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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47413	A sermon preached at Lewis in the diocess of Chichester by the Lord Bp. of Chichester, at his visitation held there, Octob. 8, 1662.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing K506; ESTC R17990	15,047	47

and Cleanness To ●eep ones self unspotted from the world And whatsoever conduceth to This is that sound Doctrine St. Paul here means This is that Christian Building whose Foundation is Christ and his Apostles The Religion which stands not on these Bases is weak and false the Apostle testifying Aliud fundamentum nemo ponit The saving Truth never had any foundation but ●his This is the Genealogy of Faith whose extraction is the Sacred Scri●ture That Volume which reveals Him who came to do the will of God and instructs us to conform our Lives according to that Revealed Will. This Book hath too many Leaves now to read over but if you will have the Analysis and sum of all the Preacher hath gathered it Let us here the Conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandements He who teacheth this Lesson teacheth Sound Doctrine And he who Learns it throughly hath all we can Teach To speak beyond this I cannot I may with Jonathan shoot Wide or Short or Over and by that a little better direct your aim not inform you better I may dissolve this Mass or melt this Ingot to make it more portable but I cannot alter the Metall or put any better Stamp upon it than Doctrina sana Sound Doctrine This Doctrine therefore 〈◊〉 Sound that is Pure not adulterated with Fables or mingled with Traditions which have imbased Religion and brought down the price of Truth in all those parts of Christendome where this false Coin is Current this Counterfeit Stuff vendable And their Practice allow'd who teach for Sound Doctrine Commandments of Men. The Doctrine of Christ is refined from this Dross Hear it from the Psalmist Thy words are pure like silver seven times tried in the fire This is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sincere milk which the Children of God suck from the Breast of the Church their Mother Or Sound that is Wholesome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A word which heals the Soul yet not so as the Prophet complains of those Mountebanks who heal the hurts of the people with sweet words Popular Flatteries d●stilling from Sermons fall down upon the Congregation like Mill-dews whose unwholesome sweetness corrupts the Pasture and Rots those who feed upon it This Doctrine is no suppling Plaister no Balm to break the head with smiles No Reteining Divinity which takes Pension to serve any ones humour or is content to wait upon the ●hantasie of the Patron but free and open whose End is not to delight the Times or serve Turns but to Cure the Men. Or Sound that is Entire spun out of an even Thred which hath no Cross Opinions interwoven no Party-colour'd skeins of Faction no coarse Woollen made out of gross Fleeces shear'd from the Flock of Rome No Relicks nor wonder-working Rags torn from any Shrine and then patched to that White Robe of Truth which was the first Garment Christ gave his Spouse and hath ever since been the Church's Livery Such ill-fashion'd Attire puts Her forth as for Her Penance in a dy'd Coat and cloathes Her in that motly Habit which makes Her ridiculous to the Christian world Or Sound that is Plain and Perspicuous not muffled up in dark Conclusions The old Proverb tells us Via Plana est Via S●na the Plain way is the Sound way And sure the Plainest Religion is the soundest as in Heraldry the Plainest Coat the best Wheresoever you find Obscure subtilties thrown over Truth it is to be fear'd that Curtain is hung before it for no good purpose but meerly to disguise somewhat which the Inventor could wish the world might not know As the true Church is seated on a Mount where it cannot be hid so it is built like Drusus his house All Window That by Her Tenets as so many Casements Each devout Eye may look clearly through and freely survey the simplicity of the Fabrick Or Sound that is Firm firm at the Foundation and smoothly laid The most firm Figure and Base for Building is the Plain A Complete Geometrical Building admits no Stones but what are hewn from the Rock and Squared If the Foundation be rugged or uneven full of pointed Scruples and craggy Doubts the Building must needs lean on one side And if once it leans it will be an hard matter by any new devised Distinction to skrew it up or set it right again When Curiosities are applyed to underlay a mis-treading foot they commonly cast it more awry Or Sound that is Solid at the heart And commonly the most solid is still most plain I know the Knotty piece of Wood is hard but that Hardness inclines to Brittleness which doth not prove it sound but hard to work upon But the heart of Oak as it is most sound and durable so most smooth This Soundness and this Plainess makes it both apt for Building and promise Strength Knots tied upon a Cord were devis'd for a scourge to Torture not for strength Hard and Intricate Riddles in Divinity have no use but to rack the Brain Not to Inform but to Pose the Understanding To deliver my full meaning The Plain Positive Catechestical Doctrine of the Church as it is most Easie and Familiar so most Sound and Orthodox How many by over-bold searches after the Abstruse Mysteries of Faith and Hid Decrees of God have quite blinded themselves and perplexed others How many in seeking to solve unnecessary scruples have raised doubts and tied knots in many a Conscience which they are not able to untie again How many have accounted it their glory to Trade in subtil Questions and preach Pol●micks to the People when they might have Edified themselves and their Congregations better by a Catechism than a Controversie I have lived and shall die in this Opinion That there can be no greater danger to a setled Church than Liberty to dispute and call in question the Points and Articles of an Established Religion I grant Disputes amongst the Learn'd are sometimes useful Triturations which by the Flail of Argument separate Truth from Error But the pressing of those Arguments in the Pulpit in Popular Congregations oft-times suspend Religion and make weak Apprehensions stagger from their first Conclusions The Reason is Evident for when Arguments are press'd and Objections for the Other urged That which is most plausible sways the Hearer and commonly carries the Cause Nothing therefore could more conduce to the Peace of the Church and Confirmation of Religion than the laying Controversies asleep and silencing Disputes which hang so many doubts upon the Cause that like wrong Biasses they draw men from the Mark. 'T is piety to Believe what were not safe to Question And besides men would want cunning to suspect the Truth of their Religion who never heard Objections fram'd against it Those who are put to wade unto the Articles of their Faith through Disputes and Logick sometimes ingulph themselves in Depths which