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A79875 Leaven, corrupting the childrens bread; or Christs caveat to beware of sectaries and their dangerous doctrines. In two sermons on Mark 8. 15. The former preached in the Cathedrall Church of Lincoln, at the lecture, on Wednesday, October 1. 1645. The latter in another auditorie. / By John Clarke, B. D. and pastor of the church of Fiskerton, neere Lincoln. Clarke, John, d. 1658. 1646 (1646) Wing C4477A; Thomason E354_15; ESTC R201098 49,476 63

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longissime summoveant Calvin praefat adv fanatic sect Libertin upon the walls of Jerusalem and will not blow the trumpet when the slie enemie under false colours a feigned word which he can give shall pretend he comes as a friend and so cut our throats Alas alas poore England thou hast many malignant watchmen that pretend to descrie and discover danger that are themselves most dangerous that have and do undo thee by daubing cursed silence in such a time as this Est 8.6 that are of thy enemies counsel are at a fee with him his pensioners If it were not so they would not betray the truth of God to vile sectaries as they now do O these carriages would make dumb stones speak It is irremissibile peccatum a sinne against the Holy Ghost saith Luther (t) In Epist ad Spalatin to be mealy-mouth'd when such pernitious leaveners poyson the bread of the houshold of faith 3 Every private Christian look to one look well about you Believe not every spirit but trie their doctrines whether they be of God or not 1 John 4.1 If any come that bring not this doctrine receive him not to house bid him not God speed 2 John 10. say thou of their clandestine meetings and adjure thy self as Jacob of Simeon and Levi Gen. 49.6 O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united Pray God by his power to keep thee to salvation Lead not thy self into temptation Julian the Emperour became an Apostate by going to heare Libanius the sophister declame against the Christians Come not near the doore of their house knowest thou not that the dead ar there and that their guests are in the depths of hell Prov. 9.18 If corrupt doctrine be so dangerous take thou heed to thy self in leavening times and places and companies heedfully mind every sermon opinion tenet every book and discourse thou hearest seest readest carefully look unto every bit of bread the least morsell thou puttest into thy mouth lest some unsuspected crumb of unsound leaven be mingled therewith And this is the second point which we are fallen upon and now followeth in order to be handled viz. that Doct. 2 The people of God must with all possible caution and circumspection preserve themselves from being leavened corrupted and seduced Take heed beware (u) Tribus verbis utitur quo Apostoli reliqui omnes intelligant rem illam a qua ipsos tam sancte et serio dehortatur esse modis omnibus detestandam Deus enim etiam levissimas purioris suae doctrinae corruptelas nullo modo ferre potest vult ut sui discipuli Christiani non instar caetorum mox cuivis spiritui applaudant sed spiritus probent Chemnit Harm cap. 82. Deut. 13.3 Thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet (w) vid. Vincent Lirin cap. 15. upon that place of Deuteronomy chap. 13. who excellently paraphraseth thereon for the Lord your God proveth you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart 8 thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him read the place from vers 1. to the 14. Jer. 23.16 Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesie unto you they make you vain they speak a vision of their own heart Matth. 7.15 Beware of false prophets (x) also on Math. 7.15 read Vinc. Lir. cap. 36. Mar. 4.24 Take heed what you heare Acts 20.28 Take heed therefore to your selves and to the flock 29 shall grievous wolves enter in among you 30 also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them 31 Therefore watch and remember that Phil. 3.2 Beware of dogs beware of evil-workers beware of Col. 2.8 Beware lest any man spoyl you through And good reason have we to be thus carefull in regard of 1 our Own souls 2 Sectaries and leavening Teachers 3 Doctrines delivered by them Reasons 1. In regard of our selves 1 In regard of our selves Because it is a matter which much concerneth us a businesse of great consequence our immortall souls which are more worth then all the world are in danger lie at stake may come to be perverted poysoned destroyed damned through our base neglect Matth. 23.15 they make him viz. The Pharisaicall leaveners make their proselytes two fold more the child of hell then themselves 2 Pet. 2.1 who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them ver 2. and many shall follow their pernitious wayes ver 3. with feigned words make merchandise of you The Apostles words are emphaticall and weighty 1. will not a wise Christian take heed of that which will bring upon him an irrecoverable losse that may undo him for ever and break his back heresies are damnable 2. would a man walk in a way which would bring him to some ill end these are pernitious wayes 3 would a wise and free-born man be bought and sold Like a slave or beast (y) Bez. not Major in 2 Pet. 2. tanquam pecoribus ad nundinationem these with feigned words make merchandise of you As therefore in fairs we look to our purses take heed of cheaters as in times of warwe gird on our swords and will not be unprovided for an enemies encounter as in times of infection we provide Antidotes comfort and preserve our spirits fence and corroborate the vitals so should we take as great care of our souls and blesse our selves out of the company of smitting and contagious leaveners seducers Touch not that pitch which will not easily be got off S. John that beloved disciple accidentally being in the Bath where Cerinthus was (z) Cerinthus maintained that the world was made by Angels that circumcision and other legal rites were to be observed that Jesus Christ was a meer man not risen again but should rise that Christ should reign a thousand years on earth and men should enjoy al sensual pleasures vid. Augustin de Haeres 8. he leaped out of the Bath unbathed because he feared the Bath should have fallen seeing that enemy to the truth was within Such feare and zeal had the Apostles saith Irenaeus that they would not communicate a word with them that adulterated the truth as Master Fox relateth it Acts Mon-vol 1. P. 48. Secondly because of the number nature of corrupting seducing Leaveners 2 In regard of false teachers 1 For number many false prophets are gone out into the world 1. John 4.1 not as many which corrupt the word of God 2. Cor. 2.17 many walk enemies of the crosse of Christ Phil. 3.18 Therefore as a man that hath a charge of money 1. Many in a way where many robbers haunt in a faire where many cheaters and cut-purses come had need look well about him be very wary and circumspect or as in times and places of the Pestilence where many be infected shut up and die of
in Scyllam sive in Charybdim incidentes fidei naufragium patiantur Chemnit Harm cap. 82. 3 In regard of the Doctrine it self 3 Their Doctrine is plausible which false teachers broach and deliver it stands us in hand to be very carefull for it is Probable plausible pleasing to corrupt nature and the itching humours of ungrounded unsanctified men (h) potest quidem Satanas suum fermentum melleâ dulcedine inficere Quid enim falsa doctrina suavius amabilius Chemnit Harm ●●61 Thus was the leaven of Pharisaicall Sadducean and Herodian sectaries it took much with the common people Such is the leaven of our dayes it savoureth well to the common palate to have liberty of conscience none to controll them no covenant to bind no law to command or condemne c. Nothing but Christ Gospell Spirit revelations new light no tying of men to Duties of piety familie-prayer c. such they opprobriously nickname Duty-mongers formalists There needs no fixt time place persons for any publick ordinances of God for they are all taught of God able to preach pray minister a word in season need not must not be servants of men pay tribute to Caesar tithes or maintenance to an Antichristian ministerie let them labour with their hands as Saint Paul did that all things must be common (i) Sleidan lib. 3. that all men all creatures shall be saved at the last c. Is not this gallant Divinity must not such Doctrine as this needs take And have not we need to take heed and beware of such leaven The point thus proved by Scripture and Reason affordeth unto us a twofold Use of Exhortation Reproof 1. Use of Exhortation 1 For Exhortation And are these things so Why then Let all Christians take out this lesson which our Savior taught his disciples here and suffer not a company of cunning giddy self seeking sectaries to undo them believe not any seducing spirit Be not turned aside after another Gospel Gal. 1.7 Take not on trust what the leavening Pharisee delivereth out of Moses chaire receive nor any venemous tenet under the pleasing notion of Gospel and new light but prove all things 1 Thes 5.21 Search the Scriptures as those noble Beraeans Acts 17.11 Blind men swallow many a flie Look well about you therefore have your eyes in your head lest in any kind or degree you admit such How wary are you in taking money how advisedly exactly do you weigh gold refusing it not only when the mettall is base brasse and drossie but also when it wants the least grain of due weight 'T is a rule you have tell money after your father to turn every suspected penny you take especially when much bad money and copper coin is stirring abroad Believe me brethren there is not now so much bad silver in the world as there is bad doctrine Look to your selves that ye lose not those things which ye have gained 2. John 8. so some copies read the place that pretious depositum of sound truth and wholesom words Let not the Devil or his hereticall imps cheat you with their new counters though glistering and glorious you know the proverb All is not gold that glistereth Be henceforth no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lie in wait to deceive Eph. 4.14 All seducers say they are of Christ come from him preach in his name The Devill never comes to deceive in his own likenesse All fanaticall phrensies that ever have beene broached in Gods Church to this day do pretend to some degree of new light (k) Audias etenim quosdam ipsorum dicere venite o insipientes miseri qui vulgo Catholici vocitamini discite fidem veram quam praeter nos nullus intelligit quae multis ante saeculis latuit nuper vero revelata ostensa est sed discite furtim atque secretim delectabit enim vos Et item cum didiceritis latenter docete ne mundus audiat nec ecclesia sciat paucis namque concessum est tanti mysterij capere secretum Vinc. Livin cap. 26. though it be indeed mere darknesse ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastnesse 2 Pet. 3.17 2 This Doctrine of cautelous circumspection lest Christians be leavened perverted falleth foul upon 2. Vse of Reprehension to people sharply chides and reproveth 1 Foole-hardy adventurous people that love to be nibling at every leavened loaf that will be sipling of every sugred cup though full of deadly poyson as K. John of the Monk of Swinshed his Wassail though it should cost them as it did him their life They will run a madding after mountebank teachers their mouth waters after bread of deceit because it is sweet though afterward the gravel stick in their teeth Pro. 20.17 Unsetled professors (l) cum quaeque novitas ebullit statim cernitur frumentorum gravitas et levitas palearum tunc sine magno molimine excutitur ab area quod nullo pondere intra aream tenebatur Vincent Lir. cap. 25. of the tribe of Gad as one wittily calleth them like rambling beasts though they have never so green and good pasture will over hedge and ditch into fresh grounds and like silly sheep love to feed on fresh lushious though rotting grasse Very weather-cocks every wind of Doctrine turns them unballasted ships every wave shakes them (m) Heu miseranda conditio quantis illi curarum aestibus quantis turbinibus exagitantur Nunc etenim qua ventus impulerit incitato errore rapiuntur nunc in semetipsos reversi tanquam contrarij fluctus reliduntur Vincent Lirin Ibid. They have a penny to bestow with every pedlar Assoon as they heare of a new merchant they will take up his wares on trust Alas poore soules are you such children such fools heedlesly and greedily to swallow any leavened morsell know you not that these scorpions have stings in their tail Rev. 9.10 and yet will you play on the hole of the aspe 'T is Solomons advise for the avoiding of drunkennesse Prov. 23.31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup when it moveth it self aright At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder Take heed of leavening seducers they have an intoxicating cup to pervert make giddy and poyson your souls Their wine is the poyson of dragons and the cruell venome of aspes Deut. 32.33 (n) Wine here signifieth the corrupt doctrine and heresies wherewith the Iews poysoned themselves their disciples poyson of dragons that is their doctrines and actions are venemous and deadly to soul and body as being doctrines of devils and the poyson of the old dragon Ainsw in loc 2. Magistr This also blameth the negligent and unregarding