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A77434	Errours and induration, are the great sins and the great judgements of the time. Preached in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Peers, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, July 30. 1645. the day of the monethly fast: / by Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing B459; Thomason E294_12; ESTC R200181	39,959	57

Princes or States refuse or delay to grant Ecclesiastick Government to the Churches that live in their Dominions Have the Independents the Brownists or the Anabaptists or any of the Hetorodox Societies among us wanted their own Government since the first hour of their self-erection The Judgement of this Errour appeareth in three Circumstances It is demonstrate to be a Judgement and Plague First That it is evident to all Secondly That it were most easily amended Thirdly That it is singularly hurtfull The Evidence of it may be seen in the confession of all The greatest and most unreasonable Sectaries will not deny but every true Church should be without all delay invested with Government And if you will speak with the men who most have and do retard the erection of the Government desired they will professe their true intention and desire to see the Church-Discipline established For this evil Anarchy hath been so oft by so many of Gods faithful servants witnessed against that now it s defended by none Concerning the second The facility of its erection it is as clear For I pray who are the men that will take it upon them to impede it Can we at this present or could we for some yeers complain of the violence of a seduced Court Can the blame be cast on any Popish or Prelaticall Faction Will either Brownists or Anabaptists professe their deniall to us of what they long ago have taken to themselves Who then must answer to God for our shamefull Anarchy for so long a time The hurt of it is too too perspicuous Whosoever will lay the Sword the Pestilence and all the Calamities that destroy the Land on our delay to build the House of the Lord shall have for him the Prophet Zechariahs direct Warrant Zech. 8.10 Before these days there was no peace to him that went out or came in because of affliction For I set all men every one against his neighbour And if we indeed believe It is not the strength of men but the Lord Christ who setleth troubled Kingdoms What hope can we have that he will ever settle our State so long as his Church lies neglected in so wofull a confusion Beside outward Judgements this Errour is the cause of the greatest spirituall Mischiefs The hedge of Discipline lying level with the ground makes open doors yea invites and calls for all the devouring beasts to prey on the Flock of Christ From this it is that so many thousand souls are permitted to perish eternally in ignorance in profanenesse in Heresies in damnable Sects without the least controll or any mans endeavour to reclaim them So long as the Law permits no Pastor in England to exercise his Pastorall charge on any person he may well weep and mourn when the devil in his sight plucks away numbers of his Sheep but with his Shepherds Crook with the Ordinance of Christs Discipline to hold off that Lion it is not in his power It is not onely the passionate desire of all the Reformed Churches abroad of all the godly and Orthodox Party at home but also their confident expectation That the Honorable Houses without further delay will at last set up the walls of the House of God who now is going on apace by so many Successes to ruine their enemies and to settle the state of their affairs much according to their hearts desire The neglect of this piece of Thankfulnesse may provoke the Lord to repent him of his favours and to call back in one day what he had been giving in many I point but at one other Judiciall wandering False Doctrine is a Judiciall Errour that which usually and properly goeth under the name of Errour the word of our Text false Doctrine contrary to the ways of Gods Truth That Errour is a sin and a Judiciall one infliflicted by God as a punishment of former sins we may see in divers Scriptures 2 Thess 2.10 11. Because they received not the love of the Truth for this cause God gave them over to strong delusions to believe a lye Here Errours are Judgements which God puts Satan to bring on men for their coldrife entertaining of the truth And how grievous a Judgment Error is this and other Scriptures clear Here it is made a cause of damnation That they might all be damned who believed not the Truth The Socino-Remonstrants have taught our new Masters to extenuate much and at last to deny the sinfulnesse and danger of Errour They would hide the Vipers sting till the pretty and beautifull worm be once taken into the bosom where a little warmed it makes it quickly appear how innocent and harmlesse a creature it is They tell us that all sin is in the Will Errour is a dangerous evil and the cause of damnation but the seat of errour is the minde Is not the minde the most high and divine facultie of the soul Is not the corruption of the best things truely worst The mindes pollution with the darknesse of errour is eminently contrary to the light and truth of the divine nature Against this greatest of errours the excusing of all errours we should minde the truth of God who cannot lye In the place cited errour is made the cause of damnation elsewhere the Apostle tells us That false Doctrine eats up and kills the soul as a Canker Gangrene or Pest doth the body 2 Tim. 2.17 Also false Teachers are called Ravening Woolfs who tear and rent in peeces the souls of the seduced Acts 20.29 The Apostle Peter is in the same minde 2. Epistle 2. He tells us the condition of false Teachers They bring in damnable Heresies their wayes are pernicious their distruction is swift their damnation slumbereth not It is as certain as was the damnation of the Devils of the old world drowned in the deluge of the Sodomites All this is Peters Doctrine And this he had from his Master Christ Matth. 7.15 Beware of false Prophets When they have the fairest shew of piety he that knows the heart pronounceth They are but ravening Woolfs Matth. 15.14 If the blinde lead the blinde both shall fall in the ditch If we beleeve the Lord a false Teacher doth not onely destroy himself but draws with him all his blinded Scholers into the ditch of the same perdition 1 Cor. 12.25 27. The Apostle tells us The nature of Shism That the Church is the Body of Christ and that Schismaticks make a Schism in Christs Body that is they rent his Body in peeces they who crucified him would not rent his seamlesse Coat but Schismaticks can tear his skin cut his flesh rent his Joynts and Members in peeces Understand the Language of them who plead for liberty of errours What is meant by liberty of conscience and what is the true sense of their language who require a toleration of Errours If you beleeve Christ or the Doctrine of Paul attested by Peter and the rest both Prophets and Apostles whom I have not time

of in the places most infamous for that evill whether Amsterdam or Pole or Transilvania and if you please to joyn all the three in one but all are among us and divers more then in any of the places mentioned were ever heard of Their evidence in this to me seems palpable 2 By their grossenesse that however at their first appearance they did waken a great expectation by their faire promises of New-Light of New-found-Truths of New-wayes leading to extraordinary pietie The new-light of all our Innovators is nothing but old darknesse yet after a little inspection and commerce to un-ingaged and im-prejudicate mindes they are found to be no other but the very same dead karcases of old Heresies and Schisines which by the happie labours of the Reformed Divines in this and other Churches lay buried in their grave of oblivion and abomination till their late infaust resurrection That new Canterburian-Protestantisme which the other day so much bewitched the Court and Country So it is in the Canterburians is now seen to have been nothing but masked Popery but a high path-royall way to Rome a Schoole of Idolatry Heresie Treachery and mercilesse bloodshed These Gospell-truths The Antinomians these sweet Sermons of Free-grace that setting up of naked Christ on his Throne which hath seduced so many thousands of well-meaning souls do now appear in their own colours and to any common eye may be seen to be nothing but the grosse Antinomy of the old Libertines These innocent scruples of tender consciences only about the grounds of Pedo-baptisme The Anabaptists whither have they now led some millions not of the worst of our people See we not that without any leave so much as asked of the Magistrate very great numbers of Churches are erected by them of formall and avowed Anabaptists These specious and popular Invectives against Tyrannie and Persecution The Libertines those plausible Harangues for a liberty onely to examine without prejudice what was proponed under the name of a Divine Truth whether at last hath it carried multitudes who esteem themselves among the most rationall of men Have they not opened in the midst of our streets the old Pantheon of Paganish Rome resolutely asserting an absolute Freedom for Turks Jews Pagans Papists and if there be any worse Religions not onely to live in all quietnesse among us but to be permitted without any Discouragement to follow their Consciences and so to employ themselves daily in the most advantagious places private or publike with so much art and diligence as they can use to draw all the world toward their wicked Professions And not to run out upon all the rest of our old renewed Errours that so much-extolled Independency The Independents wherein many Religious souls for the time do wander which is the chief hand that opened at first and keepeth open to this day the door to all the other Errours that plague us What is it else but a Limb or rather Apologet. Nar. the large half of the Body of old Brownism as it s own Patrons confesse a middle way betwixt the Reformed Churches and the Brownists the same Way which Morellius seduced by the Dutch Anabaptists did labour to bring into FRANCE but by B●za and Sadaell in two Generall Assemblies it was so fully confuted that to this day all the Churches there do d●test it Yet Bolton and Brown would needs bring it into ENGLAND These two are the known Fathers of English Independency men whose Inventions cannot be much loved for their authors sake when they are well known Among all the Protestant Divines that ever ENGLAND bred Robinsons Justif p. 50. I doubt if any have been more scandalous either in life or death then the two former as their chief followers are forced to acknowledge Few Prelaticall men have gone beyond Brown in Profanity from his Youth to his Old-age And Judas himself was no more abominable then Bolton in his death I have oft marvelled how the Invention of so infamous Authors could be entertained by men of understanding especially since God did openly brand that their Conception with the Marks of his Displeasure not onely in its Birth but in all the passages of its Life wherever yet it hath set foot on ground The fruits of Bolton and Browns Independency at Amsterdam have been so eminently scandalous Apologet. Nar. that its own friends can finde no cover of excuse for them The Divisions and Rents that sprang from the same root when it was planted in some better ground Edwards Antapol at Arnhem and Roterdam have been no lesse unhappie and bitter But that which demonstrates the Genuine Nature of this Plant is its fruits in New-England where without any Incumbrance from without or from within having all the Advantages Civil and Ecclesiastick which could be wished it got leave to put out its full strength In a short time there it brought forth such a multitude of grosse Heresies and Divisions as did threaten not the Churches alone but the Civil State also with a totall Ruine If our Hopes of it here may be much better for any of its fruits which yet we have tasted wise men will pronounce The third Character wherewith the Finger of God hath stigmatized the Errours of this place 5. By their increase is Their Incredible encrease It can hardly be shewn where Errour in so short a time hath made so great a Conquest For however as I am informed all the Fowls that yet have made their Nest in the last Branch whereof we did speak may easily be numbred being no ways so many as some would make them yet if ye look upon the whole Tree in all its Branches it will be found to have drawn under its shadow a marvellous multitude of Creatures These last four yeers it seems more people here have made Apostacie to one Errour or other of their own accord without the violence of any Persecution then in all the Reformed Churches together for an hundred yeers and above Errour of it self is of no such conquering strength did not the Justice of God give men over to be captivated by its Delusions The fourth Demonstration of a Divine Judgement in our Errours 4. By mens neglect of their Cure is this That though they have been universally acknowledged and regrated yet to this day their effectuall Cure hath been well neer universally neglected It is now not Moneths but Yeers fince upon the faithfull Warning of the Lords Messengers all men every where have joyned to acknowledge and to professe their displeasure at the spreading of Errour over the face of this Land No Societies wore full of these Complaints then the three most Considerable The two Honourable Houses and The Reverend Assembly But yet after all these Regrates What reall stop hath been made to the Current of this over-flowing Deluge These are a great part of our Judgements Our comfort and hope which the godly in the

marvell therefore that men of awakened consciences make it a chief part of their complaint and grief That God had caused them to erre This being a figne of wrath and increase of guiltinesse and a forerunner of greater punishment The use is first for Caution 1 Vse for Caution To beware of that dangerous errour of taking comfort and encouragement from Gods judiciall hand in our sins that is to glory in our shame and to joy for what we should be sad It is to cast off our self the burden of our sin to whom alone it belongs on God whose eyes are purer then to behold iniquity Secondly 2 Vse for Counsel It serves for Councell to make it our chief grief in our mourning That we have faln under so heavy displeasure as to be scourged with the worst of Gods Rods Of all the Arrows in Gods Quiver this is the most venemous To be given over by God to sin this comes from a speciall wrath and is a presage of very great misery following When Gods spirit stirred up David to number the people it came from his anger against Israel and was a forerunner of the destroying Angell The blinding of the peoples eyes Isaiah 6. and John 12. is made an antecedent of a nationall ruine When ever we feel this to be our condition it should be the matter of our most mournfull complaint The fourth observation will clear the third it is this The fourth Doctrine Judiciall errours are most lamentable The godly when their eyes are opened to see their wandrings they are singularly affected with their judiciall errours As here the Church mourning and praying to God for sin and misery begins her complaint for these errours into which by Gods anger and judgement she had faln Old Israel by Gods judgement The Proof had faln in the grievous errour of civill discord which cost in two dayes the eleven Tribes the lives of fourty thousand men and in the third proceeded very near to the extirpation of the twelfth Tribe When the hand of God was lifted off them and they began to look back upon their actions Judges 21.2 they weeped fore before the Lord and complained to him of the great mischief wherein they had faln Though the injustice and obstinacy of Benjamin had been the immediate cause of the dissention yet they pittied their Brethren seeing it was the Lords judgement upon them all that had made that breach in Israel Verse 15. Ephraim in his pride would needs rebell against the house of David and have a King among themselves and Altars of their own making at Dan and Bethel God in justice gave them over to these sins of continuall sedition and idolatry till they were totally ruined He gave them a number of Kings in his anger Hos 8.11 Because Ephraim hath made many Altars to sin Altars shall be unto him to sin But when the Lord gave repentance to Ephraim see how much they are grieved ashamed and confounded for their madnesse wherein by the judgement of God they were made long to go on Jere. 31.18 I have heard Ephrains bemoaning himself thus Surely after I was turned I repented and after I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I bore the reproach of my youth The Jews were plagued of God with a horrible blindnesse of minde and obstinacy of heart so that they rejected the Gospel crucified the Lord of Life and remain in Rebellion to this day But when the Lord shall take off the vail of their eyes and they begin to see their judiciall errours their madnesse against Christ and the Gospel wherewith God in justice did plague them their grief for it will be extraordinary as it is set down Zach. 12.10 They shall look on him whom they have peirced and they shall mourn for him as one mournath for his onely son and shall be in bitternesse for him as one is in bitternesse for his first-born 2 Thes 2. The Churches of the Gentiles are in Gods justice many of them given over to strong delusions to beleeve Antichristian Lyes but when God begins to open their eyes to see these delusions their grief and indignation for them is so great Revel 17.16 That they hate the whore who did seduce and bewitch them They make her desolate and naked They eat her flesh and burn her with fire The Reasons of this Doctrine The Reasons are the same which of the former especially the second The singular and extraordinary guiltinesse that is in these judiciall errours the blinded soul sees them not while God in mercy remove the cloud and send in his light but then the lightned soul beholding the horrible wayes wherein it hath been wandring such wherein it would never have walked had it not been led by a powerfull Divell set on by the permission and commission of a just God Seeing in these sins a just God a wicked Divell and a heart stirred up by extraordinary temptations by this horrible back-sight is affrighted and amazed till Faith in the infinite mercies of God doth calm and settle it The Use is for admonition The Vse Beware of judiciall errours very often they are never pardoned but bring on destruction both temporall and eternall 2 Thes 2.11 They to whom God sends strong delusions are damned Isai 6.11 When God shut the peoples eyes and made their heart fat the Cities were wasted and the Land made desolate Before Ephraim and Juda recovered themselves from that snare of rebellion and came to the repentance spoken of How many hundred thousands and millions of them did perish both temporally and eternally And these few whom the Lord bringeth to see and mourn for their judiciall ertours How great is their grief How much do they wish to have seen in time their madnesse that they might not so much have been plagued therewith But what are these judiciall errours which we would beware of Search the Scriptures they will make you wise in this very necessary point of knowledge For your use I shall point at some First Civill discord a Judiciall errour Civill Discord is a sin and a great judgement a sin to the authors and fomenters a judgement to all as well the innocent as nocent party Isai 19.2 God punisheth the sins of the Egyptians with his plague I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour City against City and Kingdom against Kingdom and the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the counsel thereof The same is the Judgement of Israel Zech. 11.6 I will no more pity the inhabitants of the Land but I will deliver the men every one into his neighbours hands and into the hands of his King and they shall smite the Land and out of their hand I will not deliver them This is the great Judgement that long hath lien upon us the