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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86289	A sermon preached before the Kings Majesty at Whitehall on Friday the 22 of March anno 1660. / By John Hacket D.D. chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty. Publisht by his Majesties appointment.	Hacket, John, 1592-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing H172; Thomason E1086_7; ESTC R202486	15,388	41

I find fury and distemper in the style Antibi Mavors ventosâ in linguâ And who is there of a candide and a clean soul that will not sooner be gained with the coolness of Charity than with the heat of Rage Therefore as much as in us lies let there be no jarrs no diversities among us be peaceable in our Civil peaceable in our Religious profession But if sundry shapes and appearances of reason will not suffer us all to enjoy the same knowledg and the same conscience yet let us dissent as Brethren not as Enemies Avoid these paroxysms and sharp contentions I am ready now for the fourth point and I think my Hearers expect it with some attention Having acquainted you that Paul and Barnabas did disagree not simply so but with some eagerness and provocation might not a solid judgement suspect that some great offence had thrust it self in between them You shall find it otherwise that the contention was in no weighty cause it toucht not the life of truth or the honor of Christ the verse before my Text will tell you all in the beginning of it Paul thought it not good to take Mark with him And our Translation gives it more than is due to it as I conceive We say that Paul thought it not good as if it were a matter of good or evil Much better thus as I apprehend Paul thought it not fit Paulus haud ae quum censebat as Beza very aptly Paul thought it not meet as it is in one of our English Translations It was not what was good for it was good either way but what was more fit and meet that made the controversie This is fit sayes one 't is not so fit sayes his partner a poor beginning for a sharp contention It may be supposed as I find it in part in a good Author that Barnabas pleaded on this wise for Mark He had shrunk indeed from his calling and left Paul at Pamphilia but it was not strange in a Novice to be a little daunted when he was in jeopardy of his life But give him his due he had not renounced the Faith but retired home for fear of the worlds anger He had not forsaken Christ ô nothing less but intermitted the labour of his vocation Yet he defended not this fault but repented and bewayled it Now he would fain begin a fresh for he felt himself by the grace of God more strong and resolute than ever and offered himself couragiously to endure all storms and tempests for the glory of Christ Should not indulgence be shewn to his unfeigned repentance Is it not often seen that such as fly from their colours return again and sight it out valiantly Was not Peter that had denied his Master restored to his Apostleship after he had wept bitterly Paul himself had been a persecutor yet obteined grace Consider with it that Mary the mother of this Mark had spared her House to receive the Apostles in the hottest times of Herods rage Act. 12. v. 12. Surely the son of so good a mother deserved some mildness and benign favour from the Presidents of the Church And what was more proper to Christ's Commissioners than to reconcile offenders that had gon astray These reasons prevailing not with Paul you may imagine with me if you please that his sentence was to this purpose That they are worthy of great reproof that make execuses and follow not Christ when he calls them What do they deserve that are recreants after their calling and leave their station when they have taken up Christs Cross with Covenant to follow him The young Disciple had givē up his liberty to follow his Master and was no longer his own no more than a wife can leave her husband or a son his father And he that loves his life more than Christ is not worthy of him Mark could fore-see well enough that persecutions to come would be farr greater than the former if he could not endure light ones he would utterly sink under those of the latter growth His repentance was good that is it was profitable to himself but to be repulsed for his levity would be more profitable to others by the severity of the example Or if he were not thrust quite into the order of the Plebians yet let him be restored to his function after a larger time of probation An easie pardon would flatter him in his fault this repulse would make him know the magnitude of his sin Paul could say for himself that he was never streightned in his bowels but was full of pitty to Onesimus the fugitive servant to the incestuous Corinthian and who was 't but he that went so far that he wisht to be anathema for his brethren Yet Favour must give place to Justice A Bishop must act the part both of a Father and a Mother in the Church in tenderness he must be a Mother but a Father in discipline Barnabas spake affectionately for a kinsman but he spake impartially for the cause of Christ Here is the whole state of their opposition as well as I can devise it in a form of pleading The odds between them do not lye in any point of doctrine for the privilege of immediate inspiration of Truth belong'd by Gods grace to their Apostleship then they could not dissent in a cause of Faith The strife was no more but whether Mark was fit at that time to be their fellow labourer And why might not Paul have remitted a little of his rigour to have gratified Barnabas And why not Barnabas have taken the denial friendly to content Paul Sacrifice small and indifferent things to the fruition of peace To hold fast to our conclusions in petty matters with all the strength of our will and wit is not constancy but a worse thing You would hear from me now perhaps which of these two upheld the better cause Non nostrum inter vos c. It is not sit for my meanness to make my self a Judg between such famous Apostles This I will say with submission that Pauls proceedings were grounded upon Justice and discipline Barnabas his motion was grounded upon gentleness and humanity Many of the wiser sort I think will vote with Paul that the greater part of men will vote with Barnabas But the spirit of Moses and Elias are both good the Ark conteined both Aarons Rod the delicious pot of Manna Sometimes the Scriptures seem to favour Barnabas which bid us bind up the broken in heart not to break the bruised reed Again they seem to favour Paul when they charge us to remove away all scandals and them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 1 Tim. 5. 20. But Scripturae non pugnant though Paul and Barnabas dissent there is no contradiction in the Scriptures For they bid us forgive and retain sins bind loose sinners as a prudent man shall judg upon the circumstances of actions But it is an heavy