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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08541	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seauenth of May, M.DC.IX. By George Benson ...	Benson, George, 1568 or 9-1648.	1609 (1609)	STC 1886; ESTC S101670	81,544	106

twice awecke I giue almes to the poore and giue tythe of all I haue If you looke into their conuersations and obserue their vaunts with iudicious eyes eares O! what a rank shall you see of barren fig-trees and green bay-trees to whom Dauid compares the wicked O what a noise shal you heare of tynkling cymballs to which S. Paul compares them which haue a shewe of religion but no loue 1. Cor. 13. So little loue to their equalles haue these men that when the rod of God is shakē ouer our heads they make themselues the onely men that are fit to stand in the gappe they blaze the honour of their own preaching as though it were so full of life that they only knew the bloud and marrow of the Scriptures of their own praiers as though they were so effectuall that Elias his spirit were only redoubled vpon them and that euery one of them is a second Elizeus So little obedience haue they to their superiours that the reuerend fathers of the Church who may well borrow that saying of the Church in the Canticles The sonnes of my mother were angrie with mee are by these men scorned disobayed resisted Father forgiue them for they know not what they doe Luke 23. The sonnes of Sophocles being desirous to rule impleaded the Father for dotage that they might haue all matters committed to themselues but Sophocles presented to the Iudges his Oedipus colonaeus a tragedy which hee had penned in his olde age and bade them iudge whether that was the worke of a doting man or not which they all esteeming to come from a wit full of nimblenesse and actiuity condemned the sonnes and iustified the Father So these fiery spirits longing to haue the staffe in their owne hands haue by their words and in their writings traduced the Fathers of our Church but if we looke vpon their Oedipus colonaeus and marke with what discretion they gouerne and how behouefull their gouernment is for our times we shall surely finde them not to bee doting Fathers but their accusers to be wicked sons And here my brethren bemone with me the estate and calamity of our mother the Church which Rebekah like hath diuers opinions striuing in her wombe must not her pangs needs be great Amphisbena-like two heads one against an other striue for the soueraignty is not the body then like to breake O! how well doth it become the sonnes of oyle to nourish peace a fruite of him which is annointed with the oyle of gladnes aboue his fellows When wind blowes against wind schism against schism the Church may say as Iocasta somtimes said weeping ouer the malice of her two sonnes Eteocles and Polynices Tu times illum ille te ego vtrumque sed pro vtroque thou fearest him and hee feares thee and I feare you both because I feare the destruction of you both O you then that are too prodigall of enmity one towards an other let not the streets of Gath and Ascalonring your disgrace nor the daughters of the Philistines tune your shame to their tymbrells bee not the nayles and teeth of the Church to scratch and bite your brethren howsoeuer your sayles swell with a fauourable gale yet Lipsius in his fift booke of Politicks aduiseth you to take in at the harbour of peace it becomes not members of the same body to interfere and worke one vpon an other When there are iarres among you are not you carnall Yes for peace becomes those spirits which rellish and taste of him whose birth-day song was Peace vpon the earth Better sayth a learned Father vt pereat vnus quàm vnitas and therefore with inlarged bowelles I speake not now vnto Brownists and Barowists but vnto those vvho are neerer friends to our Church men for their diligence and other good partes worthy of much prayse and yet so impatient at the ceremonies of our Church that they be scarce willing in the obseruing of them to ioine with vs. I would pray them to remember that in the Canticles where the Church is compared vnto an army with banners displayed Now if there was euer army without order let them iudge if there ought not to be order in the Church let Saint Paul iudge who sayth Let euery thing be done decently and in order Seeing then there is one God the Father of vs all one Church the mother of vs all one Christ the elder brother of vs all one Baptism the seale of vs all one faith the hand of vs all one saluation the marke whereat we all shoot let vs striue to maintaine the vnity of the spirit and in the band of peace Let vs not be so conceited of our own holinesse as to distaste all mens company nor yet so lauish of our company as to mingle our selues amōg the wicked but be cautelous least we be like to Ephraim who mixt himselfe among the people and the effect of this mixture was lamentable he was as a cake on the hearth not turned Rawe on the one side and rosted on the other partly religious and partly idolatrous luke-warm fit to be spewed out of Gods mouth a sinne indeed to halt betweene two opinions to haue a knee for God and a knee for Baal and for Rimmon in the house of Rimmon to professe two religions to wooe the flames of persecution least they should indure the punishment of eyther If Dagon presume to stand by the arke of the Lord it is well worthy to fall there is no communion between Christ and Beliall Saint Iohn could not indure to be with Cerinthus in the bath Saint Ieromes pen like a launce was charged against Uigilantius and many others S. Austen in his disputations spake hot words coales of iuniper against the Arrians the Pelagians the Donatists and the Manachees Before all these Iosias whose name remaines vpon record in the kalender of the iust whose soule is bound vp in the bundle of life and his life hid in Christ with God could not indure idolatry while he raigned Therefore his name is like a perfume made by the art of the Apothecary It is remembred of a certain Souldan which dyed at the siege of Zigetum that being perswaded by the Muphti who holdes the place of a Bishop or Patriarke among the mahumetan turkes not to suffer so many religions as were in his dominions he answered that a nosegay of many flowers smelled more sweetly then one flower only which I confess to be true but the case with religions is neither the same nor the like for in a nosegay they may be all flowers but among religions they must be all weeds all heresies except one only flower which is the truth The spirit of God blames the Church of Ephesus for imbracing the doctrine of the Nicholaitans the Church of Smyrna for imbracing the doctrine of Balaam the Church of Thyatira