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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01852	Sermons on St Peter. By Robert Gomersall Bachelar in Divinitie	Gomersall, Robert, 1602-1646?	1634 (1634)	STC 11994; ESTC S103324	78,780	162

but Holy Faction for onely with that have I an enmity whereof a part is this that they will not obey that part of the Churches Law which binds every one at the time of prayer to frequent his owne Church Wee urge the Law why they should come and they this reason why they will not The Law that binds us to a presence at the afternoone Service is either absolute or else admits of some Exceptions If Absolute then in no case whatsoever may a man absent himselfe then he must not follow his merchandize abroad then it will bee a sin to be sick for at that time he cannot come to his owne Church but if the Law admit of these Exceptions then why not this likewise that since for their temporall much more for their spirituall benefit they may be absent Before I answer this I will give them a like argument that so by comparing both together they may judge whether theirs bee solid or no. The Law that binds us to a presence c. in the Forenoon or when we have Sermons is either Absolute or hath some Exceptions if Absolute then all the former inconveniences follow if it hath exceptions then if for our temporall good why not much rather for our spirituall good may wee not absent our selves even in the Forenoone or when at home we have a Sermon since others may preach more effectually than our owne Minister and so from others I may have more spirituall good than I can have from him I appeale to their owne Consciences whether such an argument be sound or no. If they say it is then one Church shall be oppressed when another is empty one Minister will suspect an other as if hee drew away his flock from him there would be as many schismes as priests and because amongst the Ministers none is so well gifted but some are or would be thought better whilest all runne after the best there would be no certaine hearing of any and we should have nothing but Confusion But if they confesse the truth that it is a weake kind of arguing then they spoile their owne reason which was the same in effect with this To which in brief I answer That the Law concerning c. admits of Exceptions but onely of such which are not against the intent of the Law The intent of the Law is to prevent Schisme and therefore to cause men to frequent their owne Churches Now they that travell doe not crosse this intent there is no feare of Schisme in them and when they can they doe frequent it but they that goe to heare sermons abroad for their spirituall good as they pretend take the ready way to make a Schisme and doe never frequent their owne Churches Now it would be strange if the same Law which was made to cause men to frequent their owne Churches should admit of an Exception by which they never should come thither But they may be absent for their Temporall why then not for their spirituall good Surely because there is not the same reason should they not trade abroad they were not able to live but you will not say that should they not heare abroad it were impossible that they should be saved This truth will be cleare in some few syllogismes If it were lawfull to breake the Churches Law then chiefly for our spiritual good we might break it But we may not break it for our spirituall good Ergo. The Minor is thus proved If we may injoy as much spirituall good by keeping as by breaking it then wee may not breake it for our spirituall good But wee may enjoy as much spirituall good by keeping as by breaking it Ergo. The Minor is againe proved All the good that wee can get by breaking it is but the Confirmation of our Faith But the Confirmation of our Faith we may have even when wee keep it The Major appeareth For who are they that breake the Law but such who account themselves called and justified already Now I may be Confirmed I may be strengthned but I cannot be called after I am called And for the Minor that our Faith may be confirmed though we keep the Law and stay at home is manifest out of their owne confessions which yeild thus much that though the word preached alone begets yet the word but read onely may nourish Faith Thus if onely they keepe away and break an Humane Ordinance for their spirituall good and that spirituall good be but confirmation of their Faith and that confirmation they might have had at home without the breach of any Law who seeth not that it is far safer to obey than to contest to be subject to rather than to subject under us these humane Ordinances I will presse but one reason more and that upon a ground by themselves confessed Where ever God hath commanded a thing in generall there the Church may determine the particularities as where God saieth Let all things be done in Order the Church may particularly describe what that order shall be and such a Command of the Church is to be received as a Law of God this ground is confessed But concerning Hearing there is a Command of God in generall and a particular Command of the Church concerning what persons and in what place to wit their owne Pastor in his owne Cure therefore that Law is a Law of God to us and so by all meanes must be kept If they shall cavill that they are onely bound to heare but when the Minister doth preach I answer that in the Law there is no such thing they must not leave their Minister when they may heare him and they may heare him when he but reades the word of God Examine and weigh these reasons for I stand to my former Protestation which was mistooke for a threatning if these reasons be firme follow them if they be infirme make it appeare and I will follow you but I am certaine you cannot make it appeare unlesse you can produce some Ordinances of man and that not contrary to Gods Law unto which we are not bound to be subject O then my beloved let us no longer walke in the light of our owne eyes nor follow that which Saint Hierome termes the worst Master our owne Presumption Away with those vaine words I care not for the commands of men seeing in saying so you disobey the command of God who hath commanded you to obey men You know what Saint Paul saith The powers which be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resists the power resists the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13. 1. 2. Submit your selfe to God though you despise the Humane Creature and though you care not for his Ordinance yet be afraid of damnation Neither talke that you must have your Supper as well as your Dinner that is the afternoone as well as the morning Sermon Know you not that if you urge that proportion between Sermons and