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truth_n	apostle_n	faith_n	scripture_n	2,585	5	5.6441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34955	The vanity of the dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England a sermon preached before the King at Windsor, September the 10th. 1682 / by Robert Creyghton ...	Creighton, Robert, 1593-1672.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6876; ESTC R34843	9,456	30

A SERMON Preached before the KING AT WINDSOR September the 10th 1682. By ROBERT CREYGHTON D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Published by his Majesties Command LONDON Printed by J. Wallis for Benj. Tooke at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard 1682. 1 COR. 1. 10. Now I beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all spake the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement WHAT the great Apostle stoop so low as to beseech and so passionately too by the Name of our Lord and Saviour Christ Be the People never so impatient boyl and toss and roar like a raging Sea sure here 's Charm enough to strike the World immediately into a Calm Beseech 't is tantamount to a Command he beseeches by a Name that cannot but prevail a Name whom Storm and Tempest it self must Obey But beseech or command 't is all one the World is deaf to all such Charms to all such Commands Be joyn'd together in the same and in the same judgement and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too united in a beautiful Order and Symmetry of parts alass when will this be Epicurus his Atoms will as soon by cross interfering motions weave themselves into a beautiful System of a World as mens thoughts variously cross and running counter unite in one Discipline one Doctrine one Church We shall never see Peace so long as there are rough uneven tempers in the World as unfit for Societies as some rough unhew'n Stones or knotty crooked pieces of Timber unfit for Building There are certain tempers naturally sour enough to break through Mountains and Rocks like Hanibal's vinegar and to dissolve the firmest Foundations of Government and Order And there is especially a Pharisaical Leven sour enough to put whole Societies and Kingdoms into a perfect fermentation We shall never be all alike till the different humors of our several constitutions be quite spent and we are mouldred away in our Graves to rotten Bones and Skulls then and not till then exactly all alike with half noses hollow-ey'd and grinning as Lucian describes Skulls of Wise-men Mad-men Fools Cynicks Politicians Hero's Beggers blended together in Charnel Houses But especially in Religion men never yet wanted pretences to disagree Cain and Abel though Brothers agree not in the same kinds of Sacrifices Contention once intruded into Heaven amongst the Gods that 's Romance but 't is too true she hath more than once intruded into the Church a bold and troublesome Guest What and will Religion then Religion which is or should be the very Bond and Cement of Societies will that also crumble us to pieces Nay then there 's little hope of Unity in this World Our Corinthians divide upon pretences specious enough even of honouring some Apollos others Paul others Cephas The least pretence of dividing will serve the turn when men are resolved to be quarrelsome especially in Citties of great Trade such as Corinth was the Metropolis of Achaia Rich Populous and Proud where as they Traffick'd with Forreigners Goods for Goods So they seem to have barter'd Religion for Religion too the Seller basely prostituting his judgement to the Buyers either Heresie or Schism to set off Goods the better and to advance Trade Our Apostle St. Paul though by degrees he deals very plainly with these Corinthians yet at the beginning of his persuasive to Unity he deals with them with all the tenderness immaginable But what shall we do now our modern Shismaticks are grown so stiff and stubborn that 't is to little purpose to Entreat them Begg or Command Weep or Thunder 't is all one they are inexorable they are inflexible If the Mercy of God in settling Religion here upon so good grounds by so legal and warrantable methods according to the model of the Primimitive Church if the Bloud of our Late Dread Sovereign the Church of Englands Martyr if this King 's incomparable Clemency can prevail nothing all the Passion of our Sacred Oratour St. Paul is utterly cast away They have been gently dealt with these many years and they are but the more hardned in the Schism The warm Sunbeams will sometimes but harden that Clay which heavier Storms may soften and make pliable to the Government But I must remember the Apostles condescension I must remember his pitty and his good nature and with all the moderation I can endeavour to remove some of the prejudices they have taken up against this Church And I must be so far free with them as to charge them with the following Mistakes three especially the ground of all the rest A false Notion of Christian Liberty A false Notion of Tender Conscience A false Notion of the Nature and Measures of a Due Reformation First A false Notion of Christian Liberty The Church we apprehend hath a Liberty infeoffed in Her to determine this way or that in matters of Decency and Order If this be the Churches Prerogative conveyed to her by Scripture particularly that of the Apostle Let all things be done Decently and in Order it is certainly my Christian Liberty to Obey warranted and secured to me virtually by the same Scripture When I am satisfied in Conscience that the Church maintains the Faith sound in all the Doctrines she professes which to say truth are the proper Objects about which Conscience acts 't is my Priviledge to be govern'd by her in other matters of less moment which do not directly and immediately concern Conscience farther then as a general Rule of Charity obliges me to obey For as the Apostles leaving out particulars there is a general Warrant for the Church to Prescribe so is it a Warrant to me who am a member of an Orthodox Visible Church-branch of Christs Holy Catholick Church to submit to that which makes it a Visible Church I mean Government and Order So that the Schismatick is so far wide in his Notion of Liberty that if I refuse to obey I in a manner fell away my Christian birth-right and basely betray my own Liberty For tho' we have often heard much talk to little purpose of Christian Liberty yet as the Apostle uses the word Liberty we are able to understand no morethan this that Christians under the Gospel are redeemed from the bondage of the Law So that I am at perfect Liberty to be Govern'd by a Christian Church the Obligation to the Mosaick Law being cancell'd Else there would be a Visible Church-Government in general Terms settled upon the Apostles Successors without Obedience to that Government which is an absurd Chimera Now then if the Schismatick tell us his Conscience will not suffer him to submit where then is his Liberty of Conscience who put those Fetters upon his Conscience but himself what Cyclops made those Fetters where were they forged in what Vulcans Shop in what Aetna but in his own zealous over-heated brain Does the Scripture