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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95963	The authours, nature, and danger of hæresie. Laid open in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster, upon Wednesday the tenth of March, 1646. being set apart as a solemne day of publike humiliation to seeke Gods assistance for the suppressing and preventing of the growth and spreading of errours, heresies, and blasphemies. / By Richard Vines. Printed by order of the House of Commons.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing V545; Thomason E378_29; ESTC R3304	47,605	81

of errour bring in damnable haeresies as it s said Acts. 20. 30. Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw Disciples after them-They called Paul because he was a zealous teacher of the Gospell a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarens Acts. 24. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies one that is the first man of the ranke it is a military word and I wish that our military men had not transfused errour into the severall parts of our body If it be said that many of those who are charged with teaching of errours or haeresy are holy men I answer that a holy man cannot easily be a haeretick nor are all the errous of holy men to be called haeresy though they may be Hay and Stubble upon the foundation but it hath been observed of old that some haeresiarchs or heads of haeresy have been well reputed for strictnesse and unblameablenesse of life we learn out of Austine that a Pelagij nomen non sine laude aliqua posui quia vita ejus a multis praedicabatur Retract lib. 2. cap. 33. Pelagius had a very good testimony and Scripture tells us they come in Sheeps cloathing and speake lies in hypocrisy Lies would not take if they were not co●●ended by the holinesse of the person and guilded over as a rotten nutmegge with gold There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or transformation of Satan into an Angell of light of false Apostles into the Apostles of Christ of Satans Ministers into the Ministers of righteousnesse 2 Cor. 11. 13. 14. 14. and therfore we must not measure or judge of b Ex personis fidem an ex side personas Tertull. de praescip faith by the person but of the person by the faith Truth may be as a Iewell in a dunghill and errour carried as Hanniball carried his poyson in a Gold-ring That horse of superstition and idolatry upon the back of which the Divell hath in former times made warr against the Church is slain under him and now he is mounted upon a fresh horse of another colour called liberty of opinion falsely called liberty of conscience Le ts not be ignorant of his devices I passe on to the second part of the text The seed which these false teachers doe sow and the text saith They shall privily bring in damnable haeresies even denying the Lord that bought them in which wordes we take up these three things 1. That haeresies are damnable 2. That damnable haeresies are brought in privily 3. That those which bring them in doe evendeny the Lord that bought them I shall first open these in few words and then come to the investigation or searching out what haeresie is which is here by the Apostle called damnable 1. First you see that haeresies are said to be damnable or destructive Haeresies of destruction as it s said Psa 5. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man of bloods that is a bloody man but why should haeresies be emphatically called haeresies of destruction for is not all sin of damnable guilt and is not death the wages 〈◊〉 sin as sin It s true And yet as Judas that was an Apostle and an eminent Disciple of Christ and betrayed and sold him for money is called John 17. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the son of destruction and as the Antichrist is also called 2 Thes 2. 3. the man of sinne the sonne of destruction because under Christs name and colours he fights against him and serves his own lusts upon the profession of his name and so shall fall under more eminent and remarkable destruction So Haeretickes who professing Christianity and the name of Christ doe denye him or adulterate his trueth for their owne ends and lusts shall come under more heavy and sore damnation which is aggravated by that expression Swift destruction which shall fall upon their heads violently and unexpectedly for their judgement lingreth not and their damnation slumbreth not vers 3. And that it may appeare that God had an eye of wrath and vengeance upon this kinde of men long agoe It s said by our Apostle here vers 3. their judgment now of a long time lingreth not and by Jude vers 4. that they were of olde ordained to this condemnation or judgement which new and unusuall expressions or aggravations of the destruction of this kinde of men doe give sufficient reason why haeresies are called haeresies of destruction whether the word damnable be restrictive to some haeresies as implying that there are some that are not damnable or whether it be descriptive as describing what haeresies are c Gerard in locum in suo genere in general must be answered and resolved by the definition or description of haeresie what it is and if we either looke at that description of it which is implied in this Text to bee a denying of the Lord the Redeemer or which is given of it in any place in the Apostolicall Epistles we shall find that in the Scripture acceptation description of haeresie All haeresie is damnable not that every Haeretick is certainly and peremptorily damned for then I see no more reason for admonishing an haeretick then for praying for one that hath sinned a sin unto death even Judas called the son of perdition had hee had as some of the Ancients say Peters repentance might have found forgivenesse as he did but there is this marke set upon haeresie that we may all heare and feare and doe no such thing 2. Damnable haeresies are brought in privily words of this decomposition as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doe signifie insinuation these tares are sowne while men sleep in a clancular or subtill way whereof men are not aware as it s said Gal. 2. 4. False brethren d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 2. 4. at unawares privily crept in and Jude 4. e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jude 4. Certain men are crept in privily meaning Haeresy-masters or false teachers Haeresie is modest at first and insinuates as the Serpent into Eve by subtle fetches and quaeres yea hath God said Gen. 3. 1. or by sweete promises and inducements ye shall not surely dye ye shall be as Gods your eyes shall be opened vers 4. 5. So it s said vers 3. they shall make merchandize of you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with fine forms of speech words composed for the nonce The Apostle observes that there is a subtilty or as you might say a mystery in this Trade of corrupting mens mindes from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 2. Eph. 4. 14. And sometimes they worke by the wife as the Serpent did to give her husband the apple they draw men as Juglers doe a pieoe of mony with a fine invisible haire and never bring forth the portenta of their opinions until their sigmenta have made the way they mixe their drosse among good silver and lap up errour in the pap of truth that some parts of the monster may