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heart_n	accuse_v	law_n	nature_n	2,158	5	6.6427	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42999	Self-contradiction censured, or, A caveat against inconstancy, and the inconsistent contrariety of the same mens pretences, principles, opinions and practices dialogue-wise digested into a deliberative discourse between affection and judgement : and intended to serve as spiritual physick for two great diseases of phanatick spirits, hypocritical deceitfulness, and enthusiastical delusion / by Christopher Harvey ...	Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663.; Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663. Aphēniastēs.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1044; ESTC R19273	60,139	192

discovered in his words and actions which ought no more to be rejected or despised then pearls in a dunghil to be troden under foot And though it be true which you alledg that every tree is known by his own fruit and that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh to which you may add that of St. James Jam. 3.11 12. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Can a fig-tree bear olive berries either a vine figs so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh Yet withall you must remember what the Prophet Jeremiah saith The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jer. 17.9 and St. Paul Gal. 6.3 4. If a man think himself to be somthing when he is nothing he deceiveth himself But let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another A regenerate man hath not one fountain alone in him but two a fountain of nature and a fountain of grace and that of nature is never so quite dried up in this life but that it will sometimes be dropping if not pouring out some of its own salt bitter water And though unregenerate men be not trees of righteousness that planting of the Lord which bringeth forth spiritual fruits of grace yet many times there may be gathered from them those blossoms of truth and buds of moral obedience which a sanctified servant of God for the matter of his opinions and proctises need neither be ashamed nor afraid to use and having brought them as metal to the royal standard of the word and tryed them there if the fault appear to be want of weight or fineness onely he may let them pass for good bullion though not for currant coin And if every tree be known by his own fruit it is not enough to look upon the fruit but we must tast it too that we may know what kinde the tree is of And when we have all done it is not the tasting of some fruit alone that can assure us the rest that comes from the same tree is all of the same kinde unless withal we can certainly tell whether the stock and branches all grow naturally of themselves together or have been graffed on Nay rather by the different tast of the fruit we may perswade our selves that either the sap is not the same wherewith it was nourished or not alike conveyed unto it SECT XXXV A multitude must not be followed to do evil nor the doing of good abstained from though it be to avoid the society of a multitude of evil doers otherwise Aff. THis that you say per adventure may be true concerning the opinions and practices of some few particular persons that I should not take them upon trust from them that are generally well esteemed of nor reject them because they come from such men as are commonly ill reported of but what shall I do when I see such opinions and practises generally received or rejected by whole multitudes it may be by all that I either know or have heard of to be such Judg. In such a case you have the less cause to be doubtful but yet withall take heed you be not too confident for you must not follow a multitude to do evil no nor abstain from doing good though it be to avoid the society of a multitude of evil doers otherwise A multitude of honest well meaning men may be led aside out of the wayes of truth and holiness into the by-paths of errour and wickedness by the subtil suggestions of a few deceivers and the devil himself doth not alwayes work so powerfully in the children of disobedience but that some good opinions and practises may be retained even amongst whole multitudes of them Thus for the former ten of the twelve men that were sent to search the land of Canaan bringing up an evil report of the land which they had searched set all the congregation of the children of Israel on murmuring so that Caleb and Joshuah could not stil them yet Moses Aaron regarded not the greater number nay God himself took part with the two against the ten Numb 13. and 14. Two hundred men out of Jerusalem that went in their simplicity and knew not any thing were drawn into action of rebellion against David by his traiterous son Absolom and the conspiracy was strong saith the text for the people increased continually with Absolom 2 Sam. 15.11 12. One Benjamite a man of Belial Sheba the son of Bichri with a blast of a trumpet and a words speaking draws all the men of Israel to go up from after David to follow him even then when they were in the heat of their quarrel with the men of Judah for pretending more interest in David then themselves were willing to acknowledge that they had 2 Sam. 19. and 20. When Peter at Antioch withdrew and separated himself fearing them that were of the circumcision the other Jews dissembled likewise with him insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation yet St. Paul withstood him to his face and sticks not to say plainly that he was to be blamed and that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel Gal. 2.11 c. So for the later The Pharisees though hypocrites and such as had made the word of God of none effect by their traditions yet in the point of the resurrection were so orthodox that in behalf thereof they make a party for St. Paul against the Sadducess Acts 23.6 c. Thus Festus saith It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die before that he which is accused have accusers face to face and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime layd against him Acts 25.16 and verse 27. It seemeth unto me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not withal to signifie the crimes laid against him Though the Romans were in other things given up unto a reprobate minde as St. Paul complains Rom. 1.28 yet this care in the publick administration of justice to proceed not upon suspicions or surmises but secundum allegata probata was nothing the less commendable in them or necessary to be practised by others For as the same Apostle speaks Rom. 2.14 15. When the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law these having not the law are a law unto themselves Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another Therefore as it followes verse 27. Shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfil the law judge thee who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law And as our Saviour Mat. 12.41 42. threateneth the Jews that the men of Nineve and the Queen of the south shall rise up in judgement with them and