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truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	pillar_n	3,742	5	10.1590	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86190	A peace-offering in the Temple; or, A seasonable plea for unity among dissenting brethren: in a sermon at St. Paul's Church, London, before the Right Honouable the Lord Mayor, &c. on the 14th of October, 1660. By Richard Henchman, Rectour of St. James-Garlick-Hyth.	Henchman, Richard, d. 1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing H1429; Thomason E1048_3; ESTC R208108	22,545	39

saith the Apostle making a difference Certainly when we shall seriously consider how prone it is for men to receive Errour for Truth how naturally Blind and Opposite the Mind of a man is to the Revealed Truths of God and how that it 's the Spirit of God that leads thee into Truth that keeps thee from the Errours and Heresies that others are carried aside with These things if any thing will greatly move thee to Tender Bowels Fourthly Candidly and truly Report or lay down the Opinions of others that do dissent from us There is nothing I am confident hath made the Gap wider and more raked into the Sores of the Church then such a malevolent and ill-Disposition to pervert the Opinions of others and to make them hold such monstrous things as they do with all their Hearts Detest and thefore I desire you candidly and truly to report or lay down the Opinions of others that do dissent from you That 's a fourth Fifthly Question and examine your own Hearts Do not presently believe your own Hearts in every Opinion but have modest Doubtings See how modestly the Apostle determines the Case about Marriage 1 Cor. vii at the last verse I think I have the Spirit of God He was not so confident as many ignorant Zealots The same Spirit that leads into all Truth leads likewise into all humility Consult with those that are Able Orthodox and Learned Conferr with the Chief Pillars of the Church and they will resolve thy Doubts The Spirit of the Prophets is Subject to the Prophets Sixthly Highly labour to Prize and delight in the known plain Truths of Christ Hold fast your Christian Profession The Verb there translated hold fast {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies to hold a thing so fast as not to let it go again with Might and Main Totis viribus with our utmost endeavours Shall others hold errours fast and shall not we the Truth Shall we strive to hold Money fast and let loose our Religion Shall others hold a few empty notions fast and shall we let go the Substantial Truths of the Gospel Shall others affect a few Nisities and quirks in Religion and shall we be weary of the plain and Practical Truths of God's Word Saint Paul that was snatch'd up into the third heavens yet desired to know nothing but Christ and him crucified Saint Peter thought it not in convenient to write the same things they knew already Certainly there is nothing hath more rent and torn the Church of God then Affectation of Singular high things to bring in some unheard and unknown notions Oh! this is the Pride of some mens Hearts to have it said Such a man was the first that brought this Notion into the World as the Jesuit of his Scientia media said Ego primus inveni or like that Arch-heretick Herrtick Arius who as Hilary reports of him had menstruam fidem for every moneth a new Faith It 's a sad thing to see how many men in these days forsaking old Truths have wandered from Brownism to Anabaptism from that to Socinianism from that to Quakerism and God knows whether they will go at last So wild a thing is Errour To be weary of the known Truth is in effect to be weary of the same God the same Christ VVhy do not we desire a new Sun a new Earth a new World as well as new Truths That 's a sixth Lastly to name no more If such should be the Corruptions of the Church that thou canst not keep Fellowship with her but by partaking of her sins then before thou leavest her be assured that it is not for Small Matters but that which does Eat up the very Vitals of Religion Do not You dare to leave it till God leave it Do not thou nchurch it till God does But let thy Endeavours be in thy place to Inform and Heal before thou presume to Depart or Separate Plead and Strive with thy Mother because She ha's Committed Whoredom Hos ii 2. Oh let thy Secession be very unwillingly Till thou art compell'd to depart do not And though the Papists charges us with Schism Because we have with-drawn our selves from the Obedience of the Pope as Head of the Church I but we say ours was not a Schism but a Secession They were Schismaticks in falling from the Primitive Order and Institutions in the Church Insomuch that the Pope is the Grandest Schismatick that ever was in the Church And further we departed not from Rome because of petty Corruptions no she was a Babylon e're we left her and then we left her unwillingly They drave us out from them persecuting us with Fire Faggot Take heed therefore of Leaving the Church for some petty Differences But suppose there be many Corruptions in Government and Administrations Yet thou art not to make sinfull Breaches and Rents for these do plus perturbare infirmos Bonos quàm Corrigere Animosos Malos at St. Angustine well Take heed therefore of Pride Ambition and seeking Great Things in the Church It 's Reported that most of those who made the greatest Rents in the Church did it upon Discontent missing that Preferment they looked for The Spirit of Diotrephes who loved preheminences made great Divisions Yea even the Disciples themselves began to Quarrel with one Another De Primatu who should be the Chiefest Therefore does our Saviour so often press Humility and Submission And I pray God I may learn that Lesson Let others hunt and gape after the preferments of this World I bless God I neither seek nor sue for any but shall say as once Mephibosheth said with a little Addition 2 Sam. xix 30. For as much as my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his own house and the poor Church which ha's been for many years ragged and torn with divisions and contentions is like to put on a better dress in hopes of a future settlement Let them take all I shall be contented That 's a Second Use The Third and last Vse shall be by way of Exhortation Let me beseech you Brethren in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that there be no Divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same Mind and in the same Judgment Live as Christians in that holy unity as your Principles and Profession engages you unto Do you not pity those places where Divisions have made Religion to be a Scorn and the tender love and unity of God●s People is turned into uncharitable censures and separations Take warning therefore , that you come not to the like Suspect those Doctrines that tend to Divisions in the Church If it be not for unity it is not for God Christ came to heal and to reconcile and therefore sends not his Servants on a contrary Errand Let us all agree in the great certain and necessary Points of Religion and let us compassionately tolerate the differences that are tolerable