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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77492	An antidote against the poysonous vveeds of heretical blasphemies, which during the deplorable interval of church-government have grown up in the reforming Church of England. As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By Iohn Brinsley, Minister of the Gospel there. Augus. 10. 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4705; Thomason E612_13; ESTC R206488	47,516	58

Rev. 3. 10. To try the Faith and Patience and Constancie of those who are sound and will cleave unto God and unto his Truth This reason the Apostle giveth why there must be Heresies in the Church 1 Cor. 11. 19. There must be Heresies saith he among you that they which are approved may be made manifest And so we may say There must be Blasphemies God seeth it expedient to permit them and that to this end amongst others that they which are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Sincere and constant unto God and his Truth may be made manifest to themselves and others This is one of Gods winnowing seasons wherein by this wind he severs the sound and weighty corne from the chaff showing who they are that are stable with him and who are otherwise Secondly as God permits this in justice and wisdome for these and other ends known to himself so Satan acts it This hath the Enemy done saith the Husbandman in the parable concerning the Tares which were grown up in his fild among his good corne Matth. 13. 28. These Tares are Schismaticks and Hereticks with their Heretical Doctrines which like Tares intoxicate the brains of men which will take them down Now these are of Satans sowing That {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that envious man as he is there called envying to see Gods corne grow and flourish to see the prosperity of the Church and the flourishing of the Gospel he poysons the ground with this pernicious Tinetare This he doth to crosse and hinder Gods work in his Church Even as in the rebuilding of the Wals of Jerusalem he made use of those Samaritans pretended friends but reall adversaries to the Jews to hinder the work what they could Ezra 4. 1. c. Even so in this time of an intended Reformation he hath stirred up many such Heretical spirits to render all endeavours that way ineffectual Even as God once frustrated that designe for the building of Babel by dividing the languages of the builders so doth Satan now by a like practice seek to hinder the building of Jerusalem the Church of God amongst us by dividing the Hearts and Tongues and Pens of men that whilst some speak the language of Canaan of heaven holding forth the Orthodox truth of God others who pretend to be builders too should speak the language of Hell holding forth pernicious Errours Heretical Blasphemies 3. Again thus it cometh to passe through the remissenesse and negligence of those to whom the care of the Church is or should have been committed Whilst men slept saith the Parable the Enemy sowed Tares among the wheat Matth. 13. 25. whilst those who are or should be betrusted with the Church either fall asleep or are laid asleep so as they do not act so vigilantly and vigorously as they ought to do for the welfare and preservation thereof such Tares such evill Instruments creep in A truth lamentably experimented in this Nation at this day Where whilst the golden reynes of Ecclesiastical Government have been relaxed and let loose and the Civil sword otherways imployed so as Errors of an inferiour alloy have been connived at and de facto tolerated men as the nature of sin and errour is growing worse and worse through this Liberty have at the length arrived at this desperate height to speak Blasphemies write Blasphemies Print Blasphemies daring to pour out their Vials upon the Sun cast a dark foyle upon the clearest and most comfortable truths upon the whole Religion of God Fourthly again In men themselves we shall finde somewhat which disposeth them unto this great evill Men do not ordinarily become Blasphemers at the first Nemo repentè fit pessimus They climb to this height of wickednesse by certaine degrees and steps Some of which we shall meet with in the former part of this verse whereof the text is part Men shall be lovers of their own selves c. Mark how men come to be Blasphemers First they are Lovers of themselves seeking their own things their own honour credit preferment making self the end of all their actions And secondly they are Covetous accounting gaine to be godlinesse And thirdly they are vain-glorious arrogating much unto themselvs highly conceited of their own worth And fourthly they are proud supercilious despisers of others thinking meanly of others in comparison of themselves And being such no wonder now they come to be Blasphemers When Satan hath thus got them up to the top of the Pinacle now he casts them down having got them to the top of the Ladder now he turneth them off putting them upon such desperate wayes and courses unlesse mercie step in to their utter destruction Thus you see that it is so and why it is so That which now remaines is the Application Which I shall direct first Generally then Specially Generally to all Christians Specially to Timothies the Ministers of the Gospel 1. For all Christians Let not them in the first place be offended at such times such Persons So effended as to like the Church of God the Religion of God ever the worse for that A needfull Caveat this being a thing which men are very subject to It is not for nothing that our Saviour pronounceth a blessing upon them who shall not be offended at him Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended at me Matth. 11. 6. This he foresaw the world would be subject to to take offence at him at his personal condition the meannesse of it and the sufferings attending it Herewith the Disciples themselves were offended So their Master foretold it would be with them Matth. 26. 31. All ye shall be offended because of me this night And accordingly it came to passe When they saw him apprehended carried away and used in that disgraceful manner they began to entertaine other thoughts of him then before they had done and fayled in the duty and respect which they ought unto him And as at his personal condition so at the condition of his Church This men are subject to be offended at as in regard of troubles and persecutions arising from without of which our Saviour speaketh in the Parable Matth. 13. 21. whereby the stony ground setting forth the Temporary Professor he giveth this character of him that however at the first he heareth and receiveth the word with joy yet when tribulation and persecution ariseth by and by he is offended So also in regard of those Pests of Hereticks and Blasphemers which are bred in the womb and nursed up in the bosome of the Church These are in themselves a great eye-sore a great offence But let them not be so to any of us Neither is there any reason they should be so This is no other then what the Spirit of God hath forewarned us that it should be And therefore forewarned us that we should not be offended when we see it come to passe For this end it was that our Saviour