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A90061	The craft and cruelty of the churches adversaries, discovered in a sermon preached at St. Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. Novemb. 5, 1642. By Mathew Newcomen, minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing N907; Thomason E128_1; ESTC R18223	52,376	80

wife Theodora addicted to the heresie of Eutyches did no lesse foster encourage promote and reward the teachers maintainers of that heresie than the Emperor did the true orthodox professors yea prevailed so farr with her husband as to make Severus a chief leader of the Eutychian faction Bishop of Constantinople Thirdly By this meanes not only the present age but posterity is indammaged For put case the unbelieving party doth survice there is danger least the children specially if young should by the authority of an Idolatrous father or rhe perswasion of an Idolatrous mother to be drawn away from the true Religion An instance of this we have in Valentinian the younger whose father dying and leaving him in the tutelage of Justina his mother who was an Arrian though all the time of her husbands life shee had concealed ir Socr. 5.2 Theod. 5.13.14 Sozom. 7.13 knowing her husbands zeale for the Orthodox Religion she taking the advantage of her husbands death and the tender and flexible age of her son to advance the Arrian faction easily corrupted him that he was scarse warme in his throne but he falls a persecuting the true Religion These and many other inconveniences have bin observed to attend such kinde of mixtures betweene the Church and their adversaries which the adversaries are not ignorant of and that is the reason sometimes they are so willing to offer their daughters in marriage to the members of the church 1 Sam. 18.21 but it is onely as Saul gave Michal unto David that she might be a snare unto him Third The third Art whereby the adversaries of the church have endeavoured the ruine and over throw of Religon is by covering their intent to alter religion with a pretence of publick emollument So Jeroboam to cover his Idolatrous projects pretends the peoples ease It is too much for you to goe up to Jerusalem 1 King 12.28 a great journey a great charge you may serve God nearer and better cheape at Dan and Bethell as if he meant not to alter Religion but only to let them have it with more ease and bettex accommodation Like that of some of late time For people to heare two Sermons a day it is too much one well heard and remembred is enough For young folke to be kept from sports on the Lords Day it is too much It is too much for you to goe up worship at Ierusalem The like pretence was sometimes used to Theodosius justly called Great who having abolished in Egypt their Heathenish sacrifices and forbid their Idolatrous worship upon paine of consiscation and death the people fearing the omission of their accustomed superstitions would make the River Nilus whom they honoured as a God keep in his streames and not water their land as in former yeares began to mutinie and things tended to sedition whereupon the President of the Countrey wrote to the Emperour beseeching him for once to please the people by conniving at their Idolatry To whom he answered It is better to continue faithfull and constant unto God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soz. 7.20 then to preferre the overflowing of Nilus and the fruitfullnesse of the earth before piety and godlinesse Nay I had rather Nilus should never flow then to have it raised by sacrifices and inchantments A brave resolution and becomming a true Christian Prince Let people be pleased or displeased come losse come gaine let truth and godlinesse be maintained A fourth fraud or art whereby they endeavour to supplant the Church is By counterfeiting a friendly compliance with the Church of God as if they meant to help and farther the businesses thereof when in truth they intend nothing but to overthrow and hinder all So the Adversaries Esra 4. When the people of God were about rebuilding the Temple the Adversaries came and offered to joyne with them vers the second Let us build with you for we seek your God as you doe When they intended nothing more then to betray them This was the great art of the Adversaries in the Apostles dayes when many false bretheren joyned themselves to the Church Galat. 2. meerely to spy out their liberty and many false Apostles that seemed to preach Christ with abundance of zeale and forwardnesse but it was only that they might withdraw Disciples from the true Doctrine and Apostles of the Lord Iesus and fill the Church with rents and schismes as they did the Church of Corinth Thus the Arrians would often counterfeit themselves Orthodox men and mingle themselves with Orthodox professers that they might with lesse suspition sp●ead the poison of their errors That good Prince Constantine the Great was much abused by that Generation in this kind his great admirer Euschius confesseth he retained neare him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb de vita Constantin 4.54 Sceleratos Nebulenes qui simulaverunt Religionem Christeanam Specially one potorious one who had bin Chaptain to the Emperours Sister and by her dying was commended to the Emperour and received into his Family and though all the time of Constantine the great he kept his poison hid yet no sooner was he dead but he began to play his pranks First inveigling the chiefe Gentlemen of the Emperours bed chamber then some of the rest after these the Empresse and soon after the Emperour himselfe winning them all to the Arrian heresy who if in Constantines time he had not complyed with the Orthodox party he had never had the accesse to Constantine and so never this opporrunity of spreading that heresie This is a trick not unusuall with Rome I have heard that the Jesuites have a practise of running over to the Lutheran Church I find a passage in Frantrius that may give some credit unto this Oracula Sacra 129. p. 842. pretending to be converts and to build with them but it is only to keep up that bitter contention that is between the Calvinists and the Lutherans the virulency whereof is much fomented by these r●negado Iesuits The first way is To ingratiate themselves to Kings and Princes with much officiousnesse and pretended care of their profit and honour that so being potent with the Potentates of the earth they may have the more power to doe the Church a mischiefe So the Adversaries of the Iews pretended that in duty and conscience they could doe no lesse then complaine of the Iewes to King Artaxerses Ezra 4.14 Now because we have maintenance from the Kings pallace and it was not meet for us to see the King dishonoured we have sent and certified the King Wretches that cared no more for the Kings honour then a straw only pretend this that they might the more easily draw out the Kings power for the suppressing of the Church So Haman Esth 3.8 seemed to mind only the Kings profit when his mind is only set upon the Iewes destruction It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them So the Iewes themselves in prosecuting and murdering the Lord Christ pretend