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A77494	The araignment of the present schism of new separation in old England. Together vvith a serious recommendation of church-unity and uniformity. As it was lately presented to the church of God at great Yarmouth, / by John Brinsley.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing B4707; Thomason E335_10; ESTC R200782	79,884	81

it And here we shall finde some no small aggravations of this unadvisednesse and that both in the leaders and followers 1. In separating at such a time in a time of Reformation That hath been the practise here and I presume it hath been the same in many other parts of the Kingdom Whilest publike Authority hath been at work to finde out Gods way private persons have taken the advantage to set up their own Whilest the one hath been reforming the other instead of joyning with them to strengthen their hands have been withdrawing and separating themselves and others from them And what Separate from a reforming Church A Church that profess●th so much willingnesse and readinesse in every thing to be conformed to the rule of the Word Brethren let me tell you there is more in this circumstance then happily some have been or are aware of When God is coming towards a Church then to run away from it When God is turning his face towards it then to turn our backs upon it When God is building it up then to be active in pulling it down This is a sad thing and surely if rightly apprehended must sit sad upon the spirits of some Had it been some yeers since when God seemed to have been about to depart from us when Innovations and Corruptions were breaking in upon us then to withdraw then to forsake the Church however I d●re not a vouch it for a work so transcendently meritorious as some conceive of it yet I grant it tolerable But now to do it now that as themselves conceive of it the Church is coming up out of the wildernesse now that she begins to boyl out her scum now that she begins to be more refined and reformed now to forsake her truely this is no small aggravation to this desertion For Marriners at Sea to forsake their ship when she is ready to sink though possibly it may be an Error and over-sight in them so to do yet it is pardonable But if the ship shall begin to rise and float again so as they see apparant hopes that with a little pumping and baling she may be saved now to leave her much more to cut holes in her sides their owners will give them little thanks for it Some yeers since the Church of God amongst us seemed to be in a sinking condition Then to leave her might be pardonable But now now that thorow the mercy and goodnesse of God she begins to be somewhat floatsome and boyant so as a little industry and labour in the pumping and purging may free her and save her shall we now desert her that I do not say cut holes in her sides Surely surely never was Separation from this Church so unwarrantable as it is at this day warrantable it never was since she was a true Church In the last age an Error it was a Schism and that not onely Mr. Aynsworth 's more rigid but Mr. Robinsons more moderate Separation So accounted and censured at all hands Surely then at this day it cannot be warrantable Make the fairest of it an unadvised Separation it is 2. Vnadvised being as is charitably conceived undertaken without due regard to and consideration of the consequences following upon it whether Civil or Ecclesiastical both which upon experience are sound to be very sad In the Civil state how many divisions and fractions have broke in at this door Even to the dividing and breaking the nearest relations betwixt Masters and Servants Parents and Children Husbands and Wives In the Ecclesiastical state in the businesse of the Church what a stop what a hinderance hath this been The Churches sayls were filled with a fair gale for Reformation but this Remora how hath it stayed her course Besides what an in-let hath it been to all sorts of pernicious Errors and Heresies wherewith this Land at this day is annoyed as much as Egypt ever was with Lice or Flies 3. To these I might adde the apparent unadvisednesse in the greatest part of the followers in this way of whom I cannot say that ever I yet knew any that came to advise and consult with their own Ministers though Orthodox and pious about the warrantablenesse of withdrawing from them and their Ministery before such time as they were actually alienated from them and engaged against them Now whether this be an advised course or no I dare leave it to the world to judge And thus you have heard this Inditement traversed with as much brevity as conveniently might be The issue of it is no more but this If there be amongst us a Separation from a true Church and that both voluntary and unwarrantable which I suppose the evidences given in have sufficiently evicted then must we give sentence that here is more then either Crimen nominis or Nomen criminis then either the Crime of a name or the Name of a crime no lesse then a Schism formally and properly so called And if so then suffer the stream of this Exhortation to passe on a reach or two further In the second place I might apply my self and this truth to those of our Brethren and Sisters who are already faln under the guilt of this inditement Intreating and beseeching them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ that they would entertain thoughts of returning back again by the way by which they are gone returning to the flocks from which they have strayed to communion with those Churches from which they are departed not persisting and going on to shame contemn condemn disquiet hinder indanger them as by this their practise they do and must do But I have little heart to spend my tongue in speaking unto them who have lesse heart to lend an ear to hear what is spoken And therefore let me direct my speech unto you and that 1. By way of Caveat Take you heed that you be not involved in the same guilt and that whether as Principals or Accessories 1. As Principals Such I must conclude them to be who deserting the Church wherein they have been begotten unto God and nourished and brought up for God shall joyn themselves to any of these separated bodies holding communion with them in a separated way 2. As Accessories Such may Magistrates be by their Toleration and connivence If they shall not improve their Authority which God hath put into their hands for the staying of the course of so great an evil Much more if they shall improve it to the abetting and countenancing of it then which they cannot lightly do a greater disservice to the Church It is noted by Augustine of Julian the Apostate the worst of men and that as none of his best acts that he and he alone of all the Emperors favored the Donatists those famous Schismaticks indulging them their liberty restoring to them their Basilicas their Cathedral meeting places which before had been sequestred and confiscated All which he did not out of any love

surely hence it is that the building of our Sion riseth no faster Our Tongues the tongues of the builders are divided O how happy were it for us and for the Church of God did we all speak but one Language Whilest we thus differ saith one truly we can build nothing but Babel Difference of Tongues caused their Babel to cease but it builds ours A truth whereof we have lamentable experience at this day O what a Babel is this our Sion at this day turned to all thorow this confusion of Languages because all do not speak the same thing not Ministers Much lesse people Among them how many several Languages to he heard at this day More then ever there were at Babel At Babel some conceive that one Tongue was divided into seventy two Languages But our divisions far exceed that number At Babel others conjecture that there were as many tongues as several kinreds and families With us there are more Kinreds and Families being subdivided The husband speaking one thing the wife another the parent one thing and the childe another the master one thing and the servant another Thus it should not be Christians who have one Head should have but one Tongue all speaking the same thing for substance 2. And as much as may be for expression also However not affecting a difference A vain and dangerous affectation so it is to decline common and received expressions whether laid down in the Word or else being consonant to it upon good ground taken up by the Church The later of these many ancient Hereticks took great exceptions at and sought to make advantage of Some words they met with in common use in the Church but because they did not finde them syllabically and expresly in the Scriptures therefore they rejected them and with them the things signified by them Thus the Arrians because they found not the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Consubstantiality in the Text therefore they rejected it and with it the Orthodox doctrine of the Church touching the sons being of the same substance with the father And so the Sabellians because they found not the word Trinity in Scriptures therefore they denyed the Trinity of persons in the God-head Upon like ground the Photinians denyed the two natures in Christ and the Nestorians the Hypostatical the personal union of those two natures Thus it was of old And thus it is in many places of this Kingdom at this day where all these old rotten Errors are again revived and raised out of their graves and that upon the very same pretences A dangerous affectation which Christians should beware of Do we beleeve with the Church let us not without just ground refuse to speak with the Church in the Churches Language and Dialect Specially in the phrase of Scripture This is that which the Ministers of Christ should affect as much as may be to speak in that sacred Dialect Not setting the Min● of their Brains on work to coyn new and high and far-fetcht expressions purposely to amuse the hearer a practise much in use with Familists and Antinomians and some other Sects of the times Of such Pareus observes truely that giving themselves first to finde out new phrases and terms afterwards oft-times they come to broach new Doctrines new Opinions and so to make Sects and Schisms in the Church And therefore to prevent this the Apostle here desires his Corinthians that they would speak the same thing Therein saith the foresaid Author tacitely pointing at one of these heads from whence their Schisms and Factions were sprung viz. From their different Language in and about matters of Religion And let this his advice to them be as acceptable to us as it is seasonable That we may avoyd the like evils in speaking of the matters of God take heed of affecting an unwarrantable and wanton singularity Ministers hold we fast that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that form of sound and wholesome words which we have received from Christ and his Apostles and from the Orthodox Churches of God speaking the same things in the same manner that they have done before us Not crossing not interfering with them nor yet willingly with our Brethren Pulpit against Pulpit is next to Altar against Altar As much as may be let such clashing be declined by the Ministers of Christ whose endeavor should be that they might all speak the same thing This do we And this do you Quest I but how shall both we and you attain to it How shall we come to this unity of Language Answ. Why labor we for unity of Hearts and Mindes Anatomists tell us of an Artery which goeth from the Heart to the Tongue If Hearts be agreed Tongues will soon be accorded And thus I am got upon the second step of the Apostles gradation which leadeth me to the third That ye be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement I shall not stand long upon either Onely the first word will stay me a little being a word full of Emphasis and significancy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That ye be perfectly joyned together So our Translation renders it by divers words not knowing how fully to expresse it in one The word properly signifieth Compagination when the parts of a thing are aptly joyned together so as they do fitly agree with the whole and amongst themselves Even as it is in the body of man wherein the Members are all fitly joyned and knit together in a due symmetry and proportion so as they are each serviceable to other and all to the whole This is properly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And this it is which Paul here begs for his Corinthians that they might be thus united and compacted together A blessing very desirable for every Church Thus in the Church invisible united The whole body is knit together by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred to it from the Head as the Apostle speaketh All true Believers they are incorporated into one Mystical body knit together by the bands of Faith and Love By the one united to their Head Christ by the other one to another And such a union such a coagmentation is a thing very desirable for every visible Church This it is which maketh it a compleat and perfect Church So the vulgar Latin here renders the word in the Text Sitis autem perfecti Be ye perfect Then is a thing said to be perfect and compleat when it hath all the parts thus aptly and fitly put together And thence it is that the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is sometimes used in that sense So our Translation renders it 2 Cor. 13. Finally Brethren Fare ye well be perfect {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That is perfectly united unto Christ and one to another as the Jesuit there fitly expounds