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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66524	A scourge to the rebellious, or, A sermon preached at the parish Church of St. Antholin, in the city of London, June the 28th, 1685 by Steph. Willoughby ...	Willoughby, Stephen, b. 1657 or 8.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2862B; ESTC R38661	12,830	32

Socinians are as Old as Sabellius And these Reprobatarians from Simon Magus and the Manichees But so directly doth Schism oppose the welfare of our Church * Lam. 1.2 That her tears hang sore upon her cheeks because of it Hence it is that she complains Her friends have dealt treacherously with her and that amongst all her Lovers she hath few to comfort her * Illa te aiù portavit in utero aiù aluit c. Hier Ep. 47. she that once bore them in her own Bowels and nourished them in her own Womb and even courts them now with a sweet harmony to return again she that delights in no Throne save that of Bliss in no Attendants but men Tongued like Angels Winged like Eagles and hearted like Doves now sings Lachrimae for her lost Delinquents her Priests sigh and her Virgins mourn so that we may say with St. Hierom * Quis unquā mortaliū juxta viperam securos somnos capit quae etsi non percutiat certe solicitat Epiph. 47. who can sleep secure that bordereth so upon the Viper who if he sting not surely solicites and endangereth out seduction Now the first pretence that our Dissenters had was to seek only the liberty of their own Consciences but now nothing more than the Soveraignity over other mens in a Damnable Rebellion a Rebellion that wants an Argument to justifie its Being do they fight for the Protestant Religion that 's kept secure from their invasion by the over-ruling providence of Heaven and wanteth nothing save only the Conformity of those that would destroy it Is Religion grounded on those Precepts which our blessed Jesus left behind So are all the Articles of our Faith no Diminution nor Addition and as for those few remain which they approve not of we only borrow from he best of men who lived in the time when a bishop and a Martyr were both one Hence it is that they who interrupt the peace of a true Religion by nourishing a Faction if they own a God might acknowledge that they disobey his voice when he saith follow peace and holiness and what follows but the total exclusion of immortal joys without which peace no man shall see the Lord And how far from peace are the present Opposers of our Sion who defile the Press with unworthy Pens and ravish the Pulpit with prophane Tongues Our blessed Lord tells us of a sort of People among the Jews called Pharisees who took away the Key of Knowledge lock'd up the Law and shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men * Mat. 23.13 that their Proselytes could as soon enter the Secreta Jehovae the privacies of Heaven as the Presence Chamber of God's revealed Will and such are by a Geneva Translation the present opposers of our quiet they lead Captive silly Women laden with their sins lock up the Kingdom of Heaven by their obstinacy and all the hopes of future joys by resisting Supremacy * Rom. 13. for whoso resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive unto themselves Damnation Now if this be the way that leadeth unto life the path in which the Redeemed of the Lord do walk then farewel Heaven and Religion too But Secondly This is a National-overturning sin and therefore prejudicial to State too Our Saviour faith If a Kingdom be divided against it self that Kingdom cannot stand But Division is the greater sin when it strikes at the root of that Government which is established by such laws as Justice and Modesty can possibly requir such as have abated the Royal dues for the interest of them that will be at peace and what is the issue of this Division but Distraction in a Common Wealth Hence Feuds and Discords Detestations and Revilings do arise The Son dishonours his Father and the Daughter arises against her Mother * Mich. 8.5 6. Brother delivers up Brother to death * Mat. 10.21 and the Father the Son and the Children arise against their Parents and cause them to be put to Death * Luk. 12.52 five in one house are divided three against two and two against three Hence it is that the Rich become Poor and they that were once of a low Degree would pride it in the Feathers of other Birds Even when the spoylers come upon high places * Ec. 10.6 7. Reloycing and Lamentations do both attend the bloody Victorys in a Civil War and as Division is sinful so our Conquests and Triumphs are mournful for by how much greater is the spoyl so much less is our Acquaintance here and much of that blood which we draw from others is part of that which runneth in our own Veins Thus the Lord doth Fan us as with a Fan in the Gates of our land bereave us of our Children our Widows are encreased above the sand of the Seas and the spoyler at Noon is brought upon us and all because we have sinned against him But who are the Actors in this bloody Tragedy * Gen. 49.7 Cursed be their Anger for it is fierce and their Wrath for it is cruel This once brought sorrow to the Greeks as Nestor said of the strife betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles Hom. il lib. 1. Plutrach calls it the Wound and Plague and Socrates the Ax and Sword Basil the Rottenness and Rust and Chrysostom the Moth and Canker of the Soul * Object Anger may be in some measure allowable if it be in the behalf of God and the defence of Goodness Only as * Exod. 32. Moses was wroth with Israel for their Idolatry * Numb 16.15 with Corah Dathan and Abiram for their Conspiracy * 1 Sam. 19.14 As Elias against Israel for their Apostacy and as * Jer. 6.11 Jeremiah was against the Jews for their Impietie But Anger amongst us is another thing the Coal is blown up and the Land is in a combustion now He whom the Lord hath sent to Crown the Earth with Peace and the Land with Fatness is disturb'd in his own Throne Malignants knock at his Royal Gates He that strengthens the Realm and fortifies Dominions with a standing Army to secure us from the Invasion of Foreign Enemies cannot be at rest for his home-bred Rebells but they like ambitious Phaaeton would mount the Fiery Charriot drawn with Fury and Revenge and ramble through our Brittish Spheres that they who follow'd might wade in Blood But he that sheddeth Man's Blood by Man shall his Blood be shed And this shall suffice concerning the first Doctrine viz. That Sin brings Judgment I proceed to the second Viz. That God usually warns all the Rebells of Heaven of their approaching danger as a Method he takes to avert a final ruin beyond the Grave Now that the Almighty's Arm is not stretched out for the Punishment of Evil Doers without an early Summons to repent that Iniquity may not be their ruin appears from the words I have hitherto insisted on where