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truth_n	apostle_n	doctrine_n	preach_v	2,243	5	6.7969	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86325	The glory and beauty of Gods portion: set forth in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publique fast, Iune 26. 1644. / By Gaspar Hickes, Pastour of Lanracke in Cornwall, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Hickes, Gaspar, 1605-1677.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1838; Thomason E2_10; ESTC R2493	29,927	47

of Christ are cast off as disgracefull burdens and new fashioned ornaments forged and worne with much bravery high titles rich revenues popular adoration after these they gape greedily stretch largely climbe ambitiously let soules sinke or swimme they care not so they may lift up their heads and build their nests on high and he concludes that herein the spirit of Antichrist was discovered even as a noon-day-devill Serm. 33. For those amongst us that will not follow the sonne of lesse except they may be sure of Vineyards and olive-yards and may be made captaines of thousands and captaines of hundreds that can shape their designes to no lower a pitch then a lordly dignity or a fat plurality that mind the University and the Ministery onely as a stirrop to ambition or a stale to covetousnesse 't were well if their aimes were frustrated by plucking the prey out of their teeth that they were discouraged yea rated off from the holy function wherein there is no hope they should demeane themselves conscionably seeing they enter upon it with such impure intentions And doubt not but when these offae Cerberi these bewitching baites be removed the Lord will stirre up and qualifie better spirits for his owne worke See this in one instance only Those blessed Reformers of Germany did not only drive the Popes doctrine out of their countrey but his tyrannicall Prelacie his whole rabble of full bellied Clergy whose large incomes were all put into the hands of Princes and States whom I cannot commend for dispensing them to right uses perhaps their unfaithfulnesse therein hath been one provocation to plucke downe the judgements which have since ruined them yet then were their Schooles and Academies most frequent and flourishing and I dare challenge any age within the like compasse of time and ground reserving alwayes due honour to Christs Worthies that have since abounded to paralell that in number and eminency of learned men who did not only vindicate the truth from Antichristianisme but all humane literature from blind barbarisme wherein it had long lien buried Let me not be mistaken here as if I thought there were too much dignity and maintenance for Ministers amongst us if it were duly conferred and distributed We need not imploy our own help so to betray our honour there are two sorts of engineeres that are now plotting against us Some in a prophane policy would keep us in a slavish inferiority to themselves and therefore they like Ieroboams way best they would choose Priests of the lowest of the people or make them so these hold a base condition a poore pittance fittest for us Others againe are for an eleem●sunary salary that Ministers being ingaged to their benevolence they may by the same bond be tied to their conceits and errours But I speake to wise Physitians who know how to purge peccant-luxuriant humours without impairing those that are vitall and benigne And I beseech you the searcher of hearts knowes I plead not for my owne belly but for your honour yea the honour of Christ whose work you have in hand I beseech you let it appeare by some speedy and cleare course that you intend not the diminution or unsettlement of the double honour of Christs servants but the establishment and enlargement thereof Isai 46.6 Idolaters lavish gold out of the bag superstition casts excesse upon its instruments let not Religion starve nor pinch them that wait upon her let exorbitancies be pared away but let Christs due be preserved and then I will not doubt to resume what I had in hand that his royalty is not advanced by the worldly height and state of his nearest attendants his throne is not supported by such painted props his Kingdome is spirituall and his Government most full of glory 2 Cor. 10.4 5. when thoughts are captivated and consciences awed by the mighty weapons of his own Ordinances and Discipline when they have free course 2 Thes 3.1 due honour and kindly workings in the hearts of men 2. Truth Worship Ordinances are glorious and beautifull when they hold their simplicity and purity Mixtures to these are not only superfluous but poysonous histrionicall and gaudy dresses of mens putting on are to these as a whorish paint to a good complexion or like that unnaturall burden of haire worne in pretence of ornament wheras there is nothing to sober judgements that can render men more uncomely or ugly Yet how doe men dote upon mixtures how have we seene the pure streames of truth mudded with humane placites and traditions Mat. 15.9 Gal. 1.8 the Commandements of men cryed up and obtruded upon the conscience for doctrines another Gospel preached and entertained though vented by persons of lesse credit beyond comparison then an Apostle or an Angel from Heaven accursed persons for their labour Wanton wits have been lavish in broaching and silly soules have been greedy in snatching up any errours Well the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in the furnace purified seven times Psal 12.6 as t is hellish chymestry for sublimated wits to extractor cast out the least scruple hereof as refuse so 't is damnable imposture for any cheating compounders to put tinne among this silver drosse among this pure mettall The compleat body of faith was once delivered to the Saints 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 simul semel Jude 3. fully and wholly intrusted with them they that wilfully or remissely loose the least minute thereof hazzard thereby the eternall losse of their pretious foules and they that make or admit the least addition to it shall have added to them all the plagues written in Gods Book Rev. 22.18 19. no lesse dangerous are mixtures in point of worship yet doe multitudes run a madding after them That good old fashion of worship in Spirit and in truth is censured and hissed at as a jejune raw humour or as a fanaticall rash undertaking nothing pleaseth without a pompous outside a visible bravery though never so fond and new-fangled Yea have we not some who think themselves as much injured by paring their nailes and polling their haire as if their hands and heads were cut off that hold themselves spoiled of the very heart and braine of Religion if any of their burdensome and excrementitious superfluities the blemish and bane of Religion be purged out or lopped off And no wonder that men are in love with such trifles they affect a way of worship which pleases the eye fils the belly arrides the sensuality Those Adiaphorists or middle-men of Germany appointed by Charles the fifth to compose the Interim that monstrous miscellany wherewith he thought to please all parties did together with some shreds of truth some patches of Reformation mingle almost the whole lumber or garbage of popish rites and superstitions amongst the rest they would retaine extreme Vnction and it was wittily objected to them that they did it that they might sleeke their owne skinne Vt ipsi proceder●nt