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A29171	The necessity & use of heresies, or, The third and last part of The great question about indifferent things in religious worship containing an answer to the objection against liberty of conscience, from the growth and spreading of heresies / by Edward Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing B419; ESTC R9550	18,228	28

converted or most profited to the Prejudice and Disgrace of the rest Whereupon one said Verse 12. he was of Paul i. e. a Disciple of Paul another was for Peter a third sort for Apollos whereby they did not so much bandy against one another as oppose the Honour of the Lord Christ who by these Ministers as his Instruments did work their Salvation And therefore for them to have such fierce and vehement Contentions about those who were meerly subordinate and could do nothing but as the Power of Christ did co-operate with them argued these Corinthians notwithstanding their Gifts to be very raw V. 4 7. childish and carnal Christians As the Apostle concludes Chap. 3. For-while one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos are not ye carnal i. e. Are ye not led by very weak and childish Inclinations to make such a Note of Difference among your selves because of your Teachers For who is Paul and who is Apollos but Ministers by whom i. e. by whose Ministry and Preaching ye believed even as the Lord gave to every man i. e. according to that ability which God was pleased to distribute to each of his Ministers to him therefore the sole Honour is due and not to be factiously ascribed to any of his Servants as the Apostle further argues I have planted i. e. laid amongst you the Foundation of Christian Faith Apollos hath wateved i.e. by his Eloquence for we read that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 18.25 i. e. a well spoken man Apollos hath added a Verdure and Freshness to my Doctrine and made it spring up amongst you But saith he God gave the increase i. e. made it fruitful and effectual From whence it followes that neither he that planteth is any thing i. e. to be esteemed and solely gloried in nor he that watereth but God who giveth the increase Having thus convinced them of their Folly as well as sin in making Schismes upon such ill-grounded pretences he proceeds in this Chapter to take notice of a great Disorder which they committed even at the time of the Sacrament for there when they should have acted in the highest Love and Coudescention towards each other yet then they brought their Contentions and Animosities along with them and made the Publick Assembly for so I understand the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 since the Christians as yet had no publick Places of Resort but met as they could in Private Houses witnesses of their unchristian Discord When ye come together in the Church saith he i. e. as Iunderstand it in the Rublick Assembly I hear that there be Divisions among you and though it might seem a thing almost impossible at that time when you come to receive the Lords Supper and in that Place when all the Faithful are met together there should be any so bold Defyers of Christian Charity and Order as then and there to vent their Discontents and manifest an ambitious Strife yet saith he I partly believe it For there must also be Heresies amongst you c. And therefore I do not much wonder if you begin so early in Schism and Separation The words contain Two Parts 1. A Prediction There must be Heresies 2. One Reason or Ground of it That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. those that are approved and sincere may be made manifest Doct. The Position or Doctrine that I intend to insist on is That in the Church of Christ there is an unavoidable necessity of heresies Luke 17.1 As our Saviour saith of Offences 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. It is unchanceable or it cannot happen but they must come So say I of Heresies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is impossible to avoid it but they will come To clear up this I shall explain these two things 1. What is meant by Heresies 2. What are the Grounds or Reasons why in the Church of Christ they are so fatally necessary For the First viz. What is Heresie Some hold it is impossible to be defined amongst whom was Austin Others define it to be Sententia humano sensu electa Scripturae Sacrae contraria palam edocta pertinaciter defensa i. e. Mat. Paris p. 874. An Opinion chosen by a mans own Understanding contrary to the holy Scriptures openly taught and obstinately defended Which is the Desinition of Grosthead the Learned Bishop of Lincolne who for his singular Zeal in opposing the Popes Usurpations in England was stiled Romanorum Malleus Contemptor With this Desinition because of the Learning and Vertue of its Author I should acquiesce but that all who have got long possession of any Tenet charge Dissenters with the name of Hereticks and every one who maintains any singular Opinion doth endeavour to back it with Authority of Scripture And therefore without attending to Conclusions of others the best way to understand aright the nature and meaning of Heresie will be to have recourse our selves unto the Scripture from whence alone we had the first Notice of such a thing I mean as it is a thing criminal and damnable In the Scripture I find the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be vox mediae significationis and to signifie any Opinion indifferently whether good or bad Acts 15.17 Thus we read of the heresie of the Sadduces and the heresie of the Pharisees And Paul mentions it of himself by way of honour Acts 15.5 Acts 26.5 according to the most exact or accurate heresie or Opinion of our Religion I lived a Pharisee But for the most part the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken in an ill sense to signifie an Opinion repugnant to the sense of Scripture and likewise destructive of the Civil Peace Thus when Tertullus would blast the Repute of Christian Religion before Felix the Roman Deputy he cals it an heresie We have saith he Acts 24 5. speaking in behalf of the Jews against Paul found this man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very Pest and one that moveth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sedition or uproar amongst the Jews throughout the world and a chief Leader of the Sect or Heresie of the Nazarenes So doth he in contempt call the Christians as being the followers of Jesus of Nazareth which was a Name of Disgrace and Obloquy among them As Paul testifies of himself whilst he was yet an Unbeliever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I thought with my self Acts 26.9 that I ought to do many things against the Name of Jesus of Nazareth In this sense is the word Heresies to be understood Gal. 5.20 21. when by the Apostle they are reckoned among Works of the Flesh and they are joyned with Strife Seditions Wrath Envyings which are the usual Attendants of Heresie Now because Works of the flesh are of two sorts either such as flow from the fleshly Understanding as the Apostle cals corrupt Reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Understanding of the Flesh or such as flow from the