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A64281	The character of cruelty in the workers of iniquity ; and, Cure of contention among the people of God held forth in two sermons preached in the day of publick humiliation upon occasion of the late sad persecution in Piedmont / by Faithful Teate.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.; Teate, Faithful, b. 1621. Cure of contention among the people of God.	1656 (1656)	Wing T611; ESTC R26284	34,790	176

Matth. 5.29 30. for it is profitable for thee that these should perish and not that thou shouldest bee cast into Hell And if thou hast been angry with thy Brother without a cause say not any more that thou doest well to bee angry 1 But the more special prescriptions for the cure of the Saints contentions are these three 1 Labour to get much of the Spirit of Christ into thine heart Let the same Spirit that descended on him like a Dove Mat. 3.16 dwel in thee This is the prime Direction which the Apostle adds to that very caution which wee have been treating of Gal. 5.16 This I say then walk in the Spirit and you shall not fullfill the lust of the flesh What lust i. e. the lust mentioned in the preceding verse of biting and devouring one another There are that attribute their fellnesse as themselves call it to the Spirit But to what Spirit it belongs ipsi viderint for the fruit of Gods Spirit is love Joy Peace long suffering Gentlenesse Goodnesse Faith Meeknesse Temperance against such there is no law Gal. 5.22 2. Whereas Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers and such like are the manifest lusts of the flesh verses 19 20 21. Especially labour to bee rich in those two special graces of the Spirit which I mention in opposition to Covetousnesse and Pride the forementioned inward and Principall causes of our bitings of one another 1 In the contempt of the World Oh! this were an healing grace indeed were wee more violent in taking Heaven wee should bee less violent in raking Earth Did wee as wee should contemn the World wee should not as wee do contend for the World Meethinks I might tell you of one Salve that would heal most of your sores would you go to the price of it You all pretend to bee Abrahams Children but will you make use of your Fathers receipt it is an excellent good one yea too good for you to hear of unlesse you will make use of it You know Abraham was every way a better man than Lot yet seeks to Lot for peace when it had been manners for Lot to have sought to his Unkle Abraham Gen. 13.8 Yea prayes for peace yea bids so fair for it that I am perswaded there are few Lots that you deal with so froward but you might buy your peace at Abrahams price ver 9. Is not the whole land before thee If thou wilt take the right hand I will go to the left if thou wilt go to the left I will take the right only let there bee no strife between mee and thee for we are brethren As one with whom I have sometime travailed who used to ask whom he met on the Road will you not out of the way If the Answer were No his reply used to bee Then I will 2 In the Contempt of self The Apostle joyns these two together Rom. 12.16 17. Be not wise in your own eyes Recompence to no man evill for evill And mind not high things but condescend to men of low estate Therefore that nothing bee done through strife in lowlinesse of mind let each esteem other better then themselves Phil. 2.3 Shall the taller brother that so counts himself put his shorter brother upon the Rack because hee is not of his own size what proud Tyrants are wee that must suite the length of every Lodger to our own bed what froward Children that fling away and will agree in nothing because we cannot agree in every thing I remember the Lord ushers in the mention of an Indeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace Ephes 4.3 vers 2. with the forbearing of one another in Love As if all Attempts about the former were in vain without resolvednesse in the later And who are wee that wee should pretend to bee the only Men of Gods Counsell or that the secret of the Lord is with us only or that wee should chide or smite our dissenting Brethren as Zedekiah did Micaiah with an which way went the Spirit of God from us to speak unto you 2 Chron. 18.23 Thinkest thou that the Lord hath revealed more in one point to thee than to another and why not as well more to another in some other point than to thee why shouldest thou then desire that every one should yeeld unto thee in every thing Nay who is there of you that in every thing would bee bound to his own Apprehensions and Opinions some years ago Nay who that is any whit sensible of his own Ignorance which who is not is of all men the most Ignorant and therefore least fit to bee followed that dares say that hee hath got away all the Truth from the Dissenters that they or any of them are wholly wrong and he and his Apprehensions wholly right doth hee not rather say so judge I at present and so I do but if you shew mee a clearer light or more excellent way that I shall by the grace of God follow Blessed bee the Lord in things most needfull wee have Faith and certain though not full knowledge which if any though an Angel from Heaven would have from us Gal. 1.8 wee may strive and strive lawfully Jer. 9.3 shewing our valour for the Truth and contend and contend earnestly Jud. v. 3. and rebuke Tit. 1.13 and rebuke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cuttingly But oh how woefully do wee confound Matters of Opinion with things of faith and contend for tithing c. whilst wee almost let the weightier things of the Gospell go Christians I would not have you prostitute your Principles to any under Heaven being first sure that they are Principles of the Doctrines of Christ wherein I warn you again that you bee first sure yet may you in Humilitie prostrate your selves And where you cannot prefer their way whom you know to bee godly prefer their persons and where you cannot conquer by clearness of light bee sure you overcome your Antagonist by fervencie of Love shewing that Divine Prowesse which the World calls Cowardise viz. Better is the slow to anger than the Mighty Pro. 16.32 and hee that rules his Spirit than hee that takes a City They say that London-Bridge is built upon wool-sacks and surely if there bee any passablenesse from the one side to the other of dissenting Saints the basis of such Bridge must be laid in that Lenity that James calls the meeknesse of wisdome Chap. 3.13 Secondly That there may bee no Schisme in the body of Christ let the Members have the same Care One for Another 1 Cor. 12.25 And look not every man on his own things but every man on the things of others Phil. 2.4 Let each burn when other is offended 2 Cor. 11.29 Let each promote and rejoyce in others Good 1 Cor 12.26 so shall you keep extinct those sparks of jealousy that are usually the first kindlers of the flames of Contention Lastly In