6o6 _).1-------N-,-o_P_ea....,.ce_w....,.t_.th_R_om_e_. ------ de: What Church foever Cod !hall call dought<r, we will calllifler;and (owe fafely A may. Howmany hone!l & cha!le-matronshave weknown, that have been alhamed ofa lewd fiflcr, andhave abhorred filtbinelfe in one oftheir own blood? So it fareth nowwith us: ll•me is overgone withHerefie, with Idolatry'; Let her pratlife her whoredomeat home byherfelfe;lt was not forus with theflllegard ofour hlinfOy 10 Efa.u .:u. Irt~t.!.C·Z.-3• CyprJ,3otp.t~. Nwyct~mfl.dllf t_/ll(l/llautu•·- 't.rifS,..tlincuiD'~ piJ~r~ J'Of~;~u. t -l Pfa!26+ :-,IWiri~mPr. ;tc:£~'u.l'. Ephif).u. dwell with (uch • partner. Not only her wickednelfe bath thrull usout, but her violence: W,.e yeeld therfiJte, and forrowfully complaine with the Prophef, How is the faithful! City become anHarlot I It was;full ofjudgmenr,andJufHce lod'ged therein· bf. nqw it is fullofmurdere~s: T~y filver is becomedrolfe, and thy wine Is brewed with water. Away With the trnpenousname ofamother: We are all thefameChurch (bY tl:ie vertuc ofou'r outward vocation) Whofoever all theworldoverwor!hip Jefus Chri!l the only SonneofGod, and Saviour ofthe world, and profelfe the fame corn- .manCreed: fume ofu; doe thismore purely,othersmore corruptly; in themean time B weearealiChrillians, but found Chrillians wee are not: But howharfhlydoth this fon.1d to a weakeR.eader, and more than feemes to need reconciliation with it felfe· t.~atthe Church fhould be one, and yet cannot be reconciled? certainly yet fa itis; The dignity ofthe ourward forme (which comprehends this unity in it felfe)avai les nothm~ to grace, nothing to falvation, nothing to rhe foundneffeofdollrine: The netdoth nor fl>aigbt makeall 10 beFifh, thzrir bath d"ggcrl wgether;yefhall fiode in it vile weed,, and whatfoevet elfe that devouring Element h>thdifgorged. The Church is at onceone in refpect of1hc common principles offaith; and yet in refpe{\:ofconfequences, and that rabbleofOpinionswhich they have raked togetber,fo oppofed, that it cannot by any glewofconcord( asCJprian fpeaketh)nor bond ofunity, beconjoJoed: Thlt which llome holds with us, makes it aChurch; Thar C which it obtrudes opon us, mlkes it hereticall; The truth ofPrinciples makes it one, ,be error and ~mpiety ofadditions makes 11 irreconciliable. Neither doth this late arrdfpurious@rood of traditionsmnre oppofeus, than it doth thole very Principles · ofR~Iigion which the Authors themfclves defire toellablifb. Look on the face therfureofthe R•m•n Churcl1, !he is ours, and Gods i Lookeon herbacke, !he is quite contrary, Antichr·llian: More plainly,for it is no difput!O!! inMetaphors, as C/emens faid well: Rome dotbboth hold the foundation, and dt!hoy ir; !heholdsit direCtly, deOroyes it by confequem: In that fheholds'it, lheis a tmeChmch, howfoeverimpmed; In that fhrdellroyes it(what-ever femblance !he makes ofpiety and holinelfe) !he is a Churchofmalignams: Iffhe did altQl!ether hold it,lhe fhnuld be found and D Orthodox; Ifaltogether fhe d<llroyed it,fhefhould he eitherno Church,or devilli!h; but n<•W, that !beprofelfel 10 hold thole th;ngs directly, which by inferenceofrer confequences !heclofelyovenhrowes, fhe is a truly vifible Church, but an unfound. ln what fhe holds the principles, we embrace her; in 'Yhat Ote dellroyes them, we 'pity!>er error, and hare her obffinacy. · Th<common bond ofChrillianity never ties us to favour!!rolfc errors, fa much as with filence; trere is no fuch Oav~ry in thedeare nameofaSiller, that it fhould binde ll'l to give either aid or counren>nce to lewdneffe: Have no fuch fcllowfhip (faith Saint P••l) but rather reprove: So we havedone, both modeflly and earnellly: The fame isbefalneus, which befell the blelfed Apo!He; we are become their enemiet, for telling the trulh. E Behold, now we are thrull om ofdoore, (pet upoo, railed at, and when opportuntty ferves, perfecutedwith moll cnrioustorments; And (lellany mifchile!bould be wantin~)obllinacy isnowat Iall added umoerror; and acruellrage arifingfromimpatience: and now their wickednelfebegan to pleafe themmore, bccaufe it difpleafed u•. And whatfhould we now doe in fuch acafe, wethedefp1fed and rejel:ted Patrons ofthis fpi rituall chafiity? To let full fa jull acaufe, wemij!ht not; unlelfe ~ve woulq call of that God, who challenges thisplea for onelyhi,. Toyeeld, and gwe in, were noother, than to betray the truth ofGod, and damne ourownefoules : No eourfetemainesbut this one (and here is our onely fafety) with all our cour~~e and !kill, to oppofe thewicked Paradoxes, aud Idolatrous praClifes oftheR.om•fh Church, rill either !he be a!h1med of her (elfe, or repent that ever fhe was. SECT.
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