A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618, Errata – Sermon
Errata.
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Lesser escapes I remit to the correction of the understanding reader.
A PASSAGE OF MASTER WILLIAM Cowper, peetended bishop of Gallaway his sermon, delivered before the states anno 1606. at which time he was minister at Perth.
On 2 Corin. 6. 3, 4.
foreign. The Apostle wrote this epistle in his owne name, and in the name of Timothie his brother, as yee may penceave by the first verse of this epistle. And now in both their names hee directeth the exhortation. Preachers are workers together, brethren, and fellow-labourers. Here a worthie Apostle claimeth no superiour stile to Timothie an Evangelist, alb…it justly hee might, h…e b…ing an Apostle, the other an Evangelist, both which were temporarie and extraordinarie callings in the Church of God, but the one, namely the office of an Apostle more excellent then the other office of an Evangelist. This may serve to make these men ashamed, who being partakers of one office of pastorship with the rest of their brethren, will bee separated from them by slately sitles. Order is good, I grant, but away with such order, as hath bred that I omane Hierarchie, the tyrannie of the Antichrist. Alwayes here our chiefe lesson is that ministers should work together. They should not worke one against another. We are the servants of one Lord, wee have all one citie to build, we are fortifiers of the wall of one Jerusalem, what part of the wall wee stand and into, that is no matter, the worke and the waze is one to us all. Vnion among brethren is ay the forerunn…r of blessing, division againe bringeth on the fall; for a kingdome devided against it selfe cannot stand. In the primitive church S. Luke saith, The multitude of beleevers were of one heart. There upon followed a flourishing estate of the church, notwithstanding the powers of the world were enemies to them. Great things are alwayes performed by union, yea suppese of mean instruments. There is non, saith Job, can restraine the influence of the Pleiades, it is but a constellation of the seven starres, which we commonly call the seven sisters; yet do they bring with them the spring of the year. Thus a nature her self advanceth her greatest workes by unin. A materiall building is made up by the uniting of stones and timb…r b…fore disjoyned, and and the fall thereof is procured againe by their renting and sundring one from another. I exhort you therefore brethren, in the name of the Lord, that as one man our hearts may bee joyned together to doe the worke of the Lord, and this devision threatning a fearfull decay of Christ his kingdome in the midst of us, may be eshewed.
Where if it be objected to me, where is the blame or cause of division? For I know that as Salomon saith, every mans way seemeth good in his owne eyes. I answer, I have not a deligh to make a sport of the nakednesse of my father, and I desire not to be cursed with Chaent. If the division were not so evident that the most simpley perveaveth it, I could willingly also misknow it, but since the evill is manifest, the cause of the evil is also easily espied: for looke what part of the wall is gagged from the o…ation, where upen the building stands, and from that policie we receaved from our fathers, let th… be drawne in to the rest againe, then shall arise a happie union, that may assure us of a continuance and increase of Gods work in the midst of us.
FINIS.
End of the text · David Calderwood, A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 (1636)