the master in one ship God help us if the right hand sight against the left when both are made to defend the body When the Rams of the flock contend the poor Sheep that look on must stand amazed But such infelicities have been so frequent in all ages that the Devil hath cast a bone between the Champions of our cause that such as take scandal at it seem to be ignorant that the Lord hath set men over us to govern the Church who have impotent passions and not Angels And what if Angels were appointed to rule the holy Church I do not say they are nay I say they are not Yet some Divines I could name good ones Theodoret Gregory the great and others are of opinion that the good Angels guardians to the Churches and Provinces ministring spirits to the Saints on earth do not alwayes fulfill their charge without opposite wayes in their several attendance That which they chiefly ground it upon is the 10th chap. of Daniel v. 13. When Daniel besought God to have the Temple built again the people restored that were sent into Babylon the Archangel Michael took his part but the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia withstood him I like their opinion that say the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia was no Angel but Cambyses the Son of Cyrus who recalled all favours intended to the Iows by his father Cyrus while Cyrus was busie in his wars against the Scythians Yet antiquity knew not this interpretation they made this out of it that the Angels Guardians of the Jews and Porsians not understanding the secret will of God what he would determine labour'd in several wayes for the good of distinct Nations over whom they had the charge The Angel ministring to the Jews shew'd all readiness to bring that people frō the Persians most scandalous in their Idolatry The Angel of Persia might attempt to have the Jews remain some longer time to reclame the natives of Persia from Idolatry They have no contrary wills or oppositions among themselves for God makes peace in his high places Job 25. 2. It is a variety without a variance when they do their endeavors diversly as God hath placed them prosecuting nothing absolutely but conditionally as God shall please in the end to settle it This is a dark and a misty point therefore I stip out of it But I stand to this doctrine that Paul and Barnabas such good men as they are may pursue a good meaning in a contrary way one to another and be guiltless For it is the ignorance of good men and not their perversness which makes thē seek the true end by multiplicity of means and very opposite Cyprian Cornelius were adversaries sometimes so were Chrysostom and Epiphanius so were Cyril Theodoret. None of them but lov'd the truth But they had not all the same fancy the same complexiō the same educatiō therefore Truth did