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A19153	A sermon preached at Paules-Crosse, vpon the 1. of Nouember, being All-Saints Day, anno 1607. By Sa: Collins, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and fellow of the Kings Colledge in Cambridge	Collins, Samuel, 1576-1651.	1607 (1607)	STC 5564; ESTC S108507	41,043	100

A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLES-CROSSE VPON THE 1. OF NOVEMBER BEING ALL-SAINTS DAY ANNO 1607. By Sa Collins Batchelour in Diuinitie and fellow of the Kings Colledge in Cambridge LVC. 7.35 Wisedome is iustified of all her children GREG. MAG in Ezechiel Nihil ad defendendum honestate tutius nihil ad dicendum veritate facilius AT LONDON Printed by Humfrey Lownes for Richard Bonian dwelling at the signe of the spread Eagle right ouer against the great North dore of S. Pauls Church 1607. To the most Reuerend Father in God Richard the Lord Archbishop of Canterburie his Grace Primate and Metropolitane of all England one of his Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell THe excellēcie of the calling most Reuerend Father that God hath promoted your Grace vnto by the vn-erring hand of his sacred Deputie to be their Agent in causis maioribus to the Churches of this Kingdome may iustly challenge the labours of as many as handle the pen with discretion in our daies but mine if J be ought after a more especiall manner whom the continuance of your fauour for no fewe yeares shining vpon my poore studies hath made wholly pledged to your seruice and some employments also vouchsafed from your Grace haue kept from being altogether idle So that if my meannesse should euer bee exalted to bring forth any thing worthy publication which your Grace rather construeth ouer-fauourably of this Pamphlet than it any way deserueth J haue long since consecrated it to the honor of your Grace as one that hath both countenanced alwaies mine endeauours and also directed after a sort my courses Howbeit this small worke such as it is J now present vnto your Grace not so much in lieu of receiued kindnesse which you haue multiplied vpon me and mine euen when your name hath beene concealed as inuoking patronage against the oppugners For lata porta but aduersarij multi as S. Paul said to his 1. Cor. 16.9 and As concerning this way wee knowe nothing but that it is euery where spoken against as they said to S. Paul Act. 28.22 J speake the truth in Christ most Reuerend Father I lie not the holy Ghost also bearing witnesse with my conscience that J grieue vnspeakeably night and day whithersoeuer J chaunce to looke at the malice of Satan how transformed soeuer and the disaster of our times And as our Sauiour sometimes in the dayes of his flesh wept in compassion ouer the great Citie diuining the ruines of it so mine eyes gush out with water to see there is no religion amongst menne for the most part but that which is tainted with a spice of faction But to let-go complaints and to leaue that to him which will purge his floore in a due time as one that hath his fan already in his hand and lets the yellow weedes to shoote vp but in a policie to exercise our patience and to magnifie his wisedome in the latter end as for the Booke my comfort is that whom the reuerence of your Graces mildnesse and temper most befitting Moses and the aduancement of his chaire shall not represse for shame him the edge of your iudgement long since tried and renowmed for the most accurate perusall of these causes and controuersies aboue all the Church-men of our Nation shall daunt perforce And with that very hope J end for this time humbly recommending the prosperities of your Grace and the good estate of the Church Christian to the Lord Christ that vnder your auspicious and happie gouernement which God of his mercy graunt may be most most long our Nazarites may bee whiter than the snow our Priests purer than the Sapphires Your Graces most humble Chaplaine and Seruant SAMVEL COLLINS A SERMON PREAched at Paules-Crosse 1. TIMOTH 6.3.4.5 If any man teach otherwise and consenteth not to the wholesom words of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according vnto godlinesse hee is puft vp and knoweth nothing but languisheth about questions and strife of words whereof commeth enuy strife raylings euill surmises froward disputations of men of corrupt mindes and destitute of the truth which thinke that gaine is godlinesse from such separate thy selfe IN 1. Sam. 13.17 thus wee reade that vpon a day there came out of the hoast of the Philistines three garrisons of Champions all minded to destroie but each turning seuerall waies one to Ophrah another to Bethoron and a third to Zeboim This was a picture of the Churches condition not only bodily then wasted and afflicted for the time but spiritually assaulted to the ends of the world whome a trebble squadron of conspiring enimies all bent to murther and destroy yet all attempting sundrie means to mischief do molest continually the heretique by his poisonous and corrupt doctrines the euill liuer by his scandalous and wicked examples the schismatique by his turbulent and vnchristian separations And against these the Ionathans of God with their Captain Saul higher by the head than all the children of Israel that is the king and his Clergie must alwaies haue their weapons in readinesse to suppress their furies We the weakest of ten thousand doe it as wee may to the vtmost of our power and haue done it often heretofore in diuers places encountring them and coping with them as the occasion guided vs either iointly all at once or diuidedly by themselues This day wee will single out the Schismatick from his fellowes as in a stage of renown the greatest disturber if my mind do not misgiue mee that our Church hath complained vnder these many yeares And yet we wil pursue him nor chase him no further than S. Paul himself shall giue vs leaue to do nay ayme and scope how to doe in the Text now propounded The parts whereof are in effect these sixe please you to peruse them with mee The first is The indifferency of the parties offending in these words If any man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jf any bee hee who he wil be high or lowe rich or poor great or small learned or lay famous or of no reputation If any The second is the Quality of the fact consenteth not agreeth not accordeth not I had almost saide subscribeth not The third is the degree of the fault teach otherwise not only think but teach publish his fancies proclaime his conceits drawe Disciples after him make a Sect and blowe a trumpet to sedition with Siba the sonne of Bichri Euerie man to his Tents O Jsrael the 2. of Sam. 20.1 The fourth is the rule of tryall for this matter the square of truth to discerne and iudge by It selfe two-folde eyther the wholesome wordes of CHRIST and of godlinesse or euerie doctrine according thereto So I say not only the written word of God but euery doctrine that is not dissenting or swaruing there-from not onely that which is expressed but that which is inferred and by interposition of lawfull authoritie deducted not onely that which is originally good but euen that which is consequentially sound