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A49126	The original of war, or, The causes of rebellion a sermon preached in the castle of Exon on the 15th of January, 1683, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Exon, and other His Majesties justices of the peace for the county of Devon / by Tho. Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2978; ESTC R3712	28,102	44

the like method forewarning us of false Prophets and Separatists or Sect-makers as St. Jude calls them Beware saith our Saviour of false prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravenous wolves Mat. 7.15 And Acts 20.30 I know that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter among you not sparing the flock St. Peter also 2 Epist 2.1 says There were false prophets among the people as there shall also be among you who privily shall bring in damnable Doctrines denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction and many shall follow their pernitious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandize of you Now that these men served their own bellies and not the Laws of Christ St. Paul assures us Rom. 16.17 18. I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences and avoid them for such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies And in the second to Tim. 3.1 2 3. he tells us that in the last days some that had a form of Godliness Schemes and Systems Confessions and Sermons of purer Divinity should cause perilous times for they should be covetous boasters proud blasphemers Traytors heady and high minded From such he adviseth us to turn away St. Jude also in his Epistle gives the like character of some that made great pretences to the Spirit as if they did preach and pray and do all things by the Spirit yet they did walk after their own ungodly lusts despised Dominions and spake evil of Dignities against whom St. Jude denounceth a woe Woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain who was a Murtherer and run greedily after the errour of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Core who brought such railing accusations against Moses and Aaron as the Devil himself durst not do These are they saith the Apostle who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit v. 19. These Scriptures are sufficient to remove the prejudice which some people conceive against their Superiours for suppressing of such false Prophets as they find seducing the People The onely difficulty is how we may discern false Prophets seeing our Saviour says they shall come in Sheeps clothing and transform themselves into Angels of light Yet our Saviour's rule is infallible By their fruits ye shall know them for first they shall come to you come privily creep into your houses come with fair words and feigned speeches come without a Call or Commission from God or Man come against the established Laws and severest penalties of Fines and Imprisonment and Death it self Thus the Romish Wolves come clothed with the Name of the immaculate Lamb of God Jesuits they call themselves but grievous Wolves the Scripture terms such who assassinate the chief Shepherds in Church and State and massacre whole Flocks that with Elymas the Sorcerer seek to turn our Deputies from the Faith and as the Pharisees compass Sea and Land to make Proselytes and to make them twofold more the children of wrath and malice than themselves These perswade their Disciples that they are of that holy Church in which alone Salvation is to be had that all others out of their Communion are Hereticks and Schismaticks fit onely for a fiery Purgatory but if they return to the Lap of their Mother they are as sure of Salvation as if they were in Abraham's Bosome But as our Saviour says By their fruits i. e. their Doctrines and their Practices ye shall know them One General Rule we have in Deut. 13.1 That if a prophet should arise that should shew signes and wonders that should come to pass yet if that prophet should entice the people to idolatry and by consequence to any iniquity thou shalt not hearken to that prophet When therefore these Emissaries of Rome shall teach contrary to what we have received from Christ and his Apostles when they perswade us to worship the Creature with that Worship which is due onely to the Creator be they Saints or Angels or the Virgin Mary who all abhor to have God robbed of his Honour of which he is a jealous God when they adde new Articles of Faith and Rules of Obedience besides and contrary to what God in his Word hath required and prefer their own Traditions and Inventions above his express Commands and Institutions when they sow Tares in Christs field and seek to divide his Flock when they seek to advance the Interest of the Pope above the Supremacy of the King and withdraw that Obedience and Subjection from him which every Soul is required to yield unto him when they teach the Doctrine of Infallibility in the Pope though he decree things contrary to Christ as in taking the Cup from the Laity with a Non Obstante that Christ said Drink ye all of this when they decree what is contrary to Sense as well as the Scriptures in the Doctrine of Transubstantiation and other things contrary to Reason as in Prayers in an unknown Tongue and denying the use of the Scriptures to the People whom God commands to search the Scriptures because in them we have eternal life In a word when they practise Rebellion and Cruelty and stir up Strife and foment Divisions and plot for Wars and Fightings amongst us let them boast of Miracles and Revelations of Tradition and Succession of Grandeur and Prosperity let them appear not onely as Jesuits but Angels of Light yet if their Doctrine and Practices be such as these we must resist them stedfast in the Faith unless we will exchange our Faith and Knowledge for a blind Obedience our Scripture for Traditions our Liturgie for Legends our Loyalty for Rebellion and our Peace for War and Fightings or Fire and Faggot There is another sort of pernicious Creatures among our selves but of a soreign breed whose clothing is a Cloak of Zeal for Religion with broad Phylacteries and sentences of Scripture their discourse is of soft Murmurings and Complaints against the Government and loud Outcries against the Romish Wolves that we may not suspect danger from any other quarter And the better to draw away Disciples after them they come with demure looks and dejected Countenances and as the Gnosticks pretend to great Mysteries and Revelations extraordinary and immediate assistances of the Spirit and purer Ordinances that with them is the Scepter of Christs holy Discipline to which all Kings and People must bow or shall be broken in pieces for God will reprove even Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm But by their fruits we shall know these men also for how opposite soever they seem to be to the Romish Wolves in their Professions they are coupled as Sampson's foxes with fire-brands in their tails by destructive Principles and Practices against the established Church and Government As Herod the Jew and Pontius Pilate the

Israelites into secret places wheresoever they could flee for succour But God had by many miracles of mercy restored them out of all these Calamities to a good degree of happiness their Temple was rebuilt their Laws preserved the uniform worship of God at Hierusalem established whither the Tribes went up to Worship and to give thanks to the Name of the Lord. God fixed his Shekinah and dwelt among them again he met them in the beauty of holiness and made them joyful in his house of prayer And to all this glory he added a defence for during all the time of the Maccabees as long as they sought the Lord he made them to prosper No Nation had a God so great Laws and Statutes so good a Land so fruitful Victories so signal and frequent that the dread and terrour of them was fallen upon the Nations round about them and every man might sit under his own Vine and under Gods Vine too and sing the Song of David Happy are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God What possible imagination could men at such a height of felicity if the very height had not made them giddy conceive of bettering their condition by Wars and Fightings Or what in reason could they think of but to secure their present enjoyments by Thankfulness to God Obedience to their Governours and Peace and Vnity among themselves But this unhappiness we have all derived from Adam that Paradise it self will not content us unless we may eat of the forbidden fruit we nauseate Manna it self unless we may have somewhat to gratifie our Lusts which war against our Souls And hence come wars and fightings among us even from our lusts which war in our members Which is the last branch of our Enquiry viz. That the Original of all our Wars is those lusts that war in our members The method to effect a Cure as in the natural so in the body politick is first to find out the true cause which in this of War is like that of the Hectick Fever which at first is hard to be known but easily cured but at length is easily discerned and difficultly cured For as in those lingring Fevers there are little indiscernable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lurking in the bloud and circulating with it which in time ferment the whole mass and set the whole course of Nature on fire So those lusts which war in our members and the faculties of our Souls have a secret and to our selves at least if not to others an indiscernable motion until Temptations and Opportunities are presented and then the sensual appetite is in a Commotion and offers violence to his Reason Religion and Conscience And thus as St. James describes it ch 1. 14. Every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lusts and enticed There is a secret bent of our Spirits after evil things which forceth us and there are flattering allurements in the Objects which entice us such as the lusts of the flesh unclean pleasures the lusts of the eyes riches and large possessions and the pride of life power dominion and applause and between our lusts and these objects sin is brought forth So that all lust is seated in our inordinate desires I had not known lust saith St. Paul except the law had said Thou shalt not covet For the irascible faculties of the Soul are but as so many Ruffians such as Anger and Malice Envy and Revenge to execute the wills of the flesh but by these the sinner is put into a state of war with himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is a Seditious Party that wars in our members the flesh lusting against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are set in battel aray against each other Gal. 5.17 And the law of the members 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 warreth against the law of the mind So impetuous and subtle are these lusts that they too often surprize even good men as St. Paul complains of himself leading him captive hindring him from doing the good that he would and hurrying him on to do the evil he would not Rom. 7.23 Hence it is that the Philosopher calls these lusts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beastly lusts not onely from their uncleanness and sensuality their unreasonableness and ungovernableness but their ravenous cruelty and ferine qualities overturning and renting all that stands in their way breaking all bonds of Reason and Religion Law and Conscience sacrificing not onely the welfare of others but their own health and peace yea those very members in which they war to the satisfaction of these lusts as Theotimus when his Physician told him he must leave his intemperance or lose his eyes cryed Vale amicum lumen Farewel dear eyes as if his lusts were more dear So true is that of the Prophet Isai 57.20 The wicked are like the troubled Sea that cannot rest there is no peace to the wicked saith my God The man that gives up the reins to his lusts is no longer Sui juris but under the most absolute Tyrants whose Will is their onely Law where that bids them go they go and what that bids them do they do though to their utter undoing In vain doth Conscience take on it the Office of a Monitor or Reason of a Speaker to give their Reprimands they do but provoke the rage and outcires of the multitude of Lusts that can endure no controul Reason is dethroned Conscience silenced the usurping Vice is got into the Chair and establisheth Iniquity by the Law of Sic volo sic jubeo and all the five Senses like so many officious members are ready to execute the Commands of those unruly Lusts Who can wonder that the man who lives in opposition to the express Commands of God and slights his own apprehensions of Gods everlasting wrath for every trifling lust should when the greater temptations of Dominion and Power of killing and taking possession of Crowns and Kingdoms are presented be the Contrivers and Prosecutors of Sedition and Rebellion against their King That man cannot truly love or fear the King who beareth the Sword that can onely kill the body who neither loves nor fears God who is able to destroy body and soul in hell Hence it is that Solomon observes Prov. 17.11 The wicked man seeketh onely Rebellion For having lost the peace of his own Conscience by fighting against God and having sinned away the use of Reason and sober counsels by his contumacy like the evil spirit that was cast out of the man he findeth no rest but roves up and down to associate Legions of others as bad as himself to disturb the peace of others And hence come wars and fightings among us And now it is easie to turn the Scene and from the Vnde inter vos to enquire Vnde inter nos From whence come wars and fightings among us For as to