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A61853	The worm that dyeth not, or Hell torments in the certainty and eternity of them plainly discovered in several sermons preached on Mark, chap. the 9th and the 48. v. / by that painful and laborious minister of the gospel, William Strong ; and now published by his own notes, as a means to deter from sin and to stir up to mortification.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1672 (1672)	Wing S6014; ESTC R32735	120,570	318

as great lights and are great preachers that have converted Souls to God and yet the Dragons Tail sweeps away the third part of the Stars of Heaven and casts them unto the Earth c. Now all these eonsiderations should prevail with us that he that thinks he stands may take heed lest he fall because there is a great danger of deceiving the best and the holiest and the wisest men and turn them aside from the simplicity of the Gospel I should have been more particular in the discovery of Antichrist in all his colours especially that great Character and stamp which is on all his followers to be persecutors of the Saints of the most high who refuse to worship his Image or to receive his mark but that I have reserved to treat on more largely because I look upon the time of the killing of the witnesses to draw near for which the spirits of men are exceedingly qualified and therefore the Saints had need to stand upon their watch Tower for the Beast and the false Prophet c. conspire against them 2ly Considert is a very dangerous thing for a man to be deceived for first a mans judgment being corrupted it will make way for a very corrupt conversation no man is better then his judgment but men generally I may say all men are worse now they are the greatest corruptions that are the fruits of corrupt doctrine and their doctrines do back them and are not the fruits of their lusts only as we see it in the Pharisees all their fins were justified by their doctrines and they had so fitted it as it served to maintain their wicked wayes there is a spirit of uncleaness goes with the false prophet wheresoever he goes Rome is spiritually Egypt Zach. 13. and Sodons and Jude compares the false teachers in his times with the worst of sinners and surely their latter end is worse then their beginning 2 Pet. 2.22 it 's happened unto them according to the true proverb the dog is turn'd to his vomit again c. Vnclean opinions must needs bring forth unclean conversations Secondly It is a hard matter for a man to repent being once engaged Gal. 3.1 and taken with it for it 's said men are bewitched that they do believe that lye of Popery especially that they cannot say is there not a lye in my right hand and false doctrine is compared to leaven and if it be mixed with dough it is very hard if not impossible ever to separate them and therefore we read of very few men that ever appeared much against any truth of God that ever have returned but they in their pride did persist and God did give them up though they were convinced themselves and spake lyes in hypocrisie and knew them to be so yet for all this they could not repent of them for God in judgment gave them up unto a Conscience seared with a hot Iron and truly it is a fearfull judgment to be given up of God to believe a lye and it is to a man a very dangerous sign that he is not of the sheep of Christ Joh. 10.5 a stranger they will not follow they know not the voice of a stranger and thereby the rottenness of mens hearts may be manifested there must be heresies sayes the Apostle for that end and that they that are approved may be made manifest also Thirdly They are called damnable heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 In a double respect First They are a dangerous sign and token of damnation unto them that are ensnared by them Rev. 13.8 They that do pertake in the doctrine of Popery they are those whose names are not written in the Lambs book and they are such as in themselves deserve damnation indeed all sin is in its own nature damnable and so must this be in a special manner in a way of eminency so called such as Judas is called the Son of perdition because he was appointed unto a more then ordinary distruction and the Pope the man sin because eminent in sinning so here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they come under a more remarkable distruction then other sins do and the Lord says their damnation sleeps not they were of old ordained thereunto Jude 4. But I would not be mistaken in all this and grieve the hearts of any tender Conscience whom the Lord would not have grieved that hold some lesser errours which may be because we see with different Lights Nay I deny not but a godly man may be deceived in some errours that happily do strike at the foundation also for a time but he doth not continue in them but I say to hold them and continue in them as it makes way for a more eminent destruction so it is a most dangerous sign of reprobation Lastly It is a very dangerous forerunner of judgment unto a nation and of Gods removing the Candlestick and giving a Church a Bill of Divorce you may see it in the Church of Rome and if men will be Idolaters and Blasphemers and deny the Resurection and the Scriptures if men countenance the woman Jezebel and the Doctrine of the Nicholaitans it will follow that Christ will quickly come against them and fight against them with the sword of his mouth The last times of the Jewish Church were infected with heresy which bred divisions and such distraction amongst them till it destroyed the whole face and frame of Church and common wealth and in the last times there shall be the most dangerous Doctrines broached till the Lord shall avenge his truth by a judgment upon the Beast and the false Prophet Gods truth is dear to him he has exalted his word above all his name and the opening of his bosome and publishing of truth in the World has cost the blood of the Son of God He could never have been a Prophet if he had not been a Priest all his offices and the performance of them depend upon his Priesthood and no man shall have a benefit by Christ as he is a Prophet or as he is a Priest or as he is a King that has him not first as his Priest and closed with him therein and his word is the great expansum that God has stretched forth over Kingdoms and Nations Rom. 10.17 By this he judges them and hews them and slayeth them he will not suffer the dishonour of it nor his people cannot bear it but Rivers of tears run down because men keep not the Law of God and so many have shed their blood for it and indured cruel tortures and mockings and wandered about the World to carry the Gospel where the sound of it was not heard and if they cannot bear it surely Christ himself will bear it much less And therefore let me tell you if a kingdome were as dear unto God as the signal upon his right hand he would pluck it thence and if any people shall go about it to set up themselves and vent their own Lusts and do

and filthy doctrines and by this means and by Satans assisting them in their doctrine and backing it with miracles and great works they shall gather together the Kings of the earth against the Church of God to their own destruction and final overthrow surely therefore there is a great deal of danger that a man may be deceived and his judgment may be corrupted because it is the last refuge of Satan that he has to uphold his kingdome by sending forth unclean spirits Thirdly Most men unto whom these spirits come Heb. 5.13 they find them children for he that is unskilful in the word of righteousness he is a babe and therefore being children in understanding Ephes 4.14 and not men grounded in the principles of the doctrine of Christ therefore they are tost to and fro with every wind of doctrine tossed as a wave and carryed about as a cloud and from these two the Metaphors are taken if the wind be this way the wave is born and the cloud carryed about and if the wind do turn it is blown the contrary way they lead captive silly woman omnes haereses ex gynecaeis is a proverb in the ancient Church and the more ingnorant any people are the easier are they turned away from the truth and the sooner do they give ear to fancies and fables and he that shall consider the ignorance of our people in the principles of Religion and that in a great many of those that profess Religion and think themselves to be knowing Christians and yet have but only a general and a smattering confused knowledge and a man would be far from wondering that so many were corrupted but rather he would wonder that all were not taken captive by Satan Fourthly False teachers use a great deal of artifice to that end that they may deceive and they do it under the fairest shows and the most specious pretences Antichrist Rev. 17.3 gives the wine of her formention in a Golden Cup that is that by which it is offered unto the world it is a very alluring and taking way and as a Harlot whose lips do drop as the hony-comb and all is under a show of love unto Christ and a colour of love to you a pity to see you so deceived there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 16.18 all under great pretences of holiness there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is a great deceit as in the most deceitful Play and they are cunning Gamesters and there is a subtilty and deep craftiness of men that go by method and bring in one thing after another Eph. 4.24 and there are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2.3 feigned words some made words and a kind of coined language that sounds finely but put it together and it signifies nothing but the meaning is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they do make merchandize of you and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2.18 they give out something that shall be as a bait some pretences of liberty some shows of a greater Communion with God and a nearer approach unto Christ and with this bait you shall be taken when in the mean while the book is not seen and sometimes brought to you under great shows of holiness in the men they come to you in sheeps cloathing as if they were Sheep though they be Wolves and the Ministers of Satan transform themselves into the Ministers of Righteousness 2 Cor. 11.13 14. for such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ and no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light c. Rev. 13. and we know that Antichrist when he rose had two horns like a Lamb and Austin saith of Pelagius Nomen Pellagii non sine lande posui quia vita cita ejus à multis praedicabatur Yea Satan doth creep into Peter himself and he may be corrupted and Barnabas also with that dissimulation for they shall deceive if it were possble even the very elect though totally and finally it is not possible but yet they may far deceive them for indeed there be many that hold the foundation and whose souls may be saved in the day of the Lord yet may build Hay and Stubble upon the foundation and therefore we should leave room for charity towards some who have not had that touch of Satan upon their spirits that others have and endeavour to pluck them as firebrands out of the fire that they may not wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction but pray that the Lord would deliver them from the temptations and seducements of Satan c. discover his Wiles to them that they may say was there not an errour in my right hand and men are so much the rather to be pityed because being ignorant and unlearned they more easily become the prey of false teachers who are very industrious and laborious and lay out themselves to the utmost Math. they will compass Sea and Land to make a Proselite they compel you to be Circumcised that they may glory in your flesh that is multitudine sequacium in the multitude of their Desciples and followers some men think it is an excellent thing to be the founder of a new sect as they said of Paul Acts 24.5 he was a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes I know that many say this by way of reproach to the people of God that would walk out of conformity to the world that they are but sectaries and brand them dayly with new names and new light c. because they would not have their old darkness be discovered but this is but one of the fig leaves of Antichrists covering which shall fall off from him and he shall fly away naked and men shall see his shame notwithstanding Lastly There is a mighty power of Satan and an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that goes along with them 2 Thes 2.9 as soon as Antichrist did but appear in the world by and by all the world wandred after the Beast and received his Image and his mark in their right hand and in their foreheads men will he quickly engaged to profer themselves in such a way and having received the mark in the forehead they will receive it in their right hand to defend it and stand for it so that a man would wonder to see men so soon turn'd after another Gospel and their words fret as a Gangrene or a Cancer that doth quickly infect all that comes near it and we may see what strong poison this liquor of Antichrist is and what a deceit it is by the power of it not only upon the ignorant but upon the learned and not only upon them that were a lump fit to receive any leaven but even those that were counted and we may hope to be Godly men of eminent parts and great abilities and men that have done great services and shine