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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93437	The doome of heretiques: or, A discovery of subtle foxes, who were tyed tayle to tayle, and crept into the Church to doe mischiefe. As it was delivered in a sermon at Wickham-Market in Suffolke, upon the fast day, being the 26 of May. 1647. / By Zeph: Smyth, minister of Gods Word. Imprimatur, Ia: Cranford, August 22. 1648.	Smyth, Zeph. (Zephaniah), fl. 1646-1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing S4363; Thomason E467_7; ESTC R204204	27,627	23

make his soule an offering for sinne hee shall see his seed he shall prolong his dayes and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand hee shall see the travaile of his soule and shall be satisfied so Job 3.24 Hee will mercy on him and say deliver him that hee goe not downe into the pit for I have received a Ransome for him If the Father hath received a Ransome hee will most certainely deliver such that they goe not downe into the pit So that if Christ had ransomed all as the Pelagians affirme then all must be saved but it is plaine in Scripture that but a few are saved and as plaine that Christ ransomed onely the elect and that only the elect shall bee saved by Christ as Rom. 8.30 Whom hee predestinated that is them whom he predestinated to life them hee called and whom hee calleth he justifies and whom he justifies them he also glorifies 3. Use Is for examination Did God of old ordaine men to condemnation then wee should every one of us examine whether we be in an estate of salvation When wee heare some shall perish me thinks every one should put it to the question whether I am one of then When Christ said one of you shall betray me every one began to question is it I so when you heare some shall perish mee thinks every one should be ready to ●●y is it I oh I pray God it may not be I. How should this put you on to give all diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 Object But how shall I know I am none of those that God did ordaine to condemnation Answ Whom God hath elected and whom he hath rejected wee know not as I told you b●●●●e neither is it necessary that wee should know but yet thou mayst know for thy owne particu●er that God hath predestinated thee to life First by thy effectual 〈◊〉 those that he predestinated to life them he called I meane not a bare outward call but an inward call by the word and Spirit When God doth not onely by his word say to a poore soule as Christ did to Mathew when he sate at the receipt of the cusion●● but inables the soule to arise and follow him as Matthew arose and followed Christ Matthew 9.9 It is a calling the soule from sinne from amongst the rest of the world unto Iesus Christ and inables the soule to follow Christ examine thy selfe Hath the Lord thus effectually called thee that thou hast left all to follow Christ this is a signe thou wert predestinated for whom hee predestinateth them he also calleth Rom. 8.30 Secondly hast thou true saving faith justifying faith whom he predestinated to life hee works faith in them Acts 13.48 So many as were ordained to eternall life beleeved When God hath a people to call home to himselfe he either brings them to the meanes or the meanes to them and those that doe belong to the election of grace beleeve and the rest are hardned Hast thou this saving faith not a fancied faith a dead faith an easie faith but saving faith such a faith as was wrought in thee by the word and Spirit with power such a faith as was not in the power to give nor in thy power to receive untill God inabled thee by his Spirit then thy faith doth evidence to thee that thou art ordained to life for whom hee cals he justifies Rom 8.30 And wee are justified by faith Rom. 5.1 Not that the essence of faith justifies for it is the righteousnesse of Christ justifies but faith justifies instrumentally in that it layes hold upon that which justifies the righteousnesse of Christ 3. Whom hee predestinates to li●e as hee calls them and justifies them so he sanctifies and glorifies them this sanctification is begun in this life God predestinates his people unto holinesse He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that wee should be holy and without blame before him Eph. 1.4 This sanctification is begun here and shall be perfect in glory examine hast thou this evidence of thy election thy sanctification Art thou holy Is thy life holy Doest thou walke exactly as the grace of God which brings Salvation teacheth to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live holily righteously and soberly in this present world Tit. 2.11 This is another evidence of thy election 4. Use Is Consolation to all such as finde upon examination that they have good evidence of their election all such as God have let read their names in the the Booke of life you may goe home and rejoyce and take strong consolation because God hath predestinated you to life and your names are written in Heaven and if hee hath predestinated you to life and writ your names in Heaven Who shall be able to blot them out againe None in Heaven or Earth shall ever be able to blot out thy name out of the Booke of life therefore let us say with Paul What shall seperate us from the love of God Rom. 8.35 All that men and Devills can doe cannot separate thee from Gods love nothing that ever hath been is or shall be that can separate thee from Gods love There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus Rom. 8.1 God hath decreed thy salvation and Gods decree shall stand let men and Devils say what they will to the contrary Psal 33.11 The Counsell of the Lord shall stand for evermore It is as possible for God to deny himselfe as it is possible for thee to perish for We are kept saith the Apostle by the power of God through faith to salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 And therefore as our Saviour Christ said to the seventie Luke 10.20 Rojoyce not that the Spirits are subdued unto you but rather rejoyce that your names are written in Heaven So say I and more rejoyce not onely that your names are written in Heaven but rejoyce that your names are written in Heaven and can never be blotted out againe Secondly as I would have you rejoyce so I would have you also humble Why did God predestinate thee to life what because hee saw thee better then others or because of unseen m●rits or workes no surely before Iacob and Esau had done good or evill saith the Lord Iacob have I loved Esau have I hated They were two in one wombe and God chose the one and refused the other to shew to us that it is of his free mercy and grace according to his good pleasure I knew saith the Lord thou wouldst transgresse from the wombe Isay 48.8 And I called thee a transgressour from the wombe And Amos the 9.7 Were yee not as the Ethiopians unto mee saith the Lord So May not the Lord say of thee thou art a damned Creature it was I that saved thee thou wert a lost Creature it was I found thee thou had'st destroyed thy selfe it was I said Thy help in is me thou layest in thy bloud and filthinesse and

THE DOOME OF HERETIQUES OR A discovery of subtle Foxes who were tyed tayle to tayle and crept into the Church to doe mischiefe As it was delivered in a Sermon at Wickham-Market in Suffolke upon the Fast day being the 26 of May. 1647. By Zeph Smyth Minister of Gods Word Take we the Foxes the little Foxes which destroy the vines for our vines have small grapes Cant. 2.15 For there are certaine men crept in which before were of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men they are which turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and deny God the only Lord and the Lord Iesus Christ Jude ver 4. Imprimatur Ia Cranford August 22. 1648. LONDON Printed for Iohn Rothwell at the Sunne and Fountaine in Pauls churchyard MDCXLVIII To the READER IT shall not need to seeme strange to us if the truth meet with opposition nothing happens in this kind but what the Apostle did long ago foretell That in the last days should come perillous times 2 Tim. 3.1 The times are perillous when the truth is opposed as verse the eighth the Father of errour and lyes and his Ministers also transforme themselves into Angels of Light that craftily they might undermine the truth and exalt errour Blessed is he that now keepeth his garments ●ut woe be to them that God out of a just judgement gives up to strong delusions to beleeve lyes that they might be damned which beleeve not the truth 2 Thes 2.11 because they received not the truth in the love of it It is not unknowne to many what opposition this ensuing Sermon met withall at the preaching of it some scoffed and the Sermon being ended a company which were at the High Constables house of the said Towne in the Sermon time came into the Congregation who with some others that heard the Sermon which belong to them made a disturbance in the Congregation calling the doctrine which was there delivered a doctrine of devils the said High Constable also with divers others in the Towne as I was credibly informed did scoffe at this doctrine saying it was not fit to be preached and threatned it should be contradicted in print and have ever since endeavoured to make the Author odious by inventing falshoods slanders and charging him with scandals falsly but to passe by this what was then opposed is now made publique that ●s I have peace of conscience in that I then delivered so also all Orthodox Ministers and people that shall peruse it may judge whether it be con●●ary to Scripture or the judgement of the learned as Calvin Ursinus ●ucanus Peter Martyr Perkins with divers others whose labours the Lord hath abundantly blessed and made advantagious to the Church I calling to mind how duty binds me and the Oath of God lyes upon me to defend the truth against heresies and schismes and that I ought not to be ashamed of the Gospell of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation Rom. 1.16 have adventured to owne my doctrine in a more publique place then Wickham-market Pulpit beeng fully assured that though men and devils should oppose the truth what they can yet at the length truth shall prevaile in the interim it is good to pray and wait It much behooves the Saints now so many of them as remaine stedfast and established in the faith which have not yet attained to this learning neither have knowne these depths of Satan to hold fast that which they have already Rev. 2.24 25. and to mourn for the sins of the times Did rivers of water run down Davids eyes because men kept not Gods laws Ps 119.136 and shall not we grieve to heare men deny the law and say it ought not to be preached Did David grieve because the wicked kept not Gods word Ps 119.158 and shall not we grieve to heare men deny the Scripture to be the word of God and say it repents them they have fasted and prayed and mourned so much for their sins how little doe these men and women consider that though a Christian should be out of all duty in respect of dependance yet they should be in al duty in respect of performance Our differences are not meerly about things circumstantiall but substantiall and the effects are very sad they tend to the devouring of one another to the making Religion odious to the world they keep off people from comming in to Iesus Christ they either discourage weak Christians or pervert them they hinder Christian communion and comfortable society one with another in stead of fasting and praying and mourning and seeking of God together and edifying one another in their most holy faith there are contentions strifes janglings hatred and is not this cause of mourning yea is not this one thing that provokes God to be at a controversie with us As if he should say to us as he did once to the Iewes Shall I not visit for these things In the day of the Lords wrath it is better to be found mourners in Sion then sinners in Sion therefore now should be the Saints praying time and morning-time even to give the Lord no rest untill he compose our differences and bring order out of our confusions Who alone is able to do it and without he do it none else can neither King nor Parliament nor Armies it is he must reconcile his people to himselfe and one to another The Lord is my witnesse that I have not put forth this Sermon out of bitternesse of spirit against them that differ from me or out of desire of applause having nothing to beast of my own except it be of my nothingnesse but to let the world judge of that doctrine which people were so much taken off from by the opposite party It is possible the lines may be offensive to many partly because the matter comes abroad in a plaine dresse and partly because it is so contradictory to mens fantasies to which I answer if God in his word cannot please all I must not looke to doe it I desire the Reader first to read and then judge if it may tell any a story of heaven it satisfies him who is yours in Christ Iesus Ze Smyth A Discoverie of the Churches Danger by seeming Friends Jude 4. For there are certaine men crept in which before were of old ordained to this Gondemnation ungodly men they are which turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and deny God the onely Lord and the Lord Jesus Christ THe Apostle Saint Iude in this Epistle gives the saints warning to take heed of seducers Such were crept into the Church as would delude them unawares who would not onely deny the truth themselves and turne the grace of God into wantonnesse but they would doe what in them lay to seduce others as it hath alwayes been the practice of heretiques when they have once ingaged themselves in the service of building up the kingdome of Satan by denying the truth and hearkening unto Satans lyes and delusions