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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61679	A sermon against rebellion shewing deceivers to be deceived in their wicked mistakes. Preached at St. Paul's, October 20th 1661. By Sam. Stone, M.A.	Stone, Samuel, 1602-1663.	1662 (1662)	Wing S5736; ESTC R222079	26,397	53

motion and impulse whether of God or no. He that knoweth God heareth us saith St. John 1 Epist 4.6 And he that is not of God heareth not us and hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of error That is by their agreement or disagreement unto the words preached by St. John and the rest of the Apostles which were spoken and written for our instructions and delivered down unto us and now with the other books of Holy Oracle are called Scripture or the written Word of God The light and guidance whereof whosoever refuseth to follow the conduct of some pretended Spirit only diverse or contrary to it Instead of being led by the Spirit of God doubtlesse he is led by the Spirit of the Devill as I make no question those late wretched publick Murtherers were whom the Right Honourable the present Lord Maior had the Lot under Gods grace and providence to suppresse to his monumental honor the trophie whereof be his unto all posterity I say they were not led by the Spirit of God but by the Spirit of the Devill as indeed some said They fought like Divells Men had as good follow those spirits the Prophet Isa speaks of in the forementioned Chapter oppositely unto the Law and the Testimonie Spirits that peep and mutter that is spirits of witches and wizards with whom it may be doubted that these spirit-people are too familiar I shall superadd to this particular but one plain Similie of a blind metled horse let loose which by reason of his metall will be ever prauncing and frisking up and down till at length he getts upon the top of a steep bank or precipice and from thence for want of his sight down he tumbles and breaks his neck And such verily will be the end of all blind zealots who shut their eies against the light and direction of Gods word and right Reason to follow in the heat and metal of their zeal bare motions and impulses as pretended from some Spirit However in their conceits and imaginations divine they will certainly before they are aware fall at last upon some lewd unreasonable wicked practice or other that will break the neck of all their reputation both in Christianity and Civility and without metcy upon their repentance throw them down headlong the precipice of Hell St. Paul therefore shall conclude Let no man hereafter deceive you neither by Word nor Letter nor Spirit 2 Thes 2.2 Which two words of the Apostle Letter and Spirit minde me of the Appendix mentioned in the Dedication Letter and Spirit having in the terms a very fair connection with the literal and spiritual sense of Scripture whereby notwithstanding what hath been said against the blinde motion and impulse of a Spirit some Mistakers conceiving themselves wiser and more defensible than the former do warrant themselves in their wicked actions not only in Politicks but Morals also from the sense and spiritual meaning of the Word of God it self as if upon conviction by the former Reasoning what they may not do by a bare impulse or motion they may nevertheless do in their thoughts by a spiritual meaning of the written Word the rule whereof they seem not to refuse But this also Beloved is a very fallacious imagination which I shall desire to Discourse by way of reduciblenesse as an Appendix unto the great deceit of Conduct by the Spirit last confuted and to that purpose do observe that a spiritual Meaning or sense of Scripture opposite unto or diverse from the sense of the Letter is very destructive and deceptive of foolish sinners such as St. Peter calls unstable and unlearned such as are apt to wrest the Scriptures not only to their own but others destination also even whole Churches Nations and Kingdoms as well Kings as their People may whereof there are who taking upon them a boldness through this perswasion to wave the sense of the Letter of the written Word where the Commands of God agree not to their humours engagements and inclinations they adventure to sense the text only to their own thoughts and purposes though never so contrary to the most righteous laws both of God and Man and in a policy of avoiding discovery herein it sounding harsh unto the most ingenuous sort of Christians that the plain meaning of the World should be slighted and baffled they boast most of all in their Spiritual Light of an easie and clear understanding and thereafter expound it of the most mysterious hidden and intricate places of the whole book of God as the Revelation and other the dark Prophetical passages which neither Time nor Learning hath yet sufficiently unridled or unclasped and in these they ostentate a familiar though wonderful Knowledge because they would be the readyer believed by foolish admirers in their abusings and wrestings of the plainer letter of other Scriptures Now beloved this fallacious Reasoning grounds upon a mistaken understanding of some texts of Scripture where you shall read an opposition betwixt the Letter and the Spirit As First 2 Cor. 3.6 Who hath made us able Ministers not of the Letter only but also of the Spirit Therefore say they There is a Litteral and a Spiritual sense of the New Testament But how false that consequence is may appear by observing that the word Sense or Meaning is not in the text read nor in the whole context but only Letter and Spirit in the Ministry or Ministration of the New Testament or Gospel there is the Letter or bare Word spoken and the Spirit of Grace that quickneth or giveth life unto the Letter or Word spoken or written making it fruitfull and effectual opening the minde to receive it and working the heart and affections to submit unto it which puts the great difference betwixt the Gospel and the Law the Law being only a bare or dead Letter engraven in stony tables without any assistance of the Spirit of Grace to quicken it and so the ministration thereof is of death and condemnation unto all mankind that hear it there being no promise or concurrence of spirit with it to work it upon the heart unto obedience man under the Covenant of the Law being left to his own self and strength which was become utter weaknesse through the corruption of the flesh and unable to perform whereas the Covenant of Grace or the Gospel hath the promise or assistance of the Holy Spirit to work the Heavenly words of life upon the Soul or Spirit of the hearers unto Life and Righteousnesse not by whispering or privately insinuating or infufing any other sense or meaning above or diverse from the literal but by seconding backing the same meaning of the words imported in the letter with power and efficacy whereupon I inferr that by Spirit here as opposite to Letter is not meant an Opposition of a Spiritual sense in the Gospell or any other part of Gods word different or above the sense of the Letter but only a lively concurrence of the

Schism Heresie Perjury Blasphemy Sacriledge Ataxy and every other quality of Disformity in a word our whole Church and Nation were so strangely disfigured and metamorphos'd as we became both a shame to our selves and an obloquie to the world And thus have we sound Deceit enough and in all likelyhood as much Sin What remains then but that every man gulity as aforesaid should betake himself to Repentance and in Repentance to confess there being no one act in the work of Repentance doth so much glorific God as Confession in regard that the Creature in assuming shame to himself transfers all the glory to his Creator accordingly St. John speaks in 1 Joh. 1.9 If we confess our sins he is saithful and just to forgive and this was the counsel of Joshua to Achan Confess my son and give glory to God and this was the practice of the Penitentiaries in Ezra's time who confest publickly the very particular sin they were Nationally guilty of their strange wives and St. Paul also comes to particulars confessing 1 Tim. 1.13 I was a Persecutor a Blasphemer and Injurious and so indeed should all the offending and deceived Party in England confess their sins one unto another and say Oh my beloved Brother or Brethren it hath pleased God to give you his Grace of conduct in the wayes of Truth and Peace and Loyalty but we have sadly erred and been deceived Oh favour us with your Christian Indulgence But how long shall I endeavour to perswade this and obtain nothing Disloalty as they say being impudent and brazen fac'd as ever and like the Whore in the Prophet Jeremy refuseth to be ashamed Instance not only in the case of the first and last executed who instead of satisfying Justice by their bloud for so much Innocent and Pretious Bloud shed by them seem'd rather to justifie themselves in what they had done as if they would have sealed to it with their bloud and dyed Martyrs for wickedness but also the survivers of that Confederacy who are still chewing upon the Leeks and Garlick of Egypt and their breath stinks so much thereof as the very words they speak smell strong of a Captain to conduct them thither again and nor only those but some of another Interest who led the Van of the late armed wickedness and yet instead of Confessions Deprecations and Submissions they seem to justifie themselves in what they have done by insisting their Covenant that Engine of Wickedness and so wipe their mouths as if they had neither done nor spoke any thing amiss and fall to Expostulations and Complainings and would fain insimulate as if very much wrong were done them whilest they detain other mens rights whom I speak of with a reserve nevertheless of Christian respect unto those of that Denomination in general who we hope are better thew'd for their own particular as considerable worth hath manifested them by some contrary actions which they defend and assert with much eagerness and mordacity though they are no other than the wages of unrighteousness given them by the late Rebellious Power as a reward of their faithfulness to the Good Old Gause for which they might as well have perished in the gainsaying of Corah as those that did Beloved This is not the way to obtain Peace with God or Men I could wish rather that I might hear them and all others of their Engagement say with Saul to David Behold I have play'd the Fool and erred exceedingly but blessed be thou my Son David Behold my good Brother or Brethren we have play'd the Fools and erred exceedingly against our King Church and Laws whereas you by the grace of God have been led in Peace and Loyal Righteousness blessed be you therein and impart the comfort thereof unto us also by favouring us with your Christian compassion or that I might hear them say with David himself I have gone astray like a sheep O seek thy servant for I do not forget thy Commandements then should we receive them into the Armes of our Christian and Brotherly embraces and pray for them in the Language of our holy Letany That it may please thee O Lord to bring into the way of Truth all such as have erred and are deceived FINIS If through haste any faults have happened in letters or syllables of words the Readers favour is desired in excusing them as this one particular World pag. 29. line the last for Word A Catalogue of some Books Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane TRap on the Major Prophert in folio The History of Portugal Cases of Conscionce in the late Rebellion by Mr. Lysord Mr. Grenfields Loyal Sermon before the Parliament Dr. Browns Sepulchal Urns and Garden of Cyrue in 8. The Royal Exchange a Comedy in 4. by R. Brome Poems by the Wits of both Universities in 8. A Treatise of Moderation by Mr. Gaule in 8. St. Bonaventure's Soliloquies in 24. Mr. Baxters Treatise of Conversion in 4. The Common Law Epitomiz'd with Directions how to prosecute and defend personal actions very usefull for all Gentlemen to which is ann xed the nature of a Writ of Errour and the Generall proceedings thereupon in 8. Golden Remaines in the most Learned R. Stuart D. D. Dean of Westminster and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles the first being the last and best Monuments that are likely to made publick in 12. Mr. Sprat's Plague of Athens in 4. Jews in America by Mr. Thorowgood in 4. The Royal Buckler or a Lecture for Traytors in 8. The Pourtracture of his sacred Majesty King Charles the Second from his Birth 1630. till this present year 1661. being the whole story of his escape at Worcester his trauels and troubles The Covenant discharged by John Russell in 4. The Compleat Art of Water-drawing in 4. Mr. Boys his translation of the Sixth Book of Virgil in 4. Mr. Walwin's Sermon on the happy return of King Charles the Second A perfect Discovery of Witcheraft very proficable to be read of all sorts of people especially Judges of Assize before they passe sentence on condemned persons for Witches in 4. A short view of the lives of the Illustrious Princes Henry Duke of Gloucester and Mary Princes of Orange deceased by T. M. Esq in 8. Aeneas his Voyage from Troy to Italy an Essay upon the third Book of Virgil by J. Boys Esq in 8. The alliance of Divine Offices exhibiting all the Litergies of the Church of Engl. since the Reformation by Hamon L'estrange Esq in fol. Books written by R. L'estrange Esq A view of some late Remarkable Transactions leading to the happy Government under our gracious Soveraign King Charles II. in 4. The Holy Cheat proving from the undeniable practises of the Presbyterians that the whole design of that party is to enslave both King and People under the colour of Religion A Caveat to the Cavaliers A Modest Plea both for the Author and Cav●a●