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A16944	A sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, May 30. 1626 vvherein may be seene whom we are to repute hereticks, and schismaticks, what sleights they vse to deceiue, Gods iust iudgements on them, and how we may escape those nets which they lay for vs : also good councell to the magistrate, minister, and subiects, necessary for these times / by Mattheuu Brookes.	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1626 (1626)	STC 3837; ESTC S4166	26,742	50

out of the way because they proceed not from the true faith without which it is impossible to please God Yet is it to bee feared that our high calling in Christ Iesus doth hence receiue a most bloody stabbe for that the generall sort among vs want those faire speeches and that morality of life of which our Aduersaries brag and with which they doe deceiue Want it did I say nay abound in the contrary the Bribery of Courtiers the loosenesse of Cleargie men the infidelitie of Lawyers the prodigalitie of Gentlemen the deformed pride of Ladyes the poling avariciousnesse of Citizens and in this land of ours Quicquid vidit Colchos aut Phasis nefas the very crying sinnes of Sodom and Gomorah shall beare mee witnesse Therefore as the third persecution of the Emperour Traiane raised against the Church of Christ was counted greater than the two former moued by Nero and Domitian vpon this reason that contempt and shame was added to their afflictions for it was no great dishonour to be hated by Nero and Domitian wicked men and haters of righteousnesse but to be hated and persecuted by Traiane a man accounted a patterne of vpright dealing this was a great rebuke In like manner if in the eyes of the world they liue more syncerely than a great many of vs and seeme to make conscience of their wayes which is incident to all deceiuers they shall with their good words and faire speches preuaile with lesse exception against them to pull downe the truth than we to set it vp and like as the fish are carried in the pleasant streames of Iordane sporting and floating till they fall into the dead Sea where by and by they perish so in the sweete streames of their good words and faire speeches doe they carry their disciples as it were sporting and floating in a pleasant course till on the sudden they fall to their owne destruction This is added by the Apostle in the last place and is the effect produced a most lamentable shipwracke both of soule and body the heart seduced They deceiue the hearts of the simple The Scripture attributeth the whole rationall power the vnderstanding the will iudgement cogitation consultation election and indeauour to the heart Vpon which reason God doth most strictly require the heart and will be loued feared honoured and prayed to with the heart that is to say with the whole reasonable soule and with all the powers and faculties of the same Rent your heart and not your garments and turne to the Lord your God A man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart Vpon this reason they are blamed in the Scriptures whose hearts are not right with the Lord their God This people drawe neere mee with their mouth and with their lippes doe honour me but haue remoued their heart farre from me This is the chiefe and principall part of man if this be lost all is gone for if the heart bee not with the Lord though the tongue pray the hands giue the knees bend the eyes looke vp to heauen and all the body doe its dutie it is but hypocriticall seruice because the heart is not right with the Lord. See then the Apostle describeth a most miserable shipwracke the whole man cast away because the heart is deceiued For if God haue the heart hee will haue all the rest if hee haue not the heart hee will haue none of the rest and therefore when hee doth aske all he doth demand the heart My sonne giue me thy heart But with their good words and faire speeches they deceiue the heart Oh whither goes that miserable man Hee goeth from the Church of God which is Mater viuentium quam aedificauit Deus in ipso summo angulari lapide Christo the Mother of those that are elected to life eternall which God hath builded in Christ Iesus the chiefe corner stone In going from it he goes vnto the synagogue of Satan the mother of those that are ordained to destruction because not built or not rightly built vpon Christ Iesus the chiefe corner stone Hee goeth from Gods mercy and all the sweete promises of God in Christ Iesus vnto life eternall vnto Gods iustice and the malediction of the Law to euerlasting death hee relinquisheth the society of all the faithfull vpon earth which is by grace in this life and in so doing hath no possibilitie if hee continue vnto his last gaspe to enioy the companie of the blessed Saints in heauen which is by glory in the life to come Cyprian doth well affirme the Church to be Noahs Arke without the which there is no saluation For like as he that falleth out of a Ship into the Sea on which side soeuer he falleth if hee be not drowned he is in great danger of drowning so hee that falleth away from the Church by what Sect Schisme or heresie soeuer if he fall not to his destruction by it he is in great danger of it My exhortation therefore is the very same with the wisest of Kings Keepe thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life God requireth it as his part that he may saue thee the diuell seekes to win it that he may destroy thee if he can win thee from the right faith hee will pull thee from the Church if thou art drawne from that thou art withdrawne from God therefore keepe that and stoppe thy cares against the melodious tunings of these Syrens be of ripe age in vnderstanding and if by good words faire speeches they preuaile on the simple let them not preuaile on thee Thus haue you the Quid and doe see what is seduced the heart Now come we to the Cuius that we may see whose heart is deceiued that is to say the heart of the simple they doe soonest of all lend their eares to good words and faire speeches There is a two-fold metaphoricall simplicitie the one is opposed to learning knowledge and good manners hence it is that rude barbarous rustick illiterate and mannerlesse people in the Scripture haue the name of simple men How long yee simple ones will yee loue simplicitie the other is opposed to craft guile fraud iniustice oppression and such like vices And hence it is that plaine dealing men voide of fraud and deceipt Masters of their words morall honest men in the sight and appearance of the world are called simple men So shall you reade that Esau was a cunning hunter a man of the field and Iacob was a plaine man dwelling in tents or as Illyricus and others translate a simple man dwelling in tents In like manner St. Paul saith in this same chapter I would haue you wise vnto that which is good and simple concerning euill Now these second sort of simple ones are of two sorts Regenerate or vnregenerate the Regenerate may for a time as it shall please God to trie and

scandalo of offences giuen and of those that lay blockes and cast stumbling stones in the way to ouerthrow their brethren contrary to Christian charitie and Christs commandement who hath commanded vs to loue one another as hee hath loued vs and contrary to the Apostles rule that wee should consider one another to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes Furthermore vpon what reason the Apostle doth indite those that cause deuisions and not those onely but them also that cause offences it may appeare by the Scriptures which setteth forth the causing of offences to be a most capitall crime for which cause God commanded the people of Israel vtterly to destroy the old Inhabitants of the land of Canaan left they should cause offences and cast stumbling blocks in their way They will turne away thy sonnes from following mee that they may serue other Gods Our Sauiour Christ saith Woe vnto the world because of offences it must needs be that offences come but woe to that man by whom the offence commeth And woe to him to whom our Sauiour Christ saith Woe for what said he a little before It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke and that hee were drowned in the depth of the Sea But for what cause is a woe so grieuous pronounced against him that causeth offences St. Paul giues the reason By this m●ane● shall the weake brother perish for whom Christ dyed when yee sinne so against the brethren and wound their weake conscience yee sinne against Christ For Gods loue take this to heart yee of vncircumcised hearts and eares who neuer diue into the reckoning of it what it is to wound the weake consciences of your brethren and I speake not to those onely that maketh deuisions in our Church either in matter of Doctrine or of Ceremonie if there be any such that heare me this day But to you that offend your brethren by your euill liues either in the abuse of Christian liberty to your lusts as drinking to drunkennesse dressing to pride sparing to couetousnesse eating to gluttony or such like whereby that which is lawfull is vsed vnlawfully or else by doing that which is absolutely vnlawfull as Whore-mongers Theeues Vsurers Lyers sweaters and such like You wound the weake consciences of your brethren ye cause your weake brethren to perish for whom Christ died repent and amend your liues or let me tell you that yee your selues will say hereafter that it were better if that a milstone had beene hanged about your neckes and that you had beene cast into the depth of the Sea For though it be necessarie that offences should come yet woe be vnto you by whom they come I must now demonstrate this impiety a Contrario as it were by laying white against blacke to discerne the colours Contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned This is the touch-stone at which all deuisions offences must be tryed by this we must try the spirits whether they be of God He had taught them the high and profound mysterie of Christian religion by authority of the Scriptures now he condemnes not simply all deuisions all offences 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with respect and relation those onely that are contrary to Gods word and the proportion of faith and manners which was that doctrine which they had learned at his mouth We must deuide our selues from all Iewes Turkes Papists Infidells and Hereticks as the Israelites were deuided from the abominations of Aegipt and if wee cause offences to them as Lot to the Sodomites and the faithfull of the primitiue Church to the Idolatrous Gentiles by the synceritie of our Religion and our good conuersation wee sinne not for this is bonum Schisma and bonum Scandalum a good Schisme and a good scandall which Christ himselfe made or rather which hee professed to make I am come to set a man against his Father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in law against her mother in law And a mans foes shall bee they of his owne houshold But the vnlawfull deuisions and offences are those that are made contrary to the Apostolicall doctrine the blessed word of God Ex illo saith one of the learned Fathers fidem alimus ex illo spemerigimus ex illo fiduciam firmamus thereby wee feed our faith thereby wee aduance our hope thereby wee confirme our trust for this is the power of God vnto saluation to all those that beleeue this is able to make vs wise vnto saluation through faith which is in Christ Iesus and therefore though we or an Angell from heauen preach any ether Gospell vnto you then that which wee haue preached vnto you let him be accursed saith Paul but those that doe so let vs now see how we must deale with them Wee must marke them and avoide them Marke them the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth that wee must bee like vnto those that sit vpon watch Towers to obserue the comming of the enemie For they that cause deuisions and offences are the common enemies of the Church of God and they come to destroy our soules and therefore we ought to be most carefull to marke them Secondly they come with all policie and subtilty and bring in their damnable heresies priuily and therefore we ought neuer to bee absent from our watch-tower but to haue an eye vnto them continually left they come vpon vs vnawares and suddenly destroy vs and as this is generally the dutie of all men vpon this reason that euery man hath a soule which is his best part and the choysest thing that hee possesseth and more deare vnto him than all the world for what is a man profited if hee shall gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule or what shall a man giue in exchange for his soule So more especially it is the dutie of those that are in authoritie either in the Church or Common-wealth vpon this reason that in the Scriptures they are called Watch-men for how doe they watch if they defend not Gods flocke diligently against these rauening Wolues And against whom doe they watch if not against these enemies of mens soules Therefore let euery man in generall marke them as they desire the saluation of their owne soules but more especially the Magistrates according to their places as they will answer for the soules of those that shall be seduced Whom in the name of Christ I doe beseech to be carefull of it Let them marke them by making them knowne vnto Gods people in their colours as Paul marked Hymenaeus and Philetus and Alexander the Copper-smith as St. Iohn marked Diotrephes and our Sauiour Christ the Scribes Pharisees and Saduces Take heed and beware of the leauen of the Pharisees and of the Saduces Let them admonish the people to take heed of the leauen of Iesuites Anabaptists Brownists and all deuiders and

offenders whatsoeuer and let them marke them to restraine their madnesse Excellently St. Augustine in his Epistle to Donatus Deputie of Affrick Sic igitur eorum peccata compesce vt sint quos paeniteat peccasse Doe thou so bridle their sinnes that they may repent at heart that euer they haue sinned A second dutie subordinate to this our watching is the auoiding of them for if we marke them wee may auoide them but if wee marke them not wee cannot auoide them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bee gone from them and shunne them as men are wont to runne away from noxious beastes For as Irenaeus saith they are like vnto Hunters and their intent is to make a prey of you Epiphanius doth well compare them to the Serpent called Dypsas which poysoneth those pooles of water at which he drinketh whence it commeth to passe that the beasts which drinke there fall downe dead suddenly and burst in sunder being poysoned with the venim of the Dypsas I cannot now stand to dispute of cases of Conscience how farre it may bee lawfull for a man to conferre with those that cause Devisions and offences I will onely presse you with the words of the blessed Apostle and Euangelist St. Iohn If there come any vnto you and bring not this doctrine receiue him not into your house neither bid him God speed And now I come to shew the cause or reason hereof which is the second part of my text They that are such serue not our Lord Iesus Christ but their owne belly Those that serue Christ especially in the worke of the ministry wee are commanded to receiue it is our Sauiours doctrine Hee that receiueth you receiueth me Hee that heareth you heareth me and hee that despiseth you despiseth me By the rule of contraries he that receiueth those that serue not Christ in the worke of the ministry hee receiueth not Christ but them and him whose workes they doe that is the diuell here then is the matter or first cause whereupon we are not to receiue them nay we must marke them nay we must auoide them they serue the diuell He that receiueth them receiueth the diuell he that markes them not markes not the diuell he that auoideth them not auoides not the diuell A roaring Lyon who would meete him but how mad is hee that will receiue him into his society to be familiar with him In three things those that cause deuisions and by deuisions offences in the Church of God haue relinquished the seruice of our Lord Iesus Christ First because all such are most notorious hypocrites for as the Serpent called Drynas is like the colour of an Oken leafe whence he hath his name and yet indeed is a venimous beast so though they seeme to be like Christians they are not so indeed but to speake the truth no better than Iewes The Arian heretickes gaue forth of themselues that they onely were the catholicke Church of God those that were members of the Church indeed they called sometimes Ambrosians sometimes Athanasians sometimes Ioannites in derision of the truth of God which those holy and learned Fathers Ambrose Athanasius and Iohn Chrysostome had preached as now the Papists call vs sometimes Lutherans sometimes Caluinists sometimes Zuinglians and Huguenots in derision of the truth of God by them and vs maintained Nestorius being a pestilent Hereticke yet as Theodoret saith hee couered himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With a cloake or vaile of the Catholike faith And Ebion who maintained the opinion of the Samaritans would yet as Epiphanius saith bee reputed a Christian This they haue learned of the diuell who to deceiue is transformed into an Angell of light By this meanes they get proselites and followers whom they make twofold the children of hell more than they themselues are Secondly they are most cruell and bloody Cum hoc sit negotium illis non ethnicos conuertendi sed nostros cuertendi saith Tertullian for their studie is not to conuert Infidells and Pagans to the faith but to throw downe vs that are Christians from the faith and indeed the persecutions caused by Hereticks and Schismatickes haue beene more bloody than those which haue beene raised by Infidells and Pagans I say not here that no age hath heard of the like barbarous crueltie to the late intended Gunpouder treason but so many thousand glorious Martyrs butcherd so many millions of Confessors tortured so many myriads of Godly men and women persecuted whose soules lye vnder the altar and cry with a loude voice and saying How long Lord holy and true doest thou not iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth All these shall witnesse with me that the tyrannous persecutions which haue beene raised within the Church haue beene greater then those which haue beene raised without the Church and whosoeuer maketh deuisions it is to be presumed that he hath the like will though not the like power Lastly their end is that they may walke according to the flesh and therefore though they pretend much strictnesse and reformation of life and manners by chastening the body as it were to subdue it to the spirit it is but subordinate to some fleshly end for they turne the grace of our God into laciuiousnesse I will not staine your chaste eares with the fleshly deeds and godlesse practices of such kinde of people in all ages by authoritie of Ecclesiasticall histories and diuers Orthodox Fathers which in some small measure I am able to present vnto your view let it be sufficient to note with our Apostle this one thing that they haue renounced the seruice of our Lord Iesus Christ and serue their owne belly Quid foedius quid turpius What more filthy odious abhominable damnable or detestable Where we note that the Belly in the Scriptures is taken in a double sense properly or figuratiuely in its proper sense it signifieth the belly of man or woman as where we reade that Phinchas the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest thoust Zimry the man of Israel and Cozby the Midianitish woman with his Iauelin through her belly in its figuratiue sense it is taken sometimes for the heart by the figure called Synecdoche When I heard my belly trembled that is to say Commetum est cor meum quod est in ventre my heart in my belly was moued sometimes it signifieth the body of man Of the fruite of thy belly will I set vpon thy throne Sometimes it signifieth particularly the wombe Thou art my God from my mothers belly Somtimes it signifieth a drunkard a gluttonous person and one that is profuse and lauish vpon his owne Lusts So Paul calleth the Cretians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 slowe bellies Sometimes it is taken for all worldly things especially those that conduce to the present maintenance of life and in this sense the Apostle saith of such kinde of people as those concerning