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A seasonable caveat against the dangers of credulity in our trusting the spirits before we try them delivered in a sermon before the King at White-Hall on the first Sunday in February, 1678/9 / by Thomas Pierce ... ; published by His Majesties especial command.
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Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.
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for ought I can collect from the words of Christ Matth. 23.14 and by the words of S. Peter 2 Pet. 2.9 10. If they who hate our Congregations and way of Worship because they judge the Holy Ghost to have forsaken our Meetings and to dwell onely in theirs or because we do not easily shut the Door against Sinners till by Authority authoriz'd though they are under the Reputation either of Drunkenness or Whoredom or any other the like Scandalous and Deadly Sin but not under the Sentence of legal Excommunication till when we cannot lawfully shut them out from our Communion I say if the Censurers of our Patience and Longanimity towards such would but turn their Eyes inwards or duely reflect upon themselves and compare those Sins which the Devil never commits with those several other Sins which are proper to him If they would not onely observe but also remember and consider and religiously lay to heart the terrible Emphasis and force S. Peter puts on the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saying of Them who despise Government that they are chiefly or most especially reserved by the Lord unto the day of Iudgement to be punished and the most formidable Importance of That Greater Damnation which our Saviour has denounced against those Hypocrites who for a Pretence do make long Prayers I say again if our dissenting separating Brethren in love and pity to whose Souls we pray preach for their Conformity would have the Patience and the Humility to chew enough on these things They would think with more Charity of our Communion and with less Arrogance of their own They would not separate from us Then unless for contrary Inducements than now do move them They would separate from us Then in an humble opinion of their own Vileness saying from the heart with the meek Centurion Lord we are not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under our Roof and are by consequence unworthy to have admittance under Thine They would not separate from us Then unless in the Spirit of S. Peter afraid to approach unto Christ himself with a Depart from me O Lord for I am a Sinfull man They would not separate from us Then like those Idolaters in Isaiah with a Stand farther off come not near to us for we are holier than you But rather like the Lepers under the Law of Leprosie would cover their faces with Confusion and stand aloof from God's House accusing themselves of their Vncleanness or like the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Primitive Times of Discipline falling down flat upon their faces not in the Church but the Churchyard at an humble Distance would beg the Charity of Their Prayers whom they saw entring into God's House at the Times of Prayer Were they such Separatists as These and from such a Principle as This from the excesses onely of Meekness and not of Pride we should receive them with the Embraces of Arms and Hearts we should readily afford them even the Right hand of Fellowship we should conclude the Holy Ghost had so descended upon their Souls as once he did upon the Heads of the 12 Apostles or rather upon the Hearts of thâ—se 3000 who at S. Peter's one Sermon were added to them Though not in the Edifying Gifts which were bestowed upon the former yet in the Sanctifying Graces which were infused into the latter § 12. But having spoken enough already of Trying the Spirits in other men I think it fit to say something of Trying them also in our selves For considering the words of the Prophet Ieremy The Heart of man is deceitfull above all things and that 't is given to very few few I mean in comparison to know what Spirits they are of I guess it concerns us all in general and every one of us in particular to resume the whole Text and bring it home unto our selves to search and try our own Hearts and to examin our own Spirits whether or no they are of God 'T was the Precept of Pythagoras to every man of his Sect that he should bring himself to the Test or call himself to an Accompt every Evening of his whole Life with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what he had done in That Day which he ought to have omitted and what good thing he had omitted which 't was his Duty to have done Nor was he to suffer himself to sleep till he had made up this Reckoning three several Times So 't was the Precept of S. Paul in his ad Epistle to the Corinthians Examin your selves whether ye be in the Faith meaning That Faith which does work by Love all manner of Obedience to the Law of Christ's Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prove or try your own selves whether ye have not yet received the True Faith of Christ or whether having once received ye still retain it Know ye not your own selves how that Iesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates So S. Paul reason'd with his Corinthians and so must we with or within our selves Know we not that Christ is in us by the Presence of his Spirit and by the Power of his Word and by the evident effects of His Operation Such as our Sorrow for our sins past our hatred of our selves in Remembrance of them and our stedfast Resolutions of better life Know we not that Christ is in us by such Evidences as These If we do Then let us treat him in such a manner as may become so Divine a Guest But if we do not we have some reason to fear lest we have sinn'd-away our Saviour as arrant Reprobates and Castaways as men unworthy to be call'd Christians as men who either are not at all Regenerate or else are fallen from That State of Regeneration which we were in or to express it with S. Paul as men who have received the Grace of God in vain And as it concerns us on all occasions to try the Spirit which is in us whether 't is a good or an evil Spirit so most especially does it concern us at such a Time as This is when we Tread in God's Courts to offer up the Gospel-sacrifice of Supplication and Thanksgiving to hear His Word to partake of his Sacraments Duties equally belonging to the first Sunday of the month For the Bread of God's Children must not be cast unto the Dogs and the Food which is Spiritual belongs to Them onely who can spiritually discern it and who live not after the Flesh but after the Spirit I do not mean after every Spirit for there are many more than good as I shew'd before but after The Spirit that is of God The Spirit of Holiness and Truth The Spirit of Vnity and Love The Spirit of Meekness and of Order The Spirit of Singleness and Sincerity The Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding The Spirit of Counsel and Ghostly Strength The Spirit of Knowledge and true Godliness and lastly The Spirit of God's Holy Fear as the divine Prophet Isaiah expresseth him resting upon Christ of whom the good King Hezekiah was but a Type in That place Unto all which if I should add The Spirit of Promise with S. Paul and The Spirit of Prophecy with S. Iohn The Spirit of Grace with holy Zachary and The Spirit of Glory with S. Peter I should but say The same Spirit in the vindicating of whom from the many False Spirits which in this last Age especially have been debauching the Christian World I have imploy'd the little Time which is allow'd for this Part of our Morning Service To Him therefore with The Father in their Unity with The Son Sing we Hosannahs and Hallelujahs Blessing Glory Honour and Power To Him that liveth for evermore Vide Haeresin Ienxuanam apud Massaeium l. 16. * Vid. Arrian Epict. l. 3. c. 29. l. 4. c. 5. Plotin Enn. 3. l. 2. Joh. 4.24 * p. 214. * 1 King 13.1 * Deut. 13.1 3. * 2 Pet. 1.21 ch 2. ver 1. Ezek. 13.2 3 4 6 8 c. * 1 Joh. 4.13 * 1 Joh. 3.9 * Ibid. * Rev. 2.17 * Rom. 8.11 1 Joh. 4.6 * Rom. 8.16 1 Joh. 5.10 ver 9. Leviath p. 36. 169. Ibid. p. 232. Leviath p. 250. Deut. 13.1 2. 1 King 13.4 6. 1 King 18.38 40. 2 King 5.15 Num. 16. * Mar. 16.16 Act. 5.31 Ibid. Joh. 14.17 1 Pet. 2.13 Rom. 13.1 Heb. 13.17 1 Joh. 4.6 Act. 8.9 11. Gal. 3.1 Rom. 1.4 18. * Vid. Les Provinciales 5.6 Caramuel de Theologiâ Fundamentali p. 71 72. Escobar Theol. Moral Tom. 1. l. 2. c. 2. p. 34 39.4â—.160 c. a Mar. 5.8 b Eph. 4.3 4. Mar. 5.9 Rev. 12.9 1 Cor. 4.12 1 Cor. 14.23 Rev. 9.11 Eph. 2 2. Joh. 8.44 2 Cor. 11.14 Isa. 11.2 * Matth. 15.6 Mar. 7.13 Rom. 11.8 Isa. 29.10 Gal. 5.22 23. Gal. 5.19 20 21. * Troppo confina la Virtu col Vitio 2 Thess. 2.9 2 Cor. 11.14 Matth. â—4 24 Exod. 7. c. 8. Vin. Lit. c. 15. 2 Thess. 2.3 9. Matth. 24.24 Matth. 7.22 Matth. 23.14 Matth. 4.4 6. Quomodo ob Religionem Magni quibus Magnitudo de irreligiositate provenit Tertull Apolog. cap. 25. p. 56. * apud Prudentium ad Valentin Si Romanae Religiones regna praestant nunquam retro Iudaea regnásset Despectrix communium istarum Divinitatum Tertull Apol. c. 26. p. 57. Hieron ad Marcellam Philostrat l. 3. * Maffaea Hist. Ind. l. 12. p. 319. l. 14. p. 398. 1 Cor. 7.31 Ideo me exultare noveriâ—u quia ad huc Sanctus per totum Seculum adorator 2 Pet. 2. 9 10. Matth. 23.14 Luk. 7.6 Isa. 65.2 5. Lev. 13.45 46. Act. 2. 41. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cor. 13.5 Isa. 11.2 Eph. 1.13 Rev. 19.10 Zech. 12.10 1 Pet. 4.14