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A43039 The marriners card and compass. Or The best way to attain heaven amidst a sinfull and crooked generation. By William Harvey, minister of the Word Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705. 1659 (1659) Wing H1093; ESTC R218426 15,444 43

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capiunt volucres In cap. 9. Eccl. St. Hierom thus discribs the heretiques Their affable speeches fair tongue are a gin and snare wherewith they catch the poor birds and fishes But of these the people of God are admonished to take heed Beware of false prophets saith our Saviour himself Matth. 7.15 And in another place Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadduces chapt 16.6 and that 24.25 and 26. vers read the words And the disciple follows his Master Beloved believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they are of God and he giveth the reason because many false prophets are gone out into the world 1 Epistle of John 4. chapt v. 1. Thus should every Christian do if they would not be seduced Should a Goldsmith hand over head take all moneys without trying I believe he would receive much adulterated coine To prevent which he brings all to the touchstone If Solomon had not been wise he could never known the true Mother for the harlots were both a● their pro and con Heresis Aocta est mentiri non tantum lingua sed vita si fidem imerroges whil bristtanius si conversactonem nihil irreprehensibilius Bernd and in one tale 1. Kin. 3.23 c. Wherefore the best way to find out the false play of these juglers is to bring them to the touchstone of Gods word For all is not gold that glisters The property of Heresie is to lye not in tongue onely but in Life If thou questions his faith not better Christian if his Conversation none more irreprehensible saith Benard And Ireneus of false prophets goes on thus They speak to us the same things Similia nobiscum loquuntur dissimilta vero sentiunt lib. 1. epist 59. but think the contrary And truly had we not recourse to the sacred springs of holy Writ the whole world would go after them You know who said it My sheep hear my voice and again The sheep follow him for they know his voice And a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him For they know not the voice of strangers John 10.4.5 It was a voice from heaven which said hear him Matthew 5.16 And he that came from Heaven the Son of man who is in Heaven said of those hypocrites Mittite eos Let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind c. Matth. 15. ●4 In the next place If Christ be the truth then by consequent his word is truth and we ought to subscribe to it without dispute Ipse dixit was sufficient a Scholar of Pythagoras If their Master once said it it carried as much weight with it as delivered from an Oracle Me thinks the word of God should be of more credit with us If that once speakes we should presently lay our hands upon our mounths and by silence express our consent I am with you unto the end of the world that is by his Spirit Grace word c. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God John 3.5 There are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one 1 John 5.7 and verse the 20. St. John speaking of our Saviour saith This is the true God and Eternal life And according to St. Paul God blessed for ever Rom. 9.5 These and whatsover we find recorded in the word we must believe without Cavelling seem they never so contrary to naturall reason This condemns the foul Heresie of the Photinians who deny the Divinity and Godhead of Christ upon this account onely because their blind reasons cannot comprehend it as if our faith were pinn'd upon reasons sleeve I have read of one who was in his dumps and deep contemplation to define fully what God was and this he would do forsooth by Phylosophy and reason In this his brown study by the sea-side he seeth a Child go often to the sea and bringing from thence water in a shell and then to put it in a little hole which was hard by The Philosopher asked the Child why he did so The Child replyed because I will bring all the Sea and put it into this hole That is impossible said the other again So it is as impossible saith the Child again for thee by reason to define what God is Worthy is that of Cassianus Doest thou ask me a reason of the Word I do not tell thee God hath said it his word is all the reason The person of him alone that speakes it is sufficient for my belief What need I enquire how that is true that God hath spoken when I must not doubt because it is true because God hath spoken it If this course were taken it would not only prevent blasphemy and mistakes of Scripture but be a great obstruction to sin and wickedness Did our Anapabtist but steer this way they would not cavill so much at the Baptisme of Infants What though their baptisme be not positive or demonstrative yet it is deductive deduced from Scripture as plain as a mans nose on his face Will they play the thieves and rob a poor Child of the Sacrament upon this fond cavill What good doth it doe them And they have no faith which is more then they can prove for they have Sacamentall faith and the Seed of faith And further they urge that Children are not capable of teaching and so ought not to be baptized As if that text had relation to the adulted Men and Women of ripe years and not to Children They make themselves simple Logitians for they understand not a distinction If they ask what good it doth them Aqua corpus absoluitur Spiritu animae delicta mundantur Saint Ambrose will tell them The body is cleansed by the Element Water the spots sins of the Soul by the Spirit I will end this with that of Crysost meaning Tertullians works Da mihi Magistrum da mihi Magistrum Give me my Master give me my Master So say I and so let us all say of the word of God da nobis Magistrum c. Give us our Master give us our Master Thus Christ is the truth Thirdly as he is the way and the truth so he is the life and that in three respects Creando Conservando Regenerando Sanctificando Resuscitando Glorificando By Creating and Conserving us By Regenerating and Sanctifying us By Raising again and Glorifying us First he is said to be the Life not so much in relation to his essence in which respect he is life eternall 1 John 5.20 but in relation to us in that he hath creared us and kept us ever since by the hand of providence So David Psalm 100.3 Know ye that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture And the Apostle In him we live move and have