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A43041	Truth may be blam'd but not sham'd a sermon upon Matth. 16 v.13, 14, 15, 16 : wherein truth and errour are brought upon the stage act their parts / by William Harvey, minister of the Word.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1094; ESTC R36593	16,440	45

element of water in its proper place is not heavy As for example Let a man dive to the bottom of a river and he cometh up with ease yet let the same man take but a bucket and fill it with water and he will finde the carrlage ponderous and troublesom Thus is it in once accustomed to sin whilst he is in that element as I may so speak though whole seas of impiety cover him he is insensible of the burthen but if one by divine assistance he cometh out through a sence of his deplorable condition he will then say with David Mine iniquities are gone over my head as an heavy burthen they are to heavy for me Psalm 38.4 What should we do then in this case what remedy for this sore Only Caveat emptor beware how thou makest thy bargain with Sin The foreman in the shop is Sathan and he cannot away with returns of his bad ware What is that to us see thou to that said the chief priests and elders to Judas after he had betrayed his Master and was troubled in conscience Matth. 27.4 Thou wilt one day say to the Devil and thy sins as Job sometime to his Friends Miserable comforters are you all Sin is like a storm at sea first there are leves undae small waves after that majora volumina greater volumes of water and at last fluctus ad coelum surges mounting up to heaven The first committing of sin is not so dangerous as a frequent and common perpetration A man may wash himself nigh the shore yea he may go so far as he can well wade without danger but if he once step beyond his depth it must be a hand of providence if he be saved And we should the rather be wary in regard of the proneness of our nature to sin All the imaginations of our hearts are only evil continually Gen. 6. And without grace it is as natural for us to sin as for ponderous things to tend downwards Can we then be too careful to fall into that whereto we have so facil and genuine a disposition so innate and inbred faculty The dogs of Aegypt drink of the river Nilus as they run for fear of a Crocadile and shall we lye down and drink our fill of sin when that Crocadile Sathan is ready to devour us and especially when it is a work of power to reclaim us God forbid To conclude the point Concerning the opinions in my Text and the fond conceits which the people through custom and use had of Christ let us wash our hands of them and cordially pray From all Sedition and privie conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresy from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us In the interim let us be constant to our principles and like oaks withstand all windes of contrary tenents which are disconsonant to the analogie of faith And let us always remember that of S. Paul For there must be also heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you 1 Cor. 11.19 And Ephes 4.14 That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every winde of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive And so I come to the confession of the Apostles in the name and person of Peter vers 15 16. He saith unto them The Apostles confession but whom say ye that I am And Simon Peter answered and said Thou art Christ the Son of the living God This confession or responsion we have first from the principle efficient cause which was S. Peter And it is amplified from the adjunct his proper name Simon and by his sirname Peter which signifieth a rock as Mark 3.16 And Simon he sirnamed Peter So Luke 6.14 Simon whom he also named Peter And Cephas in the Hebrew or as the Learned say rather in the Sy●iack tongue is all one with Peter in the Greek and signifieth a rock or stone Now in that Peter is the mouth of the rest of the Apostles and their spoaksman it was not because he thought himself the chief of his brethren no he never dreamed any such thing u Quia ardore Christi praecipou servens ad faciendum ad respondendum paratissimus erat Cyrill lib. 12. in Johan neither was he taken with that ●ectick fever but as Cyril hath it Because being more fervent in the love of Christ he was most ready to make and give an answer Again in that he alone made answer in the name of the rest of the Apostles For x Fides catholica una est ubicunque apud quoscunque fie Ideo conveniens fuit confessionem ejus per unum fieri liee● illu esset fides multorum Tostar super locum Quest 56. wheresoever and with whomsoever it is found It was therefore sit the Confession of Christ to be made by one although it were the belief of many To confirm the same we have the like Confession John 6.69 Where though Saint Peter speaks only yet he delivereth it in the plural number And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God Secondly here is the form of the confession Thou art are Christ the Son of the living God Which confession though it be in few words the matter is high and sublime for in it is contained that great mystery of God made man and the person and office of our Saviour First Christ is God coequal and coessential with the Father and the Holy Ghost To this end he is called The only begotten of the Father John 1.14 Thus is he begotten of the essence of his Father from all eternity Psal 2.7 Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And the Text Thou art Christ the Son of the living God He is said to be the Living God y Secundum supereminentiam qua superemines omnibus habe●tibus vitam quemad modum solus habet immortalitatem Orig. according to his Supereminency wherein he is above all living as one that hath only immortality and is the fountain of life So S. John Chap. 14.6 I am the way the truth and the life And he is called the living God also z Ad comparationem corum deorum qui putantur dii sed mortui sunt Saturnum dico Jovem Venerem coetera idolorum portenta Hier. in comparison of those gods who are thought to be gods but are all dead I say Saturn Jupiter and Venus and the other forms of idols S. Paul Heb. 1.3 hath it Who being the brightnesse of his glory and the expresse image of his person But to put all out of doubt the Apostle hath this dilemma Colos 1.16 For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things wers created by him and for him Saint

TRUTH May be blam'd but not sham'd A SERMON Upon Matth. 16. v. 13 14 15 16. Wherein Truth and Errour are brought upon the Stage acting their parts By WILLIAM HARVEY Minister of the Word O foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the Truth c. Gal. 3.1 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Chap. 4.16 Quid de quoquo viro cui dicas saepe caveto LONDON Printed for the Authour 1657. Collegium S. Set Individuce Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Matth. 16 Chap. vers 13 14 15 16. When Jesues came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying Whom do men say that I the Son of man am And they said So me say that thou art John the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the prophets He saith unto them but whom say ye that I am and Simon Peter answered and said Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God IN these words we have two questions with their answers The questions are one and the same but the answers are distinct and different accoring to the different Spirits of the Common people and of the Apostles Both respond as they thought and as their genious prompt them The Apostles give in the judgement of the vulgar which is various and divers and they in the person of Peter wrapt as it were in the Clouds and their tongues touched with a Coal from the altar give in theirs viz. Thou art Christ the Son of the living God But first let us come to the plebeans and hear what opinions the vulgar had of our Saviour We have them in the thirteenth and fourteenth verses Some say that thou art John the Baptist Some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets To omit all other Circumstances of time and place where and when The external impulsive cause or occasion of the giving in of the peoples judgement was our Lords interrogation whom do men say that I the son of man am Or as S. Mark hath it whom do men say that I am Chap. 8. vers 27. Or as S. Luke whom say the people that I am Chap. 9. vers 18. By Son of man Christ meant himself which word is usual in Scripture and is expressed by the Prophet Daniel chap. 7. v. 13. I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of man came with the Clouds of heaven and came to the antient of dayes and they brought him neer before him And all this to intimate and point unto us that he was born man of the blessed Virgin Mary in all things like unto us Sin only excepted as the Apostle hath it Heb. 2. chap. vers 14 The end of his interrogation or question was not sinister as affecting popular applause or vain glory neither was it because he was ignorant of the peoples thoughts of him For he needed not that any should testifie of man for he knew what was in man John 2. chap. vers 25. But hearing the various conceits of the inconstant people he might the more fully and rightly inform them in the same The answer of the Apostles is fourfold a many headed Hidra which they give in the name of the Common people Some say that thou are John the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the prophets Now John was a notable Doctour a man for holinesse of life innocency and sharpness in his reproofs above all in his time This John Herod not long before causeth to be put to death Our Lord treading in his steps and exceeding him in innoceney austerity in reproving of Sin and vehemency in his reprehensions the Common people conceited and perswaded themselves that he was very John the Baptist risen again from the dead so Luke chap. 9. vers 7. Because it was said of some that John was risen from the dead With which fond opinion Herod himself was big Matth 14.2 This is John the Baptist he is risen from the dead therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him Others took him for Elias that noble and heroick prophet in the time of king Ahab and Jezabel who slew the prophets of Baal smote the waters of Jordan and possed over as on dry ground and as too good for earth is carried in a fiery Charet to heaven 2 Kings 2.11 Thus we read Mark 6.15 Others said that it is Elias c. The ground of this mistake is the words in Malachi 4. chap. 5. verse Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. The Jews hereupon falsly imagined our Saviour to be that Tishbite come from heaven and so that prophesie of the prophet accomplished Thirdly others again think him to be Jeremias a prophet who was not onely ordained from his mothers womb to preach and prophesy to the people hut the whole course of this life was a free reprehending the sins and enormities of the times He prophesied the destruction of the Temple and the captivity of the Jewes in Babylon A sad Omen to as sad a consequence which they found too true by sad experience Christ therefore with the like zeal reprehending the priests and foreshewing the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem it self that most populous and flourishing Citie hence they blindly surmise him to be Jeremias Lastly others without positive affirming him to be this or that particular shoot their bol● and blindly say that he is one of the prophets So we read Luke 7.16 And there came a fear on all and they glorified God saying that a great prophet is risen among us and that God hath visited his people And Luke 9.8 And of some that Elias had appeared and of others that one of the old prophets was risen again And John 6.14 This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world And thus you have the several and promiscuous judgements of the people concerning our blessed Lord. All give in their verdict but rove at random and misse the white Yet the Commons although they err'd and and to use Chrysostoms words multo humilior quam opporteba●eorum de Christo erat opinio a nequitia tamen libera erat their opinion concerning Christ was far beneath him notwithstanding it was without tincture of wickedness On the contrary the opinion of the Pharisees savour'd of much malice For they said he was a Samaritan and had a devil and did eject devils through Beelz bub the prince of the devils Luke the 11th 15. John 8.48 And so I come to the Observations in the Text. First then it were not amiss after the example of our Saviour when he said whom do men say that I the Son of man am for us upon occasion to question and enquire what others speak of us to understand the several vo'es of the people and to hear their resolves that so we may take off all occasions of scandals in time and