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heart_n	depart_v	evil_a	unbelief_n	2,143	5	10.6595	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93790	Halting stigmatiz'd in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons on the monethly fast day, Octob. 25. 1643. at Margarets Westminster. By Arthur Salvvey, pastour of Severne-stoake in the county of Worcester. Published by order of the said House.	Salwey, Arthur, b. 1605 or 6.	1644 (1644)	Wing S522; Thomason E77_13; ESTC R17704	11,333	28

his reasoning had not been cogent for they might have replied Nay but we will suspend we perceive that we are in a snare If we Serve Iehovah we shall displease Ahab and if we worship Baal we shall offend you it will be our wisdome to serve neither Honourable and Beloved in matters civill we have sometimes a latitude and libertie of suspension but in Religion there is a necessitie of determination and resolution The Scripture speakes out Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God and serve him Deut. 6.13 As I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me Isa 45.23 As the Neuter is abominable so the halting Vterque is not to be indured that divideth betweene God and Baal God will not allow of any dividing either in the Object or Terminus of worship as he will be worshipped so he will be worshipped solely Thou shalt have no other Gods but me The Lord is a jealous God and will indure no corrivall Jealousie is the rage of a man and he will not spare in the day of his wrath Prov. 6.34.35 God lookes upon divided worship as no worship It is said of those Idolaters spoken of 2 King 17. in one vers that they feared God and worshipped their Idols and in the vers immediately following That they feared not God 2 King 17.33.34 and 1 Zeph. 5. The Lord severely threatned such as did sweare by the Lord and by Malcham As the Lord cannot indure dividing in the Terminus of worship so he hates dividing in the rule of worship and the worship it selfe The halting Vterque that makes the Scripture a partiall rule of worship that worshippeth God partly after the prescript of the word and partly according to the Dictates of his owne carnall reason cannot performe any acceptable service to Almightie God See thou doe all things according to the patterne was the command of God unto Moses Heb. 8.5 Will-worship is vaine worship In vaine doe they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandements of men Matth. 15.9 This corrupt mingling in Gods worship was prohibited Levit. 19.19 As God will be worshipped solely and wholly so he will be worshipped constantly as he hates a Neuter and Vterque so he cannot indure a Waverer The Lord commands us to hold fast our profession without wavering Heb. 10.23 When we have proved all things we must hold fast that which is good 1 Thes 5.21 Inconstancy in Religion is a very evill thing whether you consider the sinne of it or the punishment which is due to it It cometh from evill it tends to evill It cometh from evill as from the generall fountaine of all actuall sinnes originall corruption so particularly from that evill heart of unbeliefe whereby we depart from the living God Heb. 3.12 It tends to evill both in respect of sinne and punishment It is dishonourable unto God It is a high impeachment of his glorious attributes It wrongs God in his wisedome justice mercy power goodnesse faithfulnesse as if God were not worthy of our firmest resolutions and most constant adherence in a word of our poore All or as if he were either unable or unwilling to revenge himselfe upon inconstant halters As it dishonours God so it discredits Religion it brings an ill report upon the holy waies of God as those Spies brought an ill report upon the good Land of Canaan as if the waies of God were unpleasant or his service unprofitable As it is dishonourable unto God and unto Religion so it is hurtfull unto themselves It hurts the Wavering Christian in his conscience if conscience be ●ot in a dead sleepe it will speake bitter things unto the backslider it will say unto him If the Lord be not God why dost thou serve him at all and if he be God and worthy of thy service why dost thou not serve him alwaies The backslider in heart shall be filled with his owne waies Prov. 14.14 When I say conscience is throughly awakened it will fill the soule with most exquisite torments It hurts us in our credits what greater ignominy then the brand of inconstancy There goes a shifter a turncoate an Apostatizing hypocrite what can render a man more stigmatically odious what makes the devill so black but his Apostasie In a word it hurts us temporally and eternally It subjects us to a thousand miseries in this life and to everlasting punishment in the world to come What are the causes of so many sad changes in our present outward condition surely this is not the least even our changeablenesse in Religion When they chose new Gods then was warre in the gates Iudg. 5.8 It subjects the soule and body unto everlasting perdition in hell there to indure the punishments both of losse and sense It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God who is a jealous God and a consuming fire such as draw backe to unbeliefe they doe it to the perdition of their soules Heb. 10.23.26.27.39 Nothing is more just then that Iesus Christ should deny us before God his Father and all his holy Angels and blessed Saints if we deny him before men The fearefull and unbelieving shall be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death Revel 21.8 I proceed unto Application First Vse 1 It serveth for the sharpe Reprehension not only of the Idolatrous Papists who divide between God and Baal in their Image-worship Saint-worship Bread-worship in their monstrous doctrine asserting the Popes infallibilitie some of them blasphemously affirming that of the man of sinne which the Israelites spoken of in my text after conviction did righly acknowledge concerning the true God The Lord he is the God the Lord he is the God 1 King 18.39 So some of them have called the Bishop of Rome Dominus Deus noster Papa Our Lord God the Pope Blush ye heavens at this prodigious blasphemy Are there not also titular Protestants among us who divide between God and Baal in their presence at the Idolatrous Masse and marrying with Idolatrous Papists are there not multitudes in this Land that worship God after the traditions of men or that are formall and luke-warme in the use of Gods ordinances or that are miserably inconstant in Religion and the high concernments thereof I wish that I had not just cause to take up a very sad cōplaint against the generality of the people of this Land how much forwardnesse did they professe in the beginning of this Parliament in their Petitions and Protestations for the maintenance of the true Reformed Protestant Religion opposition of Popery and superstition defence of the Laws of the Land Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament but I may now say of them as the Apostle spake of his Galatians in another case Where is the blessednesse you spake of Gal. 4.15 Whē the Lycaonians saw the miracle that Paul wrought in curing the Creeple then they cryed out The Gods are come downe amongst us in the likenesse of