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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73285	A sermon, pointing out the chiefe causes, and cures, of such unruly stirres, as are not seldome found in the church of God Preached at Sawston in the countie of Cambridge, at the arch deacon of Elie his visitation held there, upon the nineteenth day of September, 1638. By Iohn Swan.	Swan, John, d. 1671.	1639 (1639)	STC 23515; ESTC S125547	12,451	34

A SERMON POINTING OVT THE CHIEFE Causes and Cures of such unruly Stirres as are not seldome found in the Church of God Preached at SAWSTON in the Countie of Cambridge at the Arch Deacon of Elie his Visitation held there upon the nineteenth day of September 1638. By IOHN SWAN ACTS 20.30 Of your owne selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them LONDON Printed by I.D. and are to be sold by Daniel Pakeman at the signe of the Raine-bow in Fleet-street neere the Temple gate 1639. A SERMON POINTING OVT the chiefe Causes and Cures of such unruly Stirres as are not seldome found in the Church of God ACTS 20.30 Of your owne selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them WHen I consider the course that was taken by the greatest Visitour that ever was I cannot but observe that the only way to make Religion take the more place among the people is to cleanse the Church of ignorant erronious Schismaticall and vitious Priests Luk. 19.41.45 For when Ierusalem was out of order and that the Saviour of the World sheds teares at the sight thereof hee travels to the Temple as pointing to the cause and there begins his zealous Reformation in which I doubt not but hee hath set a patterne for after-ages to see that those among us bee likewise of us lest otherwise the Sheepe which wee are set to keepe from wandring doe stray from what is right I held it but my dutie therefore to make choice of such a text as in the handling might somewhat serve to scrutinize the cause of such unruly stirres as are not seldome found in the Church of God And not to bee long before I bring you to it it was as you know the fourth Station mentioned in this Chapter which was the most famous and remarkable For when Saint Paul was come to Melitum and had sent for the Elders of Ephesus thither hee sounds forth a Goncio valedictoria or a patheticall Vale to those Churches which hee was then about to leave and hath it chiefly in his heart and tongue that They whom hee left behind him should both looke unto themselves and the Cures committed to their charge imitating herein that fatherly love which carefull Parents use to afford to their deare children Impii enim essent Parentes qui liberos à se genitos non etiam summa cura alerent morituri illis in posterum quoque non prospicerent From which this our Apostle was free enough and therefore labours what hee can to provide well for the Church in the dayes and yeares which were to bee after him He speakes to them all assembled but chiefly to those who were not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which though Saint Hierom writing to Evagrius passed over yet it no way appeareth that either Sosipater Aristarchus Secundus Gaius Timotheus Tichicus or Trophimus all mentioned at the fourth verse were departed from him Doroth. Synops ubi narratur quod Sosipater erat Episcopus Iconii Timotheus Episcopus Ephesi Tychicus Chalcedone Bithyniae Three of which are certainly knowne to bee Episcopi as Doretheus hath recorded Nor was a fourth but a Bishop afterwards as in the same authour well appeareth For Ephesiorum Episcopus post Timotheum Gaius factus est Now as in this his Sermon hee useth many arguments to stirre them unto heed and watchfulnesse so chiefly two in which hee prophesieth First that after his departure grievous Wolves should enter in among them not sparing the Flocke And secondly that from among themselves also should arise men speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them My text then is the latter of these two Prophecies and is so much the more lamentable by how much the parties pointed out are the neerer to that body which they rise against I shall name it therefore in the generall Vaticinium pro certo flebile a sad mournfull prophesie and shall consider in it First the persons seducing Secondly the parties seduced The persons seducing Men that shall arise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from among your selves The parties seduced The Disciples which they draw after them The first as Ring-leaders The second as they that follow The first as Heads the second as the Bodie of a fatall Faction The first as those from whom a man would thinke farre better things should bee expected The second as they who might have beene farre otherwise if they had beene as is required better instructed In the first observe with me these five particulars 1. The Denomination of the Agents Men. 2. Their Manifestation Shall arise 3. Their Vnde or Originall From among your selves 4. Their Qualification Actions or Behaviour Speaking perverse things And all this fiftly and lastly to helpe forward their intention which is To draw away Disciples after them And then secondly for the parties seduced we have also their Denomination first and their miserable condition next For though they be intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as were those of Christs owne schoole yet are they but the Disciples of them who vexe the peace of their holy Mother by speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them These I make the parts And of these as severally and distinctly as shall best sute to the present occasion 1. And loe here 's first of all an inviting title a promising and faire Denomination Wolves in the former verse Men in this And though there the name bee enough to wipe away the hope of any gentle or humane actions yet here 's a name which in it selfe proclaimes invites and calls to an expectation of better doings 2. But because a beautifull front may sometimes prove deceitfull and bee as Pandora's box faire without and foule within 't is fit we take a second step viewing their persons as they come abroad to present themselves on the stage before us And sure faire weather still appeares for Men may arise and shew themselves and yet no danger 3. No thirdly though their Vnde or original be verely and indeed from among our selves For did not Moses arise and stand in the gap to turne away the wrath of God from his people Nay did not Aaron arise with a Censer in his hand take fire from the Altar put Incense therein to make an attonement and standing betwixt the living and the dead the plague was ceased Phineas also rose up in zeale executed judgement and so befriended the sad sicke sorrowfull dying multitude 4. Thus they And if all else could thus honour their Manifestation and Originall there had beene a want of those many wounds with which the Daughters of Ierusalem doe not seldome vex the quiet peace of their holy Mother But the text goes fourthly farther clouds each faire former promise with a sad Catastrophe and though it be a fatall prophesie to relate of such an off spring yet Inimici hominis Domestici ejus Our harmes are foretold to