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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95657	Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse liberty. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major of London, &c. in Pauls, Aug. 16. 1646. / By Edvvard Terry, Minister of the Word, and pastor of the church at Great-Greenford in the country of Middlesex. Sept. 11. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing T781; Thomason E356_11; ESTC R201136	37,931	42

on without much opposition From which if that worke of Church-Government so seriously and long debated by You had beene exempted I should have joyned with those that had most questioned it But now a great and effectuall dore is opened unto you God having so blessed the way you have resolved to goe that he hath given it a free entrance into the hearts of many of his people And you have many adversaries and it cannot be otherwise so long as there are such a number amongst us who are like bad Wares which are for Darke shops or like unto Bleare-eyes that cannot endure the Light Most worthy Sirs I dare not flatter you and I shall not if I tell you that it hath been ever my thoughts as the thoughts of very many more who have best meanes to know you that you have done your parts in this great worke The advantage of whose prayers you shall never want to carry you on in it through it and then whatsoever the successe be you may wash your Hands The Lord who only can most graciously assist and abundantly recompence the unwearied paines of you All I have this only to adde in relation to your particular Selves that if my deare and tender respects unto you cannot your pardon may excuse him for this boldnesse who is Your Worships in all Christian observance Edward Terry TO THE READER Reader EVer since the world hath been planted with two different Seedes all the words and actions of men have been exposed unto severall interpretations as this following Sermon expected and found which occasioned this preface at which if they who tooke most exception could but know how tender I am of thinking amisse much more of saying or doing any thing that may justly grieve the spirits of any who truely feare God He would enter into consideration whether I in reprooving or he in meriting just reproofe deserved most blame It would trouble any one who hath not quite lost himselfe to consider how these present times have distracted a very great number amongst us by variety of opinions Many of which though they agree in the maine when a great number goe very much further and doe not so quarrell and contend about the list and fringe of Christs garment as if they meant to rend in peeces that seamelesse coate which must cover our nakednesse Alas Christ hath suffered abundantly for us already why then deale we so injuriously with him as to teare open his wounds afresh by sad oppositions as if he were now to be divided twixt Paul and Apollo and Cephas which thing the Apostle reproves and complaines of 1 Cor. 1. 12. amongst whom some were taken with St. Pauls ministry some with Apollo some with Cephas admiring one of them to the prejudice of the rest And there were some that said I am of Christ And what were these But people of severall factions in the Church of Corinth the last of which though we may parallel them all were of the very selfe same minde that many amongst us are growne such perfectists that they esteeme themselves above all ordinances and therefore shamefully neglect them So depending as they say upon Christ that they care not for any Preacher in the world they regard them not they refuse to heare or pray with them especially if they be orthodox or rightly principled God hath sent forth abundance of light and truth Psal. 43. 3. Truth sufficient to establish annd light sufficient to guide us and it would be very sad if an over curious search after new light should put us out of the way the old way the good way 〈◊〉 6. 16. and so make us to hazard the losse of old truth Alas what would we have What doe we expect A new Christ a new Passion a new Resurrection What would we be Members of a glorious Church that hath neither spot nor wrinkle nor any such thing Ephe. 5. 27. we must wait for that hereafter Why in the meane time doe so many sad quarrells sharpe contentions arise amongst us When we have said and done what we can Knowing Beleeving Doing or Faith Practise well studied that they may be known include in them a Christians whole duty here And doubtlesse a number shall one day finde if ever they returne againe unto themselves themselves most miserably deluded that have hoped to finde some other some nearer and more safe and certaine way to Heaven then that by which all the holy men of God have passed then that which hath been pointed out unto us by the lives of the Saints and enlightned for us by the flames of the Martyrs Yet it is most notoriously manifest that there are too too many amongst us that prescribe a shorter passage to Heaven then any of those worthies have sound by removing all those blocks and rubs which the Law of God casts in a Christians way thither to make it more difficult Which Doctrine if it were as true as it is plausible he were worthy to perish without party that would not close with it But this I am sure of that not any one of those holy men of God mentioned in the sacred story before the comming of Christ nor any since whose praises are in the Gospel have made it appeare unto the world that there is any such way to be discovered That blessed Apostle himselfe who was such a chosen vessell who had such abundance of Revelations 2 Cor. 12 7. was never acquainted with this if he had certainely he would never have complained so much so often of the Law which gives such a strength to sin and such a sting to death 1 Cor. 15 56 He would never have so complained of that body of sin of that body of Death which was in him And therefore Reader let me entreate thee now before thou leave me to have the patience seriously to consider of these following particulars First and in a speciall manner to take heede of spirituall Pride that great sin which banes thousands by sad and severall mistakes in entertaining a floating knowledge for true wisdome a distempered heate for true Zeale Conceits and conceivings about Religion to be true Religion indeede Oh how doth this Pride swell bladder puffe up thousands like empty vessells to make a great sound Putting low and base esteemes upon others Like the people of China who boast that themselves only have two eyes when all the people in the world beside have but one Know thou that the most excellent Christian in the world is most humble And that a good man is first in another mans last in his owne commendation Secondly know that there is a naturall aptnesse and propensity in all to set up Idols in their hearts and heads Ezek. 14. Where they are hardly discovered and whence not easily remooved which they doe not only love but dote on and therefore they hug and dandle those deformed issues of their owne braines as women doe the Children of their bodies and esteem what ever others

and wounds Pro. 23. 29. Nay who can count the hurts that by drunken distempers come both to the body and soule First to the whole body especially to the head and stomach and liver and those more noble parts as also the rheumes gouts dropsies palsies apoplexies inflammations and other distempers hence arising Oh how doth the excesse of wine and any other strong liquor fire the bloud casting the body into feavers c And secondly how doth it inflame the soule too filling that with lusts as hot as hell So that drunkards shall one day be forced to confesse what they will not now beleeve as it was spoken in another case 2 Ki. 4. 40. Oh there is death in the pot And therefore the Greeke Poet spake wittily that if the head-ach were to be before the wine men would be sober if those sad consequences which oftentimes follow beastly distempers were to be endured before hand people would not be drunke And if those most filthy and loathsome diseases the just consequence of incontinency were to be suffered before these acts of filthinesse were committed people would be chast yee heare what oftentimes befalls those two brethren as one of the Ancients calls them Drunkennesse Lust saying Nunqua● ego ebrium putavi castum drunkennesse and chastity being incompatible yee heare how it s often with these two sworne servants of the Devill whereas the sober chast temperate man who desires to possesse his vessell in holinesse at the Apostle speaks 1 Thes 4. 4. to glorifie God in his life feeles knowes none of those things You may helpe me with your meditations herein for the like may be said of many other worker of darkenesse which the Devill imploies his servants in serving divert lusts as the Apostle speakes Tit. 3. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} being as slaves to lusts engaging them to every sin one lust drawing a wretched sinner into one sinfull course others ha●ing and pulling him into other evill waies making poore wretches thus miserably distracted and seduced as it is Jer. 9. 5. to weary themselves to commit iniquity or to moile and toile to goe to hell How have many miserable people been content meerely led by the instigation of the Devill and enflamed by him the Devill who is most tyrannicall where he is most obeyed to submit unto commands that have been most heavy hatefull yea most unnaturall as those who caused their Sonnes and Daughters to passe through the fire to Molach Levit. 20. 3. I could aboundantly inlarge I le only ad this that if Satan have had such power to perswade poore mis-led seduced creatures to submit themselves unto such unreasonable imposi●ions n●● thinks every one who hath not quite lost himself should be more readily induced to yeeld a most cheerefull obedience unto God his most holy righteous equall just commands whose Commandements are not grievous 1 Iohn 5. 3. To put their neckes under that yoke which rebellious spirits here in my text throw off because his yoke is easie his burthen is light Mat. 11. 30. And that thy heart may not be hardned that thou maiest not be quite undone by the deceitfullnesse of sin observe but this one rule when ever thou art tempted unto any thing that is evill to view the tentation on both sides to take notice as well of the certaine bitternesse as of the apparent sweete that is in sin which sin is fitly resembled by those Locusts mentioned in the 9 C. of the Rev. who had the faces of men and the haire of women but to these they had the teeth of Lions and the tailes of Scorpions and there were stings in those tailes The Devill when he tempts a man unto any thing that is evill presents nothing unto the sight of man but what may please content his corrupted nature those most fearefull and sad consequences of sin as death hell judgement and everlasting separation from the presence of God the Devill keepes out of sight that the misery of a wretched sinner may not be knowne till it be felt not felt till it cannot be possibly avoyded And to conclude this point Let all be exhorted who wilfully rebell against the just commands of God to read their sinnes acted in the examples and smitten too upon the backes of others How was it with Ahab who cast off God and joyned himselfe to Idols as the Prophet Hosea phraseth it Hos. 4. 17. T is sayd of him 1. Kin 21. 20. That he sold himselfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lord but afterward he lives to rue to repent his bargaine No sooner had Pharaoh asked that bold blasphemous question Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go Ex. 5. 2. but presently the frogs the lic● the flies the caterpillars which the Prophet calls Gods great Army Ioel 2. 25. rise up in armes to tell him and these poore weake despreable creatures will not give proud Pharaoh over till they have humbled him and magnified their Maker Pharaoh and all Aegypt might heerese● how weake they were and what in impotent power they served when they could neither resene themselves nor yet be delivered from the incursions of frogs lice and flies There is a very memorable story which I dare affirme for truth that many yeares since I brought from the Easterne India where I lived at the Court of the Great Mogol for more then two yeares The story is this There was a great Cavalier and Nobleman of that Court that was much in credit with that King and that he might keepe that favour esteemed it the highest point of Religion to flatter the King which made him a great neglecter and contemner of God Upon a time this wretched man sitting in dalliance with one of his women she pluckt an hayre from his breast his nipple in wantonnesse I conceive without the least thought of doing him hurt the little wound that small and unexpected instrument of death made presently began to foster and in short time after become a Cancer incurable When the poore wretch saw that he must needs die he uttered these words which are very well worth the recording and remembring Who would not have thought sayd he but that I who was bred a Soldier should have died in the face of mine enemy either by a sword or a lance or an arrow or a bullet or the like instrument of death but now too late I am forced to confesse that there is a great God above whose Majesty I have ever despised who needs no bigger a Lance then an Haire to kill an Atheist Oh let us further collect out of those many menaces and threatnings denounced against this sin in the booke of God what their end is like to be that obey not the truth but obey unrighteousnes that obey not the Gospel of God And what in conclusion this sinne is like to cost and when we haue cast up our whole reckoning we may borrow those words to