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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95973	The impostures of seducing teachers discovered; in a sermon before the Right Honorable the Lord Major and court of Aldermen of the city of London, at their anniversary meeting on Tuesday in Easter weeke, April 23, 1644. at Christ-Church. By Richard Vines, minister of Gods word at Weddington in the county of Warwick, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1644 (1644)	Wing V557; Thomason E48_2; ESTC R11333	24,964	44

their hands I would not blow the trumpet or proclaime open warre against lesser differences severity and acrimony in such cases breedes schisme and heales it not but pernicious errours and destructive to soules which it is cruelty to spare and not pity must be faced and fought against not with invectives and railing that doth but anger the Gangrene and is not the way to quench wildfire but by solid convictions and evidence of truth for so you shall either gain a brother or not lose a friend But you may aske when should we goe out against a doctrine as pernicious for even that point about the law which denominates an Antinomian and that about Baptisme which denominates an Anabaptist seeme not to be fatall to the soule To this I answer that we must look how a doctrine is attended or consequenced the first circle in the water is the least those that are caused by it are bigger and bigger an opinion may be very ill as it is a bastard mis-begotten by mis-inferences from the Word but it is worse as it is a whore and begets a new off-spring of errours more pernicious but I must remember to whom I speake Brethren if the sheep be infected or worried both God and men will aske Where were the shepherds or what did they in the meane time 2. To the people I say but this Rom. 16. 17. I beseech you brethren marke them which cause divisions and differences contrary to the doctrine which yee have learned and avoid them The avoiding of such teachers is your proper duty as you would avoid an ambuscado or stratagem of deceit our present divisions are scandalous to your selves to your Ministers to the truth for by reason of them The way of truth is evill spoken of 2 Pet. 2. 2. they are the hopes of the common enemy and our own weakenings and because I have named the enemy let no man thinke that the betraying of these differences among our selves doth give handle and occasion to them to traduce us all as Anabaptists Brownists Sectaries we need not feare the calumnies of those to whom godlinesse it selfe as Christianity of old was crime enough we shall doe our selves right in their eyes by disclaiming them The Apostles doe boldly tax the divisions among Christians notwithstanding any upbraidings of the Heathens Let them say that we are about instead of purging the Temple as Christ did to set up a Pantheon as the Romans did or an Altar to the unknown god as they of Athens did This water will not stick upon us long they will be of another mind when we shall shake this viper off our hand In the meane time I beseech you to consider whether beside the sleight and cunning craftinesse of seducing teachers there be not some other stratagems on foot acted from behind the doore and at a greater distance some hand of Ioab is in all this the polititian and the Jesuite blow these coales they would make us as Samaritans and Iewes to one another Let us not gratifie our enemies I le say but this observe the brand or character set upon the seduced Vnstable soules 2 Pet. 2. 14. silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts 2 Tim. 3. 6 c. and upon the seducers merchants of mens soules 2 Pet. 2. 3. unruly vaine-talkers deceivers aiming at filthy lucre Titus 1. 10 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lawlesse persons 2 Pet. 3. 17. men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith 2 Tim. 3. 8 c. but admit there be a face and presence of holinesse in the person may we not then more securely receive their doctrine To this I answer that both person and doctrine may carry a faire stamp and superscription We doe not weigh gold to try the superscription of it but the weight Guilded pills may convey poison Satan in Peter is not easily discovered The better passe that error brings with it the more dangerous it is So much upon the second part of the text The third is the preservative or antidote against all impressions of such teachers as come with sleight and subtilty c. and that is two-fold 1. The Ministery which Christ hath given to his Church for this ver relates to the 11. He gave some Apostles and some c. that henceforth c. and to them doth the Apostle commit the charge of the flock to watch over them against wolves Acts 20. 28 29. 2. The holding fast and pursuance of the substance and great things of Religion ver 15. but being sincere in love grow up in all things into him which is the head It s an excellent growth to grow up into the head that is into communion with and conformity to Jesus Christ which triviall opinions nothing at all advance observe the antithesis or opposition he makes between being carried about c. and following the truth in love for contraria contrarijs diseases are cured by contraries so the Apostle Peter 2 Pet. 3. 17 18. gives the same receipt against unstedfastnesse but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ and to take off teachers from fables and genealogies and questions of no value Paul commends to them the aiming at godly edifying which is by faith and to hold to that which is the end of the commandement charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfained 1 Tim. 1. 4 5. If both Ministers and people would but drive this trade it would take off that wandring and hunting after novell opinions and doctrines and would keep us constant in the wholesome pastures even now that the hedge of setled government is wanting If you have good feeding why should not that keep you from wandering untill the pale be set up wait upon God in the use of his saving ordinances and pray for us If Moses stay long in the mount must the people be setting up golden calves and say we know not what is become of this Moses Aarons rod shall swallow up all the rods of Iannes and Iambres in Exod. 7. 1● due time The Apostle puts us in hope of a nil ultra to such 2 Tim. 3. 9. They shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest unto all FINIS