Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	conscience_n	good_a	shipwreck_n	6,895	5	12.1671	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93787	A caveat against seducers: as it was preached by Richard Standfast, Mr. of Arts, and rector of Christ-Church in Bristol, whereunto are annexed the blind mans meditations. By the same author.	Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5204; Thomason E1816_2; ESTC R203605	25,969	77

are more in danger to be seduced than other men are some are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unlearned souls 2 Pet. 3.16 2 Pet. 3.16 these may easily be wrought upon to call good evil and evil good 't is an easie matter for ignorant men to be deceived Some are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men that are not well under-set not well propt up not rooted and stablished in the faith 2 Pet. 2.14 which they have been taught and such unstable souls may easily be beguiled some are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plain hearted well meaning men people that have no harm in them and therefore are not apt to suspect any in others and therefore are the more in danger to be over-reached Rom. 16.18 Rom. 16.18 but none in more danger to be seduced than wicked men 2 Tim. 3.13 wicked men and seducers are coupled by St. Paul and well they may for disorder in the affections is the way to corrupt the understanding Errour in practice will in time draw on errour in judgement and when once a good conscience is put away 1 Tim. 1.19 faith will quickly suffer Shipwrack 1 Tim. 1.19 He that lives in any known sin which he is resolved not to part withall that man is swept and garnished for the entertaining of any erroneous doctrine which shall tend to strengthen his hands and to comfort his heart in his way of wickedness Facile credimus quod volumus We are very apt to believe what we would have to be true and are loath to doubt of such things as are agreeable to our desires 6. Beware of calling into question apparent truths and of disputing express commands for after this manner the Serpent beguiled Eve and by this means the man of God that was sent to Bethel was betrayed to believe a lye 1 King 13. No Commission Per. Ol. 1 King 13. should ever sway us against express orders under Hand and Seal nor should the pretended voice of an Angel prevail with us against the express voice of God lest it prove bitterness in the latter end for by the one we may be deceived by the other we cannot 7. Beware of their society who with judicious and understanding men have the repute of Seducers Peter in the high-priests hall may quickly be brought to deny his master They that defire the health of their bodies are carefull to shun all places of infection and so should we be too if our desire be the health of our souls T is dangerous for the unlearned to be hearers of such men or to read their books or to hold discourse with them though it be with an intent not to be led by them Dinah had no intent to be defiled when her curiosity sent her forth to see the daughters of the land but 't is not good to be gadding or to wall in tempting waies God hath made no promise to preserve us from evil when we lead our selves into temptation Eightly Trust no mans doctrine upon his own bare word nor upon his bond neither unless he bring the word of God for his security Believe not the matter for the mans sake but the man for the matters sake if we pin our faith upon another mans sleeve we knovv not whether it may be carryed 't is not good to be too credulous lest sometimes we be couzened 1 Thes 5.21 Try all things and hold fast what is good Is the precept of St. Paul How curious are men in receiving of mony a man will tell mony after his own father and if any peece be suspicious we turn it and wind it and ring it and rub it and smel to it and shew it to the by-standers and it may be carry it to the Gold-smith to try and touch it nor care we whose Image and Superscription it bears if once we discover the coyn to be counterfeit And have we not much more reason to be curious about those things that do belong to the good of our souls Follow therefore in this case the advice of St. John 1 Epist 4.1 Many false Prophets are gone forth saith he 1 Joh. 4.1 and so may we believe not therefore every one that pretends to the Spirit but try what Spirit they are of And for our better direction in their discovery These following rules may be very useful First Rules for the tryal of false Prophets Rule 1. They that come not in by the door are theeves and robbers John 10.1 It is spoken there of false Christs but it holds true also of false Prophets and by this door I understand a lawful calling nor may any man take upon him to be a messenger of God unless he be fairly called to it and if any man pretend to a mission and can produce no commission for what he doth he is but a deceiver I do not deny but that a man may be truely a Prophet and yet he may be a false Prophet he may be truely a Prophet in regard of the lawfulness of his calling and yet he may be a false Prophet in regard of the ill discharging of his duty and therefore I do not say that a lawful calling is enough to argue the truth of a mans doctrine but this I say that the want of a lawful calling is enough to prove the falshood of the person Who sent thee or who made thee a minister is a needful question for if any man come in his own name it is to be doubted that he comes upon his own errand The Lord complains of some that spake lies in his Name Jer. 14.14 and he never sent them If they speak lies we may be sure that he never sent them or at least not on that errand and if he sent them not what can we expect but lies from them If God send any upon his errands it is either by the ordinary way of imposition of those reverend hands in which Christ hath intrusted that power for the good of his Church or else t is by the way extraordinary Now whomsoever he sends this way he doth not onely vouchsafe unto them some special revelation for the perswading of themselves but also he indues them with power sufficient for the performing of such works as are above the reach of men or devils and for the doing of such things as may carry authority with them to convince others also that they are sent of God These are Gods waies and who-ever they be that pretend to be sent of God yet cannot make it out by one of these waies we may safely conclude that God never sent them unless it be to prove the sincerity of our love as it is said of the false Prophet Deut. 13.3 or else for a punishment to a barren and wanton Nation and if like Jezabel Rev. 2.20 they call themselves Prophets upon their own account we may call them Seducers Secondly They that can indure no superiority in the Church are suspicious persons The ground of this I have