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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51227	A sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, on the 28th of May, 1682 by John Moore ...	Moore, John, 1646-1714.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2552; ESTC R20127	21,938	53

the Ancient Hereticks so have they espoused the worst of their Opinions to defend them If Cerinthus and Ebion of all the Books of the New Testament would only receive the Gospel of St. Mathew because it was writ in Hebrew we have them who do affirm that the whole Bible derives all its Authority from the Civil Magistrate and that it is the legislative power of the Common w 〈…〉 which giveth it the force of a Law If Carpocrates declared that there was nothing simply and absolutely good or evil in its self but only according to the opinion of Men it is well known who has publisht the very same Doctrine If Basilides and Valentinus contended for the lawfulness of the promiscuous use of Women and many wives there is a Pretender to Reformation among us who that he may give some Reputation to Bastardy and free it from that Illegitimation which constantly the Christian Church has fixt upon it has in Print affirm'd that carnal knowledg between Persons not prohibited by the moral Law tho without Contract Licence Wittnesses or Minister is a Marriage Lawful Holy and Indissoluble according to the Law of God To advance which Assertion he has arraigned not only the Laws of our own Nation but of the whole Christian and I may say Pagan World too And what well becomes the Publishers of false and dangerous Opinions he has managed his bad cause with great confidence of the Truth of it and with as much contempt of all that are of another mind there being scarce a profession of men among us whom he has not treated with disrespect and ill language nay he will not allow that the present Ministers of the Gospel can produce any better evidence of their Divine Commission than those who claim under Mahomet and chargeth it as a Wickedness upon the Translators of the Bible that in their false Translation only the seventh Comandment does forbid Adultry and the tenth the Coveting our Neighbours Wife Now let the People see what a kind of Reformation they are to expect in Church and State if ever the Management of it fall into such mens hands who are daily complaning of the great want of it and quarreling with every thing in the present Establishment If some hundred years ago there appeared in the World Evangelium Aeternum a Blasphemous Book with a specious Title which pretended to be a far more perfect Gospel than that of our Saviours and that in less than fifty years it would cause it to be laid aside we have also a Gospel collected out of the Works of a late Cardinal the Doctrins whereof are as much according to the flesh and the lusts thereof as those of our Lords are according to Godliness If there were false Apostles who would have tied the burden of Jewish Ceremonies about the necks of the first Christians are there not also at this day a considerable party of Men who by superadding a multitude of positive unuseful and Arbitrary Constitutions to Christianity have renderd it almost insupportable The Humility and the Devotion the Patience and the Contentment the Charity and the Contempt of the World and the Forgiveness of Enemies and Injuries which made the Primitive Christians so famous among their very Persecutors being stifled and even buried under so much of pompous Dress and superfluous Garnishment If Simon would have bought the Powers of the Holy Ghost are there not now Men who sell Pardons of Sin insomuch that if a Man have mony enough to answer for his Sins and do not transgress beyond the Proportion of his Estate the precise rate is known at which he can certainly redeem his Iniquities Nay as if these times were the sink in which the very dregs of all Heresies had setled it has in our days been Publisht under the colour of Philosophy that the substance of all things whatsoever is the same in which Assertion God and his Creatures are confounded and that no Substance can produce another the consequence of which Proposition is that every Substance in the World is self existent and Independent Blasphemies surely never before broached among Christians and which are as false and absurd in all Philosophy as they are repugnant to true Religion and as much to be abhor'd for their impiety as they are easy to be confuted for their inconsistency with right reason But now since there are so many Dangerous Rocks upon which the Men of this Age are apt to Split themselves the great Question will be by what compass we are to steer to which we cannot give a better answer than by proposing and recommending to serious consideration this passage of St. Paul in our Text which will prove an effectual Rule whereby to discern useful Christian Doctrines from false and hurtful ones viz. they must be according to Godliness and that which gave occasion to St. Paul to lay down this Rule was the several Errors contrary to the Doctrine of Christ which had stolen into the Church in his days all which he reproveth upon this account that they were not according to Godliness A list of some of these we have in this Epistle he giveth a Caution to Timothy not to give heed to fables and endless Genealogies which migh minister Questions for witty Men to dispute upon but not edify in the Faith nor promote Charity which was the end of the Commandment He reflects upon some such Men as having made a shiprack of the Faith He assureth him the holy Spirit had expresly declared that in the latter times some should depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils i.e. by the seducement of the Devil they would again revive the Pagan Religion of the worshiping of Daemons Again St. Paul reprehends and confutes another pernicious Doctrine which had found a welcome entertainment among Servants converted to the Faith who by the craft of false Teachers were easily led into a persuasion that the Christian Religion had dissolved the Bonds they before stood in to their Masters For if their Masters were Infidels then Christian liberty was insisted upon Christ having made them free from their yoke but if they were believers than Christian brotherhood was claimed for Christians are all brethern in Christ and in Consideration of this Spiritual Relation they presumed themselves to be on the same level with their Masters But to the first St. Paul replies that notwithstanding their Masters were yet unconverted they were to render them all due honour and service least either by their haughty carriage or disobedience the Name of God and the Doctrin of Christ should be Blasphemed and to the others who had believing Masters his answer was that they should not despise them because they are brethern but rather do them service because they are Faithful and beloved partakers of the Benefit not only because it was one Branch of Christian Duty for Servants to be obedient