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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

the Church the work of the Gospel which office being thus conferred upon on them they were thenceforth to attend to it Setting them apart to the work of the Ministery to make it their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their work Having a ministery they were to wait on their ministring Rom. 12.7 thus it hath been and thus it should bee Not but that extraordinary cases admit of extraordinary courses In some cases how dispensed with Where there want fitting I mean Ministerial hands to be imposed that Ceremony may be omitted And necesitie requiring it some other service may be joyned with this Thus Paul saith that he upon such an account sometime laboured with his own hands exercised a Handicraft as he tells his Corinthians 1 Cor. 4.12 But in an ordinary course thus it should not bee The Ministers of Christ are to be set a part to the work of their Ministerie in a solemn manner And being thus set apart they are as I said to make it their worke which who so are not or doe not they give too just occasion for others to scruple and question the truth of their calling Services pro. to Ministers not to be undertaken by others Specially when any being not so called shall take upon them in an ordinary to way to intermeddle with such services as are properly and peculiarly Ministeral to dispence such Ordinances as are committed onely to them as viz. not onely to preach the Word but to administer the Sacraments which it seemeth some too many in these desolate times that I say not in this place adventure upon this too plainly sheweth and declareth them to be what they are such as say they are Apostles but are not pretenders to a calling which they have not And thus I have done with the first of these three heads wherein the Probation and Tryal of false teachers consisteth the first thing wherein and whereby they may and are to be tried their calling pass we to the second Tryal 2 The second thing is their Doctrine Their Doctrine This is the way which Saint John propoundeth for the trial of those false Teachers of his time 1 John 4.1 2. Trye the spirits saith he whether they be of God for many false prophets are gone out into the world But how should they try them why by their Doctrine So it followeth Hereby know ye the spirit of God every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God If their Doctrine be false they cannot be true False as to fundamentals the principles of Christian Religion denying perverting them This is that which St. Peter saith of those false teachers which he fortelleth should come into the Church 2 Pet. 2.1 There shall be false teachers among you who privilie shall bring in damnable Heresies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heresies of destruction wicked opinions and Doctrines destructive to the souls of men Such Teachers who broach or hold forth such opinions are most properly called false-teachers who are to be tried by their Doctrine Quest. Q. How tried But the Question here runs on How shall their doctrine be tryed Answ A. By the scriptures the Churches touch-stone To this the Answer is obvious it is so among Protestants Only by the word the written word the Scriptures This is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lydius Papis the Churches touch-stone whereby she is to try Doctrines and consequently teachers for this expresse is that known Text of the Prophet Isai Chap. 8. vers 20. to the law and to the testimony that is to Gods word the Scriptures which is his testimony testifying of him declaring his mind and will Hereunto must they repair who would not be deceived by false teachers bringing their Doctrines to this tonch-stone trying them by this If they speak not according to this word so it followeth it is because there is no light in them If they if any be they who they will never such pretenders to Illumination yet shall they speak otherwise then according to the word holding forth any doctrine that is not consonant and agreeable thereunto they are no other but Impostors this is an evident signe that their pretended light is no other but darkness This is that which Christians are to give heed to above what enter pretended Inspirations or Revelation When Dives in the parable begged it of father Abraham that he would send Lazarus to his fathers house that he might testifie unto his breethren what the state of the damned was what the torments of Hell were which were prepared for such as they were what saith he to him you have it Luk. 16.29 Abraham saith unto him they have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them intimating that the testimony of the word is to be preferred before all other testimonies They may be false but this is undoubtedly true Thy word is truth Joh. 17.17 And therefore to this let Christians repair bringing the Doctrines of their teachers to this test This was the Touchstone which those Noble Bereans made use of in trying of Pauls doctrine How ever looking upon him as a man sent of God they received the word from his mouth with readiness of minde yet they searched the Scriptures dayly whether those things were so Act. 17.11 whether consonant and agreeable to the written word Like course are Christians to take specially when they meet with new doctrines new to them they are now to lay them to this rule Thus doe tradesmen in trying of weights and measures they bring them to the standard If they finde them either more or lesse then that they look upon them as not warrantable And so is it with doctrines if not exactly consonant and agreeable to the written word which God hath left as a standard for his Church to try them by if either more or lesse if any addition to the word or substraction from it if contrary to it or diverse from it they are to bee looked upon as false and he that teacheth them as a false teacher Objection Object But it may be said Scriptures obscure to pri vate and unlearned Christians How shall private Christians thus try them It may be they are unlearned weak and simple and not so able to judge the scriptures about the sense whereof it is not alwayes agreed among learned men the greatest Clerks sometimes differing in the exposition of them And how then shall they bee able to judge of them so as to try doctrines by them Answ 1 Answ 1. To this it is answered 1. Fundamentals clearly held forth That as for fundamental truths necessary to be known and believed they are plainly held forth written as with a sun-beam So plainly set forth as that a weak eye may see them Obj. Object 1 How is it that all doe not see them But if so how then is it