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A29171	The necessity & use of heresies, or, The third and last part of The great question about indifferent things in religious worship containing an answer to the objection against liberty of conscience, from the growth and spreading of heresies / by Edward Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing B419; ESTC R9550	18,228	28

fleshly Will Col. 2.18 accordingly there are two sorts of heresies mentioned and spoken against in Scripture 1. Such as upon Presumptions of natural Reason do contradict express and clear Revelation of Scripture 2 Pet. 2.1 Thus the Apostle Peter cals the denying our Lord Christ i. e. either his Nature as the Socinians of our times or his Offices as all the Papists do a damnable Heresie There shall saith he be false Teachers among you who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall covertly or over and above or contrary to the Truth bring in destructive heresies even denying the Lord that bought them So the Opinion of those who under pretence of Humility brought in the Worship of Angels into the Church of Colosse was a Formal heresie since the Authors of it had no warrant of Scripture to add such kind of Party Mediators to Christ Col. 2.18 but as the Apostle speaks were rashly puffed up by their fleshly mind Thus the denying of the Resurrection of the Body by some in the Church of Corinth was a great Heresie as overthrowing the Foundation of a Christians hope 1 Cor. 15.12 and opening a door to all manner of Impiety and Villany For if the dead rise not the Consequence is very natural and reasonable let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die 2. Verse 32. There are another sort of Heresies spoken against in Scripture which flow from the fleshly will and have an immediate tendency to patronize and encourage dissoluteness of Lise such was the Heresie of the Nicolaitans who held that it was lawful to eat things offered to Idols i. e. to commit I olatry in times of Persecution and to commit Fornication Apoc. 3 14 15. which our Saviour speaks sharply against in the Revelations calling it the Doctrine of Balaam and expresseth his utter dislike of such Tenets in these words which I hate 2 Pot. 2. So the Apostle Peter speaks against some vicious Hereticks as some think the Gnosticks who under pretence of advancing Christian Liberty Verse 19. gave themselves up to all manner of Impurity promising saith he Liberty they themselves are the Servants of Corruption Jude v 8. Jude carries on the same mens heresie further and saith they did not only defile the flesh but by stretching the Notion of Liberty beyond its due Bounds did set at nought Government and revile Dignities i. e. undervalue disesteem and disobey their Civil Governours Which kind of Heresies as they are more dangerous so they are more damnable then others because there can be no pretence of Conscience to justifie them From what I have said concerning Heresies as I find them recorded in Scripture I draw this general Definition of them all An Heresie is such an Opinion as either hath no Foundation in Scripture as the Worship of Angels among the Colossians or expresly contradicts it as the denial of the Resursurrection among the Corinthians or Mistakes and misse-interprets it to countenance dissoluteness of Life and disobedience unto the Civil Magistrate The necessity that there should be such heresies in the Church of Christ will appear from the consideration 1. Of the Causes 2. Of the Occasions which concur to the producing of them 1. The Necessity of Heresies will appear from the consideration of their Causes and they are these three 1. God permitting 2. Satan exciting 3. Man begetting and ingendring of them Cause 1 1. The first Cause of Heresies which makes the being of them necessary is Gods permission of them Where by Permission I do not mean an idle unconcerned ineffectual letting them passe only and barely suffering them to be but Gods wise powerful and mighty ordering of them as he did the hardness of Pharaohs heart for very gracious and holy ends especially these two 1. For the Trial of the Godly As the Apostle hath it that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sincere and single-hearted Christians might by this means appear the more eminent and conspicuous As it did shew the Power of God to preserve the Bush by which his people of Israel was represented in the midst of the Fire so doth his Power equally appear when his Truth is born witness to in the midst of the Triumph and Efficacy of Errour Were there but one Opinion which passed for currant among Christians there would not appear any thing extraordinary in the owning of it but when there are so many Parties each crying up their own way as the Ephesians did their Diana there to keep touch with the things of God and in spight of all contradiction openly to avow and countenance them this shews a well-principled Integrity a temper that God is singularly delighted with In the world God lets his Heaven be oftentimes wrapped up in clouds that the stars which he hath appointed for the Government of the Night Vid. Deut. 13.1 3. may appear more bright and useful So in the Church which is Gods Heaven on Earth the most visible Mansion of the Divine Nature he lets Darkness break forth and thick Vapours that those Saints of his whom he cals Lights of the world may shine with the greater Lustre and redouble their Beams from the greatness of the Opposition made against them We must not think that God hath either given us Faith or Knowledge which are his choicest Largesses but he intends to try the constancy of the one and the seriousness of the other And since the greater Difficulties we encounter still the more Honour redounds to God who is our General therefore he will seem to hazard his Truth by letting it to outward appearance be lost as it were in the midst of a swarm of Heresies that by raising up some Heroick Champions he may recover it again with greater advantage Thus in the first ages of the Church Peter rescued Freedom of Communion with the Gentiles Paul asserts Freedom from the Yoke of needless and insignificant Ceremonies and John defended the Eternal Divinity of our Saviour against the Narrow-spirited Tyrannical and Hellish Impostures of the Hereticks in their Times And in all ages many there are recorded to us of great esteem and credit in the Church of Christ whose Memories in all probability had not survived their Bodies had not they signalized themselves by their zealous asserting of Truth when it was almost swallowed up by the Deluge or outfaced by the authority of Errour And such Examples God will ever continue for which Reason he lets Heresie like Pharaoh and his Egyptians captivate his Truth that he may send some Moses and Aarons for the Redemption and Deliverance of it 2. The Second and no less principal end Ezek. 3.20 as to the Design of God why he permits Heresies is that Reprobates may have occasions presented them of stumbling and taking Offence When a wicked man turns from that Righteousness he once pretended to God saies I lay a stumbling block before him and upon the wicked the Psalmist saies God raines