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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65268	A sermon touching schisme, lately preached at St. Maries in Cambridge by R. I. Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1642 (1642)	Wing W1095; ESTC R22989	20,193	38

with others to a generall union of wills and affection For Pax hoc in loco est voluntatum unio saith Catharinus on the place And therefore S. Cyprian renders it well satis agentes as if it would sufficiently busie and take up no lesse then the whole man to do it to the purpose Secondly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Endeavouring to keep For it is not sufficient to search it out with some pains when we are at a losse for it but we must keep it with the like when once we have found it Nec sufficit eam quaerere saith S. Hierome nisi inventam fugientémque omni studio persequamur It is with this great part of the kingdome of grace as our most reverend and pious Prelate worthily terms this Unity of the Spirit as it is with civil states and dominions Iisdem artibus quibus parta sunt facilè retinentur Labour in getting and no lesse labour and endeavour in keeping Thirdly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the unity of the Spirit Nor is it every spirit that will serve the turn for there are many that keep the unity of a spirit to a contrary purpose Such were those Prophets whom Ezekiel speaks of foolish prophets against whom he denounceth a wo Vae prophetis qui ambulant post spiritum suum Wo to those prophets who walk after a spirit of their own And they keep it in the bond of peace too For as Plato said of injustice That without justice it could not stand the like say I of Schisme and Division It is impossible for it to subsist without union S. Hilarie thought that term too good for it and call'd it by a worse name Combination because that unity is in faith and subjection but Combination is consortiū factionis consenting in faction It must therefore be no unity of any such spirit but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with an emphasis on the article of that Spirit indeed The fruit whereof is love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance a goodly train of Christian vertues Gal. 5. 22. That Spirit which before it came down to the Church upon earth had concurred to the like good mysterious work above in heaven making an exact Unity of the blessed Trinity For as S. Austine saith Societas est quodammodo Patris Filii ipse Spiritus Sanctus We have two other presidents for this godly union from the two other persons of the Blessed Trinity From God the Father first in mans creation who made him one to the intent that we all knowing we came from one should love as one Vt dum cognoscerent se ab uno esse omnes se quasi unum amarent saith the Master of the Sentences From God the Sonne next in mans redemption who as S. Hierome observes would not suffer when the Priesthood was entirely in one but under two Annas and Caiaphas Vt religionis corum scissum monstraret errorem That he might shew their errour of Schisme in Religion Fourthly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the bond of peace First in peace Men are commonly very observant and carefull of preserving the least relique left them by a deceased beloved friend especially if he bestowed it on them with his own hand about the time of his departure Our Saviour our Christ deserveth surely as much at our hands as to have his peace carefully kept by all such as pretend the preserving any the least memoriall of him it being the last legacy he left to his Church {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} B. Mountague tells us S. Basil calls it his farewell gift I 'm sure he calls it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a largesse dropt frō a higher world worth the keeping Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you John 14. 27. He gave them peace promis'd them knowledge but that was to be sent after his ascension The Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name shall teach you all things As if peace and love were to have the precedence the first place in the heart of man The onely order observed in heaven where the first place or degree is given to the Angels of love which are termed Seraphin the next to the Angels of light which are termed Cherubin First love and then illumination But our Enthusiasts invert the order They will have first light and that of revelation then love and that but to such as will come off to their own faction Secondly In the bond of peace S. Anselme saith This bond of peace is an externall profession of peace and concord which is quasi vinculum nexus interioris unitatis Spiritûs I like it well if he means a united conformity and conjunction in the outward service of God You know when we go about to bind up things close together we usually lay them in the same posture not some doubled others at length but all having a due correspondence one to another And thus it is in Ecclesia fasciculo If in our outward religious performance and worship of God some be kneeling others standing a third sort in a worse posture by farre uncivilly sitting it will be a hard matter to bind them so close together but some will drop out of the bundle of the Church I will use another familiar similitude with your leave When we bind up a bundle we lay not the parcels at any great distance but as close and near one another as may be And therefore if we be at a distance one frō another come not to serve our God together but while there is a Congregation in the Church there 's a Conventicle in a chamber a Meeting in a barn and a Ring too it may be in the fields or woods it 's a hard matter to bind al these together the bond I fear wil be somewhat too short and we had need have a little to spare to make a knot that it may be the surer For Charitas nodo Vnitatis astringit saith S. Austine It is the knot that does it If Unity have no knot it is easily dissolved Therefore the Ancient English who were better united as in their affections so likewise in their devout Congregations called this holy service of God most significantly Eanfastnes as being the onely fast binder of the members of the Church Religiosae vinculum pacis the onely bond of a Religious peace S. Chrysostome observeth three things that unty this knot unbind this bond of Unity in the Church {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The love of riches The love of rule and sup●riority The love of glory that is popularity I need not shew you how all these have conspir'd together to unty out knot of Christian charity produc'd an unhappy Schisme in the Church The case is clear What else mean those whispers of some grand plotting and a strange mysterious working to commit sacriledge to rob the Church of her poore patrimony if not that which God himself hath given her at least that wherein many ages since his Saints and Servants out of their ture working piety have enstated her What else those loud aspiring cries of Down with Episcopacy Vp with a Presbyteriall Superintendency What lastly means that truly mounting-Lecture-Language and most irreligious Pulpit imposture whereby too many when they have once drawn the yielding hearts of weak people into those open and unfenced fortresses of their ears there chain them to their own motions Thus leading captive to their own vain-glorious though but low-descended spirits not onely silly women but men too laden with sinnes and led away with divers lusts It is time for me now to have done with my text and ease you of your trouble I will onely out of charity adde a triple rule for those either malitious or mistaken souls against whom my whole discourse hath been intended whereby they may be happily reduced and with them the Unity of the Spirit restored And that 's in brief first by Reason rightly weighed Secondly by Scripture rightly interpreted Thirdly by the Constitutions and Canons of the Church to that purpose rightly assembled To which three if they deny to submit much good do them with S. Austines character in whose opinion they are no other then mad-men infidels and Schismaticks For saith he Contra rationem nemo sobrius contra Scripturas nemo Christianus contra Ecclesiam nemo pacisicus senserit {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 〈…〉 ad O●ig Eccl 6. ●om in Ho●● 5 Advers. haer. lib. 4. c. 43. Lib. D● Simil● c. 98. Con●●it Monastic● 19. In Numer c. 4 Hom. 5. De Spir. S. c. 27. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Modest and reasonable Examination c. chap. 5 De Ver. cult. c. 19. De Regno Reg. In●t●● l. 4. tu 10. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 22. q 39. a. ● c. Offic. l. 1. c. 21. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lib. De Ver. cult. c. 5. Lib. De Patient l●b. De F●d Op●● Ep. Dedic. Iacob 6. Reg. Scot ante Dial. De Iure Regni apud Sco●o●s Hom. 110. Ep ad Poly●●p Episc. S●●in Veneric Vercellens ut putatur lib. De Unit. Eccles. conserv p. ● Rom. 10. 2. Lib. 20. De Civ. Dei 12. Gerson part 3. De Consol. Theolog. l. 3. Expos. in Evang. Ioan. Tractat. 10. Annil lib. 1. Ep. 2. Ad Trallian Fp. 6. Ad Philadelph Corn à Lapid. Chilling● 1. Cor. 7. 40. ●● 6. A● Philadelph S●nt l. 2. 〈◊〉 16. De 〈◊〉 Epist. 111. Corn Tacit. A●nal l. 1. I. Armin. Declar. Sent. ad D. D. Ordin. Holland 〈◊〉 Lips De Constant li 1. c. 5. Ad Res●● M●nach Ezek. 13. 3. Enar. in ps. 140. De Verb. Dom in Evang. Matt. Serm. 11. com in E●ech Apparat. 2. In loc. Prolog. ad Tract. 1. De Doctr. Chi●st Camden Re●● {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ●ib 4. De Tr●n ● 6.