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saint_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	1,647	5	11.3808	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35545	The workes of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honovrable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, April 27th 1642 / by Ioseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1642 (1642)	Wing C790; ESTC R3989	40,178	69

a kindnesse to smite them It is alwayes a kindnesse offered though often it be not a kindnesse received For of many that of Solomon is verified Though thou shouldst Pro. 27. 22 bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him And the Apostle is expresse in a Propheticke threat Evill men and seducers 2 Tim. ● 13. that is evill men who are seducers or among all evill men especially seducers shall waxe worse and worse deceiving and being deceived They couzen others and the Devill couzens them But if these will not receive this kindnesse of smiting ad correctionem to amendment it will be a kindnesse which they cannot put off to smite them if they by Law deserve it ad ruinam to death Seeing they as through the patience of God so through the patience of man in bearing and forbearing them doe but treasure up wrath against the day of Rom. 2. 5. wrath and the Revelation of the righteous judgement of God The judgement of many had been comparatively Light if they had not been so much borne with As favour to a murderer often kils a second man so it often addes a degree of wrath to the second death of the murderer And this is proportionably true of every evill one we beare unlesse such repent they poore soules beare the more for ever The point yet is lyable to some Objections from Obj. 1 Scripture I shall answer two Texts which may also be 1 Cor. 13. 6 a clearing to others First that of the Apostle Love beareth all things If all things then evill things for many things are evill I answer Love is indeed the badge of Christs Disciples An. 1 the very Genius of the Saints And love hath broad shoulders it can beare much yea love can beare all things which consist with love but sin doth not Love is the fullfilling of the Law and sin is the transgression of the Law therefore love cannot beare sinne Gal. 6. 2. Beare one anothers burdens saith S. Paul to his Galatians and so fulfill the Law of Christ Love can beare any thing that concernes the fulfilling of the Law but if anything be a breaking of the Law it cannot beare that It can beare the infirmities and passions of others It can beare the afflictions and sufferings of others it can beare the wrongs and injuries of others against it selfe but it cannot beare wrongs and injuries done to God Secondly Charity is not contrary to Justice Wee An. 2 may love the person while we reprove oppose or punish the offender God himselfe punisheth where hee loves Thou wast a God who forgavest them though thou Psal 99. 8. tookest vengeance of their inventions And man may forgive where he taketh vengeance It is said that God suffered or bore the manners of the Israelites fourty yeares in the wildernesse He bare them indeed in the way of much patience but he did not beare them in a way of the least complyance For with many of them God was not well pleased that is he was exceedingly Act. 13. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10. 5 displeased there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Apostles expression as the words following doe evince For they were overthrowne or as another place hath it their carkasse fell in the wildernesse Theirs was a great punishment and therefore Gods was a great displeasure Thirdly Christ is all Love as well as all lovely He is but Eph. 5. 2. Love Incarnate And his Love is made the patterne of ours Walke in Love as Christ hath loved us Now Iesus Christ though he came into the world with love enough to beare the sins of every man in the world and with resolution to beare the sins of all the Elect so as to suffer and dye for them yet he would not beare so much as one sinne of any one man so as to countenance or comply with it He would not beare Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites as full of love as he was He would not beare buyers and sellers in the Temple as full of Love as he was but whipt them out He would not beare his owne Peter when he spake foolishly as full of Love as he was but rebukes him with Get thee behind me Satan Mat. 16. 23. Christ in love bore all our sinnes but he will not beare with any Doe not out-love your rule and then beare as much evill as you can Lastly the love of our selves is the measure of our Ans 4 love to others Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe Mat. 19. 19 Now no man ought so to love himselfe as to beare his owne sinne-evils Holy self-love casts the first stone at a mans owne sinne Therefore it cannot be love to others to beare them in evill No the Spirit of God doth interpret that as hatred Thou shalt not hate thy brother Lev. 19. 17 in thy heart Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sinne upon him Or as it is rendred out of the Originall that thou beare not sinne for him To oppose evill in thy brother is the best way to doe him good and thy selfe too Secondly it may be objected That the Master of Obj. 2 the field not onely forbids his servants to plucke up the Tares but adds Let both grow together untill the harvest Mat. 13. 30. I answer first by that approved Maxime Scriptura Ans 1 Parabolica non est Argumentativa We may not argue from every particular in a Parable but onely from the Generall Scope of it The Scope of the Parable is onely this to shew that good and bad will be mixt together to the end of the world Or it shewes what God out of his Prerogative will suffer Not what man in duty ought It holds forth the pleasure of God to us to which we must submit Not a patterne or a rule by which we must walke God is able if he please to plucke up at once all the tares and weeds in the world yet he lets them grow But this is no warrant for us to let them grow which are in our lawfull power to pluck up Againe the letter of the Parable is cleare that he forbids Ans 2 onely such a plucking up of Tares as by which Ver. 29. the wheate must be rooted up also that is a totall extirpation For indeed if God should at once destroy all wicked men the very Compages or bands of humane society would in a moment be dissolved But we know the plucking up of many wicked ones is a great advantage to the growth of them who are good So then whatsoever justice upon the Tares will help the increase and fruitfulnesse of the wheate that is not so much as aymed at in this Parrble And none but such acts of justice are intended in this Doctrine Thirdly for answer take that excellent rule given Ans 3 by a worthy Authour yet living