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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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