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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86433	The growth and spreading of hæresie. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, on the 10th. day of March, being the day of their publike fast and humiliation for the growth of hæresie. / By Thomas Hodges, Minister of Gods Word, at Kensington. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Hodges, Thomas, 1599 or 1600-1672.	1647 (1647)	Wing H2315; Thomason E379_1; ESTC R201396	42,374	73

this morris-dance of Haereticks Gods truth is rendred in the opinion of carnal men as a thing of so much uncertainty vanity and deformity that those who otherwise would imbrace it are kept back like that Indian King from baptisme by beholding the Spaniards ungodly oppressing courses The weak are scandalized and laid open to temptations (y) Mat. 18.6 Mark 9.42 Luk. 17.2 but woe to them that offend those little ones that believe in Christ it were better for them that a milstone were hang'd about their necks and they were cast into the bottom of the sea The strong (z) 2 Sam. 2.23 like the army stand at a gaze as when Hasael lay dead before them and are retarded in stead of making progres to cleanse these (a) Pausan l. 5. Augean stables purge out this leven which else would leven the lump their righteous soules are vexed to see Religion made a coat for the Moon or a Shipmans hose to serve all turns and purposes The prophane are heartned against this way of truth and their mouths wide-opened in scorns scoms and reproches of it These things moved the blessed Apostle to that severe desire (b) Gal. 5.12 I would saith he they were cut off that trouble you And lastly God himself is provoked to wrath and indignation For if (c) Cedr●● p. 168. Theodosius the Emperor was so much offended with the people of Antioch for abusing the Statue of his Empresse Placilla that he devoted the place to ruine and themselves to slavery what think you will become of those that abuse Religion then which there is not a more excellent Image of Himselfe in heaven or earth And is not here cause to mourn Vse 2 Are not you a people whom God hath hedged in from the large Common of the world for a part of his own Peculiar You are famous in your pious Progenitors who by their pleadings writings sufferings have stood like mighty bulwarks against Truths enemies Are you not renowned in your Atchievements glorious for Deliverances envied for Mercies And what shall all this set in a dark night of Error and render you infamous to Posterity Shall famous England become an Amsterdam of Mixtures an Island of Monsters Hath God done so much for you and will you so ill requite him in exposing his Truth to scorn Do you not know the charge of Papists against the Protestant truth because of Divisions and Errors we formerly have been able to retort this by bidding them look at home and must we now be silent Beloved were it some new and not an ordinary tryal that where (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Macar hom 17. Truth is the devil seeks to extinguish or at least ecclipse its glory by setting up Error to cloud it or at least to conflict with it and disturb Truths quiet possession were this I say some strange and uncouth thing it were the more tolerable to be ensnared by it But when 't is a thing so ordinary that lesse or more the Devils malice in every age of the Church hath been sufficiently discovered against the Truth nay God hath permitted such blasts and storms to arise for to put his people upon a stricter enquiry after truths confines and that the light chaffe and weighty wheat the chaste soule and unchaste fickle spirit may be (e) Deut. 13.3 distinguished discovered and difference put between them And now when it is a thing so common to be conquered by it what will it argue at the best but great inadvertencie and heedlesnes of spirit in you and render you unexcusable before Gods tribunal Therefore I beseech you (f) Eph. 6.10 be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might (g) 1 Cor. 16.13 Quit your selves like men (h) Jude 3. Contend earnestly for the faith alwayes remembring that speech of (i) Fraus malitia haereticorum vel dolenda est tanquam hominū vel cavenda est quam haereticarum vel irridenda tanquā imperitorum superborum Aug. cont Adric. Augustine The fraud and malice of haereticks is either to be bewailed because they are men or taken heed of and avoided because they are Haereticks or to be laught at because they are either unskilfull and foolish or else proud lofty but alwayes to be shunned and avoided as the means way of everlasting ruine Q. What may some say should we do that we may escape their Seducements A. 1. Get your minds furnished with saving wholsome fundamental principles of Religion out of Truths record the Word of God for unballased ships are soon oreset empty clouds whist to and fro by every blast chaffe carried hither and thither with every breath of wind and unfurnished unprincipled souls with heavenly truth are easily like children for want of knowledge seduced and plunged in error (k) Humana caecitas ad deum non dirigit viam nisi ipse lucernam legis ostendat c. Cyp. ser 5. de laps Col. 3.16 Therefore let the Word of Christ dwell plentifully in you in all knowledge and spirituall understanding What is a Goldsmith without his Touchstone or a Carpenter without his Rule or a Christian without the Word 2. Rest not in a bare literal knowledge without the sealing light of Gods spirit affecting your souls with a proportionable love and liking to what is discovered in his Word unto you for what we find not pleasure profit or some reall worth and benefit in we are easily inticed and prevailed with to let it go but if once heavenly truths unload their treasures of glory into our souls so that we find and feel their vertue and influence in our spirits beams of light enlightning (l) Psal 15.7 delighting and making glorious our minds (m) 1 Cor. 10.5 Subduing power throwing down Satans forts in our hearts (n) 2 Cor. 3. ult transforming grace changing the whole man into the Lords image Conscience comforted rectified sanctified in a word the soul (o) Eph. 3.19 filled with Gods fulnesse It begets so great an assurance in the spirit of Religious verity and so great an affection towards it because of its goodnesse that Seducers lose their labour and are fruitlesse in their endeavours to rob such souls of Truth because they know its reall worth and that there is nothing so good to them in exchange for which they should barter and let it go Only take care to grow and increase in this sweet (p) Col. 1.2.2 Experimentall knowledge and most inward acquaintance with the way of truth for (q) Nemo putet bonos posse de ecclesia discedere Triticum non rapit ventus nec arborem solida radice fundatam procella subvertit Inanes paleae tempestate jactantur invalidae arbores turbinis incursione evertuntur Cyp. tract 3. de simpl praelat thereby you shall find your selves established and strongly rooted in the same so that when others shall discover their levity and in time of temptation shall