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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95973	The impostures of seducing teachers discovered; in a sermon before the Right Honorable the Lord Major and court of Aldermen of the city of London, at their anniversary meeting on Tuesday in Easter weeke, April 23, 1644. at Christ-Church. By Richard Vines, minister of Gods word at Weddington in the county of Warwick, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1644 (1644)	Wing V557; Thomason E48_2; ESTC R11333	24,964	44

Shepherds feed them to fleece them that so they may the easilyer worry them It is not much that we are called legall Preachers time-servers persecutours inquisitours what not The devill must first asperse God to Eve before he prevaile with her and those popular preachers could not reigne at Corinth but by bringing Paul into dis-esteeme if they could His letters say they are weighty and powerfull but his bodily presence is weake and his speech contemptible 2 Cor. 10. 10. It s easie for men to ingratiate themselves with their party by espying faults in every Ordinance and Administration never so well constituted we see beauty enough and find no want of light in the Sun though they that look upon it through their Galilean glasses discover spots in it as big as all Asia or Africk as themselves say They wrest the Scriptures 2 Pet. 2. 16. making it to speake upon the rack● that which it never meant partiality and affection to their own opinion is an ill medium to look through Pull the staffe out of the water and it will not be crooked how often doe men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 compell the Scriptures to goe two mile when of themselves they will goe but one we should tremble to put words into the mouth of those Oracles which we doe by mis-inferences and misapplications 1. By mis-inference drawing forth that which they will not yeeld as the Sadduces proved no Resurrection because seven brethren had taken one woman to wife Matth. 22. 28. unto whom our Saviour answers that though they cited a place of Scripture yet they erred not knowing the Scripture for not he that repeats the words but takes up the true sence is the man that knowes the Scriptures We must not mangle and cut one joynt from another and expound one sentence against the whole streame I would men would tremble to take Gods hand which he hath set to his owne Word and set it to a lie of their owne it were odious to serve a man so 2. By mis-application of generall rules to particulars For it hath been observed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is a great cause of many evils not to be able to adapt common principles and generall rules to particular cases or actions for how often is a generall rule of Scripture brought for the warrant of an unlawfull action as if the Apostle should have eaten with scandall upon the rule of All things are pure to the pure so we know how men first imagined a decency and order in superstitious ceremonies and then warranted them by that Let all things be done decently and in order we feare not to say that no man can prove the calling of our Ministers or the Baptisme of our infants or the Morall Law to be null c. but by the torture of the Scriptures They recommend their doctrine upon some private pretended revelation and light of their owne or by some effects thereof which they seeme to have found in themselves since they became therewith acquainted as that they have found such experiments of it in themselves as they never had before they are more lively cheerefull comfortable c. As for their revelations or light what is it they meane by them Doe they meane that the vaile is taken off the Scripture or rather their eye so that they have a cleerer spirituall discerning into and savour of and affection to the Word or doe they meane by revelation some secret sealings or assurances which are indeed private to their owne soules like the white stone of absolution with their owne names written thereon These are admirable first-fruits of the Spirit and of glory Happy are they to whom God in this wildernesse gives to taste these Clusters of Canaan-Grapes And for the effects of the word which they find in themselves as attestations of the truth power and goodnesse of the word I find the Apostle appealing to the sense of beleevers to attest the doctrine of the Gospel Gal. 3. 2. received ye the Spirit by the preaching of the law or by the hearing of faith but now what is all this to the revelation or effects of new and strange doctrines what impostures have not been obtruded upon pretence of private light and revelation the old Prophet may bring you into the lions mouth by telling you of an angel that spoke to him 1 Kin. 13. 18. 24. God saith that he proves his people by a Prophet or dreamer of dreames to know whether they love the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soule Deut. 13. 3. nor Prophet nor Apostle nor Angel is to be heard if he preach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 besides or other than that ye have received Gal. 1. 8. and for that they say that they find themselves as it were in a new world since they found this new way I much question their probatum est Is it not some angel of darknesse transformed into an Angel of light doe they not walke in the light of their fire and the sparkes that they have kindled Isai 50. 11. It must needs be an easie way when a man hath cast off all trouble for sin and all care of holy duties but surely the way is too broad to be good These principles I ought not to sorrow for sin least I disparage the sufficiencie of Christs satisfaction I can pay no obedience to the law but I must thereby either infringe my Christian liberty or joyne merit with Christ must needs worke a strange alteration because the doctrine is strange I would speake a word from this point to Ministers and to the people 1. To the Ministers you see these impostours have sleight and subtilty to lie in wait for the people and whom doth it concerne but you to take heed to the flock you cannot by silence liberare sidem aut animam Christ hath given Pastours and Teachers to his Church to this end that the people should not be children tossed to and fro c. convincing of gain-sayers and stopping the mouthes of soul-subverting teachers doth belong to your office Titus 1. 9 10 11. if there were but one Heterodox teacher start up and neglected by the people you would discharge at him with as much freedome as at Papists what if there be moe such teachers and followed by thousands is it ever the more truth for the number or is it a noli me tangere or are we slaves to popularity and dare not snatch the souls of our people out of the streame for feare of displeasing them by saving of them or have we no hope to worke a cure and so like Phisitians we let desperate patients eat and drinke and doe what they will without contradiction Luther did not much consider how usefull the Sectaries of his time might have been against the Pope and his party but confuted them freely knowing that they more blemisht and hindred the Reformation by their tenets than were likely to help it with