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A43041	Truth may be blam'd but not sham'd a sermon upon Matth. 16 v.13, 14, 15, 16 : wherein truth and errour are brought upon the stage act their parts / by William Harvey, minister of the Word.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1094; ESTC R36593	16,440	45

maugre the menaces and threats of wicked men Let this never be forgotten of us But whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven Matth. 10.33 And worthy is that of the Apostle to be writ in the tables of our hearts Rom. 10.9 10. That if thou shalt confesse with my mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved For with the heart man believeth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth Confession is made unto Salvation Secondly this more especially concerns the Ministers of God his word they of all other must freely deliver the truth b Nihil in sacerdote tam periculosum apud Deuw tam iurpe apud homine● quam quod sentiat vericatem non libere pronuneiare Ambr. Nothing in a Minister is so dangerous with a God and base with men then not to speak that freely which he thinketh to be truth I was spoken like a prophet As the Lord liveth what the Lord saith unto me that will I speak 1 Kings 22.14 And no lesse noble was it said by Nehemiah Should such a man as I● flee chap. 6.11 These are the pillars of the Church if they fall down cometh the whole fabrick It is a shame to see a man of God turn tail for him to deny the truth is monstrous who will trust that sheepheard or rather that thief who seeing the wolf coming leaveth the sheep and flyeth John 16.12 He that sitteth as the stern must not leave it for every storm lest he hazardeth the whole vessel and so commit the Marriners to the mercy of the seas Look to this ye Embassadours of the most high God and betray not through your cowardise those souls comitted to your charge What more worthy of commemoration then that of he Apostles who when they were put into the common prison for preaching in the name of Christ presently they entred into the Temple early in the morning and taught saying We ought to obey God rather than men and boldly told them to their faces The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sins Acts 5. 18.21.29.30.31 Who can but admire at the Constancy and brave spirit of Martin Luther who when he was by some of his friends disswaded from going to Wormes made this answer If every tyle of each house was a devil yet would I go thither O noble soul thy name will be had in remembrance to thy immortall praise Let my counsel be accepted of you my dear brethren of the Clergie Yea let the wise mans counsell be accepted of you c Prov. 19.10 Buy the truth and sell it not Let no panick fear possesse you when you should proclaim the glad tidings of the gospel and preach salvation through the merit of Christ He is the Son of the living God saith my Text who will own you his Champions and reward you with a crown of immortality if ye be constant What i● the world hate you for it Take this Cordial Be of good comfort I have overcome the world said your great Master once And if God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8.31 Take this for all even from him who is Alpha and Omega the first and the last he that liveth and was dead and hath the keyes of hell and of death Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Rev. 2.10 At for those Milk-sops those fearful watchmen ambodexters and trencher Chaplains who for sinister ends speak what God never put into their mouths against the plain text of Scripture denying the Lord that bought them and so making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience to the hazarding of many thousand souls Good God give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth If not the wish of the Apostle to all you that fear God shall be mine I would they were even cut off that trouble you Amen Gal. 5.12 FINIS

TRUTH May be blam'd but not sham'd A SERMON Upon Matth. 16. v. 13 14 15 16. Wherein Truth and Errour are brought upon the Stage acting their parts By WILLIAM HARVEY Minister of the Word O foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the Truth c. Gal. 3.1 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Chap. 4.16 Quid de quoquo viro cui dicas saepe caveto LONDON Printed for the Authour 1657. Collegium S. Set Individuce Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Matth. 16 Chap. vers 13 14 15 16. When Jesues came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying Whom do men say that I the Son of man am And they said So me say that thou art John the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the prophets He saith unto them but whom say ye that I am and Simon Peter answered and said Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God IN these words we have two questions with their answers The questions are one and the same but the answers are distinct and different accoring to the different Spirits of the Common people and of the Apostles Both respond as they thought and as their genious prompt them The Apostles give in the judgement of the vulgar which is various and divers and they in the person of Peter wrapt as it were in the Clouds and their tongues touched with a Coal from the altar give in theirs viz. Thou art Christ the Son of the living God But first let us come to the plebeans and hear what opinions the vulgar had of our Saviour We have them in the thirteenth and fourteenth verses Some say that thou art John the Baptist Some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets To omit all other Circumstances of time and place where and when The external impulsive cause or occasion of the giving in of the peoples judgement was our Lords interrogation whom do men say that I the son of man am Or as S. Mark hath it whom do men say that I am Chap. 8. vers 27. Or as S. Luke whom say the people that I am Chap. 9. vers 18. By Son of man Christ meant himself which word is usual in Scripture and is expressed by the Prophet Daniel chap. 7. v. 13. I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of man came with the Clouds of heaven and came to the antient of dayes and they brought him neer before him And all this to intimate and point unto us that he was born man of the blessed Virgin Mary in all things like unto us Sin only excepted as the Apostle hath it Heb. 2. chap. vers 14 The end of his interrogation or question was not sinister as affecting popular applause or vain glory neither was it because he was ignorant of the peoples thoughts of him For he needed not that any should testifie of man for he knew what was in man John 2. chap. vers 25. But hearing the various conceits of the inconstant people he might the more fully and rightly inform them in the same The answer of the Apostles is fourfold a many headed Hidra which they give in the name of the Common people Some say that thou are John the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the prophets Now John was a notable Doctour a man for holinesse of life innocency and sharpness in his reproofs above all in his time This John Herod not long before causeth to be put to death Our Lord treading in his steps and exceeding him in innoceney austerity in reproving of Sin and vehemency in his reprehensions the Common people conceited and perswaded themselves that he was very John the Baptist risen again from the dead so Luke chap. 9. vers 7. Because it was said of some that John was risen from the dead With which fond opinion Herod himself was big Matth 14.2 This is John the Baptist he is risen from the dead therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him Others took him for Elias that noble and heroick prophet in the time of king Ahab and Jezabel who slew the prophets of Baal smote the waters of Jordan and possed over as on dry ground and as too good for earth is carried in a fiery Charet to heaven 2 Kings 2.11 Thus we read Mark 6.15 Others said that it is Elias c. The ground of this mistake is the words in Malachi 4. chap. 5. verse Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. The Jews hereupon falsly imagined our Saviour to be that Tishbite come from heaven and so that prophesie of the prophet accomplished Thirdly others again think him to be Jeremias a prophet who was not onely ordained from his mothers womb to preach and prophesy to the people hut the whole course of this life was a free reprehending the sins and enormities of the times He prophesied the destruction of the Temple and the captivity of the Jewes in Babylon A sad Omen to as sad a consequence which they found too true by sad experience Christ therefore with the like zeal reprehending the priests and foreshewing the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem it self that most populous and flourishing Citie hence they blindly surmise him to be Jeremias Lastly others without positive affirming him to be this or that particular shoot their bol● and blindly say that he is one of the prophets So we read Luke 7.16 And there came a fear on all and they glorified God saying that a great prophet is risen among us and that God hath visited his people And Luke 9.8 And of some that Elias had appeared and of others that one of the old prophets was risen again And John 6.14 This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world And thus you have the several and promiscuous judgements of the people concerning our blessed Lord. All give in their verdict but rove at random and misse the white Yet the Commons although they err'd and and to use Chrysostoms words multo humilior quam opporteba●eorum de Christo erat opinio a nequitia tamen libera erat their opinion concerning Christ was far beneath him notwithstanding it was without tincture of wickedness On the contrary the opinion of the Pharisees savour'd of much malice For they said he was a Samaritan and had a devil and did eject devils through Beelz bub the prince of the devils Luke the 11th 15. John 8.48 And so I come to the Observations in the Text. First then it were not amiss after the example of our Saviour when he said whom do men say that I the Son of man am for us upon occasion to question and enquire what others speak of us to understand the several vo'es of the people and to hear their resolves that so we may take off all occasions of scandals in time and