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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61678	Deceivers deceiv'd, or, The mistakes of wickedness in sundry erroneous and deceitful principles, practised in our late fatal times, and suspected still in the reasonings of unquiet spirits delivered in a sermon at St. Paul's, October 20th 1661 before the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet, Lord Maior of the city of London, and the aldermen his brethren : being the initial also of the Reverend Dr. John Berwick, dean of the said church, at the first celebrity of divine service with the organ and choiristers, which the Lord Maior himslef solemniz'd with his personal presence from the very beginning.	Stone, Samuel, 1602-1663.; Browne, Richard, Sir, 1602?-1669.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5735; ESTC R18742	26,609	51

Deceivers Deceiv'd OR The Mistakes of Wickedness In Sundry Erroneous and Deceitful Principles practised in our late fatal Times and suspected still in the Reasonings of unquiet Spirits Delivered in a SERMON At St. PAVL'S October 20th 1661. Before the Right Honorable ●ir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet Lord Maior of the City of London and the Aldermen his Brethren Being the Initial also of the Reverend Dr. John Berwick Dean of the said Church At the first Celebrity of Divine Service with the Organ and Choristers which the Lord Maior himself Solemniz'd with his Personal presence from the very beginning 2 Tim. 3. 13. 〈◊〉 evill men and seducers shall waxe worse and worse deceiving and being deceived LONDON ●rinted for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. To the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne Kt. and Baronet Lord Maior of the City of London with the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren Grace Honour and Peace be multiplyed Right Honourable and Worshipful THe nature of your Order for the pnblication in Print of this imperfect Piece following puts your subscribed in minde of a passage from Augustus to the Poet Ausonius Scribere me Augustus jubet mea carmina poscit Poenè rogans Your Order might have been as well a Postulation or Demand as a Desire but you seem therein like the most excellent Augustus who exprest in a like case more humanity and condescension than Power towards his Poet as you have done unto your small Prophet or Preacher he shall therefore humbly take leave to presume as the Emperor took the Poet and his Poem into Protection it being a product of his own favour and importunity that your Lordship and Brethren also will do the like unto your Preacher and his Sermon unto which your Honors have given this Publick-being Eadem est causa producens conservans is a true rule of the great Mistress of Reason Logick That which gives Being conserves it not but that the work of it self as the Author humbly conceives is very much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or self-potestative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or self-sufficient to warrant is self in the whole import thereof it aiming at the preservation of our far more excellent Augustus and this his Royal City and your Honorable persons and his and your dearest interests Civil Sacred and Natural together with the whole Church and Nation as it layes open how weakly soever those wicked deceits of ungodly Godly men which have and may again by the same slights and advantages of delusion ruine all but for that there can be no such natural reciprocation of interest as when a grateful issue in its dependance of existence throws it self upon the principal Cause for patronage and countenance Your Preacher hath observ'd the Order of your Hororable Court punctually in the substance of the whole Discourse and every part thereof though not in every word possibly having not written it in order form or method in which respect as he was fain to vary expression often in the delivery so it must be excusable in the Copy but he is sure nevertheless this draught in Print answers almost adequately the main exemplar in your memory except as afor said and a word or two sometimes of Transition perhaps or Apology or the like with an addition of one false Position or deceitful Principle of sin more to compleat the number of seven that he might give you a perfect number at least of Particulars though a number of Imperfections and an Appendix moreover unto the sixth Which as to him it was not grievous as St. Paul's language is in another case Phil. 3. 1. so to You and the Reader he hopes it shall be both safe and profitable the Deceit therein mentioned communicating to the advantages of Sin in all the seven and may be a furtherance to any fallacious imagination or deceitful practise proceeding from the corrupt heart of men viz. Spiritual senses and meanings of Scripture contrary unto or divers from the Letter whereby the Law of God it self therein written which is only transgrest is wrested to justifie transgression Both which Additionals had been spoken in the Solemn Audience had not the Preachers civility to your Honorable selves and pitty to the laborious crowd below time being spent prevented him and therefore he doth not scruple your acceptance thereof now it being frequently exemplated in impressions of other Sermons Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim and 't is but like some after-birth or superfoetation that intellective Nature would be discharged of If any man shall scruple peradventure that some passages of the Discourse were too smart he may remember that St. Paul was once upon the question Whether to come with a rod or no 1 Cor. 4. v. last and St. Jude adviseth a way of saving some men by pulling them out of the fire ver 23. with terrors or denunciations or otherwise as you may conceive exprobations And I know not what sons of thunder should serve for in the Church but to shoot thunderbolts and 't is the barking dog and that sometimes pincheth a little which drives straying sheep into their fold and worries the Dogs of the concision i. e. evil workers of Schisms and Divisions Neither is any part of the style so severe and pungent except against the most monstrous and prodigious abominations and such actors thereof as we have to the affrightment of our memories so deeply smarted by or such who are still obdurate and impenitent in their disobedience whom the Indemnity it self favours not and one passage of the Sermon hath distinctly marked out making a difference of others according to St. Jude's counsel loco dicto And of the former sort either there remain some or not if not Who should complain if so Who shall be displeased at the Authority of the Ministry which is to rebuke sin before all that others may fear 1 Tim. 5. 20 The drift of he whole endevor in short was only this Whereas many Deceivers are entred into the World 2 Joh. 7. and many Delusions and Deceptions with them to the experimental wo of this Church and Nation King and People and the same perilous principles of Deceivings are by strong observation discovered or much suspected amongst persons still disaffected so as abundant caution scarce sufficeth against them but according to the Drammatist in Aulularia Qui cavet ne decipiatur vix cavet cum etiam cavet He that takes heed that he be not deceived scarce takes heed enough when he takes the most That therefore by a loyal Subject and dutiful Son of the Church the fallacies might be retexed and the people undeceived the guilt of their former horrible commissons lying still upon their souls before God without Repentance and by fresh actings will be more aggravate and accumulate even to the endangering of their salvation which no temporal pardon or oblivion can help them in 'T is confest much hath been spoken by many worthy Pens and