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truth_n	believe_v	love_n	unrighteousness_n	1,721	5	11.1941	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18052	A plaine and compendious exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount contayned in the 5.6.7. chapters of Saint Matthew. Being the substance of sundry sermons. By Iohn Carter minister at Belstead neare Ipswych	Carter, John, 1554-1635.	1627 (1627)	STC 4695; ESTC S116220	101,087	134

and hypocriticall Guide● or Teachers but for the spirit of discerning and for abilitie to iudge and to that end with the wise and noble Beraeans g Act. 17. 11 receiuing the Word with all readinesse of minde to search the Scriptures daily whether those things bee so as wee are taught This of necessitie requireth much hearing reading reading meditation conference in all humilitie feare and reuerence an holy consociation with the Saints also left as straglers ftom the Campe of Israel wee bee surprized by the h Deut. 25. 18. Amalekitish Iesuites Seminaries Arminians loose and dissolute Pastors and Teachers This of necessitie requireth a speciall care in euery one of vs to bee well grounded our selues and to see our Families and Charges so much as in vs is to bee well grounded in the principall and fundamentall points of our most holy Religion by the publike and priuate exercise of Catechising For as an house hauing a good foundation saueth it selfe from windes and stormes contrariwise for want of such a foundation is ruinated so falleth it out in Christianitie a man well grounded and founded in Religion saueth himselfe from all Impostors and Seducers whereas others are cartied about with euery wind of Doctrine Lastly and aboue all this of necessitie requireth that we should beware of that most fearefull and regnant sinne which we may call Epidemicall as ouerspreading all some few excepted farre and heere which the Apostle maketh the breeder and bringer forth of this deadly plague by false Prophets i 2. Thes 2. 10. Because men receiue not the loue of truth that they might bee saued GOD shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeue lyes that they all might bee damned who beleeued not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse so he calleth whatsoeuer is embraced insteed of the truth or Gospell beare it neuer so great a shew in the World This not receiuing of the loue of the truth but pleasuring in vnrighteousnesse is the very cause why God at this day giueth vp so many to be seduced by false Prophets Popish and others Wherefore not the profession onely but loue and delight in the truth with all due expressions of it is to be looked and laboured after infinitely more then we would doe for our life it selfe if it were any way hazardous The rather because false Prophets whatsoeuer they appeare outwardly yet indeed they are rauening Wolues if not in intent which they are commonly yet in euent All they that fall into their hands shall bee sure to finde them such at the long runne when it shall be too late to say Had I wist In the third place k Verse 16. 17. he directeth to the fruits whereby they are to be knowne Yee shall know them by their fruits which he illustrateth by a similitude drawne from trees Doe men gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles So euery good tree bringeth forth good fruit and a corrupt tree c. These fruits which Christ here directeth vs vnto may as I take it be drawne to three heads first their Doctrine secondly their life and conuersation thirdly their scope ayme or end as the Apostle among other things mainly appealeth to to these three approouing himselfe thereby to Timothy's conscience that hee was an vncorrupt Teacher Thou hast fully knowne my doctrine manner of liuing purpose or ayme to which three heads may other vertues there annexed bee reduced And hereby may euery Teacher try himselfe and euerie hearer discerne his Teacher first whether his doctrine at the least in the fundamentalls bee agreeable to the holy Scriptures that he both can and doth bring Scriptum est It is thus written for it and concerning any other matter that is not of the foundation or essence of Religion but appertaineth to order and decencie that there bee no Scripture against it Secondly whether his life bee consonant to his Doctrine habitually or in a setled course for there are none so loose but that they stumble vpon some good words and actions sometimes and there are none so perfect but that they labour of some frailties and tread their foot awry somtimes Thirdly whether his aymes and ends be holy as his Doctrine and life seeme to bee Now they are to bee iudged holy when in the iudgement of Charitie which beleeueth all things hopeth all things wee cannot perceiue that his owne pleasure profit or glory or the pleasing or displeasing of other men in any thing is so much looked after as l 1. Pet 4. 11. Iohn 7. 18. Phil. 3. 19. that God in all things may be glorified in Christ Iesus Contrariwise it is many times found in experience that some Teachers howsoeuer they preach generall truths and leade peraduenture a ciuill life free from scandall yet doe so distaste the power of Religion without which what deniall of our selues can there be and are so fallen out with zeale that they turne the edge of their Doctrine against all such as are not of the Laodicean temper When the Lords fences and pales are thus broken downe and all laide common that euery one should be alike and no one more strict then other but all to liue in a kind of carnall good fellowship and worldly iollitie what becommeth I pray you of the strait gate and narrow way before so earnestly commended and commanded vnto vs Questionlesse either our Lord Christ was mistaken when he added and few finde it meaning the strait gate and narrow way or else are they all mistaken who imagine that all or the most part finde it The similitude followeth drawne from trees m Verse 17. Doe men gather grapes of thornes and figs of thistles euen so euery good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bring●th forth euill fruit A good tree cannot bring forth euill frnit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewne downe and cast into the fire wherefore by their fruits you shall know them The effect and purport of all is this As a good tree bringeth forth good fruit and cannot bring forth euill and an euill tree bringeth forth euill fruit and cannot bring forth good so a true Prophet teacheth holsome doctrine leadeth a life answerable and propoundeth none other end then to serue and glorifie God and to winne others to the loue and obedience of the truth and can doe none otherwise habitually whatsoeuer befall him through infirmitie because the holy Ghost is his teacher quickner and as it were the sappe of the tree Contrariwise a false Prophet like a corrupt tree bringeth forth the fruit of false doctrine leadeth a scandalous or at the best but a ciuill life and would faine haue all others as bad as himselfe Neither can hee doe otherwise habitually howsoeuer at a start hee may seeme to doe pretily well standing as hee doeth in the state of corrupt nature vnder the power of Satan the Prince of this world And