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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47777	The parasynagogue paragorized, or, A parenetical confutation of the epidemical error which asserteth, separation from parochial church-communion : demonstrating their practice, who on the Lords day neglect the publick exercises of divine worship in their parochial congregations, and frequent (cæteris paribus) other churches, to be anti-scriptural / by John Lesly ...	Lesly, John, d. 1657.	1655 (1655)	Wing L1171; ESTC R11754	60,778	214

Recusas esse in corpore August in Joan. tract 87. si non vis odium mundi sustinere cum Capite thou refusest to be in the body if thou wilt not suffer the hatred of the world with thy Head Sure the currant credit of the godly in Gregory his time Greg. in Ezek. Homil 9. was perversorum rogatio vitae nostrae approbatio Wicked mens detraction is the approbation of our lives And in all times the rebuke of Christ was the Religion of Christians Heb. 11. per totum And as for our way of preaching the Reverend Provincial Assembly of London Vindication set forth Nov. 2. 1649. page 82 doth piously and judiciously complaine that though wee are farre from justifying any indiscreet or passionate expressions yet we conceive it to be very hard measure to have our integrity arraigned and condemned for humane infirmities And wee hope we may without boasting say thus much That the setled Ministry of England was never more censured molested impoverished and yet never more pious peaceable and painfull Wherefore that I may not number up numberless encouragements stand upon your guard within the limits of your daily warfare with the world since faith is the victory that overcometh the world 1 John 5.4 Only consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners Heb. 12 3 Deus Pater Agonoth●tes Tertul. ad Martyras cap. 3. Xystarches Spiritus sanctus Epistates Jesus Christus Corona aeternitatis bravium Angelicae substantiae politia in coelis gloria in secula seculorum He that hath said Be of good cheer I have overcome the world John 16.33 He is both Commander and spectator of your combate He is both Judge and Rewarder of your courage and conquerour of your enemie He will give you the Crowne of glory that fadeth not away CHAP. XI Thirdly Other imaginary and imaginated Pretences are answered § 1. ALthough all Divine Truths be precious yet controversies are so distastefull to me that I resolved against them But he that made us must rule us and he that putteth us into the Vineyard must measure out our work and commandeth me to speak briefly to the subsequent objections For this is another Office of holy discipline Non solum bona ostendere sed mala refutare Tert. Apolog c. 39. Not only by sound doctrine to exhort but likewise to convince the gainsayers Tit. 1.9 § 2. First Some say they separate from a determined Church-communion because of diversity of doctrine as if they knew not where to find the truth It is true Eccles 7. ult Solomon complaineth That men have sought many inventions or imaginations as in other things so likewise in Doctrine whereby men are drawn from the simplicity of their Creation The Apostle likewise complaineth of a wind of doctrine Eph. 4.14 whereby Christians began to be blown from the stedfastnesse of the Truth August de civ Dei lib. 18. cap. Heb. 13.9 2 Cor. 2.17 Augustine saith that Satan seeing that Idolatrous images would downe he bent his whole device in place of them to erect divers imaginations that people in stead of images might bow down to these and worship them Since which it hath been his daily practice either to broach divers and strange doctrines never heard of before or to revive the old and new dresse them and to mingle them for that by themselves they wil not utter with the Apostolical doctrine that so he might vent them And this indeed is the disease of our age and the just complaint we make of it There hath good dispatch been made of images but imaginations in their stead are deified and worshiped carrying the Name and Credit of Apostolick Doctrine To prevent this mischief We are no where commanded to Separate from Church-communion 1 John 4.1 1 Thes 5.21 but to try the spirits to prove all things to hold fast that which is good and that we may do that we are to pray that he would open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things out of his Law Psal 119.18 Heb. 5.14 and to pray for knowledge and understanding and to endeavour to have our senses exercised to discerne both good and evil The advice that Sysinnius presented to the Emperour Theodosius studying how to put an end to the differences in diversity of Doctrine Sozom. l. 7. c. 12. that then troubled the Church was to avoid all disputations with Sectaries and to demand of them when they petitioned him whether they would stand to the judgement of such as were Teachers in the Church before it was divided especially where their judgment dissented not from the Scriptures Bp. Andrewes Ser. Worship imaginat Ancient Fathers thought it meet that they that would take upon them to interpret the Scriptures should put in sureties that the senses they gave should be no other then the Church in former time had acknowledged All that came after the Apostles are commanded to labour for knowledg and learning 1 Thes 5 12 1 Tim. 5 17 1 Cor. 9.8 and not to utter their own imaginations or do desire to be believed upon then bare word for that were to have dominion of their Auditors Faith Say I this of my selfe saith the Apostle saith not the Law this also Give I this sense of mine own head or hath not Christs Church heretofore given the like Which one course if it were strictly kept would rid our Church of many false imaginations which now are stampt daily because every man upon his owne single bond is trusted to deliver the meaning of any Scripture § 3. Secondly Others pretend that they separate from Church-communion for neglects and corruption in discipline For answer to this I would they read what their own Mr. Cotton of New England writes that the many notorious scandalous persons that were found in the Churches of Israel Mr. Cottons Holinesse of Church-members p. 21. did only argue the neglect of Ecclesiastical discipline in the toleration of such publick scandals in the Church And thus none of the men of God who could not be ignorant of the Churches duty and their sin in such neglects ever attempted to Separate from that which was in this sort faulty All was not right in the exercise of discipline in the Churches planted by the Apostles The Church of Corinth was censured as very faulty 1 Cor. 5.2 So was the Church of Smyrna Revel 2.14 No lesse faulty was the Church of Thyatyra Rev. 2.20 Neither could the Church of Sardis be free seeing the greatest part were openly bad there being but a few that had not defiled their garments Rev. 3.4 And yet nothing heard by way of advice for any to make separation nor reproof for their holding up Communion nor any one instance of a separatist given And here Mr. Blake sheweth Mr. Blake Covenant c. 31. p. 238. that the godly non-conformist in England who had a low opinion of the discipline then exercised were so zealous