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A09677	Two sermons on these wordes of Peter the apostle, honour all men, loue brotherly felowship ... preached at Marlebrough the seuenth of Nouember, and fifth of Ianuarie 1595 / by Charles Pynner, minister of the Church of Wotton-Basset in Northwiltshire.	Pinner, Charles.	1597 (1597)	STC 19946; ESTC S2280	32,938	99

yee did it not to one of the least of these yee did it not to mee And in the seuenteenth of Iohn Iohn 17 2 Those that thou gauest mee haue I kept and none of them is lost saue the childe of perdition that the Scripture might bee fulfilled Where he descendeth to account for euerie particular which the Father had giuen him and so must we for euery brother whome hee commendeth vnto our loue But note I pray you out of the place of Matthew Verse 40 a distinction of brethren For he saith Vnto one of the least of these my brethren Therefore some are greater and some are lesse not in the brother hood it selfe or nature of brethren wherein all are alike but in some outwarde respects wherein they may be and are vnlike as here in this place of Mathew the 25. there is mention of hungrie and thirstie of naked and harbourlesse and prisoned brethren who in this respect are lesse as the Lord hath humbled them then those brethrē which are full and clothed housed and at libertie hauing other furniture also somtime of pompe and dignitie The one sort Saint Iames in the first Chapter of his first Epistle calleth Brethren of low degree Iam. 1 9 and the other he calleth rich Thus there are poore abiect brethren low and little and there are great and rich and flourishing brethren and we must loue all But yet out loue is chiefly approued as before was shewed by such outwarde works and duties which we do vnto our lesser brethren for our greater brethren need them not as Paul speaketh of the members of the naturall bodie 2. Cor. 12 23 And vpon those members sayeth hee of the bodie which wee thinke to bee the lesse honourable wee put on more honour and our vncomely parts haue more comelinesse for our comely parts need it not Thus the hunger and nakednesse the wants and distresses the bands and prisonments of our little Brethren should be our care and the matter especially to fire our loue much lesse should wee set light of them because they are little Saint Iames compareth the prophane rich men of the world with the rich Brethren and reproueth the loue of the faithfull to whom hee writeth for preferring the one before the other And what do wee else if in respect of their riches their pompe and dignitie wee preferre in our loue and the duties of loue our greater Brethrē before the lesse but let vs heare his words Iam. 2 1 2 seq My brethren sayth hee haue not the faith of our glorious Lorde Iesus Christ in respect of person For if there come into your companie a man I adde a brother with a gold ring and in goodly apparrell and there come in also a poore man to wit a brother in vite raiment and yee haue a respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say vnto him sitt● thou neere in a goodly place and say vnto the poore stand thou heere or sit heere vnder my foote-stoole are yee not partiall in your selues and are become iudges which haue euill thought Hearken my beloued brethren hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde that they should bee rich in fayth and heyres of his kingdome which he promised to thē that loue him but yee haue despised the poore Heere he toucheth the boyle For there is a kinde of estimation which belongeth vnto men of dignity as the Lord hath diuided degrees in the world some brethren hauing more honour some lesse But our loue vnto all must bee alike as well poore as rich And wee must haue somewhat the more care of the poore that we exclude them not for Saint Iames his reason because the greater number of vs I meane the brethren are poore and not rich weake not strong base and not honorable foolish not wise Hearken my beloued brethren saith he hath not God chosen the poore of this world Verse 3 that they should be rich in faith and heyres of the kingdome which he promised to them that loue him not that he excludeth the rich but more commonly generally in this choyse respecteth the poore as Paul also sheweth in the first of the first to the Corinthians Brethren saith he you see your calling that is who 1. Cor. 1.26 seq and what manner of men amongst you are called and come vnto Christ not many wise men after the flesh not manie mightie not many noble But God hath chosen the foolish things of the worlde to confounde the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confounde the mightie and vile things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen and things which are not to bring to naught things that are that no flesh should glorie in his sight And therefore I feare if my heart giue a better welcome to a rich brother then to a poore that I loue not the brethren as I ought Wherefore let not the carnall and outwarde beautie of Brethren beguile our mindes The Kings Daughter is all glorious within Psal 45 14 Hebr. 13 2. Angels may bee strangers as in the thirteenth to the Hebrewes and the beautie of a brother may be hid vnder a very sorie weede The same may bee saide for the weake brethren of whome somewhat already hath bin spoken And therfore briefly thus be their weaknesse neuer so great euen as of children in Christ and their infirmities neuer so many lacke they knowledge or conscience sometimes in somethings For who can say sayth Salomon Prou. 20 9 I haue cleansed my heart I am cleane from sinne Wee must take them with all their faults as wee are taken and loue them as wee are loued and were loued euen when we were enemies as saith the Apostle the weaker our brethren are Rom. 510 the more must be our care and our burthen the greater to beare them and make them better Brethren saith the Apostle in the sixt to the Galathians● if a man be preuented in any fault ye which are spirituall restore such a one in the spirit of meekenesse Gal 6 1 considering thy selfe least thou also be tempeed Beare yee one anothers burthen and so fulfill the law of Christ And thus much touching the first general point of this sentence what or whom we must loue to wit the brotherhood or fellowship of brethren none excepted Nowe somewhat of the loue it selfe and so an ende And first when as the Apostle here saith exhorteth saying Loue the brotherhood hee meaneth not that the faithfull to whome hee writeth and in whom he acknowledgeth all the graces of God were simply void of loue or that they had not some loue alreadie when he wrote vnto them but that they should continue in loue and increase in loue and loue more perfectlie then before For otherwise for the Brethren to loue together is as kind and as naturall as for the birdes to flie together for