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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

proue them be separated from the Church yea in time of persecution they may deny that blessed name by which they are redeemed as Peter did but they shall not die in their separation for there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus the vnregenerate may be deceiued and deceiued finally and by Gods iust iudgement perish in their sinnes because they were seduced and opened their hearts to those that caused deuisions and offences and both these sorts of simple ones as well the regenerate as vnregenerate are those that are here noted to be deceiued by the good words and faire speeches of seducers For the words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which words are well translated by Theodorus Beza hominum minime malorum that is to say men not drowned and plunged in the vsuall sinnes and vices of the world And this may teach vs two things First that we ioyne not our selues to any of those Sects that are deuided from our Church which is a member of the true Catholike Church of God whether Papists Anabaptists Brownists Familists or what else you may call them for that wee obserue many excellent Ministers endowed with many rare and admirable gifts and qualities to teach their heresies for such a one was Arius the Hereticke And wee can neither depriue our Aduersaries of the Church of Rome nor diuers others that in other kindes trouble our Church with strange opinions of that honour if yet wee may call it honour and not rather Gloriam Herostrate such honour as Herostrotus atchieued by firing the Ephesians Temple For what if they haue learning wit and eloquence what if in outward gifts they shine as the Starres is not that great red Dragon in the Reuelation said to drawe with his tayle the third part of the Starres of Heauen and to cast them to the earth or hath not the diuell at all times gotten such to make deuisions and to cause offences The lesse ought we to admire if they win to bee their disciples and proselites ciuell honest men whom the world for the moralitie of their liues holdeth in some esteeme for such were they whom Absolom by faire speeches and large promises had drawne to his part against the King his father euen to commit treason and rebellion with him Such because they meane least hurt are soonest deceiued like vnwary fishes taken in a Net and being deceiued doe much aduantage the deuills cause for that their liues are had in admiration and they haue gained the good opinion of their neighbours for that syncerity of which they make profession no lesse than the Scribes and Pharisees Ne aetas vos corum nec authoritas fallas Let not their age let not their authority deceiue you faith Cyprian Againe we must not vncharitaby iudge them to bee vtterly cast away all who decline from or leaue our societie for that the heart of a regenerate man may for a time God turning his face from him that hee may be troubled bee deceived but rather let vs pray that their fall be not finall and if it please God of his mercy to send them backe againe vnto vs let vs not refuse them as Nouatus did for that they haue sinned so scandalously against our good profession to the dishonour of God and of our Church I will end here with the words of Cyprian Sufficiat lapsis vna ruina c. Let one fall bee sufficient to those that are fallen let no man deceitefully throw downe those that are willing to rise vp againe let no man presse downe more grieuously those that already lye flat on the earth for whom we pray that God with his hand and arme would helpe them vp let no man denie the hope of life to those that are halfe dead desiring to returne to their former health Nemo nutantibus lapsus sui Caligine omne itineris salutaris lumen extinguat Let no man put out all the light of a secure voyage to those that stagger in the darkenesse of their fall And seeing that those whose hearts are deceiued are fallen downe lie groueling on the earth gasping for breath and grappleing for life and being ready to die doe lie in darkenesse and in the shadow of death it followeth that those who deceiue their hearts throw them downe stabbe them and wound them euen vnto death therefore that I may draw to a conclusion I will binde vp all that hitherto hath beene spoken in the words of the text Now I beseech you brethren marke them which cause deuisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee haue learned and auoide them For they that are such serue not our Lord Iesus Chrest but their owne belly and by good words and faire speeches deceiue the hearts of the simple And now to recapitulate what hath beene spoken you must remember that the enemies of the Church and people of God are of two sorts forraine and domesticke the first are those that make no profession at all of Christianitie neither will be so reputed as Iewes Turkes Infidells and Pagans the other are those who make profession of Christian religion and will bee accounted Catholicks and Christians these are of two sorts Heretickes or Schismatickes the one doth cut in sunder the band of faith the other doth make a breach in the knot of loue Against these St. Paul addressing himselfe beseecheth all faithfull men as his brethren to marke them and to auoide them vpon this reason that they are most dangerous enemies to the soule causing deuisions and offences in the Church contrary to the doctrine of the Gospell Now least this his fatherly counsell might be slighted he proceedeth to shew the cause or reason vpon which wee are to marke them and auoide them viz. their aime is not to serue God by so doing but they haue worldly respects tending to their owne aduantage they talke like Diuines and demeane themselues like morall honest men by which meanes those that are plaine and meane well are soonest deceiued like harmelesse Doues caught in the Fowlers Net Vpon which great causes that I may end with application I am bold to direct my speech first to those that are in authoritie whom though I cannot accuse for former negligence and euen in my owne conscience am confident that they will carefully discharge their duties in their seuerall places with wisdome and iudgement yet doe I desire that they will be pleased to let me minde them of it as sometimes Philips seruant minded him of his mortality God and the King hath committed the Sword vnto them which Sword they beare not in vaine Therefore by the power of the sword committed to their trust may they marke those that cause deuisions and offences contrary to the doctrine that wee haue receiued This doctrine is the truth of God taught and deliuered in the blessed Scriptures which that wee might hold with vnanimous consent and not diuert from it it was

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