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A25358	Religion and loyalty maintained against all modern opposers in a treatise on the 29th of May 1681, being Trinity-Sunday and anniversary day of His Majesties happy birth and King and kingdoms restauration / by Henry Anderson.	Anderson, Henry.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3092; ESTC R27731	74,714	137

be examined and in whose sentence we are to rest can be no other but the holy Spirit in the Scripture Mat. 21.29 31. Eph. 2.20 with Acts 28.25 of true Religion both in Doctrine and Devotion the foundations of Faith and the superstructures of Worship by an humble obedience holy fervency and unanimous harmony For a sweet Chorus of well-tun'd affections will cause the goodly Fabrick of the Church to go up with the voice of Eucharist Acts 2.46 47. shoutings and acclamations of joy till it comes to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of eternal happiness and top of its spiritual glory And there is no outward Conservative of Ecclesiastical or Civil peace comparable to that of united Religion saith a Reverend Prelate whose Orb or Sphere is true Doctrine its Center holy Devotion and its Circumference good Government which Blessing we enjoy by Divine Providence under our pious and religious Soveraign King Charles for which all good Subjects and Loyal Protestants say O King live for ever God grant Sedition may become a stranger in the Kingdom and England be an object of emulation of all foreign States in the admiration of her glory and the Protestant and Reformed Religion become the praise of the whole Earth in an universal agreement in the publick Worship of Almighty God Nothing better suits with Christianity nothing more graces it being like those good people in the Acts Chap. 4.32 of one mind and one Soul To oblige us to this godly union and concord arguments may be drawn from the alliance of humane Nature and bands of a spiritual Consanguinity First we all sprung from one Original Gen. 3.20 one Blood derived through several Chanels Acts 17.26 one substance by miraculous efficacy of the Divine Benediction multiplied or dilated into several times and places We are all fashioned * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Naz. after the likeness of our Maker bearing the impresses of the Almighty for the Soul is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a branch of a Deity We all conspire in the same essential Ingredients being of one Composition ‖ Cogita istum quem servum tuum vocas ex eisdem ortum seminibus eodem frui coelo aequè spirare aequè vivere aequè mori Senec. and elementary constitution knowing therefore we all came from one we should love as one * Dilectio sola discernit inter filios Dei filios Diaboli Aug. 1. Joh. Tract 5. Vt dum cognoscerent se ab uno esse omnes se quasi unum amarent saith the Master of the Sentences It is a heavenly Mandate the fruit of the Spirit is Love ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. N●z wherein the Image of God the power of Godliness and the Spirit of Christianity truly do consist * Vbi odium ibi charitas esse non potest ubi charitas abest ibi nil boni Aug. super Matth. Love as Brethren saith S. Peter and Logick can teach us Relationes non egent locali contactu Relative respects need not the union and touch of parties then as many as are scatter'd in the remotest Regions whether massacred in the Indies whether strappado'd among Turks or in that Hell of Torments the Inquisition of the Spaniards though they live in as divers places as persecutions yet if they conform with us in Orthodox Profession no distance can hinder their being our Brethren neither can their mean estates take away our tye of reference 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is not the place Coelum non animum mutat qui trans mare currit but quality of the persons that causeth the unity of their affections Though Joseph be sold into Egypt and there lye manacled in the injurious Prison yet he ceaseth not to be Jacobs Son Jonathan and David were still Brethren and faithfully united when one was in the Cave and the other at Court Methinks Abrahams prudential motive to Lot to win him to a Treaty of Peace is an argument to the Christian World Gen. 13. we are Brethren Strifes and Emulations might quickly be composed if we did not forget the alliance of humane Nature Though sometimes the fiercest are united and shew themselves Brethren but it is with Jacobs addition Simeon and Levi Brethren in iniquity The Prince which rules in the Air makes use of every stratagem to enlarge the Territories of his Kingdom and he doth it upon this consideration his time is as short as his Chain therefore to be in readiness at all hands he hath his unitatem farmorosorum as S. Bernard calls them a Confederacy of zealous Complices that vow their furtherance at every display of the Devils Ensign Satan hath enjoyed in all Ages the unhappy benefit of such peremptory assistants Were that Kingdom of Darkness once divided our Saviour assures us it could not long stand therefore the Head studies to preserve unity in the Members These are that Combination in Gregory Nazianzen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose agreeing malice knits their hearts and their conjoyned hearts unite their voice If infernal Spirits are provident to maintain outward peace where there is no order but all confusion lest their Kingdom should come to an end this consideration should engage the most unnatural opposites of this Land who are Protestants bred up in the Principles of the same Religion and walking in the House of God as Friends not to be teez'd on to as deadly feuds as between a Jew and Samaritan They are most odious Christians who put on the glory of an Angel in outward profession that they may play the Devil more unobservedly therefore let us labour to bring as much wisdom and courage to confront as the Devils Agents cunning and malice to undermine the Kingdom of Christ Jesus and glory of Christianity then for shame let us be if not Christians yet men if not ruled by Religion yet perswaded by Reason that we had need as S. Paul exhorts us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strive together with a full concurrence of all our might and combine in a holy Faction to withstand the fury of their united opposition For how can it chuse but disparage our Cause if jarring discord disperse our Forces And certainly while we divide our selves our Enemies in the mean time divide our spoils Bodin Rep. 4. 'T is registred in Story That Mars had in old Rome certain Priests called Salii it was their office when Nations were together by the ears to cast fire among them and confound their Armies therefore Antiquity named them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fire-bearing Priests Who knows not that our modern Rome is as well furnisht for such a Stratagem and that this fire might be Vestal and never go out she hath bequeath'd unto the World a Society of Priests whom she intends for State-Salamanders that should live in the fire of other mens contentions and by a slight of hand bandy it from one Kingdom to