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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77496	Church reformation, tenderly handled in fovre sermons, preached at the weekly lecture in the parish church of Great Yarmouth. / By John Brinsley.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4711; Thomason E55_7; ESTC R14020	53,339	78

yet remaining in it That there is Chaffe yet remaining in this Floore it must not be denyed Certainly were there not this Fanne the Fanne of the Crosse the Fanne of Judgement should not be so busie at worke as at this day it is and now for so many moneths hath been It is Jobs speech to his Friends Doth the wild Asse bray when hee hath grasse or doth the Oxe low over his fodder The very bruit beasts doe not complaine when they have what they would have Surely it cannot be but something must be amisse amongst us otherwise God would never deale with us and other of his Churches as at the present he doth Certainly we may hence conclude that as yet he hath not what he would have Something there is amisse amongst us and something which we hope he is about to reforme Questionlesse some scum there is in this Pot which whilest it hath bin pla●ing with so long a continued prosperity hath even boyled and sodden-in And hereupon it is we hope that God hath now powred in this full cup of cold-water that as he hath hereby in part raised this scumme already so he may in his time purge it out Some Chaffe in this Floore some Corruption in this Church which we trust Christ is about to purge out and reforme And doe we apprehend this to be his aime and Designe Let every of us further it vvhat vve can not hinder it Hinder it we cannot Which may serve as an argument to put us on to further it Hinder it if we would we cannot He will purge and throughly purge his floore This he will doe and that in despight of all opposition maugre the malice of Satan Antichrist and all their accursed Instruments and Adherents Let them all doe what they can either by power or pollicy to keepe the chaffe in the Floore of Christ yet Christ will purge it out And can we not hinder it Why then let us put to our hands to the furthering of it None of us in this case but may do something if we have hearts to the worke Quest But then What shall we doe A great usefull and seasonable Question but it will require more time for the resolution of it then is at the present allotted me Let me only tell you what my designe and purpose in the Answer of it is viz. to shew you these two things 1. What the Reformation is which we are to desire and seeke And secondly What we shall doe to further and compasse that Reformation Two usefull points The former I shall only touch upon in the generall having already bounded my selfe from particular inlargements upon this subject In the second I shall deale more distinctly and particularly but the time being now past taketh me off from present prosecution of either I shall adjourne them both if God please to another occasion THE THIRD SERMON May 3. 1643 MATTH. 3. 12. And he will throughly purge his Floore THe subject of the Text as you have already heard is Church-Reformation a great and a glorious worke the great designe as vve hope of Jesus Christ upon this and other of his Churches at this day Apprehending it so to be be we excited every of us to put to our hands in our severall places to doe what we may for the promoting and furthering of that designe in the Church of God amongst us This Exhortation I propounded the last day and give me now leave to prosecute it Doe what we may every of us for the furthering of this great Designe But what shall we do For answer hereunto I then chalked out the way wherein I intend now to walke which was first to shew you What that Reformation is which we are to seek Secondly What we shall doe to compasse that Reformation Begin with the first of these Qu What is that Reformation which amongst us is so desired and so desireable A question of great and present concernement other wise I should not so much as have medled with it Reformation it is the common Theame of the times No one thing more frequently more freely spoken of every where but my feares are not so clearely so distinctly understood by many it may be by some of them who seeme to be most zealous in the cause either for or against it To rectifie not to quenth or quell the zeale of the one to kindle and blow it up in the other I shall adventure to descend into or rather upon these troubled waters hovering over them as the Spirit is said to have done over those first waters Movebat super faci●m Mooving upon the face of the deepe or walking upon the surface of them as our Saviour once did upon the Sea not diving into them passing over the point as lightly as tenderly as overly as generally as with convenience I may Yet so as I may give some satisfaction to those which doe or shall desire it For resolution we must looke a little back casting an eye so far as with humble modesty we may upon the Churches deformation enquiring what chaffe there is yet left in this floore what Errours what Imperfections what corruptions there are or may be supposed to be left in this Church unpurged out unreformed Chaffe there is Errours Imperfections there are as what Church without Let that be granted yealded But wherein lye those Errours those Imperfections To find them out we shall not need to goe far about there are but two Roo●●s two Chambers as I may say wherein we are to make search for them They must be either in matters of Faith or Order To these two heads the Apostle reduceth the whole businesse of a Church Col. 2. 5. Beholding your Order and the stedfastnesse of your Faith There are but these two maine things to be eyed in a Church the perfection of a Constituted Church consisting in them Faith and Order the two great supporters of a Church like those two Pillars in the Porch of Solomons Temple Jachin and Boaz Establishment and Strength as the words signifie Faith Doctrine or the Doctrine of Faith the right-hand pillar the maine and principall thing in a Church So much the Apostle there insinuates in that he calleth it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Firmamentum fidei as the vulgar Latin renders it The Firmament the Ground-worke and Foundation of Faith Such is the Doctrine of Faith to the Church Totius adificij {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. Fulcimentum as Beza glosseth upon it The maine Basis or Buttresse of this Building the maine Pillar of the Church Faith and the Church they are mutuall Pillars each a Pillar to other the Church a Pillar to Faith and Faith a Pillar to the Church but in a different respect The Church is a Pillar to Faith The Pillar of Truth modo forensi a Pillar houlding it forth as Pillars doe the publick Edicts or Proclamations which