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A77502	The healing of Israels breaches. VVherein is set forth Israels disease. Cure. Physitian. Danger. All paralleld with, and applyed to the present times. As they were delivered in six sermons at the weekly lecture in the church of Great Yarmouth. By John Brinsly minister of the Word, and pastor of Somerleiton an adjacent village. Published by order of a committee of the House of Commons.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4716; Thomason E119_14; ESTC R17352	81,006	146

yet behind preservative directions tending to the preventing of the like Breaches for the time to come In these I will bee briefe hasting as fast as I can to the Conclusion of this point which hath I confesse fled before mee farther then at the first I made account of Physitians having recovered their Patients they doe not send them away without some directions and Instructions for preventing of relapses Thus dealt our Blessed Saviour with that Patient of his that impotent person whom hee had restored to the use of his limbs meeting him in the Temple he bids him Goe thy way and sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Following this course having layed downe a Method for the Curing and Healing of these Breaches let me briefly shew you if ever God please to worke a Cure upon us what is to bee done for the preventing of Relapses in this kinde and so for the preserving of peace and unity in the Church of God being once restored to it And here as in the former I shall deale particularly giving to every one his portion dealing first with Publicke persons and amongst them with Magistrates to whom I shall here againe commend onely a twofold direction each being an off-set from the former directions which I propounded to them as Restoratives 1. Having cleared the Churches way by taking the stumbling-blocks out of it Let them keep it cleare and that by vindicating and asserting as much as may bee that which wee call Christian libertie the libertie of Conscience in the use of things indifferent providing that that may not bee pressed and burdened with unnecessary burdens To this purpose I shall onely propound to them a President viz that of the Apostles 15 Acts. who having in that Councell or Synode of theirs disputed and debated the differences betwixt the Iewes and Gentiles at length they agree upon it what course to take for the setling and keeping of peace in the Churches The Result of all with their Consultations you have in the 28. and 29. Verses of that Chapter It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burdens then these necessarie things viz That yee abstaine from meats offered to Idols c. In which Determination of theirs there are three things very considerable first the Injunctions which they impose upon the Churches were viz few not many Secondly Necessary though not in themselves yet pro tempore for that time Thirdly they were Negative which intrench lesse upon Conscience then Affirmatives doe In all these I doe not peremptorily prescribe what Magistrates those which have authority ought to see done I onely propound a President which if followed I conceive it will tend much to the continuance and settlement of the Churches peace Sure I am if burdens and unnecessarie burdens bee imposed whether directly upon the conscience or having reference unto conscience either wee must introduce and set up that Popish Idoll a blind obedience which some of late have cryed up for the best obedience that so men may swallow downe all without chewing or else give inevitable occasion unto scandall and consequenttly unto Breaches 2. In the second place having set up a standard for the people let them make it a Standard by their authority enjoyning and requiring all in the publicke exercise of Religion to observe the same rule and order the same forme of Publicke worship regulated as neere as may bee by the lawes of Christ in his Word and so made conformable to that patterne that standard Not permitting every one therein to use what weights and measures they please to doe what is right in their owne eyes as it was in Israel when there was no King and as it is amongst us at this day in this unhappy Interregnum of the Church which if given way unto will prove a passing-bell to the Churches peace where ever it is admitted It is noted of the tenne Bases in the Temple which were made to beare and carrie the ten Lavers upon their wheeles They had all of them one casting one measure and one size Of such use is outward order to publicke Ordinances a vehiculum serving to beare and carrie them super Rotis suis as the originall hath that of the Wiseman 25. Prov. 11. A word spoken upon his wheeles so our margin readeth it according to the Hebrew upon the Wheeles of meete and convenient circumstances as Time Place manner c. that so they may bee the more serviceable and usefull And being so it is most fit it should bee uniforme But I must but touch upon things This for Magistrates As briefly for Ministers to whom also I shall commend but two directions First Let them seriously intend the mayne worke of their Ministerie therein looking right forwards as it is said of the Philistines kine which drew the Arke to Bethshemesh They tooke the streight way and went along the high way and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left Thus should the Lords Ministers doe In Carrying the Arke of the Lord before his people let them goe right on in the Kings high way Gods way not turning aside to the right hand or to the left not seeking their owne things their owne ends their owne profit credit popular applause or the like but let them both looke and goe right forward seeking the glory of God and the salvation of his peoples soules Noe such way for them to preserve and maintaine peace in the Church as this It is the song of the Angels at the birth of our Saviour Glory bee to God in the highest on Earth peace Good will towards men O that all the Angels of the Churches would but have a respect to the first and last of these seeking the Glory of God and expressing their Good will towards his people by seeking their salvation then no doubt but the second would fall in betwixt them there would bee Peace on Earth peace in the Church Secondly Let them labour as much as may be for an holy unitie and Agreement amongst themselves that they I may not bee divided not in Iudgement if it might bee however not in Affection that though they bee not of one minde in all things yet they may bee of one heart I meane with those which desire to bee found faithfull following the Truth according to the measure of light vouchsafed in this Case though there bee some differences in Iudgement as some there will bee yet let not these hinder their walking together in Love A lesson which we may learne even from those creatures which of all other are most quarrelsome Pardon the homelinesse of the similitude the aptnesse shall make amends for it A packe of Hounds in the field in hunting they chop upon diverse trayles and sents some of them traversing this way others that yet in as much as they all hunt the same

doth in such a way as he not onely leaves no fear behinde but maketh the Church a gainer by them In both these is God glorified and to these ends doth he permit these breaches which if he would he could hinder even as our Saviour suffered Lazarus to be sicke to dye both which he could have hindred that the Sonne of man might be glorified in his Resurrection This sicknes is not unto death but for the glory of God So may we say of these diseases in the Church her Breaches are not mortal not unto death the Church being a Body like unto the Head of it immertall but for the glory of God that the sonne of man the Head of the Church may be glorified in preserving in Healing it 2. God doth it in the second place with an eye to his Church giving way to these Breaches that For 1. Exercising 2. Trying 3. Purging of it 1. For the exercising of the Church Therefore doth he expose it sometimes to open persecution suffering Enemies to breake in upon it and to break it even as the Husbandman opens and breakes the clods of his ground rending and tearing it with ploughes and harrowes as the Prophet Jsai alludeth This he doth for the exercise of his Church which if it lay fallow would be ready to run wilde and prove unfruitfull 2. For probation and triall of it To make triall of the Faith and Obedience of his people To this end the Lord left the Cananites and some other nations to be as thornes and pricks in the eyes and sides of the Israelites not driving them out before Joshuah as he had done the rest that through them he might prove Israel whether they would keepe the way of the Lord to walke therein as you have it 2 Judg. And to this end amongst other he suffers his Church to be pierced rent and torne as by persecutions so by schismes and heresies viz. for the trying and manifesting of those which are approved There must be heresies or sects saith Paul to his Corinthians {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} oportet There must be Why That they which are approved may be made manifest Of such use were those civill dissentions in the Kingdome of Israel betwixt David and Ishbosheth thereby it was manifested who they were which cleared to the house of Saul and who to the House of David And such use God maketh of the Breaches and Divisions in his Church hereby he discovers who they are which will cleave unto him to his Truth and who they are which for by and sinister respects will be drawen aside to follow after errour Hereby God maketh a Discoverie discovering men to others I and sometimes discovering them to themselves making them hereby to know the rottennesse or sinceritie of their own hearts whether they have followed Christ for Loaves or no Thirdly for the purging of the Church Even as by those Commotions in the upper region of the Ayre thunderings and lightnings rending and tearing the clouds with those in the lower Region stormes and tempests the ayre it self is purged and cleansed from many noxious vapours which otherwise would anoy the inhabitants Even so by these commotions and combustions in the Church God purgeth a great deal of corruption out of it This is one of the fans in the hand of Christ whereby he dresseth his corne and purgeth his floore his Church freeing his truth from a great deal of chaffe and drosse which is oftimes mingled with it Thus this is Gods doing and In the second place it is Satans doing who hath ever an hand in those Breaches which God permits and orders So had he in the great Breach which was made upon Israel through Davids sin in numbring the people This happened not without a divine permission and ordination whence it is said that God moved David against Israel yet Satan had an hand in it being the immediate instigator of David unto that sin which made the Breach whereat that judgement brake in and thence we finde it else where attributed to Satan Satan stood up against Israel c. Which latter text explaynes the former There is not a Breach that is made in or upon the Church whether it be by open Persecution or home-bred Dissension but Satan hath an hand in it So had he in all those Breaches which were made in and upon the Primitive Churches Those persecutions were from him The great red Dragon in the Revelation he persecuted the woman Those persecutions wherewith the Church was broken under those heathenish Emperouts untill the time of Constantine the great that man-childe there spoken of as some expositours conceive it that masculine deliverer they were of Satans raysing And we may say the same of those schismes heresies errours superstitions wherewith the Church in those Primitive and after ages was infested and troubled they were all but the spawne and seed of the same Serpent The Serpent cast out of his mouth a flood of water after the woman so you have it verse fifteen A flood of water even that flood of errours and heresies as that of Arrianisme and some other which like a flood a land flood had overflowen almost the whole world This flood came out of the mouth of that Serpent And so hath that deluge of Antichristian errours in which the world for many ages together lay steeped and drowned And we may say the same of all those lesser streames of errours heresies schismes which have or do infest any part of the Church they are but as so many smaller brookes or rivolets flowing and streaming from the same head divisions discensions in the Church they are some of the tares sowen by this envious man in Gods field which he doth to a clean contrary end then that which God intendeth them for viz. for the ruine and destruction of the Church To this end the Dragon cast out that flood of warers after the woman that the woman might be carried away of the food To this end doth Satan set abroach all these pernicious errours in the Church that if possible the very Elect might be deceived and so the whole Church carried away either by seduction or destruction To this end doth he sowe these tares of differences and dissentions that they may hinder the groweth of the good corne the groweth of Religion as for the most part they do That hereby the Kingdome of Christ may be weakned his own strengthened which as it was at the first founded in and raysed by divisions his dividing betwixt God and man so it is exceedingly promored and built up by the same meanes by dividing betwixt men and men You see the truth of the point that it is so you see the grounds of it why it is so What use shall we now make hereof unto our selves Here to let fall a stone which the text putteth into my hand