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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34014	Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.	Collop, John.	1667 (1667)	Wing C5391; ESTC R16883	68,489	162

Charity who spilt his own blood to prevent the effusion of ours Neither was a hudler of reformations tongue lesse cruell to his brethren then the Papists sword with an Ego Sacramentarios haereticos omnes aeterna paenà afficiendos duco That which was given to unite into Christs body should not divide from it we must not dispute about Seals while we lose the Covenant it shall content mee it is an Eucharist not Axapist May Christs body bee present to all by a worthy communication and none forget him who commands it to be done in commemoration he dyed for them and so crucifie him again by crucifying one the other Whatsoever the consequences be of subtile brains the consequences of worthy receiving will be salvation may wee all have sursum corda since a Saint Austine believes nemo d●gne manducat nisi ●prius adoraverit and a Saint Ambrose wee must worship Christ in the mysteries as the Apostles him in the flesh He who injoins a worthy Communion under penalty of damnation will not damn me sure for believing too worthily of what I receive Transubstantiation nor Consubstantiation monopolize the reall presence which no worthy communicant can be without May all show he is really present and communicated while we receiving praise God and have charity with all do become one with him though not uniform with all if we agree not in the way of serving him yet all agree that serving is the way to him I may be troubled that a brother shall refuse to put on the rob● of Christs righteousnesse but never be angry with him for not putting it on after my fashion but could wish all would use that which is least offensive to them without a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quando Christiani adorant quod edunt fit an●ma cum Philosophis may be opinion of not a single Averroes Sect. 56. Most inflated with the opinion of their own knowledge swell into controversies others with the impostumations of their own malice are tumid and angry open the one and you shall find nothing but flatulency and launch the other and there will issue forth corruption justification whether by faith or works or both hath len● such occasion to contention as men have renounc'd him who can onely justifie Christ who is Love when justification is an acception of our persons and a remission of our sins it is an Enigma deserves an Oed pus to unmask how we accept our own persons and remit our offences May wee all like the wise Virgins provide our selves with the light of Faith and oyl of good works being call'd into Gods Vineyard consider wee are to work not talk none suppose the finer threads spun from the Cobwebs of subtiler imaginations can hold Salvation but all provide that triple cord twisted by faith hope and charity which cannot be easily broken Sect. 57. It hath been the phancy of not a few that Christ came to fulfill the Law and nothing hath been reserv'd for Christian duty but a Crede and in via salutis ambulas a magicall Faith may oblige Heaven and produce no lesse then miracles Christs Law is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if we may believe the Fathers a new discipline a spiritual Law accomplishing extending painting to the life the sciagraphy or imperfect draught of Mosaical perfection that forbids the fires of illegall concupiscences this to fly even the very smoak by avoiding the occasion that inhibits the ablation of our brothers blood this the commotions of our own the strictest of judaical observance or phylacter'd Romanists who fringe Christian Religion with ceremonies may be silenc'd with an except your righteousnes exceed that of the Pha●●sees You cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Those which who say Christ hath fulfilled the Law and think that the crying a Lord Lord may intitle them to Heaven may be dismis'd with I know you not if they will not cover their brothers nakednesse cloth their imperfections give an Alms as well of their knowledge as fortunes can break a commandement or teach others to break though they give up their names to factions May misse their names in the book of life Christ hath not done so much that wee need do nothing There is a treasury in the Church to de●ray humble and penitent sinners but not to cast away upon Prodigalls whatsoever the Keys of the Church are of this I am confident every man hath the power of binding and loofing sins bind and repentance looses yet though every Christian is intrusted with the keies Christ must be the Door through which they must enter into salvation they must unload themselves of iniquity and knock by a spirituall fervency before they enter the narrow gate Peters Keyes without this and the confidence of a Lord Lord encounter with a discedite nescio vos and meet with the punishment of the idle servant while they hide their Talent and accuse their master of hardnesse weak and unstable souls who wrest the Scriptures to their own damnation that I do not speak in the person of a Carnall man by Saint Paul must be tentred to a Saint Paul could not that they have Saint Patro● to impiety 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if to live according to nature is the part of one that hath not believ'd not to arive so high is below a Pagan Sect. 58. The poverty of Franciscans abstinence of Carthusians zeal of some Recollects chastity of Nuns devotion of Pilgrims Anchorets c. Support the papall dignity beyond Jesuiticall Sc●omachies Homonyma's Logomachies and circulations and while these ignès fatuì seduce and are seduc'd into precipices by the Phanatick fires of ther own imaginations these seal'd Doves may take occasion by their blindnesse to mount toward Heaven for I cannot be so uncharitable as not to think these empty instruments may make a pleasing sound in the ears of the Almighty I cannot look on them so with blear-ey'd prejudice as I can not discern an Hilar●on Antonius Paulus Eustochium Marcella Paula exercis'd with watchings cloth'd with Sackcloth and fed by fastings with the bread of life a Sain Hieron Saint Basil Saint Chrysostom Saint Austin sounding an Alarm to the battail and encouraging to take up these arms of Christian warfare Emperors Kings Princes and Potentates casting down Crowns and honors at the feet of the Lamb following Christ in the high way of the Cross Myriads concomitating who preferring Christian humility before mundan complacencies in Gales of sighes and Seas of tears have been transported to an Haven of eternall security the partial phancy of the prejudice byass'd centuriators that Monachisms antichristian or the petticoat zeal of some rash reformers who intitle the Locusts of the infernall pit shall not teach my pen a sally out into scurrility or dash in strains of pollutions marriage fills the Earth and if virginity fills not Heaven I may boldly affirme it prejudices not the way thither I am neither of Vigilantius or Jovinians mind that

shadows forms of Religion while we lose the essence of it which is Charity May every one abound in his own sense and God of his mercy give every one sense to abound to his glory May blindnesse bee the mother of devotion in the Papists and though pious frauds are us'd to induce zeal may they be zealous without fraud May light occasion no darknesse in the Reformists and peeping into the Ark not strike them with the Leprosie of evill works May the Motto of both be non loquimur sed vivimus contend in nothing but who shall most glorifie God and our light may so shine before men that they who are without may be brought to glorifie our Father in Heaven by being brought into his Church the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth May all hunger and th●●st after righteousnesse and even Enemies by administring thy blessings one to the other heap coals on each others head till they melt into mutuall affection and obsequiousnesse to thy Law May none without think worse of Christ because his Coat is divided embrace those truths all hold and all hold nothing to differ one from another may all within seek rather grounds of aquiescence then excuses of dissatisfaction truth in differences like Gold in oar wheat with chaffe none may neglect Gold because ther 's drosse or grain for the intermixture of off●ll but all united into the same body may become one with thee who art the bread of life and refin'd from the drosse of mundan corruption by the fire of this holy spirit bear the Image of our King May he who boasts of the Church remember no unclean th●ng can enter into the K●ngdom of Heaven and he that b●eaketh the least of the Commandements shal be the least in the K●ngdom of Heaven of little repute in his Church May they who cry who shall lay any thing to the cha●ge of Gods Elect live so that no body may have any thing to lay to their charge and while they boast they are above all law by sin come not under the premun●re of any while they are Kings as they pretēd whose hearts are in Gods hands may they not be slaves to their own lusts the Devils servants may the Cōmonalty be no more an Oglio of knaves and fools and tools to the Polititian nor he the Devils quilted Anvile on which he frames all sin but both may be instruments of Gods glory finally may the Gentry have an use for estates above gilding their imperfections and Papists abov an annuall Composition for their follies● and not love to their purses make their Antagonists irreconcilable with their persons and may I have no emnity with any thing but my self who though I have not found what I may define friend I know not what I may truely cal Enemy beside my self by the rules of Christian warfare I am oblig'd to fight aga●nst the World the flesh and the Devill I find a world in my self and a Devill in my flesh which if I could but conquer I could look down on those petty acquisitions of the nicknam'd worthies which were kneaded up with dirt and blood as something below my self Legion is not onely renew'd in me but Legions of Devils as if they had not a lesser world to conquer and colonize are entred into me I find a Lapland Finland Gothland and the storms they raise there in my passions the various shapes in which they familiarise with their votaries do but resemble the disguises of my curiosities vy'd with which the Mythologies of Paganism in an Achelous Proteus Polypus Cameleon may seem sober verities Nor could I bee lesse then a world in whom all the Monsters of Africa have conven'd and all the African tincture in my blacker impieties I have had the blindnesse of America to sacrifice to the Devill ne noceat by complying with aberrances having with Asia lost a reall Paradise by Euthymy could challenge affinity with Mahometism and dream of a Paradise in carnall concupiscencies Nor hath any part of Europe been defective to the complement of this Microcosm Papist Reformist Subreformist Familist Atomist all the phancies which crumble into factions and mince into divisions while old time is forc'd to chew the cud and raise up the stubble and chaffe of whimzies swallowed fourteen ages past have concentred in me and met in this Masse of antipathies I carry about me Lord teach me to know my self so I shall not d●sire to exchange wisdom with a Solomon lend me the auxiliaries of thy holy spirit to subdue my self and I shall be more a Conqueror then Alexander by hating my self instruct me how I shall love thee and by loving thee I shall be sure not to hate my brother FINIS S. Hie● in Psal. 133. S. Hier. ad Lucif post med tom 2. Th●od l. 2. Hist. Eccl. dialog inter Constant Imper Lib. pap 16. Vin● Lir. Cont. Haer. c. 23. 24. S. Be● Ser. de resurr Euseb. l. 5. Hist. Eccl. c. 26. Socrat. l. 5. Hist. c. 22. S. Aug. Cont. Bon. de Bapt. e. 4. Contr. Fund c. 4. Ibid. c. 4. Papal infallibility sifted Alphonsus contra hae lib. 1. c. 4. A Martin in Chron. cen 17. H. Blond dec 1. lib. 9 Bergomensis Martin in Chron. Sabel Naucl. Marian Scot. stella Palmerio Platina Blondus Vincentius Henricus de Erfordia impurities Blondus lib. 3. dec 2. Anto●ius 1. 16. c. 1. ex Iohanne de Col●a mina Sabellicus Na●clerus Platina Ranulphus l. 5. c. 3● Baleus Cent. 2. c. 30. c. 3. 10. Volateranus Martinus in Chronico Marianus Scotus Sigeb Platina Bergomensis c. Martinus Polorues in Chronico Platina Petrus Demi●nus Benedict 9. Silveste● 3. Gregorius 6. Cent. 11. Spelman Conc. an 705. Malin lib. 1. de gest Paul A●glor Math. Paris An. 1246. B. Bilson In Apol. 2. Cont. 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