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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62952	Pharisaism display'd, or Hypocrisie detected In a sermon preached in St. Mary's Church in Stamford, August the 21st, 1690. Being the triennial visitation of the right Reverend father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln. By George Topham, prebendary of Lincoln.	Topham, George, d. 1694.	1690 (1690)	Wing T1907; ESTC R220704	11,882	34

Processions Fastings and Whippings to morrow shall gratifie them with Masqueradings Plays and Jollity if upon one Door there be an Excommunication casting down to Hell all Transgressors upon another you'll-see a Jubilee or Pardon for all Transgressions if on one side of the Street a House of Vail'd Nuns on the other a House of open Curtesans Their promising of Pardon of Sin upon condition of Performances unnecessary and insufficient such as undertaking Pilgrimages to the Shrines of Saints Visiting Churches making War upon Infidels and Hereticks contributing Money repeating so many Ave Marie's and Pater Nosters what are they but Religious Cheats And thô they spare no pains but compass Sea and Land to make one Proselite yet when he is made as our Saviour told the Pharisees they make him twofold more the child of hell The next that falls under my consideration are our Dissenting Parties at home and 't is strange we should have any such at this time of day amongst us I know that the sour Leaven of Division was once deeply moulded into our Peoples breasts and they were envenom'd with an Opinion That the Bishops and Clergy nay all the Members of the Church of England were Popishly affected and this Calumny how weak soever was yet so unhappily strong as to carry off many well-meaning but weaker Brethren from our Communion But now that the Fathers and Sons of this Church have given especially under the late Tryal such good assurance to the contrary we hoped as justly we might that these Mis-representations would easily have been seen through and abhorr'd by all our Dissenting Brethren and that they would readily have come in and joyn'd with us in one Publick Worship and lent a helping hand to preserve that Church which the common Enemy thrust at with so much Malice and Envy For if there were any such Tincture of Popery or Papistical Inclination in the Sons of the Church of England as the Romanists have taught our Pretenders to a further Reformation to say and publish why should the Emissaries of Rome be more industriously intent upon our Destruction than upon the Extirpation of all other Protestants in the World Indeed the reason is That the Church of England has for her Faith resisted to Blood that this Church has sent into Heaven whole Colonies of Confessors and Martyrs for the Truth that this Church has constantly and of late as much as ever maintain'd her own Cause and the common Cause of all the Reformed Churches that this Church is still thanks be to God and their Sacred Majesties the Ornament and the Apology the Support and the Protection of all the Protestant Churches throughout the World Our Brethren beyond the Seas cannot be rooted out with ease or but persecuted with safety whilst there is a Church of England to stand as a Rampire in the way between them and Ruine but destroy or extinguish this Church and all the Reformed Churches abroad will soon be shatter'd and made a Prey O that our Separatists were wise that they understood this that they would but consider who they are actuated by They little think that they are but Journy-men to their and our worst Enemies the Jesuites who drive a Trade of Divisions in Church and State in hopes one day to sacrifice them both to their Revenge and Avarice Now there 's nothing more dishonourable to the nature of Man or more to the shame of his understanding than to be made another Man's Property or Tool yet such is the sottishness of too many amongst us that notwithstanding all the Arguments that have been us'd they are still resolv'd to be over-reacht and abus'd by Men ingenuously wicked are still as industrious Agents to spread abroad their Leaven of Separation as ever And therefore my Reverend Brethren with submission I speak it I think 't is the Duty of every one of us in our several Places and Cures to Cautionize our People to be ware of them And good reason we have for it if we cast but an eye about us and see how zealous they are to proselite to their several Parties and how maliciously they Mis-figure us to the more weak and unwary to draw them from our Communion They cannot but acknowledge and some of the Ring-leaders of them have done it in print that we have all the Fundamentals of the true Religion both in respect of Faith and Practise We agree in all Essentials with all the Protestant Churches of Christendom as the Harmony of Confessions will satisfie every Man who will be but at the pains to read them We add no Articles of our own making to the Apostles Creed as we know who do nor do we snip one of the Ten Commandments and then slit another to make up the number We do not equal the Apocrypha with the Canonical Scriptures neither do we prohibit the Laity the consulting those Sadred Records but as much as in us lies endeavour to perswade them to read and meditate on them We have but two Sacraments according to our Saviour's Institution and our Publick Service is perform'd in our own Language We do not buy or sell Pardons nor do we trust in any Merits save those of our most Blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ We pray for noue who are departed this Life much less do we Invocate any of the Saints We renounce the strange Doctrine of Transubstamiation as we do all pretentions to Infallibility upon Earth What pretence can they then have not to joyn Communion with us If some things indifferent and uncommanded in Holy Writ do make them divide from us of the Church of England they must for the very same reason not only separate from all the Reformed Churches of Europe but from themselves too wherein some things must be indifferent Yet notwithstanding all this how pievishly are they bent against us And out-run the Pharisees in the way of Separation for those though they were for Prayers of their own yet joyn'd in the Publick Prayers of the Jewish Church but these are so far from joyning with us in Prayer that they cry out against our Publick Service and condemn the Form only because 't is Uniform Yet were they not as Ignorant as they are Envious and as stubbornly resolved not to be Inform'd as they are both they might soon be satisfied that set Forms of Prayer have been the constant Practise of the Church of GOD in her Publick Worship in all Ages both Jew and Christian For as no Form of Prayer is the Mother of Confusion so several Forms by Persons of the same Church are the Means and Inlets of Division and therefore to prevent all Divisions in the Church and to avoid all ignorant insignificant and extravagant ways of expressing our Minds unto God in Prayer as also that we might Communicate in each others Prayers and reap the benefit of each others Fervency and Devotion these were the great and weighty Reasons wherefore a set and standing Form of publick Prayer has ever been