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A16944	A sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, May 30. 1626 vvherein may be seene whom we are to repute hereticks, and schismaticks, what sleights they vse to deceiue, Gods iust iudgements on them, and how we may escape those nets which they lay for vs : also good councell to the magistrate, minister, and subiects, necessary for these times / by Mattheuu Brookes.	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1626 (1626)	STC 3837; ESTC S4166	26,742	50

out of the way because they proceed not from the true faith without which it is impossible to please God Yet is it to bee feared that our high calling in Christ Iesus doth hence receiue a most bloody stabbe for that the generall sort among vs want those faire speeches and that morality of life of which our Aduersaries brag and with which they doe deceiue Want it did I say nay abound in the contrary the Bribery of Courtiers the loosenesse of Cleargie men the infidelitie of Lawyers the prodigalitie of Gentlemen the deformed pride of Ladyes the poling avariciousnesse of Citizens and in this land of ours Quicquid vidit Colchos aut Phasis nefas the very crying sinnes of Sodom and Gomorah shall beare mee witnesse Therefore as the third persecution of the Emperour Traiane raised against the Church of Christ was counted greater than the two former moued by Nero and Domitian vpon this reason that contempt and shame was added to their afflictions for it was no great dishonour to be hated by Nero and Domitian wicked men and haters of righteousnesse but to be hated and persecuted by Traiane a man accounted a patterne of vpright dealing this was a great rebuke In like manner if in the eyes of the world they liue more syncerely than a great many of vs and seeme to make conscience of their wayes which is incident to all deceiuers they shall with their good words and faire speches preuaile with lesse exception against them to pull downe the truth than we to set it vp and like as the fish are carried in the pleasant streames of Iordane sporting and floating till they fall into the dead Sea where by and by they perish so in the sweete streames of their good words and faire speeches doe they carry their disciples as it were sporting and floating in a pleasant course till on the sudden they fall to their owne destruction This is added by the Apostle in the last place and is the effect produced a most lamentable shipwracke both of soule and body the heart seduced They deceiue the hearts of the simple The Scripture attributeth the whole rationall power the vnderstanding the will iudgement cogitation consultation election and indeauour to the heart Vpon which reason God doth most strictly require the heart and will be loued feared honoured and prayed to with the heart that is to say with the whole reasonable soule and with all the powers and faculties of the same Rent your heart and not your garments and turne to the Lord your God A man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart Vpon this reason they are blamed in the Scriptures whose hearts are not right with the Lord their God This people drawe neere mee with their mouth and with their lippes doe honour me but haue remoued their heart farre from me This is the chiefe and principall part of man if this be lost all is gone for if the heart bee not with the Lord though the tongue pray the hands giue the knees bend the eyes looke vp to heauen and all the body doe its dutie it is but hypocriticall seruice because the heart is not right with the Lord. See then the Apostle describeth a most miserable shipwracke the whole man cast away because the heart is deceiued For if God haue the heart hee will haue all the rest if hee haue not the heart hee will haue none of the rest and therefore when hee doth aske all he doth demand the heart My sonne giue me thy heart But with their good words and faire speeches they deceiue the heart Oh whither goes that miserable man Hee goeth from the Church of God which is Mater viuentium quam aedificauit Deus in ipso summo angulari lapide Christo the Mother of those that are elected to life eternall which God hath builded in Christ Iesus the chiefe corner stone In going from it he goes vnto the synagogue of Satan the mother of those that are ordained to destruction because not built or not rightly built vpon Christ Iesus the chiefe corner stone Hee goeth from Gods mercy and all the sweete promises of God in Christ Iesus vnto life eternall vnto Gods iustice and the malediction of the Law to euerlasting death hee relinquisheth the society of all the faithfull vpon earth which is by grace in this life and in so doing hath no possibilitie if hee continue vnto his last gaspe to enioy the companie of the blessed Saints in heauen which is by glory in the life to come Cyprian doth well affirme the Church to be Noahs Arke without the which there is no saluation For like as he that falleth out of a Ship into the Sea on which side soeuer he falleth if hee be not drowned he is in great danger of drowning so hee that falleth away from the Church by what Sect Schisme or heresie soeuer if he fall not to his destruction by it he is in great danger of it My exhortation therefore is the very same with the wisest of Kings Keepe thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life God requireth it as his part that he may saue thee the diuell seekes to win it that he may destroy thee if he can win thee from the right faith hee will pull thee from the Church if thou art drawne from that thou art withdrawne from God therefore keepe that and stoppe thy cares against the melodious tunings of these Syrens be of ripe age in vnderstanding and if by good words faire speeches they preuaile on the simple let them not preuaile on thee Thus haue you the Quid and doe see what is seduced the heart Now come we to the Cuius that we may see whose heart is deceiued that is to say the heart of the simple they doe soonest of all lend their eares to good words and faire speeches There is a two-fold metaphoricall simplicitie the one is opposed to learning knowledge and good manners hence it is that rude barbarous rustick illiterate and mannerlesse people in the Scripture haue the name of simple men How long yee simple ones will yee loue simplicitie the other is opposed to craft guile fraud iniustice oppression and such like vices And hence it is that plaine dealing men voide of fraud and deceipt Masters of their words morall honest men in the sight and appearance of the world are called simple men So shall you reade that Esau was a cunning hunter a man of the field and Iacob was a plaine man dwelling in tents or as Illyricus and others translate a simple man dwelling in tents In like manner St. Paul saith in this same chapter I would haue you wise vnto that which is good and simple concerning euill Now these second sort of simple ones are of two sorts Regenerate or vnregenerate the Regenerate may for a time as it shall please God to trie and

plagues hang ouer our heads in this life and eternall damnation in the life to come The Lord doth hate and therefore take reuenge on the very places of hereticall conuenticles a late experience we had in the ruines of certaine roomes of a house in this Citie nota est historia though I feare it bee almost forgotten such are the first sort of the deceiuers here mentioned those that oppose the grounds and principles of Christian religion The second sort wee call Schismatiques from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth division because they deuide themselues from the body of the Church and Congregation and haue their conuents by themselues the difference betweene Heretickes and Schismatickes St. Augustine wi●l haue to bee Quod illi falsis d●gmatibus fidei sinceritatem corrumpant hi autem interdum etiam in fidei similitudine societatis vinculum disrumpant that Hereticks with false doctrine doe corrupt the sincerity of the faith but Schismatickes sometimes euen in the similitude of faith doe breake asunder the bond of loue Whereby it is plaine that the properties of a Schismaticke are these two first hee must make profession of the faith secondly he must deuide himselfe from the body of the Church and it skills not whether for some point of doctrine or for Ceremonies or any other thing with which hee is discontented the matter is hee deuideth himselfe from the Church and is therefore a Schismaticke Vpon this reason was Lucifer Bishop of Calaris in Sardinia iustly taken and reputed as a Schismaticke for that hee deuided himselfe from Eusebius B. of Vercellis and from the Church of Antiochia for that they disapproued the ordination of Paulinus whom hee had ordained to be Bishop there A man would thinke it a small matter to bee discontented and therfore to be deuided for such a trifle but it is that which St. Paul blameth among the Corinthians where there is among you enuying strife deuisions are yee not carnall and walke as men if carnall then not spirituall for the flesh and the spirit are opposed To walke after the flesh is one thing and to walke after the spirit is another thing Vpon this reason Schismaticks haue not the Spirit of God and therefore walke as men euen as those that are carnally minded which is death For to bee carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace If I dissemble not with you or goe about to deceiue you I must needs conclude with a learned Diuine that schismes are crimina atrocissima most crying sinnes For behold Gods iust iudgements in one particular vpon the heads of Sschismaticks Corah Dathan and Abiram made a diuision among the people of Israel but the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them vp aliue A iudgement able to warne all succeeding ages to take heed how they goe apart from the congregation of the Lord and more especially those that will separate themselues from our Church for some few Ceremonies and formalities retained therein For the lesse cause they haue to doe so the greater is their crime I pittie the case of those that delight more in priuate conventicles than in publike Congregations and will be deuided because they will seeme to be singular as the Scribes and Pharisees I would to God they were all of them acquainted with thus much of Cyprians Theologie Habere non potest Deum Patrem qui Ecclesiam non habet matrem Hee cannot haue God to be his Father that hath not the Church his Mother But let vs now see the particulars that wee may receiue direction how to deale with them 1. I beseech you brethren Vnto whom he writeth his Epistle them he saluteth by the name of Brethren These were not the Elders or Rulers of the Church onely but euery one who being called to the knowledge of the truth made profession of the blessed name of Iesus To these he dedicated his Epistle To all that be in Rome beloued of God called to be Saints and all these hee here styleth by the name of Brethren This is done vpon a double reason first we haue all one common Father which is God One is your Father Which is in heauen Vpon which respect you shall neuer see the Apostle so vncharitable but he will repute the very Iewes his brethren Secondly the members of the Church are ioyned together in a more neere fraternity for God doth become our Father in Christ his Sonne by faith wee are made the sonnes of God As many as receiued him to them gaue he power to be the sonnes of God and we are adopted to bee the heires of God and ioynt heires with Christ it is therefore no indignitie to the person of the Apostle to salute the meanest Christian by the name of Brother and account him so to be for hee is redeemed by the same price and bought with the same blood he is the adopted sonne to the same Father and hath the same inheritance Why then should not the Apostle receiue him and repute him as a brother O yee that aduance your selues aboue your brethren and because yee haue place either in the Church or Common-wealth or gifts more excellent than your brethren haue presumptuously thanke God with the foolish proud Pharisee in the Gospell that you are not as Other men are come hither and learne humilitie lest because you exalt your selues now God humble you hereafter As good a man as the best of you A chosen vessell vnto God As great a man as the greatest of you all An Apostle of Iesus Christ is ioyous to bee rankt in this fraternitie And when you shine in your gold and siluer like Herode in his royalty and with admiration of these outward things like that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that boasting bird the Peacocke beholding his goodly feathers with great reioycing then remember your poore kindred if yee be Christ his seruants the meanest Christian is brother to the greatest he is redeemed with the same blood hee is bought with the same price and heire vnto that kingdome to which all the kingdomes of the world are not worthy to bee compared behold his noblenesse And let that proud Commander of the world who will be called Vniuersall Bishop the head of the Church the Ruler of both the Swords the high Conveener of Councells who dareth to haue it affirmed that the whole world is his Diocesse that hee hath all power both in heauen and in earth that hee cannot bee iudged by all the Cleargie nor by all the people that all Kings and Emperours haue all their power authority from him that he is seuenty times seuen times greater than the greatest Kings that his power is more ample than all other Patriarkes that hee is the Lord God no pure man but something made and compounded of God and man who is wont to command Purgatorie and the