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A92855	The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, Ianuary 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgvvick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2377; Thomason E372_13; ESTC R201317	27,115	48

THE NATVRE and DANGER OF HERESIES Opened in a Sermon BEFORE THE HONOURABLE House of COMMONS Ianuary 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster being the day of their solemn Monthly Fast By OBADIAH SEDGVVICK B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden 2 PET. 2. 1. But there were false Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction Yee therefore beloved seeing yee know these things before beware lest yee also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastnesse but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 3. 17 18. LONDON Printed by M. F. for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brazen serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1647. Die Mercurii 27. Januar. 1646. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament that Sir Peter Wentworth doe from this House give thanks unto Mr Sedgewick for the great pains he took in his Sermon preached on this day at Margarets Westminster before the House of Commons and that he doe desire him to Print his Sermon Wherein he is to have the like priviledge in printing of it as others in the like kind usually have had H. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Appoint Samuel Gellibrand to Print this Sermon OBADIAH SEDGEVVICK Febr. 19. 1646. TO THE HONOURABLE The House of COMMONS now assembled in Parliament HAving received your commands to preach that which first presented it selfe unto my thoughts was the subject of this ensuing Discourse A Theam if I doe understand the present posture of these times both seasonable and necessary There are some points of difference which are of an inferior consequence and stand farther off from the foundation these being but Judicia domestica I meddle not with But there are other positions which pull hard at the very foundation and which doe subvert the faith dogmata salutis devoratoria as Tertullian styles them and Religionis Christianae Carcinomata as another speaks against these I held it my duty as a Christian as a Minister of Christ and as your servant to declare my self And I beseech you before whom was it more fit to open those ulcerous sores then before your selves Right Honourable who under God are our most choice and tender Physitians If any Reader should now be so unhappy in his charity as to calumniate this discovery of heresies and blasphemies to be an arrow subtilly designed against holinesse and good men to such a one all that I would reply is this 1. The surest friends to holinesse have been the sharpest enemies to errours Christ and his Apostles were so 2. That I never yet have learned what direct advantage did at any time redound to true sanctity by a patient endurance of heresie and blasphemy 3. Nor can I be so uncharitable as to think that any person sincerely holy or incending the progresse of holinesse durst be a friend to such damnable and soule-destroying errours The design which I would commend to all in this time of Reformation is this That truth and holinesse which are so naturally combined and so mutually interested may be conscientiously promoted with equall zeal encourage holinesse but contend for the truth too maintain the truth but countenance holinesse too he who pretends holinesse but regards not truth and hee who pretends the truth but regards not holinesse neither of these is a cordiall friend either to truth or holinesse For your parts Right Honourable be you pleased to goe on as you have begun in the strenuous support of them both Both of them have a necessary respect to Gods glory both of them have a necessary respect to mans salvation both of them have a necessary respect to our present Reformation both of them will prove the Kingdomes safety your consciences comfort and the crown of all your long and great labours For both these you have the prayers of Your most unworthy yet most faithfull Servant OBADIAH SEDGVVICK THE NATURE and DANGER OF HERESIES REVEL 12. 15 16. And the Serpent cast out of his mouth water as a Floud after the woman that he might cause her to bee carried away of the Floud And the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the Floud which the Dragon cast out of his mouth THis Text is a seasonable Text Seasonable to the times wherein we live and seasonable to the worke of this day which should be humbling work and reforming work The parts of the text are two 1 A new Danger v. 15. 2 A renued Succour v. 16. I. The New Danger is set forth in four particulars The Division of the Text. 1. By the Author of it And the Serpent There is a former danger mentioned in v. 12 13. And that was managed by the wrathfull Dragon And here is a New danger which is contrived by the cunning Serpent Open cruelty is more dreadful but subtill policy is more pernicious The cunning Devill is a more mischievous enemy to the Church of Christ then the raging Devil Nero and Dioclesian were sore enemies to the Church but of all the Emperour Julian is reputed the worst 2. By the Engine of it The Serpent cast out of his mouth It is a question amongst the School-men whether peccataoris may not be worse then peccataoperis Sure I am that the danger which comes out of the mouth of the Serpent far exceeds that danger which depends upon the sword of the Dragon There is a mouth of truth and that is Gods mouth there is a mouth of peace and that is Christs mouth there is a mouth of prayer and that is the good mans mouth there is a mouth of cursing and that is the wicked mans mouth there is a mouth of mischiefe and that is the Serpents mouth When the Devil wracked Adam and Eve then he used the mouth of the Serpent And when he deceived Ahab then he became a lying spirit in the mouth of the false Prophets And when he would deceive the whole world then he fals into the mouth of the Beast to speak great things And here intending to destroy the Church hee useth the mouth of the Serpent 3. By the Matter of it And the Serpent cast out of his mouth water as a floud It is not said that he did cast out water onely and yet even that dropping out of the mouth of a Serpent had been sufficiently dangerous but he did cast out water as a floud Flouds in Scripture are the periphrases of extreamest dangers when the danger is sudden high violent quick it is then expressed by the metaphor of a floud David speaks of flouds of ungodly men Psal 18. 4. And the Prophet speaks of the enemies comming in like a floud Esa 59. 19. 4. By the scope or intention of it That he might cause the woman to be carried away of the floud There was a floud which did bear