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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

some sad and dismal ruine (d) Theodoret eccles hist. l. 3. c. 14. When Arrius was in the midst of his pomp and pride the hand of Heaven allots him a death-bed and death loathsome like his Opinion (e) Evagr. hist eccl l. 1. c. 7. Nestorius his tongue was eaten with worms Anastasius a great defender of the Eutychian heresie was smitten with a thunder-bolt (f) Palmerieteron Olympius who publickly detested the Trinity was struck with three lightnings whereby his body was burnt Yet however their bodyes speed most certainly they are alwayes destructive to their better part the soul (g) 1 Tim. 5.6 benighting their minds turning their light into darkenesse and leaving them to innumerable by wayes of (h) 2 Tim. 3.8 ruine and destruction Many times spoyling their (i) 2 Thess 2.10 11 12. 2 Tim. 4.2 Consciences of peace by overthrowing the very grounds and roots thereof as Christs satisfaction the comfortable doctrine of Justification by the Papists and Socinians which being taken away what is left to a poore distressed soule afflicted with the sight and sence of sinne a knife or halter the too too ordinary refuges of dark distracted minds But however an Erring mind may enjoy a seeming peace which for the most part is rather to be stiled sottish stupidity or carnal security then Christian tranquillity Yet alwayes answerable to the degree of falshood in the haeresie asserted there is a pollution and stain thereby derived to the person maintaining (c) Lev. 13.29 30 42 43 44. it Leprosie in the head as truly made a Leper as on any other part neither doth it rest in the head but as defluxions from the brain overthrow the stomach so haeresies corrupt the other faculties of the soul and frequently discover themselves in the filthy ungodly practises of those that entertain them Some haeresies directly militating against all piety in life and conversation as that of the Libertines of old who conceived that the distinction of Works into good and bad was but an invention of men and that no works were really bad in their own nature but were to be reckoned evil only so far forth as he that wrought them thought them so to be And in our dayes the Libertine assertions that so much prevaile upon unstable spirits as That there is no resurrection of the flesh That the works which are wrought by the body shall never be accounted for That God is the author of evill works as well as of good That men are freed that believe from obedience to the Moral Law and the like Thus haeresies (d) 1 Tim. 6.5 corrupt mens minds destroy good Conscience pollute their Lives rob them of beauty peace piety indeed all reall spirituall worth As rottennesse in an apple or a flaw or cloud in a precious stone so far as these prevail all real value ceases so we may justly assert that look how far haeresie prevails so far forth the spirit of such a one is little yea nothing worth (o) 2 Tim. 2.20 making them vessels of wood stone dishonour (p) Cypr. l. 3. ep 3. l. 4. ep 2. Aug. l. 3. de bap cont Donatist c. 18 19 c. so Cyprian Austin and divers others understand that place in Timothy concerning such kinde of persons as these But that which is worst of all the height of misery and dregs of vengeance (q) Gal. 5.20 21. The nature and necessary consequent of Haeresie unrepented of is to deprive the soul of happinesse And most certainly though it may bring a man into an imaginary sensual heaven like that of Demaes here yet will it bring them if obstinately persisted in into a (r) 2 Thess 2.10 11. hell hereafter And however they may blaze and shine in the opinion of their own Faction or others here St. Peter tells you like shooting gliding meteors there is an eternal (s) 2 Pet. 2.17 Jude 13. night of darknesse abides them in the other world for ever Vse 1 See then I beseech you worthy Senators in what rank to reckon them that patronize plead for or seek a Toleration of Haeresies of you or that would tie your hands from executing judgement upon Hereticall seducers of the people or from preventing the growth or extirpating of so banefull and pernicious a weed as Haeresie is What would they ingage you in the guilt of soules or the ruine of Church and State which you seek to preserve The Lord rebuke thee Satan who hath pulled these men as a brand out of the fire Look therefore I beseech you upon such as men That care not for your reputation though you leave your names for a curse and by-word to posterity Regard not your security Have no bowels of pity to poor soules Are void of Publikenesse of spirit Not regarding to see Jerusalem in prosperity nor peace upon Israel But as an Antidote against their oratory I beseech you consider the greatnesse of your trust for the Peoples safety the strictnesse of your Covenant-engagement the frequencie of your Declarations and Remonstrances against them your Replies to reproaches that have been cast upon you as if you favoured them And lastly I beseech you consider the ruining and destroying nature of Heresie to Church Commonwealth Souls Bodies (t) Cant. 2.14 Therefore take us the Foxes the little Foxes that spoile the Vines Vse 2 I beseech you take notice 'T is no small judgment for a people to be (u) 2 Thess 2.10 11. given up to believe a lye to be so far deserted by God as that Heresies should prevaile over them (w) 2 Tim. 2.26 'T is as the Devil would have it (x) 2 Thess 2.10.11 A trophie of his victory a signe of Indignation a Prognostick of Ruine (y) 2 Tim. 2.17 a deadly disease a mark of (z) Rev. 13.8 Reprobation a terrible shipwrack a certain ingulf of them in the (a) Rev. 14.9 10. participation of the saddest plagues and vengeance O how can we weep enough this day for the daughter of our people The Lords people are led captive the Church is ecclipsed and looks like a (b) Jer. 12.9 speckled bird amongst the nations The Commonwealth rotters Soules are defiled And hell is I feare too much filled with these Erring creatures We Ministers have need to weep for want of courage watchfulnesse zeal Christ may complain of us as (c) Euseb eccl hist l. 3 c. 20. St. John did of that Bishop I have made a sweet keeper of my brothers soul You Magistrates had need to weep for want of (d) Vt laudanda patientia sic timendum ne culpetur in nimium tolerandis negligentia Aug. serm 14. de verb. Apost Warmth Heedfulnesse Expedition and for your cruel mercy towards Seducers Are not you stiled (e) Psal 47.9 Sheilds (f) Nch. 9.27 Saviours (g) Isa 44.18 Shepherds (h) Isa 49 23. Nursing Fathers to Church and State And God forbid you should be

who hath power to seduce and captivate those whom God deserts and leaves But we must rightly conceive of this that God is not the cause efficiently for he is not the author of what he is the revenger But as a righteous Judge he gives liberty to that Arch-enemy of mankinde to tempt with-holds or denies that grace through the presence of which they might be secured against his fiery darts nay many times withdrawes the grace they have which did back-biasse Natures inclination to such or such an Error which rub being once removed the temptations of these haeresies here mentioned too easily prevail And thus you see how Haeresies come to captivate not a few but many as in this Text. Vse O how sad a sight is it in your thoughts to behold the spreading of this infection the shoales that being perverted follow these pernicious wayes (i) Mat. 13.38 to see how fast these Tares thrive this (k) Mat. 16.11 1 Cor. 5.8 Leven spreads this (l) 2 Tim. 2.17 Gangrene frets The Kingdom looks like a Lazar-house or field fought in many places by reason of this How many are there of all ages insnared by them The hoary head that is ready to descend to the grave and your hopefull Spring that seemed to promise life and happinesse to Church and State Almost all ranks and degrees have felt the poisonous blasts of damnable Error which like that haile in the (m) Rev. 8.7 Gerhard in Apoc 8.7 c. Revelation hath smitten tall trees as well as low grasse by trees some understanding persons of power and place by grasse inferior people Nay this mischief hath lighted not only upon the Prophane to be rid of whom the Church and State might be glad as wennes sores and putrid members except they would mend but also upon Professors of godlinesse that have looked ore-night like an early ripe apple yelow red above the rest yet in the morning have been (n) Gal. 5.7 c 3.1 2 3 4. found under the tree this accursed Haeresie hath thrown them out of their place truth is there is cause to fear that some worm some bosome-sin or other hath devoured their moisture within whereby they are visibly the sooner ripe but indeed rotten So that you have cause to complain of divers as (o) Euseb vita Const Constantine did of many in his time That those by whom he hoped to have cured others were brainsick themselves and needed cure Nor are there amongst these Many only an ignorant rout but men of excellent naturall endowments and tolerable acquired abilities Alas the temple of the Church is full of smoak the ship of the Commonwealth is full of water All is on fire Oh the sad cries from many parts of the Kingdome to you If there be any help in your hand say they deliver us Obj. But why may some say all this ado 'T is no new thing but usuall in time of Reformation to be troubled with Errors was it not so not only in the Primitive time but also when Luther and others were stirred up to purge Gods floor What shoals of Haereticks were raised up by hell to blast their work and render it odious to the world as if it were a seed producing monsters and enormities rather then reducing things to Primitive purity and regularity Answ 1. I know and confesse indeed the (p) Mark 9.26 Devil most roars and rends when he is casting out and expresses most rage when he (q) Rev. 12.12 feeles his passion drawing on because hee knowes his time is short 2. But yet I hope our Reformation is not in Fundamentals we have long enjoyed as cleer light as full discoveries of fundamental truths as any Church that I know under the cope of heaven Others have gladly lighted their tapers more at our flame then we at theirs And oh what sober religious spirit bleeds not to see that after the enjoyment of this blessed Sun-shine for more then fourscore years not a few but many should be seduced to run so willingly swiftly furiously obstinately into such desperate Errors Vse 2 O worthy Senators I beseech you help help You cannot answer as the King of Israel to the crying out complaining woman (r) 2 King 6.26 27. Whence shall I help thee for God hath furnished you with power are you not the Supreme Court And hath strengthened your hand with deliverance subduing your enemies under you Doth not the Church and State repose in you as Physitians of skill and will Oh deceive not their trust frustrate not their expectation Spend not their Coyn and Blood and yet leave them in a more dangerous Labyrinth then where you found them in point of Haeresie Before they were afflicted by Men in the shape of beasts Persons of Learning parts and birth But now by Beasts in the shape of men Mushromes the birth of one night and darknesse Of whom many could wish that the course which * Socrat. schol hist eccles l. 3. c. 11. Julian took with the Christians might be yours To shut up the Schools of Learning that all might be reduced to the same degree of Barbarisme with themselves Oh how can you endure to see such Troops ingulf themselves in ruine Hath not Salus populi the Peoples safety been your profession What is it only of the Sheaf and not the Soul and that of no strangers neither but of those that breath in the same Climate with you live on the same soyle are governed by the same Law have the same Name professe the same Religion pretend to the same GOD. Nor can you certainly forget and so be cruell to yout own bowels * Fincel l. 1. de miraculis Lovic Theat hist in praecept quart Manlii loc com cum multis al●● There be many reverend Authors tell a strange story that fell out at Hammel in Saxony viz. That there came one in the shape of a Piper in a patcht pide coat who when he first piped made all the Rats and Mice leave their holes and follow him out of the Town but when he came again and piped troops of the Citizens Children followed him dancing till comming to a mountain not far from the city the mountain opened and neither he nor they were ever seen after Hath not this pyde piper Haeresie perhaps led those that are neare and deare unto you you know not whither Is it not dangerous to suffer Rats-bane to lie in sight or Conduit-heads to be poisoned May it not be just that thy wife or children should be the next that are poisoned by it Is it not just that such as make it not their businesse to maintain Truth in Gods house should have no peace in their own What a sad sight will it be to see thy posterity in hell through thy negligence Honoured Senators give me leave to say That if Posterities care be an intangling argument when death comes making men desire life for their sakes certainly it never was more