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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77499	The false--teacher tried and cast. A subject useful at all times, and but too seasonable for the present. / By John Brinsley minister of the gospel at Great Yarmouth.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4714; Thomason E1821_2; ESTC R209775	32,187	84

14.29 Let the Prophets speak two or three and let the other judge Such as pretended to a gift of Prophesie which in those times was not rare they were to be heard by the Church but not presently believed but they must be tried by those who had the gift of discerning spirits the other true Prophets whether they had such a gift as they pretended to and whether that which was spoken by them were by the motion of the spirit of God or whether it were a fancie of their own brain a humane or Diabolical delusion Yea Generally all Teachers thus are all Teachers and all Doctrines to be tryed That Rule and direction of the Apostle is general 1 Thes 5.21 Proving all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All things All Teachers all Doctrines and opinions by whomsoever held forth This is one of the things for which those Beraeans are commended being called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more noble then some other Christians Acts 17.11 for that when they heard the Apostle Saint Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles the chief teacher of his time Preach they brought his Doctrine to the Test trying and examining whether those things which were spoken and delivered by him were so whether they were consonant and agreeable to the Doctrine of Moses and the Prophets that Doctrine which they had already received Now if true Apostles were thus to be tryed how much more false ones those who have nothing to prove them so but their word This Paul had He had the signes of an Apostle as he tels his Corinthians 2 Cor. 12.12 Among other those wonders and mighty deeds which he there speaketh of his miraculous works some of which are recorded in that Chapter foregoing Acts 16. for which no question he was then famous through the Churches and yet they try his Doctrine and for so doing are commended Especially suspitious ones How much more then are they to be tryed who have nothing but their word to gain credit to their calling and Doctrine As for their works it may be they are such as justly render them suspicious And being such great Reason that the Churches of Christ should be jealous of them and so try them before they trust them Great Reason for it I say considering the Danger first of then In being deceived 1. Reason 1 The danger of being deceived by false Teachers which are The danger of being deceived which credulous and simple souls are very subject to by such Teachers False Teachers which 1. Many for their Number Are many This is the Reason which Saint John giveth why he would have those to whom he writeth to make this Tryal 1 Joh. 4.1 a Text forecited Try the spirits c. why Because many false Prophets are gone out into the world Where there are many deceivers many cheaters many Trepanners as now they call some of that crue walking abroad men had need to try before they trust And such is the condition of the world in respect of false Teachers spiritual Trepanners However some ages are fuller of them then other yet in all ages there are many 2. Subtile for their nature And secondly as they are many for their number so they are very crafty and subtile for their nature It was Satans practise at the first when he went about to deceive the woman he made use of the Serpent speaking in and by that creature which as the Text saith was more subtile then any beast of the field Gen. 3.1 Such was and is that Creature being naturally smooth and gliding winding and insinuating and craftie c. And hereupon Satan who himself is called the old Serpent Revel 12.9 he maketh choice of that creature to convey his first Temptation and poisonous suggestion by And in a like way doth he deceive her posteritie still making use of Serpents subtile heads sharp wits smooth tongues insinuating spirits for the conveying of the poison of heretical and damnable doctrines by them So as simple souls being over-credulous as that their mother was they are apt to be deceived by them by their subtiltie of which the Apostle making use also of this allusion speaketh 2 Cor. 11.3 As also by their Innocencie Deceiving by their Lives which sometimes are seemingly pious Such was the Serpent at the first as all the other creatures were innocent and harmless And such false teachers oftimes seem to be very innocent in their lives exemplarie for their strictness Such were the Scribes and Pharisees in our Saviours time whited Sepulchres as he cals them Mat. 23.27 And such were those false prophets whom he describeth Mat. 7.15 they were such as came in sheepes cloathing seemingly most innocent creatures And such were those false Apostles whom Saint Paul giveth warning to his Colossians of very strict no question themselves in those observances which they taught and pressed upon others of which the Apostle saith that they had in them a shew of humilitie and neglecting of the bodie not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh Col. 2.23 They were very temperate very abstemious And such were divers of the same stamp in after ages Among whom one Sect was known and distinguished by the name of Encratitae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vide Danaeum in August de Haeresibus cap. 15. so called from their extraordinarie continence and abstinence which was such as that they absteined not onely from unlawful lusts but also from Marriage and from eating any kinde of flesh as also wine not so much as allowing it in the Lords Supper in regard of the great abuse of the creature but using water instead of it yet holding forth foul and heretical Doctrines And such false Teachers often are as many Monkes and Fryars at this day eminent for strictness in their lives and conversations And as their Lives 4 By their doctrins some of which are sound and useful and their errours plausible so their Doctrines many of them it may be are true and Orthodox yea pious and very useful which they Preach and press making use of them as Coy-Ducks to bring in their Errors after them And for their Errors happily they are very plausible and taking specious at the first hearing having as the Apostle there saith Col. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a shew of wisdom yea of Pietie and Holiness Thus did these false Apostles spoken of by Saint Paul transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ the ministers of Satan transform themselves into the Ministers of righteousness 2 Col. 11.13 15. And thus do false Teachers sometimes transform themselves into true acting their parts putting on the habits and speaking with the tongues of the true servants the faithful Ministers of Christ Being as I said Innocent if not Exemplarie in their lives holding forth plausible Errors and those mixed with many sweet and precious truths which are like wine or some other pleasant liquor wherewith poison being mixed it is taken and swallowed down