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spirit_n	doctrine_n	ghost_n	holy_a	5,419	5	5.1111	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52857	An English inquisition for a heretick Or, The punishment due to hereticks. Together with the nature and causes of heresie. Declared in a sermon preached at a visitation at Ware, upon the 19th. of April 1672. By Robert Neville, B.D. late Fellow of Kings-Colledge in Cambridge, and now Rector of Ansty in the county of Hertford.	Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694.	1673 (1673)	Wing N519; ESTC R220263	15,927	31

they would pin and fasten upon it from whence it comes to pass that when they find the Scripture run counter to them rather than submit to it they will be guilty of Scripture-Slaughter as Tertullian calls it a Marcion exertè palam machaerâ non stylo usus est quoniam ad materiam suam caedem Scripturarum confecit Tert. de praescript Haereticor c. 38. And the same Author speaking of other Hereticks goes on to the same purpose as followeth De verbi autem administratione quid dicam cum hoc fit negotium illis non ethnicos convertendi sed nostros evertendi hanc magis gloriam captant si stantibus ruinam non si jacentibus elevationem operentur quoniam opus eorum non de suo proprio aedificio venit sed de veritatis destructione de praescript Haeret c. 42. Marcion sayes he draws his Sword and cuts off a part of the Scripture so that 't is no wonder that these men who handle the Scripture with such rude and violent hands force it to look which way they would have it it being no hard thing for a man of parts who is resolved never to be divorc'd from an espoused Opinion to find some places of Scripture which by skilfull handling will be perswaded to cast a favourable countenance upon it Tully tells us of a Musician who being ask'd what the Soul was answer'd that it was a Harmony is à principiis artis suae non recessit and he knew not sayes he how to leave the Principles of his own Art Again Plato's Scholars had been train'd up in Arithmetick and the knowledge of Numbers and hence it came that when afterwards they diverted their Studies either to Natural or Moral Philosophy they still fancied to themselves somewhat like unto Numbers and thereupon fell upon a conceit that Numbers were the Principles of all things so when these men come to read the Scripture it fares much with them as it did with Tully's Musician or Plato's Scholars they cannot forsake those erroneous Principles and false Opinions in which they have been brought up and educated and as to those who are sick of the Jaundies all things seem yellow and discoloured so to these men all those parts of the Scripture they look upon seem of the same Colour and Complexion with their own Opinions They Lacquy the Scriptures to their own private thoughts and sentiments 8ly Heresie sometimes proceeds from Corruption in Morals from Looseness of life and manners which oftentimes point out a Heretick and help us to find him out with more Certainty than the Inquisition does the supposed Heretick Those that are Followers of their own Lusts have often been found Haeresiarchae Leaders in Heresie 2 Pet. 2 14. having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and vers 15. have forsaken the right way and gone astray Thus Simon Magus went about with a famous Strumpet called Helena whom he stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his first Conception and preach'd up the lawfulness of all manner of Filthiness thus Dionysius of Alexandria tells us that that Arch-Heretick Cerinthus taught this Doctrine b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Christs Kingdom should be an earthly one and agreeable to his fancy who was sayes my Author 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very Carnal man that it should consist in satisfying the Paunch and Lust in Meats and Drinks and Sensual Pleasures And Ignatius speaking of some Hereticks of his Age tells us that they were c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat. Epist ad Magnes Corrupters and Defilers of Women I could tell you also of those shameless Lusts of the Nicolaitans who as Clemens Alexandrinus tells us d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem Alex. Stromat l. 3. Commit all kinds of Filthiness without shame saying that they must e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid. vide etiam Euseb Eccles Histor l. 3 cap 26. Fight with and affront and abuse the flesh to which I might add the Heresies of Menander and Carpocrates were they not too filthy for chast and modest ears 9ly And lastly They that are Enthusiasts and leaving the Word of God pretend to the Spirit to Extatical Raptures and Transportations may be said to be if not Hereticks yet in a ready way to Heresie Thus we read of that Arch-Heretick Montanus that he pretended to have received a Comforter from Heaven and two Prophetesses Priscilla and Maximilla and that he received certain Visions and Revelations both by himself and his Followers and f l 1. Haer. 74. Epiphanius tells us that those Hereticks the Nazaraei did boast of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Enthusiasms and g l. 2. c. 20. Irenaeus tells us of that Arch-Heretick Cerinthus that teaching his Disciples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some Doctrines of Filthiness not to be named he pretended to have received them in Revelations Lucian in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or False Prophet makes mention of a Mountebank Cheater who that he might the more artificially deceive the People set up an Oracle of his own contrivance and like the Priests of the true Oracles whence the Sybil never gave answer but in an Extasie he had his Sacred Furies his Holy Trances and appeared to all as inspired by some Deity and so our Heretical Enthusiasts pretend to Spiritual Transports and Inspired Raptures as oft as they would give birth to any erroneous Doctrine and feign to themselves as great a familiarity with God as ever Numa did with his Goddess Egeria but let me tell them notwithstanding their Seraphical pretensions to the Spirit that the same may be said of their Meeting-houses which was once said in scorn of the Conclave of Cardinals when they clasht for the space of two years about the choice of a Pope They had need to uncover the roof of the house to make way for the Holy Ghost to come upon them and with such persons as these is this our Age too much infested who are both Heretical Schismaticks and Schismatical Hereticks they separate from us by Schism and to fill up the measure of their iniquity they add to their Schism many dangerous and damnable Heresies and instead of the tryed silver of Gods Word they stamp the Name and Character of God upon Nehushtan upon brazen stuff of their own So that what Alexander Borgia was wont to say of the Expedition of the French into Naples that they came with Chalk in their hands to mark out their Lodgings and not with Weapons to fight for them may be said of these men who pretend to such Infallibility in interpreting Scripture they mark out their Conclusions whereon they may rest without producing any rational premises which may force an assent and whereas Scripture should be as the Seal to be set upon all their Doctrines and Positions to make them pass for Sound and Warrantable they make it as Wax to receive the