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A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

must be led and gouerned by lenitie and faire meanes not drawne by violence If saith Iacob I ouerdriue the cattell they will all die Nimri was a sore driuer so was Rehoboam but he lost tenne parts of his flocke therefore As the people are like sheepe in simplicitie so are they like the Chamelion in inconstancie They grudge that Aaron should be high Priest Exod. 17. Num. 20. though the Lorde make his rod to bud for a manifest token that he is rightly called to that dignitie And within a while after he being dead they mourne thirtie dayes for him One while they say to Moses and Aaron that whatsoeuer they commaunde they will do but within a while after they are readie to stone them One while they repent of their wickednes in prouoking the Lord another while they choose new captaines to carrie them backe againe into Aegypt Whereby we see that great care policie and discretion is necessarily required to be both in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall magistrate for the ruling and gouerning of the multitude As in the old Testament so also in the newe our Sauiour Christ himselfe and by the wisedome of his spirite in his Apostles and their successors after his ascension into heauen made a difference of persons and established an order for Ciuill and also for Ecclesiasticall gouernment Concerning ciuill magistracie more shall be saide hereafter vpon other occasion As touching Order which Christ hath appointed among his Ministers and Priests we know that first he chose twelue which afterward were called Apostles After these he called seuentie mo disciples which were not so famous as the first twelue Beside these he ordained some to be Euangelists and some Doctors c. Afterward the Apostles elected certaine worthie men for the gouernment of the Church as Timothie to be Bishop of Ephesus and Titus to be Archbishop of that noble Iland Creta In regard of which difference Saint Paul saith that some are worthie of double honor therefore there were some which had but single honor Againe the same Apostle sayth God hath not sent me to baptise but to preach whereby it appeareth that some were to baptize the which the Apostle accounteth not so great an honour as preaching This spirituall order and regement in all degrees as in Apostles Euangelists Bishops Doctors and Ministers was instituted as is alreadie shewed by Christ and shall be protected and propagated by the holy Ghost vnto the ende of the worlde To these the Apostle speaketh thus Take heede to your selues Act 20. and to the whole flocke wherein the holy Ghost hath placed you to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne bloud Also of these Bishops and Ecclesiasticall gouernours the authour of the Epistle to the Hebrues speaketh thus Obey your Prelats Heb. 13. be subiect to them for they watch as being to giue an account of your soules And that ancient father Irenaeus sayth Opertet ordinationem sequi traditionis quam tradiderunt patris ijs quibus committebant ecclesias c. Irenae lib 3. Chap. 4. We must follow the order of traditions which the fathers did leaue vnto them vnto whom they did leaue the cure of Christes people vnto the which ordinances the verie heathen comming vnto Christs flocke did obey Notwithstanding these things some rashe heades being Conchae before they be Canales that is to say Spoutes before they haue filled their Cesterne and pretending a reformation in Religion haue sought to ouerthrow all good order of Church-gouernment bearing ignorant men in hand that they haue sufficient warrantize out of Gods worde But as in the primatiue time of the Church no heresie was so bad but that it would relie vpon one Scripture or other as Arrius who abused the 28. verse of the 14. Chapter of Saint Iohns Gospel for defence of his heresie Montanus the 16. verse of the same Chapter for his heresie Manicheus the seuenth verse of the second Chapter to the Philippians for his heresie The late Bishop of Rome the 18. verse of the 16. Chapter of Saint Matthew for their error The Familists the 21 verse of the 17. Chapter of Saint Luke Euen so the sedicious and Schismatiques of this our age haue chosen for their purpose the 25. verse of the 22. Chapter of Saint Luke Matt. 4. the which they vse as the Deuill vsed Scripture who spake Gods worde but not out of Gods mouth And as the olde prophet in like case at Bethel spake Gods worde but not out of Gods mouth therefore it helpeth them nothing at all 3. King 13. And yet for all that so great is their enuie at other mens prosperitie that so as they may bring downe the temple with this twine thread they care not though it fall vppon their owne heades as it did vpon Samson Whose enuie groweth hereof because by no means they can abide to be commanded to obserue order As they do herein greatly offend seeking through malice to ouerthrow and confound all good order Vnitie so also by their bitter contention hereabout they breake the Vnitie which ought to bee among brethren then the which vnitie nothing ought to bee more deare to the Church and common wealth Wherevpon Saint Luke in the Acts of the Apostles commending the societie of Christians sayth They were all of one mind and of one heart Also the Apostle Saint Paul perswadeth vs in many places to obserue order and vnitie especially in his Epistle to the Corinthians saying I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 1. that ye all speake one-thing and that there be no Schismes or dissentions among you but be ye knit together in one minde and in one iudgement Whereby hee requireth among the faithfull a consent in thought worde and deed so neere as might be As touching the consent in action and deede he speaketh more plainely in the Epistle to the Philippians Phil. 2. where he sayeth Be ye like minded hauing the same loue being of one accorde and of one iudgement that nothing be done through contention or of vaineglorie By which exhortation of the Apostle wee may plainelie gather that there are foure causes of sedition at this day in the Church and common wealth The first a readinesse to contende for euerie trifle the second vaine-glorie the thirde a desire of preferment the fourth the diuersitie of faith Whosoeuer shall contende mooued by anie of these hee will shewe himselfe quickely a Schismatique a false prophet and a badde Pastor But it is no woonder to heare of false prophets seeing there bee false Gods no maruaile if there bee false Apostles seeing there hath start vp false Christes A man may boldlie say the Diuell gaue orders when those men came into the number of Prophets These men came not in deede but as Ieremie saith currebant they ranne before they were sent And albeit they runne yet when they come to the sheepe-folde they play as