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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93437	The doome of heretiques: or, A discovery of subtle foxes, who were tyed tayle to tayle, and crept into the Church to doe mischiefe. As it was delivered in a sermon at Wickham-Market in Suffolke, upon the fast day, being the 26 of May. 1647. / By Zeph: Smyth, minister of Gods Word. Imprimatur, Ia: Cranford, August 22. 1648.	Smyth, Zeph. (Zephaniah), fl. 1646-1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing S4363; Thomason E467_7; ESTC R204204	27,627	23

THE DOOME OF HERETIQUES OR A discovery of subtle Foxes who were tyed tayle to tayle and crept into the Church to doe mischiefe As it was delivered in a Sermon at Wickham-Market in Suffolke upon the Fast day being the 26 of May. 1647. By Zeph Smyth Minister of Gods Word Take we the Foxes the little Foxes which destroy the vines for our vines have small grapes Cant. 2.15 For there are certaine men crept in which before were of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men they are which turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and deny God the only Lord and the Lord Iesus Christ Jude ver 4. Imprimatur Ia Cranford August 22. 1648. LONDON Printed for Iohn Rothwell at the Sunne and Fountaine in Pauls churchyard MDCXLVIII To the READER IT shall not need to seeme strange to us if the truth meet with opposition nothing happens in this kind but what the Apostle did long ago foretell That in the last days should come perillous times 2 Tim. 3.1 The times are perillous when the truth is opposed as verse the eighth the Father of errour and lyes and his Ministers also transforme themselves into Angels of Light that craftily they might undermine the truth and exalt errour Blessed is he that now keepeth his garments ●ut woe be to them that God out of a just judgement gives up to strong delusions to beleeve lyes that they might be damned which beleeve not the truth 2 Thes 2.11 because they received not the truth in the love of it It is not unknowne to many what opposition this ensuing Sermon met withall at the preaching of it some scoffed and the Sermon being ended a company which were at the High Constables house of the said Towne in the Sermon time came into the Congregation who with some others that heard the Sermon which belong to them made a disturbance in the Congregation calling the doctrine which was there delivered a doctrine of devils the said High Constable also with divers others in the Towne as I was credibly informed did scoffe at this doctrine saying it was not fit to be preached and threatned it should be contradicted in print and have ever since endeavoured to make the Author odious by inventing falshoods slanders and charging him with scandals falsly but to passe by this what was then opposed is now made publique that ●s I have peace of conscience in that I then delivered so also all Orthodox Ministers and people that shall peruse it may judge whether it be con●●ary to Scripture or the judgement of the learned as Calvin Ursinus ●ucanus Peter Martyr Perkins with divers others whose labours the Lord hath abundantly blessed and made advantagious to the Church I calling to mind how duty binds me and the Oath of God lyes upon me to defend the truth against heresies and schismes and that I ought not to be ashamed of the Gospell of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation Rom. 1.16 have adventured to owne my doctrine in a more publique place then Wickham-market Pulpit beeng fully assured that though men and devils should oppose the truth what they can yet at the length truth shall prevaile in the interim it is good to pray and wait It much behooves the Saints now so many of them as remaine stedfast and established in the faith which have not yet attained to this learning neither have knowne these depths of Satan to hold fast that which they have already Rev. 2.24 25. and to mourn for the sins of the times Did rivers of water run down Davids eyes because men kept not Gods laws Ps 119.136 and shall not we grieve to heare men deny the law and say it ought not to be preached Did David grieve because the wicked kept not Gods word Ps 119.158 and shall not we grieve to heare men deny the Scripture to be the word of God and say it repents them they have fasted and prayed and mourned so much for their sins how little doe these men and women consider that though a Christian should be out of all duty in respect of dependance yet they should be in al duty in respect of performance Our differences are not meerly about things circumstantiall but substantiall and the effects are very sad they tend to the devouring of one another to the making Religion odious to the world they keep off people from comming in to Iesus Christ they either discourage weak Christians or pervert them they hinder Christian communion and comfortable society one with another in stead of fasting and praying and mourning and seeking of God together and edifying one another in their most holy faith there are contentions strifes janglings hatred and is not this cause of mourning yea is not this one thing that provokes God to be at a controversie with us As if he should say to us as he did once to the Iewes Shall I not visit for these things In the day of the Lords wrath it is better to be found mourners in Sion then sinners in Sion therefore now should be the Saints praying time and morning-time even to give the Lord no rest untill he compose our differences and bring order out of our confusions Who alone is able to do it and without he do it none else can neither King nor Parliament nor Armies it is he must reconcile his people to himselfe and one to another The Lord is my witnesse that I have not put forth this Sermon out of bitternesse of spirit against them that differ from me or out of desire of applause having nothing to beast of my own except it be of my nothingnesse but to let the world judge of that doctrine which people were so much taken off from by the opposite party It is possible the lines may be offensive to many partly because the matter comes abroad in a plaine dresse and partly because it is so contradictory to mens fantasies to which I answer if God in his word cannot please all I must not looke to doe it I desire the Reader first to read and then judge if it may tell any a story of heaven it satisfies him who is yours in Christ Iesus Ze Smyth A Discoverie of the Churches Danger by seeming Friends Jude 4. For there are certaine men crept in which before were of old ordained to this Gondemnation ungodly men they are which turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and deny God the onely Lord and the Lord Jesus Christ THe Apostle Saint Iude in this Epistle gives the saints warning to take heed of seducers Such were crept into the Church as would delude them unawares who would not onely deny the truth themselves and turne the grace of God into wantonnesse but they would doe what in them lay to seduce others as it hath alwayes been the practice of heretiques when they have once ingaged themselves in the service of building up the kingdome of Satan by denying the truth and hearkening unto Satans lyes and delusions

to procure as many as they can by subtilty and cunning craftinesse deceive to joyne with them in the worke The Apostle likewise sheweth the danger of being seduced by them and that is drawn from the Judgements that will most certainely light upon them not onely upon seducers but upon the seduced as in Rev. 2.22 God doth not onely threaten to cast Iezabel into a bed of sorrow great affliction but them also which commit fornication with her so that those which are seduced are in great danger as well as they which seduce and the certainty of their judgements the Apostle proves from three examples of Gods judgements upon others viz. the judgment which he brought upon the murmuring Israelites who though God brought them out of the land of Egypt yet destroyed them in the wildernesse Secondly of the Angels who were not spared but throwne downe from heaven and are reserved in everlasting chains under darknes unto the judgement of the great day Thirdly the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone from heaven and the Cities about them And what did God so severely plague them and will he let these escape No verily as if the Apostle should have said as he hath plagued them so he will not let these seducers goe scorfree and this he proves verse 14. Enoch the seaventh from Adam prophecied concerning such Behold the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints to give judgement against all men and to rebuke the ungodly and the Apostle speakes of the same ungodly persons that the text speaks of and therefore there will be no escaping of Gods judgements If God come armed against a people who shall be able to stand against God Ezek. 22.14 Can thy heart indure or can thy hands be strong in the day that I pleade with thee as if the Lord should have said thou canst not indure it but thy heart will faile and thy hands will be weake so though seducers be audacious before men yet when God calls them to account then they shall not be able to stand In the begining of the Epistle foure things are considerable First the person writing Secondly the persons to whom he writ Thirdly the salutation and Fourthly that he intended in writing From the person writing three things are considerable viz. his name his office and his kindred his name Iude his office he was an Apostle one of the twelve Apostles which our Saviour Christ chose to preach the Gospell thirdly his kindred he was the brother of Iames of which Iudas Iames brother we read was one of the twelve Apostles who is called by the Evangelist Saint Matthew in Chap. 10 3. Lebbeus Thaddeus and the same man which is here called Lebbeus Thaddeus is called in Luk. 6.16 Iudas Iames brother and to distinguish him from Iudas the Traitor they are named as two distinct persons in the same verse which will be very cleare if you compare Iohn 14.22 with Acts 1.31 It is the judgement of reverend Divines that this Apostle Saint Jude out-lived many of the other Apostles even in the dayes of Domitian the Emperour at which time all sorts of people grew desperately wicked corruption did abound both in doctrine and manners insomuch as many to whom the Apostles had preached Christ laying open the doctrine of free grace they waxed wanton and made it a doctrine of liberty turning the grace of God into wantonnesse and this Apostle perceiving it very well he is very zealous in admonishing the Saints to take heed of them Secondly the persons to whom he writ and that is not to a particular person or Church as Paul when he writ to Philemon or as Saint Iohn when he writ to the elect Lady and to the beloved Gaius but this is writ to all the Saints in generall all them sanctifyed and called in Christ Iesus the whole Church was in danger by reason of seducers and therefore the Apostle writes an Epistle of very great concernment unto the whole Church The Third thing considerable is his salutation in which the Apostle wishes the increase of three things viz. mercy peace and love The fourth thing considerable is that the Apostle did intend in writing this Epistle which was to confirme the Sainis in the truth and to keep them to their principles they had learned in such times as many did change their true principles for false and turned from the truth to fables therefore in the 3 ver When saith the Apostle I gave all diligence to write to you about the common salvation it was needfull for me to write unto you that you should earnestly contend for the maintenance of the faith which was once given unto the Saints here we must observe that salvation is called common in three respects First because it is generally offered both to the elect and reprobate those were invited to the supper of the King of Heaven Luk. 14. who were rejected and never tasted of it none of those that were bidden shall taste of my Super and many are called but few are chosen Mat. 20.16 and of foure sorts of hearers which are spoken of Mat. 13. who are compared to the foure sorts of ground three sorts get no good Secondly because it is the way that all those walke in that are saved there is but one way truth and life which is Christ Jesus neither is there any other name under heaven whereby a man can be saved Act. 4.12 There is not one way for the Jewes and another way for the Gentiles one way for the servant and another way for the sonne but it is the common way that all have gone that ever have beene saved from the beginning of the world unto this day they have been saved by Jesus Christ who is the Author of eternal salvation to all that obey him Heb. 5.9 Thirdly to confute the new fantastique wayes which many goe about to finde out to heaven some have not been ashamed to say they have found out a broader way to heaven then ever Jesus Christ knew of for whereas Christ Jesus saith Mat. 7.14 Straite is the way that leadeth to life who knew the way very well and whither many or few should walke in it he being the way himselfe yet they say all shall be saved and to say some shall be damned they call it a doctrine of Devills not fit to be taught I might instance many more who suppose they have found a very good way to heaven as the Civillian the meere morall man the presumptuous with others which notwithstanding they have a good opinion of their wayes yet their way is the broad road to hell this is called the common onely way to shew the vanity of all other wayes Next that ye would contend for the faith once given to the Saints in that the Apostle exhorts the Saints to contend for the faith I understand by faith he meaneth the true sincere doctrine of Christ which the Apostles had taught the Saints and which they