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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50837	A false faith not justified by care for the poor prov'd in a sermon preach'd at St. Paul's Church, August 28th, 1698 / by Luke Milbourne ...	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1698 (1698)	Wing M2031; ESTC R9394	18,941	32

and the last If then according to their sense a Priscillianist sit still or only slily and silently endeavours to seduce Souls and a zealous good Christian stands up vigorously in Defence of Truth the Christian's a Heretick and Christianity Heresy and the Priscillianist for all his hellish Opinions a very Innocent Person and by no means to be rejected But if their Assertion be true according to common Sense those who advance it are the greatest Hereticks of our Age for they joyn both false Doctrines and an extraordinary Bustle and dangerous Warmth together Errare possum Haereticus esse nolo Haereses sunt Placit● veh●mentius defensa It may be they 'l take shelter under St. Austin's I may be in an Error but I will be no Heretick who means he would not be Obstinate for Obstinacy not an involuntary Mistake makes the Heretick But this will not help them Their own Critick calls Opinions too eagerly defended Heresies here again since none ever more scurrilously impudently or furiously defended their distinguishing Opinions than these Men by their own acknowledgment they are notorious Hereticks Nor will their absurd pretended Syncretism with the Church of England as a sound part of the Catholick Church a sham offer'd only to impose on Children clear them of the Title Heresy indeed is a Word of an indifferent Signification in many Ancient Authors but though both Grotius and Ravanellus think otherwise it 's no where so in the New Testament The Heresy or Sect of the Sadducees Acts 5.17 Acts 15.5 Acts 4. in St. Luke is a Brand on them and so it was on the Pharisees when St. Paul and Barnabas us'd it Tertullus calls Christians the Sect or Heresy of the Nazarenes by way of Reproach and St. Paul understood the Jews meaning well enough when they call'd that way Heresy in which he worshipp'd the God of his Fathers v. 14. Nor was their sense questionable who tell him Acts 28.16 Acts 26.5 that as for that Heresy which he preach'd they knew that it was every where spoken against and even where the same Apostle calls Pharisaism the strictest Heresy of the Jewish Nation he declares against it All other Texts where Heresy or Hereticks are mention'd have such Characters or Epithets annext as render their meaning indisputable In Scripture then it 's us'd always in an ill sense and in it the Heresy and Heretick are both condemn'd But when St. Peter forewarns us 2 Pet. 2.1 That there should be false Teachers among Christians who should privily bring in damnable Heresies i. e. should spread Hellish Opinions but as far as possible conceal the Names of their Authors he instances in One contrary to that Faith which himself and the rest of the Apostles taught They taught that God had redeemed his Flock with his own Blood These would deny the Lord who bought them and make him not God but a Creature and consequently uncapable of Redeeming them Such as these were Hereticks in the Apostles days and afterwards and such are Hereticks and their Opinions damnable Heresies in ours and God knows there are too many who follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of Truth is evil spoken of From all this we learn that Heresie in a Scripture and Ecclesiastical sense is not Factiousness Civil but an opposition made to the Church and her Doctrines drawn from the Word of God and generally received from the Beginning See a Sermon of the Necessity of Heresies Printed 1688. Haeresis est quiddam Spirituale L. Socinus de Haeret. puniendis p. 106. Vide Lucii Lexicon Novi Testam in verbo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haereticos statuimus omnes quicunque communis nostrae Fidei decretum aliquod secus accipiunt quam sacrâ Scripturâ determinatum est in errore sic habitant ut omnino se non sinant ab illo removeri Nec illud in hoc genere spectandum est utrum aliquis ipse sibi Erroris fuerit Author an illum aliunde acceptum ipse sequatur defendat Reformatio legum Ecclesiast Sect. 2. c. 1. under pretence of their falshood and deficiency and out of Ostentation of a purer and more perfect knowledge and an Heretick is one who chuses embraces cherishes and obstinately defends Opinions contrary to true and sound Doctrine If this Account be right we cannot be far to seek to whom both the Title and the Opinions belong and such even they themselves confess are to be rejected Haereticus est qui Ambitione ductus vel alicujus temporalis commodi gratiâ sub Religionis praetextu falsas ac novas Opiniones vel gignit vel sequitur sectantium turmas parat Ex Augustino citata haec a L. Socino Hic vero asserente eodem Socino est Factiosus Haereticus Haeretici simpliciter seditiones volentes non excitant sed pacatè ac placide dissentientes nemini vim inferunt sententiam suam defendunt ac docent rectúmque esse autumantes etiam mordicus retinent adeo ut à Diabolo decepti igne quoque cremari constantissimè perferant L. Socinus de Haeret puniend p. 87.6 Ergo simplex Haeresis consentiente ipso Socino Haereticissimo in falsitate opinionum earumque ●criori defensione consistit Well but him who is weak in the Faith we are to receive therefore certainly not to reject But if those whom we have to do with are weak and will own it whom shall we call strong The Fathers of our Church who are most admir'd for Piety or Learning The inferior Presbyters who have labour'd hardest in the Word and Doctrine are all but Children meer Pigmies in the hands of these Defyers of the Armies of the living God They are treated with all that scorn and contempt which Opinionative Critics for they 'r all such can throw upon them They 'r confuted with nauseous Repetitions of bafled Arguments and abundance of scurrilous Humour and Papanish Buffoonery Yet God will accept of them they say But we think that if they keep now no better than themselves and their own Writers we need not wish that an angry Judge after Death would condemn them to worse Company Beneficence design'd to promote such Heresies and to make such Men better thought of cannot be accompani'd with that Charity which our Text recommends For that Charity always tries to heal not to tear open the Churches Wounds It neither invents nor favours New Opinions in Religion but labours to preserve the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace and in Righteousness of Life That Heavenly Charity looks above the Flatteries of vain and foolish Men owns the insufficiency of the best humane Works and knows it can never discharge that vast Debt it owes to Divine Goodness by the most profuse Bounty to the Necessities of Men. The Son of this Love values one spark of such Charity more than a thousand senseless Criticisms which serve only to derogate from the Truth and Wisdom of