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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65074	Sermons preached upon several publike and eminent occasions by ... Richard Vines, collected into one volume.; Sermons. Selections	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing V569; ESTC R21878	447,514	832

Common-wealth yet it perishes to you if you be not carried with hearts full to God Many a man is a Carpenter to build Noah an Ark wherein himself is not saved There are many rest in their meer opposition to and hate of Popery as if that should seal up their salvation and many again will reason thus The cause wherein I am is good it will swim out its gods and that is their plea. Alas this is not all for be the Protestant truth never so cleer to thee and be the cause thou art in never so good yet thou mayest be lost in it as the Egyptians were lost while they went in the same path wherein the Israelites were saved therefore pray and seek for such a spirit of chusing and following the Lord thy God as may ensoule thy actions or outward works and then beside the acceptance and testimony thy ways shall find with God thou shalt be able to go through fulfill after the Lord which a man upon naturall parts and strength of morall principles or vertues shall never do for youths shall faint and be weary and young men shall utterly fall Isa 40. 30. that is men their own ends they rest and proceed no farther such a spirit therefore as Caleb had doe you restlesly seeke of God the giver of it to them that ask him that being sincerely carried which in great and glorious actions is the more hard you may reap the Euge of a good conscience which is better then the Hic est of all the World and not only so but there will be more hope of the worke when it is carried on by such hearts as God said of David he was a man after his own heart and what follows He shall fulfill all my will Acts 13. 22. And of Hezekiah it is said that in every work that he began in the service of the house of God and in the Law and in the Commandements to seek his God he did it withall his 2 Chron. 31. 21 heart and prospered such hearts such successe wee pray to them that are now engaged in this great work that so promises with the entayle of them upon Posterity may follow such Calebs for ever FINIS Die Mercurii 30. Novemb. 1642. IT is this Day Ordered by the Commons now assembled in Parliament that Mr. Vines shal be desired from this House to print the Sermon he preached before this House at Saint Margarets Westminster this Day at the publike Fast And it is further Ordered that he shall have the usuall priviledges as others formerly have had that none shall Print or reprint his Sermon but those whom he shall appoint Henry Elsyng Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. I appoint Abel Roper to Print this Sermon Richard Vines THE IMPOSTVRES OF Seducing Teachers Discovered In a SERMON before the Right Honourable the LORD MAJOR and Court of ALDERMEN of the City of London at their Anniversary meeting on Tuesday in Easter week April 23 1644. at Christ-Church By RICHARD VINES Minister of Gods Word at Weddington in the Country of Warwick and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES The second Edition 2 TIM 2. 17. And their word will eat as doth a Gangrene LONDON Printed by J. M. for Abel Roper at the signe of the Sun over against Dunstans Church 1656. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAJOR AND COURT OF ALDERMEN of the Famous City of LONDON Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull AN Epistle Dedicatory usually bespeakes a Patron and then the Reader is epistled afterward I intreat Readers only and Patrons no further then the Truth may challenge them suo jure Though I should have done my self but right in sending this Sermon forth into publike yet your Commands were the stronger tye upon me It was received with ill resentment by some whose Character not I but the Apostles gives in this Text the aspect whereof is I beleeve no more pleasing then the Sermon Either they should not wear such faces as are afraid of this glasse or wash first and then they will not be angry I should rejoyce to offend any man for his good and be afraid to please him for his hurt I intended it for a stay to the mutant and unstable a stop to that Gangrene which I hope is not crept so neer the Head as to have taken any of you who in other things have been so far from being Children tossed to and fro with windes stormy winds that from you posterity shall learn to be men The very holding up of the Text in open view may be a quo vadis to one or other If not Yet Thou hast delivered thy soul Ezek. 3. 19 21. is some comfort to him who humbly presents this Sermon to your hands and eyes with some enlargements here and there which the time denyed to your eares and whose honour it is to be Your Servant for Christ RICHARD VINES THE IMPOSTVRES OF Seducing Teachers Discovered EPHES. IV. XIV XV. That we henceforth be 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 lye in wait to deceive But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the Head even Christ THE Gospel had no sooner ascended the Horizon of the Gentiles and dispel'd that universall shade wherein they had been benighted but the Devill erected his factories in those new discoveries to intercept the trade of truth therefore is our Apostle in many of his Epistles so much in fortifying beleevers against the impressions of seducing teachers and the hystorie of a Fatemur quidem novas quasdam antea non auditas sectas Anabaptistas Libertinos Mennonios Zwenkfeldianos statim ad exortum Evangelii extitisse Juel Apol. Eccle. Anglicanae Vide Sleidanum in commentariis Luthers time doth witnesse also that it is the lot of reformations while they are green and recent to be infested with such sects and doctrines as haply were never before heard of and therefore it concernes all to be careful what money they take when the markets are so full of adulterate coyn and to be armed against the scandal thence arising as if the truth was the mother of such monsters which are none of hers but are laid at her door to bring her into discredit we must expect no lesse nay haply we have hereby an argument that the truth is at the threshold for it is not ordinary that tares grow any where but in the wheate field The Text too fitly serves our own Meridian being purposely chosen to give antidote against the infection of seducing teachers Whether the word Henceforth do look back to the time past and imply that the Ephesians had been like children tossed to and fro as is generally conceived by the b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christost Theophilact Oecumenius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek expositors and others I shall neither enquire nor insist upon it but shall take it