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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05349	A treatise tending to unitie in a sermon preached at Droghedah on Whitsunday (being the ninth of Iune 1622.) before the Kings Majesties Commissioners for Ireland. By Henry Leslie.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1623 (1623)	STC 15501; ESTC S102368	36,074	58

who are in authoritie would alwayes have before their eyes that charge which Iehoshaphat gave unto his Iudges 2. Chron. 19.6 And he said to the Iudges Take heed what yee doe for yee execute not the judgement of man but of the Lord Wherefore now let the feare of the Lord be with you take heed and doe it for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God neyther respect of persons nor receiving of reward The scond use is generall for all Christians If God be one the mediator one then should we likewise be one So the Apostle reasoneth Eph. 4.4 There is one bodie one spirit one hope one Lord one faith one baptisme one God and father of all whereupon followeth the conclusion set downe vers 3. that we should endevour to keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace So say I There is one God and one Mediator and therefore should wee who worship this one God through this one Mediator be one as they are one But how should we be one One in opinion one in affection First I say one in opinion all holding rhe same things beleeving the same things teaching the same things worshipping God after the same maner for looke how commendable varietie is in all other things it is as much to be abhorred in religion even those who have held the greatest falsehoods hold that there is but one truth I never read of more then one hereticke that held all heresies true Philastrius relateth the opinion of one Rhetorius who said that all religions did well and which is much like unto this there was in the same age a foolish franticke fellow named Postellus wrote a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein hee taketh upon him to reconcile all the religions of all nations and calleth it Concordiam Orbis Yea and little better are those who would make a reconciliation betweene the Papists us being altogether indifferent in things most different They are kind-hearted Philistims that would bring the Arke of God and Dagon under one roofe they are of his mind that Turonensis writeth of who said It is best of all si illa illa colantur neque esse noxium si inter gentilium aras Dei ecclesiam quis transiens utraque veneretur They are as one saith the ghosts of that heretick Apelles whose speech it was That it is sufficient to beleeve in Christ crucified and that there should be no discussing of the particular warrants and reasons of our faith Or the brood of Leonas one of the Courtiers of Constantius and his Deputie in the Seleucian Councell who when the Fathers hotely contended as there was good cause for the consubstantialitie of the Sonne Get you home said be and trouble not the Church with these trifles These things seemed but trifles unto carnall men yet were they matters of great importance and so be the differences betweene us and the Papists of such weight as thereupon dependeth the truth of Gods worship the life of his Church the salvation of our soules And therefore no hope of peace but though manie meanes of reconciliation have beene used yet never anie could prevaile The Emperours Ferdinand and Maximilian travelled painfully herein and by their appointment Cassander a great and learned Papist drew a proiect to shew his iudgement so did Fricius and the Interimists but all was in vaine for Babylon could not be cured her grapes were become as the grapes of Admah and her vine as the vine of Tseboim And as she could not be reformed so we could not admit of anie agreement by meeting in a middle course For the truth it is on high saith Leo they may ascend to us but for us to goe downe to them it is neyther safe nor honest Now it is no more plaine that the Citie of Rome hath descended from the seven hills on which it was seated in old times unto the Martian plaines that lye below than it is that the Church of Rome hath fallen away from that faith which once was commended in her Bethel is become Bethaven the faithfull citie is become an harlot her silver is turned into drosse so that unlesse wee would betray the truth wee we cannot yeeld to them in anie thing wherein they dissent from us but if there be anie agreement amongst us they must come out of Babell that is wholly renounce their owne parts and ioyne hands with us whereof there is but little hope when we consider what small effect Reformation hath taken in this kingdome these yeares past As king Ioash asked Iehoiada the high Priest 2. King 12.7 and the other Priests why they did not repayre the ruins of the Temple so may our truly religions King question us that are the Priests why the Temple of the Lord is so long in repayring in this land nay what is the cause that the ruines of the Temple grow greater everie day more falling away from the truth than that are reclaymed from errour Surely the causes hereof are manifest give me leave to observe unto you such as I hold to bee the chiefe things that continue this people in their blindnesse and hinders reformation The first is their custome and long continuance in errour there being nothing harder than to breake an ignorant man of his custome De doctrinâ Christ l. 4. c. 24. S. Augustine comming to Cesarea where the people had an ancient custome once a yeare for certaine dayes together to divide themselves into parts and throw stones one at another whereby manie were slaine found it an exceeding hard matter to disswade them from it This is noted by that Father to have hindred the reformation of the Donatists Some were bound not by truth but by an hard knot of obdurate custome Epist 48. c. And surely this is a people of all other most zealous of their ancient customes Secondly the societie and alliance whereby they are linked one to another restrayneth them being ashamed and afraid to part with their acquaintance This is noted by S. Basil to be the thing that hindred the conversion of the Arrians in his time Epist 70. There is saith he small hope of reducing them to the truth who are linked to hereticks with the band of long amitie and S. Austin yeeldeth the same reason why the Donatists in his age could not be reclaimed Epist 48 ad Vincent How many saith he being moved with the truth would have beene good Catholicks and yet deferred it fearing the offence of their friends So have I heard manie say in this kingdome If such and such men would goe to Church I would goe also but if I should begin I should have the ill will of all the country Thirdly the busie trafficking of Priests and Iesuites for the maintenance of their great goddesse Diana by whom they have their living What skilfull workemen they are and how cunningly they keep them in blindenesse were long to relate this I hope is sufficiently knowne