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A85088	Two treatises The first, concerning reproaching & censure: the second, an answer to Mr Serjeant's Sure-footing. To which are annexed three sermons preached upon several occasions, and very useful for these times. By the late learned and reverend William Falkner, D.D.	Falkner, William, d. 1682.; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.; Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver.	1684 (1684)	Wing F335B; ESTC R230997	434,176	626

eremo Serm. 26. S. Austin's name observes that this sin hath much of spiritual leprosie in it it is dangerous to the soul and greatly defiles it it is apt to infect others and renders the person unfit for common Society and God was pleased to punish it in Miriam with leprosie in her body 26. The Reproacher by publick Censure shut out of the ancient Church When the strict rules of Christian discipline were exercised he who defamed reproached or reviled others was to be cast out of the Church by a publick censure which is an evidence that the Christian Church accounted this sin to forfeit the priviledges of Christianity and that the persons who commit it and live in the practice of it deserve not to be esteemed members of the Body of Christ And that amongst other great sinners the reviler railer or reproacher is worthy to be separated from the Christian Society is declared by the Apostle himself 1 Cor 5.11 For the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Apostle there useth is of that extent as to include all who utter contentious contumelious and defaming words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being oft used by the (y) Septuag in Exod. 17.2 7. Num. 20.3 13. Septuagint to answer the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which relates to strife and contention and takes in all contentious reproaching words According to the disciplinary rules received in this Kingdom many hundred years since offenders of this nature especially if they defamed or spake contumeliously (z) in 2. lib. Poenitent Egbert n. 21 c 29. in Spelmar Conc. Vol. 1. against their Superiors were to come under the rules of penance In like manner in the Eastern Church in ancient times (a) in Regul brev Resp 26. S. Basil adjudgeth both him who slandereth his Neighbour and him also who should comply with him or give ear unto him to deserve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be separated and cut off from Ecclesiastical communion And it was more anciently decreed in the Western Church that those who should spread abroad reproaches or libels against others should be under an Anathema according to the Sentence of the Council of (b) Conc. Elib c. 52. Eliberis All which shews how odious this sin hath been reputed and how much abhorred and condemned in the Christian Church 27. And in the holy Scriptures when the Psalmist declares the qualifications necessary for him who shall dwell in Gods Holy Hill and threatned with exclusion out of Gods Kingdom or who shall be owned a true member of his Church here and have an entrance into his glory hereafter this is part of his description Psal 15.1 3. He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth evil to his Neighbour nor taketh up a reproach against his Neighbour To this S. James his words are agreeable Chap. 1.26 If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue that mans Religion is vain S. Paul also assures us that revilers shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.10 and our Lord himself saith concerning him who speaketh contumeliously to his Brother that he shall be in danger of Hell fire Mat. 5.22 28. Now he who considers what God is and what are the excellencies of his Kingdom and with eternal destruction cannot account it any light Sentence to be eternall excluded from his glory and presence as the fallen Angels are If this be not enough the desperate misery of all wicked doers who shall be refused entrance thereinto will make the stoutest heart to tremble and will change the most brisk and jolly temper into doleful weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth When they shall be under the astonishing sence of the divine wrath the infinite pains expressed by the fire which shall not be quenched the perplexing torment of a terribly awakened conscience and the worm that never dies this will be an unspeakably dismal state To which may be added the amazing presence and Society of the Devil and his Angels and other damned persons expressing their sad out-cries and terrors and the overwhelming sense of an hopeless and unpitied condition and all this to abide in those black and frightful regions of darkness to all eternity 29. and with an heavy degree of future misery and vengeance And yet in the midst of this unspeakable and endless destruction and torment the Scripture which declareth the rule according to which God will denounce his Sentence tells us that those who reproach and speak evil of Superiors are of the number of those sinners who must expect the highest degree of judgment and severity at the great day 2 Pet. 2.9 10. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government presumptuous are they self willed they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities Where we see despising dominion or Government and speaking evil of dignities is part of the description of those whom God will chiefly punish And to such persons will belong those other expressions of being presumptuous and self-willed for such they must be who will be so insolent as to despise what God hath set over them and forgetting their own station to reproach them who are in Authority And though the former clause of this Verse concerning them who walk after the flesh in the (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lust of uncleanness or defilement may very well be understood concerning them who practise adultery fornication and lasciviousness yet even this clause also may not improperly be applyed to this sin against which I am particularly discoursing For it is evident from Rom. 13.13 14. Gal. 5.16 17 18 19 20. 1 Pet. 2.11 12 13. and other places of Scripture that the passions of men and the expressions and unruliness of them which are contained in reproaching are included under the phrase of the lusts of the flesh and that this sin I am treating of is defiling is manifest from the former part of this Chapter Now the direful vengeance of God doth infinitely go beyond the severest executions which can be contrived by men And all men ought to have a serious sense of this and all holy and godly men have so When (d) Martyr Polycarpi Polycarp was threatned by the Proconsul first to be torn in pieces by cruel wild Beasts and when this moved him not he was told he should be burnt with fire unless he would depart from the Christian Religion it was reasonably and wisely as well as piously replyed by him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Thou threatenest that fire which burns for an hour and then goes out but thou considerest not the fire of the future Judgment and the eternal punishment which is reserved for the wicked This is that we all ought to fear as most dreadful and to avoid

denounced against by the laws of civil Societies and inflicted upon such offenders in many civil Societies this carrying so great an opposition to the laws of nature and the publick quiet and good of the World Lipsius (p) Lipsius in Orat. de Calumnia tells us that the Athenians imposed a pecuniary penalty upon such offenders and that the ancient Romans set a mark upon the forehead of him who was guilty of this crime with the letter K. If this was so I do not doubt but this letter K was to signifie Kalumnia or Kalumniator Calumnia being one of the three words which are noted by (q) Scalig. Animadv in Euseb Chronol p. 114. Scaliger to have been only written with K. and not with C. in the most ancient use of the Latin tongue And this was a publick declaration that the Reproacher or Calumniator deserved to be openly marked out and branded for an infamous person 21. But since a great part of mankind have had as great an esteem for their good name as for their lives in the ancient famous Laws of the (r) Duodec Tabul Fragment Tit. 25 n. 3. twelve tables it is declared that though very few crimes were by those laws punished with death yet the reproaching and defaming others was thereby made a capital offence And in the ancient laws of the Empire this is related to have been sometimes punished with stripes and sometimes by making the person Intestabilis or one who by the law was not permitted to make any Testament to dispose of his goods at his death But by the Constitution of (s) Cod. l. 9. Tit. 36. leg unic Valentinian and Valens both he who is the author of a Calumny and he also who casually findeth a libel and divulgeth it seem guilty of death to wit where the calumny is some great matter of defamation And I above noted that this offence was sometimes capital amongst the (t) n. 14. Jews To this I shall add the consideration of S. Chrysostome concerning the dangers of reproaching Superiors with respect to what God established and effected under the Mosaical Dispensation He considers (u) Hom. 2. in illud Salutate Priscillam Aquilam that if he who reviled his Father or Mother must die the death Exod. 21.17 Lev. 20.9 how severe a punishment must he deserve who doth this to his Spiritual Father And when he had mentioned the dismal misery which befel Corah and his Company for speaking against Moses and Aaron he then considers the case of Miriam Miriam with Aaron had reproached Moses because of the Aethiopian Woman by Gods judgment in this world which he had Married Num. 12.1 with other expressions of contempt And for this cause Gods wrath was kindled against her and by the hand of God she was smitten with leprosie and must be put out of the Camp of Israel and bear her shame And as S. Chrysostome observes this punishment for this offence could not be avoided though Moses prayed and fell down before God on her behalf yea though she was Moses his own Sister and the person as he goes on who preserved the life of Moses calling his Mother to nurse him and led the women in their praises Exod. 15. as Moses did the men 22. But the inflicting the eternal judgment of God and his severe wrath in another world is far more dreadful than any temporal penalty and in the world to come And since the most High God is infinitely righteous in all his laws threatnings and judgments whatsoever he sets himself against and wheresoever he executes his fierce anger it gives manifest evidence that that which provokes him so to do must be greatly evil as well as dangerous And it is necessary to abhor and avoid those things which expose to the divine vengeance which is utterly intolerable Now that the punishment of those who yield themselves to this sin of evil speaking will be very sad may appear by two Considerations 23. First By taking a review of it The several sins contained in it are all destructive and observing the danger of every one of the several sins above mentioned which are contained under this of reproaching and therefore what the sad consequence must be of all these meeting together Doth it oppose the great and necessary duty of love He that loveth not his Brother abideth in death 1 Joh. 3.14 Doth it include a breach of the fifth Commandment and an opposition against our Governours when it hath respect to them they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13.2 Is the violation of the sixth Commandment included in it When S. John had said He that hateth his Brother is a murderer he immediately adds and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Joh. 3.15 Doth the reproacher speaking against charity usually exceed the bounds of truth all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Rev. 21.8 And among the eight sorts of lies reckoned up and of all them condemned by (w) de Mendac ad Cons c. 14 21. S. Austin this which is altogether pernicious or hurtful to another is the highest except that one of lying concerning the Faith and Doctrine of Religion Is this sin a practice of unrighteousness the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 Is it a yielding to passion and an opposing peace and meekness they that do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5.21 24. Now if the summ of all these particulars be cast up and put together it will amount to thus much even the treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath And it will be hence manifest that they who indulge themselves in this sin do put several bars to shut out themselves from the Kingdom of Heaven When our Saviour had said to the young man Mat. 19.17 If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandments and was again asked which Commandments he must keep among six which our Lord expressed as necessary for him to observe that he might have eternal life these are four Thou shalt do no murder Thou shalt not bear false witness Honour thy Father and thy Mother and Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self And I have above shewed that in this sin of evil speaking especially when it is directed against Superiors there is a transgressing all these four precepts 25. Secondly By considering the severe punishment particularly denounced against or inflicted upon the practisers of this sin I have above noted divers instances of Gods heavy Judgments expressed in the Scripture as the sad calamity which came upon our first Parents and all their Posterity for their hearkening to and entertaining the reproach and evil suggestion of the Serpent the dismal punishment of Corah and his complices for their speaking against Moses and Aaron and other such like And the Author under (x) ad fratres in