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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43041	Truth may be blam'd but not sham'd a sermon upon Matth. 16 v.13, 14, 15, 16 : wherein truth and errour are brought upon the stage act their parts / by William Harvey, minister of the Word.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1094; ESTC R36593	16,440	45

by his wanton Mistresses fals accusation was cast into prison Gen. 39.20 Susanna that honest and good soul had almost lost her life too by this murdering peece had not Gods mercy opportunely intervened to the saving of his handmaid What should I say more Our blessed Lord himself had this Cannon shot at him the peece goeth off but being foul breaketh and flyeth about their ears who first gave fire to it Luke 23.2 Mark 15.3 Matth. 27.12 There are three things amiable in the sight of God and men Concordia fratrum amicitia propinquorum vir uxor inter se convenientes Concord of brethren friendship of neighbours and a man and his wife agreeing together And now what putteth these instruments out of tune but the foul hand of Calumny Who causeth a separation of these three lovely pairs but falf tales and suggestions Nothing breaketh the peace more then this Oh what confusions what sad troubles have followed them Such turbulent spirits have been raised in one hour as could scarce be layed in many years after These bellows have kindled such a fire as no waters have been able to quench it So horrid and deplorable hath been the sad consequence of the ready reception of a slaunder as I may say of him and the author of it as Jacob of Simeon and Levi they are brethren instrumental of cruelty are in their habitations Gen. 49.5 d Simile In a storm the ship is tossed to and fro reeleth like a drunken man one while it mounts as high as heaven and then falls as low as hell the lightnings flash on their faces the proud waves beat upon them and fearful darknesse like a black mantle begirt the trembling marriners now they are at their wi●s end and e Acts 27.20 all hope that they shall be saved is taken away Thus is it when the fire of contention is blown up by the breath of such who go from house to house to carry tales and it kindles the more into flame when it meets with combustable matter a facil disposition an ear open to receive it When this Euroclydon once riseth unlesse the Lord whom the winds and sea obey in mercy intervene the tempest will rise so high as nothing but miserable ship wrack can be expected Hear I pray all of you whom it may concern what direction Titus hath from the Apostle Titus 3.2 To speak evil of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meeknesse unto all men This thing was so hateful to David that he thus speaks of it Psal 101.5 Whoso privily slaundereth his neighbour him will I cut off Mark but this dilewma I suppose it will nonplus the best Sophister Matth. 7.12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do you even so to them Luk. 6.31 for this is the law and the prophets Now wouldst thou have any slaunder and backbite thee No. Thou art then an unreasonable man Non compos mentis to do that unto another which thou abhorrest to have done unto thy self I should bite my tongue first before I would perpetrate a sin so unworthy so beneath a Christian I may say a man For if thy tongue be employed in this particular and runs on this errand f James 3.6 It is a sire a world of iniquity so is the tongue amongst our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell Blush then for shame if thou beest guilty this way and say with Pharaohs Butler g Gen 41.9 I do remember my faults this day And with holy Job from a sorrowful and penitent heart sweetly warble forth as he in another sense Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42.6 If this will not serve let them know they are murderers and children of the devil John 8.44 Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the father of it And if they be murderers then their sin cryeth to heaven for vengeance Among the four capitall or if you please Cardinal vices that cry this is set in the front h Clamitani ad coelum vex sangumis vox Sodom●rum Vox oppressorum merces detenta laborum Vix sanguinis the voice of blood Gen. 4.10 the voice o thy brothers blood cryeth unto me from the ground And not only so but they are excluded the heavenly Jerusalem no unclean thing can enter there i Revel 22.15 For without are dogs and Sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolators and in the ●ere whosoever love h● and maketh a lye And so leaving them to stand or fall to their own Masters I come to the people and now hear what they think of due Saviour Some say that thou art John the Baptist some Elias and o●hers Jeremias Second observation or one of the prophets Hence I observe That the vulgar concerning Christ and other matters of faith are often various and unsatisfied they hold and believe that which is not sound and orthodox Like the blinde man in the Gospel they discern not aright as he saw men like trees How many have we who know not what God what Christ or what faith is In this particular they are as mute as fishes and as the horse and mule that have no understanding Either they are ignorant of what true religion is or they stand in doubt of it and make a question whether there be any such thing or no. Witnesse our many sects and opinionists that swarm every where namely our blasphemous Quaker away with such a fellow from the earth Our Simpleton Seeker of a needle in a bottle of hay Our ignorant Leveller that would beget a parity among men which is impossible k Mark 14 For the poor ye have always with you Our dipping Anabaptist verberibus magis quam verbis authority must cudgel it out of him for disputes boot not What should I speak of Judaism Turcism Heathenism Atheism c. In such diversity of opinions what shall we determine Shall we bear them shall we commend them or shall we detest them l Laudare mon possumus detestari d●bemus ferre cogimur Dierec Annal. Praise them we cannot we ought to abhor them we are forced to suffer them Here is all our Comfort the harvest will one day day come when the wheat shall be put into the granary of Heaven and the tares cast into the fire In the interim though we live by them let us not live with them By any means avoid conversing though we cannot commercing with them altogether m 1 Cor. 5.10 for then must ye needs go out of the world But above all make not your selves one with them by marriage

maugre the menaces and threats of wicked men Let this never be forgotten of us But whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven Matth. 10.33 And worthy is that of the Apostle to be writ in the tables of our hearts Rom. 10.9 10. That if thou shalt confesse with my mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved For with the heart man believeth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth Confession is made unto Salvation Secondly this more especially concerns the Ministers of God his word they of all other must freely deliver the truth b Nihil in sacerdote tam periculosum apud Deuw tam iurpe apud homine● quam quod sentiat vericatem non libere pronuneiare Ambr. Nothing in a Minister is so dangerous with a God and base with men then not to speak that freely which he thinketh to be truth I was spoken like a prophet As the Lord liveth what the Lord saith unto me that will I speak 1 Kings 22.14 And no lesse noble was it said by Nehemiah Should such a man as I● flee chap. 6.11 These are the pillars of the Church if they fall down cometh the whole fabrick It is a shame to see a man of God turn tail for him to deny the truth is monstrous who will trust that sheepheard or rather that thief who seeing the wolf coming leaveth the sheep and flyeth John 16.12 He that sitteth as the stern must not leave it for every storm lest he hazardeth the whole vessel and so commit the Marriners to the mercy of the seas Look to this ye Embassadours of the most high God and betray not through your cowardise those souls comitted to your charge What more worthy of commemoration then that of he Apostles who when they were put into the common prison for preaching in the name of Christ presently they entred into the Temple early in the morning and taught saying We ought to obey God rather than men and boldly told them to their faces The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sins Acts 5. 18.21.29.30.31 Who can but admire at the Constancy and brave spirit of Martin Luther who when he was by some of his friends disswaded from going to Wormes made this answer If every tyle of each house was a devil yet would I go thither O noble soul thy name will be had in remembrance to thy immortall praise Let my counsel be accepted of you my dear brethren of the Clergie Yea let the wise mans counsell be accepted of you c Prov. 19.10 Buy the truth and sell it not Let no panick fear possesse you when you should proclaim the glad tidings of the gospel and preach salvation through the merit of Christ He is the Son of the living God saith my Text who will own you his Champions and reward you with a crown of immortality if ye be constant What i● the world hate you for it Take this Cordial Be of good comfort I have overcome the world said your great Master once And if God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8.31 Take this for all even from him who is Alpha and Omega the first and the last he that liveth and was dead and hath the keyes of hell and of death Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Rev. 2.10 At for those Milk-sops those fearful watchmen ambodexters and trencher Chaplains who for sinister ends speak what God never put into their mouths against the plain text of Scripture denying the Lord that bought them and so making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience to the hazarding of many thousand souls Good God give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth If not the wish of the Apostle to all you that fear God shall be mine I would they were even cut off that trouble you Amen Gal. 5.12 FINIS