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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79875	Leaven, corrupting the childrens bread; or Christs caveat to beware of sectaries and their dangerous doctrines. In two sermons on Mark 8. 15. The former preached in the Cathedrall Church of Lincoln, at the lecture, on Wednesday, October 1. 1645. The latter in another auditorie. / By John Clarke, B. D. and pastor of the church of Fiskerton, neere Lincoln.	Clarke, John, d. 1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing C4477A; Thomason E354_15; ESTC R201098	49,476	63

Magistrate who by his place ought to defend the faith look to religion and be custos utriusque tabulae There be good lawes against vagrant rogues and fidlers players Gipseys and fortune-tellers that they be not suffered to wander abuse or deceive the Kings liege people 'T is pity mens souls are not as carefully provided for (o) tum ecclesiastici tum polititi ordinis Antistites toti in eo esse debent ut Diaboli fermentum expurgetur populus fidei suae commissus ab eo arceatur nisi aliquando loco panum propositionis Deo offerendorum Satanicas placentas olim in infernalibus prunis excoquendas reponere velint Chem. Harm Evangelic cap. 61. as dearly valued and as much tendered that there be no Searchers appointed for seducing Sectaries In times of a common plague the infected are shut up removed to the pesthouses not suffered to go abroad and infect others Should not the like care be had that schismatical leaveners be not suffered to meet in corners and private conventicles to the perverting and poysoning of mens souls ought not as watchfull an eye to be upon that pestilence of error that walketh in darknesse the destruction that wasteth at noon-day Psal 91.6 * Dominus te totamque familiam ab omni malo ac praesertim a Daemoniis meridianis istic obambulantibus custodiat Beza Epist 1. Andr. Duditio viz. from the Errors of Anabaptisme Brownism Antinomianism Toleration of sects and schisms under pretence of Liberty of Conscience Mr Edwards in Epist to his An●apolog For like Absolom they spread their tent on the top of the house in the sight of all Israel they are not ashamed nor blush to preach on the house tops their places and times of meeting are known proclaimed come who come will Is this to root out heresie schisme or to keep the covenant of our God If the enemie should storm or steale into this garison what a bustling would there be how would every man take the alarum and stand to his armes how would they be censured and fined as malignants that should not so do no enemy so dangerous as Heresie no garison of that consequence as the soul which we are not to suffer to be fraudulently surprized by false teachers nor violently taken from us by the powers of hell There is no proportion or comparison between malignant cavaliers and seducing impostors that more dangerously set up the kingdome of darknesse and tyrannie of the Devil Why should there be any Gallio that careth not for any of these things Acts 18.17 Jeremie sadly complaineth of some great ones that were not valiant for the truth Jer. 9.3 Godly Magistrates have forced Antidotes on a distempered corrupted people compelled them to repair to publick ordinances 2 Chr. 15.13.33.16.34 32. brought them into the Bond of a nationall covenant What wonder is it if every wherry swim so swiftly into the bottomlesse abysse when they have so fair a wind so ful a tide when they are preferred advanced countenanced put into places of great trust command and profit and engrosse every gainfull office Mammon of unrighteousnes will not onely work with a Blaam but will biasse a better spirit then his was to seduce others and be seduced himself Every man would be of the winning hand would be of a thriving and gainfull trade no tradesman so custom'd or hath the like return as Sectaries that trade in merchandise of Souls But shall the Godly Magistrate freely suffer them to retail their deceitfull wares In free corporations they will not endure forreiners to set up by them and steal away their customers Market towns have a standard an assize for bread and beere c. Bread that will not hold out weight is to be given away it would do well to see the bread of life to have his true weight And to set a fine on their heads that make and sell that which is light naught unwholesom leavened The Publicans among the Jews sate at the receipt of custom (p) Luke 5.27 Luke 19.2 to see and compell the poore bleeding country to pay tribute unto Caesar taxes and assessements imposed and exacted for the use of the Roman state and our Saviour so far condescended to the necessities of those times that himself payd tribute-money such as was levied and assessed upon him Matth. 17.24.27 But he denounceth a dreadfull woe to the Scribes not because they payd tithe of mint and annise and cummin due by Gods law but that they omitted the weightier matters of the Law judgement mercie and faith these saith he ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone Mat. 23.23 Magistrates and men in place should see God have his due as well as themselves have their due they should see that religion be not corrupted Gods word perverted the souls of people destroyed What serve mothers or nurses for but to look to their little ones and not let them eat dirt chalk coals in stead of bread spiders poyson in stead of sugar milk or wholsom nourishment I should think such an undutifull ungracious child not fit nor worthy to be suffered to live in a family that Ishmael like should mock the Isaacks Gen. 21.9 neither are such worthy to live in a Christian * illi certe nullo modo sinendi sunt vivere cum illorum temporalis vita aliis sit aeterna mors Za●ch de Magistr Mr Cotton on Rev. 16. pouring out the seven Vials 3. page 16 17 21. 4. page 17. if any have a conscience to turn men from God he would have men have as much conscience to cut them off church especially not to be cockered countenanced that spit in their aged mothers face the church of England and call her Whore And thus much may suffice for the two first observations out of the Text. The end of the first SERMON The third followeth viz. Doct. 3 THe best of Gods people need charging to take heed and beware of false doctrine Even the Apostles themselves bred up and fed up in Christs own family are in danger of being leavened How doth Saint Paul feare lest the Corinthian Saints should by Satans subtilty be beguiled and their minds corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11.3 How doth he in sundry places charge and adjure Timothy This charge I commit unto thee to hold faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus c. 1 Tim. 1.18.19.20 I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels 1. Tim. 5.21 I give thee charge in the sight of God and before Christ that thou keep this commandment 1 Tim. 6.13 O (q) O exclamatio iffa praescientioe est pariter charitatis praevidebat enim futuros quos etiam praedolebat Errores Quis est hodie Timotheus nisi vel generaliter universa ecclesia vel specialiter totum corpus praepositorum qui integram divini