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<P><HI>Leaven, corrupting the Childrens Bread;</HI> OR Chri&s;ts <HI>Caveat</HI> to beware of <HI>Sectaries</HI> and their dangerous Doctrines.</P>
<P>IN TWO SERMONS on <HI>Mark</HI> 8.15.</P>
<P>The former preached in the Cathedrall Church of Lincoln, at the Lecture, on Wed|ne&s;day, <HI>October</HI> 1. 1645.</P>
<P>The latter in another Auditorie.</P>
<P>By JOHN CLARKE, B. D. and Pa&s;tor of the Church of <HI>Fiskerton,</HI> neere <HI>Lincoln.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>2 Tim. 3.13, 14.</HI></BIBL>
<P>But evill men, and &s;educers, &s;hall wax wor&s;e, and wor&s;e, deceiving and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou ha&s;t lear|ned, and ha&s;t been a&s;&s;ured of &amp;c.</P>
<BIBL><HI>2 Tim. 4.3, 4, 5.</HI></BIBL>
<P>For the time will come, when they will not endure &s;ound doctrine; but after their own lu&s;ts, &s;hall they heap to them&s;elves teachers, having itching eares. And they &s;hall turn away their eares from the truth, and &s;hall be turned unto fables&mdash;But watch thou in all things &mdash;</P>
<BIBL><HI>Aug. ad Hieronym.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Re&s;ecandae &s;unt putridae carnes, &amp; &s;cabio&s;a ovis ab ovili repellenda est, n&egrave; tota domus, <HI>Ma&s;&s;a,</HI> &amp; pecora ardeant, <HI>corrumpantur,</HI> putre&s;cant, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">tereant. <HI>Arrius</HI> in Alexandria, una <HI>&s;cintilla</HI> fuit, &s;ed quia non &s;tatim oppre&s;&s;us e&s;t, totum orbem ejus flamma populata est.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Macock,</HI> for <HI>Luke Fawne,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop at the &s;ign of the <HI>Parrot</HI> in <HI>Pauls Church-yard.</HI> 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle to the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Chri&s;tian READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_ALthough I be neither &s;o <HI>ob&s;cure</HI> in the world, as not to know, or be known, unto &s;ome great and good men too, &s;ome <HI>Theophilus</HI> unto whom I might, perhaps with acceptation, de|dicate and entitle the following &s;ermons; nor &s;o <HI>badly beloved,</HI> befriended, that either my pains, or per&s;on, need fear &s;lighting, di&s;countenance, or con|tempt; Yet I chu&s;e rather at this time (as one not a&s;hamed, or afraid, in <HI>this</HI> particular to be counted <HI>Independent</HI>) to let the&s;e plain &s;ermons pa&s;se abroad withovt ambitious affecting, wooing the patronage, wearing the Liverie of any great name, but onely thine <HI>(Chri&s;tian)</HI> who art truly great and honourable, yea of the blood royall, partaker of the Divine nature; who&s;e father, brother, hope, happine&s;se, inheritance, crown, are all in heaven. It is the truth of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t which I preach; and will I doubt not be entertained by &s;uch with due re&s;pect, who know and follow Chri&s;ts voice. Every truth ought to be precious unto us. What is truth, if not this which i&s;&s;ued out of the mouth of <HI>truth it &s;elf?</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ad experience we all have of the pre&s;ent di&s;tempers of our Church, in regard of a perver&s;e <HI>&s;pirit of errour</HI> mingled a|mong us, tels us our need of being <HI>charged</HI> to take <HI>heed,</HI> beware of Leaven.</P>
<Q><PB REF="3">Abundans cautela non nocet.</Q>
<P>I and <HI>thou</HI> have <HI>lift up our hands unto the Lord, the mo&s;t high God, the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of heaven and earth,</HI> Gen. <HI>14.22.</HI> and by the &s;olemne nationall covenant, &s;tand <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, <HI>with|out re&s;pect of per&s;ons to endevour the ext<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ipat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on of pope|rie, &s;uper&s;tition, here&s;y, &s;chi&s;m, profane&s;&s;e, and what&s;oever &s;hall be found contrary to &s;ound doctrine and the power of Godline&s;&s;e</HI>&mdash;Who &s;hall, can, di&s;engage us of this Bond?</P>
<P>How ever in the preaching of the&s;e Sermons, I plea&s;ed not <HI>&s;ome,</HI> who with a &s;hie, di&s;contented countenance, a maligne di&s;|dainfull eye &s;ince have looked <HI>on</HI> me, <HI>over</HI> me, <HI>as the D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vil looked over Lincoln</HI> (according to <HI>our</HI> country <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">;) Yet by men judicious, godly, orthodox, what I preached <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">en</HI> accepted, accounted <HI>a word in &s;ea&s;on,</HI> profitable, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">; through who&s;e importunity, <HI>now,</HI> at la&s;t, it is th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> pre|&s;ented to thine eye.</P>
<P>If it may do any good to the common cau&s;e, and b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> bucket to quench the &s;care-fire; an Antidote again&s;t the infection of the times, I &s;hall be glad. 'Tis not my purpo&s;e to ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, I wi&s;h rather to heal the, <HI>canker,</HI> &s;ore: I de&s;ire to be faithfull to Chri&s;t, and his peoples &s;ouls; not to plea&s;e men, or for itch their itching eares; to move <HI>planctum,</HI> rather then <HI>pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;um;</HI> to &s;peak to their <HI>hearts,</HI> not to feed their humourous fancies. Plain deal|ing is a jewel, yet they that u&s;e it, die beggars; I matter it no, <HI>for if I yet plea&s;ed men, I &s;hould not be the &s;ervant of Chri&s;t. Gal. 1.10.</HI> The Lord &s;tir up the &s;pirit of every found truly good Chri&s;tian, to &s;tand up as Gods <HI>witne&s;&s;e,</HI> and great|ly to contend for the faith, which wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e delivered to the Saints. So prayeth</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Thy &s;ervant in his mini&s;terie</HI> John Clark.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Leaven</HI> corrupting the childrens <HI>Bread,</HI> OR Chri&s;ts caveat to beware of Sectaries, and their dangerous <HI>Doctrines.</HI></HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>MARK 8.15.</HI></BIBL>
<P>And He charged them, &s;aying; Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Phari&s;ees, and of the leaven of Herod.</P></Q>
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<P>_UPON occa&s;ion of the late miracu|lous feeeding of four thou&s;and people with &s;even loaves, (as we finde in <HI>ver.</HI> 6, 7, 8, 9. of this pre&s;ent Chapter) Our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour (who&s;e manner u&s;ually was<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Sican enim Joh. 6. Chri&s;tus ex miracu|lo quinque panum oc|ca&s;ionem &s;ump&s;it do|cendi de pane caele|&s;ti, qui vi|tam a&s;&s;ert mundo: ita hic ex miraculo &s;eptem panum nuper edito, &amp; eorum fermentatione, occa&s;io|nem &s;umit Apo&s;tolos in&s;tituendi de fermento <HI>Phari&s;aeorum</HI> &amp; <HI>Sadducaeorum,</HI> quo illi &s;ince|ram doctrinam verbi divini, quod e&s;t panis vitae, corrumpunt. <HI>Chemn.</HI> Harm. Evan. c. 82.</NOTE> to improve earthly, &s;en&s;ible, obvious objects to &s;pirituall advantages:) draweth off the minds of his hearers, rai&s;eth up the hearts of his Di&s;ciples, to more high, and heavenly meditations; minding them of another kinde of <HI>bread;</HI> fore-warning them of another kind of <HI>leaven</HI> than was u&s;ed and eaten ordinarily in their hou&s;es, and &s;et on their tables; <HI>viz.</HI> Fal&s;e <HI>Doctrine</HI><NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; fermentum Phari&s;aeorum in doctrina con&s;i&s;tit fal&s;a. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap. 61. &mdash; fermentum Phari&s;aeorum, &amp; Sadducaeorum non corporalem panem, &s;ed traditiones per|ver&s;as, &amp; haeretica &s;ignificat dogmata, <HI>R. Mont.</HI></NOTE> poy|&s;onous
<PB N="2" REF="4"> po&s;itions, &s;oul-damning principles<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;impia Phari&s;aeo|rum do|ctrina <HI>fer|mento</HI> com|paratur propter vim noxi|am &s;edu|cendi ho|mines, &amp; praecipi|tandi in exitium. <HI>Paraeus</HI> in 1. ad <HI>Co|rinth.</HI> cap. 5. v. 6.</NOTE> broached, broken among the people, dropped here and there, and crumbled into the <HI>Bread</HI> of <HI>Life,</HI> the Word of God, by &s;undry pernicious Sectaries of tho&s;e times, <HI>Phari&s;ees, Sad|duces,</HI> (for I take in <HI>them</HI> too, as I am warranted from <HI>Mat.</HI> 16.6.) and <HI>Herodians,</HI> who did &s;hamefully vitiate, gro&s;&s;ely corrupt, the &s;incere<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; e&s;t hic &s;ermo <HI>metaphoricus. Chemn.</HI> harm. cap. 82. denotat id quo nativa rei puritas inficitur, &amp; opponitur puro ac &s;implici <HI>Dei</HI> verbo.</NOTE> genuine truth of the Word of God, <HI>&s;oul-bread;</HI> with their erroneous glo&s;&s;es and tradi|tions: for &s;o, without all <HI>metaphor,</HI> the Di&s;ciples under|&s;tood, <HI>That he bode them, not beware of the</HI> Leaven <HI>of Bread,</HI><NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; non ex panibus, &s;ed ex cordibus vult fermentum expurgari. <HI>Paraeus</HI> ibid.</NOTE> but <HI>of the Doctrine of the Phari&s;ees,</HI> and of <HI>the Sad|duces,</HI> Mat. 16.12.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Parts.</HI></NOTE>In the Words, ob&s;erve two particulars.</P>
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<ITEM>1. A <HI>Duty</HI> charged on the Di&s;ciples.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> pre&s;&s;ing it.</ITEM>
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<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Duty.</HI></NOTE>1. The <HI>Duty</HI> charged upon them, is this, <HI>viz.</HI> Carefully to <HI>heed</HI> what&s;oever Doctrines, they might occa&s;ionally <HI>heare;</HI> as a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of great con&s;equence, deeply concer|ning them<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;hanc fui&s;&s;e Chri|&s;ti mentem ut contra prae&s;entes corruptelas, quibus undique erant ob&s;e&s;&s;i, eos muniret. <HI>Calvin.</HI></NOTE>, as appeareth by our Saviours ingeminated <HI>Caveat,</HI> And <HI>he charged them, &s;aying,</HI>
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<ITEM>1. Take heed:</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Beware.</ITEM>
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<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Rea&s;ons.</HI></NOTE>2. The <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> pre&s;&s;ing their due circum&s;pection; and that from
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<ITEM>1. The <HI>nature</HI> of the Doctrine, 'tis <HI>Leaven.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The <HI>quality</HI> of the <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> preaching, profe&s;&s;ing, practi&s;ing the &s;ame;<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; illae fectae tunc tyrannice regnaban: in Eccle&s;ia &amp; vitio&s;is &s;uis dogmatibus oppre&s;&s;am tenebant legis &amp; Prophetarum doctrinam, ut nihil fere &s;anum vel integrum maneret. <HI>Calv.</HI></NOTE> no &s;mall fools or mean men, you may be &s;ure; but the Ma&s;ters of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="4"> Doctors of the chair, the Rabbi's; &s;eeming Saints, great zealots; holy, honourable, and learned men; the reputed <HI>none-&s;uch's;</HI> the gratious, magni|fied, omni-fied <HI>ones,</HI> who were cryed up, in Court, City, Country; <HI>Phari&s;ees, Sadduces,</HI> and <HI>Herodi|ans,</HI> who might ea&s;ily beguile, and &s;educe unheed|ing credulous &s;ouls.</ITEM>
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<P>I &s;hall <HI>&s;um</HI> up the <HI>totall</HI> of my following di&s;cour&s;e, in
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<ITEM>1. An Hi&s;toricall Narration</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Doctrinall Ob&s;ervation</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Practicall Application</ITEM>
</LIST> of the particular <HI>truths</HI> contained in the Text.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t, <HI>Historically</HI> to acquaint you, <HI>What</HI>
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<ITEM>1. The&s;e 3 &s;orts of Sectaries <HI>were</HI>
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<ITEM>Phari&s;ees.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sadduces.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Herodians.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>2. They <HI>held,</HI> profe&s;&s;ed, their dogmaticall <HI>tenents,</HI> principles, doctrines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Their <HI>carriage</HI> and <HI>behaviour</HI> was towards
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<ITEM>Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Go&s;pell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;ciples.</ITEM>
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<P>The &s;econd, <HI>Doctrinally</HI> to inform and teach you, what Divine truths may hence profitably be learned, and ob&s;erved.</P>
<P>The third <HI>practically</HI> to apply,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Phri&s;ees.</HI></NOTE> and make <HI>U&s;e</HI> of &s;uch things from thence, as may concern our &s;elves.</P>
<P>For the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>The <HI>Phari&s;ees</HI> were Separati&s;ts<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">a <GAP DESC="foreign"> divi&s;it. or <GAP DESC="foreign"> a &s;eparatio|ne &amp; di&s;|&s;idio; quoniam a vulgari ordine &s;egregati, religionis profe&s;&s;ione fecernebantur. <HI>Tolet.</HI> in Joan. cap. 18. &mdash; See <HI>two</HI> other Etymologies of <HI>Phari&s;ee</HI> in Mr <HI>Godwins</HI> Mo&s;es and Aaron, <HI>lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 10. Quin etiam ex libris Talmudicis, con&s;tat, Phari&s;aeos ip&s;os, in <HI>&s;eptem</HI> Sectas fui&s;&s;e divi&s;os. <HI>Jan&s;en.</HI> concord. <HI>Evangel.</HI> cap. 13. Mr <HI>Godwin</HI> his Mo|&s;es and Aaron, <HI>lib,</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 10. &mdash; So the German Anabapti&s;ts were crumbled into 14. &s;everall Sects. Mr <HI>Paget<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Here&s;iograph. pag. 31.</NOTE> to an extraordinary
<PB N="4" REF="5"> pretended &s;anctity of life, above other men<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg">After the mo&s;t &s;traite Sect of our Religion, I lived a Phari&s;ee, Act. 26.5.</NOTE> of the &s;ame Nation, and Church of God, the Jews, at that time, the Lords own peculiar above all Nations: the&s;e, though born of the &s;ame womb, &s;ucking the &s;ame brea&s;ts, enjoying the &s;acred Ordinances, lively Oracles, &amp;c. <HI>Called the holy &s;eed,</HI> Ezra 9.2. <HI>The people of Gods holine&s;&s;e,</HI> I&s;ai 63.18. Yet, if not li&s;ted under them, members of their Congregation, they branded as prophane, thought them not worthy of their holy &s;ociety. Whereupon our Saviour brings in the proud Phari&s;ee, &s;trutting and vapouring, <HI>God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, Extortioners, Unju&s;t, &amp;c.</HI> Luke 18.11.</P>
<P>Secondly, They would not eate or drink, or conver&s;e, neither make nor meddle with them, nor &s;o much as touch them, willingly or wittingly; as may appear <HI>Luke</HI> 7.39. When the woman which was a &s;inner, wa&s;hed Chri&s;ts feet with her tears, <HI>The Phari&s;ee &s;pake within him&s;elf,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>This man if he were a Prophet, would have known who,</HI> and what manner of woman <HI>this is that toucheth him, for &s;he is a &s;in|ner.</HI> (&s;ee al&s;o <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 65.5.) and thereupon the Phari&s;ees were ever and anon upon our Saviours jacket, &s;narling at him, and cen&s;oriou&s;ly taxing him, for eating, drinking, or having to do with Publicans and Sinners, <HI>Mark</HI> 2.16. <HI>Luke</HI> 5.30.</P>
<P>Thirdly, They would not go in the common garb, weare &s;uch apparell, be in the &s;ame fa&s;hion, or kind of habit, that other their Country-men and neighbours were; they affe|cted &s;ingularity in their very cloathes, and would &s;ay, <HI>Ve&s;tes populi terrae conculcatio &s;unt Phari&s;aeorum.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly, They accounted al others who were not of their Sect, Order, Fraternity, and Congregation, <HI>Cur&s;ed,</HI> igno|rant &s;orry &s;ots, mi&s;creant, wretched caytiffs, creatures<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg">Erant Phari&s;aei cum &s;ua, tum alio|rum &s;ententia, <HI>Lux</HI> I&s;raelis, &s;ecta exacti&s;&s;ima Judaeorum. <HI>Montacut.</HI> Appar. 7. Sect. 40.</NOTE>
<PB N="5" REF="5"> <HI>John</HI> 7.48, 49. <HI>Have any of the Rulers, or of the Phari&s;ees beleeved on him? But this people, who knoweth not the Law, are cur&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>For the &s;econd</P>
<P N="2">2. What they <HI>held,</HI> their <HI>Dogmata</HI><NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">Errores autemquos mordicus tenebant, graves ad|modum fuerunt. <HI>Godwin.</HI> Synop&s;. Antiquitatum Hebraicarum lib. 3. cap. 1. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. Evangeli&s;t cap. 51.</NOTE> po&s;itions,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> their Leaven.</NOTE> and <HI>Leaven</HI> of their Doctrine (be&s;ides what Saint <HI>Matthew</HI> &s;ets down, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.21, 27, 38, &amp;c. <HI>Mat.</HI> 15.4. <HI>Mat.</HI> 23. <HI>per tot.</HI>) was made up of the&s;e four erroneous, hereticall, and bla&s;|phemous ingredients, which they &s;tifly maintained, and &s;tood to.</P>
<P N="1">1. That there was but one per&s;on in the God-head; and that Chri&s;t the Me&s;&s;iah, was to be man<NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;<HI>hunc</HI> humanam tantum naturam habiturum putarunt, nec de alia quam de corporalis regni re&s;tauratione &s;omniarunt. <HI>God|win</HI> Synop&s;.</NOTE> onely, and his kingdome temporall.<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">Opinio quae etiam <HI>Apostolis</HI> inhaerebat, qua &s;ibi finxerunt, reg|num <HI>Me&s;&s;iae</HI> fore imperium mundanum, &s;imile regno <HI>Davidis,</HI> &amp; <HI>Alexandri</HI> imperio. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. Evangel. cap. 61. &s;ee <HI>Mat.</HI> 20.21. <HI>Luk.</HI> 17.20. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 18.36. See more of their <HI>tenents</HI> at large in <HI>Montac.</HI> Appar. 7. Sect. 37.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2. That the &s;ouls of righteous men at their death, pa&s;&s;ed into other bodies of good men: (a whelp much what of the &s;ame litter with the Pythagorean <GAP DESC="foreign">) and animated them. Hereupon it was that they which &s;avoured of this Leaven, &s;aid, <HI>That Chri&s;t was John Bapti&s;t, Elias, Jeremias, or one of the Prophets, Mat.</HI> 16.14.</P>
<P N="3">3. That there was in man a freedome of Will, by Na|ture, unto good; and a &s;elf-ability to fulfill the whole Law of God, and to attain heaven.<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">Haec fiducia propriae ju&s;titiae fuit in&s;tar fermenti, quo Judaei turgidi, inflati, <HI>Chem.</HI> har. Evan. c. 51</NOTE> And therefore they rejected the Free Grace of God ju&s;ti|fying &s;inners; puffed up with a conceited righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e of their own, as not needing any mercy from God, or merit of a Redeemer to &s;ave them; &s;ee <HI>Rom.</HI> 10.3.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="6" REF="6">4. Not re&s;ting in the written Law, and Word of God, they maintained a traditionall Law, <HI>thorah begnal pe</HI> (delivered by Word of mouth to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> by <HI>God,</HI> and by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to their fathers, and &s;o to them) more com|pleat, ab&s;olute, and which did expound the Law written, <HI>Mat.</HI> 15.6, 9.</P>
<P>And thus they added needle&s;&s;e, endle&s;&s;e ceremonies, wil|wor&s;hip, fictions, fables, <HI>a&s;&s;umenta,</HI> beggarly patches to Scripture broad-cloth: con&s;i&s;ting in
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<ITEM>1. <HI>Wa&s;hings,</HI> divers, often, <HI>cubitaliter,</HI> up to the elbows:
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<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">Theophy|lact in Mar. 7.3.</NOTE>&mdash; Not eat till they wa&s;h, <HI>Mat.</HI> 15.2. <HI>Luke</HI> 11.38.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; When they came from the market, wa&s;hing, cups, pots, tables, <HI>Mar.</HI> 7.4.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>2. <HI>Fa&s;tings,</HI> twice in the week they fa&s;ted, on
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<ITEM>Monday.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thur&s;day.</ITEM>
</LIST> <HI>I fast twice in the week,</HI> Luke 18.12.<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Phari|&s;aet</HI> jeju|nantes, je|junabant vere; nihil enim plane comedebant u&s;que ad noctem, aliquandiu po&s;t occa&s;um &s;olis, <HI>Mont.</HI> Appar. 7. Sect. 23.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Theophylact</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dru&s;ius</ITEM>
</LIST> in Luke 18.12.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Phylacteries,</HI> or &s;mall &s;crols of parchment<NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; <HI>Ip&s;i</HI> &s;imbrias protrahe|bant, &amp; in oris earum &s;pinas li|gabant quarum a&s;&s;iduis punctioni|bus, pedes &amp; tibiae, &s;anguine a&s;per&s;ae mon&s;trabantur; ea &s;olum ratione, ut populis vitae poenitudinem o&s;tentarent. <HI>Tolet</HI> in Joan. cap. 18.</NOTE> in which certain &s;elect &s;entences of the Law were written, by Gods own appointment, <HI>Deut.</HI> 6, 8, 9. &amp; bound to the head, hand, skirts: &mdash; but the Phari&s;ees in an hypocri|tical vain-glorious<NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">Non ut exactam <HI>legis</HI> ob&s;ervatio|nem prae&s;tarent, &s;ed quia his hominum gloriam, &amp; exi&s;timationem ambibant. <HI>idem.</HI> Ambi|tionis animalia. <HI>Mont.</HI> Appar. 7. Sect. 4. &amp; 31.</NOTE> humour, <HI>enlarged</HI> the&s;e above ordinary, and are therefore cen&s;ured by our Saviour, <HI>Mat.</HI> 23.5.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Praying</HI> often, much, in private<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Pri|vatis ora|tionibus domi adeo incumbebant, ut &s;e &s;omni privarent beneficio. <HI>Epiphan.</HI> &mdash; aeneam &s;phaeram manu tenere con&s;ue&s;cebat, pelvi &s;ubjecta, ut cum e manu &s;phaera in pelvim ex|cidi&s;&s;et, &s;ono excitatus Phari&s;aeus &s;omnum excuteret, &amp; &s;e componeret denuo ad orationem, vid <HI>Montacut.</HI> Apparat. 7. Sect. 17.</NOTE> and in publike,
<PB N="7" REF="6"> <HI>Mat.</HI> 6.5, 7. But with much &s;uper&s;tition and hy|pocri&s;ie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Paines</HI> to make <HI>Pro&s;elytes,</HI> gather Churches, <HI>Mat.</HI> 23.15. (or <HI>&s;catter</HI><NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; in &s;chi&s;mati|cis vel hae|reticis <HI>con|gregationi|bus,</HI> vel potius <HI>&s;e|gregationibus.</HI> Aug. de Verb. Dom. Serm. 11.</NOTE> rather, <HI>Mat.</HI> 12.30.) <HI>Woe unto you Scribes and Phari&s;ees hypocrites, for ye compa&s;&s;e &s;ea and land, to make one Pro&s;elyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the childe of hell, then your &s;elves.</HI><NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">Mi&s;eri homines &amp; infelices, qui per <HI>bona</HI> etiam opera gehennam licitarentur!</NOTE></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Secondly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Sadduces</HI></NOTE> The <HI>Sadduces</HI></P>
<P>So named from <HI>Sadoc</HI><NOTE N="[w]" PLACE="marg"><HI>Anti|goni</HI> di&s;ci|pulo, qui cum defe|ci&s;&s;et ad templum montis Gerizim, a Mana&s;&s;e, inter Samaritas con&s;tructum, Alexandro Magno regnante, haere&s;in intulit Sadducaeorum. &mdash;<HI>Godwin</HI> lib. 3. cap. 2. Antiq. <HI>hebraic.</HI></NOTE> (others &s;ay <HI>t&s;edeck,</HI> ju&s;titia, <HI>iro|nice</HI>) the founder of that Sect, (as <HI>Browni&s;ts</HI> from <HI>Brown,</HI> and <HI>Arrians, Arminians, Donatists, Pelagians, Socinians, &amp;c.</HI> from their fir&s;t here&s;iarch) were a &s;ort of Samaritane, mi&s;|creant, mungrell-Jews, who
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Stuck &s;tifly to the bare letter of the Law, admitting onely the <HI>Pentateuch, Mo&s;es</HI> 5 Books for canonicall Scripture; but rejected
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The P&s;almes, Prophets, and all other Scrip|tures. Hence our Saviour confutes them out of <HI>Mo&s;es, Exod.</HI> 3, 6. in the point of <HI>Re&s;urrecti|on,</HI> which they denyed, <HI>Mat.</HI> 22.32.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. All traditions and Comments on the Text, and were thence called <HI>Karaim,</HI> Biblers, Scrip|turi&s;ts.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Denyed the Holy Gho&s;t, as al&s;o Angels, Spirits, <HI>Acts</HI> 23.8. <HI>The Sadduces &s;ay, that there is no Re&s;urrection, neither Angel, nor Spirit.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Maintained the &s;ouls of men to be mortall, to dye as the bea&s;ts, and be annihilated: no re&s;urrection at all,
<PB N="8" REF="7"> or future retribution to good or bad, <HI>Luke</HI> 20.27. no heaven, no hell; thus putting off at once, all &s;en&s;e of Religion; prophane Athei&s;ts, arrant Epicures,<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">De|mentiam potius E|picuream, quam legis divinae jura &s;ectabantur, inquit <HI>Phila&s;trius.</HI></NOTE> opening a wide gap to all licentiou&s;ne&s;&s;e<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">Omnem religio ni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en&s;um excu&s;&s;erunt, &mdash;carni ad effraenem peccandi licentiam viam aperuerunt. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap. 82.</NOTE> and abominable practi&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. <HI>Hero|dians.</HI></NOTE>Thirdly, The <HI>Herodians</HI></P>
<P>Were a Court-faction of &s;educing Para&s;ites, by Nati|on Jews<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">Dru|&s;ius &s;aith, <HI>Greeks.</HI></NOTE> but trained up at Court, or employed thence, as <HI>Herods</HI> Agents: <HI>Secta Aulica</HI> &s;aith Ma&s;ter <HI>Calvin</HI> in <HI>Mat.</HI> 22.16. <HI>Herodis</HI> dome&s;tici. <HI>Syr. Interp.</HI> Who&s;e Religion (like the Turki&s;h Alcoran) was a hotch-potch medley, patcht up of Pagani&s;m and Judai&s;m.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&mdash; novam quandam religio|nem ex Pagani&s;mo &amp; Judai&s;mo con&s;&s;abant. <HI>Bez.</HI> in Mat. 22.16. &mdash; nimirum, mixturam quan|dam religionis, ex Phari&s;ai&s;mo pariter &amp; Sadducaei&s;mo conflatam; ex utraque enim &s;ecta receperunt ea quae ad &s;tabiliendam dominationem, commodi&s;&s;ima videbantur, ut &s;ic popu|lum in <HI>regis</HI> &s;ui <HI>partes</HI> traherent. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap. 82.</NOTE></P>
<P>They who were tutor'd in this Court-Religion, &s;owred with the leaven of <HI>Herod,</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Cryed</HI> up <HI>Herod</HI> among the common people, as their promi&s;ed Me&s;&s;iah,<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Hero|dem arbi|trabantur e&s;&s;e illum <HI>Christum,</HI> in prophe|tis &amp; in lege, omnibus promi&s;&s;um, &amp; ab omnibus expectatum. <HI>Epiphan. Hieronym.</HI> in Mat. 22. <HI>Montac.</HI> Ap. 7. Sect. 67.</NOTE> the Scepter now departed from <HI>Iu|dah,</HI> and no other King of the Jews vi&s;ibly appearing but <HI>he;</HI> the Herodian-Chaplains, Court-Para&s;ites, are prime &s;ticklers to per&s;wade the people, to receive <HI>him</HI> for the ex|pected Me&s;&s;iah.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Honoured</HI> Herod with &s;uper&s;titious &s;olemnities, an|nually ob&s;erving his <HI>birth-day:&mdash;Herodis venere dies,</HI>&mdash;Per&s;. <HI>Satyr.</HI> 5.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Humour'd Herod,</HI> turn'd Sadduces, Epicures, were of his Athei&s;ticall opinions, followed his licentious living,
<PB N="9" REF="7"> and loo&s;e<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Bezain</HI> Notis <HI>Ma|jor.</HI> in <HI>Mat.</HI> 22.16. &mdash;fermentum <HI>Herodis,</HI> quod e&s;t manife&s;ta impletas, profanus Dei contemptus, e&s;traenis li|centia &mdash; <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harmon. Evang. cap. 61.</NOTE> practices; were moulded into his lewd ungod|ly manners, wretched and profane temporizers. <HI>Mark.</HI> 6.14.16.18.</P>
<P N="4">4. Were rigid exacters of <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> tribute, which was an Herodian principle, of Court Divinity<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;auli|cae etiam Theologiae &s;ub&s;idio fulcire reg+num &s;uum.</NOTE> (rather <HI>State-policie</HI>) which this domineering u&s;urper catechized his creatures into; clean again&s;t the hair of the Jewi&s;h im|munity from taxes, anciently pre&s;cribed to by them; point-blank cro&s;&s;ing the popular maxime of a <HI>free State,</HI> and liberty of the &s;ubject, <HI>John</HI> 8.33. and was the occa&s;ion of &s;undry rebellions and broyls; as that of <HI>Theudas, Judas</HI> of <HI>Galilee,</HI> Act. 5.36.</P>
<P>This tribute did <HI>Herod</HI> &s;queeze out of their pur&s;es, to gratifie <HI>Augu&s;tus,</HI> and keep in at the Romane Court; le&s;t the Crown which <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> had &s;et on his u&s;urping head, he &s;hould again pull off. This mor&s;ell of <HI>Herodian-Leaven</HI> lay heavy on the Jews &s;tomach, which though they were forced to &s;wallow, yet they could never well dige&s;t.</P>
<P>And thus having &s;hewed you the Devils bakers<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Diabo|lum in do|mo Domi|ni pi&s;torem agere velle &amp; habere &s;uos quo&s;dam incarnatos <HI>Pi&s;torios,</HI> qui diabolicum fermentum, &s;piritualem fa&s;tum &amp; &s;uperbiam, fidelibus admi&s;cere conantur, quo eos &amp; Deo in&s;ipidos, &amp; hominibus mole&s;tos reddant. <HI>Chemnit. Harm.</HI> cap. 61.</NOTE> <HI>who</HI> the&s;e Sectaries were, and given you a ta&s;te or e&s;&s;ay of their dangerous Leaven <HI>what</HI> they held.</P>
<P>The third particular of the Hi&s;toricall part of the Text, now follows, <HI>What the carridge</HI> and demea|nour of the Phari&s;ees, Sadduces and Herodians, was towards our Saviour Chri&s;t, his Go&s;pell, Di&s;|ciples, &amp;c.</P>
<P>All the&s;e three &s;orts of hereticall Sectaries, though at
<PB N="10" REF="8"> deadly feud among them&s;elves<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;capi|tales, ali|as, e&s;&s;ent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inimicitiae <GAP DESC="foreign"> in|ter &s;e di&s;|cordabant. <HI>Chemnit. harm. Evan</HI> cap. 49. &amp; cap. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">. <HI>Montacut.</HI> Apparat. <HI>T. S.</HI> 21.</NOTE> and mortall enemies each to other in a&s;&s;erting their helli&s;h principles; yet they joyned hand in hand, and were firmly combined again&s;t the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t; were his &s;worn and bitter, and im|placable enemies, and never left dogging, and baiting, and per&s;ecuting of him, till they had his blood, and brought him to his grave.</P>
<P N="1">1. In <HI>Words,</HI> they cal him the <HI>Carpenter,</HI> Mark 6.5. a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber, a friend of Publicans and &s;inners, <HI>Math.</HI> 11.19. They &s;aid he was a Samaritane and had a Devill, <HI>John</HI> 8.48. they called the ma&s;ter of the hou&s;e <HI>Beelzebub,</HI> Math. 10.25. <HI>that</HI> Deceiver, <HI>Math.</HI> 27.63. <HI>mad,</HI> John 10.20. with a deal of other foul language, and opprobrious calumnies.</P>
<P N="2">2. In <HI>Deeds,</HI> &s;ometime underhand, and by their emi&s;&s;a|ries, they &s;eek to undermine him, and blow up his reputa|tion among the people. Sometimes they &s;end and &s;uborn &s;ome that may feign them&s;elves ju&s;t men, to &s;nittle and en&s;nare him, in re&s;olving a ca&s;e of <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> for&s;ooth; they &s;end to catch him in his words, <HI>Mark</HI> 12.13. Some|times again they oppo&s;e him with captious que&s;tions, thinking to make him odious, as doing again&s;t the <HI>Law,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> again&s;t the ancient received Cu&s;tomes.</P>
<P N="2">2. Sometime with open <HI>violence</HI> they a&s;&s;ault him, &s;eek to lay hands on him:&mdash; &s;end officers and &s;ouldiers to take him:&mdash; bearing the world in hand, that &s;uch tender con&s;ci|enced Saints, as they &s;eemed, &s;o religious and mercifull men made up all of goodne&s;&s;e<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Chemn.</HI> Harmon. Evang. 49.</NOTE> would not have per&s;ecu|ted Chri&s;t, unle&s;&s;e he had been an evill-doer, or &s;ome no|torious wicked man. <HI>Mark</HI> 3.6.</P>
<P N="2">2. How do they undervalue his <HI>preaching,</HI> &s;eek to draw away his hearers, buzze &s;trange conceipts of him into their heads?</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="11" REF="8">3. Thus al&s;o they dealt with his <HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> Peter, Iohn, Iames, Paul, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> they revile them, beat them, impri&s;on them, kill them,&mdash; and all this to &s;top the way of</P>
<P N="4">4. The Go&s;pel, and the Preaching of the glad tydings of &s;alvation among the Gentiles; how did they &s;tomach, and &s;torm at, and gain&s;ay, and per&s;ecute it? how did they &s;eek to leaven <HI>them,</HI> and obtrude upon them cir|cumci&s;ion, keeping the <HI>Law?</HI> &amp;c. thus perverting and poy&s;oning the &s;ouls of Chri&s;ts young converts with their contagious doctrine<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">So <HI>Pa|raeus</HI> ob|&s;erves, in <HI>Gal.</HI> cap. 1</NOTE>.</P>
<P>So you &s;ee there was good rea&s;on to charge his Di&s;ciples, to take heed and beware of the Leaven of the Phari&s;ees, Sadduces and Herodians.</P>
<P>And here in the clo&s;e of the <HI>Hi&s;toricall</HI> of my Text, I might (perhaps not un&s;ea&s;onably) &s;hew you how this <HI>Charg</HI> and <HI>Caveat</HI> of our Saviours; this Antidote here pre&s;cri|bed by the great Phy&s;itian of &s;ouls, to his Di&s;ciples; this <HI>Ephemeris</HI> primarily calculated for <HI>Iudaea,</HI> and the Me|ridian of tho&s;e Primitive-Church times; yet <HI>may,</HI> doth, without much ob&s;ervable difference, &s;erve generally for <HI>great Britain,</HI> and the Climate of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Church and State: as not in <HI>factu e&s;&s;e, being</HI> long &s;ince <HI>done;</HI> but in <HI>fieri;</HI> now in <HI>doing:</HI> and hence from the circumferentialls of the Text might draw home the lines to our own Center, and make the paralell: there being as much rea&s;on, as much need, that even <HI>Our people</HI> &s;hould be <HI>charged,</HI> to take heed, <HI>beware</HI> of the <HI>Leaven</HI> of &s;educing Sectaries, now &s;cattered into the Childrens, the Churches bread, as was for them. For have not we now the like dangerous Leaveners? Who<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">See M. <HI>Pagets</HI> Here&s;io|graphie. Ma&s;ter <HI>Edwards</HI> Gangraena pa. 19.29.</NOTE></P>
<P>Deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God.</P>
<P>Affirme them to be un&s;ufficient uncertain.</P>
<P>&mdash;Written by the pen-mens own private Spirit?</P>
<P><HI>Who &s;ay</HI> There is but one per&s;on in the Divine nature.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="9">
<P>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is not very God: <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> humane nature is defiled with original &s;in &mdash; men may be &s;aved without Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>'Tis no le&s;&s;e then bla&s;phemy for a child of God to ask pardon of &s;ins.</P>
<P>The &s;oul of man is mortall, as the &s;oul of a bea&s;t, and dyeth with the body.</P>
<P>Many Chri&s;tians in the&s;e dayes have more know|ledg than the Apo&s;tles: and &s;hould not tie them|&s;elves to their imperfections.</P>
<P>The Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trate hath no power at all to medle in matters of Religion.</P>
<P>Children are not bound to obey their parents, if they be wicked.</P>
<P>The Lords prayer is but an idoll&mdash; and that <HI>Our fa|ther,</HI> hath &s;ent more to hell, than <HI>Pater no&s;ter</HI> e|ver did <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But I forbear to rake further into this kennell, and &s;hall leave the &s;ad con&s;ideration hereof to your private thoughts; and come now to</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Part.</HI></NOTE>The <HI>Doctrinall</HI> part of our Text; in which the&s;e 4. Divine <HI>truths,</HI> aphori&s;ms, or Documents, are ob|&s;ervable: <HI>that</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Corrupt <HI>Doctrine</HI> is like <HI>Leaven.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Gods people</HI> mu&s;t with all po&s;&s;ible <HI>caution,</HI> and cir|cum&s;pection <HI>pre&s;erve</HI> them&s;elves from being cor|rupted, &s;educed, and poy&s;oned with &s;uch <HI>Leaven.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The <HI>be&s;t</HI> of Gods people, (Chri&s;ts own family&mdash;Di&s;|ciples them&s;elves) <HI>need charging</HI> to take heed and be|ware of <HI>fal&s;e</HI> doctrine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The <HI>greatne&s;&s;e,</HI> or &s;eeming <HI>goodne&s;s,</HI> of any mans per|&s;on, &s;hould not &s;o <HI>captivate,</HI> or bewitch the people of God, that they &s;hould &s;uffer them&s;elves to be &s;e|duced,
<PB N="13" REF="9"> catched, or empoy&s;oned <HI>by them.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>To begin with the Fir&s;t.</P>
<Q><HI>Erroneous, corrupt Doctine is like Leaven.</HI> Math. 16.12.<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg">M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me ob&s;curum e&s;t quin fermenti nomen Chri&s;tus &s;implici puroque Dei verbo opponat &mdash; utplurimum Scriptura hoc nomine quidvis adventitium de&s;ignat quo nativa rei cuju&s;que puritas in|ficitur. In hoc autem loco, <HI>haec</HI> inter &s;e duo <HI>antitheta</HI> haud dubie re&s;pondent, Simplex Dei <HI>veritas,</HI> &amp; <HI>figmenta,</HI> quae ex proprio &s;en&s;u commini&s;cuntur homines. Neque e&s;t quod elabi tentet qui&s;piam <HI>Sopi&s;ta,</HI> negans de qualibet doctrina hoc debere intelligi, quia non alia reperietur doctrina quae purae &amp; azymae doctrinae nomen &s;u&s;tineat, quam quae a Deo profecta e&s;t. Unde &s;equitur <HI>fermentum</HI> vocari quicquid aliunde mixturae provenit: &s;icuti etiam <HI>Paulus</HI> docet <HI>adulterari fidem,</HI> &s;imulatque a Chri&s;ti &s;implicitate abducimur 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.2, 3, 4. <HI>Calvin</HI> in <HI>Math.</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.12.</NOTE> and that in &s;undry re&s;pects.</Q>
<P N="1">1. In regard of the <HI>Commonne&s;&s;e;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">In &V;&s;e common.</NOTE> Leaven was u&s;ually mingled with every batch, every loafe of Jewi&s;h bread: every family among them, did all the year-long, ordinarily, bake and eat leavened bread; unleavened was onely, or for the mo&s;t part, u&s;ed at the Pa&s;&s;eover. Now the common hou&s;hold-bread, which they dayly ate, was not more lea|vened, than the doctrines tho&s;e hereticall Ma&s;ters of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> u&s;ually taught: the bread of <HI>life</HI> they brake, was bread of death &mdash; <HI>Mors in olla.</HI> Leaven in every loaf, rat&s;-bane and rank poy&s;on in every point. As you may ob&s;erve when our Saviour picks out &s;mall, yet bane-full crumbs of their cor|rupt glo&s;&s;es, from the pure Word of God, on every occa&s;i|on &mdash;&s;ee <HI>Math.</HI> 5. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. In regard of the Quantity, <HI>Little.</HI> Leaven is but little,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Little.</HI></NOTE> a &s;mall piece of old &s;owre dough<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;&s;i mi&s;ceatur farinae quae decu|plo vel trigecuplo &amp; amplius quoad quantitatem fermentum &s;uperat; totam tamen ma&s;&s;am penetrat &amp; infint. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap. 61.</NOTE> which when 'tis crum|bled among the meal, is hardly vi&s;ible, when 'tis incorpo|rated with the <HI>pa&s;te,</HI> and kneaded up among the lump of dough, &s;carcely perceivable, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5, 6. So erroneous do|ctrine is but little at the fir&s;t; Heretiques have tricks of
<PB N="14" REF="10"> cleanly conveyance, can by &s;craps, and piece-meal &s;teal in here and there a bit, now and then a crumb, among other orthodox and unleavened truths. They are cunning enough, to mix, and blend it, not to let it fall all together on a lump; le&s;t it haply &s;hould be de&s;cryed&mdash; which if it be; Then, <HI>'tis but a &s;lip in judgement,</HI> in utterance and delivery; <HI>a private opinion</HI> of no great moment: <HI>what great harme can it do in being vented?</HI><NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg"><P>An <HI>vos</HI> viros tam &s;apientes ignorare convenit illud vulgo tritum ex pi&s;trino &s;umptum proverbium, <HI>modico fermenti fermentari totam ma&s;&s;am?</HI> Epitheton <HI>modicum,</HI> tacitam includit <GAP DESC="foreign">, &s;i forte dixerint, <HI>modicum hoc est.</HI> Imo, et <HI>modicum nocet. &mdash;Paraeus</HI> in 1. ad Corinth. cap. 5. v. 6.</P>
<P>Fermentum enim videtur res non magni momenti, &s;ed tamen intra con&s;per&s;ionem ad|mi&s;&s;a, totam ma&s;&s;am acidam reddit. Sic leviculum, &amp; nullius momenti videtur e&s;&s;e, hoc vel illud doctrinae addere. Quodnam enim periculum ex additiuncula aliqua ena&s;cere|tur? &s;ed corruptela etiam minima &s;emel recepta, &s;erpit ut cancer. &mdash; <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. c. p. 82.</P></NOTE>.</P>
<P>O ye beloved! it leaveneth people, draweth Di&s;ciples, breeds a faction, &s;eparates hearers into private conventicles, and makes rents and &s;chi&s;ms in the Church: One is for <HI>Paul,</HI> another for <HI>Apollos,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.13. A little pin may kill mortally. <HI>Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.</HI> Jam. 3.5.</P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. <HI>Like.</HI></NOTE>3. In regard of the Quality, <HI>Like.</HI> Leaven is like the dough, is of the &s;ame grain, of the &s;ame meal, leavings of the &s;ame lump, the &s;crapings up of the kneading trough; very like, it differeth but in age, &s;owrene&s;&s;e <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>So is the corrupt leaven of heretical doctrine, &s;craped up, raked together,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.6.</NOTE> out of the Scriptures, (but perverted, wre|&s;ted, &s;ophi&s;ticated, adulterated, &s;owred with rotten, corrupt mi&s;-interpretations, and glo&s;&s;es): &s;o &s;eemingly &s;ound, true, probable,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 5.14.</NOTE> holy, good, that he had need of &s;en&s;es exerci&s;ed that &s;hould di&s;cern the hidden poy&s;on of the abominable opinions, of hereticall leaveners.<NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Seria praem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ni|t one utitur, qua declarat Chri&s;tus, non e&s;&s;e <HI>cuivis</HI> datum, <HI>di&s;cernere</HI> fal&s;am doctrinam, &amp; ab illa &s;ibi caver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Bucer.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P N="4"><PB N="15" REF="10">4. In regard of the <HI>Spreading</HI> property,<NOTE PLACE="marg">4. <HI>Spreadeth.</HI></NOTE> that is in Lea|ven, for it &s;peedily, &s;ecretly, &s;uddenly, unperceiveably dif|fu&s;eth it &s;elfe through the whole lump of dough<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; fer|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nci no|mine &s;igni|ficatur, id quod late &s;erpit e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> alia quo&abque; ad &s;e tra|hit. <HI>Chemn.</HI> Harm. cap. 82.</NOTE> till all be leavened; creepeth into every corner of the kneading trough: &s;o doth this my&s;ticall leaven of fal&s;e doctrine, this &s;cab of error, like an univer&s;all lepro&s;ie<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Arria|norum</HI> ve|nenum non portiuncu|lam quan|dam &s;ed pene or|bem totum contami|naverat. &mdash;<HI>Vinc</HI> Lir. cap. 6.</NOTE> over-&s;pread and di&s;per&s;e it &s;elfe, over the whole Church and Kingdome, from old to young, from Mini&s;ter to people, from one Chri&s;tian to another. One &s;cab'd &s;heep marreth the whole flock, one rotten apple tainteth tho&s;e that lie next unto it:<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;uva&abque; contactu livorem ducit ab uva &mdash;</NOTE> One pe&s;tilent fellow may breath <HI>death</HI> into a thou&s;and. And therefore Saint <HI>Paul</HI> warneth <HI>Timothy</HI> to <HI>&s;hun prophane and vain bablings, for they will increa&s;e to more ungodlyne&s;se. And their word will eat as doth a canker, of whom is</HI> Hymene|us <HI>and</HI> Philetus, <HI>who concerning the truth have erred</HI> &mdash; 2 Tim. 2.16, 17. When men have once for&s;aken the right way, they wander <HI>in infinitum</HI>&mdash; Thus we &s;ee many fall from &s;chi&s;me to here&s;ie<NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> Hooker <HI>ec|cle&s;. polit.</HI> in the pre|faci.</NOTE> from being Separati&s;ts to Anabap|ti&s;ts, Antinomians, Arminians, Socinians, Libertines, A|thei&s;ts, <HI>Seekers</HI> (and &s;o they may be all their dayes and yet &s;hall never <HI>find</HI> that old, and right <HI>way,</HI> which for &s;ome toy they for&s;ook formerly; God penally giving them over to &s;trong delu&s;ions, and leaving them to a &s;pirit of error) <HI>Ye &s;hall &s;eek me, and &s;hall not find me,</HI> Joh. 7.34. <HI>Ye &s;hall &s;eek me, and &s;hall dye in your &s;ins,</HI> Joh. 8.21. as Chri&s;t there tel|leth the Phari&s;ees. <HI>Uno ab&s;urdo dato, mille &s;equuntur.</HI> God knoweth where &s;uch men &s;hall &s;top; them&s;elves, nor we know not<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ma&s;ter <HI>Edwards</HI> Antapolog p. 295. &s;ome of them had gone far by this time of the day.</NOTE> till they be over head and ears ingulfed, from the puddle of here&s;ie, into the bottomle&s;&s;e pit, bank-le&s;s, bound-le&s;s.</P>
<P N="5">5. In regard of the Effects, Leaven
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<P N="1"><PB N="16" REF="11"><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sowreth</HI></NOTE>1. Leaven <HI>&s;owreth</HI> the whole lump, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.6. a crumb of leaven mingled with the pure meal<NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;<HI>fer|mentum</HI> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nc vim habet ut &s;i farinae mixtum f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tquod parvum videbatur, cre&s;cat in majus, &amp; ad <HI>&s;aporem</HI> &s;uum univer&s;am con&s;per&s;ionem trahat: ita doctrina haeretica &s;i vel modicam &s;cintillam in tuum pectus jecerit, in brevi, ingens fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mma &s;uccre&s;cit, ut totam hominis po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ionem ad &s;e trahat. <HI>Hieronym.</HI></NOTE> knod among the dough, moulded up into the loafe, leaveneth, vitiateth, altereth, the fir&s;t, &s;imple, pure &s;weet nature of it, makes it &s;mell &s;owrely, ta&s;te &s;altly, <HI>&s;avour</HI> rammi&s;h, unplea|&s;ingly.</P>
<P>So doth this corrupt Leaven of erroneous doctrine<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;hu|mana commenta &amp; traditi|ones, E|vangelio Chri&s;ti admin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tas, id totum adulterare, &s;ubve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tere, fidem &amp; con&s;cientias turbare. Sicut enim modicum veneni totum cotpus inficit; &s;ic vel modicum de humanis commentis Evangelio gratiae a&s;per&s;um, totum corrumpit. <HI>Paraeus</HI> in <HI>Galat.</HI> cap. 1. Lect. 8.</NOTE> adulterate and &s;owre the unleavened truth, and pure Word of God: and therefore was odious and abominable unto God, (who cannot endure humane mixtures<NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">Quemadmodum in moneta regia, qui aliquam partem de impre&s;&s;a imagine ampu|taverit, totum numi&s;ma reddit addulterinum; ita qui&s;quis vel minimam particulam &s;anae fidei perverterit &mdash; vid. <HI>Para.</HI> ibid. ex <HI>Chry&s;ostom.</HI></NOTE> and &s;ophi|&s;tications, <HI>Amos</HI> 4.5.) expre&s;ly forbidden the Iewi&s;h Church in all their &s;acrifices, <HI>Levit.</HI> 2.11.</P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Heateth</HI></NOTE>2 Leaven <HI>heateth,</HI> and thence (in the three learned<NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">Our Engli&s;h <HI>Leaven,</HI> is from the <HI>leavings</HI> of the batch, u&s;ually made up &amp; re&s;erved, as the other Hebr. word <GAP DESC="foreign"> comes of <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>reliquum e&s;&s;e,</HI> to <HI>leave.</HI></NOTE> languages) hath its denomination. 1. <HI>fermentum</HI> a ferveo. 2. <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>quod fervendo cre&s;cat.</HI> 3. <GAP DESC="foreign"> from <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>calefactus</HI> fuit, <HI>incaluit,</HI> he was hot: every hou&s;e-wife that layeth Leaven<NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">Mulierum erat opus panes coquere &s;icut ex hi&s;toria Sarae patet <HI>Gen.</HI> 18.36: &amp; <HI>Plinius</HI> te&s;tatur Romae per annos ab urbe condita quingentos &amp; octoginta, nullos pi&s;tores fui&s;&s;e &mdash; <HI>Chemit.</HI> Harm. cap. 61.</NOTE> knoweth this heating quality to be in Leaven, and therefore they cover and keep warm their dough, le&s;t the bread &s;hould be &s;ad. No leaven but heat|eth, it is of an active, fierie nature.</P>
<P>So doth the leaven of here&s;ie heat, enflame, and enrage mens &s;pirits, &s;ets Church, Kingdome, yea the whole Chri|&s;tian
<PB N="17" REF="11"> world in combu&s;tion; and (as Saint <HI>James</HI> &s;aith of the tongue) <HI>&s;etteth on fire the cour&s;e of nature, and it is &s;et on fire of hell, Iam.</HI> 3.6.<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; pro|fana Arri|anorum novitas velut quae|dam <HI>Bello|na</HI> aut Fu|ria&mdash;non de&s;titit univer&s;a mi&s;cere atque vexare; privata ac publica, &s;acra, pro|fanaque omnia &mdash; <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 6.</NOTE> What heart-burnings doth it breed, what jealou&s;ies, &s;u&s;pitions, bitter, uncharitable cen|&s;ures doth it foment again&s;t<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">Ma&s;ter <HI>Hooker</HI> ec|cle&s;. polit. in the pre|face.</NOTE> all tho&s;e that do not &s;ide and hold with them in all things? they account them hea|thens, publicans, dogs, devils. They lowre, brow-beat, di&s;|dainfully frown, and look &s;owrly upon them (as <HI>Cain</HI> on <HI>Abel</HI>) with a di&s;contented and falne countenance; like <HI>Richard Nevill</HI> the great Earle of <HI>Warwick</HI> who looked &s;o terribly when he was moved, that every wrinkle in his fore|head was a grave for a Prince to be buried in.</P>
<P>How bitter are their &s;peeches, tongues like razors, with what vinegar and gall do they write? it would be tedious to particularize. Who were more bitter per&s;ecutours of Chri&s;t, then the Phari&s;ees? <HI>Paul</HI> him&s;elf while he was &s;o, breathed out threatnings and &s;laughter again&s;t the Church. The Devil throweth in his gunpowder among their zeale; &s;ets all in combu&s;tion betwixt men of the &s;ame Church, Kingdom, Society, Congregation, Family, <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> that board and bed together, &s;o that even the&s;e lift up the heele, the hand again&s;t each other. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 41.9.<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; nec enim tan|tum affinitates, cognationes, amicitiae, domus, verum etiam urbes, popull, provinc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ae na|tiones, univer&s;um po&s;tremo Romanorum imperium funditus concu&s;&s;um &amp; emotum e&s;t. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. de Arrian. cap. 6. &mdash; Acti in exillium &s;acerdotes, oppleta &s;anctis erga&s;tula, carceres, metalla&mdash;<HI>ibid.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P><HI>David</HI> from experience of &s;ome har&s;h u&s;age from &s;uch kind of furious fellows, prayeth to be delivered <GAP DESC="foreign"> from the hand of the injurious &amp; <HI>leavened</HI> man;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&mdash;Pru|fracte, vio|lenter agentis. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uaterf. Ain&s;worth</HI> in <HI>P&s;.</HI> 71.4</NOTE> of &s;uch we &s;ay in the proverb <HI>totus e&s;t in fermento:</HI> &s;uch hot &s;purres, fierie fierce &s;pirited men, are mo&s;t hereticall zelots: witne&s;&s;e the Anabapti&s;ts in <HI>Germany,</HI> of who&s;e outragious violences, villanies, cruelties, Hi&s;torians
<PB N="18" REF="12">
<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Joan. <HI>Sleidan</HI> de &s;tat. relig. &amp; reipub. lib. 6. Mr <HI>Philpot</HI> that godly Martyr &s;aith, <HI>the Anabap|ti&s;ts</HI> be an inordinate kind of men &s;tirred up by the <HI>Devil,</HI> to the de&s;truction of the Go&s;pel. Mr. <HI>Fox</HI> Acts Mon. vol. 3. page 607.</NOTE> relate: and the Je&s;uite-leaveners, whom one witrily cal|eth in one word <HI>Bombardo-gladio-fun-ha&s;ti-flammi-loquentes.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;ted poetic. very incendiaries to all Churches &amp; &s;tates: as the <HI>Gunpow|der Trea&s;on,</HI> and &s;undry other Machiavilian plots of the <HI>Po|pi&s;h leavened</HI> crew, e&s;pecially the yet fre&s;hly-bleeding, bloo|dy rebellion in <HI>Ireland,</HI> (in which &s;o many thou&s;and Prote|&s;tant-Engli&s;h innocents have been mercile&s;ly murthered) te&s;tifie.</P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. <HI>Swelleth</HI></NOTE>3 Leaven <HI>&s;welleth,</HI> puffeth up, heaveth, rai&s;eth the dough and maketh the bread light: &s;o doth the leaven of here|&s;ie, and fal&s;e doctrine puffe up men with an overweening conceit of their own parts, per&s;ons, graces,<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; ut enim fer|mentum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">tam con&s;per|&s;am inflat, &amp; efficit ut &s;e in altum at|tollat: ita etiam fal&s;a doctrina hominem in altitudinem extollit non tantum adver&s;us homines &s;ed et<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m gratiam Dei, inflat fiducia propriae ju&s;ticiae &mdash; <HI>Chemnit. Harm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</HI> cap. 61.</NOTE> as the pre|tious ones, Saints on earth, the excellent. The proud Pha|ri&s;ees <HI>tru&s;ted in them&s;elves that they were righteous, and de|&s;pi&s;ed others,</HI> Luk. 18.9. They affect &s;ingularity in their o|pinions, practi&s;es, are not, wil not be, do not as other men<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Marry in the night; receive the Lords &s;upper at night; anoint the &s;ick with oyl; enter into a Church covenant; people make Mini&s;ters; baptize in rivers; u&s;e the holy ki&s;&s;e; bring in widdows; hymnes; The <HI>Apo&s;tolici</HI> wa&s;h one anothers feet; have all things common, preach on the hou&s;e tops, &amp;c.</NOTE>. <HI>No doubt but ye are the people, and wi&s;dom &s;hall die with you.</HI> Job 12.2.</P>
<P>As the <HI>Chinoys</HI> highly conceited of them&s;elves<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Helyn. hi&s;t. of China. p. 687.</NOTE> that they u&s;e to &s;ay, they them&s;elves have two eyes, the <HI>Euro|paeans</HI> one, and the re&s;t of the people not one: &s;o are even the low-form Pro&s;elytes of leavened &s;ectaries, puft up with their horn book learning; <HI>knowledge puffeth up.</HI> 1. Cor. 8.7 <GAP DESC="foreign">. 1 Tim. 6.4. <HI>vainly puft up by his fle&s;hly mind.</HI> Col. 2.18. Every novice is wi&s;er then his teachers, the &s;pirit
<PB N="19" REF="12"> leadeth them into all truth, they have abundance of reve|lations, <HI>new lights;</HI> &s;ee more, know more then ordinary dull Chri&s;tians, yea then Mini&s;ters of the Reformed Churches; hence they arrogantly take the chaire,<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;In genere nullum animal magis e&s;t inflatum &amp; &s;uper|bum quam &s;it haereti|cus. <HI>Chemn.</HI></NOTE> ex|pounding, exerci&s;ing in private, re&s;olving doubts, wading into the deeps of Scripture, prophe&s;ies, my&s;teries (alas, poore pigmies! thimbles full of du&s;t!) yea &s;aucily invade our pulpits in publick. <HI>What?</HI> (&s;ay they) <HI>mu&s;t none preach but black coats?</HI></P>
<P>And why not <HI>black coats,</HI> I pray as well as <HI>gray coats</HI> and <HI>buffe coats,</HI> and blue aprons? I &s;ee no cau&s;e to be a&s;hamed of a black coat; the prophets and the prophets &s;onnes of old were known and di&s;tingui&s;hed by their habits.<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; al|lu&s;it Chri|&s;tus ad <HI>ve&s;tes,</HI> ex quibus olim dig|n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">|tur pro|phetae &mdash; <HI>Beza</HI> Not. Major. in Math. 7.15</NOTE></P>
<P>Neither know I any rea&s;on why that men that have been from their childhood trained up in the Schooles and Uni|ver&s;ities, (with great expence of time and meanes) and principled in tongues and Arts; be&s;ides many yeares &s;tudy in the Scriptures with daily humble prayer to God, for the right under&s;tanding of them, and diligent &s;earching out of ancient and modern expo&s;itors, what is the mean|ing of the H. Gho&s;t in them, I &s;ee no rea&s;on I &s;ay, (but what talk I of <HI>rea&s;on</HI> to <HI>unrea&s;onable men?</HI> 2 The&s;&s;. 3.2.) why pro|fe&s;&s;ed Scholars, Graduates, Divines, Mini&s;ters, <HI>Black coats</HI> &s;hould not be fitter to expound, preach; abler to di&s;pen&s;e Sacred my&s;teries, then <HI>quilibet etrivio;</HI> every tailor, tap|&s;ter, cobler, baker and other mechanicks, <GAP DESC="foreign"><NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; hath not the God of <HI>o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|der</HI> &s;et &s;e|veral or|ders of men in his Church? &s;ome <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> &s;ome Prophets? &amp;c. 1 <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> 12.28. &mdash;he gave <HI>&s;ome,</HI> Apo&s;tles, and <HI>&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> Prophets, and <HI>&s;ome</HI> Evangeli&s;ts, and &s;ome Pa&s;tors and Teachers; for the perfecting of the Sal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te. <HI>f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the work of the mini&s;try,</HI> Ephe&s;. 4.11, 12.</NOTE> <HI>Their</HI> trades &s;ure come not by revelation; <HI>their</HI> novices mu&s;t &s;erve out an apprenti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;hip ere they be ma&s;ters of <HI>their</HI> art, or fit to &s;et up for them&s;elves; onely Divinity is &s;oon learned, ea&s;ie to under&s;tand, in an in&s;tant infu&s;ed into eve|ry enthy&s;ia&s;t; for &s;o they apply that of Joel 2.28. <HI>I will
<PB N="20" REF="13"> poure out my &s;pirit upon all fle&s;h, and your &s;onnes, and your daughters &s;hall prophe&s;ie</HI>&mdash;(which when they can do, we will believe them, as <HI>Luther</HI> from that text an&s;wered the <HI>Germane</HI> Anabapti&s;ts) which was onely truly and fully ac|compli&s;hed <HI>in,</HI> and applyable <HI>to</HI> the Apo&s;tles, and Primi|tive di&s;ciples, as Saint <HI>Peter</HI> expounds it Acts 2.16.</P>
<P>And now I come to the Practicall part of my di&s;cour&s;e, to <HI>apply</HI> and make <HI>U&s;e</HI> of the point delivered, and that for
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<P>And <HI>is corrupt doctrine like leaven?</HI></P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> U&s;e of In|formation.</NOTE>1 See then from hence a rea&s;on of the &s;o &s;peedy growth, and &s;udden &s;preading of pernitious opinions, damnable here&s;ies, and doctrines of Devils; It is no <HI>news</HI> to &s;ee a little leaven &s;owre, heat, heave, and di&s;per&s;e it &s;elf &s;peedily through the whole lump of dough<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;eju&s;|demfarinae hominibus &mdash; <HI>Chemn.</HI></NOTE>. The lea&s;t dram, draught, drop of deadly poy&s;on &s;preades from &s;tomach to veins, arteries, &s;ei&s;eth the vitals, and &s;oon di&s;|patcheth a man. So doth here&s;ie poy&s;on mens brains, &s;pi|rits, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth them with a &s;pirituall phren&s;ie, and madnes, and this contagious too, infecting others, which is no wonder in Divinity, though it be in <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> mad|men &s;mit not others: If there were no other rea&s;on to &s;u|&s;pect the up&s;tart Sectarie and his new Divinity, this might be one, enough to &s;top his mouth; that his <HI>doctrine,</HI> conver&s;ation, practice cannot be right, good, of God, be|cau&s;e they but <HI>touch and take;</HI> every one, ignorant, athie&s;t, profane, old, young, boyes, wenches, all from every quar|ter, hang upon them, follow them as pro&s;elytes, and like tinder take fire at every &s;park of new pretended light; <HI>walk in the light of your fire, by the &s;parks that ye have kindled. This &s;hall ye have of mine hand, ye &s;hall lie down in &s;orrow,</HI> I&s;a. 50.11. Que&s;tionle&s;&s;e it is erroneous doctrine, helli&s;h
<PB N="21" REF="13"> here&s;ie, that like ill weeds grows &s;o fa&s;t: It is un&s;ound Divinity, that is &s;o &s;oon believed, received, that <HI>Mu&s;h|rome</HI>-like or as <HI>Jonah</HI>'s gourd &s;prings up in a night. True grace, &s;aving knowledge, lie warm at the heart, &s;anctifie the &s;pirit, &s;oul, body: the grain of Paradice lieth long under the clods, and groweth but &s;lowly; what a while was our Saviour in hammering &s;undry divine truths into his di&s;ciples heads? how dull and &s;low of heart were they to believe! Be &s;ure then <HI>that mu&s;t needs be naught, that is</HI> &s;o &s;oon <HI>learned,</HI> embraced, believed.</P>
<P>It is &s;trange now to <HI>&s;ee,</HI> (but it would not have been <HI>believed</HI> &s;ome few years agoe, as a thing po&s;&s;ible in the Church of <HI>England</HI>) that there &s;hould, could be &s;uch an overflowing jaundice of un&s;ound opinions, brain-&s;ick whimzies, &s;uch an over&s;preading lepro&s;ie and gangrene of &s;chi&s;me, here&s;ie, &s;ects,<NOTE N="[h]" PLACE="marg">&mdash;ut &s;it ibidem deinceps impiorum ac turpium errorum lupanar, ubi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erat ante ca&s;tae incorruptae &s;acrarium veritatis. <HI>Vincent.</HI> Lirin. c. 31</NOTE> as now with &s;ad hearts we every where &s;ee. That a &s;mall contemptible handfull of corupt leaven, one or two firebrand-factious &s;ectaries in a country like <HI>Mo&s;es handfull of a&s;hes from the furnace</HI> (which &s;prink|led <HI>became a boyl breaking forth with blains, upon man and bea&s;t.</HI> Exod. 9.8.10.) &s;hould &s;poil a whole countrey, Church, Kingdome, and like an impetuous torrent carry all before them&mdash; <HI>cum &s;tabulis armenta</HI>&mdash;<NOTE N="[i]" PLACE="marg">So that as holy <HI>Po|lycarpus</HI> of the buding here&s;ies in his time, each godly Chri&s;tian might, ought, to look up to heaven, and &s;ay <GAP DESC="foreign">; Good God unto what times ha&s;t thou re&s;erved <HI>me,</HI> that I &s;hould live to &s;ee <HI>this!</HI></NOTE> The cloud is broken and wets to the skin, which was little in the ri&s;e, but like a mans hand. 1 Kin. 18.44.45. So did Arriani&s;m over|&s;pread the face of the Primitive Church, the whole world became Arrian. So Pelagiani&s;m, Donati&s;m, <HI>after</HI> that. And at la&s;t <HI>Mahometi&s;m,</HI> like an overflowing deluge, &s;oul-killing pe&s;tilence hath poy&s;oned the <HI>Ea&s;tern,</HI> as Popi&s;h leaven hath the <HI>We&s;tern</HI> Church. Rev. 13.3. <HI>all the world</HI> wondred
<PB N="22" REF="14"> after the bea&s;t. 2. Pet. 2.2. <HI>Many</HI> &s;hall follow their per|nitious wayes&mdash; but they are un&s;table &s;ouls that are gul|led and beguiled <HI>by mounte bank</HI> teachers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Edw.</HI> Antapol. p. 211. Errours readily en|ertained; truth may &s;tand out of doors long e|nough &mdash;</NOTE> quac&s;alving &s;ecta|ries, that vapour and brag of great things, and di&s;parage the grave, learned, experienced phy&s;ician. Children are taken with every toy, rattle, hobby-hor&s;e, guegaw. Idle people in a fayre flock after players, throng about Ballad &s;ingers, and &s;o do &s;imple ungrounded, credulous Chri&s;ti|ans after leavening &s;educers.</P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> U&s;e of exhortation</NOTE>2 Is corrupt doctrine like to leaven? Let <HI>us</HI> then do with this <HI>my&s;ticall</HI> as the Jews at the Pa&s;&s;eover did with <HI>materiall</HI> leaven,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Phy&s;icum fermen|tum <HI>Par.</HI> Natural.</NOTE> (which being &s;trictly and under &s;evere penalty, by God him&s;elf forbidden <HI>them,</HI> Exod. 12.18.19. as Phari&s;aicall and Doctrinall Leaven is <HI>&V;s</HI> in this Text with a mo&s;t deep <HI>Charge</HI> and ingeminated <HI>Caveat,</HI> by Chri&s;t him&s;elf) who had a religious cu&s;tome
<LIST>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>General</HI></NOTE><HI>Inquirendi</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Exterminandi</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Execrandi</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> <HI>fermenttum;</HI> to &s;earch out, ca&s;t out, cur&s;e out <HI>leaven</HI> from their hou&s;es and habitations.<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Weem&s;e</HI> Chri&s;tian &s;ynagogue lib. 1. ca. 6. Scaliger <HI>Emendat.</HI> temp. in Prolegom.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 <HI>Inqui&s;itio fermenti,</HI> there was a &s;earching after leaven throughout all the rooms of their hou&s;es, even to the very mou&s;e-holes<NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Buxtorf.</HI> Synag. Judaic. cap. 12. p. 317. 320.</NOTE> on the fourteenth day from Sun-ri|&s;ing (they began betimes) till ten of the clock, <HI>u&s;que ad quartam horam po&s;t ortum &s;olis.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>Exterminatio,</HI> a purging out of leaven, ca&s;ting it a|way, burning of it, not &s;o much as looking on it, or na|ming <HI>it,</HI> (nor <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>bread,</HI> le&s;t they &s;hould &s;tirre up in their children a de&s;ire to <HI>leavened</HI> bread) to which cu&s;tome Saint <HI>Paul</HI> is thought to allude Eph. 5.3. <HI>Let it not be once named among you:</HI> and this ceremonie la&s;ted from ten till twelve of the clock.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>Execratio fermenti,</HI> a formall and &s;olemne cur&s;ing of leaven thus, <HI>Let all that leaven, or what&s;oever leavened thing
<PB N="23" REF="14"> is in my power, whether it were &s;een of me, or not &s;een, whether clen&s;ed by me, or not clean&s;ed, let all that be &s;cattened, de&s;troyed, and accounted as the du&s;t of the earth.</HI><NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Bux|t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rf.</HI> Synag. Judaic. cap. 12. page 325.</NOTE></P>
<P><Q>The&s;e were the Jewi&s;h religious ceremonies about <HI>lea|ven</HI> con&s;tantly performed by them at the Pa&s;&s;eover; now Chri&s;t our Pa&s;&s;eover is &s;acrificed for <HI>us,</HI> and we &s;hould therefore <HI>purge out the old leaven,</HI> not of wicked manners only, but of corrupt doctrine al&s;o. 1 Cor. 5.7. from the fir&s;t day we believe in Chri&s;t throughout the whole cour&s;e of our life,<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Wil&s;on s</HI> Chri&s;tian Dictiona|ry in the word <HI>Lea|ven.</HI></NOTE> both every &s;ingular per&s;on &s;hould purge him|&s;elf from evill doctrine and corrupt manners (noted by <HI>old</HI> leaven) and every congregation &s;hould excom|municate from among them men of &s;candalous beha|viour.</Q></P>
<P>But alas! the pul&s;e of our zeal beats not &s;o high, &s;o &s;trongly; we may cry &s;hame to our &s;elves, that in Gods and his Churches yea in ou rown &s;ouls cau&s;e we are &s;o neg|ligent and remi&s;&s;e; did we ever make <HI>&s;earch</HI> after fal&s;e teach|ers, and hereticall leaven? did we ever que&s;tion tho&s;e that <HI>teach otherwi&s;e</HI> then the truth of Chri&s;ts Go&s;pel, <HI>and con&s;ent not to whol&s;ome words, even the words of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t and to the doctrine which is according to godline&s;se.</HI> 1 Tim. 6.3 Do we ferret out the&s;e vermin, the&s;e vipers, that eat out our mothers bowels? Do we catch the foxes that de&s;troy our grapes? Do not we wink at them, nay nouri&s;h them, em|brace and hug them in our bo&s;omes? nay &s;uffer them to ne&s;tle among us? &s;o far are we from ca&s;ting them out, hunt|ing them away, di&s;countenancing of them, that we invite them to breed and burrow, and kindle and kittle in our hou|&s;es, heads &amp; hearts. I wi&s;h we keep not birds to pick out our own and childrens eyes. O let us be wi&s;e at la&s;t, take heed
<PB N="24" REF="15"> of a &s;nake i'th bo&s;ome.<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">Tole|ration <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Religion is not to be tolera|ted, this overthrew <HI>Solomon, Valentini|an</HI> &amp;c. The Church of <HI>Thyatira</HI> is blamed for &s;uffering the woman <HI>Jezabel</HI> to <HI>teach and to &s;educe Gods &s;ervants,</HI> Rev. 2.20. 'twas the fault of <HI>Theodo&s;tus</HI> to &s;uffer the Arrians to have their meetings in chiefe cities&mdash; 'Twil be a foundation to the Devils Kingdom to al generations; like gun-powder, blows up both Church and State at one bla&s;t. Saint <HI>Paul</HI> oppo&s;ed it, <HI>Gal.</HI> 1.8, 9. The primitive bi&s;hops would not &s;uffer Arrians, Donati&s;ts&mdash; <HI>Jerome, Ambro&s;e, Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> reproved even <HI>kings</HI> for conniving at them. So <HI>Luther, Calvin</HI> &mdash; and the refor|med Churches &mdash; &s;o Bi&s;hop <HI>Iewell, Bil&s;on, Bahington</HI> &mdash; Mr <HI>Perkins</HI> &amp;c. would not endure a Toleration of Popery &mdash; And &s;hould we tolerate more damnable here&s;ies? <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> are no enemies to <HI>Devotion,</HI> to <HI>Scripture,</HI> to <HI>Order,</HI> to <HI>Learning;</HI> they have &s;ome forme of Religi|on, many truths preached, beleeved among them. <HI>The Word of God,</HI> Chri&s;t Je&s;us a Sa|viour,; <HI>a heavn, a hell;</HI> but we have tho&s;e that bring in confu&s;ion, &s;ubvert fundamen|tals, overthrow Religion, Learning, Order, al; yea that ble&s;&s;e God, <HI>they never tru&s;ted in a crucified Chri&s;t,</HI> nor did beleeve him to be the &s;on of God; &mdash; nay, for them&s;elves to &s;ay <HI>they were equal to Chri&s;t</HI> was no robbery &mdash; See Mr <HI>Edwards</HI> Gangraena <HI>from whence the&s;e and other pa&s;&s;ages</HI> &mdash; al&s;o Antapolog. p. 280. 292.</NOTE> Give a timely antidote again&s;t this killing poy&s;on: A &s;park neglected may burn down to the cold ground both our own and our neighbours hou&s;es. &mdash;<HI>in any wi&s;e keep your &s;elves from the accur&s;ed thing, le&s;t ye make your &s;elves accur&s;ed when ye take of the accur&s;ed thing and make the camp of I&s;rael a cur&s;e, and trouble it.</HI> John 6.18. There be, wil be Achans among the I&s;rael of God to trou|ble the Churches peace, but let them be <HI>Anathema,</HI> ac|count them execrable.</P>
<P N="2">2 Special Exhort. to
<LIST>
<ITEM>Magi&s;trates</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mini&s;ters</ITEM>
<ITEM>People</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And 1 the <HI>Magi&s;trate</HI> ought to let the leavening &s;ecta|ries know, that <HI>he</HI> beareth not the &s;word in vain; he may, yea mu&s;t <GAP DESC="foreign"> Tit. 1.11. dit up their mouthes<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; cor|rigi cos cup<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mus, non necari &mdash;&s;ic ergo corum peccata compe&s;ce, ut &s;int quos penireat peccavi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. This was Saint <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> favourable opinion &mdash; ad <HI>Donat.</HI> Procon&s;. Africae Ep. 127. but experience afterwards altered him. See Ma&s;ter <HI>Edwards</HI> Ant. 291.</NOTE> by his coercive and re&s;training power: and <HI>cau&s;e the fal&s;e pro|phets and unclean &s;pirit to pa&s;&s;e out of the land</HI> Zech. 13.2. In the Old Te&s;tament fal&s;e prophets were to be puni&s;hed e|ven with death, and that by Gods own command <HI>Deut.</HI> 13.
<PB N="25" REF="15"> 5. <HI>becau&s;e they &s;ought to thru&s;t Gods people out of the way,</HI> &amp;c. &s;ee the place. And none of them pleaded to the religious and reforming Magi&s;trate, <HI>Sir, it is our con&s;cience, you ought not to trouble us for it.</HI></P>
<P>I confe&s;&s;e a tender regard &s;hould be had of tender con|&s;ciences; and God forbid, God forbid, we &s;hould exa&s;perate authority again&s;t &s;uch as are indeed tender con&s;cienced. But the crafty Devil, when he is hunted, and ca&s;t out el&s;e|where will take &s;anctuary even in con&s;cience it &s;elf<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">'twas <HI>con&s;cience</HI> the Papi&s;ts pleaded&mdash; in K. <HI>Edw.</HI> and Q <HI>Elizabeths</HI> time&mdash; <HI>Antapolog.</HI> 286.</NOTE> and, as <HI>Rachel</HI> when &s;he had &s;tolen her fathers idols, Gen. 31.35. plead for liberty, <HI>you mu&s;t not di&s;ea&s;e or mole&s;t him.</HI> But &s;hal he therfore play <HI>Rex?</HI> mu&s;t he be &s;uffered to hold po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion? doubtles <HI>he will then bring &s;even other devils, wor&s;e then him|&s;elf and the latter end of tho&s;e</HI> men into who&s;e con&s;ciences he is crept, <HI>wil be wor&s;e then the beginning.</HI> He wil fil them ful of all iniquity, and under pretence of being &s;uffered, he will infect, pervert, poy&s;on &amp; de&s;troy the whole Church. S. <HI>Paul</HI> therefore Gal. 5.12. wi&s;heth that &s;educing &s;ectaries that troubled that Church, <HI>were even cut off;</HI><NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">Do you think he|retiques were not con&s;cio|nable in the Old Te&s;tament as now? If any man had a con|&s;cience to turn men from God, he would have men of as much con&s;cience to cut them off. Mr <HI>Cotton</HI> on Vial. 3. &amp; 4. p. 17. 21. <HI>Paulus</HI> non tam furoris in adver&s;arios quam ardoris in Dei gloriam et &s;anctam eccle&s;iam, verba loquutus e&s;t; videbat quippe totan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> provinciam quam ip&s;e &mdash; <HI>Marlorat.</HI> exp. eccle&s;. &mdash;haec maledictio profecta e&s;t a Spiritu Sancto, non e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> privato affectu.</NOTE> &amp; yet Saint <HI>Paul</HI> was no per&s;ecuter of tender con&s;ciences; no man more tendered them, per&s;waded and wrote more in their behalf; Rom. 14. the whole chapter is upon that point; yet how &s;e|vere is he in his reprehen&s;ions, animadver&s;ions again&s;t lea|vening and &s;educing teachers? he calls them <HI>Dogs, evil workers.</HI> Phil. 3, 2. he likens them to <HI>witches</HI> Gal. 3.1. How doth he rate and rattle up Elymas who &s;ought to turn away the Deputy from the faith? <HI>O full of all &s;ubtilty, and all mi&s;chief, thou child of the Devil, thou enemy of all righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, wilt thou not cea&s;e to pervert the right wayes of the Lord?</HI> And &s;truck him blind. Act. 13.8.10.11.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="26" REF="16">2 <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> mu&s;t preach, pray down here&s;ie, and what&s;o|ever<NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;com|monefaci|ens tam <HI>&s;uperiores</HI> quam <HI>in|feriores</HI> &s;ui officij, <HI>Superiores</HI> quidem, nefermen|tum erro|rum in <HI>doctrina,</HI> aut vitio|rum in <HI>moribus,</HI> licet modi|cum vide|atur, in republica, eccle&s;ia, &s;cholis, oeconomia vel quavis &s;ocietate invale&s;ce|re &s;inant, &s;ed legi|timis rationibus mature praecave|ant, vel expurgandum cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent, antequam plures inficiantur. <HI>Inferiores</HI> vero ut fermentum Phari|&s;aeorum, Papi&s;tarum, haereticorum, &amp; pravorum hominum <HI>h. e.</HI> fal&s;a dogmata, hominum commenta, &amp; con&s;ortia vitiorum tanquam pe&s;tem fugiant &mdash; <HI>Paraeus</HI> in 1. ad <HI>Corint.</HI> c. 5. v. 6.</NOTE> is contrary to &s;ound doctrine; <HI>exhort, per&s;wade, rebuke,</HI> Tit. 1.13. <GAP DESC="foreign"> what have we our tongues for, our places for, what are we <HI>lieger</HI> amba&s;&s;adours for, <HI>here</HI> in the Church, but for intelligence to let our Lord and Ma&s;ter know, what affairs of Church and State are tran&s;acted: what molitions, machinations are again&s;t his crown and dignity, how men con&s;pire again&s;t him; break his bonds in &s;under and ca&s;t away his cords from them; will not be re|gulated under his di&s;cipline? <HI>What are we watchmen &s;et</HI><NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Excubias agere, adver&s;us &s;upos &amp; fures ut &s;i ad gregem accedere voluerint, eos magnis clamoribus &amp; altis vociferationibus quam longi&s;&s;ime &s;ummoveant. <HI>Calvin.</HI> praefat: adv. fanatic. &s;ect. Libertin&mdash;</NOTE> upon the walls of Jeru&s;alem <HI>and will not blow the trumpet,</HI> when the &s;lie enemie under fal&s;e colours, a feigned <HI>word,</HI> which he can give, &s;hall pretend he comes as a friend, and &s;o cut our throats? Alas! alas! poore <HI>England,</HI> thou ha&s;t many malignant watchmen, that pretend to de&s;crie and di&s;cover danger, that are them&s;elves mo&s;t dangerous: that have, and do undo thee, by daubing &amp; cur&s;ed &s;ilence, in &s;uch a time as <HI>this</HI> E&s;t. 8.6. that are of thy enemies coun&s;el, are at a fee with him, his pen&s;ioners: If it were not &s;o, they would not betray the truth of God to vile &s;ectaries as they now do. O the&s;e carriages would make dumb &s;tones &s;peak. It is <HI>irremi&s;sibile peccatum</HI> a &s;inne again&s;t the Ho|ly Gho&s;t (&s;aith <HI>Luther</HI><NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">In Epi&s;t. ad Spalatin.</NOTE> to be mealy-mouth'd, when &s;uch pernitious leaveners poy&s;on the bread of the hou&s;hold of faith.</P>
<P N="3">3 Every <HI>private Chri&s;tian</HI> look to one, look well about you; <HI>Believe not every &s;pirit, but trie their doctrines,</HI> whe|ther they be of God or not. 1 John 4.1. If any come that
<PB N="27" REF="16"> bring not <HI>this</HI> doctrine, receive him not to hou&s;e, bid him not <HI>God &s;peed</HI> 2 John 10. &mdash;&s;ay thou of their clande&s;tine meetings, and adjure thy &s;elf as <HI>Jacob</HI> of <HI>Simeon</HI> and <HI>Levi,</HI> Gen. 49.6. <HI>O my &s;oul come not thou into their &s;ecret; unto their a&s;&s;embly mine honour be not thou united.</HI> Pray God by his power to keep thee to &s;alvation. Lead not thy &s;elf into temptation: <HI>Julian</HI> the Emperour became an Apo&s;tate by going to heare <HI>Libanius</HI> the &s;ophi&s;ter declame again&s;t the Chri&s;tians. <HI>Come not near the doore of their hou&s;e; knowe&s;t</HI> thou not that the dead <HI>ar there, and that their gue&s;ts are</HI> in the depths of hell, Prov. 9.18?</P>
<P>If corrupt doctrine be &s;o dangerous, <HI>take thou heed</HI> to thy &s;elf in <HI>leavening times</HI> and places, and companies, heed|fully mind every &s;ermon, opinion, tenet: every book and di&s;cour&s;e, thou heare&s;t, &s;ee&s;t, reade&s;t: carefully look unto every bit of bread, the lea&s;t mor&s;ell thou putte&s;t into thy mouth, le&s;t &s;ome un&s;u&s;pected crumb of un&s;ound leaven be mingled therewith. <HI>And this is the &s;econd point, which we are fallen upon, and now followeth in order to be handled,</HI> viz. that,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Doct."> The people of God, mu&s;t with all po&s;&s;ible caution and circum&s;pection pre&s;erve them&s;elves from being leaven|ed, corrupted and &s;educed. <HI>Take heed, beware.</HI><NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">Tribus verbis utitur, quo Apo&s;toli &amp; reliqui omnes intelligant, rem illam, a qua ip&s;os tam &s;ancte et &s;erio dehortatur, e&s;&s;e modis omnibus dete&s;tandam. <HI>Deus</HI> enim etiam levi&s;&s;imas purioris &s;uae doctrinae corruptelas, nullo modo ferre pote&s;t. &mdash; vult ut &s;ui di&s;cipuli, &amp; Chri&s;tiani, non in&s;tar caetorum, mox <HI>cuivis</HI> &s;piritui applaudant, &s;ed &s;piritus probent &mdash; <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap. 82.</NOTE></P>
<P><BIBL>Deut. 13.3.</BIBL> Thou &s;halt not hearken to the words of that prophet<NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; vid. <HI>Vincent.</HI> Lirin. cap. 15. upon that place of <HI>Deuteronomy</HI> chap. 13. who excellently paraphra&s;eth thereon&mdash;</NOTE> for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God, with all your heart&mdash;</P>
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<P><BIBL>-8-</BIBL> thou &s;halt not con&s;ent unto him, nor hear|ken unto him&mdash;<HI>read</HI> the place from ver&s;. 1. to the 14.</P>
<P><BIBL>Jer. 23.16.</BIBL> Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophe&s;ie unto you, they make you vain, they &s;peak a vi&s;ion of their own heart.</P>
<P><BIBL>Matth. 7.15.</BIBL> Beware of fal&s;e prophets&mdash;<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; al&s;o on <HI>Math.</HI> 7.15. read <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 36.</NOTE></P>
<P><BIBL>Mar. 4.24.</BIBL> <HI>Take heed what you heare</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P><BIBL>Acts 20.28.</BIBL> Take heed therefore to your &s;elves, and to the flock&mdash;</P>
<P><BIBL>-29-</BIBL> &s;hall grievous wolves enter in among you,</P>
<P><BIBL>-30-</BIBL> al&s;o <HI>of your own &s;elves &s;hall men ari&s;e &s;peaking per|ver&s;e things, to draw away di&s;ciples after them.</HI></P>
<P><BIBL>31</BIBL> Therefore watch and remember that&mdash;</P>
<P><BIBL>Phil. 3.2.</BIBL> Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers, be|ware of&mdash;</P>
<P><BIBL>Col. 2.8.</BIBL> Beware le&s;t any man &s;poyl you through- And good <HI>rea&s;on</HI> have we to be thus carefull, in regard of
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 our Own &s;ouls</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Sectaries, and leavening Teachers</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Doctrines delivered by them.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;ons <HI>1.</HI> In regard of our &s;elves.</NOTE>1 <HI>In regard of our &s;elves,</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e it is a matter which much concerneth us, a bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e of great con&s;equence; our immortall <HI>&s;ouls</HI> (which are more worth then all the world) are in danger, lie at &s;take, may come to be perverted, poy&s;oned, de&s;troyed, damned, through our ba&s;e neglect. Matth. 23.15. &mdash;<HI>they make him (viz.</HI> The Phari&s;aicall leaveners make their pro|&s;elytes) <HI>two fold more the child of hell then them&s;elves.</HI></P>
<P>2 Pet. 2.1. who privily &s;hall bring in <HI>damnable</HI> here|&s;ies, even denying the Lord that bought them&mdash;ver. 2. and many &s;hall follow their <HI>pernitious</HI> wayes&mdash;ver. 3. with feign|ed words make merchandi&s;e of you.</P>
<P>The Apo&s;tles words are emphaticall and weighty- 1. will
<PB N="29" REF="17"> not a wi&s;e Chri&s;tian take heed of <HI>that</HI> which will bring upon him an irrecoverable lo&s;&s;e, that may undo him for e|ver, and break his back? here&s;ies are <HI>damnable.</HI> 2. would a man walk in a way which would <HI>bring him</HI> to &s;ome ill end? the&s;e are <HI>pernitious</HI> wayes. 3 would a wi&s;e and free|born man be bought and &s;old Like a &s;lave or bea&s;t?<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Bez.</HI> not Major in 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. tanquam <HI>pecoribus</HI> ad nundi|nationem.</NOTE> <HI>the&s;e</HI> with feigned words <HI>make merchandi&s;e</HI> of you.</P>
<P>As therefore in fairs we look to our pur&s;es, &amp; take heed of cheaters; as in times of warwe gird on our &s;words, and will not be unprovided for an enemies encounter; as in times of infection we provide Antidotes, comfort and pre&s;erve our &s;pirits, fence and corroborate the vitals: &s;o &s;hould we take as great care of our <HI>&s;ouls</HI> and ble&s;&s;e our &s;elves out of the com|pany of &s;mitting and contagious leaveners, &s;educers. <HI>Touch not that pitch,</HI> which will not ea&s;ily be got off. S. <HI>John</HI> (that beloved di&s;ciple) accidentally being in the Bath where <HI>Ce|rinthus</HI> was<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Cerin|thus</HI> main|tained <HI>that</HI> the world was made by Angels; <HI>that</HI> cir|cumci&s;ion and other legal rites were to be ob&s;erved; <HI>that</HI> Je&s;us Chri&s;t was a meer man: not ri&s;en again, but &s;hould ri&s;e: <HI>that</HI> Chri&s;t &s;hould reign a thou&s;and years on earth, and men &s;hould enjoy al &s;en&s;ual plea&s;ures. vid. <HI>Augu&s;tin.</HI> de <HI>Haere&s;.</HI> 8.</NOTE> he leaped out of the Bath, unbathed; be|cau&s;e he feared the Bath &s;hould have fallen, &s;eeing <HI>that</HI> ene|my to the truth was within. Such feare and zeal had the Apo&s;tles (&s;aith <HI>Irenaeus</HI>) that they would not communi|cate a word with <HI>them</HI> that adulterated the truth&mdash;as Ma&s;ter <HI>Fox</HI> relateth it. <HI>Acts Mon-vol.</HI> 1. <HI>P.</HI> 48.</P>
<P>Secondly becau&s;e of the
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>number</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>nature,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> of corrupting &s;e|ducing Leaveners.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2</HI> In regard of fal&s;e teachers.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 For <HI>number;</HI> many fal&s;e prophets are gone out into the world. 1. John 4.1.-, not as many which corrupt the word of God. 2. Cor. 2.17&mdash;. <HI>many</HI> walk&mdash;enemies of the cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t. Phil. 3.18.</P>
<P>Therefore as a man that hath a charge of money,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Many.</HI></NOTE> in a way where many robbers haunt; in a faire where many cheaters
<PB N="30" REF="18"> and cut-pur&s;es come; had need look well about him, be ve|ry wary and circum&s;pect: or as in times and places of the Pe&s;tilence, where many be infected, &s;hut up, and die of the plague, had need be very carefull of him &s;elf: &s;o had e|very &s;ober humble, di&s;creet Chri&s;tian that carrieth in him a pretious, immortall, invaluable &s;oul, carefully avoid all contagious and &s;mitting hereticks, who truly are what <HI>Ter|tullus</HI> fal&s;ly &s;aid Saint <HI>Paul</HI> was. <GAP DESC="foreign"> pe&s;tilent fel|lows. Acts 24.5.</P>
<P N="2">2 For <HI>Nature,</HI> quality, and condition they are very
<LIST>
<ITEM>cunning,</ITEM>
<ITEM>per&s;wa&s;ive,</ITEM>
<ITEM>mode&s;t,</ITEM>
<ITEM>methodicall.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cunn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng.</HI></NOTE>1. Seducing &s;ectaries are <HI>Cunning,</HI> cubs of that old fox, the &s;ubtill &s;eed of the old &s;erpent that can (like their fa|ther the Devil who hides his horns and cloven foot) put on the <HI>&s;heepskin-profe&s;sion</HI><NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;ut fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lacius inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">utis ovibus ob|repant, manente luporum ferocia, deponunt lupinam &s;peciem, ut &s;e&s;e divinae legis &s;ententiis, velut quibu&s;dam velleribus obvolvunt; ut cum qui&s;que lanarum mollitiem per&s;en&s;erit, nequaquam aculeos dentium pertime&s;cat. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 36. &mdash;Antapolog. p. 203. &mdash;doubling, &s;huffling, troubling the waters &amp;c. p. 215.</NOTE> over a wolvi&s;h purpo&s;e, Mat. 7.15. <HI>Beware of fal&s;e prophets which come to you in &s;heeps clo|thing, but inwardly</HI> (if you unca&s;e them) <HI>they are ravening wolves. White</HI> devils,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&mdash; wil not own their own names &mdash;Antap. 206.</NOTE> that appear not in their native hue and own helli&s;h affrighting color<NOTE N="**" PLACE="marg">&mdash;non vult diabolus deformis &amp; ater e&s;&s;e in &s;uis mini&s;tris, &s;ed mundus &amp; <HI>candidus,</HI> &amp; ut talis appareat, proponit &amp; ornat omnia verba, &amp; opera &s;ua, praetextu <HI>veritatis,</HI> &amp; nominis Dei. <HI>Luther</HI> loc. com.</NOTE>, but a&s;&s;ume <HI>a form of godli|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> per&s;onate the Saints. <HI>Deceitfull workers, tran&s;forming them&s;elves into the Apo&s;tles of Chri&s;t.</HI> 2 Cor. 11.13. And no marvell, for Satan him&s;elf is tran&s;formed into an angell of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his mini&s;ters al&s;o be transformed as the mini&s;ters of light.</P>
<P>They know the way, have the art of taking people, can give (like <HI>Naphtali) goodly words,</HI> hony and butter are un|der
<PB N="31" REF="18"> their tongue; but <HI>tru&s;t them not:</HI> fal&s;e merchants &s;et fair glo&s;&s;es on bad wares: &s;u&s;pect them in every thing, yeelding, flying, preaching, praying; the Phari&s;ees devoured widows hou&s;es under pretence of long prayers.</P>
<P N="2">2 Attractive, <HI>per&s;wa&s;ive,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>per&s;wa&s;ive</HI></NOTE> of in&s;inuating and winning carriage, &s;ome &s;mell of ointment is on them<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Sciunt enim faeto|res &s;uos nulli fere cito e&s;&s;e placituros, &s;i nudi, et &s;implices exhale n|tur; atque idcirco eos coele&s;tis eloquij velut quo|dam a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o|mate a&s;pergunt, ut ille qui humanum facile de&s;piceret errorem divina non facile contemnat oracula. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lirin. cap. 35.</NOTE> which draws eyes and eares toward them; <HI>pretious</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Edwards</HI> Antapolog. p. 188.</NOTE> <HI>men of heavenly parts,</HI> Thus like <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> they &s;teal away mens hearts, and draw di&s;ciples after them. Tho&s;e who came to catch our Saviour, pretended holine&s;&s;e, they <HI>feigned them&s;elves to be ju&s;t men.</HI> Luk. 20.20. but he that knew their hearts to be hollow, nought, tru&s;ted them not. What dangerous &s;ect|aries that ever <HI>were,</HI> had not &s;ome eminently good parts,<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;Itaque faciunt quod hi &s;olent, qui parvulis au&s;tera quaedam temperaturi pocula, prius or a melle circum linunt; ut incauta aetas cum dulcedinem prae&s;en&s;erit, amaritudi|nem non reformidet. Quod etiam iis curae e&s;t, qui mala gramina, &amp; noxios &s;uccos medica|minum vocabulis praecolorant; ut nemo fere ubi &s;upra &s;criptum legerit <HI>remedium</HI> &s;u&s;pic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tur venenum. <HI>idem.</HI> ibid.</NOTE> &s;eeming graces, as if very zealous, humble, religious, con|&s;cientious men, yet all their &s;eeming beautie came out of the Devils box. The Phari&s;ees could make long prayers, did give much almes, did many &s;pecious works, builded the &s;epulchres of the martyred prophets. All the damned here|ticks that formerly poy&s;oned the church, were of &s;trict and exemplary life. <HI>Arrius, Eutyches, Donatus, Pelagius, Armi|nius, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The Devil is a cunning fowler, knows how to call and catch &s;illy doves by the &s;mell of cumin, &s;alt-cats&mdash;and to lure them to his coat. He can &s;et &s;ome live-bird for a &s;taie; to fligger, hop up and down, and draw unheeding fowls in|to his lime twigges: &s;ome active &s;pirited men, of vigorous parts and graces<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;nihil enim aliud efficacius movet, al|licit, impellit, it &s;ui amorem, de&s;iderium, admirationem, quam religio &mdash;<HI>Mont.</HI> appar. 7. <HI>&s;.</HI> 13.</NOTE> which dazzle &s;imple, plain hearted peo|ples
<PB N="32" REF="19"> eyes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Edw.</HI> Antapol. p. 50. 198.</NOTE> and win their approbation and applau&s;e; and thus cheates the world with &s;pirituall delu&s;ions: when the lions skin cannot prevail, he puts on the foxes.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>Mode&s;t</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">3 <HI>mode&s;t.</HI></NOTE> at the fir&s;t, and very maiden-like they will not force upon their pro&s;elytes a full carou&s;e of their <HI>Circean</HI> cups, but by degrees (as our common drunkards, when they get in a temperat man upon their ale bench, 'tice him, tempt him, and till him on, fir&s;t to ta&s;te, then to pledge them, then when he is well whitled and come on, cup after cup, this and that health, till he be fully fudled, and intoxicated;) they wind in them&s;elves by little and little, and <HI>privily</HI> bring in damnable here&s;ies. 2. Pet. 2.1. <HI>creep</HI> into hou&s;es, and lead captive &s;illy women (a &s;ex carried more by affection then judgement) 2. Tim. 3.6. begin at the apron &s;trings<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">Ma&s;ter <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ook r</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c|cle&s;. polu. <HI>in the Preface;</HI> &amp; Mr <HI>Edw.</HI> Antap. 296.</NOTE> let fall an <HI>apple,</HI> to &s;ee if <HI>Atalanta</HI> will &s;toop for it; &s;teal in here and there a crumb, a mor&s;el of their &s;owre leaven, and &s;ee how it will be relli&s;hed and dige&s;ted; now and then &s;li|ly foi&s;t in &s;ome erroneous opinion, poy&s;onous principle, &s;catter &s;ome &s;parks of wild fire to &s;ee whether they will heat, enflame.</P>
<P N="4">4 <HI>Methodicall,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">4 <HI>Methodical</HI></NOTE> they have their <HI>wayes</HI> (<GAP DESC="foreign"> Eph. 6.11.) and <HI>rules</HI> to go by; they grammar and ground their deluded pro&s;elytes at their fir&s;t admi&s;&s;ion in generall and fundamentall principles of their <HI>black art,</HI> but let them not &s;ee at what they drive, acquaint not at the fir&s;t da&s;h, with the <HI>my&s;terie of iniquity,</HI> the depths of Satan Rev. 2.24. Thus the Anabapti&s;ts teach their novices<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">See Mr <HI>Hookers</HI> eccle&s;. pol. <HI>in the</HI> Pre|face&mdash; Mr Pagets <HI>here&s;togr.</HI> p. 2, 3&mdash;ad 11.</NOTE> that our church, and mini&s;terie, and per&s;ons and place, and time and tithes, and <HI>all</HI> is Antichri&s;tian, and then, <HI>heare them not,</HI> live not among them, <HI>down with their churches,</HI> ob&s;erve not their dayes&mdash;<HI>&amp;c.</HI> and at la&s;t <HI>down with mini&s;ters,</HI> learning, <HI>Magi|&s;trates,</HI> corporations, and all government&mdash; <HI>In chaos anti|quum</HI>&mdash;&amp;c.</P>
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<P>Thus hath the world been deceived by &s;ectaries and fetcht over by their policy; &s;leights and tricks of cheating,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph 4 14.</NOTE> from time to time, who <HI>under pretence</HI> to reform deform the Church; to ca&s;t out idol &s;hepherds eat their flocks, &s;wallow their maintenance: to pul down the tyrannie of popi&s;h di&s;cipline, to utter anarchy, and no di&s;cipline at all.<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; quia haec fere Diaboli e&s;t a&s;tutia, ut homines <HI>calcariam</HI> fugientes, in <HI>carbonariam</HI> inducat, hoc e&s;t efficiat ut in alterutrum veritati oppo&s;itorum, extrernum, &s;ive in Scyllam, &s;ive in Charybdim incidentes, fidei naufragium patiantur &mdash; <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap. 82.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3">3 In regard of the <HI>Doctrine</HI> it &s;elf,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>3</HI> Their Doctrine is plau&s;ible.</NOTE> which fal&s;e teachers broach and deliver, it &s;tands us in hand to be very carefull; for it is</P>
<P>Probable, <HI>plau&s;ible,</HI> plea&s;ing to corrupt nature, and the itching humours of ungrounded un&s;anctified men.<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;pote&s;t quidem Satanas &s;uum fer|mentum melle&acirc; dulcedine inficere. Quid enim fal&s;a do|ctrina &s;ua|vius, &amp; amabilius? <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">61</NOTE> Thus was the leaven of Phari&s;aicall, Sadducean, and Herodian &s;ectaries: it took much with the common people. Such is the <HI>leaven</HI> of our dayes, it <HI>&s;avoureth</HI> well to the common pa|late to have <HI>liberty of con&s;cience;</HI> none to controll them; <HI>no covenant</HI> to bind, <HI>no law</HI> to command or condemne&mdash; <HI>&amp;c. No|thing but Chri&s;t,</HI> Go&s;pell, Spirit, revelations, <HI>new light,</HI> no tying of men to Duties of piety, familie-prayer, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> (&s;uch they opprobriou&s;ly nickname <HI>Duty-mongers,</HI> formali&s;ts&mdash;) There needs <HI>no fixt time,</HI> place <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> for any publick ordi|nances of God&mdash;<HI>for they are all taught of God;</HI> able to preach, pray, <HI>mini&s;ter a word in &s;ea&s;on</HI>&mdash;need not, mu&s;t not be <HI>&s;ervants of men,</HI> pay tribute to <HI>Cae&s;ar, tithes</HI> or maintenance to an An|tichri&s;tian mini&s;terie (let them labour with their hands as Saint <HI>Paul</HI> did) that <HI>all things</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>common</HI><NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Sleidan</HI> lib. 3.</NOTE> that <HI>all men, all creatures</HI> &s;hall be <HI>&s;aved</HI> at the la&s;t&mdash;<HI>&amp;c. Is not this gallant Divinity?</HI> mu&s;t not &s;uch Doctrine as this needs take?&mdash; And have not we need to take heed, and beware of &s;uch <HI>leaven?</HI></P>
<P>The point thus proved by Scripture and Rea&s;on, afford|eth
<PB N="34" REF="20"> unto us a twofold <HI>U&s;e</HI> of
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Exhortation,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Reproof.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> U&s;e of Ex|hortation.</NOTE>1 For <HI>Exhortation.</HI> And are the&s;e things &s;o? Why then Let all Chri&s;tians take out this <HI>le&s;&s;on</HI> which our Savior taught his di&s;ciples here: and &s;uffer not a company of cunning giddy &s;elf &s;eeking &s;ectaries to undo them; believe not any &s;educing &s;pirit. <HI>Be not turned a&s;ide after another Go&s;pel</HI> Gal. 1.7. Take not on tru&s;t what the leavening Phari&s;ee deliver|eth out of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> chaire; receive nor any venemous tenet un|der the plea&s;ing notion of Go&s;pel, and new light; but <HI>prove all things</HI> 1 The&s;. 5.21. <HI>Search the Scriptures,</HI> as tho&s;e noble <HI>Beraeans</HI> Acts 17.11. <HI>Blind men &s;wallow many a flie.</HI> Look well about you therefore, have your eyes in your head, le&s;t in any kind or degree you admit &s;uch.</P>
<P>How wary are you in taking money? how advi&s;edly, ex|actly do you weigh gold, refu&s;ing it not only when the met|tall is ba&s;e, bra&s;&s;e, and dro&s;&s;ie, but al&s;o when it wants the lea&s;t grain of due weight? 'Tis a rule you have, <HI>tell money after your father,</HI> to turn every &s;u&s;pected penny you take; e&s;|pecially when much bad money, and copper coin is &s;tirring abroad. Believe me (brethren) there is not now &s;o much bad &s;ilver in the world as there is bad doctrine. Look to your &s;elves that ye lo&s;e not tho&s;e things which ye have <HI>gained</HI> 2. John 8. (&s;o &s;ome copies read the place) that pre|tious <HI>depo&s;itum</HI> of &s;ound truth and whole&s;om words: Let not the Devil, or his hereticall imps cheat you with their <HI>new</HI> counters, though gli&s;tering and glorious: you know the proverb, <HI>All is not gold that gli&s;tereth.</HI> Be henceforth no more <HI>children,</HI> to&s;&s;ed to and fro and carried about with e|very wind of Doctrine, by the <HI>&s;leight</HI> of men, and cunning <HI>craftine&s;se</HI> whereby they lie in wait to deceive <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.14. All &s;educers &s;ay <HI>they are of Chri&s;t,</HI> come from him, preach in his name. The Devill never comes to deceive in his own
<PB N="35" REF="20"> likene&s;&s;e. All fanaticall phren&s;ies that ever have beene broached in Gods Church to this day, do pretend to &s;ome degree of <HI>new light</HI><NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Audias etenim quo&s;dam ip&s;orum dicere,</HI> venite, o in&s;ipientes &amp; mi&s;eri qui vulgo Catholici vocitamini, &amp; di&s;cite fidem veram, quam praeter nos nullus intelligit, quae multis ante &s;aeculis latuit, nuper vero revelata, &amp; o&s;ten&s;a e&s;t; <HI>&s;ed di&s;cite furtim, atque &s;ecretim, delectabit enim vos. Et item,</HI> cum didiceritis, latenter docete, ne mundus audiat, <HI>nec eccle&s;ia &s;ciat;</HI> paucis <HI>namque conce&s;&s;um e&s;t tanti my&s;terij capere &s;ecretum.</HI> Vinc. Livin. <HI>cap. 26.</HI></NOTE> though it be indeed mere darkne&s;&s;e&mdash; <HI>ye therefore, beloved, &s;eeing ye know</HI> the&s;e things before, <HI>beware</HI> le&s;t ye al&s;o being led away <HI>with the errour of the wicked fall from your own &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;se.</HI> 2 Pet. 3.17.</P>
<P N="2">2 This <HI>Doctrine</HI> (of cautelous circum&s;pection le&s;t Chri|&s;tians be leavened, perverted) falleth foul upon,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> &V;&s;e of Repre|hen&s;ion to people.</NOTE> &s;harp|ly chides and <HI>reproveth.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Foole-hardy adventurous people, that love to be nib|ling at every leavened loaf, that will be &s;ipling of every &s;u|gred cup, though full of deadly poy&s;on, as K. <HI>John</HI> of the Monk of <HI>Swin&s;hed</HI> his <HI>Wa&s;&s;ail,</HI> though it &s;hould co&s;t them, as it did him, their life. They will run a madding after moun|tebank teachers; their mouth waters <HI>after bread of deceit,</HI> becau&s;e it is <HI>&s;weet,</HI> though afterward the gravel &s;tick in their teeth. Pro. 20.17. Un&s;etled profe&s;&s;ors<NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; cum quaeque novitas ebullit, &s;tatim cer|nitur fru|mentorum gravitas et levitas pa|learum; tunc &s;ine magno molimine excutitur ab area, quod nullo pondere intra aream tenebatur. <HI>Vincent.</HI> Lir. cap. 25.</NOTE> of the tribe of <HI>Gad</HI> (as one wittily calleth them) like rambling bea&s;ts, though they have never &s;o green and good pa&s;ture, will over hedge and ditch into fre&s;h grounds: and like &s;illy &s;heep love to feed on fre&s;h, lu&s;hious, though rotting gra&s;&s;e. Very weather-cocks, every wind of Doctrine turns them; unballa&s;ted &s;hips, every wave &s;hakes them<NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Heu mi&s;eranda conditio quantis illi curarum ae&s;tibus quantis turbinibus exagitantur? Nunc etenim qua ventus impulerit, incitato errore rapiuntur, nunc in &s;emetip&s;os rever&s;i tanquam contrarij fluctus reliduntur &mdash; <HI>Vincent.</HI> Lirin. Ibid.</NOTE> They have a penny to be|&s;tow with every pedlar; A&s;&s;oon as they heare of a new merchant they will take up his wares on tru&s;t. Alas poore
<PB N="36" REF="21"> &s;oules! are you &s;uch children, &s;uch fools, heedle&s;ly and gree|dily to &s;wallow any leavened mor&s;ell? know you not that the&s;e &s;corpions have &s;tings in their tail? Rev. 9.10. and yet will you play on the hole of the a&s;pe? 'Tis <HI>Solomons</HI> ad|vi&s;e for the avoiding of drunkenne&s;&s;e, Prov. 23.31. <HI>Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth it &s;elf aright. At the la&s;t it biteth like a &s;erpent and &s;tingeth like an adder.</HI> Take heed of <HI>leavening</HI> &s;educers, they have an intoxicating cup to pervert, make gid|dy, and poy&s;on your &s;ouls. Their <HI>wine</HI> is the <HI>poy&s;on</HI> of dra|gons, and the cruell venome of a&s;pes. Deut. 32.33.<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wine</HI> here &s;igni|fieth the corrupt doctrine and here&s;ies wherewith the Iews poy&s;oned them&s;elves &amp; their di&s;|ciples; <HI>poy&s;on of dragons,</HI> that is, their doctrines and actions, are venemous and deadly to &s;oul and body, as being doctrines of devils, and the poy&s;on of the old dragon&mdash; <HI>Ain&s;w.</HI> in loc.</NOTE></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Magi&s;tr.</HI></NOTE>This al&s;o blameth the negligent and unregarding <HI>Magi|&s;trate,</HI> who by his place ought <HI>to defend the faith,</HI> look to religion and be <HI>cu&s;tos utriu&s;que tabulae.</HI> There be good lawes again&s;t vagrant rogues, and fidlers, players, Gip&s;eys and fortune-tellers, that they be not &s;uffered to wander, a|bu&s;e or deceive the Kings liege people.</P>
<P>'Tis pity mens &s;ouls are not as carefully provided for,<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; tum <HI>eccle&s;ia&s;tici</HI> tum <HI>politi|ti</HI> ordinis Anti&s;tites toti in eo e&s;&s;e debent ut Diaboli fermen|tum ex|purgetur, &amp; populus fidei &s;uae commi&s;&s;us ab eo arceatur, ni&s;i aliquando loco <HI>panum propo&s;itionis</HI> Deo offerendo|rum, Satanicas <HI>placentas,</HI> olim in infernalibus prunis excoquendas, reponere velint. <HI>Chem.</HI> Harm. Evangelic. cap. 61.</NOTE> as dearly valued and as much tendered, that there be no <HI>Searchers</HI> appointed for &s;educing Sectaries. In times of a common plague, the infected are &s;hut up, removed to the pe&s;thou&s;es, not &s;uffered to go abroad and infect others: Should not the like care be had that &s;chi&s;matical <HI>leaveners</HI> be not &s;uffered to meet in corners and private conventicles to the perverting and poy&s;oning of mens &s;ouls? ought not as watchfull an eye to be upon <HI>that pe&s;tilence</HI> (of error) <HI>that walketh in darkne&s;&s;e, the de&s;truction that wa&s;teth at noon-day</HI>
<PB N="37" REF="21"> P&s;al. 91.6.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dominus te totam&abque; familiam ab omni malo, ac prae&s;ertim a <HI>Daemoniis meridianis</HI> i&s;tic obambulantibus cu&s;todiat. <HI>Beza</HI> Epi&s;t. 1. Andr. <HI>Duditio.</HI> viz. from the Errors of Anabapti&s;me, Browni&s;m, Antinomiani&s;m, Toleration of &s;ects and &s;chi&s;ms, under pre|tence of Liberty of Con&s;cience. Mr <HI>Edwards</HI> in Epi&s;t. to his An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">apolog.</NOTE> (For like <HI>Ab&s;olom,</HI> they &s;pread their tent on the top of the hou&s;e in the &s;ight of all I&s;rael, they are not a&s;hamed nor blu&s;h, to preach on the hou&s;e tops, their pla|ces and times of meeting are known, proclaimed, <HI>come who come will</HI>) Is this <HI>to root out here&s;ie, &s;chi&s;me,,</HI> or to keep the covenant of our God?</P>
<P>If the enemie &s;hould &s;torm or &s;teale into this gari&s;on, what a bu&s;tling would there be? how would every man take the alarum, and &s;tand to his armes? how would they be cen&s;ured, and fined as <HI>malignants</HI> that &s;hould not &s;o do? no enemy &s;o dangerous as <HI>Here&s;ie,</HI> no gari&s;on of that con&s;e|quence as the <HI>&s;oul,</HI> which we are not to &s;uffer to be fraudu|lently &s;urprized by fal&s;e teachers, nor violently taken from us by the powers of hell.</P>
<P>There is no proportion or compari&s;on, between malig|nant cavaliers, and &s;educing impo&s;tors, that more dange|rou&s;ly &s;et up the kingdome of darkne&s;&s;e, and tyrannie of the Devil.</P>
<P>Why &s;hould there be any <HI>Gallio</HI> that careth not for any of the&s;e things? <HI>Acts</HI> 18.17. <HI>Jeremie</HI> &s;adly complaineth of &s;ome great ones that were <HI>not valiant for the truth</HI> Jer. 9.3. Godly Magi&s;trates have forced Antidotes on a di&s;temper|ed, corrupted people; compelled them to repair to publick ordinances,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 15.13.33.16.34, 32.</NOTE> brought them into the Bond of a nationall <HI>co|venant.</HI></P>
<P>What wonder is it, if every wherry &s;wim &s;o &s;wiftly into the bottomle&s;&s;e aby&s;&s;e when they have &s;o fair a wind, &s;o ful a tide? when they are preferred, advanced, countenanced, put into places of great tru&s;t, command and profit, and en|gro&s;&s;e every gainfull office? Mammon of unrighteou&s;nes
<PB N="38" REF="22"> will not onely work with a <HI>Blaam,</HI> but will bia&s;&s;e a better &s;pirit then <HI>his</HI> was, to &s;educe others, and be &s;educed him|&s;elf. Every man would be of the winning hand, would be of a thriving and gainfull trade; no trade&s;man &s;o cu&s;tom'd, or hath the like return as <HI>Sectaries</HI> that trade in merchandi&s;e of Souls. But &s;hall the Godly Magi&s;trate freely &s;uffer them to retail their deceitfull wares? In free corporations they will not endure forreiners to &s;et up by them and &s;teal away their cu&s;tomers.</P>
<P>Market towns have a <HI>standard,</HI> an a&s;&s;ize for bread and beere&mdash;<HI>&amp;c. Bread</HI> that will not hold out weight, is to be gi|ven away; it would do well to &s;ee the bread of life to have his true weight. And to &s;et a fine on their heads that make and &s;ell that which is light, naught, unwhole&s;om, lea|vened.</P>
<P>The Publicans, among the Jews, &s;ate at the receipt of cu&s;tom<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg">Luke 5.27. Luke 19.2.</NOTE> to &s;ee and compell the poore bleeding coun|try to pay tribute unto <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> taxes and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements impo|&s;ed and exacted for the u&s;e of the Roman &s;tate; and our Sa|viour &s;o far conde&s;cended to the nece&s;&s;ities of tho&s;e times, that him&s;elf payd tribute-money, &s;uch as was levied and a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed upon him. <HI>Matth.</HI> 17.24.27. But he denounceth a dreadfull <HI>woe</HI> to the Scribes, not becau&s;e they payd tithe of mint and anni&s;e, and cummin (due by Gods law) but that they omitted the weightier matters of the <HI>Law, judgement, mercie, and faith; the&s;e</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.</HI> Mat. 23.23. Magi&s;trates and men in place, &s;hould &s;ee God have <HI>his</HI> due, as well as them&s;elves have their due; they &s;hould &s;ee that religion be not corrupt|ed, Gods word perverted, the &s;ouls of people de&s;troyed. What &s;erve <HI>mothers</HI> or nur&s;es for, but to look to their little ones, and not let them eat <HI>dirt,</HI> chalk, <HI>coals,</HI> in &s;tead of <HI>bread;</HI> &s;piders poy&s;on in &s;tead of <HI>&s;ugar, milk,</HI> or whol&s;om nouri&s;h|ment?
<PB N="39" REF="22"> I &s;hould think &s;uch an undutifull, ungracious child not fit nor worthy to be &s;uffered to live in a family, that <HI>I&s;h|mael</HI> like &s;hould mock the <HI>I&s;aacks.</HI> Gen. 21.9. neither are &s;uch worthy to live in a Chri&s;tian<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><P>&mdash;illi certe nullo modo &s;i|nendi &s;unt vivere, cum illorum temporalis vita aliis &s;it aeterna mors. <HI>Za<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch.</HI> de Magi&s;tr.</P>
<P>&mdash;Mr <HI>Cotton</HI> on <HI>Rev.</HI> 16. pouring out the &s;even <HI>Vials</HI>
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<ITEM>3. page 16, 17, 21.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. page 17.</ITEM>
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<P>&mdash;if any have a con&s;cience to turn men from God, he would have men have as much con&s;cience to cut them off.</P></NOTE> church (e&s;pecially not to be cockered, countenanced) that &s;pit in their aged mo|thers face (the church of <HI>England</HI>) and call her <HI>Whore.</HI></P>
<P>And thus much may &s;uffice for the two fir&s;t ob&s;ervati|ons, out of the Text.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The end of the fir&s;t SERMON</NOTE></P>
<P>The third followeth viz.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Doct."> THe be&s;t of Gods people need charging to take heed, and beware of fal&s;e doctrine. <HI>Even the Apostles them|&s;elves,</HI> bred up and fed up in Chri&s;ts own family, are in dan|ger of being leavened.</P>
<P>How doth Saint <HI>Paul</HI> feare, le&s;t the <HI>Corinthian Saints</HI> &s;hould by Satans &s;ubtilty, <HI>be beguiled, and their minds cor|rupted from the &s;implicity that is in Chri&s;t?</HI> 2 Cor. 11.3.</P>
<P>How doth <HI>he</HI> in &s;undry places, <HI>charge,</HI> and adjure <HI>Timo|thy? This charge I commit unto thee&mdash;to hold faith, and a good con&s;cience, which &s;ome having put away, concerning faith have made &s;hipwrack, of whom is Hymeneus, &amp;c.</HI> 1 Tim. 1.18.19.20. <HI>I charge thee</HI> before God and the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and the elect angels&mdash;1. <HI>Tim.</HI> 5.21. <HI>I give thee charge</HI> in the &s;ight of God&mdash; and before Chri&s;t&mdash;<HI>that thou keep this com|mandment</HI> 1 Tim. 6.13. <HI>O</HI><NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">O, ex|clamatio iffa &amp; prae&s;cientioe e&s;t pariter &amp; charitatis; praevidebat enim futuros, quos etiam praedolebat Errores. Quis e&s;t hodie <HI>Timotheus?</HI> ni&s;i vel generaliter univer&s;a <HI>eccle&s;ia;</HI> vel &s;pecialiter totum corpus <HI>praepo&s;itorum,</HI> qui integram divini cultus &s;cientiam, vel habere ip&s;i debent, vel aliis infundere. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lirin. cap. 27. where he excellently paraphra&s;eth the whole text&mdash;as al&s;o cap. 33, 34.</NOTE> <HI>Timothy keep that which is com|mitted
<PB N="40" REF="23"> to thy tru&s;t, avoiding profane and vain bablings and oppo&s;itions of &s;cience fal&s;ely &s;o called: which &s;ome profe&s;sing have erred concerning the faith.</HI> 1 Tim. 6.20.21:</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.14, 16, 17.</NOTE>&mdash;<HI>Charging them before the Lord, that they &s;trive not about words to no profit, but to the &s;ubverting of the hearers.</HI></P>
<P>&mdash;<HI>Shun profane and vain bablings, for they will increa&s;e un|to more ungodline&s;&s;e: And their word will eat as doth a canker</HI>-</P>
<P>And the Rea&s;ons are <HI>three.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Rea&s;."> 1 Becau&s;e even good people are &s;upinely &s;lothfull, &s;hamefully carele&s;&s;e, and remi&s;&s;e in &s;pirituall matters, of mo&s;t deep concernment; and therefore, as in civil bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, when we feare heedle&s;&s;e forgetting, we u&s;e to give a <HI>charge</HI> withall; &s;o <HI>I&s;aack</HI> to his &s;on <HI>Jacob,</HI> not to take a wife of the Canaanites <HI>Gen.</HI> 28.6. S. <HI>Paul chargeth</HI> the The&s;&s;alonians le&s;t they &s;hould throw by his letter at their heeels 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 5.27. So here in our Text, is an ingeminated caveat, and <HI>charge</HI> withall, lying on the Di&s;ciples, to <HI>take heed</HI> and <HI>be|ware</HI> of &s;oul-leavening Doctrine<NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;Et po&s;t haec invenien|tur aliqui, tanta in|veteratae frontis du|ritia, tanta impuden|tiae incude, tam ada|mantinae pertinaciae qui tantis cloquio|rum coe|le&s;tium molibus non &s;uccumbant? tantis ponderibus non fati&s;cant? tantis malleis non conqua&s;&s;entur? tantis po&s;tremo fulminibus non conterantur? <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lirin.&mdash;cap. 26.</NOTE> whereby (as with a <HI>threefold</HI> cord) our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour would bind them to a con&s;tant, con&s;cionable vigilancie over their ears, hearts, minds, affections, when&s;oever they &s;hould light in compa|ny of, fall into di&s;cour&s;e with Phari&s;aicall teachers, or heare them expounding, opening, and applying Scripture; that &s;o their ears being di&s;creet porters to their &s;oul, might not &s;uffer &s;oul murdering doctrine to enter in, but hold it out; as <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> advi&s;eth in another ca&s;e. 2 Kin. 6.32. O they are very cunning that hunt &s;ouls; and we had need &s;et a &s;trong guard over <HI>our</HI> &s;ouls, that we may not be taken nap|ping, &s;urprized unawares by any Sirenly incantations of inchanting &s;educers<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; devita&mdash; qua&s;i viperam, qua&s;i &s;corpionem, qua&s;i ba&s;ili&s;cum, ne te non &s;olum tactu, &s;ed etiam vi&s;u, afflatuque percutiant. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lit. cap. 33.</NOTE> factious &s;ectaries, though they
<PB N="41" REF="23"> charme never &s;o wi&s;ely: 'Tis our wi&s;dome to <HI>fore&s;tall error,</HI> have our veins filled, &s;pirits &s;trengthened again&s;t poy&s;on; to have our mouth in ta&s;t, our palate &s;ea&s;oned with heaven|ly Manna, that we need not long for Egyptian garlick, oni|ons, tra&s;h, nor care at all to look on, ta&s;t, much le&s;s &s;wallow or dige&s;t &s;owr leaven; but &s;tomach-boak, &s;pirit ri&s;e at the &s;ight of error as unplea&s;ing, heart burning, heavy bread.</P>
<P N="2">2 Becau&s;e of the proclivity of <HI>mens,</HI> the be&s;t mens <HI>nature,</HI> as to al kind of evil, &s;o to the evil of error;<NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;natu|ra hominis corrupti tam facile admittit errores quam fo|mes igni|arius con|cipit ig|nem <HI>Ame&s;.</HI> in 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. &mdash;apt to be &s;educed &amp; ready to take any impre&s;&s;i|ons, &amp; to be ca&s;t into any mould that hath but the appearance of a &s;trict way.</NOTE> our bodies are not proner to dangerous di&s;ea&s;es, then our &s;ouls to be &s;edu|ced by every un&s;ound doctrine. Wondrous apt we are to rove, &amp; turn a&s;ide unto crooked ways; to embrace &amp; be taken with the wor&s;t, the foule&s;t here&s;ies; our hearts are like <HI>tow,</HI> fal&s; doctrin is like a <HI>&s;park,</HI> if we do not keep them a&s;under, al will in&s;tantly be in combu&s;tion. The be&s;t meal is &s;oon lea|vened, &s;weet dough &s;oon &s;owred, the pure&s;t linnen &s;oone&s;t &s;ullied, the mo&s;t fre&s;h complexion &s;oone&s;t &s;eized on by the plague. 'Tis ob&s;erved in times of infection, that <HI>children</HI> are &s;oone&s;t &s;mitten, tainted with pox, meazles, or any contagi|ous di&s;ea&s;e, and mo&s;t and oftene&s;t die; and the rea&s;on is be|cau&s;e their &s;pirits are weaker, and nature le&s;&s;e able to re&s;i&s;t or expell infection; Ther's a &s;ympathie in our corrupt nature to corrupt do|ctrine, it &s;avoureth well,<NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">etiam ip&s;e &s;apor ex acido et fal&s;o mix|tus conco|ctionem irritat et acuit. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. cap 61.</NOTE> is like, and <HI>likene&s;&s;e</HI> is one cau&s;e of <HI>love;</HI> whereas the wi&s;dome of the fle&s;h is enmity again&s;t God, and truths of God. 'Tis an ea&s;ie matter to trundle a boul down the hil-<HI>facilis de&s;cen&s;us Averni</HI>-. There is a pro|pen&s;ity and di&s;po&s;ition in the heart of men, the be&s;t men to &s;werve and deviate from the truth, a root of bitterne&s;&s;e, an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, a principle of Apo&s;ta&s;ie; and therefore had need to have a <HI>back-byas</HI> to withdraw, counter-poyze, pre&s;erve and
<PB N="42" REF="24"> keep the &s;oul upright in the wayes of God, and truths of God. All advi&s;es, coun&s;els, exhortations, per&s;wa|&s;ions, charges, caveats are little enough to keep us from being &s;educed, perverted; All barres, gates, are doores, and drawbridges, and works, and courts of Guard too little to keep our treacherous &s;pirits of Errour <HI>within,</HI> from having corre&s;pondence, or intelligence, with that &s;pirit of errour that is, and will be tampering with us, from <HI>without.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3 Becau&s;e Satan him&s;elf the great grand&s;ire of all here|ticks, is a &s;ubtil re&s;tle&s;&s;e &s;pirit, of a reaching pate, and can make u&s;e of always, men, means, to further his ends, advance, &amp; &s;et up his kingdome; he can make religion it &s;elf to over|throw religion, con&s;cience it &s;elf to de&s;troy con&s;cience; re|formation of a church to deform a church; builders to be de&s;troyers; and Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel, of being convert|ers to become perverters, &s;ubverters of their hearers. And we may be &s;ure, at &s;uch a time as this he will improve his utmo&s;t skill, policie, tricks, &s;tratagems, and &s;et his wits on the tenters, to inveigh and &s;educe teachers, guides, Apo&s;tles, me&s;&s;engers of the church, angels&mdash;if he can but taint the rams of the flock with his &s;cab of errour, all is his own: &s;il|ly &s;heep follow the leaders. His aime is at the white pige|ons in the flight; fight neither again&s;t &s;mall nor great, but the king of I&s;rael. <HI>miles feri faciem.</HI> He a&s;&s;ayeth to draw <HI>down</HI> the <HI>&s;tars</HI> of heaven with his tail. <HI>Rev.</HI> 12.4. To poy&s;on the fountains, leaven the teachers, is (he well knoweth) a &s;peeding way. I&s;a. 3.12. <HI>O my people they which lead thee cau&s;e thee to erre, and de&s;troy the way of thy paths.</HI> Hereupon he tutors his agents, factors, familiars, to propine and pro|pound their pernitious doctrines, devili&s;h de&s;ignes, with all <HI>efficacie of errour,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2.29, 10.</NOTE> deceiveablene&s;&s;e of unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, with all power, and <HI>&s;ignes, and lying wonders,</HI> that 'tis ten to one
<PB N="43" REF="24"> but they &s;hall and will take; and <HI>&s;educe if it were po&s;sible e|ven the elect,</HI> Mar. 13.22.</P>
<P>For U&s;e of this point, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>In&s;truction, in 3 particulars</ITEM>
<ITEM>Exhortation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> &V;&s;e In&s;truct.</NOTE> Take notice from hence of the mi&s;erable corruption of mans nature; that <HI>even the best of men</HI> &s;tand in &s;uch need of charging, warning, taking heed of being leavened with unwhol&s;ome doctrines. O how hardly are &s;aving truths bea|ten into our heads &amp; hearts (<HI>precept mu&s;t be upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little</HI> I&s;a. 28.10.) but how ea&s;ily, even headlong, do we tumble down-ward <HI>unto</HI> dam|nable here&s;ies, <HI>into</HI> the pit of de&s;truction!</P>
<P>We need then go no further then our pre&s;ent text, and the charge and caveat given by Chri&s;t him&s;elf to his own Di&s;ciples, if we &s;hould be required to give a <HI>rea&s;on</HI> why &s;uch and &s;o many, &s;o hopefull, &s;o well affected and religious people, that did indeed &s;et their faces towards <HI>Zion,</HI> looked earne&s;tly towards heaven, de&s;ired &s;incerely to feare God, and did (as <HI>then was</HI> charitably conceived) and <HI>&s;till is</HI> by me, <HI>for God is able to graft them in again,</HI> though peevi&s;hly they have cut them&s;elves off from our a&s;&s;emblies<NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;qui &s;e colle|garum &s;en&s;ui aut incorpo|rare neg|lexit aut excorpo|rare prae|&s;ump&s;it&mdash; <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. de <HI>Juliano</HI> Pelagiano cap. 40.</NOTE> and pa&s;&s;e uncharitable cen&s;urers upon us) walk with God, and &s;hine as lights in their &s;phere, are now become <HI>falling &s;tars,</HI> pluckt out of their orb, the church, by the dragons tail of dange|rous here&s;ie. How many do we &s;ee groping for the light at noon day, <HI>&s;eekers</HI> of the right way, of a Go&s;pel, a Church, a Chri&s;t, a Saviour (as <HI>Mary Magdalen</HI> thought the gar|diner had carried Chri&s;ts <HI>dead</HI> body away; which &s;he then <HI>&s;ought,</HI> when his <HI>living</HI> body, and &s;oul, and Godhead too <HI>John</HI> 20.15. were &s;tanding before her) and heaven; who&s;e eyes are &s;o holden &amp; dazled that they do not know Chri&s;t, &s;ee Chri&s;t among us, their &s;pirits &s;o &s;educed, minds &s;o be|witched
<PB N="44" REF="25"> that they will not again be reduced, and brought back into the wayes of truth and peace.</P>
<P>The meteors, <HI>Ignis fatuus,</HI> new lights of the&s;e &s;educing times, might ea&s;ily deceive, and lead blindfold Chri&s;tians of more then ordinary parts and graces, when the Di&s;ciples that had Chri&s;t him&s;elf in per&s;on with them were in &s;uch danger to be leavened. Therefore never be offended, &s;can|dalized or wonder, though we &s;ee many drawn off from Chri&s;t, walk no more with him, &s;eparate from him, his or|dinances, and a&s;&s;emblies, though we &s;ee many tainted, infe|cted with damnable opinions; 'tis bred in our bone, <HI>we have it by kind,</HI> the &s;pirit that is in us, is an apo&s;tatizing, back|&s;liding &s;pirit; the Devil is cunning, powerfull; it is a won|der, any e&s;cape his winnowing: &s;o that which <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith of the &s;trange woman, may be truly al&s;o &s;aid of &s;trange do|ctrines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro 7.26.</NOTE> <HI>leaveners,</HI> here&s;ie, &s;chi&s;me,&mdash;<HI>&s;he hath ca&s;t down many wounded, yea many &s;trong men have been &s;lain by her, her hou&s;e is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>In&s;tr.</HI></NOTE>2. Commendable is the zeal and care of tho&s;e men of God, tho&s;e watchmen on the walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> that blow the trumpet, cry aloud, cea&s;e not to warn and charge their people of taking heed to their &s;ouls; of circum&s;pect hear|ing, reading, di&s;cour&s;ing, companying with the leavening teachers of the times, tho&s;e &s;pirits of Devils that are gone out into the world.</P>
<P>They are good &s;hepherds, and have here the example of the great &s;hepherd backing them, who&s;e practice and pre|cedent herein, is beyond all ju&s;t exception.</P>
<P>It is a good mini&s;ters duty to look to the ways of his peo|ple, to diet his &s;heep in fear of a rot, to mind where they feed, and lie down, what layer, what pa&s;ture they delight in; that if it be not &s;afe, or whole&s;ome for them; he may drive them, di&s;wont them thence. Thus was Saint <HI>Paul</HI> jea|lous
<PB N="45" REF="25"> over the Corinthians with <HI>godly jealou&s;ie,</HI> and feared <HI>le&s;t by any means as the &s;erpent beguiled Eve, through his &s;ubtilty, &s;o their minds &s;hould be corrupted</HI>&mdash; 2. Cor. 11.3.</P>
<P>What Chri&s;tians heart can chu&s;e but bleed within him to &s;ee hopefull flocks, all grown over with the &s;cab? to &s;ee grievous wolves enter, that de&s;troy, and tear in pieces, both fle&s;h and fleece? our <HI>Saviour</HI> was moved with compa&s;&s;ion, when he &s;aw the multitude <HI>&s;cattered abroad, as &s;heep having no &s;hepherd.</HI> Matth. 9.36.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&mdash;A &s;ad condition for people to be without a &s;hepherd. Mr <HI>Edw.</HI> Antapol. page 92.</NOTE> And we have many flocks now without a feeder, leader; few &s;hepherds in a countrey to take the care or cure of &s;ouls; &s;ome that <HI>had,</HI> break their &s;taff of beauty and bands, and will feed them no more; will take no pa&s;torall charge, nor own them as their flock; their fir&s;t calling to them was (they think perhaps) Antichri&s;ti|an<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ma&s;ter <HI>Edwards</HI> in his An|tap. p. 49.</NOTE>; and re&s;olve therefore (as he in Zecharie 11.9.) <HI>I will not feed you; that that dieth, let it die, and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the re&s;t eat every one the fle&s;h of another.</HI></P>
<P>It is our honour, and crown of rejoycing, when we can (as Saint <HI>Paul</HI> 2. Cor. 11.2.) pre&s;erve and pre&s;ent our peo|ple as a cha&s;t virgin to their husband Chri&s;t, to whom all our wooing is to win and e&s;pou&s;e them to Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>What an honor is it to ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Calvin,</HI> that holy Saint and worthy &s;ervant of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that <HI>he</HI><NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">&mdash; mos i&s;te &s;em|per in ec|cle&s;ia viguit, ut quo qui&s;&abque; foret reli|gio&s;ior, eo promptius novellis adinve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|tionibus contra iret <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 9.</NOTE> not onely pre&s;erved his own <HI>Geneva</HI>-flock, but the mo&s;t reformed, or then reforming churches of Chri&s;tendome, (I am &s;ure our Engli&s;h church was much al&s;o beholding to his care and pains, as might be ea&s;ie to demon&s;trate in &s;undry parti|culars) from the dangerous infection of leavening &s;educers, and pe&s;tilent hereticks: whom (as &s;o many <HI>bea&s;ts at Ephe|&s;us</HI>) he hand to hand encountred, fought with, foiled, and for ever routed, without all po&s;&s;ibility of recruit; few or none &s;tanding by, or &s;econding of him; in&s;omuch as <HI>one</HI>
<PB N="46" REF="26"> worthily calls him a <HI>Chri&s;tian Hercules,</HI> that vanqui&s;ht and quelled the mon&s;ters of here&s;ies in his time<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;hoc potius ad|miratione dignum e&s;t <HI>unicum</HI> hominem, tanquam <HI>Herculem</HI> quendam Chri&s;tianum tot do|mandis mon&s;tris &s;ufficere potui&s;&s;e; nempe forti&s;&s;ima illa clava, id e&s;t <HI>Dei</HI> verbo utentem. <HI>Beza</HI> in vita <HI>Calvini</HI> &s;ub finem.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. <HI>In&s;tr.</HI></NOTE>3 <HI>People</HI> &s;hould not take it ill at <HI>our</HI> hands, if &s;ometimes they be urged, and charged, and even adjured by us to take heed and beware of <HI>Leaven;</HI> e&s;pecially if <HI>now,</HI> we be &s;o in|&s;tant and importunate with them, and even with a holy vi|olence, pluck leavened bread out of their mouth; their &s;ouls out of the paws and jaws of here&s;ie. O the&s;e are dan|gerous <HI>Dog-dayes</HI> wherein we live (as Ma&s;ter <HI>Philpot</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In his letter a|bout In|fants bap|ti&s;me&mdash;Mr <HI>Fox</HI> Acts Mon. vol. 3. p. 607. &mdash; now alas mo&s;t mi&s;erably is torn in peeces by many dangerous &s;ects and damnable opinions &mdash; that a|ny giddy head in the&s;e Dog-days&mdash;page 610.</NOTE> cal|leth them, and yet the&s;e cockatrices were then but in the &s;hell) in which Satan and <HI>hell is broke loo&s;e,</HI> and the gho&s;ts of all former damned hereticks are come out of their graves and walk abroad daily among us, &s;eeking again to poy&s;on more &s;ouls, and to draw another world of men into hell af|ter them.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal 4.16.</NOTE>The <HI>Galatians</HI> had no rea&s;on to be angry with Saint <HI>Paul</HI> becau&s;e he told them the truth, becau&s;e he &s;ought by all po&s;&s;ible means to unwitch their &s;educed judgements, and to <HI>conjure</HI> down by gho&s;tly charms, and Go&s;pel arguments, <HI>the malignant &s;pirit of Error</HI> ri&s;en up among them. If <HI>thieves</HI> were in the way, ready to rob and &s;trip the hone&s;t traveller, could he take it ill to be told and forewarned of them? If <HI>witches</HI> &s;hould con&s;pire the death of people<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Calvin</HI> adver&s;. Libertin. page 603</NOTE> were it not fit they &s;hould be indicted and brought to triall? Certain|ly no theft is &s;o wicked, no witchcraft &s;o pernitious, as he|reticall doctrine, it poy&s;ons and &s;ends the <HI>&s;oul</HI> packing to hell.</P>
<P>What? are any people now priviledged from being leaven|ed
<PB N="47" REF="26"> more then the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&mdash;ut &s;icut haec <HI>morum</HI> mandata, ita etiam <HI>illa</HI> quae de <HI>fide</HI> cauta &s;unt, omnes pari modo compre|hendant <HI>Vinc.</HI> c. 13.</NOTE> Apo&s;tles? Are they &s;hot-free of Satans poy&s;onous darts? Are <HI>their</HI> graces and parts more un&s;hake|able then <HI>Peters,</HI> or Chri&s;ts other Di&s;ciples whom Satan &s;ought to winnow as wheat? Why then do they cen&s;ure <HI>&V;s</HI> (that freely and boldly &s;peak in the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, in their own &s;ouls cau&s;e that now lie a bleeding under cut|throat hereticks) as wounders of tender con&s;ciences, as per|&s;ecuters of the Saints? Is the phy&s;ician a per&s;ecuter that admini&s;ters pills and potions to the di&s;ea&s;ed patient? Is the &s;urgeon a per&s;ecuter that &s;earcheth and lanceth impo&s;tu|mated and fe&s;tered &s;ores? Surely no. Therefore let our people rectifie their judgements concerning <HI>us;</HI> we de&s;ire not to rub galled backs, to exulcerate mens &s;pirits: we had rather pour in oyle, apply Lenitives.</P>
<P>But give us leave to deal faithfully with your &s;ouls, not to &s;ow pillows under any mans elbows: the devil is not become more orthodox now, then formerly. Satan is no le&s;&s;e Sa|tanicall then he was. The father of lies is no more convert|ed to &s;peak truth then heretofore; nor hath a <HI>&s;uper&s;edeas</HI> from poy&s;oning &s;ouls. The envious man will &s;ow tares, and is as bu&s;ie now as ever, becau&s;e he knoweth he hath but a &s;hort time and therefore &s;ends out his emi&s;&s;aries, &s;educing &s;pirits, giddy Enthu&s;ia&s;ts, leavening impo&s;tors, to turn the world up&s;ide down, to broach &s;ubverting principles to un|do Church and State: he doth &s;trike while the iron is hot; loves to fi&s;h in troubled waters. This is his harve&s;t. It e|ver hath been the Devils manner when the Church is at the point of her deliverance of a man child, to be ready with open mouth to devour it. In times of de&s;ired reformation, to bring in a cur&s;ed deformation both of Church and State. So the Arrians in <HI>Con&s;tantines</HI> time, and the Anabapti&s;ts in <HI>Luthers:</HI> and I would I might truly &s;ay, <HI>It is not &s;o now</HI> but 'tis no fal&s;e alarme that I give you <HI>Hannibal ad portas</HI>&mdash;
<PB N="48" REF="27"> We &s;ee everywhere &s;ad &s;ymptoms of a di&s;tempered, di&s;ea|&s;ed, infected Church and State.</P>
<P>Secondly for Exhortation.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2.</HI> &V;&s;e of Exhort.</NOTE>Do the be&s;t of Gods people need charging to take heed of leaven? is there &s;uch danger of having our &s;ouls &s;educed, infected? Why then let us <HI>&s;end up &s;trong prayers and cries to heaven,</HI> that God by his &s;pirit would guide us into all truth, and kep us by his own power to &s;alvation&mdash;of our &s;elves we are of <HI>Reubens</HI> con&s;titution,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 49, 4</NOTE> <HI>Un&s;table as water;</HI> &s;oon turned out of the right way.</P>
<P><HI>Pray for the &s;pirit of di&s;cerning,</HI> that the eyes of our under|&s;tanding being opened, we may &s;ee, embrace, love, and cleave to the truth, and hate every fal&s;e way, that we may have our eys annointed with eye-&s;alve from heaven to &s;ee clearly in|to the my&s;teries of the Go&s;pel; and that he would give unto us the &s;pirit of wi&s;dom and revelation in the knowledge of him&mdash;that we may di&s;cern things that differ, and be able to di&s;tingui&s;h <HI>opium</HI> from <HI>apium,</HI> hemlock from whole&s;ome herbs, &s;owre leaven from &s;oul-nouri&s;hing bread.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> But how may we <HI>trie</HI> the <HI>Doctrines</HI> we heare, di&s;|cern and &s;ift out their leaven, and <HI>di&s;cover</HI> &s;educing &s;ecta|ries, their <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> and leavening practi&s;es?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1 For their <HI>Doctrines,</HI> bring them to the touch|&s;tone of Holy Scripture;<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;quo omnes omnium haere&s;e &ohgr; a &s;celeratae novitates velut quodam &s;pirituali glad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o, &s;aepe truncatae, &s;emperque truncandae &s;unt. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir.</NOTE> weigh them in the ballance of the Sanctuary. <HI>To the law and to the te&s;timonie: if they &s;peak not according to this word, it is becau&s;e there is no light in them.</HI> I&s;a. 8.20. Search the Scriptures&mdash;<HI>John</HI> 5.39. <HI>Do ye not therefore erre, becau&s;e ye know not the Scriptures?</HI> Mar. 12.24.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But hereticks bring <HI>Scripture</HI> for their opini|ons.<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Novit Diabolus</HI> nullam e&s;&s;e ad fallendum faciliorem viam quam ut ubi nefarii erroris &s;ubinducitur fraudulentia, <HI>ibi divinorum verborum praetendatur auctoritas.</HI> Vincent. Lirin. <HI>cap. 37.</HI></NOTE> Every <HI>&s;ectarie</HI> can alledge the word of God, as well
<PB N="49" REF="27"> as the orthodox Chri&s;tian; So did the Devil him&s;elf to our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour Matth. 4.6. <HI>It is written.</HI><NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Sata|nam</HI> imi|tati, qui verbo ip&s;o Domini in contrariam &s;ententiam di&s;torto, ad &s;tabilienda fal&s;i&s;&s;ima dogmata, abutuntur&mdash;<HI>Beza</HI> Annot. Major. in Act. 20.28.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Solut.</HI> 1. They corrupt, wre&s;t,<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Haere|tici</HI> divinae &s;cripturae te&s;timoniis utuntur, nam vide|as eos vo|lare per &s;ingula quaeque &s;anctae legis volumina: &mdash;nihil unquam pene de &s;uo proferunt, quod non etiam &s;cripturae verbis adumbrare conentur. Lege <HI>Pauli</HI> Samo&s;etani opu&s;cula, Pri&s;|cilliani, Eunomij, Joviniani, reliquarumque pe&s;tium: cernas infinitam exemplorum congeriem, prope nullam omitti paginam, quae non <HI>novi,</HI> aut <HI>veteris</HI> te&s;tamenti &s;ententiis fucata &amp; colorata &s;it. Sed tanto magis cavendi, &amp; pertime&s;cendi &s;unt, quanto occultius &s;ub divinae legis umbraculis latitant.&mdash;<HI>Vinc. Lirin.</HI> cap. 35, &amp; 37.</NOTE> writh, and fal&s;ifie the texts which they quote, &s;ometimes by adding, &s;ometimes by clipping and paring away, and &s;tamp the private image and &s;uper&s;cription of man upon Gods own coyn, and rack and torture the Scriptures to confe&s;&s;e that which was never in them.</P>
<P N="2">2. They make fal&s;e con&s;tructions and inferences from them; &s;piders &s;uck poy&s;on even from whole&s;ome and &s;weet flowers. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.16.</P>
<P N="3">3. We mu&s;t therefore <HI>compare Scripture with Scripture;</HI> this is a notable means of finding out the true &s;en&s;e of them. Thus our Saviour brings Scripture again&s;t that Scripture which the Devil mi&s;-quoted <HI>Mat.</HI> 4.7.<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;ad defen&s;io|nem &s;ui, quaedam &s;acrae legis verba fu|rari atque fallaciter &amp; fraudu|lenter exponere&mdash; <HI>idem</HI> c. 39.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 We may di&s;cover the <HI>per&s;ons</HI> of &s;educing <HI>&s;ectaries,</HI> as our Saviour teacheth his Di&s;ciples to di&s;cern tho&s;e wicked leaveners, <HI>Phari&s;ees,</HI> Sadduces and <HI>Herodians.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Matth. 7.16, 20,</HI></BIBL> by their fruits ye &s;hall know them.</Q>
<P>They be chiefly three. All hereticks, if we look wi&s;tly at them, and throughly &s;ift them, we &s;hall find they are
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Self &s;eekers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Proud.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Per&s;ecuters.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1 <HI>Self-&s;eekers</HI> Phil. 2.21, they all &s;eek <HI>their own,</HI> not the
<PB N="50" REF="28"> things which are Je&s;us Chri&s;ts. <HI>Their own</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Profit,</HI> gainfull places, offices&mdash;<HI>an heart they have exer|ci&s;ed with covetous practi&s;es</HI> 2 Pet. 2.14.&mdash;teaching things which they<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">Avari|tia e&s;t ple|rumque haere&s;ium comes, fomes, ma|ter, nutrix. &mdash;<HI>Ame&s;.</HI> in 2 Pet. 2, 3.</NOTE> ought not for filthy lucres &s;ake <HI>Tit.</HI> 1.11. &s;uppo&s;ing that gain is godlines 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.5. 5. The Phari&s;ees devoured widows hou&s;es and their &s;o zealous pains in making pro&s;elytes, was but to get the fat mor&s;ells on their own trencher.<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">Quaerebant di&s;cipulos quos pecuniis emungere po&s;&s;ent, non quod &s;alutem animarum procurare curabant &mdash;<HI>Montac.</HI> Apparat. 7. &s;ect. 28.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Credit,</HI> honour and e&s;teem among men&mdash;love <HI>the uppermost rooms at fea&s;ts,</HI> and the <HI>chief &s;eats</HI> in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men <HI>Rabbi, Rabbi,</HI> Matth 23.6.7. they love to be looked at as the onely religious ones, to be followed, admired; all other are <HI>No bodies,</HI> to them. True grace is truly honourable, where it is in truth; The Lord makes his people glorious within, and not to &s;eek honour from without by vain o&s;tentation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Plea&s;ure,</HI> and ea&s;e; their belly, back- <HI>Mark them which cau&s;e divi&s;ions</HI> and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned For they that are &s;uch &s;erve not our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>but their own belly,</HI> and by good words and fair &s;peeches, deceive the hearts of the &s;imple. <HI>Rom.</HI> 16.17.18. enemies of the cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, who&s;e end is de&s;truction, <HI>who&s;e God is their belly,</HI> and who&s;e glory is in their &s;hame, who mind earthly things Phil. 3.18, 19.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>Proud</HI> 1 Tim. 6.4. <HI>He is proud</HI> 2 Pet. 2, 18. <HI>they &s;peak great &s;welling words of vanity.</HI> They &s;et up their own righteou&s;|nes, worth, works, as if <HI>they</HI> and none but they were Gods Saints, holy ones, his anoynted. Their congregations the one|ly
<PB N="51" REF="28"> church on earth; all other reformed churches are (in their e&s;teem) <HI>the habitation of Devils, and the hold of every foul &s;pirit, and a cage of every unclean and hatefull bird,</HI> as Saint <HI>Iohn</HI> Rev. 18.2. &s;aith of <HI>Babylon.</HI></P>
<P>They brag of the <HI>Spirit,</HI> new light&mdash;<HI>Moncer</HI> reproached <HI>Luther,</HI> that he wanted the &s;pirit of revelation, and preach|ed onely a carnall Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>They brag of their <HI>parts,</HI> abilities, <HI>graces,</HI> precious men, <HI>beyond the Apo&s;tles.</HI> That <HI>Chri&s;t him&s;elf could</HI><NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">See Mr <HI>Edwards</HI> Gangrene &mdash;<HI>pag.</HI> 44</NOTE> <HI>preach no bet|ter then &s;ome of them.</HI> One of their tribe is affirmed to be <HI>the able&s;t man in</HI> England <HI>for prayer, preaching, expound|ing the Scripture</HI>&mdash;They appropriate<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg">Audent etenim polliceri et docere, quod <HI>in eccle&s;ia &s;ua,</HI> id e&s;t in communionis &s;uae conventiculo, <HI>magna, &amp; &s;pecialis, ac plane per&s;onalis quaedam &s;it Dei gratia,</HI> adeo ut &s;ine ullo labore, &s;ine ullo &s;tudio, &s;ine ulla indu&s;tria, etiam&s;i nec quaerant, nec pul&s;ent, quicunque illi ad numerum &s;uum pertinent, tamen ita divinitus di&s;pen&s;entur ut angelicis&mdash;&amp;c. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lirin. cap. 37.</NOTE> to them&s;elves the name of the godly, <HI>well affected party,</HI> all others are malig|nants, cavaliers.</P>
<P>And all hereticks generally that it may be known from whence their doctrines are, have a &s;pirit of Luciferian pride in them, and are hence di&s;tingui&s;hable from the humble, lowly,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&mdash;that five &s;uch yong men and no deeplier &s;tudied &s;hould thus proudly and <HI>tanquam ex tripode,</HI> &s;o magi&s;terially conclude again&s;t al the reformed Churches&mdash; <HI>Antapolog.</HI> page 194, 195.</NOTE> meek, mortified &s;ervants of Chri&s;t; as the <HI>Bri|tains</HI> asking coun&s;ell of a certain holy Anchorite concern|ing the receiving of <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> the monk, and his doctrine and government, in the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Church, were told that <HI>they might di&s;cern whether he were a man of God, by his meek and humble mindedne&s;&s;e; but if he be &s;tout and proud, he was not of God,</HI> they might be bold-<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Godwins</HI> Hi&s;tor. of Bi&s;hops page 44.</NOTE>.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>Per&s;ecuters</HI> of the right wayes of God&mdash;2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.2. Were ever any more bitter enemies to the truth then &s;ecta|ries?
<PB N="52" REF="29"> How implacable was the rage of<NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg"><P>Mr <HI>Hooker</HI> eccle&s;. polit. in the <HI>Preface</HI></P>
<P>So the <HI>Arminians</HI> in the Ne|therlands. Antapol. p. 279.</P></NOTE> the leavening Phari&s;ees, Sadduces, again&s;t our Saviour, and his Apo&s;tles? How cruell, even as a beare robbed of her whelps, were the <HI>Germane</HI><NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Slei|dan.</HI> lib. 5.</NOTE> Anabapti&s;ts? And &s;uch per&s;ecuting &s;pirits have <HI>our Leaveners</HI> now; as appeares by their tongues, pennes, practi&s;es,<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;wit|ne&s;&s;e the many &s;currilous bitter, ba&s;e, biting papers, <HI>pamphlets,</HI> books of theirs&mdash; <HI>Arraign|ment</HI> of Per&s;. &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>They will have never a prie&s;t in</HI> England <HI>ere they have done.</HI> Hanging is too good for us. <HI>'Tis pity we are not pulled out of the pulpit.</HI> They call us Baalites, Antichri|&s;tian&mdash; If any godly <HI>Pauls</HI> &s;pirit be &s;tirred in <HI>him</HI> at their &s;trange and erroneous cour&s;es, and Doctrines, he is pre&s;ent|ly di&s;countenanced, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Some have not failed to tell us, that <HI>if we ever look to get livings,</HI> and places to maintain us, <HI>We mu&s;t</HI> turn to them, and <HI>hang the black coat on a willow tree.</HI> But they per&s;ecute our <HI>church</HI> and nation: <HI>God</HI> they &s;ay <HI>is not among us;</HI> we are Moabites, Ammonites, Samaritanes, without Chri&s;t, Aliens from the common wealth of I&s;rael, &s;trangers from the covenants of promi&s;e.&mdash;</P>
<P>They per&s;ecute and bla&s;pheme our <HI>bapti&s;me,</HI>&mdash;they dre&s;|&s;ed a cat like a child to be baptized, invited many<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">See M. <HI>Edwards</HI> Gangr. p. 67.</NOTE> men and women, and then had one to preach again&s;t baptizing of Infants: and it is generally ob&s;ervable in them, that they will neither admini&s;ter <HI>Bapti&s;me</HI> to Infants, or the <HI>Lords &s;upper</HI> to grown Chri&s;tians. An uncharitable cour&s;e, and har&s;h dealing it is, thus to make their own <HI>mother</HI> an harlot; their <HI>brethren</HI> ba&s;tards; the brea&s;ts they have &s;ucked, and Church in which they have been bred, upon who&s;e knees they have been dandled, an Antichri&s;tian &s;tewes: none of <HI>us,</HI> they &s;hew any Chri&s;tian, or common re&s;pect unto more then a Turk or a Jew, or an Indian; but &s;hun us, &s;eparate from us&mdash;if they conde&s;cend &s;ometimes to &s;peak a word, it is like court holy-water. That their <HI>heart</HI> is not with us, their poor, cold, blew, remote di&s;cour&s;es te&s;tifie. This went to <HI>Davids</HI> heart <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 55.12.13.14.. that not an enemy re|proached
<PB N="53" REF="29"> him, but it was thou, a man, mine equal, my <HI>guide</HI> and mine acquaintance; <HI>we took &s;weet coun&s;ell together and walked unto the hou&s;e of God in company.</HI> That &s;uch, becau&s;e we now are not ju&s;t of their cue, &s;hould quite unchurch us,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See Mr <HI>Edwards</HI> his Antap. pa. 45, 46.</NOTE> un-&s;aint us, un-hope us, un-God us, and un-heaven us too, is very har&s;h! But thus did the Phari&s;aicall &s;ectaries, they per&s;ecuted Chri&s;t, and all tho&s;e that believed in him. <HI>Joh.</HI> 9.29.34. or defended him&mdash; <HI>they ca&s;t him out. viz.</HI> the blind man, whom Chri&s;t had re&s;tored to &s;ight.</P>
<P>The fourth and la&s;t <HI>point</HI> yet remains, of which in order.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Doct."> <HI>The</HI> greatne&s;&s;e, or &s;eeming goodne&s;&s;e of any mans per&s;on &s;hould not &s;o captivate or bewitch the people of God that they &s;hould &s;uffer them&s;elves to be &s;educed, catched, or poi|&s;oned by them.</P>
<Q><P>&mdash;<HI>even Sadduces Phari&s;ees and Herodians mu&s;t be ta|ken heed of.</HI></P>
<P><BIBL><HI>Deut.</HI> 13.6.</BIBL> If thy <HI>brother,</HI> &s;on, <HI>daughter,</HI> wife, <HI>friend,</HI> which is as thine own &s;oul&mdash;<HI>entice</HI> thee</P>
<P><BIBL>-9-</BIBL> thou &s;halt &s;urely kill him,</P>
<P><BIBL>10-</BIBL> becau&s;e he &s;ought to thru&s;t thee away from fol|lowing the Lord.</P>
<P><BIBL><HI>Gal.</HI> 1.8.9.</BIBL> -though <HI>We,</HI> or an angel from heaven<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;eti|am&s;i <HI>Petrus,</HI> etiam&s;i <HI>Andreas,</HI>&mdash; etiam&s;i omnis Apo&s;tolorum chorus Evangelizet vobis &mdash; aut angelus de caelo; <HI>h. e.</HI> &s;i fiat quod non pote&s;t fieri; qui&s;quis ille traditam &s;emel fidem mutare tentaverit, <HI>anathema</HI> fit. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 12. vid. cap. 13. &mdash;<HI>Paulus</HI> meras flammas loquitur, tamque vehementer ardet ut&mdash; <HI>Mu&s;cul.</HI></NOTE> preach any other Go&s;pel unto you, then that which we have preached unto you, <HI>let him be accur&s;ed.</HI></P></Q>
<P>And the Rea&s;ons are</P>
<P N="1"><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Rea&s;on."> 1 Becau&s;e great men are not alwayes good men, graci|ous and &s;anctified men. The Phari&s;ees, Sadduces and He|rodians, were eminently great, and greatly honoured among
<PB N="54" REF="30"> the Jews; yet odious and vile &s;ectaries, very hypocrites, and incarnate Devils: none of the Rulers, except <HI>Nicodemus,</HI> believed &s;avingly on Je&s;us Chri&s;t. John 7.48. Un&s;anctified great ones like great trees in an orchard, overdrop the &s;mal, and young, and more fruitfull plants, that they do not, can|not thrive, or pro&s;per under them. Like rank weeds, they choak the profitable grain, the great men are great hinder|ers, and blocks in the way of piety. Poy&s;on is often temper|ed in golden cups, &amp; then doth mo&s;t harm to &s;uch as ho|ped for a whole&s;ome refection, not mortall infection, from &s;uch precious and refined mettal.</P>
<P N="2"><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Rea&s;on."> 2 Becau&s;e good men, the be&s;t men, are yet but men &s;till, and have too often their failings, faults, errours<NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">Vene|rabilis quondam memoriae <HI>Agrippinus</HI> Carthagi|nen&s;is Epi&s;copus primus omnium mortali|um, con|tra divi|num ca|nonem&mdash; <HI>rebaptizandum e&s;&s;e</HI> cen&s;ebat. Quae prae&s;umptio tantum mali invexit, ut non &s;olum haereticis omnibus formam &s;acrilegij &mdash; vid. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap, 9.</NOTE> and ob|&s;ervable imperfections. They know 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.9. but in part, are good but in part. There is a <HI>po&s;&s;e errare, falli, decipi;</HI> a po&s;&s;ibility of errour, of deceiving, and being deceived, in the very be&s;t<NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;Quicquid vero, quamvis ille &s;anctus &amp; doctus, quamvis epi&s;copus, quamvis con|fe&s;&s;or, et martyr praeter omnes aut etiam contra omnes &s;en&s;erit, id inter proprias, et occultas, &amp; privatas opiniunculas, a communis, publicae, ac generalis &s;ententiae auctoritate &s;ecretum &s;it; ne cum &s;ummo aeternae &s;alutis periculo juxta &s;acrilegam haereticorum et &s;chi&s;maticorum con&s;uetudinem, univer&s;alis dogmatis antiqua veritate dimi&s;&s;a, unius hominis novitium &s;ectemur errorem. <HI>Vincent.</HI> Lirin. cap. 39.</NOTE>; <HI>Peter</HI> him&s;elf was not in all things, imitable, nor walked uprightly according to the truth of the Go&s;pel <HI>Gal.</HI> 2.14. &s;o that Saint <HI>Paul</HI> with&s;tood him to the face, <HI>be|cau&s;e he was to be blamed.</HI> ver. 11.&mdash;get thee behind me Satan- for thou &s;avoure&s;t not the things that be of God, but tho&s;e that be of men, <HI>Mat.</HI> 16.23.</P>
<P>Never look for a moon without &s;pots; the be&s;t fruits have kernells, cores, &s;tones, parings; the pure&s;t wheat hath chaffe, bran,&mdash; Never yet was there among <HI>mini&s;ters,</HI> or private Chri&s;tians, any &s;o eminent in parts, &s;ound in graces, ortho|dox
<PB N="55" REF="30"> in opinions, regular in practi&s;es, that dur&s;t challenge i|mitation or belief <HI>in all things;</HI> and therefore Saint <HI>Paul</HI> mode&s;tly &s;aith, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.1. <HI>Be ye followers of me, as I al&s;o am of Christ.</HI> Saint <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> the &s;ounde&s;t among the fathers, could not, did not ju&s;tifie him&s;elf in all things, even after his &s;olemne rerractations, and &s;erious review of his own works; &s;ome want, failing, errour did perhaps &s;tick &s;till by him.</P>
<P N="3"><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Rea&s;on."> 3 Becau&s;e the Devil can and often doth, make u&s;e of great and good mens opinions, judgements, &s;peeches, do|ctrines, manners, practi&s;es, to his own bad ends, and devili&s;h de&s;ignes, There is a <HI>tang</HI> of errour, and imperfection in them that are the able&s;t gifted, be&s;t graced &s;aints; the Devil can turn their wine into water; make the gold dim:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 10.1.</NOTE> <HI>can cor|rupt a whole box of precious ointment, with one dead and &s;tink|ing flie,</HI> that it &s;hall become unwhole&s;ome, loath&s;ome. Thus he hath u&s;ed, or rather abu&s;ed, the great learned <HI>Rab|bies</HI> among the Jews, to be perverters and poy&s;oners of their nation, till this day: Some great men of place, and parts in the Primitive Church, were thus made u&s;e of by Satan,<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;So was <HI>ble&s;&s;ed</HI> Cyprian&mdash; by the <HI>cur&s;ed</HI> Donati&s;ts. <HI>Vincent.</HI> Lir. c. 11. &mdash;ut et&s;i in errore concipiendo <HI>Origenis</HI> non fuit &s;en&s;us; ad errorem tamen per&s;uadendum <HI>Origenis</HI> auctorita valere videatur. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. de <HI>Orig.</HI> cap. 23.</NOTE> to be leaders of a faction, fathers of &s;ects, and here&s;ies. <HI>Lu|ther</HI> that worthy in&s;trument of God, and heroick oppug|ner, expugner of Papi&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, and other errone|ous &s;ectaries; yet is made (in <HI>Con&s;ub&s;tantiation,</HI> and &s;ome other points) by Satans policie authour and founder of the <HI>Lutherans.</HI><NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Fox</HI> Acts, Mon. vol. 2. p. 87.</NOTE></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="&V;&s;e"> Therefore <HI>&s;ee</HI> and <HI>learn</HI> from hence, the un&s;afene&s;&s;e of too much affecting any <HI>man,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">In&s;truct.</NOTE> or addicting our &s;elves to the opinions, doctrines, principles, practi&s;es of the <HI>be&s;t teach|ers.</HI> Take we heed how we have <HI>mens</HI> per&s;ons, or parts, or performances, in too great admiration. There will be
<PB N="56" REF="31"> &s;omething, &s;ometimes, that may be &s;aid or done ami&s;&s;e&mdash; Saint <HI>Paul</HI> him&s;elf would not glory but in his infirmities, <HI>le&s;t any man &s;hould think of him, above that which he &s;aw him to be</HI>&mdash;2 Cor. 12.5, 6. 'Tis a great folly for us to look for more in <HI>men,</HI> to promi&s;e our &s;elves more from <HI>creatures,</HI> then we &s;hall ever find in them. 'Tis not &s;afe to pin our faith on any mans &s;leeve<NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;Et profecto magna tentatio e&s;t, cum <HI>ille,</HI> quem tu prophetam, quem prophetarum di&s;cipulum, quem doctorem, &amp; ad&s;ertorem veritatis putes, quem &s;umma veneratione, &amp; amore com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lexus &s;is, <HI>is</HI> &s;ubito, latenter noxios &s;ubin|ducat errores; quos nec cito deprehendere valeas dum antiqui magi&s;terij duceris praejudi|cio; nec facile damnare fas ducis, dum magi&s;tri veteris impediris affectu. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lirin. cap. 15.</NOTE> though they &s;it in <HI>Peters</HI> chair, (as the &s;educing Phari&s;ees did in <HI>Mo&s;es's</HI>) and arrogantly pretend to a more then Papal infallibility. Leaven may be in their dough.<NOTE N="(1)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;infaelix ille <HI>Ne&s;torius</HI> &s;ubito ex ove conver&s;us in lupum, gregem Chri&s;ti lacerare coepi&s;&s;et; cum eum hi ip&s;i qui rodebantur, ex magna adhuc parte ovem crederent, ideoque mor&s;ibus ejus magis paterent&mdash;<HI>See,</HI> and read, the whole cap. 16.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2"><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="&V;&s;e."> 2. Hence then is de&s;ervedly taxed the indi&s;creet credu|lity of many plain meaning, hone&s;tly minded Chri&s;ti|ans, now a dayes; that are too light of belief, and &s;o are un|awares engaged, and engulfed in errour; from whence they cannot &s;o ea&s;ily extricate, and deliver them&s;elves. When they heare of &s;ome affecting, wel-gifted preacher<NOTE N="(2)" PLACE="marg"><P><HI>Photi|nus</HI> erat et ingenij viribus valens, &amp; doctrinae opibus excellens, &amp; eloquio praepo|tens&mdash; &s;ed bene, quodcom|mi&s;&s;ae <HI>ip&s;i,</HI> oves Chri&s;ti, cautae, vigilantes&mdash; quem antea qua&s;i arietem gregis &s;equebantur, eundem deinceps voluti lupum fugere coeperunt.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Apollinaris,</HI> ip&s;e auditoribus &s;uis magnos ae&s;tus, &amp; magnas generavit angu&s;tias; quippe cum <HI>eos</HI> huc <HI>eccle&s;iae</HI> traheret auctoritas, huc <HI>magi&s;tri</HI> retraheret con&s;uetudo&mdash;nam quid illo prae&s;tantius acumine, exercitatione, doctrina? quam multas ille haere&s;es multis vo|luminibus opprefferit, quot inimicos fidei confutaverit errores&mdash;&s;ummis aedificatori|bus eccle&s;iae par e&s;&s;e potui&s;&s;et; ni&s;i prophana illa haereticae curio&s;itatis libidine, novum ne&s;cio quid inveni&s;&s;et, quo &amp; <HI>cunctos labores &s;uos velut cuju&s;dam leprae admixtione faedaret</HI>&mdash; ut doctrina ejus non tam aedificatio, quam tentatio potius eccle&s;ia&s;tica diceretur. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lirin. cap. 16.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Origenes</HI> in quo plura adeo praeclara, adeo &s;ingularia, adeo mira extiterunt, ut inter initia habendam cunctis ad&s;ertionibus ejus fidem quivis facile judicaret. Nam &s;i <HI>vita</HI>&mdash; &s;i <HI>genus,</HI> vel <HI>eruditio,</HI> quid eo nobilius qui primum in ea domo natus e&s;t, quae e&s;t illu&s;trata martyrio? Deinde pro Chri&s;to non &s;olum <HI>patr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> &s;ed omni quoque facultate privatus, tan|tum inter &s;anctae paupertatis profecit angu&s;tias, ut <HI>pro nomine</HI> Dominicae confe&s;&s;ionis, &s;aepius ut ferunt, adfligeretur.&mdash;tanta etiam vis ingenii tam profundi, tam acris, tam elegan|tis&mdash;eloquentiam vero quid memorem? cujus fuit tam amoena, tam lactea, tam dulcis oratio, ut mihi ex ore ip&s;ius non tam verba quam mella quaedam fluxi&s;se videantur. &mdash; Quanta apud omnes illius admiratio! quanta gloria! quanta gratia fuerit, quis exequi valeat? Quis non ad <HI>eum,</HI> paulo religio&s;ior ex ultimis mundi partibus advolavit? Quis Chri&s;tianorum, non pene ut <HI>prophetam;</HI> quis philo&s;ophorum non ut <HI>magi&s;trum</HI> veneratus e&s;t? &mdash;<HI>&s;e cum Origene errare malle,</HI> quam cum aliis vera <HI>&s;entire?</HI> &mdash;tantae per&s;onae, tanti doctoris, tanti prophetae periculo&s;a tentatio plurimos a fidei integritate deduceret. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 23.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Tertullianus</HI>&mdash;ingenio, acumine, gravi, vehementi &mdash; cujus quot pene verba tot &s;ententiae &s;unt, quot &s;en&s;us tot victoriae&mdash; &amp; tamen <HI>hic</HI> idem <HI>hic</HI> Tortullianus&mdash;exurgentes in eccle&s;ia novellas <HI>Montani</HI> Furias, &amp; in&s;ana illa in&s;anarum mulierum novitii dogmatis &s;omnia&mdash;&amp;c. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 24. &mdash;read the chapt.</P></NOTE> they will (leaving their own mini&s;ter whom God hath &s;et over them, perhaps one far more able, &s;ound, truly zealous) run after &s;uch, becau&s;e he can &s;peak well, &s;eems an <HI>Apollos,</HI> mighty in the Scriptures; a man that can at lea&s;t pretend holine&s;&s;e, heavenline&s;&s;e of life: now this man, though a &s;ectarie, &s;educer, a corrupt leavener, a mere mountebank and impo&s;tor, &s;hall be cried up, followed, admired idoli|zed, and all his doctrines though full of corrupt leaven, &s;hall be heedle&s;ly, and yet greedily &s;wallowed.</P>
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<P>Is this di&s;creetly and Chri&s;tianly done to take <HI>truths</HI> on tru&s;t? (but they are indeed <HI>fal&s;hood</HI>) or to think that eve|ry good man hath a monopoly of all &s;ound unerring mi|ni&s;teriall graces, and accompli&s;hments, or &s;o to magnifie, yea Goddifie them, that they receive and entertain them (as the <HI>Galatians</HI> did <HI>Paul) as an angell from heaven, even as Je&s;us Chri&s;t him&s;elf?</HI> Gal. 4.14.</P>
<P><HI>Beloved,</HI> be the&s;e you &s;o fancie, &s;o follow, never &s;o great, leaned, holy, &s;anctified, profitable teachers (as you con|ceive) yet &s;till there may be a little crumb of &s;ome une|&s;pyed leaven, of pride, hypocri&s;ie, here&s;ie, &s;ome thing that is not very &s;ound, or whole&s;ome. Let them be what they are, what they will be, what they can be, they are but men, they may erre, and deceive, and be deceived; 'Tis God alone that
<PB N="58" REF="32"> cannot lie, deceive any man, or be deceived him&s;elf.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="&V;&s;e."> <HI>La&s;t of all.</HI> Let our ble&s;&s;ed Saviours <HI>charge,</HI> and warning here given to his Di&s;ciples (men every way as good, as wi&s;e, as di&s;cerning, as able, as holy, as the be&s;t of you can be) let it, I &s;ay, &s;ink into your eares, pierce and &s;ettle into your hearts, <HI>Take heed, beware of the leaven of the</HI> Phari&s;ees- <HI>Beware</HI> of &s;trange, &amp; new, and un&s;ound opinions, doctrines, po&s;itions, of the mo&s;t plau&s;ible heart-moving preachers.<NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;quia jam gra&s;|&s;atur pa&s;|&s;im&mdash; nocenti&s;|&s;imum fermen|tum imo plu&s;quam lethale virus, ad hanc omnium maxime nece&s;sari|am cauti|onem, totos &s;uos &s;en&s;us conferant. <HI>Marlorat.</HI> expo&s;. eccle&s;.</NOTE> <HI>Beware</HI> of fanta&s;ticall novelties, though delivered, de|fended by never &s;o wi&s;e, learned, great, grave, honoured, holy, Seraphicall per&s;ons<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;ut omnes fere Catholici noverint fecum eccle&s;iae doctores recipere, non cum Doctoribus eccle&s;iae fidem de&s;erere debere. <HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. c. 23.</NOTE> Remember that Satan can transform him&s;elf into an angel of light, and is then mo&s;t a Devil, when he &s;eems a Saint. Let not re&s;pect of per&s;ons &s;way with you<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">&mdash;vult devitari &amp; rejici fal&s;a dogmata, quae a veritate abducunt, ab&s;que omni per|&s;onarum re&s;pectu, &s;ive &s;int Phari&s;aei, hoc e&s;t docti&s;&s;imi; &s;ive Sadducaei qui tam fere pon|tificatum admini&s;trabant; &s;ive Herodiani qui regali dignitate &s;uperbiebant. Fides enim no&s;tra non ex hominibus &s;ed ex Deo ip&s;iu&s;&abque; verbo dependere debet. <HI>Chemnit.</HI> Harm. c. 82.</NOTE>. Say and re&s;olve with your &s;elves, (as once the great Philo&s;opher <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> &s;aid of <HI>Pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">to</HI> and <HI>So|crates</HI> in &s;ome ca&s;e of di&s;&s;ent and difference in opinion, <HI>A|micus</HI> Plato, <HI>amicus</HI> Socrates, <HI>&s;ed magis amica Veritas</HI>) that nothing but <HI>truth</HI> &s;hall have force with you; not &s;uch a teacher, nor &s;uch a preacher, nor &s;uch a powerfull per&s;wa|&s;ive heavenly man &s;hall ever move or remove you. Though they may be your good, very good friends, yet the <HI>truth</HI> is your be&s;t friend; incomparably the be&s;t<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">Adnunciare ergo aliquid Chri&s;tianis Catholicis praeter id quod acceperunt, nunquam licuit, nunquam licet, nunquam licebit, et anathemare eos qui adnuncient aliquid prae|terquam quod &s;emel acceptum e&s;t nunquam non oportuit, nu&s;quam non oportet, nu&s;quam non oportebit. &mdash; Clamet &amp; repetendo clamet, &amp; omnibus, &amp; &s;emper, &amp; ubique per literas &s;uas clamet ille, <HI>ille</HI> vas electionis, <HI>ille</HI> magi&s;ter gentium, <HI>ille</HI> Apo&s;tolorum rub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, <HI>ille</HI> terrarum praeco, <HI>ille</HI> coelorum con&s;cius, ur&s;i quis novum dogma adnunciaverit, ana|thematizetur. Et contra reclament <HI>ranae</HI> quaedam, &amp; <HI>cyniph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> &amp; mu&s;cae moriturae, quales &s;unt <HI>Pelagiani,</HI> &amp; hoc Catholicis; <HI>Nobis</HI> inquiunt <HI>autoribus, nobis</HI> principibus, <HI>nobis</HI> expo|&s;itoribus <HI>damnate quae tenehatis,</HI> tenete quae damnabatis, rejicite antiquam fidem, paterne in&s;tituta, majorum depo&s;ita&mdash;et recipite, &amp;c.&mdash;<HI>Vinc.</HI> Lir. cap. 14. in verb. Apo&s;t. Gal. 1.8, 9.</NOTE>.</P>
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<P>The Devil is doubtle&s;&s;e of great, deep, profound, va&s;t parts; he hath learning, knowledge, even &s;acred (though not &s;aving) above any, yea all men: he can likewi&s;e make &s;hew of holine&s;&s;e, can per&s;onate an angel; act to the life, a &s;eeming &s;aint&mdash;<HI>The Devil a monk would be</HI>&mdash;&s;o can his mini&s;ters, and all deceitfull workers; &s;o could and did the Scribes and Phari&s;ees, appear glorious, yet <HI>whited tombes;</HI> &s;o did tho&s;e fal&s;e teachers that &s;educed the <HI>Galatians,</HI> they &s;eemed to be <HI>&s;omewhat,</HI> de&s;ired to <HI>make a faire &s;hew in the fle&s;h,</HI> were of chief note in the Church: and yet rotten, un&s;ound in their doctrines, <HI>preached another Go&s;pel,</HI> per|verted the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t. Such, many &s;uch creep in a|mong us, who under pretence of preaching <HI>Christ,</HI> preach down <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI>&mdash;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Chri&s;ti|ani&s;mum &s;ub Chri&s;ti nomine evertunt. <HI>Paraeus</HI> in <HI>Galat.</HI> &s;peaking of the <HI>Socinians.</HI></NOTE>.</P>
<P>Ye therefore <HI>beloved,</HI> &s;eeing ye know the&s;e things be|fore, <HI>beware</HI> le&s;t ye al&s;o,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3.17</NOTE> being led away with the errour of the wicked, fall from your own &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>But grow in grace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">18.</NOTE> and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t; to him be glory, both now and for ever. Amen.</P>
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