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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40636	A sermon to the clergie at Stony-Stratford in the county of Bucks, Octob. 27, 1670 by Ignatius Fuller.	Fuller, Ignatius, 1624 or 5-1711.	1672 (1672)	Wing F2392; ESTC R2184	24,037	46

condita praecipitare ad nauseam usque hoc scilicet concionari dicitur This is to preach forsooth too too lively a Character of many a Preacher in these days Let 's for Christ sake see our Doctrine and our lives be pure and pacifick If our Doctrines be doubtful and litigious and our Lives be careless and scandalous but I 'le rather use the words of the pious Author Si Doctrina ludibrium si Vita scandalum fortasse non momento uno non ictu oculi sed sensim tamen senescet evanescet tendet ad interitum Ordo vester 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nay I 'le add a few words more of that good Man from the same Paragraph Enimvero nisi vos vobis hac parte caveatis optimi Principis gratia Procerum favor Legum terror diu vobis cavere non poterunt But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Well you see Purity and Peace is in the precept of our Lord the best method I know to derive it into our hearts and lives is laid down in this sudden discourse especially in that observation of the Learned King who would have us distinguish between Necessaries and Non-necessaries and tells us the duty of every peaceable Divine is to explicate to urge to teach that distinction And for your divertisement now and then if you spent some time in Nazianzen's Apology Chrysostom de Sacerdotio and the 81. Paragraph of Mr. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity as you would have no cause to repent your pains no more should I that have put you in remembrance so to do And now my Brethren of the Laity let me speak to you in a few words You are concerned in the Text as well as We. Purity and Peaceableness becomes you if you will comport with the precept of our Lord have you any pride that extimulates and provokes you sometimes to use the Prophet's expression to strive with the Priest and which is worse to run from the Communion of that Church which bore you on her knees and nourished you with her breasts have you any Avarice which when you fled from Idols praecipitated you into Sacrilege these would be salted out Well Peaceableness you see is your duty and Purgation in order thereunto Schism is the direct contradiction to my Text and you perceive how little reason any one hath so to requite the Prudence and the Charity of that Church wherein we have had the happiness to be educated Are the conditions of her Communion sinful Or are you obliged to profess that which you believe is false or practise that which you know is sinful Let me request in her behalf that you would not make the Sentiments of every angry Son of hers the measures of her Charity or if you spy the tokens of Avarice or Ambition on other of her Sons you would not make them the measures of her Piety What is it that frights you from her Communion It must certainly be reduced to her Doctrine or her Manners Doth she teach any suspected Doctrines what then she disclaims infallibility though it may be she is nearer it than those that talk loudest of it She gives you leave to suspect nay designs by her subscriptions which yet are not required from you but an Instrument of peace if the best and most learned Bps. Laud Bramhall Sanderson of her Sons do know her mind Does any of her Doctrines destroy salvation Indeed they of Rome say Protestancy unrepented destroys salvation but I think neither you nor we have cause to believe them Well then if Salvation may be had with us Take heed you don't run the hazard of it by an unnecessary Separation from them here whom if ever you come to heaven you must accompany hereafter But are her manners defective what do you mean She teaches you to believe by the Apostles Creed to pray by the Example of her Lord and to live by the Precepts of her Saviour But you see some indications of carnality upon her Children like enough and so you might in the Children of Apostolick Churches and may in the most confident pretenders to the most primitive Reformation I have done Methinks you should grant me that even in our Communion you may be as holy and as humble as meek and as merciful as pure and as peaceable as perfect imitatours of the Divine Nature as ardent lovers of God and your Neighbour as will comport with the Commandement and entitle you to the Promise which is ETERNAL LIFE Now to the King Eternal Immortal Invisible the only wise God be Honour and Glory for ever and for ever Amen