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A77492 An antidote against the poysonous vveeds of heretical blasphemies, which during the deplorable interval of church-government have grown up in the reforming Church of England. As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By Iohn Brinsley, Minister of the Gospel there. Augus. 10. 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. Brinsley, John, 1600-1665. 1650 (1650) Wing B4705; Thomason E612_13; ESTC R206488 47,516 58

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against those vices and errors of the times And in this way let this Premonition be useful to all the faithful Ministers of Christ Now that we see this prediction verified amongst us in so punctual a manner 1. Be not discouraged at it Truth is such times as these are discouraging times They are so to all Christians who desire to be found faithful with God But specially to the Ministers of Christ Paul would have Timothy here to know that there were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} difficult and perilous times acoming Perilous specially to men of his Coat his Calling And such they are When Professours turn Apostatizing Blasphemers then let Timothies the Ministers of God look to themselves Then every Athanasius shall be a Satansius and what not they shall be loaded with slanderous imputations and obloquies to render them odious in the eyes of the world But let not this dismay or discourage A thing which the best of men in this case may be subject to We see it in Jeremy when he saw what entertainment his person and message found among many how The Word of the Lord was made a reproach unto him and a derision dayly how his doctrine was sleighted derided mocked at by such men as the Apostle here speaketh of Blasphemers what were his thoughts hereupon you may read them Jer. 20. 8 9. Then I said I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name Hereupon Jeremy what with fear and discontent he beginneth to take up a resolution of silencing himself of laying aside his calling Such discouragements in such times the Ministers of Christ are subject to But let them not give way to them Thus it hath been and thus it is here foretold that it should be And wherefore foretold but that the Ministers of God whom after a special manner it concerns might not be so offended at it as to be discoraged at it These things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended saith our Saviour to his Disciples speaking of the evill times which were to come after his departure from them John 16. 1. And so this thing hath the spirit of God foretold that the Ministers of the Gospel being forewarned might also be forearmed against what ever disheartnings or discouragements 2. But on the other hand Awakened Excited animated to greater Vigilancy Constancy Courage 1. Vigilancy When Foxes and Wolves are abroad it is time for the Shepherds to look out And such are seducing Teachers Foxes O Israel thy Prophets are like the Foxes in the deserts saith the Prophet Ezekiel cap. ●3 4 Such are false Prophets seducing Teachers being as Paul saith of Elimas Acts 13. 10. full of all subtilty and craft And as Foxes so Wolves I know saith Paul to the Elders of Ephesus that after my departure grievous Wolves shall enter in amosg you not sparing the flock Acts 20. 29. meaning thereby Seducers false Teachers whom our Saviour describeth to be Wolves in Sheeps clothing Mat. 7. 15. And being such it standeth the Ministers of God his Shepherds as they are often stiled in hand to look out to them To them is that speech directed Cant. 2. 15. Take us the Foxes the little Foxes that spoyle the Vines It is the speech of Christ to his Ministers saith our new Annotations upon it exciting them to look out have an eye to false teachers who seduce weak Christians And Paul foretelling the Elders aforesaid what Wolves should break in upon the Church in the next words he gives them an Item bespeaking their vigilancy Therefore watch Act 20. 31. The Ministers of Christ hearing of such dangerous instruments abroad should be so much the more vigilant over their flocks 2. And as vigilant over others so Constant in respect of themselves This is Pauls charge to Timothy in this chapter 2 Tim. 3. Having foretold him what times and persons were to come he giveth him his lesson v. 14. But continue thou saith he in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of And let all the Ministers of Christ take it home to themselves In the midst of what ever revolutions and turnings though the whole world should turn round yet let them stand like so many Centers not so far complying with any error of the times as to decline any way or Truth of God which they have beleeved professed held forth 3. And being constant in the Truth let them be so much the more zealous and couragious in defending it and opposing the Adversaries of it So far should this opposition be from damping their spirits as that it should by an antiperistasis make the fire of holy zeale to burn so much the more intensly within them Such effect it had in Paul when Elimas the Sorcerer a seducing Teacher withstood him seeking to turne the Deputy from the faith Act. 13. 8 9. See how Paul's spiritwas stirred within him Then Paul filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes on him and said O full of all subtilty and all mischief thou child of the Devil c. with such a holy zeale did that good Polycarpe Saint Iohns disciple confront that Blasphemous Heretick Marcion who meeting him and demanding of him whether he knew him Yes saith he Agnosco te primogenitum Diaboli I know thee to be the first-born of the Devil So far should the Ministers of Christ be from being dismayed or terrified by these Adversaries that they should as Calvin speaks upon the Text Animos potius ad resistendum colligere rather gird up their loynes and gather up their spirits that so they may go out more couragiously in the strength of God against them This branch of the Application I might yet amplifie and inlarge by shewing you in what wayes and by what meanes the Ministers of God are to go out against such adversaries of the Truth as viz. by preaching against them writing against them confuting their Errors plucking off the Masks and Vizards and disguizes from their faces discovering their Impostures that so their folly being made manifest to all men they may proceed no farther as our Apostle hath it ver. 10. of this chapter But I have already expatiated far beyond the limits which I propounded to my selfe when I first took this subject in hand and therefore shall here conclude desiring God to make these Meditations as profitable as they are seasonable FINIS Psal. 1. 3. Prov. 25. 11. Ezek. 9. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Prov. 31. 31. Sub extremis diebus comprehendit universum Christianae Ecclesiae statum Calv. ad locum Ita tamen ut mali●a de quâ loquitur subinde majores vires sumat cum tempore crescat usque ad extremum diem H●rming ad loc. Cicero Eustathius Vide Bez. in Gr. Annot. in Mat. 9. 3. Aut quia est {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Aretus Problem loc. 109. de Blasphemiâ Hâc significatione peculiari usurpatur à sacris Scriptoribus nostris quomodo etiam apud Platonem bisponitur Beza Gr. Ann. in Mat. 9. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sunt hoc loco qui in Deum probra congerunt sed in genere maledici Vide Leigh Critic sacra ex Sculteto Blasphemi in Deum ejus doctrinam falsa impia de eo loquentes Claud. Espencaeus ad loc. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in ipsum Deum maledici nam in hoc sensueminen●iore sumendam hic hanc vocem indicat ordo Grotius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} contemptores aliorum Idem ad loc. Epiph. Haeresi 26. Vide Engl. new Annot. in 2 Tim. 9. 6. Q Vocem Blasphemiae Tremel Dicitur hic {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} non qui Deo maledicit sed qui quod Dei est sibi arrogat Groti ad loc. Opinio Epicuri Deum non curare res humanas quae videtur etiam Aristotel●s fuisse sententia Gro. in 1 Tim 6. 4. Isa. 37 23 24. August de Haeresi August de Haeres Simpsons History of the Church Cent 2. de Haeres See the Testimony of the truth of Jesus Christ by the Ministers of London Anno 1648. Mr. Bartlets Soveraigne Balsom in fine Reas. 1. Deus non est Author cujus est ultor Fulgent Comfort for Beleevers c. pag. 36 37. Reas. 2. Eng. New Annor Reas. 3. Reas. 4. Applic. Vse 1. Vse 2. Vse 3. Ainsworth in Levit 24 11. Propter talia delicta fames terrae motus pesses eveniunt Vide Alsted Theolog. Casaum cap. 15. Cas. 5. Vse 4. Quest Answ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ab a intensiva {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Sumo {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ab {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} appareo quod quis enimere se caeteris mortalibus superiorem esse persuasum habeat Cui respondet Latinis Superbia q. super ire Leigh Critic Sacra {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} his Contemptores aliorum Grotius ad Text. Diodati ad loe Vide Grotium ad loc. Alsted Theol-Casuum cap. 15. Cas. 5. De Blasphemiâ Vide Alsted ibid. Jura Civilia praecisione linguae punierunt aliquando hoc peccatum c. Alii ut terribilior esset p●na jusserunt per occiput eximi linguam Aretius Loc. Com. 109. de Blasphemiâ Jura Canonica pessimo exemplo induxerunt mitigationem paenarum c. Dedit enim ista tantam Blasphemiarum segetem ut nihil srequentius sit inter Christianos quam impune nomen domini Blasphemare Aretius ibid. Vide M. Carill in Job 2. 9. Perkins in Galat. cap 3. v. 25 Alsted ubi supra Ireneus lib. 3. cap. 3. Euseb lib. 4. cap. 14. lib. 7. cap. 23 Vse 5. Vide New Annot. Eng. in 1 Cor. 5. 5. Applic. 2. Vseb l. c. 14.