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woman_n	church_n	let_v	silence_n	2,878	5	10.3040	5	true

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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

scientiam not according to knowledge I will take a step into S. Austines path and adde a third possible defect and that 's in the qualification or condition of the persons according to which he observeth zeal to admit of a directly opposite specification in bonitate malitia and therefore he commends it as good in David the King who saith of himself The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up but on the other side condemnes it as bad and misbeseeming the Commons an ignorant multitude the arm of whose discretion and judgement was not able to wield a weapon of that size when it is said of them Zelus occupavit plebem ineruditam Zeal hath possessed an unlearned people But to take it a while in its pure naturals without those severall circumstances and different limitations I reade it defin'd as abstracted in it self Desideriū vehemens quo quis incitatur ea tollere quae rei sibi dilectae videntur adversa An earnest desire to take away such things as seem opposite to that which he loveth Now as there is nothing which should so swell up our souls with joy and delight nor lodge in any corner of our hearts as the love of God so can our zeal be imployed about nothing so well as the utter abolishing of that which either gives him a direct affront and that 's Idolatry or stops the free current of our service and due devotion by intermixing the muddy inventions of weak brains and vain curiosities and that 's Superstition But this zeal as good as it is must be attended by three handmaids to bear up his train which according to Gerson are Benevolentia Discretio Constantia else saith he it is like a two-edged sword in the hand of a mad-man aut fulmini sine obice pervaganti or like that kind of lightning which makes way through all and will admit of no opposition Upon the first of the three our Apostle seemeth chiefly to reflect the absence thereof being that which chiefly causeth the breach of union the disturbance of the peace and quiet of the Church I should begin with this but I must first give you a brief character of such persons as are fittest to be imployed in this businesse S. Austine grants them whosoever they are a large commission Fac quicquid potes Do what thou canst. But what presently set fire on the Church No Frigidum fundit he casts cold water to allay this heat Do it but still pro persona quam portas onely according to that person which thou bearest No mechanick put his profane hand to the pulling down of that most sacred and ever venerable Episcopall function Tractet fabrilia No women vent their impiety and ignorance in slandering it as an Antichristian Prelacie Let them be silent as in so of or concerning the Church too It was S. Pauls advice Discant in silentio not that they should teach but learn in silence Nay non patiar saith he I suffer not a woman to teach 1. Tim. 2. 12. And this argues the irrationall licentious practice of our times wherein either sex and any profession crowds in a finger to the moulding of the design'd Reformation and this if not with publick toleration if not without some contradiction I am sure not with a due peremptory penall prohibition Nay they must be Leaders in the case and teach the very Captains themselves of the Church militant their severall postures prescribe them a form to muster their men I have read of the Ambassadours of the Sarmatae That attending Valentinian the Emperour of the West and telling him being basely clad that they were prime men of that nation he fell into such a passion for warring with so base a people that he dyed suddenly In like manner I think if Religion in these dayes did but view the Grandees of Schisme in their mechanick habits and seriously consider with what a ragged Regiment of ignorance and impudence she hath had so long a continued encounter she would out of indignation desert us and leave her golden crown to be at all adventure usurped either by insolent profanenesse or blind Atheisme But to leave these Bedlams at length to be well lashed by their own too impetuous spirits and to be as good as my word I think we are bound by the doctrine of our Church to surrender the first place of composing differences and zealous reforming what abuses soever are crept into it to him whom we acknowledge her head and that 's the King And good reason too For that is true as well in Church as State which Salust in Tacitus suggested to Livia Eam conditionem esse imperandi ut non aliter ratio constet quàm si uni reddatur Or more properly that which followes soon after Non aliud discordantis patri●e We 'll make it Ecclesiae remedium esse quàm ut ab uno regeretur Whom as the Anointed of the Lord howsoever we acknowledge to have a more then ordinary influence and speciall assistance of the Spirit of God yet being not bound so farre as we know to take away infallibility from the Chair and chain it to the Throne nor to give it a Crown instead of a Mitre we find it most consonant to reason and correspondent to the perpetuall practice of the Primitive times as also to that of all such Christian Churches as still retein the true ancient doctrine and discipline that he assume to him the counsel of his Bishops and Clergie who if so qualified as their places require may be presumed the fittest men to moderate zeal to compose all different opinions and to pick truth out of partiality Not to trouble you with various quotations out of severall Fathers I will onely fetch you one from the head and that 's Blessed Ignatius who speaks to our purpose in asserting That whosoever doth any thing without the Bishop and his Presbyterie {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} such an one hath his conscience defiled and is worse then an infidel But lest you should think the Prince in this case a priviledg'd person he otherwhere inverts our order and hath his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Let Caesar himself be ruled by the perswasion of his Bishop Now the former of these seems to be grounded upon S. Pauls rule who would have zeal to be regulated according to knowledge For to speak the truth if the Clergie be once excluded this businesse and Lay-men who by reason of their severall avocations are for the most part forced to take up their Theologicall principles I wish I could say but at the second or third hand must have the perpetuall patent of this concurrent judiciall imployment if ignorance chance to incorporate with authority and both grow up strong and stout in time it may well be feared in the future age Divinity must be fetched within the sphere of their apprehensions conjur'd within the circle of some politick law and