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A77494	The araignment of the present schism of new separation in old England. Together vvith a serious recommendation of church-unity and uniformity. As it was lately presented to the church of God at great Yarmouth, / by John Brinsley.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing B4707; Thomason E335_10; ESTC R200782	79,884	81

surely hence it is that the building of our Sion riseth no faster Our Tongues the tongues of the builders are divided O how happy were it for us and for the Church of God did we all speak but one Language Whilest we thus differ saith one truly we can build nothing but Babel Difference of Tongues caused their Babel to cease but it builds ours A truth whereof we have lamentable experience at this day O what a Babel is this our Sion at this day turned to all thorow this confusion of Languages because all do not speak the same thing not Ministers Much lesse people Among them how many several Languages to he heard at this day More then ever there were at Babel At Babel some conceive that one Tongue was divided into seventy two Languages But our divisions far exceed that number At Babel others conjecture that there were as many tongues as several kinreds and families With us there are more Kinreds and Families being subdivided The husband speaking one thing the wife another the parent one thing and the childe another the master one thing and the servant another Thus it should not be Christians who have one Head should have but one Tongue all speaking the same thing for substance 2. And as much as may be for expression also However not affecting a difference A vain and dangerous affectation so it is to decline common and received expressions whether laid down in the Word or else being consonant to it upon good ground taken up by the Church The later of these many ancient Hereticks took great exceptions at and sought to make advantage of Some words they met with in common use in the Church but because they did not finde them syllabically and expresly in the Scriptures therefore they rejected them and with them the things signified by them Thus the Arrians because they found not the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Consubstantiality in the Text therefore they rejected it and with it the Orthodox doctrine of the Church touching the sons being of the same substance with the father And so the Sabellians because they found not the word Trinity in Scriptures therefore they denyed the Trinity of persons in the God-head Upon like ground the Photinians denyed the two natures in Christ and the Nestorians the Hypostatical the personal union of those two natures Thus it was of old And thus it is in many places of this Kingdom at this day where all these old rotten Errors are again revived and raised out of their graves and that upon the very same pretences A dangerous affectation which Christians should beware of Do we beleeve with the Church let us not without just ground refuse to speak with the Church in the Churches Language and Dialect Specially in the phrase of Scripture This is that which the Ministers of Christ should affect as much as may be to speak in that sacred Dialect Not setting the Min● of their Brains on work to coyn new and high and far-fetcht expressions purposely to amuse the hearer a practise much in use with Familists and Antinomians and some other Sects of the times Of such Pareus observes truely that giving themselves first to finde out new phrases and terms afterwards oft-times they come to broach new Doctrines new Opinions and so to make Sects and Schisms in the Church And therefore to prevent this the Apostle here desires his Corinthians that they would speak the same thing Therein saith the foresaid Author tacitely pointing at one of these heads from whence their Schisms and Factions were sprung viz. From their different Language in and about matters of Religion And let this his advice to them be as acceptable to us as it is seasonable That we may avoyd the like evils in speaking of the matters of God take heed of affecting an unwarrantable and wanton singularity Ministers hold we fast that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that form of sound and wholesome words which we have received from Christ and his Apostles and from the Orthodox Churches of God speaking the same things in the same manner that they have done before us Not crossing not interfering with them nor yet willingly with our Brethren Pulpit against Pulpit is next to Altar against Altar As much as may be let such clashing be declined by the Ministers of Christ whose endeavor should be that they might all speak the same thing This do we And this do you Quest I but how shall both we and you attain to it How shall we come to this unity of Language Answ. Why labor we for unity of Hearts and Mindes Anatomists tell us of an Artery which goeth from the Heart to the Tongue If Hearts be agreed Tongues will soon be accorded And thus I am got upon the second step of the Apostles gradation which leadeth me to the third That ye be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement I shall not stand long upon either Onely the first word will stay me a little being a word full of Emphasis and significancy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That ye be perfectly joyned together So our Translation renders it by divers words not knowing how fully to expresse it in one The word properly signifieth Compagination when the parts of a thing are aptly joyned together so as they do fitly agree with the whole and amongst themselves Even as it is in the body of man wherein the Members are all fitly joyned and knit together in a due symmetry and proportion so as they are each serviceable to other and all to the whole This is properly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And this it is which Paul here begs for his Corinthians that they might be thus united and compacted together A blessing very desirable for every Church Thus in the Church invisible united The whole body is knit together by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred to it from the Head as the Apostle speaketh All true Believers they are incorporated into one Mystical body knit together by the bands of Faith and Love By the one united to their Head Christ by the other one to another And such a union such a coagmentation is a thing very desirable for every visible Church This it is which maketh it a compleat and perfect Church So the vulgar Latin here renders the word in the Text Sitis autem perfecti Be ye perfect Then is a thing said to be perfect and compleat when it hath all the parts thus aptly and fitly put together And thence it is that the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is sometimes used in that sense So our Translation renders it 2 Cor. 13. Finally Brethren Fare ye well be perfect {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That is perfectly united unto Christ and one to another as the Jesuit there fitly expounds

that from them which otherwise they might in the Name of Christ command So doth the Apostle here Now I beseech you Brethren There is ●●e Compellation Brethren A word very frequent in Pauls mouth Almost in every Chapter of every Epistle upon all occasions still this is his Language Brethren Brethren To let passe the proper signification of the word which is well enough known Brethren such are all men by nature Whence are ye my Brethren saith Jacob to the men of Haran Gen. 29. All partaking of the same common nature issuing from the same Womb having the same first parents Such are Christians by Grace All that professe the Faith of Christ holding the same God for their Father and the same Church for their Mother they are Brethren and so were these Corinthians in reference both to Paul and one to another Brethren A word full of sweetnesse breathing forth more then ordinary affection and love So the servants of Benahad apprehended it when they heard that word fall from Ahabs mouth concerning their master He is my Brother they presently take it up as a word importing more then ordinary respect and thereupon eccho like return it back to him again Thy Brother Benhadad Such Affections should all true Christians bear one to another Look upon one another as Brethren not as strangers as the guise of these dividing times is but as Brethren And that not onely calling one another so but really acknowledging one another such Loving not in word neither in tongue as Saint Iohn presseth it but in deed and in truth That is to love as Brethren as Saint Peter urgeth it 1 Pet. 3. Love as Brethren Such should the Church of God be a true Philadelphia where all the Members should be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lovers of the Brethren and loving as Brethren Withall expressing their love by a ready performance of all brotherly offices each to other Under the Law there was a brand of Ignominy set upon the Brother which refused to build up his brothers house by raising up issue to him for the upholding of his family The Law was that beside spitting in his face he should have his shooe pulled off and so was ever after called as the Rabines tell us The man that had his shooe pulled off The meaning of which Ceremony was to shew how worthy he was accounted and adjudged to go bare-foot himself that would not do the office of a Brother to his Brother An ignominious and infamous thing it is for Brethren by nature not to be ready to brotherly offices much more for Brethren by grace Christians in the fear of God remember your relation and let it be your care and end●●vour to answer it Expressing Brotherly affection to such as are your Brethren specially to such as are so indeed not onely before men but b●fore God such as in whom the Image of your heavenly father is conspicuous To such shew your selves Brethren indeed helping comforting succouring releeving of them stepping in to them in their necessi●ies For such a time a Brother is born A Brother is born for adversity saith the Wiseman Then to be helpful is the part of a Brother indeed Thus should Christians in general stand affected each to other And thus should the Ministers of the Gospel in special stand affected towards their people looking upon them as Brethren bearing and expressing Brotherly affection unto them I notwithstanding they be such as in respect of personal wrongs and injuries deserve nothing lesse That was Pauls case here in the Tex● Some of these Corinthians delt very unkindely and unworthily by him Notwithstanding God had made him to them their Father in Christ to whom they were as truely beholding for their spiritual as ever they were to their parents for their natural generation So much himself puts them in minde of 1 Cor. 4. Though you have ten thousand instructers in Christ yet have ye not many fathers For in Christ Iesus I have begotten you through the Gospel Yet for all this some of them would not now so much as own him nor his Ministery no they were of Apollos they were of Cephas Paul was now no body with them now they had gotten to themselves new Teachers An unkinde requital for all the pains he had spent upon them Yet for all this see how Paul still beareth his old affection unto them though they were changed yet he was the same though they would not own him yet he will own them and that as Brethren Now I beseech you Brethren A patern for the Ministers of the Gospel in these dividing times wherein some possibly may meet with the very like measure that Paul here did They have bestowed their pains upon a people and God hath blessed their labours amongst them making them instrumental in converting of some and building up of others of them yet now meeting with new Teachers the old are despised in their eyes their Ministery sleighted their persons disregarded if not un-Christianly traduced An ill requital it must be confessed But what of this Still look we upon them as Brethren specially apprehending the work of grace truly wrought in them let not all this unkindenesse make an alienation of affection from them still love them I though it do fall out with us as Paul complains of and to these his Corinthi●ns 2 Cor. 12. Though the more abundantly we love them the lesse we be beloved of them yet be we content and willing to spend and to be spent for their sakes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for their souls as the Original there hath it In so doing we have the Apostle for a patern N●y herein we have God himself for a patern The people of the Jews how did they requite the Lord for all his fatherly mercies which he had shown to them Here himself expressing it in that Pathetical complaint Isai. 1. 2. Hear O Heavens and give ear O Earth for the Lord hath spoken I have nourished and brought up children but they have rebelled against me For children thus to requite their parents is an unnatural thing much more for a people thus to requite their God Yet for all this still God tenders that people owns them as his people and it ready to do any thing for them that might tend to their good O Ephrain● what shall I do unto thee O Iuda what shall I do unto thee Is it so that the Ministers of God meet with the like measure from a people whom God hath made them instruments to beget and bring up to and for himself yet let them tender them still bear them good will still with Paul here look upon them as Brethren This do we And this do you Your Brethren however by their unkinde withdrawing themselves from religious communion with you they may seem worthy to be unbrothered yet still acknowledge that