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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95966	The corruption of minde. Described in a sermon preached at Pauls the 24. day of June, 1655. / By Richard Vines, preacher of Gods word at Laurence-Jury, London.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing V549; ESTC R203881	10,383	24

THE CORRUPTION OF MINDE DESCRIBED In a Sermon preached at Pauls the 24. day of June 1655. By RICHARD VINES Preacher of Gods Word at Laurence-Jury London 2 COR. 2. 17. We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God but as of sincerity but as of God speak we in Christ LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Sun over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street The Corruption of Minde DESCRIBED 2 Cor. 11. 3. But I fear lest by any meanes as the Serpent beguiled Eve by his subtilty so your mindes should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 towards Christ AS the mother of Christ truly was so the Church of Christ may be truly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Clem. Alex. saith a virgin mother The fruitfulness of her womb to bring forth children unto God The fulness of her breasts to bring them up unto God speak her a mother The simplicity of the faith chastity of worship sincerity of love integrity of life speak her a virgin Christ answers the type of him the high Priest Levit. 21. 14. A widow or a harlot he shall not take but he shall take a virgin to wife And therefore it is the scope of the Gospel-Ministers whom God sends as Abraham did his servant with Commission to procure a wife for his son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to fit and treat a match to espouse chaste virgins unto Christ ver 2. Which scope if we do but carry in our eye and aime at in our Ministery we should avoid the too much used folly and imbrace the successfull foolishness of Gospel-preaching We may justly ask the cause of our Apostle his feare lest this Corinthian virgin should become a Thais for unjust suspition is a kind of slander to chastity and the question is how the Apostle could say I am jealous for the virgin was not espoused to him but Christs Ministers are but the spokes-men the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 treating for Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. they neither sowe nor mowe for themselvs therefore he takes off the doubt in that expression I am jealous over you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with jealousie of God And he gives the reason The first Adams Eve was corrupted from her virgin righteousness and so may the second Adams espoused virgin the Corinthian Church be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ Eve by the Serpent which was Satanae leno the Devils pander The Corinthians by such Preachers as he describes to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Cor. 2 17. Corrupters of the Word as hucksters by their mixtures do jugulare vinum adulterate the viginity of good wine In these words you may consider two things 1 The object of the Apostle his fear 2 The instance or example whence he draws a similitude shewing the way and meanes of accomplishing that he feares 1 The thing he feares is the corruption and constupration of this espoused virgin which corruption he describes 1 By the seat of it the minde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lest your mindes be corrupted for the foul vessell corrupts the purest liquor corruption begins in the minde as they say the fish begins to stink at the head and we know defluxions from the head corrupt the vitals and lower region 2 The term a quo is the simplicity or chastity that is towards Christ which they had before and which is required in them that are espoused to Christ Jesus who are then corrupted when they generate and deviate from their simplicity of faith and worship for we cannot say of any of these virgins espoused to Christ as was said of that virgin the mother of our Lord that before they came together she was found to be with child by the holy Ghost 2 The instance or example made use of for describing the way of corrupting the minde from the simplicity that is in Christ is the first and ancientest example in the world lest by any meanes as the Serpent beguiled Eve c. This part of the Text contains the sicut and sic the As So and there are foure things in it As the Serpent that is Satan in his instrument for the Devil appears not in his own colours the Serpent doth not alwayes weare the same slough or skin the Devil sheaths himself in a fit case for his purpose for he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unsociable with man therefore hath his ministers ver 15. deceitful workers false Apostles and these instruments he puts on he tempts the proud by ye shall be as Gods the sensual by the promise liberty some by ostentation of holiness for there is a Pharisaical a monasticall a superstitious holiness a holiness of mans making he tempts Christ by Peter Come behinde me Satan 2 The Serpent beguiled the woman Eve for the woman by the Serpent the man by the woman the stronger by the weaker vessel the husband by the wife as the Angler takes the small fish by a worm and then that small fish taken doth become a bait for the greater fish so it is said of his agents they lead captive silly women they deceive the hearts of the sipmle Rom. 16. 18 3 The way of the Serpents deceiving the woman was by corrupting of her minde see its the Apostles observation 1 Tim. 2. 14. that not the man but the woman was deceived because she believed that God had enviously set them in a lower Orbe than they might be in if they eate of the fruit of that tree of knowledge 4 This deceiving of the woman was by subtilty as it appears by many respects wherein the serpent prevaricated the words of God and perverted their meaning this subtilty or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cogging of the dice is ascribed to deceivers Eph. 4. 14. The sum is The Gospel-state of the Church is called a new Creation I create a new heavens and a new earth in this new creation God hath set forth another Adam Jesus Christ out of this Adam dying as out of the first sleeping God hath formed a Church this Church is espoused to the Lord Christ as Eve was to the first as a chaste virgin and there are Serpents now as there was one then that attempt the corrupting of the virginity of this Church and therefore saith the Apostle But I fear c. From the first part of the text the thing feared I take up two Doctrines 1 The simplicity that is in Christ is to be holden untainted 2 The corruption of the minde is the cause of deviation or recess from that simplicity I begin with the first The virgin chastity of the soul espoused to Christ Jesus which loves not to be painted with any Fucus of meretricious gaudiness simpleness or simplicity in vulgar speech and sometimes in Scripture sounds towards foolish credulity or want of wit But in the true notion of the word it signifies a freedom from composition and so we call the simplicity of Gods being which is