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A41202	A brief refutation of the errors tolleration, erastianism, independency and separation delivered in some sermons from I Job. 4. I, preach'd in the year 1652 : to which are added four sermons preach'd on several occasions / by Mr. James Fergusson ...	Fergusson, James, 1621-1667.	1692 (1692)	Wing F777; ESTC R21916	200,444	386

light breaks out to the clearing of the Truth These are Reasons why Hereticks must be Vse The use is seeing the Spirit of Error began so early to trouble the Church in the Apostles time that were guided with an infallible Spirit then ye are not to wonder that Error should trouble the Church now when there are not such infallible lights as these The Spirit of Error is a bold darring Spirit it will dare to contradict God Himself and find out some shift to cast at that which God Himself sayeth As may be seen Gen 3. The Lord said The day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die And Sathan contradicts it thou shalt not surely die And so no wonder there be such impudence seen in the Spirit of Error now as to cast at any thing which Gods Servants say seeing Satan still Acts the Instruments of Error Vse 2 But secondly from this Doctrine learn not to quarrell with Gods most Holy and wise Providence in that he suffers so many Errors to be We are ready to think that if God had that care of his Church Covenant and Cause as men would think he had he would not suffer such Effronted Spirits and such Blasphemous Hereticks to prevail and to outdare his Truth But that is to quarrel the Lords providence and without a ground He whose furnace is in Zion can make all the tryals of the time that arise from Error to contribute much for the clearing of Truth by this means he will rouse up his People to study Truth to understand it better to search out grounds for it and that is one advantage only ye would know also that these times will be discovering times they will discover many a corrupt heart many unstable hearts and light heads many proud Spirits and many that have Lusts lurking within them So that many will choose that Religion that will gratify their Lusts most For there is not an Error that Sathan hatches but there is one Lust or other within People that speaks for it and there is nothing more ready to make People take in Error than their harbouring of unmortified Lusts. So in 2 Timoth Cap 3. The Apostle speaking of those who should be caried away with false Teachers says in the 6. v. For of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse Lusts Unmortified Lusts are as fuel to make the fire of Zeal for Error to burn very hot in Peoples bosom and so Error will try People this way Doct V. Next observe he sayes Believe not every Spirit that is believe not every Doctrine that hath the name of the Spirit and fair pretences put upon it as if they were the Doctrines of the Spirit of God believe them not From this we learn That the foulest Errors go out oftentimes under fairest names and are backed with most specious pretences what Fouler Errors than these spoken of here The denying of the Son of God And yet what fairer Names than the Spirit What fairer pretences than that they are Doctrines taught by the Spirit of God We will find this of all Errors spoken of in Scripture for the most part Cora● Dathan and Abiram's Error whereby they rose up against the Magistracy of Moses and Preist-hood of Aaron hath a fair pretence for it Ye take too much upon you Moses and Aaron are not all the Lords People Holy And Jeroboams Error his Idolatry in setting up the Calf at Dan and Bethel hath a fair pretence 1 Kings 12. It is too fair for you c. The Peoples ease and the publick good is the thing he pretends though his design was far otherwise And so these that urged Justification by works and opposed the way of free Grace and being justified by Faith they had their fair pretences O! say they to cast off Workes from Justification will make People secure wee may sin that Grace may abound very taking pretences all of them and as taking as any that Error is now covered over with The Reason of the Doctrine is from the cause for which the Tempter presents Error under fair colours and specious pretences which is this That he may make the Error the more taking For these are the baits he puts on the hook that he may deceive and catch the simple Therefore for use of this Doctrine ye would not be deceived with fair pretences or ravishinglike expressions that Error may be fairded over with See what the Apostle Paul sayes to this purpose 2 Thess cap. 2 v. 2. Where speaking against an Error he beseeches them by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ That they be not soon shaken in mind or troubled neither by Spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand It supposes that the spreaders of that Error had all these three pretences First● they pretended the Spirit that it was a Doctrine taught them by the Spirit of God accompanied by his presence in their Spirits with more than ordinary flashes and raptures and In-bearings of the Spirit of Light And Secondly that they had the word or Scripture to alledge for it And Thirdly they picked somewhat out of Pauls Letters for them so would they say In speaking against us he contradicts himself These are fair pretences and yet sayes Paul be not shaken in mind with them So say I ye would guard your self against the fair pretences which Error may have and look not only to the out side but to the inside of them and then ye will find most bitter Serpents Lurking under fairest flowers As for example The Mother of all Error Tolleration hath a fair pretence for it viz. that good men may Err and so in suppressing Error ye may suppress Piety A fair pretence but it hath afoul end For by this meanes Blasphemers Denyers of God and Jesus Christ must have Liberty to vent their damnable Errors if so be that they can but pretend Conscience and so stable roome must be given in Christs Church to every unclean beast that ever was hatched in Hell The Antinomian Errors again have a fair pretence O say they Christ hath become sin for us and therefore it is taken off from us so we are not bound to repent for it for to say that we are to repent were to take the burthen off from Christs Back and to put it on our own These are specious words without solidity but they contradict Scripture Truths where they are narrowly looked to Peter was a justified Person and yet when Christ looked on him He weeped bitterly Davids sin was pardoned and Christ had taken the burthen of it and yet David was to Repent of it and to be corrected for it and so the Lord tells him that the sword should not depart from his house because he had made the Enemies of the Lord to Blasphem and yet sin was not laid upon David to satisfy divine Justice for it Only he must get

worshiped a false God that therefore Magistrates are bound to punish Hereticks worshipping the true God though in a false way This is the strength of their exception to which we reply First That though it were true which they say that the practice of the Kings of Israel did extend but to Idolaters and those that seduced and drew away others to serve false Gods yet it does not follow but it may be binding to Magistrates now to punish Hereticks worshipping a true God in a false way and that because of this rule necessarly to be admitted in expounding of Scripture that when the command of God does strick against any one sin most usual in the time by rule of proportion it stricks against all sins of that kind As in the second Command there is nothing expresly forbidden but the Worshipping of God by graven Images and that because the worshipping of God by Images was the sin most in use at that time yet under graven is forbidden all wayes of worshipping of God invented by men and so although it were true that the practice of Godly Kings did strick but against Idolatry yet by rule of proportion all sins of that kind should be suppressed To which add that when the high degree of any sins by divine Law is to be punished by death common equity will infer that lesser degrees of sin are to be punished by a lesser punishment at least Secondly to what they say that the Magistrate did only punish Idolatry under the Old Testament We Answer that it is false they did punish other Errors also and such as would be thought light of now and this we shall instance in several particulars First They punished will worship in serving the true God and this we see by comparing two places of Scripture The first is the 2 Kings 23 8 9. Speaking of Josiah And he brought all the Priests out of the Cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the Priests had burnt incense So he employes his Power against the high places for the removal of their way of worship The other place of Scripture to be compared with is the 2 Chrov 33. 17. Which tells us the nature of their high places Nevertheless the People did sacrifice still in the high places yet unto the Lord their God only So that this worshipping on the high places was not that kind of Idolatry whereby a false God was worshipped but a way of their own whereby they worshipped the true God and yet Josiah suppresseth even this kind of false worship Secondly we find that Magistrates did employ their power for suppressing of the breakers of the Sabbath day and and punishing those that Married strange wives which yet were not Idolaters and Apostats from the true God a noble example whereof is in Nehemiah 13. from verse 15 to 21. There is a large History what pains he took to reform the People to keep the Sabbath day therefore in the 21. v. Then I testified against them and said unto them why lodged ye about the wall If ye do so again I will lay hands on you He threatens to employ the Civil power for suppressing of that Error and this is not Idolatry And Secondly we find that the Magistrates employed their power generally for suppressing any Error that was contrary to any Article of the Covenant So where we read in the 2 Chron 34. 31 32. And the King stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord c. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it And the heads of the Covenant are not only against those who were Seducers but also against those that were seduced So we find it in Exodus 32 v. 20. In that Idolatry of worshipping the Golden Calf when Moses came down from the mount in his zeal to the Glory of God he not only punished Aaron but also the People and more than this he Armes the Levits as the avengers of God's Justice and proclaims that every man should avenge the Lord upon his very Brother Thus we have made out in the first Argument taken from the practice of the Kings of Israel and Judah and have vindicated it by Scripture from their exceptions brought against it The Second Argument shall yet be grounded on the Old Testament and it is taken from the many commands and precepts that are given in Scripture to Godly Kings and Magistrates and others to punish Blasphemers False Prophets and Idolaters Hereticks Sabbath Breakers and Seducers from whence we form this Argument That whatever was commanded to be done by Magistrates under the Old Testament as a part of their duty this Magistrates under the New Testament are oblidged to as a part of their duty also But Magistrates were commanded under the Old Testament to suppress Idolatry Blasphemy and Heresy and that they were to do as a part of their duty as Magistrates And therefore it is a duty lying on Magistrates under the New The thing we have to prove is that this was a command given to Magistrates under the Old Testament and that as a part of their duty as Magistrates And for this look over these places of Scripture Exod. 22. 20. He that sacrificeth unto any God save unto the Lord only he shall be utterly destroyed There is a command given to the Magistrates And so in Levit 24 15. And thou shalt speak unto the Children of Israel saying Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin v. 16. And he that Blasphemeth the name of the Lord he shall surely be put to death So in the 13. of Deut 1. If there arise among you a Prophet or dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a sign or a wonder c. Through the whole Chapter there are Commands given to the Magistrate to punish false worship We shall only add another and that is taken from the fourth Command where a charge is laid on the Magistrate as well as the Master of a Family to make use of his power for keeping of the Sabbath and to see to the keeping of it by others also Thou shalt do no manner of work thou nor they son nor they daughter This Command is given to the Magistrate as well as to the Master of the Family as appears from those things First By vertue of this Command Nehemiah the Magistrate of God's People did make use of his power to punish Sabbath Breakers in that place we cited in Nehemiah 13. 21. Secondly It appears from this that the Gates spoken of their Nor any thing that is within thy Gates is a term which aggreeth not to a single Family but a whole City even to the circuit of a whole Kingdom of the word Gates is taken in Scripture Gene● 22. 17 and thy seed shall possess the Gate of his enemies It followeth as in that respect therefore he speaks to the Magistrate no Master of a Family having such large power And Thirdly The power there spoken of is