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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40635	Peace and holiness in three sermons upon several occasions / by Ignatius Fuller.	Fuller, Ignatius, 1624 or 5-1711.	1672 (1672)	Wing F2390; Wing F2391; Wing F2392; ESTC R2184	61,487	158

a few words You are concerned in the Text as well as We. Purity and Peaceableness becomes you if you will comport with the precept of our Lord have you any pride that extimulates and provokes you sometimes to use the Prophet's expression to strive with the Priest and which is worse to run from the Communion of that Church which bore you on her knees and nourished you with her breasts have you any Avarice which when you fled from Idols praecipitated you into Sacrilege these would be salted out Well Peaceableness you see is your duty and Purgation in order thereunto Schism is the direct contradiction to my Text and you perceive how little reason any one hath so to requite the Prudence and the Charity of that Church wherein we have had the happiness to be educated Are the conditions of her Communion sinful Or are you obliged to profess that which you believe is false or practise that which you know is sinful Let me request in her behalf that you would not make the Sentiments of every angry Son of hers the measures of her Charity or if you spy the tokens of Avarice or Ambition on other of her Sons you would not make them the measures of her Piety What is it that frights you from her Communion It must certainly be reduced to her Doctrine or her Manners Doth she teach any suspected Doctrines what then she disclaims infallibility though it may be she is nearer it than those that talk loudest of it She gives you leave to suspect nay designs by her subscriptions which yet are not required from you but an Instrument of peace if the best and most learned of her Sons do know her mind Does Bps. Laud Bramhall Sanderson any of her Doctrines destroy salvation Indeed they of Rome say Protestancy unrepented destroys salvation but I think neither you nor we have cause to believe them Well then if Salvation may be had with us Take heed you don't run the hazard of it by an unnecessary Separation from them here whom if ever you come to heaven you must accompany hereafter But are her manners defective what do you mean She teaches you to believe by the Apostles Creed to pray by the Example of her Lord and to live by the Precepts of her Saviour But you see some indications of carnality upon her Children like enough and so you might in the Children of Apostolick Churches and may in the most confident pretenders to the most primitive Reformation I have done Methinks you should grant me that even in our Communion you may be as holy and as humble as meek and as merciful as pure and as peaceable as perfect imitatours of the Divine Nature as ardent lovers of God and your Neighbour as will comport with the Commandement and entitle you to the Promise which is ETERNAL LIFE Now to the King Eternal Immortal Invisible the only wise God be Honour and Glory for ever and for ever Amen A SERMON TO A Great Presence IN LONDON Articles of the Church of England Holy Scripture containeth all things Necessary to Salvation Respon Is Casaub ad Card. Perr nomine Regis Jacobi Dogmata fidei quicquid ad Salutem Necessarium meretur credi è sola Scriptura sacra peti debere neque à quorum vis mortalium auctoritate pendere Sed è Verbo Dei dutaxat quo suam ipse nobis Voluntatem per Spiritum Sanctum declaravit LONDON Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for Rich. Royston Book-Serller to the King 's most Excellent Majesty 1672. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4 5. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesom words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the Doctrine which is according to Godliness he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy and strife railings evil surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness FRom that day St. Paul wrote thus till this no age of the Church hath been more concerned in this discourse than that we now live in Such novelty of Opinions so disserviceable or at least unserviceable to the ends and design of our Lord in the World and so influenced by our Secular interests having obtained that not only the Superstructions of Religion but the very Foundations have been and are in very great danger whilst one Faction cries up the Church and her Infallibility and another listens to the whispers of they nor we know what kind of Spirit no less infallible Whilst man's Altar is set by the Altars of God whilst Extrascriptural Tradition is received with an equal if not with superlative affection of piety and reverence Pari pietatis affectu reverentia Concil Trident. whilst that meek and humble pure peaceable and charitable design of our Lord to compleat the happiness of our humane Natures and Societies is become a Seminary of many vexatious indeterminable and fruitless Controversies from whence come envy strife heart-burnings jealousie and exasperation of parties the introduction of Factions and National quarrels and consequently all the calamities of war and devastation The Remedying of which mischiefs would be worthy the Wisdom and Vertue of the best and wisest men in the World Our Apostle you see concerns himself in the case and forbears not to reproach to the unhappy Contrivers of them Pride Ignorance Corruption and destitution of the Truth and not only so but by pointing out the rocks whereon they split directs us to steer a safer course You see they taught otherwise another Gospel and so intitled themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to an Apostolical Curse Galat. 1. 8 9. The Galatians did antiquum obtinere always like themselves 'T is part of the Character Caesar gives the Galli whence are these Galatae They were In capiendis corsil●is fuisse mobiles novis pler●nque rebus studuisse saith he very variable in their counsels and studious of novelties which might have some influence on their so sudden departure from him that called them to another Gospel which yet is not another for they introduced only an Institution or two Circumcision and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in loc observation of days But as he that shall clip away a little of the Royal stamp adulterates the whole money even so he that subverts but a little of the sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 faith corrupts the whole And that is never done with more ease and greater danger than when we mistake our Principles A little distance and almost undiscernable near the Center may be a vast one at the circumference which is the reason the Apostle so soon recalls us to wholsom words even words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Doctrine which is according to Godliness And from thence we are taught 1. That the only Rule of a Christian's faith and life is the Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ and his

I shall say no more but most vehemently beseech you as you will answer it in the day of Judgment when you shall be proceeded with by that man whom God hath appointed to judg Act. 17. 31. the World according to your works not according to your opinions that your lives and conversations in the World be agreable to your knowledge and that if you know the tenour of the new Covenant you would observe your parts of it that you would give just and but just respects to Truth knowing that the peace of God is more worth than notion knowledge or understanding Eph. 4. 3. And that together with the verity you would consider the necessity of every Proposition it being in the judgement of the learnedst of our Kings together with his excellent Amanuensis and of all Royal and Majestick K. Ja●●●s Is Casaubon minds not barely the best but the only expedient to preserve the unity of the Spirit i. e. Church which is a spiritual body in the bond of peace That you would seclude neither your selves nor others out of the Communion of the Church but for such causes as you have very full rational assurance will shut them or your selves out of the Kingdom of Heaven Excommunication if the Churches proceedings be clave non errante being summum futuri judicii praejudicium a vehement presumption of succeeding condemnation That in your daily reading of the holy Scriptures whose perfection and perspicuity in all necessary Articles I have been wont to inculcate to you you would carefully collect all the instances of your duty towards God your Neighbour your selves in all your relations to the Civil and Sacred Societies whereof you are constituent parts and that you would acquaint your selves with the arguments and motives with which our Lord and Master Christ together with the blessed Apostles and Evangelists do endeavour to induce you to the observation of them And then remember that not every one who Mat. 7. 21. shall say Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of the Father which is in Heaven All Controversies in Religion I would wish you to decline by reason of the great damage which has thereby accrued to Religion through the weak mesnagery and defence of it and to Religionists by leavening their spirits with pride peevishness and passions and so that which was designed by God to serve the noblest ends of man Is by that old deceiver's subtile play Made the chief party in its own decay And meets that Eagles destiny whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest As the matchless Orinda sings Consider much the magnificent Commendations and Characters which St. Paul gives to Charity 1 Cor. 13. Let it be conspicuous in all the actions of your lives I shall summ up all I shall now say to you in these 12. Rules of an holy Life laid down by a worthy Dr. Jer. Taylor Prelat 1. Believe all the Articles of that Faith whereinto you were Baptized 2. Worship God constantly with Natural Religion i. e. Prayers Praises and Thanksgiving 3. Take all opportunities to Commemorate the Death of Christ by the participation of his Body and Blood 4. Live Chastely 5. Be Merciful 6. So use the World as that it always give place to Duty 7. Be Just in your Dealings 8. Be Humble in your Spirits 9. Be Obedient to Government 10. Be Content in your Fortunes and Employments 11. Let the Love of God inflame you to your Duty 12. And if you shall be afflicted be Patient and prepared to suffer for the Cause of God These are twelve signs of Grace and the man upon whom they are found is the son of God as surely as he is his Creature And now my Friends let me assure you that it is some trouble to me that the first present I should make you in this manner should be a bundle of Cypress But so our wise God would have it I move you not now to follow her with Crowns and Hymns nor do I understand how nor designe to prepare the incombustible Oil of the Antients with which I might supply a Lamp consacrated to her memory which might burn so long as that found some while since in the Appian 1500 years Pancerol Licetus Mancinus Way in the Sepulchre of Tulliola the Daughter of Cicero But all that I design all that I desire is that that which was prepared for her Herse may adorn your Closets Yea that you would look upon her and learn to live and learn to die In the ensuing Papers you have the Rule of our Religion and you have an Example too Follow her so far as she followed Christ and it is hard to say where she step'd aside where she stay'd behind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. Orat. 20. So often as you see the Armories of her Parentage or your left Hands remind you of her Funerals Call to mind a great Example of Vertue and Goodness so Illustrious and Conspicuous that there remain'd no doubt but only whether the Universality or Sincerity of her Obedience was the greatest VALE ET SALVE ANIMA O ANNAE FELICISS NOS EO ORDINE QUO NATURA PERMISERIT TE SEQUEMUR S. T. T. L. Rom. 8. 2. For the Law of the Spirit of life hath made me free from the Law of sin and death THat Mortality was an original condition of Humane Nature will appear to him who shall consider these seven Observations following 1. That before Adam sinned the procreation of man was designed whereas such as shall partake of the Resurrection of the dead marry not because they do not die 2. That he hungred and was provided of meat whereas Immortality needs neither meats nor the belly God will destroy both it and them 3. That his Body was animal which St. Paul makes all one with vile corruptible and mortal 4. That Christ Jesus who hath taken away sin all its force and punishment hath yet left his dearest Saints liable unto death 5. That the first man was of the earth earthy and we forasmuch as we die and corrupt are said to bear his Image 1 Cor. 15. 6. That God planted a Tree of Life in the Garden which needed not if man had been created not liable unto death 7. That all the causes of natural mortality within us or without us did exist as well before as after Man had sinned Yet notwithstanding sin was the way to actual death and that the wages of it It being usual with God to do that upon occasion which he hath power absolutely to do i. e. to make use of the instances of his Dominion to serve other designs of his Providence which help us to understand that first threatning In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death i. e. Thy strength supported by the tree of life shall begin to languish and fail Thy Oyl at length shall be exhausted and thy Lamp shall