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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31442	A late great shipwrack of faith occasioned by a fearful wrack of conscience discovered in a sermon preached at Pauls the first day of July, 1655 / by Dan. Cawdrey.	Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664.	1655 (1655)	Wing C1632; ESTC R23918	31,017	42

That a corrupt heart makes a corrupt head An unsound heart makes an unsound judgement Let us now proceed to the Application 5. Application Use 1. To shew the Depravation of our Nature 1. Take notice of the miserable and lamentable Depravation of our nature since our first Father affected too much knowledge to be like God knowing good and evil We are now our own worst enemies and our corruptions begins at our selves It is a question yet no great question Whither Adams understanding or his affections were first corrupted This is certain that both wayes now we are subject to corruption Sometimes the head corrupts the heart A corrupt judgement corrupts the affections Without sound knowledge the minde is not good Prov. 19.2 Sometimes the heart affections or conscience corrupt the judgement As it is in nature there is a mutual influx or influence of the head upon the stomack by distillations of ill humors and of the stomack upon the head by ascension of ill somes or vapors and both wayes the health of the body is endangered So is it in the soul a corrupt head or an ill principled judgement corrupts the heart and life evil doctrines as evil words corrupt good manners like Gangrens that eat and fret away the vitals of Religion and the power of Godliness The Apostle was speaking of some that were infected with this cursed principle That there should be no resurrection What influence would this doctrine have upon the heart and life See vers 32. Let us eat and drink for to morrow we dye and there an end of us and all Be not deceived sayes he evil communications evil doctrinal principles corrupt good manners 1 Cor. 15.33 The judgement thus corrupted corrupts the heart and life And contrarily a corrupt heart or life corrupts the head some evil practises sophisticate the judgement and both wayes the health and salvation of the soul is hazarded Use 2. To manifest the Reason of the prevalence of of errors at all times 2. We may cease to wonder for we see the reason why seducers prevail so much upon people and why the Church in all times hath been pestered with so much error and false opinions The hearts and lives of men corrupt their heads and judgements Not to look too far back into the Primitive times see it of latter dayes in the prevalence of Popery upon the world The Apostle foretold it should come to pass in the last dayes 1 Tim. 4.1 The spirit speaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith and shall give heed no errors and doctrines of divels which speak lies through hypocrisie What 's the occasion of it Having their consciences seared with an hote iron Their consciences were scorched and seared with grose sins and then they corrupted the faith to heal them whole again So 2 Thess 2.10 Because they received not the love of the truth therefore God sent them strong delusion that they should believe a lye vers 12. They believed not the truth Why because they had pleasure in unrighteousness We wondered of late times to see so many not simple people onely but learned Clerks and Rabbies to turn P●pists Arminians Cosin-germanes of Papists we needed not if we had considered that their hearts were gone to Rome before and now their heads followed after Were they well examined many of them it would be found they first put away a good conscience before they made shipwrack of the Faith their hearts betrayed their heads Many of them were it s known they were covetous ambitious voluptuous and Popery hath baits of all sorts to catch them that great Harlot and mother of fornications hath a golden cup full of preferments profits pleasures and this made mens heads drunk and giddy to embrace the grossest errors obsurdities for truths Look upon these present times and see what defection from the Faith there is and what sad Apostacy from the old received Truths is to be found amongst us and that not of the common ignorant multitude though they are a daily pr●y to seducers but of old professors who had not onely knowledge in the word as they thought but also a form of godliness in the worst times Our Church of England I mean the professing party in it seemed to me not long ago as a fair great looking glass wherein was represented one onely Image a sweet unanimity and uniformity in judgement and affections But now Oh pitty it s like the same glass broken into many pieces and every one presenting a several Image in so many sects and factions almost as men What may be the matter Truely I think mens hearts have betrayed their heads They had a form and but a form of Godliness denying the power thereof allowing themselves in some open or secret corruption and now justly delivered over to self-pleasing and self-deceiving errors Have you not seen in Summer time upon a tree an Apple or a Pear red and yellow-ripe afore all its fellows Come next morning and you find it on the ground What was the matter Why there was a worm as opening you find at the Core which sucking up all the moysture hastaned the outward ripening and drew away that very sap that should have preserved it on the tree So is it with many professors that in outward shews outrun many times sincere and honest hearted Coristians making a more glorious shew of knowledge and practise then other of their neighbors the stony ground brought forth fruit immediately the good ground with patience but there 's a worme of some lust within that eats out the heart of Religion hypocrisie hastening on to ripeness of profession and then they fall off from the Faith to error It were easie to instance in almost all the present errors and heterodoxe opinions of the times they are oftentimes entertained upon this very ground because they comply with and favor some open or secret lust The Apostle speaking of some novel opinions of those Primitive times so early they began calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 profane as well as vain bablings 2 Tim. 2.16 and sayes they grow to more ungodliness Mark it they suppose and finde profane and ungodly hearts and make them more profane and ungodly hearts that intertain them Do we not see the open looseness of many formerly professing hypocrites as the event discovers Do we not wonder at such and such zealous professors turned not onely erroneous in their judgements but loose and far more licentious in their lives since they fell to these new opinions Take but some few instances of taking opinions which in their very nature are suitable to some mens corruptions I told you heretofore of Hymeneus and Philetus who fell into a gross error Saying that the Resurrection was past already 2 Tim. 2.17 18. And the doctrine took exceedingly Whose words fretted like a Gangrene and overturned and subverted the faith of some And have not we the same errors revived now of