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A01344	Ioseph's partie-colored coat containing, a comment on part of the 11. chapter of the 1. epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians : together with severall sermons, namely, [brace] 1. Growth in grace, 2. How farre examples may be followed, 3. An ill match well broken off, 4. Good from bad friends, 5. A glasse for gluttons, 6. How farre grace may be entayled, 7. A christning sermon, 8. Faction confuted / by T.F.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 11466.3; ESTC S4310	83,852	200

then with Micaiah wee must alwayes prophesie evil unto them In this I prayse you not Ministers must not commend their people when they doe ill 1. Dishonourable to God 2. Dangerous to the Ministers That Embassadour who being sent to proclaime warre pronounceth peace to Rebels There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Esay 57.21 deserves at his returne to bee preferred to the Gallowes 3. Dangerous to the people who are soothed in their sinnes Honey-dewes though they be sweet in taste doe black and blast the corne So those who prayse their people without cause are cruelly kind unto them it is pleasant to the pallate of flesh but destroyeth and damneth the soule It were to be wished that as those that live under the Equinoctiall at Noon-day have no shadowes at all so great men should have no shadowes no Parasites no Flatterers to commend them when they least deserve it But why doth Saint Paul deale so mildly with the Corinthians I prayse you not Me thinkes hee should have made his little finger as heavie as his loynes O yee Corinthians I excommunicate every mothers child of you I damne you all to the pit of hell and deliver you to Satan for your sinne of Drunkennesse at the receiving of the Sacrament never to be absolved but on your most serious and solemne repentance Otherwise considering the corrupt humour in the Corinthians the Apostles purge was too gentle for them Theophylact answers that Saint Paul reproves the rich men the more mildly lest otherwise they should be implacably incensed against the poore fretting against them as the causers of the Apostles anger 2. It was the first time hee told the Corinthians of their fault and therefore used them the more gently on hope of their amendment This corrupt humour in the Corinthians was not as yet growne tough bak't and clodded in them by custome and therefore the easier purged and removed Ministers must use mildnesse especially at their first reproving of a sinne Yea God so blest the mild serveritie of Saint Paul that the Corinthians reformed all their errours for no fault reprehended by the Apostle in them in this first Epistle is taxed againe in the second Epistle a very strong presumption that all those faults were amended Now whereas wee find such abuses in the Church of Corinth presently after it was newly planted we may learne Corruptions will quickly creepe into the best Church Thus Saint Paul no sooner went back from the Galatians but they went back from his Doctrine Gal. 5.7 Yee did run well who did hinder you And as we reade of Mezentius a cruell Tyrant who joyned dead corpes to living men and so killed them with lingering torments So some Seducers in the Church of Galatia sought to couple the lively grace of God and active faith with the dead Letter of the Law and old legall Ceremonies long since dead buried and rotten in the Grave of our Saviour If it be done thus to the greene Tree what shall be done to the dry If Primative Churches whilst the Apostles which planted them were alive to pruine them had such errours in them no wonder if the Church at sixteene hundred yeares of age may have some defaults Moses said unto the Israelites Deut. 31.27 Behold while I am alive with you this day yee have beene rebellious against the Lord and how much more when I am dead So if while Saint Paul survived Churches were so prone to decline what can be lesse expected in our dayes It was therfore well concluded in the 39. Session of the Councell of Constance * That every ten yeare at the farthest there should bee a Generall Councell held to reforme such errours in the Church as probably in that time would arise VERSE 23. For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you that the Lord Iesus the same night in which hee was betrayed tooke bread AFter hee had fully reproved the corruptions of their Love-feasts commeth he now to reduce the receiving of the Sacrament to the first Institution of Christ It is the safest way to correct all the Errata's in the Transcript according to the Originall Copie Thus did Christ in the matter of Divorce Mat. 19.8 But from the beginning it was not so Excellently Saint Cyprian Wee must not heed what others did who were before us but what Christ did who was before all Were this used betwixt us and the Papists to cleare the streame of Gods service by the Fountaine of its first Institution how soone would seven Sacraments shrinke to two how quickly would Creame Oyle and Spittle fly out of Baptisme and leave nothing but faire water behind How soone c. For I have received of the Lord How could Saint Paul receive it of the Lord with whom hee never convers't in the flesh being one borne out of time as he confesseth of himselfe He received it 1. Mediately by Ananias who began with him where Gamaliel ended Besides lest the Corinthians should say that they received it likewise at the second hand as well as Saint Paul he had it immediately from God Gal. 1.12 For I never received it of man neither was I taught it but by the Revelation of Iesus Christ I also delivered unto you The Greeke is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Latine Tradidi vobis English it as you please I traditioned it unto you Nota saith A Lapide on this place Hunc locum pro traditionibus quas Orthodoxi verbo Dei scripto adjungendas docento Bellarmine also starts Traditions out of the same place What eye-salve are their eyes anoynted with that can see unwritten Traditions here when the Apostle delivereth nothing but is recorded in 3. Evangelists Mathew Marke Luke However hence we will take occasion briefly to speak of unwritten Traditions the Church of Rome maintayning that the Scriptures of themselves are too scant to salvation except the course list of unwritten Traditions be cast in to make measure and this they will have of equall authority with the written Word Marke by the way 1. This is the Reason why Romanists are so zealous for Traditions for finding themselves cast by the Scriptures they would faigne appeale to another Judge yea hereon are founded those points which get them their gaine as Purgatory and the Appurtenances thereof Hath not Demetrius then reason to stand for Diana Act. 19.25 when his goods and her Godship must go together 2. Though they lock up the Scriptures in an unknowne language and forbid the Laity to reade them yet they suffer Traditions to bee preached and published to all in generall Such woodden Daggers will never hurt Popery to the heart and therefore they suffer their children to play with these dull tooles though not to handle the two-edged Sword of Gods Word 3. Romanists will never give us a perfect List and Catalogue of their Traditions that we may know

their set number how many there be of them but still reckon them up with an Et Caetera leave still a Plus ultra to place more in if need require And as the Athenians for feare they should omit any Deity erected an Altar to the unknowne God So the Papists in summing up their Traditions will not compleat their number but are carefull to leave Blankes and void places for a Refuge and Retreating Place that in case they be prest in Disputation and cannot prove their point by places of Scripture they may still plead it is a Tradition 4. Whereas the word Tradition is taken in severall senses and there be many kinds of them Papists jumble and confound them together As Cheaters use to cast their counterfeit coyne amongst good gold hoping so to passe it away currant and undiscovered So they shuffle false and true Traditions together in one heape that the bad may goe off under the countenance and protection of the good Wee will marre their Mart by sorting them into these severall Rankes 1. Traditions in a generall sense are taken for things delivered though in Scripture by Christ and his Apostles thus Saint Basil cals Baptising In the name of the F S. and H G. a Tradition 2. For such matters of Faith which are not found in Scripture totidem verbis in the words and sound but yet in the same sense and substance or at least may by faithfull consequence bee thence deduced as the Trinity of Persons two wils in Christ his Consubstantiality with God the Father Thus Lindan a Papist cals Originall sinne a Tradition 3. For such opinions against which nothing appeares in Scripture and the Church in all times and ages have maintained them condemning the Opposers for erroneous As that the Mother of Christ was ever a Virgin 4. For such Rites and Ceremonies of the Church no matters of Faith which therein have beene used from great Antiquity and therefore probably might have their Original from the Apostles As Fasting in Lent though the manner time and continuance in keeping it was very different in severall Churches Take Traditions in the first and second acception wee account them to have equal force and authority with the Written Word In the third sense wee honour and embrace them as true In the last Acception wee approve and practise them as decent and ancient provided alwayes they be not obtruded as things necessary to salvation but indifferent in their nature But all this makes nothing for the blacke Guard of Romish Traditions which lag still behind some of them frivolous As this Apostolical Tradition That a Priest if against their wils they receive any money from wicked men they must in no case expend it on meat but to buy wood coals Some impious and blasphemous worshipping of Images prayers to Saints the Sacrifice of the Masse Purgatory c. having nothing for them much against them in Gods written Word To draw to a conclusion Scriptures besides many others have two most principall priviledges above Traditions First their Infallibilitie as being inspired by the Spirit of God 2 Pet. 1.20 So that yee first know this that no prophecie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation vers. 21. For the Prophecie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost As for the authors of Traditions they might both falli and fallere be deceived themselves and deceive others They might be deceived themselves either by mis-understanding the Traditions delivered unto them or by mis-remembring or by mis-relating them againe They might deceive others either unwillingly by these forenamed slips and infirmities or else willingly and wittingly by venting those things as received from the Apostles which they had not received from them And by usurpation intitling the fancies of your owne heads to bee Apostolicall Precepts 2. The Providence of God plainely appeares in his preserving of the Scriptures against all oppositions Many a time from my youth up may the Scriptures now say yea many a time have they fought against me from my youth but they could not prevaile against me Neither Antiochus before Christ nor Iulian the Apostate since him nor the force of Tyrants nor the fraud of Heretikes though the world of late hath scarce yeelded a wicked sharpe wit that hath not given the Scriptures a gash could ever suppresse them Their treading on this Cammimell made it grow the better and their snuffing of this candle made it burne the brighter Whereas on the other side the Records of Traditions are lost and those bookes wherein they where compiled and composed Aut in curia hominum aut injuria temporis or by some other sinister accident are wholly miscarried and no where appeare Papias is reported by * Eusebius in five bookes to have contained all the Apostolicall Traditions which they call the Word not written by Bellarmine himselfe confessed that these are lost Likewise Clemens Alexandrinus as the same Eusebius storieth it wrote in a booke those Traditions which hee received from the Elders and they from the Apostles which booke the Papists themselves at this day cannot produce I will conclude all with Gamaliels words Act. 5.39 But if it be of God yee cannot destroy it Had these bookes beene inspired by Gods Spirit no doubt the same Providence would have watched to preserve them which hath protected the Scripture Let us therefore leaving uncertaine Traditions stick to the Scriptures alone trust no Doctrine on its single band which brings not Gods word for its security Let that Plate be beaten in peeces which hath not this Tower-stampe upon it That the Lord Iesus the same night wherein he was betrayed Christ bestowed the greatest courtesie on mankind when hee foresaw that hee should receive the greatest cruelty from them O that wee were like minded with our Saviour to move fastest in Piety when wee draw neerest the Center of Death and then chiefly to study to fasten favours on our Enemies Why did Christ institute it then and not before Because dying men bequeath not their Legacies till they make their wils nor departing friends bestow their tokens till they take their farewell 2. Because till then the Passeover a Sacrament in the same kind did continue in full force and the Lords Supper was not to bee lighted til the Passover was first fairly put out Seeing Christ appoynted it a Supper how comes it now to be a Dinner God hath instrusted the discretion of his Church on just occasion to alter some circumstances in the Sacrament True it is such circumstances as are Sacramental not only of the Commission at large but also of the Quorum nomina whose absence or alteration maims and mangles the Sacrament are unchangeable But Common and ordinary circumstances such as is the Time Place Kind of Bread and Wine the Church hath power to alter by vertue of a Warrant left

King 18. 16. For Senacharib no sooner received his money but hoc non obstante persisted in his former enmity and hostility against the Iewes and as it followeth in the very next verse sent up his Captaines to besiege Ierusalem 3. If there be no fault in the inchoation Examine hath there beene none in the continuance of your friendship hast thou not committed many sinnes to hold in with him If so then it is just with God hee should forsake thee Thus Tyrants often times cut off those staires by which they climbe up to their Throne Yea good Princes have often times justly sacrificed those their Favorites to the fury of the people who formerly have been the active Instruments to oppresse the people though to the enriching of their Princes Hast thou not flattered him in his faults or at least wise by thy silence consented to him If so God hath now opened thy friends eyes he sees thy false dealing with him and hath just cause to cast thee out of his favour When Amnon had defiled his sister Thamar the Text saith 2 Sam. 13.15 that the hatred wherewith hee hated her was greater than the love wherewith hee loved her Poore Lady shee was in no fault not the cause but onely the object and the occasion of her brothers sinne and that against her will by his violence Now to reason A minore ad majus If Amnon in cold blood viewing the hainousnesse of his offence so hated Thamar which onely concurred passively in his transgression how may our friends justly hate us if haply we have beene the Causers Movers and Procurers of their badnesse If wee have added fewell to the flame of their ryot played the Pandors to their lusts and spurred them on in the full speed of their wantonnesse deserve wee not when their eyes are opened to see what foes we have been unto them under pretended Friendship to bee spit in the face kik't out of their company and to bee used with all contumely and disgrace 4. Hast thou not idolatrized to thy friend hath he not totally monopolized thy soule so that thou hast solely depended on him without looking higher or further Tu patronus si deseris tu perimus Thus too many wives anchor al their hopes for outward matters on their husbands and too many children leane all their weight on their Fathers shoulders so that it is just with God to suffer these their woodden Pillars to breake on whom they lay too much heft 5. Hast thou not undervalued thy friend and set too meane a rate and low an estimate on his love If so God hath now taught thee the worth of a Pearle by loosing it And this comes often to passe though not in our friends voluntary deserting us as Achitophel did David yet in their leaving us against their wils when God taketh them from us by death But here this question may be demanded whether is one ever againe to receive him for his friend and to restore him to the old state of his favour who once hath deceived and dealt falsely with him Many circumstances are herein well to bee weighed first did hee forsake thee out of frailty and infirmity or out of meer spight and maliciousnesse Secondly hath he since shewed any tokens and evidences of unfained sorrow hath hee humbled himselfe unto thee and beg Gods and thy pardon If hee hath offended mischievously and persists in it obstinately O let not the strength of thy supposed charity so betray thy judgement as to place confidence in him Samson was blind before hee was blind the lust of Dalilah deprived him of his eyes before the Philistims bored them out in that once and againe being deceived by Dalilah hee still relyed on her word But if hee hath shewed himselfe such a Penitent and thou art verely perswaded of his Repentance receive him againe into thy favour Thus dealt our Saviour with Saint Peter Marke 16.7 But goe your way tell his Disciples and Peter Peter especially Peter that had sinned and Peter that had sorrowed Peter that had denyed his Master but Peter that went out and wept bitterly 6. Sixthly and lastly it may bee God suffers thy friends to prove unfaithfull to thee to make thee sticke more closely to himselfe Excellent to this purpose is that place Mica 7.5 Trust yee not in a friend put yee no confidence in a Guide keepe the doers of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome For the Son dishonoureth the Father the Daughter riseth up against the Mother the Daughter in law against her Mother in law a mans enemies are the men of his own house But now marke what followes therefore will I looke unto the Lord I will wayte for the God of my salvation As if hee had said is the world at this bad hand is it come to this bad passe That one must bee farre from trusting their neerest friends it is well then I have one fast Friend on whom I may relye the God of Heaven I must confesse these words of the Prophet are principally meant of the time of Persecution and so are applyed by our Saviour Mat. 10.21 However they containe an eternall truth whereof good use may bee made at any time Let us therefore when our friends forsake us principally relye on God who hath these two excellent properties of a friend first he is neere to us so saith the Psalmist Thy name is neere and this doth thy excellent workes declare They have a speedy way of conveying Letters from Aleppo to Babylon sending them by a winged Messenger tyed to the legs of a Dove but wee have a shorter cut to send our prayers to God by sending our prayers by the wings of the Holy Spirit that heavenly Dove whereby they instantly arrive in Heaven As God is neere to us so hee is ever willing and able to helpe us On him therefore let us ever relye and when other Reeds bow or break or run into our hands let us make him to bee our staffe whereon wee may leane our selves A GLASSE FOR GLVTTONS ROM. 13.13 Not in Gluttony THese words are a parcell of that Scripture that converted Saint Augustine He as hee confesseth of himselfe at the first was both erroneous in his Tenets and vicious in his life when running on in full carreare in wickednesse God stopt him with his voyce from Heaven Tolle et lege take up thy Book and reade and the first place which God directed his eye to was these words in my Text and after this time being reclaymed hee proved a worthy Instrument of Gods glory and the Churches good Now as those receipts in Physicke are best which are confirmed under the Broad Seale of Experience and set forth with the priviledge of Probatum est so my Text may challenge a priority before other places of Scripture because upon Record it hath been the occasion to convert so famous a Christian Neither thinke that the vertue of these words are extracted by doing