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A73288	VVaters of Marah, and Meribah: or, the source of bitternes, and strife, sweetned and allayed by way of aduice, refutation, censure, against the pseudo-zelots of our age: by Humphrey Sydenham, master of arts, late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1630 (1630)	STC 23574; ESTC S125548	26,958	48

their very Heardsmen that brawling Regiment which for the most part are as vnruly as the Droues they keepe and in some things 't is disputable which is the verier Beast for they both goe one way non quá eundum est sed quâ itur Sen. Epist 135. As the multitude treads so they follow squadron'd into a Faction as That is not onely in the State but the Church too And so 't was of old Acts 14.4 in the time of the Apostles when at Iconmum there was a great vprore amongst the Iewes and Gentiles about the preaching of Paul and Barnabas in stead of suppressing the fury of the Tumult the Rabble of the City was Diuided and part held with the Iewes and part with the Apostles Act. 14.4 Thus popular conuocations were euer the Nurses of Distraction and These now occasion the Hubub and Out-cries in Our Church the strife is not so much betweene Loo and Abraham as their Heardsmen the People more side it in Religion then their Pastors doe and that 's the best Doctrine which They fancy not what the Others teach And to this purpose They haue gotten lately into most Corpor ations of the Kingdome certaine Lapwing-Dinines and featherlesse Professors of their owne Cut prescribe them Principles which they may not tran sgresse and not onely their Posture Habit and Conuersation but the very Methode Tone and Language cued them Miserable Age when Diuinity shall be thus slau'd to a Stipend and a Trencher and the Apostles of Iesus Christ for a morsell of bread or some Mechanicke or Leane-cheek'd Contribution shall disparage the Powre and Sacrednesse of their Keyes But fie on this Factious Holinesse this Iezebel in Religion that smells too much of the Painter and his Varnish Let it no more with vncharitable contentions or nouelty of Doctrine or vnseasonablenesse of suggestion disturbe the peace of our Spirituall Mother but let her sleepe and rest sweetly in that Diuine truth which she hath receiued from Primitiue plantations and seal'd fince with the Blood of so many Martyns I charge you O Daughters of Ierusalem by the Roes and Hinds of the field that ye stirre not or awake my Loue vntill she please Cant. 3.5 'T was long since the complaint of a disconsolate Church and ours hath in part reuiu'd it Ecce pace amaritudo mea amarissima pax ab haereticis pax à paganis bellum à filijs O my bitter bitternesse in the dayes of peace peace amongst pagans peace amongst Heretickes but warres and struglings by the twinnes of my owne womb My sonnes my diuided sonnes are more vnnaturall then all these The Protestant that hath beene so long the Starre of the Reformed Church the Ensigne and Standard-bearer of true Religion must be now buffeted and spit vpon by the obloquy and scorne of vp start Sectaries You then that thus dig out the Bowels of your hallowed mother and sticke your Daggers at her very heart Serm. 57. de Diuerfis in Append. Hearke Saint Augustine the deuout Saint Augustine All those gifts and rewards of Beatitude which God hath treasur'd vp for his Children and Elect in pacis conseruatione promisit are appropriate onely to the Sonnes of peace And hence is our Sauiours Beatipacifici Blessed are the peace-makers why They shall be called the sonnes of God Aug. Serm. 463. de Temp. Non peruenitur ad voc abulum Filij nisi per nomen pacifici saies the Father They had neuer beene called the Sonnes of God had they not beene first the sonnes of peace nor entituled to the Attribute of Blessed had they not beene formerly the Sonnes of God And therefore 't is the Substance of Christs valediction to his Disciples Iohn 14.27 Aug. Serm. 463. de Temp. My peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you Proficiscens voluit dare quod desiderabat rediens in omnibus inuenire the same Saint Augustine Hee gaue to all at his departure what he desir'd to find in all at his returne his peace his blessed peace For where there is a Congregation of men and not of opinions or of opinions and not of loue Christ is not there with his Pax vobis so that where peace is not there is no Christ and where no Christ no Church Thy Religion thy Faith thy Hope are dead without it thy Groanes thy Sighs thy Deuotions are false and empty like vaults that sound meerely from their hollownesse thy selfe like an Instrument that 's crack'd or a string that jarr's And therefore to the peace-lesse Brother that of Tertullian to the Gentiles shall be both my Aduice and my Conclusion Fratres vestrisumus Tertul. Apol. 36. iure nostrae Matris vnius et si vos parum homines qui mali fratres at quanto dignius fratres dicuntur habentur qui vnū Patrem Deum agnouerunt qui vnum Spiritum biberunt sanctitatis qui de vno vtero ignorantiae eiusdem ad vnam Lucem expauerint veritatis Itaque quia Animâ animóque miscemur nihil de rei communicatione dubitemus Since we haue one God our Father one Christ our Brother one Church our mother one Spirit our Comforter Ephes 4. vli let vs all haue one minde one heart one peace our Director that so the God of peace which is aboue All may be through All Cant. 4.15 and in vs All. And then Arise O North and come O South and blow on my Garden that the spices thereof may flow out Cant. 7.12 Arise yee Soueraigne winds of the Spirit of God and breath on this garden of the Spouse where the Pomegranates bud forth and the tender grapes appeare that the fragrant odours of these her Plants may bee both increas'd and dispes'd and at length carryed into the Nostirls of her well-beloued who shall bring her out of this Wildernesse below Cant. 3.6 like pillers of smoke perfum'd with Myrrhe and Incense which as sweete sauours shall ascend on high where the Day breakes and shadowes flye away where Darkenesse is banish'd euerlastingly and the Sunne of Righteousnesse shines for euermore To whom c. Gloria in excelsis Deo Haec atque huiusmodi verba obtrectantium siuè non obtrectando sed quaerendo talia loquentium operosius fortassè refellerem nisi hae disceptationes haberentur cum viris liber aliter institutis Aug. de Apoll. Apul. ad Marcellinum Epist. 5. Respon FINIS

preach too 't is thought Edifie as much as their zealous Pastor But Away with those Ecchoes in Religion fitter for Silence then Reproofe and for pitty then confutation and therefore once more I Beseech you and with the phrase of an Apostle too Heb. vltims Bee not carried about with diuers and strange Doctrines Halt and limp not betweene Innouation and an establish'd Discipline But as Peter said to the Cripple In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth rise vp and walke Acts 3.6 Returne vnto the Church whence ye are straggling not to your Stepdame but your mother the Mother of whom you were borne and nurs'd dry those teares she sheads for you peace those sighs and groanes complaints which she wailes for you Fall vpon those Armes which will embrace you those Bowels which yearne for you those Paps which gaue you sucke What went you to see A Reed shakē with the wind Yes a very Reed shakē with euery wind of Doctrine A Reed with a bruized stalke or brokē Eare no Corne in it or if it haue 't is blasted with Sedition fitter for the Dunghil thē the Granary Away then from Lebanon my Beloued from Lebanon Looke from the Den of Lyons Cant. 4.8 and Mountaines of the Leopards where the peace of Religion is blood-suck't and deuour'd and come hither to the mountaines of Myrrh and hills of Frankincense The Altars of the liuing God where the Incense of his Church flames cheerefully with no lesse truth of deuotion then vnanimity Loe her golden vials full of odours Sacrifices both deuout and peaceable Such as the heart of his people offer and not the hands onely Calues of our lips and groanes of the Spirit which touch both the cares and nostrils of the Almighty Let the voyce of diuision then jarre no more amongst you which if there were nothing else to noise our frailties were enough to speake bondage to the flesh and not yet our freedome to the Spirit For whence are strifes and enuryings are they not from your lusts And whilst one saith I am of Paul 1. Cor. 3.4 another am of Apollo are ye not carnall Christ is not deuided his Church is one My Doue Cant. 6.7 my vndefiled is but one she is the onely one of her mother the choice one of her that bare Her Can. 6.7 The Church you heare is Gods onely one his choice one He hath no more and we tho many are but one neither 1. Cor. 10.17 the Churches one Her choicest one one Body nay one Bread 1 Cor. 10.17 Moreouer Christs Spirit is but one tho it bee in many 't is there still one Spirit no diuision where that is but all peace Ephes 4.3 and therefore 't is call'd the vnity of the Spirit and this vnity must be still kept in the bond of peace Marke here 's no wanering or Temporary peace but this peace must be still kept and not stightly kept but there is a Tye on the keeping of it The Bond of peace Ephes 4.3 and 't is this Bond that makes the vnity and this vnity that keepes the peace and this peace that preserues the Spirit so that 't is still an vnity of Spirit kept in the Bond of peace Come hither then my Faithfull Brother in the Lord and let vs no more censure but expostulate Hast Thou the true Faith thou so much gloriest in where is thy zeale hast thou true zeale where is thy Charity hast thou true Charity why art thou Tumultuous Iohn 13.35 By this shall you know saith Christ that you are my Disciples if you loue one another Mutuall agreement begets Loue and this Loue makes the Disciple and this Disciple is knowne to be Christs by a Si diligeretis onely if yee loue one another And therefore in the first Dawne and rising of the Christian Church the chiefe thing remark'd in it by the Gentiles was the Christian Loue Tertul. Apol. 36. Vide vt inuicemse diligunt vt pro alterutro mori sint parati as Tertullian stories it Lo how they Loue the Heathens cry How ready to Dye one for another But this Loue of the Brother vnto Death I presse not here for the very Infidels had their Commorientes as well as we but Loue vnto Sincerity and Constancy of which he that is destitute falls short both in Religion and Morality And therefore that Text in Saint Peter runs Methodically Feare God 1. Pet. 2.17 Honour the King but first Loue the Brotherhood as if there could be no true feare of God or honour of the King except there be first Loue to thy Brother to thy Brother nay the Brother-hood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greeke Achava the Hebrew Beza Annot. in 1. Pet. 2 10. Brotherhood for the company and coniunction of Brethren in the Church and in this not so much a Coniunction of persons as of Mindes otherwise 't is no Church And therefore the multitude of them that beleeued at the Apostles Sermon were said to bee of one Soule and one heart Acts 4.32 And this one Soule and one heart S. Paul calls one minde and one Iudgement And this one minde and one Iudgement must not be thinly mixt 1. Cor. 1.10.12 but perfectly ioyn'd together and so ioyn'd together that there be no Diuision among vs and therefore he coniures his Corinthians by the Name of Iesus Christ Rom. 15.5 6. not onely to Doe but to Speake the same thing I Beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye all speake the same thing that there be no Diuision amongst you but that ye be perfectly ioyn'd together in one minde and the same Iudgement 1 Cor. 1.10 Maximum indicium malae mentis fluctuatio Sen. Epist 121. Reeling betweene opinion and opinion is a Mentall drunkennesse and there is no such Index of a Depraued Disposition as wauing vnsettlednesse And therefore the Stoicke describing the vnconstant man Senec. Jbid. Thus lashes him Nunquàm eundem nec similem quidem sed in diuersum aberrat He so trauerses and wanders in himselfe that hee is neither the same nor like but diuerse So that the Wise man is the Man onely of Resolution for He is one and the same still Praeter Sapientem nemo vnus Seneca tells his Ducillius in his 126. Epistle And doubtlesse 't is this one minde and one Iudgement that makes both the discreet Moralist and the wise Christian Videmus qualis sit quantus sit and vnus sit Epist 26. the same Seneca Vnanimity is the Soule of Brother-hood whether in that of Nature or of Grace And therefore what Abraham of old said vnto Lot is worthy both of your memory and obseruation Genes 13.8 Let there be no strife betweene me and thee nor betweene my Heardsmen and thy Heardsmen why We are Brethren as if the very word did inuolue vnion and where there was Brother-hood there could be no strife no not amongst