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A64281	The character of cruelty in the workers of iniquity ; and, Cure of contention among the people of God held forth in two sermons preached in the day of publick humiliation upon occasion of the late sad persecution in Piedmont / by Faithful Teate.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.; Teate, Faithful, b. 1621. Cure of contention among the people of God.	1656 (1656)	Wing T611; ESTC R26284	34,790	176

of it hee becomes an Heteroclitall Erastian and is almost Amathematized on severall hands by some lesse charitable Zelots for a Neutralizing Merozite I speak not in the least to the quenching any genuine zeal in the People of God the Lord increase it a thousand fold But mee thinks when a fiery Zeal stands in competition with fervent charity 't is as when preternaturall heat labours the extinction of the Naturall Yea peradventure it will upon close triall be found that some that spend their zeal the most prodigally upon the circumstance and form spare the least for the substance and power of Godlinesse Secondly WHerefore O Saints before these conspirators any more draw you in to bite and devour one another Consider 1 What Injurie you offer to God your Father and their Father whom you devour Ephes 4.6 there is one God and Father of All. His is the house which you set on fire Ephes 2.22 his the Servants whom you smite Matth. 24.49 and his are the Children which you destroy Psal 73.15 In this case the Lord may complain as did Israel of old Gen. 42.36 mee have ye bereaved of my Children Joseph is not Simeon is not and will yee take away Benjamin all these things are against mee So may God say Persecutors have destroyed my People abroad and will you destroy one another at home Joseph and Simeon are gone and will you take away my surviving Benjamin All these things are against mee 2 What injury you offer to God the Son who paid the same price for thy dissencing Brother that hee paid for thee Destroy not him for whom Christ dyed Rom. 14.15 Sirs you pretend to bee followers of the Lamb see that you follow him in his Lamb-like disposition 3 What Injury to God the Spirit That Dove is grieved when you grieve one another Ephes 4.30 31 32. Grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto the Day of Redemption i. e. let all bitternesse and wrath and anger and clamour and evill speaking bee put away with all malice And bee yee kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you 4 What Injury to your Profession The Gospel that is professed by you came to you with acclamations of Peace on Earth Good-will towards men And saith unto you Rom. 12.19 Avenge not your selves but rather give place unto wrath Gal. 6.10 Do good unto all men but especially to those that are of the houshold of Faith Yea Rom. 12.14 blesse them that persecute you blesse and curse not yea verse 20. If thine Enemy hunger give him meat not eat him up How then should there bee license for you in the Gospel to harm one another or to make a prey one of another 5 What Injury to your Partie too little alas and too weak already I speak as to men and the weaker for being divided Mat. 12.25 For having mentioned before the wrong that is hereby offered to your Heavenly Father how shall I forget Jerusalem which is above and should bee free from these Injuries for shee is the Mother of us all Gal. 4.26 whose tender heart can not chuse but bleed when her own Children put each other into blood O! why said Rebekah should I bee deprived of you both in one day Gen. 27.45 If Envy kill one Son Judgement the other Rebekah looseth both who is the Mother of both Ah! Jerusalem can have no greater grief than to see of her Children warring one against another And how say you that you love her Psa 122.6 if you thus grieve her and how hope you to prosper if you do not love her observe how the Spirit aggravateth the wickednesse of the wickeds slandring and evill-speaking from such relation Psal 50 20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy Brother and slandrest thine own Mothers Son Is hee a Dissenter but yet thy Brother Take heed of speaking slandrously against him The Saints look for Tribulation in the World and Persecution from the World but O how insupportable is an Injury from a Saint to a Saint Had it been an Enemy saith David I could have born it but it was my Familiar with whom I have taken sweet Counsell going to the House of God with him Psal 55.12 13 14. as it is in the Psalm It is little trouble to a Saint to hear that Way called Heresie by the profane and Ignorant World wherein hee worships the God of his Fathers but to be called Schismatick by a Saint or stigmatized for an Heretick by his own Mothers Son or for an Hypocrite as Job by his friends without the support of an Almighty Arm who can bear it How sad and grievous a thing is it that out of those that are sent out as Lambes among Wolves Luk. 10.3 grievous Wolves should arise not sparing the flock Act. 20.29 30. Christ and Beleevers and Beleevers among themselves are all of a peece and therefore by no means should fall in peeces Hee that eats up his Brother eats up the flesh of his own Arm whereas No man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the Church for wee are Members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes 5.29 30. 6 What Injurie to those that suffer Art thou strong then oughtest thou to bear the Infirmities of the weak and not to please thy self but thy Neighbour for his good unto Edification Rom. 15.1 2. Are others weak they are to bee received but not to doubtful disputations Rom. 14.1 or are they over-taken in a fault they are to bee restored by thee being Spirituall in the Spirit of Meeknesse Gal. 6.1 wherefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame bee turned out of the way but let it rather bee healed Heb. 12.12 13. Hast thou knowledge wherein thy Brother is Ignorant then shew out of a good conversation thy works with meeknesse of Wisdome Ja. 3. 13. But if you have bitter Envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the truth ver 14. For the wrath of man works not the Righteousnesse of God Iam. 1.20 Seventhly what injury to the very Workers of Iniquity whose bloody hands are by you strengthened for as in some cases we are said to Tempt the Tempter to temptus so may wee in this case bee too truly said to tempt the Destroyers to destroy us Who perhaps would have little courage to set upon Us but that they find Us setting upon one another For whom might there bee any plea in the great day I am verily perswaded it would bee this Lord thou chargest Us with the blood of thy Disciples but thou didst tell Us that wee should hereby know men to bee thy Disciples by their loving one another Joh. 13.35 And thou knowest that wee found these out of this thy Livery and how then should wee know them to bee