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Rdered by the Commons AlTembled

in Parliament that Mr. Row; and Mr.
Gem! doe from this Houfe give thankes
unto Mr. Vine: and Mr. Hodge; for the great
paines they tooke in their Sermons prea-
ched on the 10. «Wartij, 1 646. at War a-
retIWeﬂminfter before the Houfe ofCom-
mons, being a day of publique Humiliati-
on for the growth of Errours , Harreﬁes,
&c. And they are to deﬁre them to Print
their Sermons, wherein they are to have
the like priviledge in printing of them , as
others in the like kinde ulually have had.

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I apgoint Abel Roper to Print my! Sermon.

RICHARD VINES.

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Preached before the Hon

norable Houfe of C o M M o N, s at

Wargaret: W es'fminﬂer, on the tenth
of March I 6 46. being aday of pub-

lique Humiliation for the grothh of
Encamﬂercfm, &c.

2. P E 'l' E R 2. I.

But there werefabﬂz Prophet: abﬁ: among the People,
even a: there [hall be fa” e teacher: amongjonyho pri-
m'lj/hall bring in damnable Here/fer, even denying the
Lord that bought then: , and bring npontheneﬁl'oe:

fwiﬁ deﬂrnﬂion.

. r Ya Declaration fet forth above Thirty HisMaieﬂies

’ years ago, Kin joiner (OfFamous me. disclaration‘jn
mory)was plea ed to let the world know 25,22?! 7,",
not onely how ill hee refented, and howﬂiu: .Printed in
much he deteﬂed the Voiﬂian and Arminian Do- Egﬁljm' AW
Grimes, then newly borne, and in their fwadling- ..

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l i A Sermon preached before the Houf e ofCommom, on the day off

2 . cloathcs: but alfp how (olicitouﬂy ; he interpofed
. gifh-jhehﬁm‘te;Geeeemﬂ’of the Vﬂited Provinces
1~ «h inﬂth‘tﬁ‘aéﬁiittancc of ’ZJrinim: into theplace'
Divinit 'profefi‘m it Leideygor iﬁfo theircpunc

trey5 At. that. hemight decline thﬁ’envy-ofhﬁihg
mime reMlim Wﬁéﬁrﬂs, he beares-~him&%lﬁe.ugon

that common rule?- ‘4eieari We ewximrwdzt :
when a neighbouré' ‘ouf‘e is on fire it concernes

all in the neighbourhood to looke about them ﬁiis
vigibncy condemns our ( I know not tto ll

i Iwifh 0 work ‘mght be faid then: i 1-

b eneﬂea fainting.” For What wereth '1 ‘e {W3

at that time ~{thioaking in a remote cornerin com-
'Parifon of-‘thatf ﬁnish? no)? ﬂames forth at

ve . 1; ,p,,our ,ue “pawmtu b'l c
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lyr bailed *6 golden Gift of thefhgthnt‘s; Where

unto many are not'unwilling' to connibnte their
ﬂrength 8c’pollicy, & whole birthday they would

not fear to call feﬁm3cééovt an acceptable day un-

to the Lord. Are. not the ,etxaurs which are rife a-
mongﬁ us, eithcrhyinfeﬁing perfong of Place

and quality gtowne into that boldneﬂé .3” or b , car-

lying away 3427:4124: aye crept into that are 'fs" or
by {Needing Ema and wide rifen to that/ire” Ali-.3
that they do face,if not feem able tQP‘it into dz
er ofrowr'mg3 our common faith3publike' worﬂiip,
authorized miniﬂry, lo and much ﬂpeﬁcdod
pmilbd'refmmatim. T is to the men em,
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fmid lcaﬂ the truth fhould come to begg' poore
quarter, and be led Captive fbllowing‘ the Cha-
riot of triumphant liberty, fame thinke that epifco~

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trived, and recalled From exile to, which it Was
fentenced by the; Coven ant,many, that3are as diflant
in their Opinions as the tWOPGkS; yet. moveing‘up-
on one axletree, or tyed togetherby the tayle's-of
Common intereﬂt, Doubt net: butbylaying their
flockes togethctstheyﬂiallbeable be bid- fairefodh
Tolemfiond’mdthatrwemigbt! nor.» be? left. alone, to
wondenat (our ,felves, our .{ympathizdn‘g brethten
abroad do Wonder alfo', That we {bouldxbermade
the common ~ fev’vre to receive: the garbage.OfOther
Churches; and that their ﬁdnltiﬂg :{nuffes'ﬂmpld be
allowedwmdkﬂidmhbﬁczin Wei :gjmﬁil l2!" 2'.

Inﬂlisrfa'd poﬁuretoﬁthingsﬁ Adi whim’dyet have
heme upon the Parliament, anti revery'. one: faith Is
there no balme in GileaaDis there no PhyﬁtianTthcreB
whymcntisape thﬁ‘heﬁslthpﬂthﬁiddﬂghm; any
people descbvéredviéﬁmbhm Whr {us neithen was
diverﬁomby. {uddenrand 7diﬂimlt emefr layman
wifdom in not Mbliging any-ipzutmet been. able

tofatisﬁe «he godlyjealémiﬁeszof many, untill they;

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4, 2. The f’econd is the bond of Gods merciegmira“
‘cle: rat/legit] bringing you cleare out of the ﬁery
furnace! and therefore leﬂe you-1 cannot doe than
Nebucbadnezzan, who—being Convinced, and. allo-
nilht‘by the miraculous deliverance of the three
‘fervants of the Lord , madeadecree that none

, Jh'ould fpeake any “errourra ainﬁ the GodofShad-

anbv . . .-. S :r a
In pazaphr. tl'3Cl1—1V1efllacth an‘d‘Abednego, becguﬁ: stbere 21‘ no 0-
.lofCPhi° tber God that“): deliver after thirﬂzrtsDan. 3. 29.
mepl'l quid. Iaave leaveforthls prefaceing, It IS only to bld thlS
day- welcomej .becaufeas it is the ﬂrft that ever was
in Englandvvuponthis fad mach; f0 :it' isa new
and l‘trong in geugent andfddmonlltatimof your
zealé andu‘efgl‘utiot’; toxn'deavouryto draine thefe
fénsﬂhich‘. have‘fbover fpread the faceof Gods
Church; ‘ .ugﬂ' 4 .
The Apoﬁlein thé‘latter’éndof theifore'going
chapter srecommmds‘ to ’Chriftia'ns‘ the holy Scrip-
mresias thezﬁxed Wand-unwarjdng compaffe by
which they {hould {leere their icd‘urfe, Ii: feemes,
he. knew nethingi of any fueh high rf‘o’rmeiof Chriﬁi—
ms in the Schoole oFC hriﬂ whi‘ehﬂiould (as I may
lily) be got above the ‘ Scriptures or have learn’d
' beyond them; -'- F of heécommends them Who had
obtained like; etions faith with himfelfe ando~

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{cope at which the A pofile collimesin this Epifile’
as himfelfe declares, Chap. 3. verf. I, 2. 8c 1 7. And
that itmight appeare to themhow neceﬂary and
feafonable it was to (ﬁne them up to adhere to the
V litre word ofGod , and the true and genuine fence
thereof,- Hee foretells the commin; in ofFalfe tea-
chers and Scoffers , Falfe teacher: that would over-
throw the trutb of doarine , which is according to
godlineffe , by bringingin damnable hereﬁes, even
denying the Lord that bought them, chap. 2. vet. I.
Scoﬂ’er: that would undermine and elude the truth
- ofGod: promife'r. There {hall come in the kill da es
Scoffers , walking after theirowne lufts, audit); -
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veg/3 3,4. And becaufe the Scriptures t emfelves
were notglikely to efcape theC racke, the Apoﬁle c gem-u
gives a double charafter of fuch as would crooken it», "4' 3%"
it; orimake’it looked~ afquint ,1 and they are the ”13:53“
unlearned and an table , and f0 concludes with cau- : 3
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ment ofwrcked men , or («system») lawlelle Li-
bertines of Opinion. and .praCtifeb fall from their
owne ﬂedfaﬁneﬂe, Chap. 3. veifl 16, 1 7. ‘
In, this. Chapter the Apofile foretells the com-
miﬁg offalfe teachers intolthe GofpellChut'Ches,
and defcrihcs their .doﬁrines , .—.th¢ir§deﬂru&ion ,
theirmanﬂfl’ss ll 1A.. .; . i‘ i, 7 i
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in three terrible examples the caﬁing dOWn of the
Angeli: thatfell the deflmé’cion of” the oldc world
the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrha It may
make the cares of all haereﬁe—Maﬂers and" their fol-
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prophet We {hall Fee anon 3 in the meane time thus
~ farre we are agreed 3 that there were 111 ch then 3 and
that therEﬂmll bee fuch amongfi Chriﬂians under
the Gof‘pell‘3 though they that are guilt are wifer
than tomake fuch a defcription of a fal e teacher,.
or of li'ﬁrefy . which may hit themfelves : but ra-
fther Will ufe'their‘ﬂeight to turne the Scripture3 as
One doth 'a right hand, loVe to ﬁt' the other hand.
Falfe ’PrOph’ets an _‘falfe teachers are paralleld,
.bo thin their being inzthe Church 3 and in their cha-
‘raﬁer or defcription.‘ .‘ '

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33.1, Intheir Beingi'n the Church, for _ .

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get. 7. 2 5.. Sikc'qtbé dig}! that 192123 Fat/Jerrl‘cjamefott};
on? oft/:6 landlf Egyﬁt onto tb'iquy 3 I 0406 feat
you all :32 [crown t' e Prop/get: 3. and there were
then falféypfophets 4([0 fa—ith‘my Text. 80 God hath-
ﬁt in his Church under the Gofpell T eacberr3 1 Cor.
12.28. and there {hall be alfo falfe teaCher85 then.

7.

they wore arough garment to deceive 3 and now Zecb.13.4-.
they come ianheeps clOathing. The Apoﬁle 1n this Mattb. 7. .5.

Tim determines not the falfe Pmphets then toa
particﬂl'ar place or time; but faith they were among
the people 5 nor doth he determine falfe teachers
now to any one place or time ‘3 but {peakes indeﬁ-
nitely 3 they {hall be amongﬁ you. There is no age

of the Church free of them :~ 011er the laﬂ dayes are '

moﬂ likely to have moli of the fe dregs 5 and Where-

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as its faid of all true ProPhets , that they were wt;
and of Paf‘tors and Teachers , that God hat fer \
them in, and Chrifi hath given them to his Church 5
there is no more {aid of thefe in the Text than iﬁrw
w germ. The} were , and the] [hall be : they may
eaﬁly ﬁnd a Propheﬁe for their being in the Church,
but Will hardly ﬁnde a Scripture-warrant or calling.
2. As the Church of old , notwithfianding thofc
living oracles of truth , the holy men of God Who
fpake as they we re moved by the holy Ghofi , and
the lively oracles of holy Scripture committed to
it, had falfe ProPhets alfo , who fpake their oWne
dreames : fo the Gofpell Churches even in the Apo-
flles times , I 30/»: 4.. 1. and notwithftanding the
fulneffe and perfpicuity of Evangelicall doctrine
given by infpiration of God, {hall have falfe tea~
chers in themg Who {hall come up in Smnel: man-
tle, and putting the Scriptures to the racke, {hall
“54.609 min 7,3: WghICas one faith ofP/Jilo) force
thmgs into allegories and conceited extraétions ,
and make them like Anaxagora: his made. drawn

ing ever thing out of any thing. For an heretical?
_m’t iratéranlge Cl: mi . '{he truth is, the rehllers”
o t e trut an t e educers in theo e '-
ﬁehmmomm pe at:
6565‘. ‘ Here alfo are (ha—W
brer, by men ofcormpt minder, reprobate concer-
ning tbefaitb, 2 Tim. 3. 8. Here are the contradi—
ﬁions ofCore, 'j'ude. verﬂ I I. Here is the doctrine
ofBaLzm,Rev. 2. 14. and here are the falf¢ teachers
anfwering to the fall}; Prophets , but yet it is argu-
ed by {omel‘that the A nalogy between¢ the Old and
New Teﬂameut, doth not hold)in regard of the

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‘ punifhment of falf¢ Prophetsand blafphemers , nor 9
~ ought to be drawn into confequence now. I would

they would rather Rudy to avoid the fame ﬁnn¢s,

then to evade thelike punifhments : for the greater
liberty ofConfcience under the Gofpell, cannot ex-
tenuat¢ the ﬁnneofblafphemy , becauft this liber-
ty is accompanied with greater light. , :

a. In their Character or defcription.The Greek;
which hath great felicity of compoﬁtion of words , .
calls him in one word a falf¢ prOphet,whom the H e-
brew calsa Prophet,& leaves him, by fpurious chara-
é’ters or propertiesto be detected falfe or illegiti- 1
mat . ~

A¢falfe prOphet or a falﬁt teacher may be {0 deno-
minated in a two fold refpeé’t.

, I- As he teaches},oi'1verciltsl lies and falfd-hood, Jaguar; 1.4,. mfg
which is the mol‘t u ua an common ,acceptatio 53M; ““4“":
brutawmd. 4"“ Mﬁuﬁ

2. As he teaches without a commiﬂion or calling. my 9.1 5.

I. In the ﬁrﬂ notion he is a falfe prophet that Ez“°‘3'2'8‘"
teacheth lies,or delivers forth the viﬁom and deceit
of his own heart, which he covers over with Thur
ﬁzitb the Lord Ezech. r 3.6. Ier. 28.2. and fo fathers
his falfedreames upon God, and his cheifeﬂ aime
and care is not to {tin , the people,but to feed his
deluded followers wit pleafing things , and ra-
ther to tickle than to prick them, Sayin to Ahab,
go up @ profpcr,1 King.22.1 2.or God hath roken the
yoke of Babylon, Jet. '28. 2. which was the advantage
that Ahab; falfe prophets had ofM/‘mjah, and Han-
am’ab had oerremy,8< this obfervation the Scripture
makes upon them, Thy prophets have not difcove—
red thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity. Lam.

' 2.14.

 

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v1 0 a. 14.. and they thinke to crank mypeople to forget
, my name. Ier. 9,2. 17., WhCﬂCC 3133 the: “they, great)-
‘ pianded and martial} men {963316 W611, ofthem Ive/{o6
g ~26. They are wifer then 'tomarre their ownemar-
kets byfharpe reproofes,'as a cutpurfe' is afraid to
3 touch the quick with his knife left he loofe hisprey.
'1 The charaéter, ofﬁﬁfe teachers is, anfwerable,
11p?) ”11:3? they arezQFLyiugmfgﬂery,f peaking perverfe things to
y $13,, if? m draw Difciples a ter them. Adinzogo. and fpmk-
'3 ing lyes , in ,hy'pocrify , , which they“ palliate
over" with .. It 'i: _ written, orthe name of the fpiﬁt,
and are therefore called fpz’ritiof‘errour I.Tim.4,
I . as We are forbidden to beleeve everyﬁz’rit. I . Iohm
I. that is every doftrine though pretended tobe
gram the fpirit, for men are cunning to lay downe
their. ballads at an .‘honeﬂ doore,’ and to pin them
upon the incke of ,fcrip’ture; being like to the falfe
prOphets in this mif—fathering of their doCtriifes,
as alfoin that Other thing, Which isthe ,bayteing of
their hookes with fweet 8<pleaﬁng baytea, MK“:
they blue-as withabbitethrotigh, {be [1th 9f the
fie/Z: an}! ivantanneﬂé. 0..Pet.'2,18. And they promife
liberty oer. 19.Which are takeing things, that it is
~ no wonder there are many that follow their per..-
;- nieiouswaymwem. -

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' prephetyet the} ranTer. 2 3.2 2. They can {a}; 11mm
ii dreamed, I have dreamed, ver. 2 5. but they have no

. miﬂion, and fuch a one is to be‘counted a fall}: pro-
{ b v I. V ’8 phet.eS’ive elem predicetﬂvcfalmwhether he preach
’ 4,2,”. 4 1 true or faith; The character of a fqlfe teacher is an-
fwerable hereunto ,he9 is one that IS aiwowﬁr, {Eli‘s

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f aid 01166 to dngthﬁﬂwas zinquiﬁtive, What do‘” ' " 15/1014 M An.
Nomtian, did tea ch, WEﬁCCd not (faith he)b¢=cam, tonz'anm-
full or curious to know quid i1 1 e daxeag cam for}: dofce
at,theh'ke. may bc'jufﬂyfaid offalﬁ teachersmlts
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(lihad almoﬁ {aid in England) chft’cblrgek vfay‘e A1 5 w 0W“ ’
poﬂler ,falﬂc Prophets, fdfe teache'n,aai-ttrefen Mi, M“
amscountcrfcited; as he iscndzlsed zﬁalﬂ! Clidiﬂsmfnﬁ
$909192 swift) pram to bgﬂhﬂftm' ans
ismgrfeﬁshq afdlﬁ nhchetmhdgné'tauds 00" ﬁt”:
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when once men dobeginxolookg fora‘newi Chm}, v e =
mnemApoﬁhkSyqr nemPIq'rbets; ' “{hm'hiﬁ X '~ H'- l;
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muCh an ad: ofoﬂicr; as ofgiftS, andthm‘gifusanﬂ ta-‘
léms doe .mry with them lettersxpaoedumf com:
miﬂion to trade” winhthcm’ﬂ muﬁérivedam -
ﬂow a {cw-words ﬁpbn it; beczﬁftié hath Mgeb
n'erall'y received inlthc Churdllthat'béth mattci’and!
formq, miﬂion and: W101i, giﬁrs'r'éhd 76111315 I
muﬂ: concur: to -.the+mnﬂi_tmibu 'ofhimgiwbﬁ
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1' 2 publikﬂy preach the word, Without gifts, and abili-

. ties? but, except they be fent Rant 0.] I 5.71t-muft not

obe denyed; that i every member in the: body. hath

. .mdywpéfl', his pmperoﬂi'ceﬁo'm'. 124.5. wherby' it

A {may contribnt¢ to the good and e‘diﬁcation of the

whole. The word of God that dwells in any,

.. . a ”T. ought rtodiffufe it felft farthe‘beneﬁt of others, in
*~ their families, relations; I and "converfations. The
{>3} ‘ talent which God hath given to every one is to be

' , .1 ut forth to ufe, the Samaritan woman may call out

her nei hbours to Chrift,‘ and the lhepeards may

{prea‘d toad what they have heard ofhim,‘though

thcybe‘ but. {he beards/and neither prielts nor‘Le-

vités, but every arr in hisown¢ orbé or Spheere,

. 3311”,": d: {dived}; gﬂ- ratio hembri é“ tinﬂrugnenti publicz‘
:crfiﬁd mm: \ that-gig aidiﬂ‘etence betWeent. a private member; of
a" " thelChurch,,mdb pnbﬁktirdttnmem. For all the?
fwe£tﬁ€no£this City. or" cdrporation are not Alder-

men; and :the ediﬁmtion If the body by miniﬂ'ry,‘
and'hy:m'emb€rlhip,ateplain¢ly dillinguilht,’ Eph. 4..

' mttl'aandméshﬁevery ﬂbdatogithatthinke‘s him-

fella ablgmhy diriﬁzthe thartiotzof the fun no won-

der ifthe World. bé‘fcton ﬁtejl fhould nOt doubt to

fays-that as in fdm¢ V cares, 0mm: [Jo/no wilegagainﬂ:

a fuddainmffaultet or invaderJ ever man isa foul-

(11615715, 251110 cafe‘may begsomrii: Cgfimr Evan-

gdg'ﬁa evererhriflian ism} Evangeli "asEde myé‘
Frumeétiun publilhtthe Gofpellto theatndﬁ

Somm m). x the woman to the Iberiant,'as the "Ecclefia {ticall‘ [to-
$139- dIs- 1165; - ry,reporteth, Andit is hid.A£Z:.8..4. thof¢ that were
21122? 10.. difperfed by~_thba,pe¢recntton agalnﬁthecmtdl at
Ier'u'falem, went every when p'readxing' the Word,
They dlﬂémlnatad the knowledge ofChriﬂgto the

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jablz'que Humiliation for the growth of Errors, Hereﬂer, (ﬁve. 3)

 

i norant Iewe: and Helleniﬁr. Aéfr. 1 I. 20. the cir- 1
dilmftance defends the aét ion, if it could be proved 5

that thefe difperfed Chriﬂians were private men,

and that they preacht the Word in Ieru {alem,which
Was a conﬁituted Clutch, before they wereI fcatte- 1%”? dfff”
red thence, it would be fome thin to the purpofe, Cburcb,ch-It-. '7
The noble Momag puts anOther ca e, that if the fen- 7< ' ‘
tinells be in adead Heep, any common fouldier or. 1
man,may give the alarum to the City, as when the l
dogs do not barkcythe geefe do fave the capital, and
yetit remaines good, that there is an oﬂice, in the
hands Wherﬁof Chrift hath lodged the ﬁewardlhip
of the miﬂeries of God, the word and facraments,
for teaching and baptizing are both put into the

fame hands It is not a mans ab'le parts, which
make himthe ﬁeward of any of , your houfes, but

i ourcommittingthe keyes into his hand. Nor abi-
lities, but commiﬂion, which makes an1 Ambafl

, fadour; What if a Gibeom’td) or any other man ,

' was able, and had the skill, to dreHe .a {aeri-
ﬁce, and performe all the outward work there-
about aswellas any Prieﬁ' Muﬁ hee therefore take
upon’him to ufurpy.‘ the’ﬁiieﬂs Office? I think none-
will fay it, No eonﬂz'tuted Charo/J, either. under the-
Law or Gofpel,mn be denied to have bad 017%ch ap-%
painted for the work; of the Ming/3r}; and difpenfaii-
on of the holy thing: of God; As concerning the
Church under the Law who can doubt of it P And‘

.for the Churches under the Gofpel that they [hould
be conﬁituted and founded by Chrift and the Apo-
ﬁles who were fent, ( for its faid john 20. 21.), A;

> my Father bathfent me,foﬁ=nd I you ) and then that

all fending fhoul'd determine and ceafe, asifChrilt

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had given A poﬁles, Prophets, Evangeliﬁs, but no
Pafiors, and Teachers, can enterinto no ma , head,
till fenfé and reafon be ﬁrfi gone'o'ut 0ﬁt5 W ‘f f: elf;
ﬂiould the meaning of thofe Words, 3 Elder},
Ride”, Bi 30px, Paﬂorr, Governourr, Which areoon-
tradiﬁin ilht to the Community of the (3th h,
As the" ‘ lders and Whole‘Chnrcli"A€fs I SIRﬁ
and Saints,Heb; r ‘3. verfe 24. Angells and Churches,
Read. I. 20. and the one fortare laid to Rule and
governe; The other enjogrned to fubthit andobe
them, Heb. 13; ,1 7. for f0 a Oﬁbﬂﬁﬂé Chrilthath forg-
med this houfe of his, as Other hoilfé'siarég This
City as other cities, this body or common-wealth
as Other foeieties.That is,to conﬁﬂOfTu‘eh as go'vem
8c fuch as are Governed -' for otherwife it would
be more like a Cyc10ps denlthen an ordered, faqul ,
Ifany {hall fay that 706939 and {ﬁw‘éﬂdég ﬁgmge
nothingjbut one that carries the lanihorne of 49.
(trim, or goes before others by good example, let
him fayalfo that a Maﬂ'er ora fatherqf gﬁannly -
doth ”new remake; 1.1m. 3. 4.5. give 52;? ‘ ,gizbd
example, to his houfe,as a very fervant may, 02,0:
that Jofeph was {Ct Jyzpem if ’Ax'ywrm. A517. 10.
a good example to Egypt,and no more; ' Th¢ Word
mp’w‘luv, to preach, is in the new tef'iathent irioﬂ nih-
all); and for the molt pargappropriated no preach-
ingby oﬂiceand authority, and When the ApDIHe
faith 1.Tim.2.12. Ipermitnota Woman to teach
«A «Mme-7r nor to exercife authority ( as the word:
ﬁgniﬁes) it ispliincly ﬁgniﬁed/ that to teach in the
Church is an aft'of authorityg thoﬁ; then to whom.
the Apollle commended the overﬂght it)? 4 the
Church, at his farewell. Aginzczzg. to whom Peter
wrote

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Wrot¢ and charged them with the Hock¢1.1’et.5.1. 15
Whom the golden Candlef’ticks had for their An-

gells, and upon whom. that comfortable promiﬁz’

is entaild, I Will bewith you, alwayesLunto the end
.of the World,MattZ. 28.;20. are men in oﬂice, not
W unto Lord {hip'and/dom-inion, but to
aminiﬁry and ﬁewardfhip, which is to be regula-

ted bythat mofi excellent rule'smd to that ondlyend ,

Ear your ediﬁcatiozz, and not for your dgﬂrué‘z'im.
a.Cor.1 0.8.
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b iece-meahj, ﬂone b ﬁone, as if a man {hould 25“ mm:
faiﬁhis ﬁoneisnot eﬂ‘enytriall to the bout}, n or this $15“ 29‘8“” *‘ -
nor that, and fo pull all down¢ at laft. This isa
ﬁratagem of the Socim’an arts It is faid, that impoﬁ-
tion of handsin ordination is but a ceremony, or
fbmmlity, and in it felt? aeyphar; and being {0,
Why may it not be laid aﬁd as well as that ceremo;
ny of layin the Bible on t e head, which is {po-
ken of in t e a counfell of Carthage? concerning , Conn'l. Car.
impolition of handsjn the generalllthisl fay, that t/Jagin4 -c.2.
it is not a thing to be [lighted as an outward ritqin-
congmousto the fpiritualneiié of the Gofpell; for
’its one of thofg,which the A poﬁlecalls the doéiriné
of the beginning of Chrifl, and the foundation,
Heb.6. I .2. and for the particular place; it hath in or-
dinatiqn,let it ﬁrfl be fettled, 8i agreed that the mi-
niﬁry/being an oﬂ'ice or callinghathfmm: way ofen-
trance into it a ppointed by him, that hath appointed
the oﬂice, 8i that ther¢ is a reparation of men there-
unto, or manner of their confiitution 8c ordination,
that is,a poteflative miﬂion as form expreﬂk it : and
then the modu: is to be inquired into, as touching

' which,

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whichait is argued that ordination by impoﬁtion of
hands as contradiﬂinguifht from the ele&ion of the
people is not effential to the miner ofentrancq: Eﬁ
fentz'afl is a great word. gﬁptiﬁnggthe Lords ﬂip-
per are not eﬂentiall to we Ee’ingof a Chrilﬁan or

t6 meow; 5371:? privatjog pWId
'W f {Stare ofefee‘H—entf'uie and
clear¢ 1}], legion, It may uHiEE, that there is {‘0
muafin the word for ordination as that the Way of
the word in that cafe; is neither to be laid aﬁde nor
receded from, nor maimed. The engine planted for

- batteryand overthrow of ordinatiOn is the eleéti-

on of the people; that is the id ipﬁmz vizher¢in the
feparation of a man to the miniftry doth conﬁﬂ; and

et we read of a feparation unto God for the Worke
of the miniﬁry by faﬂin , prayer, and impoﬁtion
ofhands,withom any elegion ofpeOpleJ Adi. I 3. I .2.

b L». de rep [am of PSpalato his minde that this was not a fe-‘

ech- 2. cap- :-
plfngZ-

paration to an oﬂice,which [Saul and Barnabas, be-
fore had notJ but that it was a feparation unto God
(imam: em) for the works: of the Miniﬂ’ry’, is clee'rc
enough, and what was that worke, but the preach-
ing 0 the word and ordaining of elders.’ Air. 14.
23.24.25.26. Ifa’ny man can thew, throughout the
New-Teﬂament that any did impofe hands for fe~
paration of men’to the ofﬁce or Workft'ifihe mini-
ﬁry,but oncly fuchlas wer¢ in ofﬁce them'l'elves, A-
poftler, Evangeliﬂr, Elder/711?, and thefe Teacher:
and Prophet; at Antioch; or that the eleétion of the
people is the id ipﬁmz of reparation, let it- be donc,
or let us have lefT¢ diétating and lelfc begging; for)
by the way,let me tell you , we; livein the beg-

ai‘liefl age that ever wasJ l meanp for (Begging e' t M
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And if the meer¢ election of the people be {'uﬂici- 17
(int ,‘ what neede' was therg that the Apoftle fhould
leave Tim: in Crete , for this caufe, that he: might
ordaind Elders in every City 3 T itm I . 5. For if it
be {aid that ”in madam, that thou mighteli ordain,
be no more then that thou mighteﬁ lookt on,while
the pe0p1e did it, Then why may not Pharaoh (of
Whom it is faid Wmalieg conﬁituted joﬁph Go-
vemour zover Egypt) bed faid to lookd on only,
While the people did it. And what need Was ther¢
that Paul and Barnaha: {hould be feparated and fent
forth to ordain]: Elders in every Church , A62: I 4.
23. 1f the Churches eleétion had beene the id ipfum
of ordination i And why are the charaéters and
qualiﬁcations of Elders and Bilhops given and de-
fcribed to T imoth}! and Titus, 1 Tim. 3. Tit. I. Not
fo much to the people , by which they fhould pro-
ceed; in their eleé’tions , as to them who were ap-
pointed to ordain¢ them , that they might not lay
on hands fuddenly , I Tim. 5. 22. In which place
laying on of hands (as mm mm with the He-
brews) is put for ordination , and (0 is not eleé’cion
by the people any where found to be. As for Cafes
and inﬁances of a people caﬁ up in fomé remote
‘Iﬂandpr the like : may not they chufe a Miniﬂer ?
and he perform the ofﬁce without ordination ? Fuch
cafessrna bet formed to overthrow any common
Winiﬁery or Magiftracyfither. It’s
Wthon ftrengtlizns a’rule, 8: over- _ . _
throws it not ; for then ther¢ could be no rule ofa- $313,133;
ny thing , becauft every rule hath fomﬁ exception 5 non exccpn'x. l
fet theHeterocliti's by them {elves , and let the rule ' *
ﬂand. If David eat: the Shew—bread , or the Le- |

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vit¢s performc that oﬁice,xvh'icli belch gs to tht
Prielts, ( 2 Chron. 29. 34,. WithLe‘w’t. I. 6.) in cart. ,
ofnece'ﬂitygthere is no more can he faid’but neceﬂi-
togquod cogit,olefenolit , that which neceﬂity com-
mands, it defends. '
That the holy Ghoﬂ was given by the impoﬁtion
of the Apof’tles hands 5 (I fay the Apoﬁler) A&.8. I 8.
is tru¢ : but no argument againﬁ laying on of hands

-,by the Elderfhip in ordination; for them were di-

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vets rea fons and occafions of laying on of hands he.
tides in ordination : and other [94124: were laid oh in
ordination , than could give the holy Gholt. The _
Levitts had impoﬁtion of hands (3 tanqmm infa- ‘
erz‘ﬁcz'um, Numb. 8. 1 o, I I . as upon a facriﬁce) dedi-
eating them to God,and his fepvice. And {0 in the
New Tcﬂament , it was ul‘ed’t‘or feparation of men
to the work¢ or ofﬁce ofthe-Miniftery : but thert is
no miracle wrought , nor' is the holy Ghoﬁ given,
nor any inward grace. The Word xi”; grace feems

fomhvberl tobe put for ofﬁce, as How. I. 5. b Grace '
and Apoftleﬂaip, that i8, the grace of A pofklelhi Po 8:
in this fenﬁt ( as Beza faith) if that WWd or grace
be taken9 1 T im. 4. 14. Then may it be faid to he gi-
ven with impolitiongof the hands of the Presbyte-
ry. As for eleé’tion by the people, which is byfomk
cryed up as theAll in All in this point , thoughI
have nOthing to fay againft thelawﬁﬂlneﬂh ofit,
when it’s ducly conditioned : yet if any {hall plead
the neceﬂity ofit’as eﬂ‘entiall to the calling of a Mi-
nilier, I lhould not ﬂick to lay) that than is clearer

§ evidence in Scripturo for ordination of Mini/ten by

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imp'o/ition of band: 9 then for eleél'ion by the people.

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ft is ex ifcatd after aman hath made the heft of I 9

tt, will leave him to beg the queﬁion; for them-
appeareSIin it! no aft of the'Church at all : but what-

foeverit ﬁgnlﬁes , it refers wholly to Pan! and Bear-

nm’mr, who did xag-roye‘i'v éuw’a’z; ordain¢ Elders for

the Difciples , and therefore without endangering

not only the fenf¢ , but the grammer of the Scrip-

ture , can no more referre to the people, then C he c D, W, 6

' that aﬂirmts that it may , can prove Luke to bed an (Y'pfgellof). i'
Apoflle (as he -ﬂiles him.) I deny not that chem).- d 74M ,5 «W
toniajn the d originaLand firft rife of the Wordﬁg- ¢os X690 rom'ae

.niﬁes a giving vote or fuffrageby ﬁretching forth 93’6”““20'14'”
the hand , or an eleétion manifeﬂ'ed by that ﬁgnd, m can. x.

but the nﬁa of words , not the Etymology muft rule

their interpretation 5 and it is paft all queftion that

the Greekd Hzathen Authours doe ufe this word I .

xumoyap genera , to ’6 conﬂitute , a oint or— e Xaqwoyay

- dainﬁ , as is obfgrved by Hef chins, as tigy-doé alfo “923’? 4'2”

f «In eugeam to reckon or give fd'ntence, though thert So. diff: 6;”.
be no ufe of counter: or little ﬂoner .- and Wﬁcom to Scripture, Aas
be¢ chofen to a" place, or to obtainc a poffeﬂion, 1' 26'

fthough ther¢ be no ufe of any Lot therein , accor-
dingly to v'vch a man may be¢ faid pedilm: z‘re tin/Zen-
ten’tianz , though he have no feet to got upon : but
becauf¢ we would not reft in generals,let us examin
what was the a& of Paul 8t Barnabar in this placerfor
it is plain¢ that they put forth fomt particular aﬂ’,
when’its {aid the}! ordained for them or unto them
Elderr, did they ordain; by impq/ition of hands P as
the word xﬂmarid figniﬁes in the Greekq Fathers
and‘counfells who may be thought tounderftand

' the language ) It is not unlikely that thofqvery

men that had been fent forth upon this expedition

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go by impoﬁtion of hahdsfaﬁing & pr'ayer {hould it;
e the like manner ordaintt Elders,for fo the very tex;
in hand couples together,ordaining ofElders‘in e ..
very Church 8c praying with faﬂ'ings; or did they
50’0”” i” ’0' eleft' Elder: for them? as h"Grotius fecmés to inter-
”m” pret it,‘ but thoﬁt that contend for that fenfe ofthc
word, toﬁgnify election, wilant'eaﬁly difgef’c the
interpretation, and the truth is, They that argue
the peoples election of Minifters, from the eleé’tion
of thefeven, A556. which the Apof’tles permit-
ted to the people there, cannot eaﬁly rant that
Paul and Barnabar did afTume it to them elves here,
becaufe it gives away the queltion , namely eleétion
by the people; or did Paul and Barnaoarjoyne with
the Difoipler in eleél'ion .3 If it had been {aid
cvyxueymaia'ms £9131; it had been fom¢thing to the
purpofe, but it is net {aid they eboﬂ: with them, but
they ordained {or t/Jenz Elder: in every Church, And
for that whic Grotin: faith, Credibile eff €913 I’ts
to be’thought that the content of the people went
along alfo, the reafon that he gives, namely becaulh
in a leffer matter ,their conf ent was fomOtim 2 taken
in,quite overthrow¢s that which .is contended for
ex 211' verbi, out of the word xag'nrfc, ufed in the
texr, and we know that where the Apoﬂ‘les, Riders,
and Brethren concurred in an a& they are all named
A&:.15.23.which as here itis nht faidfo it cannot
hence be proved; or, in the laﬂ: lace, if it befaid
that the word tranﬂated,ordaint, igniﬁ es an ordina-
tion upon a previonr, or antecedent eleﬁion of the
people, then ’it s dealt, that elet‘i'ion doth not thruﬁ
,out ordination nor the aft of the peOple juftle out
the aft of Paul and Barnaoar, and fo that engine

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workes not by this Text 3 which is {0 much clearer 21'
for ordination than eleftion , as the a& ofPaz/l and
Barnaba: is more eyzpret’lqthen that conchant aﬁof .
the people 3 which is pretended to lie hid in the
fame word:which if it be taken in one ﬁmple {enfeg
ﬂgnif ing either generally to conﬁitut¢ or ordaintl,
and o relate to the aét ofl’aul and Barnabas, (with-
out thruﬁing into the notion of the word either
impoﬁtion of hands ( which may be made good elﬁ
when! in Scripture to have beene uf ed in ordinati-
on,or election by the people3 which cannot be made
good elﬁtvvhert) or ﬁgnzfying eleétion by fuffrage,
and fo relate both to Paul 8: Barnabar and the peo-
ple , as if they all concur’d in eleé’tion or vote , and
that was all ‘theydid : bath thefe ﬁgniﬁcations the
word will beard, though not the Text ; but if it
carry twins in the belly of it,and import two divers
aﬁsﬁiﬂ‘erent in kindt , and to relate to fomt aﬁ of
Paul and Barnaba: , differing from the aét or {qu-
frage of the people 3 then mull that ﬁgniﬁcation
be proved by good examples , left it bee found ne-
tver to have be¢n¢ f0 ufed,before Luke ufed it {0 .°
but I hold my hand from further profecution of this
Scripture , and offer to you one obfervation more,
ten ing to clearé the point in hand 3 and that is out
ofAéi: 6. where it is cleart that there was an eleéii-
on of the fez/en , and as clear¢ , that the conﬂituti—
on or ordination of them was referved unto the A-
pOIiICS, 1127f. 6. Lookc yet outfeven, men/whom we;
may appoint ‘ or conititutc over this buﬁnef: 5 the
people eleéted, the Apoﬁles ordained , emf 3. 8c
5. But the eleétion is not called the conﬂitution or
ordination , for that the Apoﬂles are {aid to doe :
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22 and how did they doe it P verf. 6. when they had
prayed they laidtbeir band: on t/Jem3 ordination by
impoﬁtion of hands was theconﬁitutive aé’t. The
peoples 39,649 ver. 6. and the A poftle @Tagia'wmvver,
3. are run all one : that .poore criticifme would ne-

‘ 1954””? 10' yer have beene borne , ifthe F Mithor of it had but
fat the words together ’59.“, answer may dwago'am

the people fet or prefented the eleé’red before the

Apoflles , they did not ordaine them before the .

Apoftles, but prefented them to be conﬁituted and
ordained by them over that [mfinefr unto which
. Ari/I. pa 1;: I-C, they were chofen, oer]: 3. There is :nOt’a more ufua-
pa/fim- Aéis 7. allword in the agreeke tongue , to ﬁgniﬁe the ma-

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41.11,. 12. .4. or praafeﬁure then this word men-5?» Whichis’alfo.

fag 5.{;. {Irims ufed for the con ﬂitution of Elders and Church Of:-
. . u u - ‘ ‘
wifh ,hc gym- ﬁcers 1n the new ‘Teftament , which wee call ordi-

fying the plate , . , , ‘5
0, the fubjeﬂ' ' Ifyou pleafe to confult the praCtife of antiquity

matter of their 1n the point ofeleétionof Bifhops ab ordine é” plebe
0““: 8‘ 80“" (as they me to fay) by the Church ofﬁcers and Com-
"KT"-
. (er {0 high as to give checke to ordination , nor ac-

counted that wherein the rniﬂion or fending did

conﬁft :but asa preparative to ordination by way

of good teﬂimony of the perfon tobeeordained.

1.),25ffm/O-Z’3' 2. When you have fearcht all records (as b they are
rap. 3. laid together by a very learned hand) t he refult and

.fummc will be this 3 that eleéfion had the force on- ‘

‘ly of a nomination ,. prefentation , poftulation , or
confcnt , (o as a Mmtﬂer could not bee obtruded
ilmit‘e ere/09': upbn'a Church Whetherit would or
no, ifthey were able to putm a juﬂ exception :1.
, ‘ . gamft

munity , you {hall ﬁnde I. Th’atzeleﬁtion was never.

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gainfl him', for which end the perfon to be ordai-

ned was ﬁrfi to be proclaimed, or ( as I may fay).

asked in C the Church , for the very reafon of Cypri-
an: d fpeech , thatthe people principally have po-
lwer to cbuf e the'wortly/ , or reﬁtfe the unworthy , is
rendred in the fame Epiﬁle, that they do fully know
.s‘the life (6' converfotz'on of every man. And therefore
it is e injudiciouﬂy fpoken that ordination neceﬂa-
rily follows eleé’tion : for an irrational or mecr arbi-
trary diﬂent, when no jufl exception could be put in
bar againfl a man, could no more hinder a mans or-
dination , then fuch a peevifhneﬂe now adays can
hinder the marriage of one whofe name is publilht

in the congregation. A!) ordinatoribw pleb: downs

do nonfequenda, faith Coleﬁinur.’

' The cloze of this point might well have be¢n¢ an
Apology for f peaking (0 much of it in this place, had
not the Text led me to fay, fomtthing , and the ne-
ceﬂity of the times, together with the prefent occa-

.ﬁon,conl:trained me to this prolixity. For the oﬁiw
of the Minif’cery , and the power therdunto belon-
ging, are very much undervalued , and laid very
low by many : who differing among themfelves in
principles , dog! as in a common interef’t , joyn to--
gether to cry downe and degrade them, In order to
a two-foldlibert]. The one is theliberty ofpropbc-
fying or preaching , as any man is ableto fet up the
trade : in oppofition to which they conceive the
Miniﬂers do [land for their own livings and power
fake. The other is) the libert}l oft/.vcz'r luﬁr and Ways
oflooftneffd; and thefe are fuch upon Whom the
feart of the Miniflery is fallen, whodepirit cannot

. bear 'too free rcproofi‘, n'or‘their courf es a too cblpfc
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obfervation . And hence it is that fom¢ ofthernha-
ving learning , doe fet their wits on worke to rout
this ofﬁce and the power thereof, by baﬂing the e«
vidences of the word, and endeavouring to dif-
pute the Scripture out of doorts; which though
God hath not pleafed to deliver Sjﬂemdticall} in a

' way ofabfolute precept or demonfirative clearneﬂ‘i

in every particulars yet ought to be regarded in the
hints, and confequences, and implications which af-
ford fOOt-hold toa good confcience , and not to be
out-wrangled for our ends andluﬁs fake, as being
the beck¢ of that great God , who is able to
becken us all into nothing 5 others that cal-
culaté by the Ephemeride: of policy , doe dif-
cover or imagin¢ future inconveniences , which
ma arife from the indifcretion , paflion , weake-
ne lwogthe Minifiers; and if they will but got on.
to playﬂthat Cannon alittle further , they {hall find
it will batter and overthrow all Magiftracy , or any
goverment that is managed by men 5, others, whofO
tongues are {harper then their argumentafall
foult upon the miniﬂry,and pourt treblecontem pt
upon it,in lieu of double honour; never was mini-
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' ~ EX mucgna anﬁmitfuimea‘c 0T iLin ‘b'rijiﬁg

in! an bringing up, a people unto Odd, (though
Tomeo t eirchickens.are caught and carried away
by kites,or have forfaken them, asduckes forfake
the hen that hatched them) never more contemnedt
That which thef Danatzﬁ objeaed fomﬁtime, to
Alf/Zia, is now rife again¢, tu ui: er? léiliu: e: Ceci-
liani, an 1202:? who ordaineciyou, you are the. brat
of Cecil/an, are you not ? (Whom they pretended

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to be a traditm; or to have given up the holy Scrip~ 25
turd to the ﬁres) {0 they fay to the Minifters3 whofe
fons are you? is not our W, -
fcent from fintz’chrz’lt.g is not he tlggtgpwgﬂygur
1:113 he that hatlTbulThgliE an eye may fee the rea-
fon,why the Wolves would have the Sheep to quitt
their dogs. The miniﬁry, if encouraged and {up-
ported to doe' their duty, willbe (next under the
Parliament, who, We h0pe, ‘Willj doe theirs) the
greateft bulwark¢ or bankeagainf’ttheinundation

. of errour,haerefy, and blafphemy, Whofe increaﬁ‘:

is the occaﬁon of this humiliation; It is the lot of
the Minifters of the reformed Churches to be

nd betweene two Mil-ﬂones; inthe ﬁrft refor—
mation , the p0pifh Champions fell pcll-mell‘upon

the calling of theaMiniﬂers of the reformed “Nonjmilﬁnon
'UC’CdII ’20” C071-

Churches,preten_ding it to be null (acproinde nul/a fem”: 3,510,, ~

eccleﬁa, and confequently (faith bGregory de ‘2)“- mgriu. .

lentia) (the Churches no Churches) becauf'z they :02?” 2:13;;th
wer¢ not ordained by Bijhopx. The fame conclufion ac pro/nde nut-
is now undertaken5 That the prq/ent Ming/fer: in {face/chaﬁng
this Church are not [4222qu Ming/fem, upon ame- {oﬁf’f’ﬁi’gub
diam quite contrary , thatis, becaufg the), werj 9.9.ueﬂ.3.pun&
ordainedhyBiﬂopr, norare thoﬁtwhoare ordained 2"" ﬁnc'

by Preﬂlytem, in much better account with the ob-
jeCtours; for they are in the Fame line of pedigree,
bein but once mor_e__r_emoved from the flockg
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. anfwers ofc learned men,who have diﬂinguifbt be- Saw’r’rl’ /:t.:

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twecn¢ the corruptions in the perlbns ordainingmn mm".
min the ﬁeri ofordmatmmand the {ubl‘tanceand err/5.44fajin.,l{c
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fame anfwers which were made for the ﬁrﬂ refor-
mers and the Minif’cers ordained by them, are of as
fullforce for the Minifters now in being with us.J
and the Minifters ordained by them; nor can our
Miniﬂery fall by this argument, now ufed againﬁ us,
without the fall of all miniﬁery in the Churches of
Chrift ,in all times and places )wheré Bifhops had a
handinordination; and if the Scripture doe fettl'e
the power of ordination in a Pref byterjgor in the El-
ders of the Church, it can never be made good, that
a Elf/00p: hand ( who is alfo a pre/bjter) be,
ingjoyned with others, can anull the ordination“;
as neither is Baptifmé a nullity, becaufe admini-
fired bya Bifho'pand hapiy with fame corrupt ce-
remony ufed in the adminiﬂration thereof.

I proceed to the ﬂacond point which I will touch
but breiﬂy and referve the ufe of both, and of that
which foll’owesjuntill the clofe of all. -

Thefe falfe teachers are they that bring in dam-
nabie Hereﬁes,i Stuprant veritatem adulteria bere-
tico. They deﬂoure the truth by hatreticall adultery
not onely th0f¢ that teach WlthOut comm zon,but
fuch as haveacalling to teach,doe byd rintsof
errourlbring in damnable haereﬁes, 'as its {aid Aﬁs.
20.30.A1fo ofjour ownﬁlver, {hall men arife {peak
in perverfd thin s to draw Difciples after them-
T called Paul Hecauf¢ he Wasa zealous teach-
er 0?, the Gofpell) a ringleader of the ﬁt} of the
Nazarenr,Aé?:. 24. 5'. ”MW ﬁgniﬁes one that is
the ﬁrﬂ man of the rankegit isamilitary word, and
I wifh that our militar} men had not transfufed er-
tour into the feverall parts of our body. If it be
{aid that .many of thof; who are ,charged with

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teaching oferrours or harefygre holy menjlanfwcr, 2 7
thata hol man canngtgaﬁly bea hsereticlgnor' are

all the ertous o oly men to be called hzerefy,

though they may be Hay . and Stubble upon the
foundation; but it hath been obfervedpf olthhat

fom¢ beereﬂarcbs, or heads of héerefy, have bed‘n

well freputecll for ﬁriétgefle and unblamtableneﬂéf

of ii e: we earn outo Au tine that a Pela it“ had a e a i. n ma":
avety good teﬁiinony; and Sci-ipturet'EIl—siﬁhey 725:, If}: limde

 

‘ comein Sheep: cloatbing, and fpeak¢ .lies in hypo- 4/i7uapoﬁti

guia vita eiu; a

crify. Lies would 39; take: if thgymyv‘etg‘not multijpmdim-WJ%
commendE—dTEQ b91.i9§mmLP£§fQﬂ, tam. Renaﬁmhw
an‘Jé‘uﬂa‘éagyegargtten nutmseggyyjth gold; ”’2‘ “P' 33311....
Thea—is?! mmwyammk or tranfformation o Satan "‘"W
into an Angell of ligbtpffalfe Ape/tier into the A-

poﬂles of chrzft, of Satans Mini/ten into the Mi- “Ex per/322k
niﬁers ofrighteoufneﬂéa Com 1. 1 3.14. 15'. and then 19‘1”"? 4" 9x

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fore We muff not mea fur¢0}f Edgepf. E fill!!! -13.}!th 45:145. (12(3)::

perfoxihut aﬂheijcjgfqn'lgxmthgfaith; Truth may be far-
as aléwell‘ihwa‘dunghill, and errour carried (as Han-
niball carried his poyfon) in a Gold- ringThat barf:
of fuperﬂition and idolatry, upon the back of
which the Divell hath in former times made warr 3
againﬂ the Churchis ﬂain under him, and now he 4
is mounted upon a frelh horfe of another colour, ’
called liberty of opinion, falfély called liberty ofcon- J
fcience,‘ Let: not be ignorant o f his devicer. '
I pail? on to the fecond part of thetext. Thefeed
which tbefe fat/e teacher: doe/ow, and the text faith 2
They/ball privil} bring in danmable hereﬁcg even cle-
nying the Lord that bought them, in which Word¢s
we take up .thefe three things.
1 . That hazreﬁes are damnable.
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~ 2-. That damn'able haereﬁes are brought in privil y.
3 . That thof¢ which bring them. in do; evende-
ny the Lord that bought them. ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ -
I {hall ﬁrﬁ'open thefe in few words, and then
com¢ to the inveﬁigation or {catching out What hae-
reﬁe is, WCb is hereby the A poﬁle called damnable.
I. Firﬁ you fee that haerefies are {aid to be dam-
nable or deflruftive. Haifa of deﬂrnéiion as its
faid, Pfa. 5. 6. CD73"! w}: a man of bloods , thatisa x
bloody man : but Why fhould haereﬁes be em phati-
cally called hereﬁe: ofdgﬂrna‘ion .3 for is nor all fin
ofdamnable guilt P and is not death the Wages Offin
as {in P Its true 5 And yet as 3min: that Was an A-
poﬁle, and an eminent Difc’iple of- Chriﬁ , and
betrayed and {Old him for money , is called , 701m
17. 12.- 6:3; «Mam; the fon’ ofdeftruétion'; and
as the Antichriﬁ is alfo called, a 1' Iaef. 2 . 3. the man
ofﬁnne, the fonne ofdeflruftion , becaufe under
Chriﬁs name and colours he ﬁghtsa ainﬁhim , and
ferves his own luﬂs upon the prof on of his name,
and fo {hall’fall under more eminent and remar-
kable deﬂméiion. So Hatretickes who profeﬁing
Chriﬁ'ianity , and the name ofChriﬂ , doe denye
him , ,or adulterate his trueth fortheirowne ends
and lufts , {hall come under more heavy‘and fore
damnation, whichis aggravated b that é'Xprefﬁ-
on, Swift deﬂrnJion , which {hall all upon their
heads violentlyand unexpeﬁedly : for theirjndge—
ment [in ct!» not , and their damnation ﬂurnbret'h
not, ver . 3. And that it may appeare that God had
an eye of wrath and vengeance upon this kinde of
men Ionig agoe. Its ﬁid by our Apoﬂle here, verfg.
their ju gment new 'ofa long time lingreth nor : and

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by jade , verf. 4.. that they were ofolde ordained to
this condemnation 0r judgement; which new and
unufuall expreﬂions or aggravations of the deﬁru-
{tic-n of‘tlsis kind t: ofmen , doe give fufﬁcient rea-
fon Why 1’69“? [o'er are ca led here/fer of deﬂrzzéfz’on .'
WhethCI the word domn‘aé/ohe. rel/{riﬂes to {ome
hatreﬁesa as implying that there are fonte that are
. not damnableg or Whether it be dcfcrz'ptz'w , as de-
‘fcribing what beaches are C (inﬁtogenere) in gene-
ra13nmﬂ be anfwered and refolved by the deﬁnition
or defcription ofhaeereﬁeawlmt, it hand if we either
looke at that defcription of it 5 which is implied in
this Text , to bee a- denjing of the L‘ord't/Je Redee-
mer , or whichis given 'of it in any place3 in the A—
poﬂolicall Epiﬁle: 5 we {hall find , that in the Scrip-
ture acceptation 8c defcription- ofhsereﬁea All hare-
ﬁeisdamnable; not that every Hzretick is certain-

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locum.

ly and peremptorily damnedfor then I fee no more ‘

reafon for ad monilhin an haeretick, then for pray-
ing for one that hath inned a [in unto death) even
judo: called the {on of perdition, had hee had ( as
fome of the Ancients fay) 'Petcr: repentance, might
have found forgiveneﬂe as he did : but there is this
marke fet upon hxrefie , that We may all heare and
feare and doe no fuch thing. ‘

2. Damnable heerefies are brought in privily,‘

words of this decom poﬁtion as «misundoe ﬁﬁniﬁe

mﬁnuation , thefe tares are fowne While men eep,
in a Clancular or fubtill Wa}; WhCI‘fOf men are not a-
ware , as its. .faid, Gal. 2. 4, Fall}: brethren d at mm-
ware: , privil}: crept in , and judo 4. 6 Certain men

d mgéanmot
8!th wages-
“A0" Gal-

,are crept in privilj, meaning Heerefv-maflers or 2. 4.

falfd teacher's. Horeﬂe is modeﬂ at ﬁll“, and inﬁ-
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nuat¢s as the Serp'ent into Eve by fubtle fetches and
genera; jag/Mt}: Godfaiel.a Gen. 3. I. or by fweete
promifes and inducements , ye [ball not fare!) d e, _ .
jeﬂmll be a: God: a your eye: foal! be opened, verge}.
5. So its {aid , verf. 3. they {hall make merchan-
dizd of you. «m7: A6)“; with ﬁne forms offpeech,
words compofed for the nonce. The Apoﬁle ob-
ferves that there is a fubtilty , or as you might {a};
a myftery in this Trade of corrupting mens mindes
from the ﬁmplicity that is in Chrift, 2 Cor. 1 I. 2;
£121). 4. 14. And fomttimes 1W
(as the Serpent did) to give her husban t e app e':
they draw men as lu lers doe a iece ofmon With

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a ﬁne invifible E3333: an nEVer ring ort t e
meoTniEir opinions, until their 'z‘gmenm have
made the way : they mix¢ their dro e among good
ﬁlver , and lap up errour in the pap of truth ,‘ that ,
fome parts of the monﬁer may havetheir true {ha .
3. Thefe that bring in thefe damnable hxregees
doe even deny the Lord that bought them 5 and
here I might take in hand two forts of Opinions.
The ﬁrft is that of the Soeim'am who deny,that
Chriﬁl by a proper faﬁgﬁaioqmade tothe juftice of
God, did buy or purchafé us. To thefe the ﬁnger of '
the Text feemes direétly to point .- for they not on-
ly deny the Lord Chriﬂ's theanthmpie : but his re-
demptionby Way ofpurchafe. The otheris,that of
f form that hence in fen; an univerfall redemption,
becaufe that thefq that bring upon themfeives fwift
deﬂrut‘lion are {aid to be: bought by " C/m'ﬂ. of both
which pointsI cannot fa a lit’Ielwithout fpeakin
much; and therefore {hall hold me to my ﬁibjet
in hand : WW may partly perceiveby this expreﬂi-

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on ,what damnable hzerefies are: for its {aid that they 3 1
who bring them in , doe even deny the Lord that
bought them; If they deny Chriﬂ, the Soveraignd
Lord 0 (Mara—my) by everting his perf on) or na- 0 See Jude, v.
tures. If the deny his redemptionand {o evert his 4'
oﬂice (whet er his Lordfhigor his redemption bee
denyed) the haerefie is damnable , and the word
denying feems to me to imply , that the proper na—
ture of hareﬁe is to bed: 9: euerﬁ've and overthrow- 252““ ’ Of‘
_ ting .° It conﬁfts not properl in additions to the Sagas/trig:
word , faving fo farm: as tho ¢additions are over—
throwing the pillars and foundations of truth 5 that
is , Chriﬂ the Lord that bought us , or the like to
it : for ifhay and Rubble be built on this foundati-
on, I Car. 3. 12. becaufe they doe not overthrow 1. Ad r/uodz/u/t
it , or {bake and lhiver it , therefore though they deuminpmfat.
be errours’yet they are not haereﬁe. Non omni: error MSW-
' c/Z b‘erefi: (faith hAuﬂz'n ) every Errour is not hae- W,
refie : and therefbrei fomc diftinguifh of doﬂ'rints «$311,383;
or errours thus : form: are prceter , (cm: are circa , genera; Ions.
fomt are contra fundamentuw , that is ( as Aaﬂint ”5480'
faith ) fom¢ touch not , {omeﬂmke , and fom¢ raze
the foundation. The weight and valour ofdoéh'ints
muff be reckoned by their proximity or nearéneﬂi
to the fundamentals : for it is in the Confangninity of
doéfrinqéas Tertullz‘an calls it) as it is in kindred, the
neertne d of kindred is to be meafured by neemeﬂd-
to the ﬁockg. t
This denyall of the Lord that bought them5 may
be either exprefly concepti: verbig and fo, with a lit-
tle more height of expreﬂion, may amount to blaf-
phemyibut haply therein the text, who ufed com-
pofed word“ were not [0 blackq mouth’dgor this dell
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n‘yall may be interpretgtzvé) and’by confequence:
and the confequence is either from their doé’crints
or a con {equence of faé’c all‘o-a from their c0urfe or
converfation. A ' , " ’ '

’I he con feq uence ﬁ-om their doétrines (if it ove rd
throw the faith) A mull not be drawn Out into along

.chainot and farr fetcht, leathby that meantsﬁver‘y

errour be made haerefygbut the confequence mu
be neere and clofe, fo that you may be able to fay
this or that doéirine or opinion. at the next remove
or ata very n'eer difla'nce',denyes,i the onaly fovel- .
raignt GodIand our Lord Jefus Chriﬁ.5}ude’4;the
battery may {trike off'a tile, or makeahole in the
Wall, but except it be neere, will n0t overthrow the
foundation, for as from-every branch of a great tree
one may g’oct or move to the root,"yetthecu‘tting
off of any 'twigﬁe orbijanbh‘ isnot a cutting'éldvvn
or rooting up t e tree, to though all branches of
truth have cohtinuity with the ﬁmdamentalls
or principles, yet the denial] of every truth is not a
razing or overthrow of them, Iinﬂance in the great
principle , Chm]? jeﬁu 7': the Lord, that hat/1601131”
ugnot becauft there are not other,which being de-
nyecbgfait-h is overthromnbutbecau‘fc it is'the in-
ﬂancein my textJ and in Jude.4. and alfobecauft
rincipleslie {o aloft togetheWa
rate that an errour'Which Traits 9135;, routes ano-
tmxnmediatEWJ will give ohe in-,
ﬂamuppofe the refurrcétion Future bet
denyed 5' this overthrowcs' the faith 9 231%). é. 18.
anilfeeihow the con fequence im mediatﬂy {batters
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our preaching vaind, Then is faith vaind, T her: be-
leevers are yet in their fins. 7' km. the dead in Chrifl
are perilht, ever]: 14, I 5, 16, 17, 18. Or fuppofe the
Law be¢ brought into equi page with Chriﬂ forju-
ﬁiﬁcation 3 mark¢ the confequence. If to (faith
the Apoﬁle) then Chriﬂ. ﬂml/ proﬁt you not/3mg3
Gal. 5. 2. C brzﬂ 73" became! of hone eﬁé? unto you:
verfe 4. T e; are fallen ffrom grace , and I make no
doubt to fay that tho e of the Galatiam , who for
their carnall ends 9 Chap. 6. I 2, 13. did break¢ the
continuity and communion of the Church , by gi~
ving themfelves up to this opinion3 wcrt heretickr,
not while it was an Opinion in debate or controver~
ﬁe : but when it grew into a ripe Impoﬂ‘umq; in fuch
as adhered to it : and do but obferve in both the in-
ﬁances given , by how immediatt confequence the
denyall of the refurreétion », or the contempera-
ment of the Law with Chriﬁ , doe overthrow the
fundamentall of Fundamentalls , Clirzft 32]?“ 3 in
refpeé’t of his redemption or oﬂice.

F or that which I call confequence offaft , from
the courﬁt or converfation ofHaeretickes : I obferve
that bOth the Apoﬁle in this Chapter , and jade in
his Epiﬁle, who follows the fame thred in his de-
fcription of them a do charaé'teriftt them by the lufls
and ﬂefhy courfes wheroin they live. ﬁude {peaks
'offalft teachers , asis evident by that he exhorts

Chriﬁians to contend for the faith : becaufe certain
men wer¢ ‘crept in privily or unawares, verf. 3. 4.
He exempliﬁes the deflruﬁion ofthefe by the fame.
examples of the Angel]: tlmt fell , and of Sodome
and Gomorr/m. He drawes out their piéturein the
like foul colours : and in the fourth verﬂ: calls them
' F ungodly

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ﬁngodlj men 3 turning the grace ofGod'into bﬁjﬁj-
eufneﬂl , ‘~an.:1den}zng tbe onﬂy Lord God , and our,
Lord I cfm C/Jrz'ﬁ. And though lufls of the ﬂefh,a§»a-
'dultery and the'like3 cannot be called hxreﬁeg a yet
if a matgprofeﬂing Chrilﬁﬂiall chufe fuch an qu’nz'g-
on or doé‘frinl as dOth patronizgand maintain-thoﬁs
lufls , and fo walkes in a courfe of {inns under the
proteélion offuch an Opinion, or tenet , as is con-
trarv bOth to faith and holineffd‘a that comes u to
the “Scriptur¢-defcription of haereﬁe : for f0 t efe
falfe teachers 'that b'ring in damnable haereﬁes , are
faid to allure, through Inf}: of the ﬂab/1nd much wnn- , '
toneﬂi, ver. 18. and to promif¢ liberty , as likewife '
thofq that are entangled in thei; errours doe tnrne‘
from the holy Commandement , and min to their
‘former vomit and wallowing in the mire , veg/I 2o.
2 I , 2 2. and fo the ﬂaipwrack offnith, and the putting
away of good confcz’ence, I Tim. I. I 9. go¢ both
together; and ther¢fore the Nicolaitam, whofc do.
(Shine was hateful] to Chrif’t , Rev. 2. I 5. and Whore
luﬂs and ﬁlthinelﬂ: maintained by their. pernicious
doétrinq! 3 Wer¢ monfl’rous , can bed accountedno
other then d a mnable Heereticks (and We may judg
the ﬁlm of otherspf the fame {lamp} being the very
perfons (as is b conceived by good Authors) Whom
both Peter and Iude defcribe, as turning the grace of
God into lafcivioufneﬂé , and. denying the on¢ly j
Lord God and our Lord Jefus Chriﬂ, Iude 4.. . ~
So much for the Opening of the three points,
which you may,if you pleafe bind up together into
one , 11m falﬁ teacher: 17ml! privil} bring. in dam-

'mble here/fer , even denying the Lord that bought

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Now we come! to fearch out what Here/fa is. ' 1.35
The word here/ie is of Gr eekelorz'gz'nnll , and is >4 ‘
often tranﬂated See? 5 nOt 0 449.7440 from cuttinga :5" 7113‘s.”
but 4 jecfinndo from following; as being a way I“ "
which men chufe' to fouoﬁ‘j as its faid. -‘I/Je may
whichlthey callhaereﬁe 9 A3; 24. 14. A ‘wny ofwot-
. {hip or do&rind , for fo he faith, To doe I worﬂn’p
the“ God of my Fathers, éeleeving, d‘c. It appeare's
A wine an 38c of the wilLeleéiiVely pitching upon fuch

a way. For the word lt'feift ﬁgniﬁes eleéfz‘on, com- 5 Martinéw
ming not from b étge'iv to expugne or lay Wa (hi, lexicon- '
(though that be proper enough) but from étgaaau to
chﬁfe or adhere unto: and therefore the Septuagint
Levit. 22. I8. 21. tranﬂate {1:11 free-will ofering by c
éc'gemeleétion or freewazedne/ﬁ. The Rabbin: call ﬁgggfg£fjig:
an Haeretick C 3723 which in f Scripture ﬁgniﬁes a I-cap- '2_. .
kind¢ orfpecies , and fo they denote a man to be an 3732"“ m T”
Heeretique, who leaving the common road, or way [We Fuller
of faith and Do&rin¢ , fets up and follow¢sa part2; Mir‘d'an'
enlar way of his own, e m 1‘7 '(‘Nw one that is a’o’rayQ- f Gen. 1. 12.
oré'awye- withoutlaw, that willnot be¢ bound up 1“" "' 22'
by the \rule 3 but runnts out into his owmt Way, ‘ﬁ’i‘vin 77/57
and g fomeﬁ deriveit from mm which is tranﬂated I’m" '
anyway Nehem. 9. I7. Exod. 22. (I 6. ﬁgnifying to re- 8 {Via Ful/er
ﬁtfe or deny , asif you would fay, a renegédo or de- 33:1;ng '
nyer of the trueth, ~ ’

This word éigemlwhile it kept it felfc among Plai—

lojbpher: , Play/imam , and other Profeﬂbr: of know- X
ledge and learning, paﬂlg for an hone/i word, but
when it came into the Churchesquarters , and was

taken up by Chriﬂians, it became branded , ﬂig—

matized and odious. Its ufed about ﬁxetimes in " Aﬂs
‘thEh Aéts of the Apoftles, and whether it may not gig: 2‘8‘5’252,‘
I i F 2. m 24.14. 24. 5.

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35 in fom¢ ofthofe places at leafl: , be¢ taken in good
part or ir'tdifferently3 {hall not bet: my difpute at
thistime. But when you ﬁnd¢it in the Epil‘tles A-
pollolicall , and in the Gofpell Churches 3 it hath
nor a jot of good favour in it 3 but Carries ,a marlm
V of iniquity and infamy upon it : In thofe Epiftles it
gig”; ‘8' is ufed about ’1 four¢ times expreﬂy , and béCauqu
Titus 3. IO would not makea deﬁnition ,which you might fay
2P6" 2' " is mine ownti‘D and (0 flight it, I willlay before
you the Scriptures that fpeakt of it 3 that you may
in their light/fee what it is. ' e - v -
The ﬁrﬁ placeis that 1 Cor. I I. 18, 19.1 bear that
tl‘erf: bet Scbifme: amongyou, andl partly beleeve
it. For tbert muﬂ bee 41f o lmfefie: among you, that
the} which are approved may be made manifeﬁ dung ‘
ou.

The Greek; Interpreters take Scbifme and H.8-
reﬁc in this place, fox both onein a manner, and
. . underﬂand net, by the word Hdireﬁeﬁny matter

53:19:13? ' k dogmaticall or of Dot‘h‘intt :but others ‘1 ar
“5, MI-‘im? from the Word 29?: alfo. (There mull alﬁ behea-
Wdi ZWM' relies) that they are diﬁinét, and that though
3'03“:th ,.,, bercﬁe include ﬁlai/im, yet {shim doth notin
1mm. . elude hxreﬁe: and tomee‘it {eemts t‘hatthqanc
'3‘?” 1"" neargakinnc, becauft the Apol‘tle tifes fmmune
to the other, faying, ther¢ are {chifmes , therd
mull alfo be haereﬁes : but they arenotcollaterally a
kin 5 for by the al'cent, heel-die feems‘tobe thegrea-
. ‘ _ ter: For there mull bet alfa haereﬁes, intowhic’h
5 11;: j 2: ”if? thofq that areunm do not m eat/fly fall,but are made
gagging 911} the more confpicuous or manifeft for foundnefﬁ

”' 50% ﬁ- and integrity.

m d’mm’" Thatwemay ﬁnd the tru¢natur¢ofh2reﬁe, let

Taffy”. drpm.

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The word fc/Jz'ﬁaze imports arent or diviﬁon of X3 7
things,that were, or {hould be, in continuity and
undevidedneﬁiég and as its taken in the matter of
Religion , it ﬁgniﬁesaruptur¢ in the communion,
or from theoommunion of‘the Churchupon unne-
ceﬂary and unwarrantable caufes and grounds. A
canﬂleﬂé breaking , or breaking affront the com-
mangon oft/3e Charo/g in matter of war/bi p or Religion.

Society and commgnion are of great importance .-
the evill of fchifme is anfwerable to the good of
fociety and communion 5 we are to judge offchiﬁnd
by the caufe of it : F orif it bet upon a caufe which
the Word warrants not, it is a ﬁnne of high na- Cameron ([5
ture 5 Somedii‘tributct it into two forts or parts, 5 SC’JITW"
negative and pqﬂtz'we. Negative is the very rupturt
and breaking off : poﬂtz‘ve is the coalition of the i
parts rent oﬁinto new‘bodies, or aﬂociations un-
der other Paﬁors and Teachers. The formality of
fchifme ,oonﬁfts _in the fem/[ion or negative part,‘
thou hthe coalition into ncw‘bodies, which was
calls the fetting up J.altare (‘03?!2/1-1 alt/we maymnke
it more obfiinatf.‘ and pernicious 5 NOW Ifay the
caufemuftruleusin judging ofit. For as it is not
the party which feparates that makes the Divorce3
but the Adulterous party which gives the caufe.
Andas {Mama}! faith ) it is not the man who com-
mences or begins the fuite-which makes the trouble,
but he that detains the right: So they are the {chill
maticks who give the juﬁ caufe offeParation from
them, what a hurry Was made in the Church by the
pafcbal controverﬁe; wheri-n (-3 as one faith) both arraﬁoﬁfcb“
parties might befchifmatick-s, dividing themfelves page 5- '
aﬁmder upon f0 triviall a matter , who were

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38 the Scbifmaticks when the fgcond Councel of Nice

fet up Images into fuch honour, and'thereby ptftTli'e
Churches into combul‘tion P Doubtlell‘c the Conn- ,

cell was the Schifmatifﬂé?‘ Who xterm

maticks when the reformed Churches,after all means

. ufed , were eitherdriven (mt , or M0125 bf from

" MW?" 9f the communion of the Church» of Rome P queftion-

. the (,humi- . . _

cap. 10. lecht the b P0pe and 1115 followers , not the Prote-

Rants, who departed from them, as the Roman:

had a faying , that When the Gaul: had taken Rome,

and Camilla: -, “with the reﬂz’of the Patﬁotsﬁvem ‘at,

Veij, then , though the walls ofRoma flood Where

’ they did before, yet Home was notin Rawabut at

{’te .3 I {hall not meddle with thofc Epzfcopkl dzﬁfen-

res-MW lib-4- ﬂaw in the auncient Churches , commonly called

(‘6 rt‘19- (Cc/ef- febi mes, nor thof¢ about the Pepedome,d thirty

(39' ”' in number, as they are reckoned: Schifme fiﬁTpIy

and nakedl); is a breaking off, or breaking onrom

the communion of the Church, upon fuch grounds

'csrbifma m‘ as have no weight in the word of God toiallo‘W

ﬁlm”, We”? them, as namely,when C the fame faith at doé’trine

ipimtfgffii in fubﬂantialls is held, and there is accordance and

1mm {If 0" agreement in them : yet through pafﬁons and pri-

_ 2:2; zéznicz: vate ends or fancies, t ercis offencetaken at lef-

leﬂm' dyadic. fer matters offaéf or order, ”and fo the divorce is

, ‘2'?“ “”"ﬁ‘ made For fuch faults in the yoke- fellow as are farm
auﬂum- lib. . /
so. 9! (antra that of adultery, asxf the members of any of the
Crefcom'um {even Churches {hould have feparated, becaufu of
} "mm" ' fomd droﬂ? in thofe Golden Candleﬂ‘icks. The Do:-
; natiﬂ’ who fe‘parated upon that principle, that
l therd was no true Church where good, and bad wcrh
l mixt; and that the chaff? in the‘ﬂoory.b made the
l

. wheat; unclean” or that the communion'of the'
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godly was blaﬁed and 'p_ollt:lted by the mixture of . 39
ungodly ones amongli theijas in Open {chi-line: \
bOthin "breakingoﬂ from the Churches of Chriﬁ
Upon that reafon5andin aﬂhmting liberty to ereét
new Churchesa ongly which, he Called the true
Churches ofChrifi. _ , ‘
NOW forhaa'efyi it is fchiﬁne and fommhatmore, 7: ,
as the Apof’tle implies5and vvhat isthat majmquia’
as Tertullian calls it, or that ﬁmzewlmt more, the an-
fWereis given in that generally received faying of
Ieromeaibcereﬂ: pervetfum dogma babel; Hirefy goes
' with a perverfe‘ opinion , orerrour in doctrine,
whichI conceive to beavery truth,(though d Gro- d Gram: m
Qiuﬁaﬂirme that ex vi 0062's“ it be nibz‘l aliud quam I can 1"
ifclozfma) becaufd the word herefy/in all authorsJ ‘
froni the ﬁrft ufe of it,hath ﬁgniﬁed a fentence or
dogmaticall tenet or affertion5 as the feverall Seéts
ofPhilofophers who differd in their opinions are a 3’4, 51' M
called hereﬂegand ‘thergtforte jam/ylicbm haveing lib. 2:35;,L
Writtenof the life of Pythagorar, now faith heit re-
maines that I fpeake 972p! élg'emsazw'z‘é. concerning his
te/nets orhopigiténsgo the {eéts of Saclucee: and PIM- 'f H 1‘
rz' ee: W‘ o i er ino inions are Called Increﬂer ‘9’" "WW"
and thef S .riake calls hardy, doé’frine3.in whicli 1305:2233?“
fenf¢ it mu be taken. A&:. 28.22.this lmrcf}, that BMW! in Aﬁ-
isthis doﬁrine, concerning Chrif’t is every where 24"
{pokena ain'f’t or contradiéted; and the Apoﬁles
Peter ang jade are expreﬂh, that thefe haereﬁes are
brought in by falf e teachers, and are oppoﬁte to the
faith, denying Chriﬁ Iefus the Lord and his re-
demdtion.2.Pet. 2.1.jude.3.4. upon all which con-
ﬁderations, and that (as Termllian elegantly faith)
haerefy is a degenerate thing ,Which arifes ._ from the
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corruption and ad ulteratin g of the truth (tanqmm
capriﬁcm‘ a p4panereﬁci,olezg/}er ex olive: granaé‘c.)
I am cleerenough that in ﬁery; there muft be mat-

ter of opinion or doctrine, and fo the meaning of '

the Apoﬂle in this place of the Corinthian: is to
Ihew,that as there were already fchiﬁnes amongi’c
them, and dividing into parties as their partiality,
affeétion, and felfe-refpeéis led them, {0, there
muff be alfo heereﬁes or errours in dorftrine which
fhould ﬁght againjit/ae truth of the Gofpell, Bipa-
trom'ze vitiom, and ﬁlth} by}: of the Helh 5 to
which both erronrs, and luﬂ's there wouldbe {bare
that would decline, but thofe that werea proved

and found-hearted would be made manifc arrion!‘

them, and f0 lconclude that haerefy is a renting or
tearing the communion of the Church, as it is
fchifme, anda fubvertin of the doé‘trine of truth
and holinefs as it is heere y, likefedition in the com-
mon wealth, (for {chiﬁne as one faith is an eccleﬁa-
ﬂical (edition) when it is nor only made againﬁ the
faults offome perfons, or their mifcarri c in go-
vemmcnt, orfome abufes in Fact, but ari eth from

principles or errours oppoﬁte, and deﬂ'rué’tive to .

thefundamentall lawes; and juﬁice of the Kingdom.
The fecond place is that Gal. 5. I 9.20. T be marker
oft/Jeﬂeﬂ) are manzﬁﬂ which are adultery, fornicati-
on. Bee. Seditionrﬁereﬂ'er, Jixsurs'u tranﬂated divi-
jionr. Rom.1 6.17.is here tranﬂated feditiom, {edi-
tions or divilions and hearelies may well befet ta-

get/aer for t/Jejgoe together haereﬁes are workes of

3

the ﬂelh, mamﬁﬂ workes of the Hell); The workes
of the ﬂelh are laid robe manifeﬂ', either becaufe

they are the prod u& and fruites of that inward cor-
ruption

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ruption called fie/la, and are the tokens and markes 41 .
of a carnall man5 or becaufe they may bedifcerned in??? 5]" km’
and knowne by the g light of reafon and of anatu- a a '5'
' rall confcience, except the light be by ﬁrengthof
lufts extinct, or by the judgement of God darkned
or put out. Divines ufually from this place doe
prove againﬁ the rapt/tr, that by Beth is not onely ‘
meant the fenfuall appetitepr inferiour faculties of
the SOUIEé but the higher alfo, as the minde and
judgement,becaufe haerefy is an errour of the minde;
and fo no doubt it igthough it ma be called camall
alfo in refpeé’t of thofe ﬂelhly In S or ends which
carry men thereinto , and are exercifed under the
patronage thereof.. Azglz‘n fometime faith that in
his judgement, it eit er not at all,or very hardly
can be regularly deﬁned In what makes an havretickg h Au! nonomni-
but he comes very neere it in another place, {ay- "04‘“ dlficult
. . . . ,. . . ter @‘c-Aug-ad
mg )hee ism: hztretrckkm my Opinion)Wh0 for fome quad W, dam,
or other temporal] proﬁt .Pef‘pecially his owne glory inprefazione.
orditgnity,doth either begeti or follow frlfe and , D .1.
new opinions, The Scripture notion of the word ("SMZ’Sg‘i’T
haeref ,runs very much this wa ,- and it is to be “54,1?“ WW7
fea that mens felfe ends, wea th,eminency, in- 9:223:33”):
tereﬂs have too much ingrediency into their opini- ;- 'a’prnic/ihatu/i
onsinthefe times; the Lord will difcover and blafi q“ f” 8"”
the dof’rrine which he hates, and them alfothat (’6'
hold up {uch Opinions, as are under his anathema
and haplv againﬂthe confcience alfo, oFthofe that
follow them a for their private and unworthy~
ends. ‘

The third place is that Titus.2.ro.t r. A man tlmt
havarctick after the ﬁrﬂ and fccoml admonition
reject. Knowing that/10 that irﬂtch, itfub‘vcrtcda and

G {771-

 

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42 ﬁnneth being condemned of‘himfelﬁ. In the former

. 'L'erfethere is an ’exhortation to avoid foolim qnefti-

our and genealogies) and contentiom, and ﬁrme-

z'ngr about the Lem; becwfe they are unproﬁtable and

‘ mine, and then it followes. A man that is a heare-

1‘.“ ffw" 22f tick. Sic. whence the a Arminz'am interpret ‘an hae-
and 2533' ’ ‘ retick to be one' that makes contentlon and di.
viﬁon upon triﬂing and ﬂighty quefﬁons; Who is
condemned ofhimfelfe beCaufe he liti ates and

makesa [titre about fuch things as himfel eknowes

tobeof {mall importance,- butIconceive the mat-

ter not tobe fo ﬂighty as they would make it; for it

is faid of fuch a one aggmm he is fubverted , as a

Ship that turns Up her keele,or a houfe when the
foundation is turned topfy turvy,’ and-therefore
Deut.;2.2o. where the extreamly defperate eﬂ'ate

of a pe0p1e at laft cal}3 is expreﬂ, the Greeke ren-

ders it by the word ufed in this text. maﬁges- in

Mr it is a pe0ple turned upﬁde downe oﬁrb-

b 3511 Sub. vetted, which alfo the b Hebrew word imports
awn}: u; cum bothin this place and elfe where,- and fo hxrefy is
{$3331.13 concluded to be afrrbverﬂve thing and not a peevifh
Ave/writ“. litigation about ﬂight queﬂions, as the Armim‘am
would put it off; but thus much may be collected

from the cohxrenceghat a man may be denominated

on heretick for doc’lrinnll and dogmaticall errourr

holden and contentiouﬂ} defended and maintained,

and it is obfe! ved by fome that wordes of this forme

and termination as ammo; é: m3; do ﬁgniﬁe an ap—

‘ Cameron mr titude or readineﬂ‘e, and {o the C Word in the text
;:;’;;‘;;“;;;f;: ﬁgniﬁes, one that with complacency and choyce
[4: (7 erroneu adheres to {uch errours, but the. greateﬂ' doubt is
”We"?! ' what is meant by thofe wordes, beﬁnnetb being eon-
demned

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damned of bimﬁlfg, Whiéh dicbrjgoﬂorn refers to the- i 42

admonitions precedent; for in t at fuch a man hath ‘ .CbrifOﬂ' ix:

been admonifht, he cannot reply in his ownede-
fence Mtge?” 6~c.'no man hath ﬂiewed me my er-
rour, no man hath better inﬁruéted meDand f0 hath

Itus.g.10.n;

his mouth ﬂopt andis condemned of 122': owne.

canfcience, and it is nm to be denyed that Very ma-
ny interpreters both; ancient and moderne by the
word a’uwoxa-réxgnQ- doe underﬂfand a man that is
convinced in his owne confcience that he erresJ and
that he goes contrary to his'owne light, ciem, w-
lens, but this interpretation‘is by 6 many difallowd
and argued againﬁgthat moderate and fweet breath-
’d f Salvian fpeakping of the Arrian: faitha Hnretici
fnnt, non fcienter, apud no: non apndfe3 quad illi
ambit, hoc no: illirr (in. The} are Hcerctz'ckrllmt not
knowingly,with us the}! are, but not with tbemfel’uern
And indeed the word in the text doth not neceﬂ‘a-
Iily carry fo farre, as that an hxretick is condemned
of his own; confcience, but as dvrcﬂﬁmQ‘isaman
taught ofhimfelf¢,without a Mafterfo Ju'rau-réw'zQ'
in man condemned of himﬁalﬂmotmerely milled by
others 2 to whom he hath given up himfelﬁt- blind-
foldDbut as one that hath eleétively taken up, and
with a ﬁxed {elf-Winds refolved to perm}, in)his er-
rour and way, which he thinks to be truth, and that
he doth Godgoocfférvice in Holding 0min itgthege
are two things that may be cleerly taken up. 1 .That
it is made the charaéter of an haeretick, to {in be-
caufc condemned of himfelft. 2. That another
man may know that he is fubvertedIand ﬁngbeing
felfe condemned; for ’its {aid after admonition re~
. t . , . ’ A )

Jeét him Knowing that be, tbati: fuels/'1 jubvcrtcd.‘

’ ' G. 2 &c.

° Minu; (Sc/fur
[Mg- 13. Eff/)4:
in locum, cum
multis alik.

f De Arrianis.
lib. 5.

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780mm preached before the Houf e ofCommom, on the day of

4-4-

8<c. But how lhall this be known.) Is it becau-fe he
ﬁns againfi common notions, or- principlesu,Within
the ken of natures light? This reﬂraines heerefy9
which is a fubverting of the faith 011,31},th that
which is contrary to light of natnr¢, which light of
nature may bed: in Come particulagfo defaced, like a
fuperfcription 6n old eoync, that though I ma

know he ﬁns3 yet he is not convinced in himfelfgt.
Is it then becauf¢ he takes up an opinion for his
luﬁs fakeand rivat¢ endsagainft his light) and
knowledge? hen indeed he [ins becaufc condom-
ned of himfelfe, but how can another knOw it? It
reﬁs thertfore that an haeretickgejeéiing admoniti-
on,maybefaid to be condemned of himfelfe, be-

caufe bee chufeth his own errours, and rez'eétsthe

truth;and fo interpretative thatis vertua yan by

conlequence is condemned 'bfhimfelﬁt, as they who

thruﬂ away the mordﬁ‘om t/aemﬂidjudge themfelvec
unworthy of eternal! liﬁ’. A68. I 3.46. Here is C as you
fee) an dwmaiegtns or felft condemningwithout
conviﬁcion ofconfciencepr knowledge of their own
ﬁn in it.

, The fourth place is the Text which wehave in
hand, and this whole chapter, compared with the
Epiﬁle oqudc, in borh which hmfy is graphically
defcribcd, as hath before betn opend. That which
remaints to be done, is, the drawing up of that
hath been laid concemin the meaning of the
word, or the explication o the thing, out of the .
Scriptures alleaged,into a reﬁclt,and that is this.
The Scripture: feemcs to make haerefy a com plicatc
evill ' which thercis thefe thnee things (whether

allo them effentiall ingredients, or fomqof thebm
' e

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the Church, fom¢ time bfchifme introduces hgerc {yD b 51:me

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be ufuall attendants or concomitants I. difpute not) 4.5

1, Dogwotieall or doé't'rinall erronr3 even over
tl’ll‘OWing the faith 01‘3 fnbverting the pillars and a'aimwgémo':
foundatitms of the doétrine of Chrill,which jade 7:11:13»: 7811;»
calls the common falvotion ver.3. 2. Seperzztz'on Fiunal’itizxii’ver-
from, or renting of the unit} and communion of “Whisker/11am.
when men are run out gpon peevifhneﬂjt of fpirit mom in be);
or fome’ unwarrantable groun‘c‘fsfthey common y if; m ”0” "5”"0' '
run on into errourof opinion and doétrineD being ' i
caught like a loofe and Wandring {heepafeverd from
theﬂock- by the wolves [which lie in waitt for
fuel), fometimes the fchifmg followts upon the er-
rour of opinion drunke in, and f0 departur; from
the truth, is attended With departure: from the fo-
ciety and communion of the Church; judo have-
ing defcribed haeretick 3: faith oer. I 9. £10: elm! (12.705009;-
(m thde are the} that fepamte them/Elves. 3. A
loofe and carnall courf¢,taken up and followedIei-
theljprivately or openly,and that under the patro-
nage and proteétion of thefe dogmaticall errours,
Theirlives are as full of Athifmg as their opinions
of bio/phentylfor fulﬁl-hood,- all which being laid to-
gether, it appearbs, that an hzereticke’s underﬂan- X
ding 8( mind i: eorrupted,a good conﬁience is thruﬁ‘
away a his“ will eleé’tively adhere: to erronr and falf¢ . ~ .
Wayess hi: a cation: are drowned in [2214314121] and '"mﬂ‘w‘é‘w
luﬁs, beis ubverted and fins being felﬂe condemned, Z:i:,n:;‘};,.
either C former y,by his own‘e confcience and light 3-3-
yet remaining, or d virtually, by his voluntary re- d Men M, dam.
]eé’tion of Gods truth to [tick to his own; errourg MW We in
and fo in concluﬁon ( except the Lord pull him y}; 833“”
ontof the ﬁre by fome happy hand in the meand Term/Me pm

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A Sermon preached be foee the boufe of Comment On the day of

46 time) bee brings upon himfelfe fwift di/Zmﬁio;
As touching pertinac} or (Jig/time}! Whic is gene-

 

rally,by Divine; put into the deﬁnition of harefie 2

according to that faying : ermre poﬁmabceretz’cu: ef-
f}: 72010, I {hall fay but this 3 that ob/iz'mcy may be¢
conﬁdered, either in refpeﬂ: of the crime of here/1e,
or of the cenfurt and rejeé’cion of an ereticlie'.

In refpeét of the crime ofbterefie two Ways. Firft3
that an errour in it felt}, not hxreﬁe is made haerefie,
by (ab/time! 5 'as fome of the Papifts will have that

to be heerehe which is {tiﬂy holden by any man’afterv

' . the c determination or admonition of the‘Churc'h',
ﬁligmgl‘m, when a Councell , or that trdn[cenclent thing called
3. 10- th 1’0 e hath deﬁnedby t e authority of his infalli-

ble C aire, that fuch an errour is haereﬁeé andhath

. put it under Anathema , though F others of them

:2; ’19"; ”2 £1" ( 1n rny opinion) fay more rightly , that an errour
ﬁ, gm 41; ac. in falth Is not t/Jcr/fore Intereﬂe , becaufp condemned
6M“ “"5de b the Church : bUt becaufé contrary to the faith : or
901,531,: , ﬂ d" farmed!) , that an errour fubverti the faith is not
aim, &c- bwrcfie , unleffe attended with ob” time} , and‘tha‘t
12:31:,ng (as I conceive ) cannot be faidg for‘as Con aﬂcjin
fumr‘ﬁiﬁﬁj that which is ood, as namely faith o'rju ice, doth
2 W‘- “P' 3' not make fair/g to be faith , or juﬂz‘ce tobe juﬂz‘ce :
f0 neither doth ObﬂindC] in evill , V or ere-ow1 , make

that errour to be he: relies butas vertue is Commen‘;

dable , and rendred more glorious by con (fancy,

fo is heerefie aggravated and made more high by 012-

ﬂinac]. The ezfence or nature , and {o the denomi-

nation ofhaereﬁc is not! to be meafured by obﬂinacy

again the decifion or admonition of the Church,

(for then every fuch obftinate errour {hould be hse-

relic) but by the contrariety and oppoﬂtion of it to

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the principles of faith/Which are razed, or over-
thrownd. - ' '

In ref p68: of the ccnﬁirt and rejcétz’m of an H118-
tick,(which rejeétionm’h'ether it be by a priva te be—
leever or by fen-tence of the Church} now difpute
nor) llfuppofe obﬁinacy is requiﬁte .° for as, in o-
ther {candallsthe rule of proceedin is. I f he; heart
not thee ,‘ or ifhe hear: not the Churc J : f0 its {aid , a
man thatis an eretickp, rejeél', 4fter the ﬁg/t’ and

ﬁzcond adﬂonitiongContumacy is a common ad junét
_ of time, in order to the ﬁnall judgement or {en-

- tence of the Church in excommunication 5 In a
Word, Icannot read thoﬁ: words, T itw 3. to. Thur,
'or in this/3272f}. g A man that after the ﬁr/t and ﬂown!

47

g c’c'tOemv
[and Maw mu

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admonition it an Haeretz'cje, as if he then became an Jywé‘ga “Gae-
Haeret’ickf: by Handing out againﬁ or after adm Uni. my mam r.

. . ,t .
tlon ,~ but thm , r6166? 4 man hteretzcallg after; the
ﬁrﬂand fecond admonition , which argues and de—

monﬁratts , that he may be an Haeretick before he _

be¢ obftinaté , and fo obftinacy is not eITentiall to
the nature or being of haereﬁe , Though I confeffe,
(and do; fuggefi it toyour obfervation and faddefl:
thoughts ) that I-laéretickﬁ are generally and ufual-
lyﬂricken with ohﬂimxc] , few of them that run“
’ 'into this labyrinth, doe either feek¢ . or ﬁnde the
Wa out 5when the vitall parts of faith are putrified

an corrupted in any Patient, the recovery is hope— \

leﬂ? 5 Weigh ferioufly that expreﬂion or mark¢ fet
on thefe ver men by Iude, ver. 12. Tree: twice dead,
plucked up 1’ the rootgr 5 when do you fee fuch a tree
recoverlife and fruitPIts a hard refcuq to fetch a man
oﬂ;that is prifoner to an erring confcience , efpeci-
ally if he be fetter’d by both legs , his judgment be-~

mg,

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48 ing captivated by errour , and his affeétions enﬂa-
ved by luﬁsg we muff doe our duty,and offome' have
compo/ﬂan , and others of them fave wit/erard:
ignigomg [hatching them out of the ﬁre , Jude , aver/e
22. 23. Though they complain¢ of violence offe-
red to their liberty , when they are pul’d out of the

" Invinfm 9141' ﬁre. For (as h the laying is ) thee that/Ewe: 4mm ‘9.
{$1351fo ‘3' gainﬁ his will , bat/J no more thank” for 131': labour;
How. then ifhe kill’d him. It is a matter of wonder and a-
mazement to fee men of eminent parts and lear-
ning, of great reputation for Religion , captivated,
carried away, and made prey of, by fenfgldﬁand
abfurd fancies and opinions: but that we¢ know,
them are no deluﬁons or lies 3 but are fh'ongIWhen
God delivers a man up to them’in Way of punifh-
ment for not receiving the truth ,withiove thereof.
The Lord give us to receive his truth‘wit'h fear and
trembling , and make us thankﬁallehom inthis
time of wantonneﬂo ( as fom¢call it ) or rather
wickedneﬂ; of opinions , he: hath kept from fhip~
wraclh of faith , and madeto ftand uprightyhen
igm W‘m men that have lived {iriétlv and rel‘i iou‘ﬂy ( a‘si
irInau'm do” Elﬁﬂﬂomt Eﬁa ofl’elogim) lean to Warp and to be
:2?’{L“’“3’i; drawn awry. ' - ’ '
:WKZJEZ‘; Having thus farmlaid open the nature and dan—
dovwejaew get ofhxrefie by the Scriptures I Fhould noW'come
CW” “"7”!“ to the ufe of all : but that in few wordsl deﬁre to

 

 

4' a 00m}, put you in mindg in what notion the Word haereﬁe
hath paged amongft men, in common acceptation,
and that'l {hall dot in thefe two Words. -

I. The Fro/t [Iii-ﬂied” 01‘ Sc‘rholgzﬂim’l acoeptation
jt::52.r:’.m isthis: a Hzercﬁcisan crrour or affertion contrary

to the faith in points fundamentall or momentous,
)

holden

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holden or maintain’d by a man profeﬂing the Chri- .49
ftian faith: this they call ﬂmple haereﬁe , and fuch
a one an Hatretick¢ : l icet ab ecclqﬁa non receﬂérit, .
though C faith b krona) beg doth not feparatd or b In Ga, W
make feceﬁion from the Church : and though bee ‘ ' "i
cannot be blemilbtwith wickedneﬂé morall3 or in~
converfation.’ “All momentous truths are not ﬁri-
éﬂy {0 called fundamentallg there are truths ( asI
may fay) offecond and third nugnitudcglike {tones
in abuilding whichbenext unto,or upon the founq- ’
dation 5 What thefe are which are precifcly funda-.
mentall, and what is the boundary of them 3 and
by What certaint meafurdthey muﬁ be meafured3 if "7
it exceed not my skill to determine!» ( as I dare norj
fay, but it may ) yet it isa Worké beyond my time.
This only I fay to the point in hand at That the for-
»:th ratio or nature of haerefie as it is diﬁinguifht
from fchifmd and ﬂefhl luﬁs', is rightly {fated to X
conﬁft in an errour or aﬂzrtion, contrary to,and e-
ﬁrué’tive of the faith , and the degree of pravity in r
the errour, is correfpondent to the degree oﬁmpor
tanoe of the truth, that’s deﬂro ed by it or denied.

2. The vulgar , and indeedyabuﬁm 'acceptation
of the word , is an infamy or reproach which ufu-
ally men Hinge in the face of others at random, that
are not of their opinion : and its too true (as a lear-
ned man faith) that [agrefﬁe andﬂhifme are two the-

ol icall {carevcr es many times {Fat 119 to [cars
peoEle and aﬁrightthgm. Tbeﬂrqngeﬁ party of the
two commonly cries out of here/it: : the weak]? par-
tyW , {ti-the‘PdI-iﬂzﬁputs 21 mar f
or ran 0 xretica pravity upon , and calls all .
‘ Spa/ato- lib-

Hztretickts, who are oppofite to theirC falf¢ do- 1 m 10
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SO dof’trineslor ﬁlthy lufi33Ha£reﬁe was taken in a large

. d L. 50le his fenf¢ , when the d Lollard: were indié’red for hatre-
1nﬁimt¢$~ ﬁe , becauf¢ they held it not meritorious to gm“! in
pilgrimage to Saint T homm, or Mary ofWalﬁng-

ham .- or when Vigiliu: Bifhop of Saltzhurg Was
condemned for thehaereﬁe of holding thattheré

c Apology were Antipode: 5 ‘ Bellarmine'tells K. lame: that] for
rap. 7. ’ all his beleeving the Scripturt;, the three Creed: 9 the
foam: great and generall Couneell: , yet he mightbe

an Haereticlfe : and his meaning was, becauljz the

Pope: infallihz'lit} or ﬁrprémdcy was not in any of the

Kings Creed :. As theintollerable abufe ofexcom-
munieation formerly , made no man to value it a-

bove the price at which he could buy it offs fo the

NF abufe of this name , and throwing it about at ran-

domé , makes it not regarded 3 which yet is a fear—

full thing in it felﬁta and bringing fwift deﬁrué’tion 5

It hath be¢n {l’retcht too far”; to be a brand ﬁigma-

tizing tru¢ beleevers , and to {care men from pry-

ing into the truth, by making it odious ; and it is

{hriveled and {hrunkc up too much , even almoft

to nothing, by fuch} as are affraid to hit them {elves

by defining it 2 but is thert notfueh 4 thing ?‘is them

not fuch a damnahle ﬁn .3 Why then doé fuch hor-

rible ﬁnsas the {in again ﬂ the holy Ghoﬂ, and the ﬁn

ofhtreﬁe , lye’like a term ineegnitiz/ undifcovered‘,

unpreacht againﬂ P Seeing then: 18 tobe found/in

Scripture, efpeciallyin the quﬁolicall Epiﬁles, {'0

much {aid in defcription of, and for caution ‘a-
gainﬂ,damnable haereﬁes and doﬂrinqs, and the _

falft teachers ”which privily bring them in, and

bring upon themlelves and many that follow their

- pernicious wayes, fuel] fearfulldeﬂruétion.
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That which now remainsis to draw up that which 5 1
hath been faid- into matter ofufe and application. '. ‘
And ﬁrft let me fpeak to you all,who profeﬂl‘the 7/ ”e I

trutth of the Gofpel of our Lord Jefus Chrili,that J ’
you would be Prote/tantx once again, by declaring ‘
your {elves againft the heterodoxie: 8c dangerous
errors oft he prefent timesfor the infeétion fpreads
, by reafon ofmany, that got abroad with running

{ores upon them 5 and if the A poﬂle, when hat/gave

all diligence, to write to beleevers of the common ﬂzl-
'oation, thought it needfull for him to write to them,

and exhort them, that the] jhonlcl earndtly contend
for the faithonce delivered to the Saintﬂ , upon this
groundand reafon that there were certain men crept

in unaware:a éVc. Jude 3. 4. You cannot thinks! it
impertinentand unfea fonable at this time to be ex-
horted to the fame earneﬂ contending for the faith;

for you are befet with danger on all ﬁdes , the con-
tagion is epidemicall , many are diﬂraéied with

here i: Chrifi , and thert it C Irift , and are mif-led

into pernicious Wa es : yea/even fome that feemed

to be good eareS otycorng are mil-de’wd and almofi
blaﬁed 5 I do¢ therefore exhort you to confider the
danger, as you may eaﬁly fumndt it up from that
which hath been {aid , for you have heard 3 that
there ﬂvall he fat/y Teacher: amongﬁ you , we need

nOt fay ther¢ , ﬂJaU he 3 but more fuitable to our
ownt condition/We; may ayiTher; ar; as its faid,

I Iohn ‘4. 4.. manrfalf’t Prophet: are gone hut into the
world 5 you feelthey are gone out, [would we might

fee thatthey wer¢ corn; in againd. 2. That thefe

are they ‘who bring in damnahle hareﬂe: , they go;

out to bring thefe in ; they are ring-leaders3 or (as

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T T ertulliaa faid ofPhilofophers)the patriarchy of has).
' reflex. 3. That they‘bring in thefe damnable haere.
ﬁes privil} 3 they {pawn ﬁrﬁ 1n quartegor plauﬁble
beginnings (the greateft Crocod11¢ did at ﬁrfi3lye in
' Franzitf: In} an e a Paulo maju: anférino 3 little 'gger then a
ﬂorid 4mm” ' goohggge) b themfelves aretramformed, a: Mini-
um' ﬁer: of righteoufne t: 6 their words are compofed
2:193:15 and good 3 their peeches are fair¢3 their artiﬁce .
Rom.16. 138- is d full of Height and cunning craftineﬂit 3 and
3*. Epha- 14' thert‘fore they creep¢ at unawares not oncly into
houfes 3 but into mens bofomcs alfo. 4.. ‘l'hat'hae-
reﬁes are damnable and defituétive poifon3 though
given in honey 3 they arife and are made up ewole
Scripturamm ( as Tertullz’an faith) by felling downt
, 3 m. 3. 3 6. the goodly timber of the holy Scripture: 5‘ c wreﬁed to
the Mmélz’on ofthem that wreﬂ them 3 they tame,
grace into lafoioioxfrzeﬂ? gdea} the Lord jefm Chi/t3
overthrow the faith 3 ﬁthvert the ﬁul¢3 carry me”
down the ﬁream of In]:z and [thert]3 and {0 bring f wzft
deﬂruﬁtion. 5. That many [hall follow thefe pernici-
_ ous wayes3 f the ﬁmple are deceived3 the learned
33653 are given up to 8 ﬁroag debs/(om 3 the unﬂablc are
a Eph.4. 14. carried about like childrenﬂvith every ’1 wind of do-
i 3p“. 3. 3O. Erine ,: Thofc: that, by profeﬂion ofthe truth3had ’
" ‘efcaped the pollutions of the world 3 are agaim': i
entangled and over-cowl 3 and {o the latter endgf
man] (that anecan'ied awayeither by fpecioufne e
of ermurjor liberty of luﬂ) is war/e, then the begin-
' ITim- 4- !- ning. 6. That theiaf’t times {hall‘be molt ofall in-
’~ We '7- '8' felted with theft pernicious errours. k The [pm-t
ﬂ fpeaketh cxprcﬂy3 that in thelatter time: fomq ihal
depart from the faith 3 giving heed to [calming [pi-
rit: : the Afoﬂle: havefbretolol that then {hall bek

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macker: in the 14]} time : and by this (faith “‘ the A- 5 g
poftle) we know that it is the luff time becaufg thgrg f’: I John 2‘ 18°
913mm! Antichriﬁ: 5 and we¢ may} very well un-
derﬁandlby t c all times3 not ondly the times of
the Gofpell in general] 3 but the time ofAnticbr-{ﬂr
declining 3 well as of his ariﬁng and g1 OWth‘. 'Ilve
[eff of the aﬂ time: : For as the lafl times of the 3e-
my?) Church (after it had fhaken off the captivity and
idolatry) were peﬁer’d and infefled ‘moﬂ of all with
hatreﬁes ,untill Chriﬂ came with a new doé’rrine’of
the Gofpell , and untill the defolation of the frame
of that Church : .fo the hit dayes of Gofpell Chur.
ches’having fhaken Off the {econd Babylomﬂ) ca ti-
vit] and idolatry , {hall be infefted with thefe an:
gerous errours and haereﬁes , and haply untill the
very fecond comming of Chrifl, or at leaft untill
he {hall gloriouﬂy declare himfelfinthe deflruéti-
on of the beaﬁ and falﬁz Propbegandin the calling of
the Jewes. ' , -

Thefe things being laid tOgether doe cry aloud
untoyou, to oonﬁd er your danger , and to hearken
to the frequent inculcations of the qu/ile: in their
' Epiﬂles, in alum/l all their aEpzﬂle: , deferibin .
falfe teachers tobce like the Serpent that beguil ‘ 2 C0". in 3-

Em, branding them with the name of annex and l
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m’mﬂer: of Sethan, éc. ﬁigmatizin g their do&rins
with the names ofdamuble hereﬁe: , doarine: of
Devillr, (9%.- Fortifying Chriﬂians with eﬂeauall
(tits and exhortations againft the impmﬂions

and infeé’tions offuch poyfonous errours. And if
you looke Upon thofe Epiﬂles which were fent
from heaven to the [even Churche: , you {hall ﬁnde
‘ H 3 that

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that the greateft part of thofe comminations in
them contained , are thundred forth againﬂt bere-
fz'e: or doétrinall errours , maintaining or cherifh-
ing (as I may call them) heretical! Inf}; , there wee

b Reve1~ 2. 2. ﬁnde them b that faid they were Apoﬁlera but were
‘ rap. 2. 9. 14. 1 en, the C blajpbemj offuch as laid they were jaw, ,

15- 20. 24.

ut were the Synagogue of Satan, the doﬂrine of
Balaam , the doﬂrme of the Nicolaitam , the tea-
ching andfeducing of Jezebel , the depth: of Sat/Jazz,
éeThe Churches are commended, or the Angels
ofthofe Churches , who found out thefe difgm‘fed

ﬁducerr, and kept the truth uninfected by them,

5' Rad, 2. ,5. and thofe Angels or Churches blamed which d had

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them 0 and fuffered them in their bofome. Thefe
things I oEer to your ferious and fad con fideration,
you r ave not made ufe of the point, as foone as you
have laid T beﬁimﬂer Miler. Its not my meaning
to poure out all this that hath beene faid upon eve-

. ry errour either preacht or followed in our times:

but to thew you that falfe teachers and haereﬁes
pan/i be and ﬂmll be in the Gofpel Churches .: and to
put you. in minde what the Scripture faith concer-
nin them, and how much you are concerned to
lOOEC about you :- for Iobferve that men are not (0
jealous over themf elves , or fo affraid 'of° corrupti-
on 0 their minds as they- ought to be,nor f0 fenﬁble .
of min intelleé’ruall errours as in moral] corrupti-
ons, and yet we know difeafes in the head are mOr-
tall too: and that a ﬁfh begins to corrupt and {link
in the head and fo throughout .3 corrupt warmer: u-
fuelly and naturally follow upon corrupt mindrg
they that are n0t found in tbefaitl: , no wonder if

they be nptfotmd in the ﬂare , and in the mzjer of
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God, whither W111 this new fceptz’cz'fnze come and . 55
into what will it be refolved.> but into Athz‘efnze,
When men begin to falls we fee by experience, '
that many fall from ﬁery to ﬁery till they come to
the very bottom, And thereforeIexhort and be- .
feech you all to that which the fcripture exhorts
andinjoynesupon Chriflians, who are in danger
of being feduced by .fall? teachers or their doé’c-
rin¢s , and that is, to try the f pirit: Whether the
areof God. 1.70571. 4. I. To contend for -the fair
once delivered judegfo beware left you be carri- 74
ed away with the erronr o lawleﬂi men 2 . Pet.3.1 7. ’
To tnrnt awaj‘frorn fuc ,as creep into houfes and
lead captive ﬁlly Women, 2.77771. 3. 5.6. To avoid
fooli/h queftionslwhich are unproﬁtable and vainﬁ'
Titnr. 3.9.7?) hold faith and a good conference. I .Tim.
1.19. To continue in the thing: that you have learn-
eel and been allured of; out of the word of God, 2.
Tim. 3. 14.. And laftl If there came an} nntoyon,
and bring not t is doé’trine , receive him
not into your houfe’neither fay to him gain»
2. Epifile. of 701m. 10. II. For he that bids him
{peed pi: partaker of hi: will deed: , Wherﬁ'
the Apoﬁle fuppofes that falfc teachers are men
of evil] deeds , beﬁdes their falfe doétrints,
or that indeed theirfalﬁt doé’trine 2': will deedrin .
the plurall number, and thereforenottobe ﬂigh-
ted off, 334 thing of the mind; , or mentallnzirtake
only, you fee that to countenance or encourage
fuch teachers’is'tobe partaker of their evill deeds,
and whatfoeVer credit you will give to the report {1212- 3“,,
of f Irenanr concerning john hisleaping out of the
bath from C erintlmrpr Pol/warp his refufpal ofMar-
czon

A Sermon preached before the Houf e ofCommom, on the day of ‘

5 6 cion his acquaintance,yet,the obfervation which he
makes uponthofe reports or hiﬁories, is to be taken
Tam”, Awf— notice offhat the Apoﬂle: and their followers, would
zoli .(reorum ”05f” muchar verho team, commanieat; with an}! of _
13,425, g“ them that had adalterated the trath,how much leﬂ'z
. 3. ' p. {hould private Chriﬁians c1011: with fuch {edu-
cers,who are more likely to pull them into the
water, then they to pull them out , Naturally wee
are tinder ,too apt to take ﬁre by theirfparkps, he
that fillies With an haeret ieall hait may haply catch J.
morein amoneth, than fom¢ calLMiniﬁer {hall
bring to Chriﬂ with all his trayell and paints, as
long as he lives, for he hath the advantage of the bait,
and therein lies the odds offucceﬂe between preach.
inEi of errour and preaching of the truth, I mamell
( ith the A poftle) that you are fofoono removed
from him, that called you into the grace of Chriﬂ,
unto another gofpell. Gal. 1. 6. them Was the won-
der. in {m wuxéo; that they were removed fo uickg-
ly, and the Apoﬁles wonderma be ours ,we¢
hambeﬁn a people of as power ll godlineﬂ‘c, as
any in the world; praéticall divinity was impro-
ved to a great height of cleareneﬂh and fweetneﬂé,
butlfeart thatlmay truely fay/we mm belt in
worﬂ time: , wee held our cloak¢ in the windgand
' now are laying it off in the fun, A miferable decli-
Sgﬂt ' “'7' :"3399 {1-991 thgﬁﬁ: and yo‘wer ofgodlinelit is 30314:.
/'2; :23 A259 pail} withjgthefe fewleartsmur- [3mm
£597 i‘ﬂghzjnward and clofe waves of walking with God in
{www- faith and love, are fublimed into fancies and va-
rout into fumes of new Opinions, and which
is worﬂ of all, we take this dropfy tobe grOWth,

and conceive our {elves to be more fpirituall and re-
ﬁned

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ﬁned becaufe more ayry and notionall. The Lord 57
humble us for our declenﬁons and fwervings From
the g end of the commandement (which is love out g I Tim. 5.;
of a pure heart and of a good confcience and of ’
faith unfained) and for our taming: a/ide to mine
iangling:,The beft way of fortiﬁcation of our {elves
againﬁ the allurements and affaults of falfe teach-
ersis I. Tobe grounded in the principles of the
doﬁrin¢s of Chriﬁ, or elfe we (hall eaﬁly betum-
bled up and down, like loofe {tones that lienot
faﬁ in the building upon the foundation. 2. To
Rudy and adhere unto the doﬁrin¢ which is b accor- h- l Tim 1-5-6.
ding to godlineﬂ'i, prac‘kicall and edifying truths,
which draw up the heart into acquaintance and
communion with God, and draw it out in love
and obedience to him, For it: good that the heart he
ﬂablz'ﬂat with grace, Heb. 13.9. 3. To hold faith
anda good confcience 1.772». 1.19. for if we. thruji
away a good confcz'enceb engertajnin bafeluﬁslandf n04 neat. ..‘
ends, the fhipwrack o aith will ollow. 4. T0“? We @ng
»» Fray for confirmation and eﬁabliihment by the “J“ ":3“? ’f“%"“
ha'nﬂ ofGod,for as it is not a ﬂrong conﬂitution that €25 552;, ”'2;
is a protection againjt the plague, {o neither is it 65311.”...9“ s’
parts and learning which fecure us from beleeving
lies and deluﬁons. Its amer for which we are not
enough thank ﬁll], that God eeps any of us {tand-
ing upright when others {brink awry, or that wee
are enabled to difcerne between truth and errour,
and to (land for the one, and withf‘tand the other;
when (0 many that have driven a great trade of
profdlion are broken and turned banketupts.
5‘. To keep as a ‘treafure thofe troths wherein
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58' been atteﬂed and conﬁrmed to you by your owne
eXperience, ﬁt upon thofe ﬂowers Hill and fucke

their frefh honey every day. A Chriﬂian very hard-

1y parts With thofe truths that have been fealed up

to his experience, [mt it: no wonder that a more
ﬂowlfd lofe that out of his head which he never had in ‘

bis eart. 4 . - ‘
'Ufe 9' To thofe that bring in or follow thefe pernicious
wayes ofdamnable hzerefy3 you {hallfee the crop
which you {hall reap, fwift deﬁfuéfz’ongou are un-

der judgement which ﬂmnber: not. It Willbe de-
ﬂrué’tive to you to tore the Scriptur¢5._2.Pet. 3.16.
and to make merchan ifeof mens foults for ﬁn-
full ends. 2.Pet. 2.3. Toeorrapt the minder of men.

from the ﬁmplz’cﬁ} that is in Chriﬂ'. ‘2 .Cor.1 1.3. and
to canﬁ: divzﬂom and femddlr Rom. 16. I7. are
things which will coft you dear-e, lay toheart the
terrible expreﬂions of - wrath,which are fuiminated
againﬂ fuch men in Scripture, There maybe diffe-
rences in opinion, berweene them that are godly,
. which are notinconﬁﬂentywith the peace of the
.‘ A _ Churches and for. which its unlawfull new»
wgiom C d: the Inﬂation faith ) to ”4de butter
andcbeefe of one anotloer, Itsadifcreet rulewhich

2 Conradu: is laiddownt by one a Si non ideozﬁntimrdesoeri.
3:45in g: tate at falter» ole ponder-q” we cannot agree upon
’ “mm” ' the truth of every queﬂ‘ioupr point of divinity,yet
at leaf}, lets be agreed concerning the weight and
moment thereof, {0, as not to make as great a ﬂirt

abouta tile of the houfe, as if it W€r¢afotmdati-

onﬁone, nor creel: new parties or Churches upon

every leffer variationg but to contend for, or pre-
tendalz'bert} of profeﬂing or publifhing fuch do-

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doé’trines as overthrow the faith, and fubvert- the
foreleunder the name of libertyof conﬂiencgcanbe
no other then Show MMQ- 2. Tim. 3.9. amam'ﬁaﬁ fol.
I}. or madneﬂ £7.13 this liberty any part CFC/irzﬂr pun-.-
elm/)1? Hath he made meufree to fin/and denyhim
that bought them? what yoake of bondage doth

 

~ ‘ thisliberty, free us from? Gal.5-.I. fhould ‘We claimﬂ'

e‘liberty of: beingx'inbondage to errourB' or promiCé
no men a libevtyof being fervants. to corruption,
Which the falfdteachers in effeé’c did 2.Pet.2. B9.God

‘ hath .(as one faith) referved to himfelfd, as his pre-

rogative three things. Ex nihilo creare, ﬁttum pres-,-
dié‘we,canfcientijr dammed: To men“ out qf my...
thing, to foretell thing: to coma, to have dominion 0,
We confcz'ence, and it is true, that Whilea thing is
within, in the confcience, its out of mans reach,
but when ’its aé’red andcom¢s abroad then it comes
into. mamjurzﬁliéfionand is cognizable in fora Im-
mane, God on¢ly is’ judge of thoughts , men
alfoare judges of a&ions, Its a great miﬂakd) and
of very ill confequeuce to imagimt/thataman is
always bound to a& or/praéirice according to the
light orjudgement of confcience though rightly
informed in the/i, for then I fee not, that there can
beany placefor that rulegiven by the Apoﬁle.
Rome 14. 22. H412 the» faith? have it to th} [at t, be-

fore God, Truth it {elf}, though never to be ”fed ,

yet is not alwayex to! be declared, for the hurt or
foandall may be greater, then an infeafonahie pro-
fcfﬁon'or praétice of that,which,is,in it felfglaw-
full, may be worth, but the miﬂnke is yet more
groﬂiito imaginé that an earring eonﬁience j: a ﬁiﬂ‘i-

cient ’prOteﬂion ’ or warranty for an evill aﬁ. Its
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[in to goe againft an erring confcience, (Stante dic-
tamz'ne) as its {in to mmﬂ: and ﬁrce arr/gore. Its
{in alfo to aa: according to the diétate of an erring
confcience as to committ adul ter} wit/3 confer”. To
makeconfcience the ﬁnall jud eof actions, is to ,
wipe out the hand writing 0 the word of God,
which dorh condemne many times, thof'e things
which confcience julliﬁes, yea and men alfo may
paiTe juﬁ judgement on deluﬁons or lyes though
thofe that vent them doe beleeve them for truth35
If eonfcience be warrant enough forpraﬁice: and
opiniom, and liberty of confcience be a fuﬂicient
licence to vent ,or at? tbem, I cannot fee but the ju-
dicatories either of Church or State may [but up
their Sh0p, and bee refolVed into the Judicatory
of every mans private confcience. And put the
cafe that the Magiﬂrate {hould conceive himfelfe
bound in con fcience to draw forth hisauthority a-
gainﬂ: falfe teachers, or their damnable haereﬁes,
and (upon that fuppofed errour) [hould challenge
aliberty of judging, as wee doeof aging, would
our liberty give us any eafe folongas he had his,
and. were it not better for him to judge and for us
to walke byalmowne rule.> and if we fhould ﬁll):
that hisliberty of judging is unlawfull, it is as ea y
for him to fay that our liberty of preaching or pro-
feﬂin g errouts, is fo too.

To you that are Miniflers of the word, that you
would draw forth the {word of the Spirit againﬁ
thefe fpirits of errour, as not onely theduty you
owe to Gods truth and mens foules requireth, but
alfo the preﬂing examples of the Apoﬂles doe con-
fh'aine you5 let not the Lord ﬂeﬁu Cbrf/i and 1913'

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aﬂices, be denyed by falfe teacher: and byyourﬂlcnce .

too , and the Lord grant that it may nor-be {aid
of youas of the Miniﬂers of,prefa: Aéts. 20. go.
alfo ofjour owne felverjballmm arife fpealq'ng per-
verfe thing: to draw away Difcz’pler after t/Jem.Catba-
rinm faid of fome middle-region men in thofe times,
that they were Lutheranmzculi balfe or dough-baked
Lathe rams Let us not halt between two opinions

but be valiant for the truth. He is but halfe a gsod ‘
re

Sheepheard that feeds the {beep in good paf
but defends them not from the wolves, It telon s
. to you 3W§w Titus. I. II. to ﬂop their want as
thatis by convidtion as is plaine b the ninth verfe
as Chrifl 395M“ ﬂan-Mavis; Matt . 22. 34.. Stopt
the Sadduce: mouths by ﬁlencing their arguments.
They wil tell you that arguments of we feca, ﬁre 8C
faggot are not ﬁt arguments for Minigierr, that their
minds‘ought to be enlighmea', not t eir bodies bur-
ned, and the truth is, the key: are given to Peter not
the {word , He ufurps that without authority ,tbe
weapon: ofour war are are not carnal], Male/m: care
is not to‘be cut off y us.But wil they that plead ex-
em ption from violence, ﬁtﬁer 8t endure the word
ofconviétion? will they afford their ears 8( patient-
1 beare the examination of their errours? Ifear
they will notgfuch is their love to 8: their plerop/w-
ryjoferrour, Nay will they not rather caﬂ' dirt upon
t e Miniftery, and uteall (iratagems to undermine
it, decrying their calling and their lively-hood or
fit/)8! which among all their deflruétive errours
muff needs be confeﬂed to bee a famine doarine,
whatfoever be the event, you that are Gods Mini-
ﬂers mull venture into t he Lions mouth to favea
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{heepe , and aﬂert and vindicate the truth-of God
from. being taken captive by xerrour : For if either
his trueth or his peeple-be loft byyout default, the
account will-be heavy. . ' _

As I began, f0 Ilhall conclude with you (the Ho-
norable houfe) every one fees wha't height. weare
come unto.Arria: in Alexaud. was but as one-(park,
a little water at ﬁrﬂ 'Wouldhave quenah’dx that? fire
which afterward fet almofi all the world‘in ﬂames;
I fee by your. order for keeping ofthisfolbmneday»,
that you takenotice ofthe gmwﬂnof" erroar , lunch
ﬁe and Maﬁa/Jew}, I would you 113de fuchgn‘oi
ticeofthe beginnings of them. If: you take notice
ofthefe as a judgment upon us,“ t‘lfm‘fbarch out the
{in for which this judgement comes. If you take
notice of them as our ﬁn , thenlet every man labour
to owne it f0 farre as by participation it is made his
owne , that [0 we may be truly humbled , and re-
new our. Vowes and Covenants to owne and [hand
up for the truth ofGod , againﬁ all invaﬁons ofer-
mm and heereﬁe; you as Magi/truer, we as Mini-
fterr, all as men that havefoa/e: to befa'ved‘or loft.
Its a good rule, In eo/Erviwzt rege: door, in qua non
poﬂimt illi jervire m‘ﬁ at rege: -, K ingu‘ and Printer,
and indeed all magiﬁrates doe therein force 0.04,
wherein they cannot ﬂame him but at» Magi/Z rat er. .'
we are exhorted to pray for King: aadall t at are in
authority , t/Jat wee may lead a quiet and peaceable
life in all godlineﬂé and bone/t], I Tim. 2. 2. i

There is C as Divines diﬁinguifh) ﬁmple haereﬁe

and complicate. '
Simple Inertfe is an opinion orafTertion holden >
andmaintained contrary to, and fubverﬁve off the
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faith by one that profeffes the Chriﬁian Religion : ' 6 3
Complicate here/it: is that which is attended With
ﬁbz‘fme,fedition, blafpbemy ,Where one opinion lyes‘

with anotheraand begets a new baﬂardza new mon-

ﬁer growing up. into a mul ti formity more '& more3

until it break forth into {uch dangerous fymptom‘s

as the fore-named.

The fchifmaticall Hareticke upon his oninion .
breaks offfrom the communion" of the Church, and ,
runs out into feparation , fetting up his new light"

(as he calls it) in a new candlgqlv'ck.

The blafphemam Hereticke ﬂ'rikes through the
name of the great and glorious ~God , or his
truth with defpightfull reproaches not to be na—
med. ,

T hefedz'tz'om Hereiz‘ake troubles the peace oft-he
Church and State, as an-armyis troubled b y Mu; ,
tmeers. ‘ ; - - ‘

The f edming Hereticke panders to his bed all hee
can , and goes up and down rovent his poyfo‘n to ~
theinfe&ion of others , privil-y bringing in damna-
blehaercfm. ' , '< -
" There is a great conteﬁ about fi‘mple bereﬂe Whe-
ther it come under yOur {WOrd or no in refpeﬁ of
capitall punifhment. The 0 lat/nerd»: are negative 0 Vida 18- ar-

and {0 are very many others , eretiridium obft'm- “m“ ”’5‘"

, . , , ranoruma ud
plzcem ant nude»: benﬁn nemo noﬁrﬁmﬂmplzczter “madame

aﬂerm‘t. None of us (fay they) .a have aﬂerted haere— Bs'gium de ’14-

ticide or capitall punifhment for ﬁi'npzle hatreﬁe. ’8"

And b C al'm'n faith ofServetur, velfola modeﬂia pa- ' Cenfuim in
tmﬂet 'w'tam redimere, that he might havefaved bio“ “It 24-

life had he been but mode/L And to fuch I wilh light a QM" in a-
and not ﬁre,let bloudy Papiﬂs only have this brand ﬁfe. de Serve-

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6 4 of cruelty upon them to confute errours by'fire and i

ﬁx got. .
gFor the blafphemous and {editions Hastetickes,
both C LUtherans and others of the Reformed chur:
feiffé'ﬁ'ié- ches .do agreethat they may be Bunifhed capitally,
Maj) 53mm (4. that is for their blafphemy or {editlon 5 but the d So:-
piw/i fuPP/I'cio cinian ﬁands out here alfo , and denies it galleadg;
Z‘§,"rj;"f:‘zj}:ex ing that the punifhment offalfe Prophets in the 01d
irixpuonabit. Teﬂament was fpecz’alz’ jure by fpeciall law grani-
Z“; 9““!7f0ﬁff ted to the Ifraelz‘ter , and therefore you muﬂ not
pgc'fgig’jgcwg looke (faith the Socinian) into the Olde ,Teftament
Phi/of. fob yet? for a rule of proceeding againft Falfe Pro'phet’s‘and
2 “1" 4' blafphemets: Nor ( faith 6 Calvin and Cotborirzm)
d Schlichtingi- can you ﬁnd in the new Teﬁament any preeep't for
:30 ’13”: aﬁﬁzrﬁ the punifhment ofTheeves, Traytors, Adulte’rers;
page 457. Witches ,~ murtherers and the like; ' .an’d' yet they
c Cam" d656,, may, or zit-leaﬂfome ofthem beetapitally puniiht :
veto in opufc- for the Gofpell deﬂroys’ not the juft la wes of civill

Ca'hmm'5m3 policy or Common-wealthy, butI Will not enter -

Tm“ 10' upon the debate-of this point, neither bringing
in the Scriptures. orreafons ﬁariti'tnor =anfwd'rin'g
the arguments brought againﬂt it 3 of W‘lﬁch‘a'ry'm
ments this lfuggeﬁ (by the, way) to yOur ob er-
vation , that fome ot‘them doe even [hip in one bot--
tom the moral! duties commanded in the old 1’ e o-
meﬁl, and 158 typical! ammonia or ﬂmdower. Some
oft/2e»: doe make ‘ againlt Eccleﬁaﬂicall cen fures
‘ Whl‘l‘ 5" as wellas civill, and [owe oft/m» doe carry Further
ﬂu denies nor . .. .
as m Hmms then haply they are intended, even to take off c1v11
or {ugh as 3:ch punifhments ofﬁnnes againﬁ the fecmd Table olﬂ) :
92‘}: (7323;. neitherdoe Nee any jolt r'eafon3 that if the ofﬁce of
a Magiflmte have any place in the matters ofthe

fir/i Table, he can puniflz j edition , which is againfi
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his owne name ordignity, and Rand (till and looke
on with his hands tied A, Whiles the name and ho-
nour of the great God is Openly traduced or blafl
phemed, ' ‘ '
For the ﬁduciag Hereticke, he is to be prohibited
and reﬁtained :‘ you will not fuﬂ'er a man that bath
a running plague-fore to go abroad to infe&,though
his {butting up be not in way ofpunifhment , as if
’ heewas punifht becaufe hee hath the fore, but in
way of prevention of contagion , as the reﬁtraint of,
the Leper was. You pull downe another man: houfe
and tbatjnﬂly when’tis on ﬁre to prevent the but--
ningof the whole Towne : one way to put out the
ﬁre in the Ovena is to fhut it up. Many errours and
beereﬁes would die of themfelves if they had not
free vent. F 41/? doc/“fore: fat/Same lemme: faith Cal-
m .' Falfe teachers are the Devils panders 5 would
you ﬁtff‘erpmder: to came into your houfes 8c fo-
licit the ehafiity ofyour children P would you ﬁrf-
ferMmtebank: to fell poifon. upon a ﬁnger, to de—
{troy the bodicsand lives of people ? ,This the bRe-
mnﬂrmu in {come call our palmarivm argumefti
tam: : but it isnot tobe def ifed as ifit was void
reafon. You that are Chri ° Magifh‘ates lhould
not forget the foules of them that live under your
ﬂiadow', There is a 6‘ learned man who argues a-
gainﬂ the punilhing of Hatretieks with death a and

pitches upon this as the f olid‘a, mm, certa, ratio, the (To M- '94'

folid, true, and certain reaf on why otherﬂa itious

offenders are to be punifht, but not Hatretic s": be-

caufe hxreﬁeC faith he 3 is theerrvnr of (I depraved

minde ,. an intelleﬁuall errour :" but other moral‘l

vices? axife frOm a depraved crrd'cormpt will, and
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the error of the underﬁandingis not (faith bee) to
be punifht with death, but that it is to be refh'ained
from fpreading and in feéting, the com pari {cm
which he brings in doe full' ﬁgnify. For you would
not (faith hee) put a Phylljtian to death as a mur-
derer who upon meere miﬂake gives his patient a'
potion of poyfon in Read of ood medicine; nor a
mad man that breaks out and ills and ﬂaies fuch as
hemeets with,becaufe this proceeds from laeﬁon of
his underﬂandin 5though I doe not concur with
this fuppoﬁtion t at haereﬁe isa a mcere aft of the:
underflanding : forit hath its denomination from
the aét of the will claw/fag. the errour : yet thus farre
I goe with it , that fuch pretended Phyﬁtians as
hold that to be wholfome which is poifon, and mi-
niﬂer it to their Patients , are not to bee licenfed to
prat‘i‘iﬁ: , nor fuch mad men fnffered robe loofe to
exercife their far 5 damnable hxreﬁes can never be
prevented ,if fal eteachers ma have liberfy to bring
them in. Its one thing tofuger ewes, Turker, P4-
pzﬁr, Hereticker, tolive in the ingdom'eoi' City 3
and another thing to give them liberty or freedom!
ofTrade, to open their {hop and call in Cuﬂomers
to buy their deﬂ’ruétive wares 5 Thou Ina/Z the»: that

- hold the Doéfrinl of the Nicolaitanr , Revel. ' 2. I 5.

Thou ﬁfe” ‘ that woman ezebclz, which calls her
felf¢a Prop eteﬂe , to tear and to reduce my fer-
vants , was a forecharge laid by CM!“ upon thofc

Churches. .. ’ .- , _
Nor isitthe Pulpit which can keep off the infe.‘
étion, Whiles the poilbn is mn‘ied up and downc in
books, and cryedat mens doors every day, in which
there are many Range doéh'ines going abroad o-'
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pen faced, and {omemore ﬁrannghich goe Vailed, 6 7
'and dropt into the Reader by inﬁnuation , there
feeme tobegery ﬂrange dregms_,about the manner
ofChrifls being in the Saints,and Gods being ma-
- nifeft in their ﬂefh , and about the Kin dome of
the Saints 3 and the licking off the-dug of their
feet¢ by the world. {here are m ﬁeries 71f the world
was ri efolthewnn I taEe notice of one thinglin a _
late book ,which hath a very ill af Peé’c3 brought in by 74
Way ofenqui‘ry, what is meant by the word Scrip- g __
turIIJWhen itis aﬂerted , that the denying of the
Scripture: to be the word of God , lhould be holden
worthy of death. For faith the Author , either the
£72ng Scripturoraor Scripture: in Englzﬂnare meant
by the Word Scripturor, or the Hebrew and Greeke'
Copies or originalls. Theformer cannot bee meant.
with reafon , becauﬂé God did not fpeak¢ to his
Prophets and Apoﬂles in the Englifh tongue : nor
doth the Englzﬂ) tranﬂation agree/in all things with
the originalllor the trut fenﬁt ofit 5 Nor the [at/er,
for the greateft part of men in the Kingdome doe
not underfland or know them. If this dilem be
good , what is become! of the certain; foundation of
our hope, or faitbpr comfort 5 how can we ﬂare/2 the
Scriptures, without going ﬁrll to fchoolg to Ieam¢
Hebrew and Greek. Its well knownt/ that/our Savi-
our himfelf¢iand the’Apoﬁles do; ufually cite the
Greek tranﬂation/or Septuagin’t , when they quote
the Scripturts of the old Teﬂ‘ament -, and yet that
tranﬂation had many variations in itliom the o-
riginall,and haply'more then our En glifh tranﬂati-
on bath. The Apoﬂle citing a place out of the
Septuagint , where they exprelfp not the origi-
2 ' nall

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. A Sermon preached before the Houﬁ: ofC’omom an the day of

 

68 nallgzdgm‘m faith «he: in? Wit is contained in
Scriptureg Pet.2.6.And th€r¢ is no queltion but the
Hellcat} [Rand weﬂem java, {ca tteted up and down
in Greece and Ital }, 8zc. ufed the Greek¢ tranﬂation
of the Scriptur¢s in their Synagogues, as appears by
the conﬂuence of the Greeks and Gentilesto them

who underﬂoodnot Hebrew , _ and yet they of Be:
, “in, m), 4. me, a city a ofMacedonia, are commended for fear-
qp. xo. . ching the Scripturt: of the old Teﬂament , and ex-
B‘gﬁ'xf‘ amining of Paul: dod’trine by them : and in; that
grep/Jana: mg; {catch there were Greeks, that barethe jam compa-
W'MW- n‘y,as appears, A6}: 17.1 I ,1 2. And what Scriptur¢s
could they fearcthut the Scripture: of the Cree/(4
Tranﬂation 5 I could eaﬁly demonﬂratd, that the
Scrigturlg calls the oﬁginanb 84

not wlt .outj _ I - on : , r F. exScri turd! ﬁends ’

not in cortice verboruw' but in. medu aj enlmstltStHe

lame wine 1n this VCTIELWC‘I wasdrawn outof that.
Tranﬂations are but veflels or taps (as I may call

them) to fet Scripturts abroad); as far faults 8: etc»

tours in that tranﬂation,if that argument beable to

batter and make a breach 3 let it but have rope e-

nough,and it will nuke as great a breach in the He-

, \L bx'cw,for when you 00m¢t0 ﬁnd that ther are write.
:Pﬁﬁ'fﬁ lemme: , and thatjn the Magenttruertheathat
margine- . in” the T ext, as in that famous glaoe ‘ ﬁahggd 7. or
E"; m"! '" (hall qbeflion the truépointfng or. printingof'the
a m 22' originall, whither will not this-wild algument run-
away with youamtil yon-connect) ﬁnd the very ori».

gin! mittenby the Prophets own hand, orby the

hand offom¢ antenna/ix) infallibly direﬁed 8t gui-

dd 5 The Stripturtr expreﬂ in Englijb are the word
4f God. The deﬁciency of cxaét tranﬂation of this

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orthat particular word dOth not invalidate! the ca-
nonpr bodie oftheScriptures. But I {hall not fur-

' ther proceedin this chafe; I have but a word or

two left , and that is to exhort you to quicken up
your zeale’ for God and his truth : fearch out and
remove the obﬂruﬁions, that are in and amongft
your {elves ,. Whether primtl end; or State end:, or
what foever they be. Let not Reformation and reli-
ion becryed up for dema‘fo emmj’g

      

   
     

ett e 1t ee 1 y. en ort t e on ton/that
it may te lﬁe to the World/that you hol the form;

offound and wholfomt words .‘ Let fomt overneL

ment and order be ell‘abliﬂ’ledg religion is t 6 ball of

contention, man} men: hope: lye in our dz'jferenee;3
and their intereﬁs are ferved upon them. We have

Q

ve covenante to en eaVoﬁfit, eworldﬂnaea-

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got womb: theylooke for Fruit; fetthis day fet an ,

ge upon you. No man take a breathe-fa Z of this
faﬂ , let not our ruinfbe under your han . Ther¢
was a But in Newman: {forty : he was fuch‘ and fuch a
man, but a Leper 5 You have done worthily, Cove-
nanted feriouﬂy : But the matter tfReformation
lyes moﬂ of it as et in the Covenant, and is but lit-
tle cEpt out ol that Ihell 5 It maybe theIBJiIhnas

0 many opinions on car, makes you ﬂight them,

 

 

as 3 Calvin {aid ofSeroetn: his ﬁrﬂ onfet , W 2 0,1,5” ,-,, a.
me reéglidit igla dogmatum'tatnim; : but be not fe- pufc. de Serve-

cure; b a great ﬁre may rife out of a {mall I park. Let

ous in your eyes , and the Lord make your name

God 5 I pray you let me¢ not bet underlined to {hip
K 3 . in

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the foult‘s offo many thoufands of people be precr- €53,323,“

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like the name of thof‘tithat have built the houfe of “b' " d" Arm

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. ;1.S‘erm0t2 preached befoqé the Houfe of Commoms'o'n t/Je ddjiof i?

in one,and the fame bottom,every error or miﬂake’

with damnablc [wreﬁexglomt differences in opinion

< L. Vera/am :
Advancement
of learning-

are as the ﬁrivings ( as c one el antly faith) ofOn‘e
Ifraelite with another : and the e Maﬁa; quiets and

parts them fairtly3 and form: (namely hareﬁes ﬁgh-

ting againfi the very foundation) are like the Egyp-
tian {iriving with the Iﬁuelitgwhom Maj}: f mites
down.Ther¢ muﬁ be differences made between er.
rour and lmrejie, erroneozu and‘Heretick: , ﬁdacer:
and f educed 3 I would I might intreat, nay preffe it
u onlthofgt that are calledW', that .
t ey would zealouﬂy and ﬁncerely declare a’gainﬁ I
the doéirinall errouts and haereﬁes ofthefe daye’s; '
that {uch pernicious opinions may not [baker
themfelves under their name or wing 5 ﬂor'eirégﬁ-
my indulgence ,or toleration be either deﬁfed)‘ or

. granted upon fuch a reafon, as all may coineinﬁt

the fame breach or pott; for that Would bet: but a
felling of the Church into a liberty/of being in cape
tied] to deﬂruﬁr'ive confuﬁom and erroztrr. ‘ - » .

FINIS.

 

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