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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94728	Anthropolatria; or The sinne of glorying in men, especially in eminent ministers of the gospel. Wherein is set forth the nature and the causes of this sinne, as also the many pernicious effects which at all times this sinne hath produced, and with which the church of Christ is still infected. With some serious disswasives from this sinne, and directions to prevent the infection thereof. A discourse usefull, and in these times very seasonable. / By John Tombes, B.D. and preacher of Gods word at the Temple.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1792; Thomason E282_13; ESTC R200049	17,625	23

him and his directions as if that arrow could not misse the marke that came out of St Bernards bowe Any thing is easily received from him that we over-much love Affection makes men take downe falsities as the rowling in sugar doth make the stomacke swallow bitter pills as it befell Fusius who so admired Fimbria's eloquence that he imitated withall his ill-favoured faces and broad speaking And God doth often leave the admired Teachers to erre for triall of the people as Vincent Lixin observes alleadging the speech of God Deut. 13. 3. and the admirers of them to receive errour according to his just judgement 7. Adde hereunto that this gloring in men makes mens endeavours remisse in things necessary earnest in things vaine that time and labour that should be employed in the maine duties of godlinesse in seeking the advancement of Christs Kingdome righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost is often bestowed in magnifying those in whom they glory upholding their party promoting their opinions whence it is that such as are followers of those in whom they glory constant hearers of them much in commendation of them have their sayings and tenents ad unguem declare much zeale in their way yet prove but unskilfull in the chiefe doctrines of Christian religion defective in the power of true godlinesse in the mortifying of corruptions such as pride impatience self-conceitednesse rashnesse covetousnesse and in the practice of righteousnesse mercy meeknesse diligence in their own businesse and the like in the provoking one another to love and good works 8. On the contrary the word of God though soundly and truly delivered is neglected being either not heard or without fruit when it is spoken by such a Teacher as they affect not but disdained censured contemned The prejudice against one through comparative extolling of another causeth the teaching of the sleighted person though orthodox holy learned to be passed over to be censured as barren dry hungry stuffe though it be the true word of God as if no teaching were wholesome meate but such as is wet with their affected Teachers spittle I meane his phrase method action elocution as if fides aestimanda esset ex personis non personae ex fide as Tertullians phrase is or as if our faith stood not in the power of God but in the wisedome of men as the Apostle speakes 1 Cor. 2 5. 9. By this meanes the rule of Christianity is changed for whereas the rule and ground of our faith and obedience is the word of God as Gods word through the addicting themselves to some mens authority Gods truth stands at their devotion for its acceptance hence they that of old gloried in the Pharisees as their Rabbins regarded not Gods commands but as pleased the Pharisees and they that this day glory in the Pope or the Church as they call it regard the Scriptures so farre only as the Pope or Church allow them and they that depend on their magnified Teachers of any other sort doe regard the word of God but as it beares their image or comes from their mint and so as it was said of the heathens allowing or disallowing of gods by their Senates decree Deus non erit Deus nisi homo velit God shall not be God unlesse man will it may be said in this case Gods word shall not be Gods word unlesse man will 10. Lastly They that glory in men are either inconstant in their affections as experience often shewes they that one while would pluck out their eyes for him whom they magnifie will at another time revile and hate him for mens minds are mutable and the best of men are but men that is imperfect and will be so found and therefore will not alwayes satisfie or else if they be still affected yet they be but mortall and the sorrow for their losse will be excessive more then should be for a creature an arbitrary instrument for immoderate affection to a thing while we have it causeth immoderate sorrow for it when we loose it XIII In a discovery of this evill as still infesting the Church of Christ THe first use hereof is to endite those that are guilty of this sin of glorying in men of a breach of a Statute of Christ against his Crown and dignity and the peace of his Church In the Apostles time you see the Corinthians found guilty of it and condemned as carnall 1 Cor. 3. 4. for while one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not carnall but the sin died not with them After ages have yeelded us woefull fruits of this evill roote chiefely in the Papacie The glorying in the first Roman Bishops who were most of them holy Martyrs for Christ begat such an high esteeme of that See that other Bishops and Churches began to esteeme too much of their counsels and orders as if they were a rule for them to follow which caused them quickly to take too much on them and the Christian Emperours and people to ascribe too much to them insomuch that quickly from a parity with other Bishops they got above them to a Patriarchate and from a parity with other Patriarkes to a Precedency and at last mounted up to the throne of universall Episcopacy whence it is that at this day they that subject themselves to the Bishop of Rom are become the most deepely guilty of the sin of glorying in men of any that ever were for they ascribe an infallibility to him a Power above Councels so that his determination is to be held as certaine though a generall Councell of all the Pastours of the Christian world should gainesay it his decrees and decretals are held as or●cles equall to the holy Scriptures a power to interpret Scriptures unerringly to declare points of faith to canonize Saints to pardon sins to deliver out of Purgatory fire with many more whereby he is exalted above all that is called God or is worshipped as was foretold 2 Thes. 2. 4. nor doe they blush at the name of Papists being derived from the Pope of Rome but defend it as Bellarmin de Nat. Eccl. cap. 4. And as all Papists in common are guilty of this sin so in speciall the severall sects of Schoolemen and Friars Franciscans Dominicans Nominals Reals some glorying in Scotus some in Aquinas some in Occham and that with so much pertinacie and devotion that they will not swerve in the least point from their chiefe Master insomuch that as I remember Bannes the Dominican disputing about an article in Philosophy Com. in Arist. de gen. corrup expresseth his dislike of one that dissented from Aquinas saying that he was not a Thomist but an Anti-thomist Nor doe Protestant Divines dissemble but complaine of this malady among themselves as being the cause of that miserable rent which hath been and is still continued between those Pastours and Churches which are distinguished by the names of Lutherans and Calvinists which although it be