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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77492	An antidote against the poysonous vveeds of heretical blasphemies, which during the deplorable interval of church-government have grown up in the reforming Church of England. As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By Iohn Brinsley, Minister of the Gospel there. Augus. 10. 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4705; Thomason E612_13; ESTC R206488	47,516	58

of the tree of knowledge of good and evill Some there have been who have dangerously miscarried by affecting too ambitiously to be of Natures privy counsel Prying too farre into those abdita naturae majestatis seeking to finde out the secret of natu●e they have lost themselves But more by prying into divine secrets over-curiously enquiring into those ever to be adored mysteries concerning the Trinity of Persons in the unity of the Godhead the manner of Christs Incarnation c. not suffering their faith to go a step farther then carnal reason could conduct and carry it Here hath been the rise of Arminian errours Socinian Blasphemies and the Blasphemies of many other heretical spirits at this day That you may be preserved from the like miscarriage take that other branch of the Apostles caveat in that place forenamed Rom. 12. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Do not presume to understand above that which is meet for you to understand Non supra scriptum Not above that which is written 1 Cor. 4. 6. Content your selves with revealed truths And amongst them spend your zeale upon those which are most necessary most useful All truths are not of the same alloye or of the same weight Some more precious more ponderous then others Reserve your zeale for those which are of chiefest concernment fundamentall truths As for Problematicall truths Controversal and Questionable points which are agitated and discussed amongst men learned and pious and are not of nor near the foundation be not over eager about them in opposing and censuring those which are otherwise minded then your selves And as for Metaphysical speculations Platonical Ideaes and other like aiery empty notions leave them as whetstones to sharpen young wits withall Such stones are no bread for Christians affording no solid soul-nourishment and therefore not to be fed upon but declined So Paul prescribeth it by way of advice unto Timothy 1 Tim. 6. 20. where giving him a charge to keep that sacred depositum the doctrine of the Gospel which was committed to his trust as an Evangelist a minister of it to keep it himself to transmit it to posterity as he had received it pure and uncorrupted in the next words he directs him how he might the better do it Avoyd saith he prophane and vaine bablings and oppositions of science falsly so called Prophane and vaine bablings {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vaine contests and disputes about things which are not revealed or are not worth the time which is lavished out upon them not tending to spiritual edification such as those fables and endlesse Genealogies which the same Apostle speaketh of chap. 1. verse 4. of the same Epistle which minister questions rather then edisying Such profane and vaine bablings here he willeth him to avoid With oppositions of science falsly so called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Such oppositions and disputes as are made against sound doctrine by the adversaries of the truth who pretend to a greater measure of knowledge then others as those forenamed Gnosticks did whom the ancient Greek fathers conceive the Apostle there to point out as it were by name Such vaine and fruitlesse contests with proud adversaries Paul willeth Timothy there to avoid In the next words shewing him the danger of the contrary Which some saith he professing have erred from the faith Here is the danger of being addicted to such curious vaine and fruitlesse speculations and such endlesse disputes Hereby some have been others may be brought to desert the truth of God which formerly they have professed upon this ground take we heed of this affectation And among other things to mind you of that also by the way beware of holding up Arguments against the truth by opposing Reason or humane Authority or pretended Revelation against Scripture as the manner of some is This also will come within the compasse of these profane and vaine bablings of which this Apostle tels us 2 Tim. ● 16. That they increase unto more ungodlines Such Errors as these do not stay where they begin but they breed Error upon Error proceeding from lesser to greater till at the length they arrive even at Blasphemy But I finde my Meditations running out beyond the limits I intended them when I took this Text in hand To contract my self as much as I may You see now what things are to be taken heed of that you may be preserved from this dreadfull evill My next work is to show you what is to be done Here I shall not multiply directions Take some which I conceive to be most proper 1. In the first place Labour for a distinct sound well grounded knowledge in the principles of Christian Religion For the most part Blasphemy is the fruit of Ignorance These men saith Saint Jude speaking of Blasphemers who speak evill of Dignities they speak evill of things which they know not Jude v. 10. And truly so do Blasphemers for the most part they speak evill of things which they know not So did Paul before his conversion he was a Blasphemer speaking evill of Christ and his Religion but he did it Ignorantly Certainly did men know God and his Religion they would not dare to open their mouths against them Had they known they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory saith Paul speaking of the Princes the Rulers of the earth 1 Cor. 2. 8. And so may we say of many Blasphemers did they but know God and his Truth they would not Crucifie them peirce them thorough as they do Labour for a wel-grounded knowledge of God and his Truth 2. Receive the love of the truth For the want of this it is that God giveth men up to strong delusions that they should beleeve lyes false doctrines Heresies and Blasphemous opinions because they receive not the love of the Truth 2 Thes. 2. 11. They receive the truth into their Heads in a speculative way so as to be inlightned by it but not into their Hearts in an affective way to be warmed by it Let not us content our selves with the former of these Those Revolters whom the Author to the Hebrews speaks of were such as were once inlightned Heb. 6. 4. such as had received the knowledge of the truth cap. 10. v. 26. It is no newes for illuminated Doctours learned men to turne Apostates Hereticks Labour we to finde heat as well as light that with the knowledge of the truth we may have a love of the Truth This Love will be strong as death Cant. 8. 6. nothing shall conquer it 3. In the third place knowing and loving the Truth Walk in it This is the commendation which Saint John giveth of the children of that Elect Lady Joh. 2. v. 4. They walked in the truth This is the true Christians commendation not that he knoweth the Truth of talketh of it but that he walketh in it acknowledging th truth the Doctrine which is according to Godlinesse as our Apostle describeth the