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and general And indeed it may deserve their consideration and that their best that are concern'd in it Whether they that embrace this Doctrine of Devils be not Witches indeed both in Scripture-sense and their own too since they renounce Christ God and their Truths in many points and owning the Devil would perswade others to do the like So that I think though there be many other great crying sins in the World in this our World too our Church and State yet none greater none so great as this and therefore I may fitly nay must out of necessity and woe unto me if I did not set my self especially against this most desperate and most dangerous Heterodox CHAP. II. It is hard to eradicate this opinion concerning Devils out of mens minds ANd though I know it will be an Herculean labour and as hard a task as to whiten a Black-moor or despunge the spots of a Leopard to eradicate this Doctrine of Devils from mens hearts since they have so long and so strongly imbibed and suckt in this poison and since some Learned Men and Doctors who write Christian lay it down as a fundamental of their Creed a point necessarily to be believed to Salvation since there are so many seduced Spirits and Spirits that seduce so many that speak lyes in hypocrisie and so many that delight in hypocritical lyes having I fear their Consciences seared with an hot Iron since 't is so hard and difficult to do this I say and almost impossible that I should do any good yet since too that which is impossible with Men is easie and facil to be effected with God yea by Man in the concurrence of God Yet will I on Who can tell but that there be Seven thousand Men yet that have not will not dare not bow the knee to Baal in this great Apostacy Or if they have will yet upon warning given return repent and recant But should it be otherwise yet Liberavi animam meam I have discharged mine own Conscience and my reward may be with the Lord though Israel be not gathered This without question Christs sheep will hear his voice and for the rest they shall one day know to the confusion of their faces to the anguish and consternation of their Souls and Consciences That there hath been a Prophet among them CHAP. III. What this Doctrine of Devils is and first negative what it is not I Need not stop to prove that these are the latter times as I said nor that in these latter times iniquity shall abound nor that then desperate Opinions hellish Doctrines and damnable Heresies will be broacht abound and be entertained This is plain Acts 20.30 2 Pet. 2.1 But we need go no further than this present Text The spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter days some shall depart from the faith Apostacy Apostacy from the Doctrine of Christ to the Doctrine of Devils will be rife in the latter days Now the spirit speaketh expresly That in the latter days some shall depart from This is it then that I pitch upon That the belief entertainment or attention to the Doctrine of Devils is the highest grossest and most abominable Apostacy that ever was or shall be It is the Apostacy of the latter times There is no darkness nor difficulty in the terms plain and easie all to be understood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Doctrines Positions or Teachings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Devils or Daymons good or bad Angels or Fiends The worship of Angels is an Idolatrous Apostacy and the Doctrine of Devils is no better but much worse And here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most properly must signify not Angels at all but Devils Nor this Apostle nor any of the rest indeed in all their Epistles ever using this word distinctly for Angels or comprehensively as including Angels or Devils but for Devils still distinctly or bad Angels The Helots were once Freemen of Laconia but for some misdemeanour lost their freedom and were made Slaves Will any Man now that hears of the Helots think That the Knights and Gentlemen of Lacedaemon are meant by that term For though in some catechrestical sense the whole Nation of the Lacedaemonians may be signified by that word Helots yea the Gentlemen and Knights too possbly to grant this also yet that the Helots should signifie the Gentlemen exclusively in respect of those Slaves were very harsh The term properly belonging to the Slaves not to the Gentlemen of that Countrey So when the Apostle tells us there will be strange Doctrines concerning the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying properly and generally Devils rather than Angels will any Man think that the Apostle means Angels exclusively in respect of Devils and not Devils rather or at least Devils as well as Angels and this tast for my Opinion is enough Besides it is here put in opposition to those Angels that lookt upon admired and adored Christ as manifested in the Flesh Chap. 3.16 The good Angels adore and admire him for the incomprehensible Mysteries and wonderful benefits that come in of by or through his Incarnation and for the excellency of his power shewn in stupend operations for the good the exceeding great good of his Church far above all that they could do yea think or dream of Thus was he preached to the Gentiles believed on generally in the World and for this or thus was he received deservedly into the highest Glory But in the latter days some will be so far from holding this Truth That they will give heed to such Doctrines concerning Devils that will make them as honourable as Christ himself equalizing them and him if not preferring them before him for power and mightiness of operations as though these Devils deserved to be Canonized as well and exalted to the right Hand of the Majesty on high This may be the Paraphrase All the scruple is in the Grammar of the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or any other preposition The Doctrine of Devils It is possible some may be and yet it is a wonder any should be so stupid as to think that doctrine of Devils intimates the doctrines preacht by Devils They the Devils the Doctors the Preachers and Promulgators of some Doctrines and the audible Trumpeters of them but this is a wild interpretation for it supposeth 1. That Devils are speaking things have the Instruments of Speech can speak distinctly and articulately what they will and yet they are meer Spirits immaterial and incorporeal Substances A Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have Luke 24.39 2. They should have the Pulpits and exercise there publickly but How then should we know whether we ever heard a true Minister of the Gospel evangelizing it or else fiends from Hell demonizing still 3. This speech of the Spirit would not seem to be so true but rather improbable and incredible since in One Thousand Six Hundred Years and more
believe in Him and we may safely enough if His Works and Miracles deserve it not as being not Unparallelable dis-believe Him And sure Men do not will not cannot believe in Him what-ever they pretend and prate I say cannot believe in Him if they believe the Doctrine or Omnipotency of Devills the Beliefe of this takes off utterly the Beliefe of that If Men believe that the Devil can and doth as Great or Greater Works than Christ they cannot believe in Christ. No man can serve two Masters is the saying of a very wise Judicious and Critical Person as I esteem him and truly I believe that it is simply impossible for a Person to believe trust rely and to have full Considence Dependence and Recumbency upon any Power as Superexcellent and Unparallelable for Comfort Health Security and Salvation and yet at the same time to believe that there is another Numen equal if noâ— Super-paramount to the former for Power Subtilty and indefatigableness to do Mischief and Villany Me-seems indeed that besides the Blasphemy Sacrâ—iedge theism of the Demonomanists there is a Contradiction and Nonsense too in then Opinion 2. I would perswade Men to consider how by this Doctrine they are drawn not to sin singly but are fore't as it were to pile heap load up one sin upon another a new or another to a former Villany And should they be such Davids as to add sin unto sin thirst unto Drunkenness One Milâ—stone hang'd about the neck is heavy enough to drown any Man but two or three or more will sink him into the bottome of any unfathomable Abysse There are without doubt degrees of Sin here and will be of Torments in that insernal Tophet a greater Damnation and utter darkness Rewards double the dreggs of the Cup we read of according to the Dimensions and Aggravations of the Sins shall the Torments be aggrandized add not therefore Murther to Atheism and Idolatry though these two cry loud enough for vengeance yet hath Murther a Stentorean voice and will reach farther Blood-guiltiness the guilt of innocent blood hath a shril voice that will pass up unto and through the brazen gates of the highest Heaven Thy Brother's Blood cryeth unto Me from the Ground especially if acted by a Law under the pretence of Justice We have a Law and by our Law he ought to Dye when they would condemn the innocent cry'd the Jews but did this excuse wilt thou have any thing to do with the Stool Seat Chair or Tribunal of wickedness that imagineth mischief by a Law they gather themselves together against the Soul of the Righteous and condemn the innocent blood But the Lord shall bring upon them their own Iniquity and shall cut them off in their wickedness yea the Lord our God shall cut them off Psal 94.20 Bring upon them their Iniquity cut them off in their own wickedness yea the Lord our God God will take the matter into his own hands and shall cut them off It is a terrible Threat and deserves serious consideration It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God A Man that marrieth his Mother and so thinks to justifie his Incest is much more criminal than he had been meerly by his single Villany in lying with her say Casuists Because he pretends Divine approbation for his abominable Villany and doubtless Law Religion and Justice drawn in to countenance a Murther do but aggravate all these yea and God himself the Author of all these being thus brought in as Accessary yea and these being the publick acts of a Nation or Kingdom the whole Kingdom or Nation is involved in the guilt of the Villany and this seems unpreventible where this Doctrine is entertained they must needs think they do God good service when they Murther the Innocent 3. Follow not a multitude though in long Tract of time they have beaten out â—broad plain easie path before thee Kingdoms and People and Nations as well â—s single persons may be under great mistakes and grosse Errors for many years So was the Church in respect of Millenisme Arrianisme Pelagianisme Pope's Supremacy Communion under one kind Transubstantiation So also in this particular concerning this Doctrine of Devils It hath generally prevailed in most Churches in most places for many Hundred years amongst most Men yet is it a grosse Heterodoxy and Abominable Apostacy from the Doctrine of the primitive Church in the Apostle's time That it was counted an Abominable Error is plain by this Text and in after-times about the year 310. the Council of Ancyra concludes peremptorily at least against that part of it which attributeth so much power to Devils Quisquis ergo credit posse aliquam creaturam aut in meltus aut deterius Immutari aut Transformari in aliam speciem nisi ab ipso Creatore qui fecit omnia procul dubiò insidelis est Pagano deterior From this truth hath the Church deviated and fallen into the contrary Error for these Twelve or thirteen hundred years It is not ground enough to embrace a Tenent because of the many that embrace it or the long time it hath been embraced the several places where it hath obtained or the several Doctors that have maintained it Ad legem prophetas To the Law and to the Testimony If Mens Tenents Practices or Opinions agree not with these reject them Number or multitude is no justifiable excuse or sufficient precedent and yet I like not self-conceited singularity Prove all things hold fast that which is Good is an excellent Rule But I must add here Though a Church the whole Church to a very few may thus generally be erronious even in such a point yet may it not be straight un-churched or become presently an Abdicate Reprobate or Anathematized Church for an Error or two though grosse ones we had scarce else a visible Church in the World for many Hundred years God giveth more grace Every error mistake or heterodoxy though great enough doth not nullify a Church if it be not obstinately wilfully and wickedly persisted in If the whole Church sin through Ignorance there may be an Atonement Lev. 4.13 A Church a whole Church may be under the Guilt of some great Sin and yet be the Church of God still Gross and Hainous Sins may not be Grounds enough for Separation and therefore our Schismaticks have no Justisyable Warrant for their Schism from the pretended gross Sins of this Church and State Is there can there be can they wire-draw any of our National or Ecclesiastical Sins into greater Horridness than this Sin hath And yet had God his Church still nay and even they also were of His Church that Embrac'd that horrid Heterodoxy Nay they themselves are Guilty most of them of this most Horrid Heterodoxy and yet will they reckon themselves of God's Church How then or with what Face can they Anathematize or Unchristen another Society whom they cannot accuse of any Crime so horrid as this Doubtless