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A57166 The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich. Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. 1663 (1663) Wing R1290; ESTC R2972 35,887 91

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a singular and eminent Blessing of God thereunto God made man at the first after his own Image so that as the Lord is wholly one and undivided in himself no dissonancy between any of his Attributes Decrees or Counsels so in man as he came out of Gods hands there was an exact harmony and agreement his Affections consonant unto his Will his Will to his Reason and his Reason to God And being thus perfectly One with himself he could not but be one likewise with others who were perfectly like himself as finding nothing more in them from the which to differ then in himself But when sin came into the world it brake the bond of Union between God and man making us enemies unto him by wicked works and so separating between him and us and hiding hie face from us It brake the bond of Union between a man and himself the Will rebelling against the Mind the Sensitive part against the rational one lust warring against another and all against the Soul It brake the bond of Union between man and man between one wicked man and another upon the ground of different Interests hateful and hating of one another between wicked men and good men upon the ground of contrary seeds the the Lord having put enmity between the Seed of the woman and the Seed of the Serpent Because God hath chosen his Church out of the world therefore the world hateth them When he had his Church only in one single people the Jews who dwelt alone and were not reckoned among the Nations we find not only in the Scriptures but also in prophane Writers how great scorn and contempt was cast upon chem by those of other Nations And when Christian Religion began to obtain in the world the like horrible Reproaches were cast upon Christians as we read of Thyestaea convivia Oedipi incestus in Tertullian Eusebius and others So true is that of Solomon He that is upright in the way is an abomination unto the wicked This Enmity Christ came to heal and to remove by preaching and by giving peace unto men working the hearts of his people to be at unity and peace one with another in which respect Christ saith of his Church My Dove my undefiled is but one Cant 6. 9. Now a thing may be said to be one two manner of ways there is unum per unitatem when a thing is so one as that it doth not any way consist of many as God is one by the absolute simplicity of his Nature without any diversity of part and part power and act matter and form subject and accident being and not being There is likewise unum per unionem when one thing is constituted and made up of many things united and joyned together and thus the Church is One We being many saith the Apostle are one bread and one body And again as the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ. In this respect it is compared sometimes to an Army made up of many Souldiers ordered into Companies and Regiments under the Command of one General called the Captain of the Host of the Lord and the Captain of our Salvation Sometimes to a City compacted together and accurately proportioned in all the parts and measures thereof Sometimes to the Tabernacle of the Congregation wherein divers Curtains were coupled and joyned together by loops and taches into one Sanctuary Sometimes to the Temple wherein many goodly stones were framed and fitted into a Magnificent Structure in which respect the Church is called the House of God the Houshold of Faith the whole Family of Heaven and Earth a building fitly framed together and growing unto a holy Temple in the Lord Sometimes to a Vine consisting of one root and many branches and to a body wherein many members are conjoyned under one Head and animated by one Soul Thus the Church is One. And albeit we frequently read in the plural of the Churches of the Saints the Churches of Asia of Macedonia of Galatia of Syria and Cilicia yet all these are members of one and the same Catholick Church as many Cities of one Kingdome and many houses of one City For all the persons all the Assemblies and Associations in the world who acknowledge and worship one true God and one Mediator between God and Man the Lord Jesus walking by one and the same rule of Faith and Love in the Gospel do all make up but one Catholick Church And the former Resemblances and Similitudes whereby it is expressed lead us to the consideration of a threefold Unity in the Church 1. An Unity by way of Disposition and Order as in an Army or Building 2. An Unity by way of Composition or integral Completion as between the parts of the body unto the perfection of the whole 3. An Unity by way of Constitution or Essential Concurrence of Soul and Body unto one man or of the Subject and vital principles whereby it is animated There is then in the Church 1. An Unity of Order as the Apostle rejoyced when he beheld the Order of the Church at Colosse And this consisteth 1. In Variety of Offices and in the due and regular Subordination of those one unto another and of the body unto them all as the Apostle telleth us that God hath set in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers c. And that Christ when he ascended up on high gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ and these the Apostle requireth the rest of the Body to Esteem very highly in love to obey them and submit themselves unto them because they watch for their Souls 2. In Variety of Ordinances in the which Christ is set forth before the eyes of his people Such are Reading the Scripture for as in that Church of the Jews Moses and the Prophets were read in the Synagogues every Sabbath day So the Apostle directeth the Reading of his Epistl●s in the Christian Church Preaching of the Word how shall they hear saith the Apostle without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent Prayer as the Temple is called an house of Prayer for all people and Peter and John went up to the Temple at the hour of Prayer Baptism Go and teach all Nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost The Supper of the Lord The Cup of Blessing which we bless is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ 3. In variety of Gifts which the