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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09676	[A sermon at Marlborough on 1. Tim.iv.16.]	Pinner, Charles.	1596 (1596)	STC 19945A; ESTC S119185	18,821	51

out of the most pure fountaines of the holy Scriptures the Devill will creepe in another waie even as be hath alreadie beguiled the mindes of manie by mulciplying a generation of hearers amongst vs of whom the Apostle in the fourth of the second to Timothie foretold saying The time wil come when they will not suffer wholsome doctrine but having their cares it ching shal after their owne lusts get them an heape of teachers and shall turne their ears from the trueth shal be given vnto fables The skum of Atheists so sold vnto pleasure and whose mindes are so beguiled with loue of thēselues the lusts of their sin are so deare vnto them that rather then they will indure wholsome doctrine which hath salt in it to season their putrified soules bring them what vntrueth fables you will a religion I think cōpact of Iudaisme Gentilisme Panisme any pelfe most certaine poison of the soule they will take it for the deliverye if it bee fine enough you touch not their lustes but leave them to them selues to liue as they list Provided that they heare not one but ouce if they may haue their willes their eares are so itching their taste but so be served with new teachers till they haue even heaped them to themselues in their owne desire though not in fact alwaies as the Apostle saith of them having itching eares shall heape vnto thē selues teachers according to those their peculiar desires And because the times will not suffer that any tables or vntruth shall now bee taught them the truth it selfe must bee so attempered vnto the taste so delivered in Thesi not medling with their manners or matters as they call it that if anie haue plaied the poet and Oratour and philosopher well and for a shew of divinitie hath borrowed some morals of the fathers to hee is a Preacher and the only fine fellow for ●●e or other as the humour serveth so they divide vs as the sectaries in the Church at Corinth and one saith I am Pauls another I am Apollos and a third I am Cephas a fourth is a plaine fellow and will none of them all and hee is Christes And shall I saie it because wee see it this kind of hearers hath begotten a kind of Preachers which haue learned their lesson of the people touching whome the Lord in the thirteenth of Esaie commandeth the Prophet thus Now goe and write it before them in a table and note it in a booke Isa 30.89 seq that it may bee for the last day for ever and ever that it is a rebellious people lying children children that would not heare the lawe of the Lorde Which say vnto the feers see not and to the Prophets prophecie not vnto vs right thinges speake flattering things vnto vs prophecie errors depart out of the waie goe aside out of the path muse the holy one of Israell to cease from vs. For either they preach 〈◊〉 at all and play the good-fellows and do as the people doth or els they speake placeut●a pleasing things vnto the people as if Christ had not saied of vs as he said indeede ye are the salt of the earth Mat. 5.13 to season mens soules from the corruption of their sins but lyee are the sugar of the worlde to sooth men in their sinnes to the destruction of their soules Whereby it is come to passe that though the falles both of Church and common-wealth are grievous and their mounds almost deadlie yet the complaint in the Prophet Ieremie is true of vs my brethren which looke no better vnto our doctrine Curant cour it i●o●●●● filia popule me● secūdum cura●●●●●● mali levi●ul● dicendo Ier. 8.11 pax pax et si nulla est pax They heale the bruze of the daughter of my people according to the cure of a light hurt saying peace peace though their be no peace Where a similitude is taken from litle children which fall oft and lightly and take little harme and when the nurse taketh them vp and ●loweth the hand and saieth peace peace the hurt is healed Thus the Prophets of that people as some preachers now stopped the crie of repentance in the harts of the people and warranted they should take no harme saying peace peace though there was no peace but famine pestilence and the sword hanged over them even as over vs also this day for the grievous falls and deadly ●ure which we all haue taken as Esaie deseri●e thin the 1. chapter Isa 1.6 From the sole of the foote vnto the head● her is nothing whole therin but wounds and swellinges and sores fall of corruption And this will goeth on so fast that we cannot but exclaime with the Proph● Ieremie in the fifth 〈◊〉 peer Res stupend● h●rr●●●la ●i● in terra 〈◊〉 Ier. 5.31 A wonderfull and horrible thing is done in this land The Prophets prophecie falsely the Priests be are rule by their meanes 〈◊〉 〈…〉 and my people loue it well and what will yee doe at the last as if hee should say wh●●er will your sinnes goe if you should 〈◊〉 bee bridl●● and those plagi●●s fall upon you which I haue threatned Thus the outrage and licentiousnesse of wickednesse in the worlde and this sea almost of sinne which is fallen in vpon vs will not bee stayed but by the heavie hand of God and his revenging power and all because the people will bee flattered and the Preachers will not reprooue for feare of offending and loosing their praise and profite Forturne the edge of the sword and beade the power of that rodde against the worlde which God gaue vnto Christ and Christ vnto vs saying As my father sent mee Ioan. 20.21 so sende I you and the prophecie of Esaias shall bee fulfilled Hee shall smite the earth with the rodde of his mouth and with the breath of his lippes shall hee ssaye the ungodlye Isa 11.4 For the hearts of men shall melte with repentaunce for their sinnes or their thoughtes shall accuse them and their condemnation shall bee sealed within themselues the lust shall bee guided in the wayes of righteousnesse and ●he wicked shall not make vs stumble because the shame and reproofe and the chastisemente of their sinne shall bee vppon them noe mourning soule in Syon but shall bee comforted no Dake so stronge in Basan no Cedar so ●aule in Libanus noe hearte so harde and stonye no minde so high and haughtye of anie mightie Potentate but shall bee humbled before the Lorde For what sayeth the Lorde by the Prophete Ieremie in the three and twentith Chapter Ierem. 23.29 Is not my woorde like fire sayeth the Lorde and like the hammer that breaketh the stone And in the same Chapter speaking of the Prophets whom hee reproued before he saith If they had stād in my counsell and had declared my words to my people Vers 22. and had declared my words to my people