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A43041	Truth may be blam'd but not sham'd a sermon upon Matth. 16 v.13, 14, 15, 16 : wherein truth and errour are brought upon the stage act their parts / by William Harvey, minister of the Word.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1094; ESTC R36593	16,440	45

by his wanton Mistresses fals accusation was cast into prison Gen. 39.20 Susanna that honest and good soul had almost lost her life too by this murdering peece had not Gods mercy opportunely intervened to the saving of his handmaid What should I say more Our blessed Lord himself had this Cannon shot at him the peece goeth off but being foul breaketh and flyeth about their ears who first gave fire to it Luke 23.2 Mark 15.3 Matth. 27.12 There are three things amiable in the sight of God and men Concordia fratrum amicitia propinquorum vir uxor inter se convenientes Concord of brethren friendship of neighbours and a man and his wife agreeing together And now what putteth these instruments out of tune but the foul hand of Calumny Who causeth a separation of these three lovely pairs but falf tales and suggestions Nothing breaketh the peace more then this Oh what confusions what sad troubles have followed them Such turbulent spirits have been raised in one hour as could scarce be layed in many years after These bellows have kindled such a fire as no waters have been able to quench it So horrid and deplorable hath been the sad consequence of the ready reception of a slaunder as I may say of him and the author of it as Jacob of Simeon and Levi they are brethren instrumental of cruelty are in their habitations Gen. 49.5 d Simile In a storm the ship is tossed to and fro reeleth like a drunken man one while it mounts as high as heaven and then falls as low as hell the lightnings flash on their faces the proud waves beat upon them and fearful darknesse like a black mantle begirt the trembling marriners now they are at their wi●s end and e Acts 27.20 all hope that they shall be saved is taken away Thus is it when the fire of contention is blown up by the breath of such who go from house to house to carry tales and it kindles the more into flame when it meets with combustable matter a facil disposition an ear open to receive it When this Euroclydon once riseth unlesse the Lord whom the winds and sea obey in mercy intervene the tempest will rise so high as nothing but miserable ship wrack can be expected Hear I pray all of you whom it may concern what direction Titus hath from the Apostle Titus 3.2 To speak evil of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meeknesse unto all men This thing was so hateful to David that he thus speaks of it Psal 101.5 Whoso privily slaundereth his neighbour him will I cut off Mark but this dilewma I suppose it will nonplus the best Sophister Matth. 7.12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do you even so to them Luk. 6.31 for this is the law and the prophets Now wouldst thou have any slaunder and backbite thee No. Thou art then an unreasonable man Non compos mentis to do that unto another which thou abhorrest to have done unto thy self I should bite my tongue first before I would perpetrate a sin so unworthy so beneath a Christian I may say a man For if thy tongue be employed in this particular and runs on this errand f James 3.6 It is a sire a world of iniquity so is the tongue amongst our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell Blush then for shame if thou beest guilty this way and say with Pharaohs Butler g Gen 41.9 I do remember my faults this day And with holy Job from a sorrowful and penitent heart sweetly warble forth as he in another sense Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42.6 If this will not serve let them know they are murderers and children of the devil John 8.44 Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the father of it And if they be murderers then their sin cryeth to heaven for vengeance Among the four capitall or if you please Cardinal vices that cry this is set in the front h Clamitani ad coelum vex sangumis vox Sodom●rum Vox oppressorum merces detenta laborum Vix sanguinis the voice of blood Gen. 4.10 the voice o thy brothers blood cryeth unto me from the ground And not only so but they are excluded the heavenly Jerusalem no unclean thing can enter there i Revel 22.15 For without are dogs and Sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolators and in the ●ere whosoever love h● and maketh a lye And so leaving them to stand or fall to their own Masters I come to the people and now hear what they think of due Saviour Some say that thou art John the Baptist some Elias and o●hers Jeremias Second observation or one of the prophets Hence I observe That the vulgar concerning Christ and other matters of faith are often various and unsatisfied they hold and believe that which is not sound and orthodox Like the blinde man in the Gospel they discern not aright as he saw men like trees How many have we who know not what God what Christ or what faith is In this particular they are as mute as fishes and as the horse and mule that have no understanding Either they are ignorant of what true religion is or they stand in doubt of it and make a question whether there be any such thing or no. Witnesse our many sects and opinionists that swarm every where namely our blasphemous Quaker away with such a fellow from the earth Our Simpleton Seeker of a needle in a bottle of hay Our ignorant Leveller that would beget a parity among men which is impossible k Mark 14 For the poor ye have always with you Our dipping Anabaptist verberibus magis quam verbis authority must cudgel it out of him for disputes boot not What should I speak of Judaism Turcism Heathenism Atheism c. In such diversity of opinions what shall we determine Shall we bear them shall we commend them or shall we detest them l Laudare mon possumus detestari d●bemus ferre cogimur Dierec Annal. Praise them we cannot we ought to abhor them we are forced to suffer them Here is all our Comfort the harvest will one day day come when the wheat shall be put into the granary of Heaven and the tares cast into the fire In the interim though we live by them let us not live with them By any means avoid conversing though we cannot commercing with them altogether m 1 Cor. 5.10 for then must ye needs go out of the world But above all make not your selves one with them by marriage