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A94728	Anthropolatria; or The sinne of glorying in men, especially in eminent ministers of the gospel. Wherein is set forth the nature and the causes of this sinne, as also the many pernicious effects which at all times this sinne hath produced, and with which the church of Christ is still infected. With some serious disswasives from this sinne, and directions to prevent the infection thereof. A discourse usefull, and in these times very seasonable. / By John Tombes, B.D. and preacher of Gods word at the Temple.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1792; Thomason E282_13; ESTC R200049	17,625	23

that City grew very populous and rich and this made them as usually it doth luxurious and proud whereby they became insolent and by their haughty speeches provoked the Romans to destroy that City under the Conduct of L. Mummius but being in Augustus Caesars time reedified it recovered quickly its former beauty and wealth II. The state of the Church of Corinth TO this City in his travailes to preach the Gospell of Christ came St Paul Acts 18. 1. in the dayes of Claudius ver. 2. and continuing there a great while much people were added to the Lord and a flourishing Church there planted which being after watered by Apollos so fructified that as St Paul testifies 1 Cor. 1. 5. they were in every thing inriched by Christ in all utterance and in all knowledge so that they came behind in no gift ver 7. But as formerly their earthly riches made them wanton and insolent so now their spirituall gifts made them vaine and contentious for instead of a holy imploying and improving their gifts to the honour of the giver they abused them in vaine ostentation of themselves and glorying in their teachers which drew them into schismes and divisions one saying I am of Paul another I am of Apollo another I am of Cephas another I am of Christ ver. 12. whence they were drawne into factions insomuch that as Hierome saith unusquisque eos quos baptizaverat suos putabat esse non Christi each baptizer counted those he baptized his owne not Christs and Clement if we have his genuine Epistle that they jussed out some that deserved well and hoysed up others that were light enough and that numerous Church in stead of being a well compacted body became like a dismembred Absyrtus mangled into many pieces by reason of their schisme To remedy which evill as tending to the scattering of the Church and blemishing of the Christian profession the Apostle bends himselfe in the fore part of this Epistle using sundry arguments to shew the absurdity of it and in this verse now read unto you disswades them from that sin which was the root of their factious divisions in these words Therefore let no man glory in men c. III. Glorying in men is a sinne WHich speech seemes to be a conclusion inferred from the words fore-going ver. 18 19 20. concerning the folly and vanity of mens thoughts and containes 1. A prohibition Let no man glory in men 2. A reason of this prohibition for all things are yours Which is amplified ver. 22 23. My businesse will be at this time to handle the Prohibition and the Reason so farre only as it referres to the thing here prohibited and that the marke at which we shoote may appeare to you let the fixed point be this Christians may not glory in men if they doe it s their sin and that no small one in Gods sight God hath so ordered our calling saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 1. 29. that no flesh should glory in his presence and therefore ver. 31. According as it is written he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord Which seemes to be taken from Jer. 9. 23 24. Thus saith the Lord let not the wise man glory in his wisedome neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindnesse judgement and righteousnesse in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord Like unto which is that Isa. 2. 22. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of But because the Apostles words though generall in forme as forbidding all glorying in any men yet are speciall in the accommodation as forbidding glorying in Ministers therefore I conceive necessary to enquire 1. What glorying in men is here forbidden by the Apostle 2. Why such glorying is thus forbidden IIII. Glorying in men here forbidden is glorying in the Teachers of the Church THe Greeke word translated glory doth sometimes signifie the inward esteeme joy content complacency and confidence we have in a thing especially when 't is superabundant though it be not outwardly expressed but for the most part it notes a full joy confidence esteeme or acquiescence expressed by words or other signes Glorying in men is either when the persons glorying and gloried in are the same or when they are divers the former is when a man glories in himselfe and then it is when a man out of high esteeme of his own excellency or power expresseth confidence in himselfe or praise of himselfe which is commonly the vice of vaine boasting though it may be sometimes for just cause as 2 Cor. 11. 18. But in this place the latter to wit the glorying in other men is forbidden as the reason shewes for they were not to glory in some as peculiarly theirs because all were theirs And so to glory in men is to glory in other men whom we conceive to have singular excellency and our selves to have some proper interest in them or relation to them and accordingly to boast of them and the conceived property we have in them Thus men glory in their Ancestours Princes Generals Teachers And the glorying in this last sort of men particularly as Teachers or Preachers of the Gospell is here forbidden as the occasion of this precept shewes for this precept was given upon occasion of their glorying mentioned chap. 1. 12 and the first instance ver. 22. is of eminent Teachers of the Church Paul Apollos Cephas so that the glorying here forbidden is the having and expressing of high esteeme and affection towards the Teachers of the Church V. The conceit that here the Apostle useth a figure of fiction of Persons BUt then we are further to consider whether the Teachers in whom the Apostle forbids glorying were the true Teachers or Apostles or the false For there is a conceit in many and eminent interpreters that the Corinthian sectaries did not glory in the names of Paul or Apollos or Cephas themselves but that they gloried in some false Apostles the authors of their schisme but the Apostle in reproving their schisme useth the names of the true Apostles as it were under the vizard of the true Apostles concealing the false The ground of this conceit is that speech which St Paul useth 1 Cor. 4. 6. And these things brethren I have in a figure transferred to my selfe and Apollo for your sakes that ye might learne in us not to thinke of men so our translation adds above that which is written that no one of you be puffed up for one against another Which they understand as if the Apostle had said when I spake of Paul and Apollos I used a scheme or figure called fictio personarum the faining of persons such as the Lawyers use when they put the names of Titius and Sempronius

ANTHROPOLATRIA OR THE SINNE Of glorying in Men ESPECIALLY In Eminent Ministers of the Gospel Wherein is set forth The Nature and Causes of this Sinne AS ALSO The many pernicious effects which at all times this Sinne hath produced and with which the Church of CHRIST is still infected WITH Some serious disswasives from this Sinne and Directions to prevent the infection thereof A Discourse usefull and in these times very seasonable By JOHN TOMBES B. D. and Preacher of Gods Word at the Temple LONDON Printed by G. Miller for John Bellamy at the Signe of the three golden-Lions in Cornehill near the Royall-Exchange 1645. Mr Gataker in his Answer to Mr Walkers Vindication pag. 85. I Love not siding in Gods Church among Christs Ministers especially I love not I am for this man and I am for that man I am for this side and I am for that side The Apostle himselfe liked it not 1 Cor. 1. 12. Rom. 16. 18. I love not holding the faith of Christ with respect of persons Another Apostle forbids it Iames 2. 1. I love not that any be tied to follow any one man or any number of men whatsoever in all things The Apostles themselves required it not in matter of fact 1 Cor. 11. 1. nor may any now living in matters of faith Hence proceeded schismes 1 Cor. 3. 3. and 11. 18 19. and factions and uncharitabble censures many times of those as unsound that are it may be more sincere have at least as good a share in Christ as those that so censure them And surely if the words heresie and heretick were rightly understood or if they be so taken as I suppose them to be constantly used in Scriptute nor doe I thinke that the contrary can be easily evinced the one for faction Acts 5. 17. and 15. 5. and 24. 5 14. and 26. 5. and 28. 22. 1 Cor. 11. 18 19. Gal. 5. 20. the other for a factious person Tit. 3. 10. none I feare will be found more truly guilty of heresie or better to deserve the title of heretick then those who therein concurring with the Papists whom yet they professe most to abhorre are so prone to contemne all as hereticks and tainted with heresie in their sence that is as men cut off from Christ and having no interest in him who doe not in all matters of practise comply or in all points of doctrine concurre with themselves Or their side Lord let me never be let my soule never enter into their secret Neither is it nor shall ever be my desire either so to pin my faith upon the sleeve of any part or party or to engage my judgement to any meere mans or mens opinions the Pen-men of holy writ only excepted as to admit hand over head whatsoever he or they shall hold and maintaine nor yet againe to refuse or reject any truth which by the light that God shall be pleased to send me I shall be able to descry in the writing of any though otherwise never be erroneous or unsound To my worthy Friend Mr James Russel Merchant SIR SOme years are elapsed since I tooke notice and became sensible of that sin which this Tract here declaimes against Being driven by men but led by the marvellous providence of God to this City I observed my feares did not deceive me but as then I did divine so it is come to passe that this sin hath filled this City with rents and errours whereby the spirit of supplication and walking humbly with our God the spirit of love minding the publike and seeking one anothers good hath left us and instead hereof an evill spirit of censuring scoffing insulting on weaknesses wrangling maintaining particular parties projecting how to promote selfe ends with neglect of the publike evill jealousies and reports of one another and which is to be feared inward rejoycing at one anothers harmes hath overtaken even a great number of those who a few yeares agoe seemed to be of another temper I have now out of a deepe sense of the evils this sin hath brought upon us resolved to publish this Treatise as a monitory to men to avoid this idolizing of men as an evill savour that may infect them and to purge it out of their spirits as an evill humour that may engender dangerous fevers in their soules and is likely to make this generation worse and worse And as a forerunner to such Works as God shall enable me to publish for clearing of the truth to those that in this time are deceived by their dependence on their admired Teachers The memorable kindnesses which you have been pleased to exhibit to me in my low estate and the cordiall affection I perceive you beare to the prosperity of Christs Kingdome engage me to present this Sermon to you as for your use so for some testimony of his gratitude who desires to approve himselfe Yours in the service of Christ JOHN TOMBES From my Study at the Temple this 8th of May 1645. The Contents I. THe state of the City of Corinth II. The state of the Church of Corinth III. That glorying in men is a sinne IIII. That glorying in men which is here forbidden is glorying in the Teachers of the Church V. The conceit that here the Apostle useth a figure of fiction of persons VI This conceit is refuted and it is proved that glorying in true Apostles is here forbidden VII The objection to the contrary answered VIII What glorying in true Teachers is here forbidden declared negatively IX What glorying in true Teachers is here forbidden declared affirmatively X. Reasons of the prohibition taken from the nature of this sin XI Reasons of the prohibition taken from the causes of this sin XII Reasons of the prohibition taken from the many pernitious effects that follow upon this sinne XIII Application the first in a discovery of this evill as still infecting the Church of Christ Application the second in a serious disswasive from this sin in these times with some directions to prevent the infection thereof ANTHROPOLATRIA OR The Sinne of glorying in Men Especially in eminent Ministers of the Gospell 1 COR. 3. 21. Therefore let no man glory in men for all things are yours I. The state of the City of Corinth FOr a more perspicuous understanding of this Scripture something is to be premised concerning the City and Church of Corinth The City was seated on the necke of Land which parts Peloponesus from the rest of Greece very convenient for traffique by reason of the meeting of two Seas there whence it is tearmed by Horace bimaris Corinthus Corinth that was washed by two Seas the one fit to bring in Commodities from Italy Cicily and other Countries towards the South and West the other fit to bring in Commodities from Asia Macedonia and other Countries towards the East and North By reason of which conveniencies and the Grecian games exercised neare to it which drew a great confluence of people thither and some other causes