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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03099	Physicke for body and soule Shevving that the maladies of the one, proceede from the sinnes of the other: with a remedie against both, prescribed by our heauenly physitian Iesus Christ. Deliuered in a sermon at Buckden in Huntingtonsh, before the right reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne then being, by E. Heron Bachelor of Diuinitie, and sometime fellow of Trin. Colledge in Cambridge.	Heron, Edward, d. 1650.	1621 (1621)	STC 13227; ESTC S115187	17,320	54

13.5 The very Geneua note in 5. Act. 36. Is that in matters which concerne religion wee must not attempt any thing vnder colour of zeale beside our vocation not so much for feare as for conscience sake For in such things plus obligat praeceptum principis praelati quam propria conscientia saies Hales Our conscience in such cases must bee captiuated to lawfull authoritie And therefore the streame of such intensions must beginne at this true fountaine and not issue out of the broken pits of euery mechanicall phansie and inuention Secondly for the meane furthering this intentiō That 's no lesse say they then the Scripture but the Scripture is the Canon by which all our actions should bee squared Arist Rhet. lib. 1. Yet as the Philosoper said of a law politicall though it bee in it selfe most perfect streight the Iudge by his wresting interpretation might make it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 peruerse and crooked so may we say of Gods law especially if vnlettered folke haue the interpretatiō therof in their hand to the which is required the greatest art and science If any say the text is plaine the letter apparent S. Nazian answers that Studium litterae est pallium iniquitatis the sticking too much to the letter in generall is the cloake of much impietie Sic. Chiliastae ex Apoc. 20.2 Did not Arrius fall into his haeresie by holding himselfe to the letter Pater maior me Ioh. 4. Did not the Donatists goe about to prooue theirs to be the only true Church by the letter of the text Cant. 1.6 Tell mee where thou feedest and where thou lyest at noone Vti cubas in meridie Alphonsus de Castro in verbo Ecclesia They would prooue from hence Ecclesiam ad solam meridionalem plagam quam ipsi incolebant redactam that the True Church was only to bee found in those Southerne parts which they inhabited but it fared with them as it did with those of whom Salomon Prou. 30. vlt. They that wring their nose fetch out blood which S. Gregorie interprets That they who wring wrest or misinterpret Scripture a thing incident to vnlearned people as appeares in the 2. Pet. 3.16 they bring forth aut haeresim aut phrenesim either an haeresie or a phrensie And therefore the H. Ghost giues an item to such daring Prophets The time shal come that they shall be ashamed of their visions Zach. 13.5 shall say I am no Prophet I am an husbandman man taught me to be an heard man from my youth vp So that this medium cannot bee a rule to them who haue not true and vniuersall knowledge to vse the same Thirdly for the End terminating what is their scope but Innouation A monster in a well established Church breeding more euils then euer did the lake Lerna Vincent conrra haeres In matters of doctrine noue non noua wee may handle the point after a new manner so that wee inferre no new and exorbitant matter but in matter of Church order nec noue nec noua neither noueltie of manner nor of matter ought to be enforced August since ipsa mutatio consuetudinis c. the change of an ancient custome in the Church if it should somewhat helpe by the vtility it would hurt as much or more by the noueltie and therefore primo diuinae legis authoritate c. sayes Vincent First the Word of God written must guide but where that is silent Tunc ecclesiea Catholicae traditio Then the institution tradition of the Church must take place Hence is it that the holy Ghost bids vs not to remooue the auncient bounds which our forefathers haue set Pro. 22.28 teaching by this allegory not to bring innouations into the Church contrary to what wee haue receiued from godly antiquity and there 's a curse annexed to such Innouators He that breaks downe the hedge him shall a serpent bite Eccl. 10.8 the hedge of godly order as well in Church as common-wealth as Lirinensis expounds it him shall Satan the subtile serpent bite This was the case of Donatus first hee breakes downe the hedge by innouation then the serpent bites and stings him on forward to fall into open scisme with Caecilianus the godly Bishop of Carthage his orthodoxal Church Alphonsus de Laistio Postea scisma in haeresim commutauit In the Swinckseldians the Anabaptists Brownists Familists He turned scisme into plaine haeresie and then this gangrene spreads it selfe so farre as the contagion therof hath reached euen to our times This may be the cause why S. Paul does earnestly wish Gal. 5.12 that they were cut off who did disturb the Galatians foreseeing that by the Schismes and dissentions the seamelesse coate of Christ the Embleme of his Church as S. Cyprian hath it might by these meanes bee rent and torne asunder Cyprian de Vast. Ecclesiae These intensions therefore cannot attaine their wished end but according to the saying of Gamaliel because they haue proceeded from man and not from God they haue neuer taken place but receiued Vzzahs doome Perez-Vzzah to bee diuided and scattered euen from our late Queenes regiment vnto this present time and therfore let such Innouators apprehend this admonition 2. Sam. 6.8 Act. 5.38 Sinne no more But if no more then our spirituall resurrection from the graue of sinne must be speedie and constant speedy euen from the present period of time constant to the last point of life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non amplius No more imploies both For the first that it ought to be without delation the bodily Physitian teaches that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hypocrat aphoris 9. lib. 2. the infected parts of the body the more they are cherished the more they are endamaged so fares it with a soule habituated in sinne by a frequent custome in sinning the conscience becomes so seared and the heart so hardned as they will not receiue the soft impression of Gods spirit Consuetudo altera natura it proouing as easie to recouer a dead man in body as a sicke man in soule who is growne into yeares of sinne and so goes on from darknes to darknes vntill hee come to the vtter darkenesse where he findes no other comfort but weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth And as it must bee speedy so must it be constant for Non initia Christianorum sed fines coronantur Bern. because one may begin in the spirit but end in the flesh Arist eth and therfore as in the Olympicke games not the fairest nor the strongest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c but of those which striued they that continued to the end won and wore the garland so in the Christian warfare against our ghostly enemies sin hell Satan if wee continue faithfull vnto the death God will giue vs the crowne of life Sinne no more Reu. 2.10 The admonition is both iust and necessarie Iust for wee