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A85798	A sermon appointed for Saint Pauls Crosse, but preached in Saint Pauls Church, on the day of His Maiesties happy inavgvration. March 27. 1642. By Richard Gardyner, D.D. and Canon of Christ-Church, Oxon.	Gardiner, Richard, 1591-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing G231; Thomason E141_29; ESTC R16286	13,868	41

that be in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life But wee are growne fat with peace and so beginne to loath it as Israel did their Manna it 's made by most the fuell of vice an occasion of loosenesse and secure idlenesse as if wee said within our selves as Babell did in her prosperity We shall never be moved there shall be no leading into captivity nor complaining in our streetes A great impediment of our quiet and peaceable life are homebred and domesticall foes The first are Papists false-hearted forraine-hearted Papists I meane who have a tongue for the King and a heart for his enemies Jacobs voyce Esau's hands who will be ready at every turne to open the doore and let the thiefe in and like sly Foxes will shew the way for the wilde Boare to destroy Howsoever they pretend a detestation of those more then inhumane cruelties which their Pseudocatholique fraternity inflict upon bleeding Ireland yet should they get the mastery here which I trust Gods goodnesse will ever prevent we must expect no mercy Geball Ammon Amalek Spaine the Pope the Eagle would flye upon us and combine all their forces to devoure us For as Mahomet in his Alchoran promiseth the highest seate in heaven to him that kills most Christians See Phil. Morn l. de ver Relig. Chr. c. 33. p. 608. so the Pope and Jesuites make it a matter meritorious to kill Protestants Heretiques as they please despightfully to terme us yea the more of us they murther the more glorious reward they shall have in heaven Yet let us pray to God to convert them as for those which will not be converted let us beseech the All-wise God to continue it in the heart of his Majesty and the Parliament whom it concernes to curbe and keepe them under not to let them have the remes too much at liberty lest they take head and like a pampered Palfry throw their Rider and bring a ruine to their King and Country in the end The second Domestique foes to our quiet and peaceable life may be new fangled Sectaries who rashly condemne whatsoever their private spirits doth disallow and esteeme all disordered that hath not concurrence with their particular Tenets This makes them without warrant to obtrude bold Pamphlets casting therein the frame of Religion in the mould of their owne private fancies as if they would prescribe to Higher powers what they should enact Saint Austin speakes sharpely against such kinde of Polypragmaticks stiling them men swoln with pride mad with headinesse treacherous in spreading calumnies turbulent in sowing seditions who lest they should be discerned to want the light of truth Vmbram rigidae severitatis obtendunt doe cast forth a glimmering show of demure austerity They are the true translated words of that Father in his third booke and first chap. Cont. Parmen Saint Bernard also complaines passionately against contentions children of the Church Pax à Paganis Serm. 33 ad Pastor in Syn. et 33 in Cant. pax ab haereticis sed non profecto à Filiis Pagans saith he fight not Heretiques write not her children doe both and rip out Maternall trophes by tongue and pen maintaining their quarrell non Ratione sed Pertinacia not by waight of reason but obstinate dint of will Ierom. in c. 1. ad Rom. Vbi non Veritas quaeritur sed Adversarius fatigatur whose ayme is the foyle and tyring of the Adversary never the search of the Truth For it is the practice of Contention to defend those errors which a right Iudgement disproves In c. ad Ephos Nè cedere videatur saith Saint Ambrose lest together with the Tenet the disputer might seeme to fall Thus while they debate thus while they teare thus while they rend the Church they give a signall to them without and encourage Aliens to joyne blasphemy with their dissention Where is now that solemne use of unanimous agreement Apobg c. 39. In Tertullians dayes there was such unity among Christians that it was ad stuporem Gentium to the amazement of the Heathen See say they how the Christians love each other and are ready to dye one for another The time was when one house one boord yea one soule could suffice three thousands Act 4.32 but now alas we are so estranged from such goodnesse that wee dwell asunder under one private roofe and they who should be one flesh nourish a faction like two Nations It is that which Saint Paul blames among the Corinthians 1 Cor. 3. we heare there is among you envying and strife and divisions and so he concludes them carnall For such Schismes are not of the Spirit but workes of Satan and therefore he is properly called in our English tongue the Divell from Divello which signifies to unjoyne and put asunder for he is alwayes labouring to dissolve that which God hath joyned Wherefore to prevent the snare of jarres wherewith we may be entangled through admiration of mens persons and writings Saint Austins resolution in his nineteenth Epistle to Saint Jerome is to bee embraced Alios ita lego I so read other mens workes that notwithstanding their sanctity and learning I am not of their minde unlesse the truth of their opinions may appeare vel Probabili ratione vel per Authores Canonicos either by probable reason or by Canonicall Scripture For the members of Christs holy Church should be so inspired with one right faith as in the modell of the body all parts are informed with one soule For such as the soule is to many members such is faith to many soules If every member had a distinct soule where were the body If every soule had a distinct forme of faith where were the Church And here give me leave to discharge my whole conscience touching the representaons of sacred stories and some undoubted Saints as yet remaining in Cathedrals and Chappels that so I may endeavour to remove some scandall that hath or may be taken My protestation is hearty and sincere that I abhorre adoration of Images as well relatively as absolutely No worship is to be given to them directly in themselves nor obliquely by reflecting on the prototypes which they represent Where they are yet remaining they are to be used onely as Ornaments or Historicall Commemoratives Gregory the great who well might be called the last of the best and the first of the worst Popes first called Images Lay-mens Bookes the Popes succeeding made an impious use thereof by teaching they were the onely fit bookes for the Laity to pore on depriving them of the waters of life and prohibiting them to reade the Scriptures contrary to the expresse letter of the Scripture It were somewhat tolerable had they interpreted those words did onely meane that ignorant men by asking what is signifyed by those Representments which they see pictured before their eyes and by pondering a right answer to their question might so be instructed as it were out of a