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A90603	The mysticall vvolfe. Set forth in a sermon preached in the Church of Edmond the King, in Lombard-street. / By E.P.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing P183; Thomason E27_9; ESTC R8274	23,897	45

Gods word are the devils spirits and not Gods I have read that in a Synod in Britain held by Dunstan archbish. of Canterbury who would have had a Decree passe against Ministers marriage a strange voyce was heard out of an Image in the Church for confirmation thereof But the British Bishop cryed out that that voyce was the voyce of the Devill and not of God for God would not speak against his word And indeed St. Paul calleth forbidding of Marriage the doctrine of Devills We should try all these new Doctrines pretended to come from the spirit whether they be against Gods word or no As for example whereas the Romish Prelates forbid the Laity the reading of the holy Scriptures in the vulgar which God commands and the holy Ghost commends is this their prohibition from God or from the devill And whereas they command Communion under one kinde contrary to Christs institution whose spirit is in them Gods or the Devills And whereas other false Prophets forbid the saying of the Lords Prayer with other things commanded in holy Scriptures those are lying Prophets who have not Gods spirit but the devills for God will not speake against his Word O yee foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you saith St. Paul O yee foolish Galatians wee see how carefull men are of being deceived in any thing of weight in buying land they advise with the best counsell they can get for health they advise with the learnedest Physitians in receiving money if they doubt they will go to the Gold-smith and weigh it and touch it at the stone Let us not be carelesse only for our soules Nay who hath bewitched you saith the Apostle It is the fashion of witches as some report when they Covenant with the devill to renounce their Baptisme were it possible for a man except hee were bewitched indeed to be perswaded to renounce his Baptisme Were it possible for any man except he were bewitched to forsake the Church of God and to dream of a new one and that Almighty God never had a true Church untill some fanatick persons at this time had framed o●e How could all this their holy frame escape all the Patriarks Prophets holy Apostles and Doctors and be revealed onely to Browne who lik't it so ill that h●e returned againe to his Mother Church The like antiquitie have the Etonites and others of our Sectaries Our Lord sending forth his Disciples as sheep among Wolves giveth them this counsell Beye wise ●● Serpe●ts and harmlesse as Doves And why wise as Serpents Like the deafe Adder that stoppeth her eare which wil not hearken to the voyce of the Charmer charm he never so wisely It is written of the Aspe that to avoyd charming shee layeth one eare close to the ground and stoppeth the other with her tayle Thu● the ancient Christians were wont to stop their eares and not heare Christs truth adulterated It is recorded by Theodoret that when Lucius the Arrian Bishop came and preached among the Anti●●hians broaching his damnable Heresies the people forsooke the Church and would not heare him Lib. 4. Eccles. Histor. cap. 20. M. Histor. Tripart But now they tha● beare the name of Christians would be accounted professors r●n a if they were mad to be charmed to heare the false Prophets of our time Beye wise as Serpents saith our Lord and harmlesse a● Doves The Dove as shee is innocent and harmlesse so swift winged to avoyd the danger shee may receive from Vultures and other ravenous birds O that I had wings like a Dove saith the Prophet then would I flye away and be at rest Our soules are win●ed our prayers are our wings let us fly to the rock where we shall finde rest You have heard of two wayes the one leading to life the the other to destruction and that it is a difficult thing to find heaven and that because of fals● Prophets who goe about to lead us out of the way you have heard also what these false Prophets are viz. lying Prophets falsifying Gods Word and why God suffereth them viz. for the punishment of the ungodly and for the tryall of the godly and that they come unsent without any calling in Sheepes cloathing counterfeiting holinesse pretending Scripture being indeed ravening Wolves and as Wolves destroy the body so doe they the soule Our Lord biddeth beware of them and whereas they pretend the spirit try the spirits as St. Iohn counselleth you whether they be of God or no and being not of God to avoyd them being wise as Serpen●s who stop their eares and will not heare the voyce of the charmer Let us be innocent as the Dove and mount heaven with our prayers and praying say with David Sew me thy wayes O Lord and teach me thy pathes Open thou my eyes that I may see the wonders of thy law Lead me forth in thy truth and guide me thou art the God of my salvation And whereas the suffering of these false Prophets may be one of the causes of Gods heavy hand upon us and of the unnaturall war among us let us use all meanes to suppresse them in our callings and so remove this cursed thing from us All you that are the sonnes of peace friends of peace and servants to the God of peace double and treble your prayers that some Mediator may stand in the gap to divert Gods judgements from us and if Almighty God hath otherwise decreed let every one of us make his owne peace with God commending our soules into his hands who is our faithfull Creator keeping faith a good conscience of which take heed that you do not make shipwrack which if you keep you need not feare neither false Prophets nor devills fire nor sword nothing shall hurt you Although they kill you they shall but deliver your soules out of the prison of your bodyes to enjoy everlasting peace which I intreat Almighty God to bring us all for his sonne Jesus Christs sake to whom with the holy Ghost three persons and one God be all Glory Prayse Honour and Donion c. FINIS PErlegi concionem hanc de pseudo-Prophetis in qua nihil reperio quo minus utiliter Imprimatur Ia. Cranford Nov. 24. 1644. 〈…〉 〈…〉 False Prophets A falsis prophetis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2 Peter 2. 1. Rom. 5. 25. In Vita Rich. 2 Psalme 5. ●alse prophets alwayes in the Church Matthew 24. Acts 20. 29. ● Tim. 4. 1. 2 Pet 2. 1 2 2 Tim. 3. 8 Lib. de haeresibus Galat. 3. 1. 2 Cor. 11. 3. An ●● 313. Jesuites and other Rom●sh ●m●●s●●ies F●●●lists Anabaptists Brownists I●ded●●●● Antinomians Arminian● Sabbatarians Antisabbatarians Traskites Arrians Antitrinitarians Millenaries Soules sleepe In Indi●e Po●●m Bulling ●dver An●b●● Psal. ●0 2. Why God suffereth false Prophets 2 Thes. 2. 10. 1 Cor. 11. 1● Use 1. Vse 2. Lib. 4. cap. 4. Psa●m● 80. 4 Which come ●u● veniunt {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}

the Kings of the earth and to make their Prophet Iohn King of the universe In the History of the Anabaptists of Germany you may read what faire pretences they made before they surprized the City The use that we should make of this is to be very wary of these Hereticks who are of the best conversations whose lives saith Origem are possibly directed not of God but by the devill Secondlie this their sheeps cloathing may be their palliating their errours with the testimony of holy Scriptures I read that the Monster Arrius pretended to have 42. places of Scripture to prove that Christ was a meere man and not God and this the Seducers learnt of their Father the Devill who cited the word to the Word himselfe tempting him to cast himselfe downe from the Pinacle of the Temple viz. He cited part of the 91. Psalme He hath given his Angels charge over thee they shall heare thee up in their hands lest thou shouldest dash thy foot against a stone leaving out part of the Text viz. to keep thee in thy wayes The devill fitted it for his purpose This do Hereticks as among others the Anabaptists to maintaine their uncleannesse in their spirituall marriages cite or rather abuse the holy Scriptures viz. That Christians must forsake those things that are most deare unto them for Chrsts sake and therefore women must renounce their beloved honesties Quidam etiam liberi fratres impuri Nebulones persuadebant levibas mulier culis ●on posse ips●s salvari nisi suam pudi●itam prostituerent   Abutebantur autem non absque blasphemia ver●is Domini Nisi quis deser●erit spreverit quaecu●que chara habeat ●●● posse salvari 2. That Publicans and harlots shall enter heaven before the Pharisee therefore their spirituall sisters must prostitute their bodies to enter Heaven before honest Matrons Item Christi ●omi●e o●nes co●tumeli●s ●erendas esse 3. For Christs sake wee must undergoe all manner of infamy Praeterea● cum Christus dixerit meretrices Publicanos praececisse justitiarios in Regne Coelorum debere mulieres meretrices fieri s●am pudicitiam prostituere ●u● fore in Regne coelorū majores probis honestis matronis Hen. Bull Adver. Anab. lib. 2. cap. 1. fol. 31. Againe as Christians are one spirit so they must be one bodie such Scripture they quote   The Use that you should make of this is advise with your learned Pastors and double and treble your prayers to Almighty God to keepe you and to bring into the way of truth all such as do erre and are deceived But inwardly they are ravening Wolves {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Wolves Whatsoever they pretend they are Wolves as Wolves are to the Sheep so are false Prophets to Christs flock St. Paul calleth them {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} grievous Wolves Our Lord setteth downe their outward shew and their inward disposition what outward shew soever they make {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Wolves in divers respects 1. As the biting of a Wolfe is venomous like the biting of a mad Dog making them that are bitten by them mad so false Prophets venome men causing them to goe out of their wits 2. As the Wolves destroy more sheep by craft then by might so doe false Prophets of whom Saint Paul speaketh of some carrryed away {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} By the cogging of men and with craftinesse by which they lye in wait to deceive 3. As Wolves are dull-sighted in the day and quick sighted in the night so false Prophets are very accute and sharpe witted to defend their errors but very dull and blinde to see the truth 4 Make a garment saith Plutarth of the haire of a Wolfe it will prove odious being lousie and breeding vern●●e upon him that weareth it So all the profit you shall get by false Prophets will be noxious to you {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifieth dilanio to teare asunder {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to rend asunder as one Wolf may destroy a flock so one Hereticke a Congregation ● Lupus quasi Leopus followeth the Lyon hunting for his prey and what the Lyon spareth the Wolfe devoureth So false Prophets follow their father the Devill the roaring Lyon seeking whom they may devoure Wolves play with little Children as Aristotle reporteth and sometimes spareth them as wee read of Ro●ulus brought up by a Wolf and of late days I read of a man brought up among the Wolves and ra●●e about with them and preyed as they did but being taken by Hunters and chained up he howl'd like a Wolfe and continuing among men and having gotten his speech and understanding he would complaine that he lived more carefully among men than among Wolves I never read that a false Prophet spared any man whom he could seduce and it is not so dangerous to live among Wolves in the fields as with false Prophets in a strong City Ravening wolves they are by reason of their rapacitie taking away truth from our understandings charity from our affections and holinesse from our action {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} grievous Wolves cruell Wolves a Wolfe delighteth in bloud so these mysticall Wolves of the cruelty of these ravening Wolves you may read Hebr. 11. 37. By them the Saints of God were stoned they were sawne asunder they were tempted they were slaine with the sword c. In the Primi●ive persecutions they opened the Bellies of holy men and virgin● and filling them full of Corne exposed them to be eaten of Swine Cyril of Hierapolis had his breast opened and his Liver taken out and chewed by these ravenous Wolves In cruelty the Romish Wolves excell Call but to minde the martyrdom of our holy men in Queen Maries dayes which holy men delivered our Nation from Idoll worship Bread-worship invocation of Saints and Angels and translated the holy Bible into English who restored to us the Cup in the Sacrament the symboll of Christs bloud who sealed their confession with their bloud Their blessed remembrance shall remaine for ever In the Massacre of the Protestants in France you may see their Wolvish cruelty The Papists being not able to quell the Protestants in Battaile they put on sheepes cloathing made a League with them confirmed by Oathes and a publike Edict And that the Protestants might the better confide in them the Protestant King of Navar our Queens father was to marry the sister of the then French King To the which marriage the Protestant Princes Nobles resorted invited with great joy and expectation of future happinesse The marriage was solemnized but in the night time the Wolvish Papists fell upon their guests and worried them against the Law of hospitality promises and oathes The noble Prince the Admirall among others was