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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79875	Leaven, corrupting the childrens bread; or Christs caveat to beware of sectaries and their dangerous doctrines. In two sermons on Mark 8. 15. The former preached in the Cathedrall Church of Lincoln, at the lecture, on Wednesday, October 1. 1645. The latter in another auditorie. / By John Clarke, B. D. and pastor of the church of Fiskerton, neere Lincoln.	Clarke, John, d. 1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing C4477A; Thomason E354_15; ESTC R201098	49,476	63

cultus scientiam vel habere ipsi debent vel aliis infundere Vinc. Lirin cap. 27. where he excellently paraphraseth the whole text as also cap. 33 34. Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain bablings and oppositions of science falsely so called which some professing have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 6.20.21 2 Tim. 2.14 16 17. Charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit but to the subverting of the hearers Shun profane and vain bablings for they will increase unto more ungodlinesse And their word will eat as doth a canker And the Reasons are three Reas 1 1 Because even good people are supinely slothfull shamefully carelesse and remisse in spirituall matters of most deep concernment and therefore as in civil businesses when we feare heedlesse forgetting we use to give a charge withall so Isaack to his son Jacob not to take a wife of the Canaanites Gen. 28.6 S. Paul chargeth the Thessalonians lest they should throw by his letter at their heeels 1 Thes 5.27 So here in our Text is an ingeminated caveat and charge withall lying on the Disciples to take heed and beware of soul-leavening Doctrine (r) Et post haec invenientur aliqui tanta inveteratae frontis duritia tanta impudentiae incude tam adamantinae pertinaciae qui tantis cloquiorum coelestium molibus non succumbant tantis ponderibus non fatiscant tantis malleis non conquassentur tantis postremo fulminibus non conterantur Vinc. Lirin cap. 26. whereby as with a threefold cord our blessed Saviour would bind them to a constant conscionable vigilancie over their ears hearts minds affections whensoever they should light in company of fall into discourse with Pharisaicall teachers or heare them expounding opening and applying Scripture that so their ears being discreet porters to their soul might not suffer soul murdering doctrine to enter in but hold it out as Elisha adviseth in another case 2 Kin. 6.32 O they are very cunning that hunt souls and we had need set a strong guard over our souls that we may not be taken napping surprized unawares by any Sirenly incantations of inchanting seducers (Å¿) devita quasi viperam quasi scorpionem quasi basiliscum ne te non solum tactu sed etiam visu afflatuque percutiant Vinc. Lit. cap. 33. factious sectaries though they charme never so wisely 'T is our wisdome to forestall error have our veins filled spirits strengthened against poyson to have our mouth in tast our palate seasoned with heavenly Manna that we need not long for Egyptian garlick onions trash nor care at all to look on tast much less swallow or digest sowr leaven but stomach-boak spirit rise at the sight of error as unpleasing heart burning heavy bread 2 Because of the proclivity of mens the best mens nature as to al kind of evil so to the evil of error (t) natura hominis corrupti tam facile admittit errores quam fomes igniarius concipit ignem Ames in 2 Pet. 2. apt to be seduced ready to take any impressions to be cast into any mould that hath but the appearance of a strict way our bodies are not proner to dangerous diseases then our souls to be seduced by every unsound doctrine Wondrous apt we are to rove turn aside unto crooked ways to embrace be taken with the worst the foulest heresies our hearts are like tow fals doctrin is like a spark if we do not keep them asunder al will instantly be in combustion The best meal is soon leavened sweet dough soon sowred the purest linnen soonest sullied the most fresh complexion soonest seized on by the plague 'T is observed in times of infection that children are soonest smitten tainted with pox meazles or any contagious disease and most and oftenest die and the reason is because their spirits are weaker and nature lesse able to resist or expell infection Ther 's a sympathie in our corrupt nature to corrupt doctrine it savoureth well (u) etiam ipse sapor ex acido et falso mixtus concoctionem irritat et acuit Chemnit Harm cap 61. is like and likenesse is one cause of love whereas the wisdome of the flesh is enmity against God and truths of God 'T is an easie matter to trundle a boul down the hil facilis descensus Averni There is a propensity and disposition in the heart of men the best men to swerve and deviate from the truth a root of bitternesse an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God a principle of Apostasie and therefore had need to have a back-byas to withdraw counter-poyze preserve and keep the soul upright in the wayes of God and truths of God All advises counsels exhortations perswasions charges caveats are little enough to keep us from being seduced perverted All barres gates are doores and drawbridges and works and courts of Guard too little to keep our treacherous spirits of Errour within from having correspondence or intelligence with that spirit of errour that is and will be tampering with us from without 3 Because Satan himself the great grandsire of all hereticks is a subtil restlesse spirit of a reaching pate and can make use of always men means to further his ends advance set up his kingdome he can make religion it self to overthrow religion conscience it self to destroy conscience reformation of a church to deform a church builders to be destroyers and Ministers of the Gospel of being converters to become perverters subverters of their hearers And we may be sure at such a time as this he will improve his utmost skill policie tricks stratagems and set his wits on the tenters to inveigh and seduce teachers guides Apostles messengers of the church angels if he can but taint the rams of the flock with his scab of errour all is his own silly sheep follow the leaders His aime is at the white pigeons in the flight fight neither against small nor great but the king of Israel miles feri faciem He assayeth to draw down the stars of heaven with his tail Rev. 12.4 To poyson the fountains leaven the teachers is he well knoweth a speeding way Isa 3.12 O my people they which lead thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy paths Hereupon he tutors his agents factors familiars to propine and propound their pernitious doctrines devilish designes with all efficacie of errour 2 Thes 2.29 10. deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse with all power and signes and lying wonders that 't is ten to one but they shall and will take and seduce if it were possible even the elect Mar. 13.22 For Use of this point viz. Instruction in 3 particulars Exhortation 1. 1. Vse Instruct Take notice from hence of the miserable corruption of mans nature that even the best of men stand in such need of charging warning taking heed of being leavened with unwholsome doctrines O how