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A50843	Samaritanism reviv'd, a sermon preached at the parish church of Great Yarmouth, upon the ninth of September being the day appointed for a solemn thanksgiving for the discovery of the late horrid plot, against His Majesty's person and government / by Luke Milbourne.	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2037; ESTC R7778	45,022	57

nay he made Judah and all the Inhabitants of Jerusalem to erre worse than the Heathen whom the Lord had destroy'd for which God deliver'd him a Captive to the King of Babylon where when he humbled himself God was entreated of him and return'd him to his Kingdom This Mercy made him know that the Lord only was God but though he endeavour'd afterwards in Gratitude to his Deliverer to clear Gods Temple to repair his Altar and to reduce the Temple Service to its Ancient Glory it was but in vain His Son the Heir of his Crown the Witness of his Repentance and the Reasons of it was upon his Death too easily seduced and instead of perfecting the good work begun by his Father he only outstript him in Sin He sacrificed to all the Carv'd Images which Manasses in his folly had made 2. Chron. 23.2 9 13 16 22. but humbled not himself as Manasses had done but trespassed more and more If we examine the Case of these return'd Exiles we shall see that notwithstanding Gods and the Kings Favour to them the excellent Examples of Zerubbabel Jeshua Nehemiah and the other Chiefs and the Divine Excitatives of Haggai and Zechariah notwithstanding the forward Zeal they shew'd at first to repair the sacred Ruins of the Temple they were so unhappy that even some of their own Nobles for whom as well as the rest God had done such great things held Correspondence with the Enemies of their Church ●●hem 5.17 18 19. to the notorious hazard of their Religion but when all these obstacles were past over when the House of God was built the Ancient forms of Worship were reestablish'd and their compleat Joy outwardly exprest by that Care for that the Lord had made them joyful E●●● 16 〈…〉 22. and turn'd the Heart of the King of Assyria to them to strengthen their hands in the work of the House of God the God of Israel But alas Wickedness too too soon prevail'd again and the prophaness and contempt of Gods Service grew intolerable on which account God made the Kings of Syria their Scourge that Temple their Pride and Glory was defil'd by their Enemies as it had been by themselves and Judas Maccabeus once more compell'd to a Reformation but still Wicked men were busie and active And when our Saviour came into the World to rectifie the Errors of mistaken Mankind the opposition he found was so strong as seem'd and was indeed to Humane powers irremediable And Lastly Let us view those Laws and Rules prescrib'd by the Apostles themselves for the settling Vnity and Vniformity in the Church of Christ and we shall see so many Schisms and Heresies rais'd by the Devil and wicked Men to pervert and disannul them that nothing less than an Omnipotent Power could have preserv'd them to this day And yet that due and regular Veneration of the Divine Majesty is so naturally fixt in the minds of Men that the most resolv'd Enemies of Goodness are frequently balkt themselves and downright Opposition to Publick Solemn and Decent Worship oft-times disgusts both themselves and others Hell in this case drives them to the other Extream and makes them overdo what God and the Circumstances of his Publick Worship require as if there could be no Mean between the sluttery and nastiness of a Common prostitute and the garish Extravagance of a gentile Harlot And thus did Ill Men prevail formerly upon the Jewish Church and taught them by this means to preach for Doctrines the Commandments of Men and thus the Christian Worship in the Church of Rome was perverted where so many things not only unnecessary but inconvenient not only superfluous but ridiculous have been introduc'd that Paganism in its greatest Wildness could not outvy them and by this means the very Substance of true Sacred Worship has been expos'd to contempt and some have been so far bewitcht with an empty shew as to rest in that without examining the real weight of things These have been the sad Effects of that Opposition which the Enemies of Piety have made to the resettling Gods Worship in a Publick solemn Way and that they should not always study for and effect thus much there can be no reason given but from the infinite Divisions among these very Adversaries themselves from whence 't is hop'd that according to our Saviours expression the Kingdom of Satan divided against it self cannot stand Matt. 12.26 'T is true were Piety once totally banish'd the World those intestine Feuds among the Slaves of Hell would soon grow irreconcileable Sin would make them like those who sprung from the Dragons Teeth sown by Cadmus to draw their Swords in an immmediate War till they had ruin'd one another But alas the Case is nothing so happy here while God has any Servants though their Quarrels are never so great among themselves they unite but too too close in persecuting and afflicting them So these Samaritans though of so many different Countries and engag'd in such disagreeing Idolatries yet could all joyn to hinder the building the Temple of the true God for though wicked Men of all kinds are at never so great a distance among themselves yet Truth being equally an Enemy to them all it moves their Hatred so much against it self that other Di●gusts and Broyls are soon forgotten Matth. 16.1 Ch. 22.16 So the Pharisees Sadduces and Herodians labour'd at all times to undermine each other but readily combin'd together to destroy our Saviour The more vigorous and bright Truth 's Lustre is the more violent will the assaults of its Opposers be So it prov'd in the Primitive Church many and absurd Haeresies sprung up in it the Breaches between the different Hereticks were irreparable and yet they liv'd almost in a constant Conspiracy against the true Catholick Church of Christ and he that examines Church History will find that when Peace gave the greatest Ornaments to Christianity the Mushroom Heresies and Schisms grew up the fastest as on the contrary when Religion grew indifferent and the Professors of it Luke-warm Hereticks and Schismaticks seem'd to lay down their Weapons as if Hell had then no more employment for them But when those who ador'd the true God to maintain his Honour judg'd no Cost too great to adorn his Temples and the Devil found it impossible to eradicate that Principle out of Mens minds which taught them to do so he try'd another way and resolv'd himself not to be inferior to his Soveraign no Temples should be rais'd more magnificent no Vtensils more costly no Sacrifices more expensive to the Supream Deity than those he assum'd to himself and the worst of Men in this respect seem'd aemulous of their Bounty who expended most for the Ornature of a Christian Oratory a thing which observ'd but not well understood by many made them afraid of even a decent Beauty and Magnificence in the House of God as if approaching too near Paganism or Superstition as if because some Heathen