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A69197	The white wolfe, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Feb. 11 being the last Sonday in Hillarie tearme, anno 1627, and printed somewhat more largely then the time would permit at that present to deliuer wherein faction is vnmasked, and iustly taxed without malice, for the safetie of weake Christians : especially, the Hetheringtonian faction growne very impudent in this citie of late yeeres, is here confuted / by Stephen Denison...	Denison, Stephen, d. 1649 or 50.	1627 (1627)	STC 6607.5; ESTC S109591	56,251	87

being carried away indeede as men though not as Apostles with the common error of the times which was this to wit that the Messiah should neuer dye and so by consequence should neuer rise againe But by false Prophets in this question we are to vnderstand first such as obstinately persist in fundamentall errors after sufficient meanes vsed for their conuiction yea not onely persist but also endeauour to disperse their pernicious errors to the peruerting of others seeking withall to supplant and to blaspheme the contrary truth according to that description of false Prophets giuen by a learned e Pseudoprophetae sunt qui docent contra veritatem fidei Tostat Abul ad loc Spaniard they are false Prophets which teach against the truth of the faith Secondly such also whose Haeresies are either Blasphemous in the doctrine it selfe as the Arians or traiterous against Soueraigntie as the Iesuites and where both these concurre the persons in whom they meet do certainly deserue a thousand deaths First because they corrupt the faith and if such as corrupt and poison the springs of water at the which men and beasts receiue their drinke deserue capitall punishment how much more they which as much as in them is doe impoison the fresh springs of Sion Secondly because they murder mens soules yea as farre as possibly they can they murder Christ in a Christian man Quantum in ipsis est Christum in homini occidunt as Saint Augustine speakes in his fift tractate vpon Saint Iohn And therefore if he that murders a mans body deserues death how much more hee that destroyes a mans soule Or if they which were murderers of the Lord Iesus in respect of his body deserued to dye how much more they which seeke to murder his holy spirit Thirdly the Turke himselfe as one truely saith cannot so much hurt or endamage the Church of God as an haereticke may Nec turca tantumdamni inferre patest Ecclesiae quantum hareticus Ferus in mat and therefore if it be lawfull to put to death common enemies of our liues in warre why is it not lawfull for the Magistrate to put to death the enemies of our soules of God and of the State Againe we haue diuers examples of this lawfull seuetitie executed vpon Idolaters in former ages First in Eliiah in 1 King 18. 40. commanding all the Prophets of Baal to be slaine Secondly in Iehu in 2 King 10. 24 25. giuing the like command concerning the worshippers of Baal Thirdly in all the inhabitants of the land of Iuda in 2 King 11. 18. who destroyed all the houses of Baal and slue Mattan the Priest before the Altars Furthermore we haue examples also in the Ecclesiasticall Historie First in Constantine that famous Christian Emperour who enacted a statute as appeares by a c Apud Bullinger decad 2. Sermon 8. letter of his written to one Taurus That if any did offer Sacrifice vpon the Altars gladio vltore sterneretur he should be put to death by the sword and his goods confiscate The like was enacted by c In Codice Theodosiano tit 2. Theodosius and Valentinianus by Martianus also as the same Henry Bullinger recordeth And the ground and warrant of this is the good word of God for the Lord himselfe saith Deut. 13. 5. that Prophet or dreamer of Dreames shall be put to death because he hath spoken to turne you away from the Lord your God and in vers 9. thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first vpon him to put him to death and afterward the hand of all the people And againe in vers 10. thou shalt stone him with stones that he dye because hee hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God Now if any shall say this was a Iudiciall Law giuen to the Israelites I answer say it were so yet the equitie of that Iudiciall Law remaineth still to all Nations The like proofe we haue in Zech. 13. 3. it shall come to passe that when any shall yet prophesie then his Father and his Mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth c Epistol 48. Saint Augustine indeed wauered concerning the like point for a time as he himselfe confesseth in one of his Epistles but when he saw that the City wherein he dwelt was reclaimed from Donatisme by the sword of the Magistrate hee reuersed his opinion and confessed that Heretickes might lawfully bee enforced and punished by the Magistrate But if any shall obiect Obiection that in the new Testament wee are exhorted indeed to flye the company of Heretickes Rom. 16. 17. not to receiue them into our houses 2 Epist Iohn verse 10. after the first and second admonition to reiect them Tit. 2. 10. And heere in my Text to beware of them but no where to put any of them to death Answer I answer at that time when the New Testament was penned and also when our blessed Sauiour liued vpon the earth and preached the Church of God was vnder the tyrannie of the Romane Empire so that it had bin in vaine at that time to haue stirred it vp to put false Prophets to death the hands of the Church being then bound neither was it absolutely necessarie to vse any such excitation because there was sufficient direction giuen already in the Old Testament what was to be done concerning hereticall Seducers and yet it is to be obserued that the Church euen in the New Testament wished that seducers were cut off Gal. 5. 12. vpon the which place one of the c S. Ambrose non solum spiritaliter sed etiam carnaliter hos maledicit antients saith the Apostle in this Text of Scripture doth not onely wish a spirituall cutting off to the seducers of his time but also a corporall abscission he desires that as they were a meanes to put the Galatians to bodily paine by vrging Circumcision vpon them so that they themselues might bee put to bodily paine by vtter cutting off their very liues where that reuerend Father vseth an accusatiue case hos of the person after maledicit after the manner of the ecclesiastici Scriptores whose fashion it is as a learned e Despauterius in Syntax Gramarian speakes to put accusatiue cases of the person after verbes compounded with benè or malè but to let the construction passe and to returne to the matter here wee see in Saint Ambrose his iudgement that the Church in the Apostles time though it had not present power to put seducers to death yet it wished that they were put to death and if the Church in those daies wished their death it would as well haue put them to death if it had not beene restreined by ouer-ruling tyrannie as it is more then probable I might be large in this subiect but I must instar canis aegyptiaci content my selfe with a lap or two of this Nilus for feare of being stung by the Crocodile of rash censure for

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I confesse a c Sebast Munster lib. 2. de insul B. yt learned Writer saith which might seeme a Paradox Nulli sunt Lupi in Anglia that wee haue no Wolues in England but for the true vnderstanding of that Author we must necessarily distinguish of Wolues there be naturall Wolues and mysticall Wolues concerning naturall Wolues and of them he speakes he reporteth truely to the world of our Nation that wee haue none of them ordinarily breeding amongst vs but concerning mysticall Wolues it is quite otherwise in that sense multi sunt Lupi in Anglia we haue many Wolues in England we haue Popish Wolues which haue sought by all possible meanes both by force and flatterie to reduce all to blindnesse and superstition againe as appeares by th hellish Gunpowder-plot neuer to be forgotten in the yeere 1605. and other designes of theirs wee haue Arminian Wolues which make a bridge betweene vs and Popery endeuouring in some points to reconcile the Wolues and the Lambes which the very Heathen n Horat epod 15. dum pecor● Lupus insestus erit being put for semper Poets being reasonable men haue iudged an impossible taske we haue Anabaptisticall Wolues which iumpe with the Arminians in conditionall election vpon foreseene faith or workes in denying the doctrine of reprobation in the true sense thereof in maintaining vniuersall redemption of all of all sorts in maintaining the doctrine of free-will in defending and pleading for falling from grace or the totall Apostacy of Saints c. Fourthly I would we had not Rosey-crosse-Wolues which turne Diuinity into phansies idle speculations of their own braine esteeming text-men or such as endeauour to keepe to the naturall sense of Scripture not daring to make an allegorie in a Text where the spirit of God desires to be vnderstood without an allegorie to bee vulgar Diuines Vulgares theologos as they inculcate in some of their phansifull bookes boasting also of their ability to worke such miracles as I should tremble to name but because they doe this more priuately being either ashamed or affraid it should come to light I passe it by for the present there may be further occasion heereafter giuen vnto some to lay them open that others may beware of them Lastly I would wee had not Familisticall Wolues and that of diuers sorts as first Familists of the Castalian order which dissent from our doctrine and oppose it in euery syllable thereof and yet like notorious Hypocrites if they be neuer so little questioned will make shew by outward seeming conformity as though they did highly approue the doctrine of our Church and were ready-prest to defend the same which hold also that the Law of God may bee perfectly fulfilled by men in this world which tearme themselues Eagles Angels and Arch-angels which hope in a short time to be inspired with light and illumination as farre as euer Paul or any of the Prophets were which allegorize the places of Scripture concerning Christ dreaming onely of a sactifying Christ and abhorring a iustifying Sauiour expecting saluation indeed by their own works holding that Turkes Pagans may be saued as well as any other if they liue well though they had neuer heard of Christ if their be any of this faction still remaining I wish them speedily to repent for otherwise God no doubt will in time discouer them notwithstanding all their shifts and hypocrisies Secondly I would we had not Gringltonian Familists in the North parts of England which hold First that the Scripture is but for nouices Secondly that the Sabbath is to bee obserued but as a Lecture day Thirdly that to pray for pardon of sinne after one is assured of Gods loue is to offer Christ againe Fourthly that their spirit is not to bee tryed by the Scripture but the Scripture by their spirit Fifthly that we must not now goe by motiues but by motions Sixthly that when God comes to dwell in a man he so fills the soule that there is no more lusting Seuenthly that they see no reason why Ministers should speake against the sinnes of the wicked seeing the wicked man canne doe nothing but sinne Eighthly which boast and thanke God that they haue cast off praying in their Families repeating of Sermons and such like long agoe Ninthly which scoffe at such as make Conscience of words with many other pernitious points Thirdly I would wee had not Familists in the Mountaines which say that they haue quite vanquished the diuel that they are pure from all sinne and that they are neuer so much as tempted to doubt of their spirituall estate Fourthly I would we had not Familists of the Vallyes which bring in their damnable doctrine with faire pretences of weeping of sighing of lifting vp the eyes to heauen of patience of a smooth carryage and the like I would we had not Familists of the scattered flocke which seduce by pretending themselues to bee of them which feare the Lord when they are nothing lesse I would wee had not Familists of Caps his order and of other rankes but amongst the rest of these mysticall Wolues there hath beene discouered of late to his Maiesties High Commission-Court a notable close-deuouring Woolfe one Iohn Hetherington a Boxe-maker whom I may iustly tearme a Woolfe according to the title giuen to seducers in my Text in respect of his pernitious doctrine being the Teacher to a great number of Factious persons about this City and he may fitly be compared to the Woolfe Glanos c Aristol lib. 8. de Hist animal c. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which seekes to prey vpon men or to the Woolfe Circus which in the cold time when the Mountaines are couered with snow will impudently enter into the very City to seeke for his prey as e In vrbem per famem impudētissimus accedit Gesner recordeth euen so this mysticall Woolfe vseth to prey vpon men as appeares by the multitude of Schismaticall persons whom he hath seduced yea he is growne so impudent that he is entred into this famous City to ceaze vpon his prey there although he know there be vigilant Pastors in it able to resist him But that I may proceed methodically in that which I haue further to write I will confine the remainder to three heads viz. 1. Matter of Discouerie 2. Matter of Confutation 3. Matter of Admonition Concerning Matter of Discouerie I confesse I haue an hard taske for who shall make men beleeue they see a Woolfe when outwardly in the skinne there appeares onely the resemblance of a silly innocent sheepe but I hope I haue to deale with a prudent age of men qui ex vngue Leonem which haue learned to know a Lyon if they see but one of his pawes now I will endeuour to discouer this close Sectary foure waies 1. By the Oathes of honest Witnesses 2. By his owne erroneous Bookes 3. By comparing him with antient Heretickes 4. By applying vnto him the words of my Text. The