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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94071	XXXI. select sermons, preached on special occasions; the titles and several texts, on which they were preached, follow. / By William Strong, that godly, able and faithful minister of Christ, lately of the Abby at Westminster. None of them being before made publique.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing S6007_pt2; Thomason E875_1; ESTC R203660	179,143	303

Canons a mixture partly out of the Word of God and partly from their own traditions and to shew that they love the mid-way in all these their Purgatory a middle place between Heaven and Hell Since that in the Reformed Churches there be many that though they have not been fully Popish yet have greatly desired and much laboured for a reconciliation as if a middle way between us were the way to peace who perswade themselves and seek to their power to perswade us that if we yield unto them in Ceremonies it may be a means to bring them over in Doctrines and to tell us were it not for the Iesuites on the one side and the Puritans on the other two hot spirits ●…derate men would soon agree we read of some Rev. 13.16 that do receive the mark of the Beast a mark I conceive to be an expression taken either from a servant or a souldier who by some badge or cognizance are known to what Master or Captain they belong for as Christ will have his Church sealed Rev. 7.3 so will Antichrist have his servants marked And this mark the text tels us is double in the right hand and in the forehead the one notes an open profession and the other an earnest contention to promote the cause First in the fore-head it is an open profession either in words or practise when men either practise it or praise it when men praise their feasts keep their fasts honour their Saints set up their images commend their Crucifixes love their Ornaments their Copes their Tapers choose their names of Priests and Altars c. it is as plain hereby as if it were written in their foreheads to whom they do belong and it appears plainly that a mixture a middle way they desire Secondly A mark in the right hand sets forth an earnest contention in the cause of the beast the right hand being the Instrument of action and that wherein a mans main strength lyeth and so Antichrist hath his Merchants his Factors and Agents in most parts of the world that strive to the utmost of their parts and power in many things if not in all to advance the worship of the beast and to engage men in their quarrel So that in all ages there hath been a mixture for Satan would have a Religion like unto Nebuchadnezars Image he cares not though the head be of Gold and the breast of Silver so long as the other parts be either of brass or else partly of Iron and partly clay Now what hath been the cause of these mixtures in all ages they are two First the Ministery and Secondly the people First an unclean spirit working in the Prophets that is given as one reason when the Lord will cleanse his people and take away the causes of their pollution he saith Zach. 13.2 he will cause the Prophet and the unclean spirit to pass out of the Land that is the unclean spirit that works in the Prophets for the truth is there is a spirit of uncleanness and prophaness is gone forth into the world Secondly horrible pride in all those in whom this spirit of uncleanness doth take place for vain man would be wise Iob 11.12 and he affects a shew of wisdom in nothing so much as in matters of Religion either in the Doctrine or the worship of God and this is made a special cause of all humane mixtures Col. 2.18 being vainly puft up by their fleshly minds Thirdly a vehement desire that some men have arising from this pride to win Proselytes unto themselves that all men may be of their mind after their garb in all things they would have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh ut multitudine sequacium sese efferant that they may please themselves in this how many they have brought about and how many Disciples they have drawn after them that become their admirers c. Fourthly horrible hypocrisie when men are Sepulchres within yet they desire outwardly to appear painted who having no power of godliness within yet by new inventions would fain bear the world in hand that surely they are men of a higher strain for matters of Religion then ordinary whereof their zeal for a little bodily exercise and outward complement must be the great witness to the world and this Christ chargeth upon the Pharisees as a special cause of all that corruption and composition that was in the Church of God amongst them as we see Mat. 23.13,14 Fifthly worldly wisdom politick respects and fleshly ends what moved Ieroeobam to set up the Calves or Iehu to retain them but because it suited better with their policy and earthly aims and purposes then the purity of Gods worship would ever have done for when men come to this to count gain godliness then that will be the best Religion or the best way of worship and those the most decent ceremonies that will but further their worldly ends So sometimes a correspondency with forraign powers of another Religion So Ahaz that he might keep his correspondency with forraign powers with Tiglah Pelezer King of Assyria he must have the fashion abroad also 2 King 16.11,12 outward references have many times a great influence into the matters of Religion Sixthly and lastly there are four sins which are in a especial manner incident unto the Prophets and the great causes thereof are Ignorance Idleness Covetousness and Cowardize First ignorance that is given as a special cause of many humane inventions amongst the Pharisees thou blind Pharisee Mat. 23.26 And the Church of Thyatira many well-meaning men were deluded because they knew not the depth of Satan Rev. 2.24 many men are deluded because they see not the evil that is intended the Apostle tels us of Popery that it is a mysterie of iniquity 2 Thes 2.7 Iniquitas sed mystica pietatis fidelitatis nomine palliata represented unto men under the names both of piety and loyalty Secondly Idleness and carelesness in matters of this nature so that if men can enjoy their liberty live quietly and richly for the purity of Gods worship it matters not so much that is given as the cause Mat. 13.24,25 While men slept the enemy came and sowed tares In most ages there have been some secure and quiet times of the Church when the Prophets have taken their ease and a spirit of slumber hath come upon them and then is the time to vent and set forth the inventions of men and so by little and little pedetentim usu ipso tacita Doctorum approbatione coepit esse in precio hac aestimatione sensim sine sensu crescente As a Jesuite speaks of some things in Popery Thirdly Covetousness a desire of raising themselves in the world and to set themselves in a way of preferment and when men see there is no other way to rise then they resolve to yield unto this so it was with them of the Concision who brought such a Mixture and caused such a rent in