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spirit_n	aaron_n	lord_n	murmur_v	27	3	10.8966	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49697	Christ crucified, or, The doctrine of the Gospel asserted against Pelagian and Socinian errours revived under the notion of new lights : wherein also the original, occasion and progress of errours are set down : and admonitions directed both to them that stand fast in the faith and to those that are fallen from it : unto which are added three sermons ... / by Paul Lathom.	Lathom, Paul.	1666 (1666)	Wing L572; ESTC R25131	132,640	284

of those that separate from us to flock like Doves to the Windows yea like good Christians to the bosome of Gods Church If you will not judge your own selves whether your errour be not inexcusable in your departing from and disowning and opposing those things which you do not so much as understand Si accusâsse sat est quis innocens fuerit If meerly to cavil and rail and calumniate be sufficient to confute the Doctrine and practice of a Church without doubt the Church of England hath been as profoundly confuted as possibly can be imagined It is one of the easiest parts of wit that consists in finding faults with others and representing what is practised by them as odious and ridiculous There was never any thing so well devised by the wisest of men but he that had a malicious minde and a pestilent tongue might represent as a very strange Monster when he had first dressed it in clothes of his own devising Nor any thing so evil and pernicious but those that loved it would find something to say for it No marvel then that we have met with so many Pamphlets stuffed with Queries and Cavils and Calumnies to which the best Answer that can be given is The Lord rebuke thee thou evil spirit which art the cause of these divisions of Reuben that are the occasions of so many sad thoughts of heart to all sober and Religious person But setting aside these Cavils which come not from the heart at least not from a heart seriously desirous to be satisfied Will you do your selves the right to come to us who are Ministers of Christ 1 Cor. 4.1 and Stewards of the Mysteries of God as you come to your Lawyer or Physitian move such scruples touching the way of our Church as do really trouble you shew forth such a spirit as doth not come to cavil but to be informed and see if I will not say we but your own mindes will not suggest an answer to what you can reasonably object against our Church 4. Be serious and ingenuous in answering me one Question more Do those whom you follow into corners teach you the same Doctrine which we teach in publick or do they teach that which is contrary to it If they teach that which is contrary we are able fully to confute them by sufficient Scripture-Arguments yea there is not any one of those many errours which are taught by them that creep into houses but it hath been fully and solidly confuted by the publick Ministry to which nothing can be replyed but obstinacy and resolvedness to be deceived If you say they teach the same things that we do Why do you not come to hear them from us who are likely to teach them more profitably as being both better qualified by giving our selves wholly to these things and applying our selves daily to searching of the Holy Scriptures Eccl. 1● 10 and to the setting in order profitable and acceptable words and withal being orderly called to this Office by them who had authority to lay hands upon us May not we say to you as King Abijah to the Israelites 2 Chron. 13.9 10 11. Have not ye cast out the Priests of the Lord the sons of Aaron and the Levites and have made you Priests of the lowest of the people But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests which minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron and the Levites wait upon their business And they burn unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt-Sacrifices and sweet Incense c. And though you have gon on in the gain-saying of Corah Jude v. 11. and say with him and his company Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy Num. 16.3 and the Lord is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord Yet may we answer you as Moses did them Ye take too much upon you vers 7. vers 11. ye sons of Levi that affect the Priest-hood it self and ye are gathered together against the Lord and what is Aaron who are we the Ministers of the Lord that ye murmur against us 5. Consider and lay to heart the sad spiritual judgements which God hath inflicted upon many of those that separate selves from the publick Ordinances Is it not observable that the most of them are given up to a spirit of giddiness and instability so that they cannot tell where to six when once they have forsaken their first Foundation Is it not easily to be observed how many of them have taken their degrees from one errour to another till they have even outdone themselves and their first thoughts in forsaking the Church Hath it not been sadly evident in many that have not received the love of the Truth 2 Thes 2.10 11. that they might be saved that God for this cause hath given them up to strong delusions that they should believe a lye Yea have not many of them brought in or received in damnable heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 even denying the Lord that bought them Besides the presumption and self-willedness that is written in their fore-heads despising of government vers 10. and speaking evil of dignities And that nothing might be wanting among them of those characters whereby the Apostles do decipher the Hereticks of the latter ages they speak evil of those things which they know not but what they naturally know as brute Beasts in these they corrupt themselves they are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouths speak great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage Jude 8.16 19. these are they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit Yea are not many of them grown to looseness and licentiousness of life and to an utter neglecting of those Religious duties in their Families and Closets which belong to every good Christian to perform to spend all their Zeal rather in opposing what is held and practised by others than in holding or doing any thing that is good themselves Now these things have befallen them to the end that they might be Examples to us that he that thinketh he standeth might take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10.11 12. And that we seeing the sad condition of so many unstable souls may be the more diligent in prayer and watching over our selves 2 Pet. 3.17 18. lest we also being drawn away with the errour of the wicked do fall from our own stedfastness But that we may endeavour to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be Glory both now and for ever Amen FINIS THE NATURE and DANGER OF A Misguided Conscience A SERMON Preached at the VISITATION OF Mr. ARCH-DEACON of SARVM Held At Warmister April 27. 1664. By Paul Lathom M. A. John 16.2 Yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he