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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64560	An apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it by ... William Lord Bishop of St. Davids.	Thomas, William, 1613-1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing T975; ESTC R33829	87,104	244

unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter I pray God be merciful to any of either party Tros Rutulusve fuit who is justly liable to this Commination When ever your separation is demonstrated to be good when your Doctrine is manifested to be light I shall not presume to misname nor disesteem it But if the blaze of Comets be accounted the splendor of Stars if a new Light that diverts to Schism extinguish the old Orthodox if division distraction confusion in Religion be gilded with the title the varnish of Reformation if Sects that are to be bewailed lamented for be applauded gloried in as some Ladies imagine their little black spots to be grand beauties then this Caution affords a retortion and may be weighed by your selves You enforce this Caveat of Isaiah with Solomons Aphorism Prov. 17. 15. He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just they both are abominable to the Lord. Whether this is to be interpreted of publick judicature or private censure I shall not discuss If you appropriate the Epithet Just as you do Saints to your selves we honor whatever hath the true savour of Sanctity in you we are ready to embrace you in our Bowels in our Church Upon your aversness we condemn not the Separatist but the Separation because erected upon an unwarrantable foundation upon a Pharisaical presumption If you apply the wicked mentioned Solomon to a Parochial Assembly formerly asperst by you to be a company of Drunkards Swearers Sabbath-breakers I am no Advocate to plead for any crimes or scandals I resent bewail and detest them and upon all fit opportunities shall present the guilt and horror of them to the consciences of the Offenders in the sharpest accents Though when ever acted they are sufficient grounds for the Ministers general reprehension in the Pulpit yet not of your particular Separation from the Lords Table till they are declared sentenced by the Church You proceed They profess Christ 1 Cor. 6. 15 17. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot God forbid verse 15. But he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit vers 17. The Apostle doth here by the elegant charm of Sacred Rhetorick disswade deter the Christian Corinthians from lasciviousness being the darling sin of Corinth where a thousand beautiful Damosels were the votaries of Venus as Herodotus and Strabo testifie so that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 became proverbial to be wanton The spreading contagion of uncleanness there occasioned the Apostles piercing Expostulation for a searching healing at least a preventing Physick You may hence argue that fornication severs a profest Christian inwardly from Christ when ever committed and not repented of but not outwardly from the Church without conviction and promulgation You object such make not the Communion because a mixt Communion is not fit for Christ his Members must be homogeneal or else a monster This Argument is fallacious Ab ignoratione Elenchi Wicked men so far as they are Christs Members are homogeneal to wit in profession though heterogeneal in conversation wherein they are not Christ's Members Your Objection is not ejusdem secundum idem Real actual Believers are Members homogeneal inwardly sincerely verbal professional Believers are Members homogeneal outwardly formally If this Professional consideration will not serve how do you confess Hypocrites to be Members of the Church since they are no otherwise homogeneal than a glass eye or a wooden leg is to a true body than a painted face is to a genuine complexion than the fucus the Paint of Art is to the Beauty of Nature Lastly you conclude the Church if not homogeneal a Monster whereas impiety in Church Members is not monstrosity till emproved to impenitenoy such Monsters are to be cut off to be excommunicated Your Citation in the close 2 Cor. 6. 14. hath been already discuss'd The Apostle there forbids the Corinthians to be yoked with Pagan Unbelievers because of the profest Idolatry Therefore you will be separate from Christian Believers for their practick iniquity The LETTER A mixt Communion may do no hurt what is it to me what others are Ans. Yes it will be hurt to him that commucates with scandalous brethren 1 Cor. 5. 7. It is not meant there the sin but the incestuous person The danger is in vers 6. so Gal. 5. 9. which is it may become sin to me in neglecting my duty if I have not endeavoured the casting out of a scandalous person as far as it lyeth in me and in following the rule Matth. 18. 15 16 17. The ANSWER You plead it noxious to communicate with scandalous Brethren from 1 Cor. 5. 7. compared with vers 6. I have already vindicated this Text from your gloss being to be understood of Excommunication not separation without it You add Gal. 5. 9. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump It is a recital of the same maxime but not with the same scope or drift In the fifth Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians it is applied to the incestuous person but in the fifth to the Galatians to the infection of Circumcision a contagious Doctrine It is our Saviours Lecture Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees Their singularity their hypocrisie like leaven had a double influence to swell and sower Arrogance and Virulence If this leaven be entirely purged out the question of separation will be completely stated absolutely determined If we will separate from the Pharisee in the secret mortification of our own bosoms we cannot separate from the Publican in the publick pious devotion of the Temple This primary duty being conscientiously observed of purging the corruption of our own hearts the secondary duty will much more dextrously he discharged to endeavour so far as in us lyeth within the compass of our own Sphere our calling to cleanse the Congregation of its corruption a scandalous person The Rule proposed Matth. 18. 15 16 17. hath been copiously examined though by your selves scantily observed The LETTER If I have gone so far by professing and witnessing against it I discharged my duty or else I sin and if the Church will not do it after long patience and waiting I know no warrant to continue in such a diseased body that will not nor cannot purge out its infectious humours that wants such a precious Ordinance of Jesus Christ of separating the precious from the vile Hag. 2. 12 13 14. That the unholy do defile and unhallow the holy in such a way as I said before so that to communicate in such a way is sin The ANSWER It ought to be our prime care in this exigency not to partake of the sins of other men when they are vitious and scandalous not to be engaged in them by Precept or Precedent by advice or example