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cause_n	great_a	let_v	see_v	3,350	5	3.0636	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92077	Morbus epidemicus: or The disease of the latter dayes: discovered and laid open in a sermon out of the II Ep. of Timothy, ch. 4, v. 3, 4. / By John Ramsey, minister of East Rudham in the county of Norfolk.	Ramsey, John, Minister of East Rudham.	1656 (1656)	Wing R224; Thomason E892_2; ESTC R631	18,369	36

falling off from God and shall be turned after Fables that is a conversion or falling on to the creature For as there is no vacuum or emptiness in nature but it is always replenished and filled with some kinde of Body even so there is no vacuity of sin in the Soul and no sooner hath the minde taken the leave and bid Adieu unto the Truth but it is forthwith entertained and taken up with fond Fables dangerous Doctrines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 damnable Heresies or Heresies of damnation as St. Peter stiles them To the denying of the Lord that bought them in his several natures as God and Man yea to the denying of each person in the blessed Trinity and hereof the present Times afford us most sad and wofull experieuce wherein men having once shaken hands with fundamental and saving Truths they are immediately proselyted and perverted to gross errours of all sorts and sizes they turn Anabaptists Familists Quakers Ranters and what not and so bring upon themselves quick destruction And as this follows by a spiritual kinde of necessity there being no vacuum in sin no more than in nature so it chiefly comes to pass and takes effect through the just judgment of God receiving in themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That recompence of their errour that was meet as St. Paul speaks of the Gentiles Rom. 1.27 And because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they might believe a Lye As the same Apostle tells the Thessalonians 2 Thess 2.10 11. They that will not believe this Truth are justly given over to believe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That great and prodigious Lye of Antichristian Doctrine And (k) Quia nox faciunt bona quae cognoscunt non cognoscunt mala quae faciunt August seeing they do not the good which they know they are so seduced by the spirit of ignorance and errour that they shall not know the evil that they do But if any demand and ask concerning the time when their Disease shall be in the Paroxysm 5. The time of the Disease the fifth part of the Text. in the full heat and heighth and propound the Disciples question touching the destruction of Jerusalem Matth. 24.3 Tell us when shall these things be St. Paul shall answer the question out of the Text For the time shall come This he spake full sixteen hundred years ago and what was then a Prophecy and a Prediction of a thing to come is now a History and a Relation of what is past And I may a little alter St. Paul's words and turn his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The time shall come into The time is come and apply and take up our Saviours words to his Countreymen at Nazareth Luke 4.21 This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears And it may be there are some Readers that will make good St. Paul's Prophecy and will not endure sound Doctrine either Text or Sermon Like unto those of the Popish party (l) Joan. Manl. Collect. whom the Frier justly reproved and told him plainly of it That the Truth he preached was like Holy Water which every one desired and called for with a great deal of earnestness yet when the Sexton cast it on them and sprinkled them therewith they would turn their backs upon it And if there be any such let them make inquiry and narrow search into the cause of the Disease and look to their lusts Let them see if there be not in them a lust of proud ignorance or wanton curiosity or sordid covetousness Let them examine and try it by the several signs and symptomes The Itch of the Ear and the heaping to themselves Teachers young and youthfull Teachers ignorant and unlearned Teachers false and flattering Teachers and let them take heed and beware in the last place of the lamentable effects of it They shall turn away their Ears from the Truth and shall be turned after Fables But in case men will not endure sound Doctrine The application must the Ministers of God prove mealy-mouth'd and be as men in whose mouths there are no reproofs Or shall they take up the Prophet Jeremy's resolution Jer. 20.9 Then I said I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his Name Nay rather let them attend and obserue Ezekiel's charge Ezek. 2.7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are most rebellious The Word of God must be spoken and sounded forth both from the Pulpit and the Press whether men will hear (m) Mens boni studii ac pii voti etiamsi effectum non invenerit coepti operis habet tamen praemium voluntatis Salvian de Gubern Dei Praefat. or whether they will forbear and so much the rather when men stop their ears and turn their backs upon it If the Iron be blunt there must be put to more strength Eccles 10.10 The more (n) Gravissimus nodus in ligno non potest expelli nisi gravissimo oppressorio Ambrose knotty and cross-grain'd the Timber is the more sharp and strong must the Wedges be and the forcible blows must be redoubled and repeated and the more thwart and opposite men declare themselves unto sound Doctrine the Ministers of God must be the more importunate and vehement in the pressing and urging of it that is the ground of the Apostles exhortation in the words before the Text and is noted out unto us in the Particle For the first word of the Text. Preach the Word Be instant in season and out of season Reprove Rebuke Exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrine 2 Tim. 4.2 For the time will come that they will not endure sound Doctrine And it is a strange kinde of For as if the Apostle should argue in this manner Seeing men stop their ears like the deaf Adder Cry aloud and spare not and cause them to hear whether they will or no and being fallen into a spiritual Lethargy a deep and dead sleep labour to awaken and to arowze them up and sith (o) Mundus senescens patitur Phantasias Gerson contra superstitiosos in this fancy-full Age of the World men are wholly given over to Dreams and Dotages imploy and improve both power and parts to the utmost of your ability to disabuse and undeceive them of their errours And give me leave to apply it to my Brethren of the Ministery The conclusion and to speak it home to my self and others in the Apostles words Preach the Word Be instant in season out of season Reprove Rebuke Exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrine And the reason is here rendred in the words of the Text For the Time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own Lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having itching ears And they shall turn away their ears from the Truth and shall be turned after Fables FINIS