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spirit_n	flesh_n	law_n	mind_n	7,026	5	6.6163	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94728	Anthropolatria; or The sinne of glorying in men, especially in eminent ministers of the gospel. Wherein is set forth the nature and the causes of this sinne, as also the many pernicious effects which at all times this sinne hath produced, and with which the church of Christ is still infected. With some serious disswasives from this sinne, and directions to prevent the infection thereof. A discourse usefull, and in these times very seasonable. / By John Tombes, B.D. and preacher of Gods word at the Temple.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1792; Thomason E282_13; ESTC R200049	17,625	23

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Jude 16. by reason of some advantage or benefit now all these Causes doe import some errour or perversenesse of the soule which are alwayes evill Yea 't is no small evill to admire men when we should magnifie Christ to delight in the picture instead of the prototype to glory in the servant in the place of the Master in Zanchius his judgement it is no lesse then idolatry Assuredly it is an earthly affection it is but wisedome of the flesh {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not of Gods Spirit and therefore enmity against God adverse to his Law 1 Cor. 3. 4. In lowlinesse of mind each man is to esteeme others better then himselfe yet no man is to think of another no not of an Apostle above that which is meet 1 Cor. 4. 6. In charity we are to seeke not our own but every man anothers wealth to believe all things to hope all things yet not to seeke the elevation of one to the disparagement of another to be puffed up for one against another or to conceive of one above that he is to a derogation of Christs prerogative XII From the many pernicious effects that follow upon it BUt the evill of this sin is most cleerely seen in the pernicious effects that are consequent upon it which are many As 1. it is a direct cause of schismes so it was among these Corinthians their glorying in Paul Apollos Cephas made them say I am of Paul I am of Apollos I am of Cephas it causeth the people to divide themselves one from another under different Teachers in whom they glory and it causeth Teachers to sever those that affect them from other teachers whom they affect not so much for occasio facit furem advantage to doe evill is a great incitement to attempt it Sundry are the causes of schismes sometimes the pride tyranny heterodoxie of the Teachers and then they are justifiable in the people the power of Pastors not being Lordly but fatherly pedo non sceptro not in a compulsory but a directory way sometimes the causelesse hatred or contempt of the people towards some Pastors the vaine esteeme light affection towards others causeth a schisme and then the Pastours are free the people are under the guilt And it is no small sin whether from the Pastours or peoples priding in guifts that a schisme is made whereas the end of Gods Spirit in bestowing of guifts is that there might be no schisme in the body but that the members should have the same care one for another 1 Cor. 12. 25. Now schismes are contrary to Christian unity and love cause great alteration of heart in one member from another substraction of mutuall helps hinderance in the growth of the body neglect of praying one for another yea bitternesse disdaine hatred and the effects of these declining of society excommunicating each other and at last violence and bloud and these are bad enough 2. The prohibited glorying in men doth expose the Christian profession to obloquy and contempt for whereas it is the honour of the Christian profession that they have one body one spirit one Lord one faith one baptisme one God and Father of all Ephes. 4. 5 6. by the glorying in some Teachers afore others the Christian society is made like the severall Schooles of Philosophers some following Plato some Aristotle some Zeno some Epicurus their doctrines accounted but as the proper opinions or placita of severall teachers not proceeding from one and the same Spirit of God but singularity of conceit and zeale for them is conceived to arise not from a certaine knowledge of heavenly truth but from strength of fancie and peculiar humour which thing is a great stumbling block to those that are without keeping them back from embracing the truth and an occasion of laying open the profession of it to derision 3. By glorying in men as there is an over high esteeme of the guifts of some so there is an undervaluing of the guifts of others which thing as it is an unworthy abuse of those various guifts Christ giveth to his Church so doth it inferre an injurious imputation to the Spirit of God by whom they are bestowed For as it is said Prov. 17. 5. Who so mocketh the poore reproacheth his maker who made him such so it may be said by parity of reason he that despiseth those that are of small guifts reproacheth the Spirit of God as if he were defective in his guifts whereas the variety of guifts and the bestowing of them in different measures sets forth the fullnesse and freenesse of Gods Spirit who worketh all those dividing to every man severally as he will 1 Cor. 12. 11. 4. By the inordinate glorying in some and despising of others the despised persons are often discouraged and disheartned to the detriment of the Church of God and the grievance of the despised For the remembrance of contempt is apt to cause dejectednesse and griefe of heart which alwayes benums a mans spirit and enfeebles him and clogges him in his work Thus the heart is made sad which should not be made sad and the sparke that should be blowne up by incouragements that it may flame forth is extinquished and the Spirit quenched contrary to the Apostles warning 1 Thes. 5. 19 20. 5. By glorying in Teachers it falls out that they are puffed up and perverted much experience hath confirmed this as true that popular applause hath filled Teachers with vaine glory and made them adulterate the word of God to please their auditors St Paul tells us of the false Apostles among the Galatians Gal. 4. 17. that they did zealously in shew affect them but not well intending to ex●lude him that they might affect them It is no strange thing that Teachers perceiving the lightnesse of their auditors and their itching eares doe sometimes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} handle the word of God deceitfully instead of ministring {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the sincere milke of the word as it is called 1 Pet. 2. 2. sometimes flattering pleasingly when they should reprehend sharpely sometimes balking the vice they should freely convince of sometimes inventing new formes of Teaching new opinions sublimate conceites to fit the desires of the people making the Lesbian rule of their fancies the measure of their teaching and this is a grand evill 6. This glorying in men begets an aptnesse to receive their errours to imitate their actions which is the seed of heresies and superstitions for admiration and doting love to a person easily drawes the admirers to a blind obedience implicit faith in them to an inslaving of their judgements so as jurare in verba Magistri It is observed by an historian that afore the miscarriage of Conrade the Emperour and Lewis the French King in their expedition to the Holy Land to which St Bernards Sermons perswaded the people were too much transported with an high opinion of