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A79875	Leaven, corrupting the childrens bread; or Christs caveat to beware of sectaries and their dangerous doctrines. In two sermons on Mark 8. 15. The former preached in the Cathedrall Church of Lincoln, at the lecture, on Wednesday, October 1. 1645. The latter in another auditorie. / By John Clarke, B. D. and pastor of the church of Fiskerton, neere Lincoln.	Clarke, John, d. 1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing C4477A; Thomason E354_15; ESTC R201098	49,476	63

another world of men into hell after them Gal 4.16 The Galatians had no reason to be angry with Saint Paul because he told them the truth because he sought by all possible means to unwitch their seduced judgements and to conjure down by ghostly charms and Gospel arguments the malignant spirit of Error risen up among them If thieves were in the way ready to rob and strip the honest traveller could he take it ill to be told and forewarned of them If witches should conspire the death of people (z) Calvin advers Libertin page 603 were it not fit they should be indicted and brought to triall Certainly no theft is so wicked no witchcraft so pernitious as hereticall doctrine it poysons and sends the soul packing to hell What are any people now priviledged from being leavened more then the * ut sicut haec morum mandata ita etiam illa quae de fide cauta sunt omnes pari modo comprehendant Vinc. c. 13. Apostles Are they shot-free of Satans poysonous darts Are their graces and parts more unshakeable then Peters or Christs other Disciples whom Satan sought to winnow as wheat Why then do they censure Vs that freely and boldly speak in the cause of Christ in their own souls cause that now lie a bleeding under cut-throat hereticks as wounders of tender consciences as persecuters of the Saints Is the physician a persecuter that administers pills and potions to the diseased patient Is the surgeon a persecuter that searcheth and lanceth impostumated and festered sores Surely no. Therefore let our people rectifie their judgements concerning us we desire not to rub galled backs to exulcerate mens spirits we had rather pour in oyle apply Lenitives But give us leave to deal faithfully with your souls not to sow pillows under any mans elbows the devil is not become more orthodox now then formerly Satan is no lesse Satanicall then he was The father of lies is no more converted to speak truth then heretofore nor hath a supersedeas from poysoning souls The envious man will sow tares and is as busie now as ever because he knoweth he hath but a short time and therefore sends out his emissaries seducing spirits giddy Enthusiasts leavening impostors to turn the world upside down to broach subverting principles to undo Church and State he doth strike while the iron is hot loves to fish in troubled waters This is his harvest It ever hath been the Devils manner when the Church is at the point of her deliverance of a man child to be ready with open mouth to devour it In times of desired reformation to bring in a cursed deformation both of Church and State So the Arrians in Constantines time and the Anabaptists in Luthers and I would I might truly say It is not so now but 't is no false alarme that I give you Hannibal ad portas We see everywhere sad symptoms of a distempered diseased infected Church and State Secondly for Exhortation 2. Vse of Exhort Do the best of Gods people need charging to take heed of leaven is there such danger of having our souls seduced infected Why then let us send up strong prayers and cries to heaven that God by his spirit would guide us into all truth and kep us by his own power to salvation of our selves we are of Reubens constitution Gen. 49 4 Unstable as water soon turned out of the right way Pray for the spirit of discerning that the eyes of our understanding being opened we may see embrace love and cleave to the truth and hate every false way that we may have our eys annointed with eye-salve from heaven to see clearly into the mysteries of the Gospel and that he would give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that we may discern things that differ and be able to distinguish opium from apium hemlock from wholesome herbs sowre leaven from soul-nourishing bread Quest But how may we trie the Doctrines we heare discern and sift out their leaven and discover seducing sectaries their persons and leavening practises Answ 1 For their Doctrines bring them to the touchstone of Holy Scripture (a) quo omnes omnium haerese ω a sceleratae novitates velut quodam spirituali glad●o saepe truncatae semperque truncandae sunt Vinc. Lir. weigh them in the ballance of the Sanctuary To the law and to the testimonie if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8.20 Search the Scriptures John 5.39 Do ye not therefore erre because ye know not the Scriptures Mar. 12.24 Object But hereticks bring Scripture for their opinions (b) Novit Diabolus nullam esse ad fallendum faciliorem viam quam ut ubi nefarii erroris subinducitur fraudulentia ibi divinorum verborum praetendatur auctoritas Vincent Lirin cap. 37. Every sectarie can alledge the word of God as well as the orthodox Christian So did the Devil himself to our blessed Saviour Matth. 4.6 It is written (c) Satanam imitati qui verbo ipso Domini in contrariam sententiam distorto ad stabilienda falsissima dogmata abutuntur Beza Annot. Major in Act. 20.28 Solut. 1. They corrupt wrest (d) Haeretici divinae scripturae testimoniis utuntur nam videas eos volare per singula quaeque sanctae legis volumina nihil unquam pene de suo proferunt quod non etiam scripturae verbis adumbrare conentur Lege Pauli Samosetani opuscula Priscilliani Eunomij Joviniani reliquarumque pestium cernas infinitam exemplorum congeriem prope nullam omitti paginam quae non novi aut veteris testamenti sententiis fucata colorata sit Sed tanto magis cavendi pertimescendi sunt quanto occultius sub divinae legis umbraculis latitant Vinc. Lirin cap. 35 37. writh and falsifie the texts which they quote sometimes by adding sometimes by clipping and paring away and stamp the private image and superscription of man upon Gods own coyn and rack and torture the Scriptures to confesse that which was never in them 2. They make false constructions and inferences from them spiders suck poyson even from wholesome and sweet flowers 2 Pet. 3.16 3. We must therefore compare Scripture with Scripture this is a notable means of finding out the true sense of them Thus our Saviour brings Scripture against that Scripture which the Devil mis-quoted Mat. 4.7 (e) ad defensionem sui quaedam sacrae legis verba furari atque fallaciter fraudulenter exponere idem c. 39. 2 We may discover the persons of seducing sectaries as our Saviour teacheth his Disciples to discern those wicked leaveners Pharisees Sadduces and Herodians Matth. 7.16 20 by their fruits ye shall know them They be chiefly three All hereticks if we look wistly at them and throughly sift them we shall find they are 1 Self seekers 2 Proud 3 Persecuters 1 Self-seekers Phil. 2.21 they all seek their own

Magistrate who by his place ought to defend the faith look to religion and be custos utriusque tabulae There be good lawes against vagrant rogues and fidlers players Gipseys and fortune-tellers that they be not suffered to wander abuse or deceive the Kings liege people 'T is pity mens souls are not as carefully provided for (o) tum ecclesiastici tum polititi ordinis Antistites toti in eo esse debent ut Diaboli fermentum expurgetur populus fidei suae commissus ab eo arceatur nisi aliquando loco panum propositionis Deo offerendorum Satanicas placentas olim in infernalibus prunis excoquendas reponere velint Chem. Harm Evangelic cap. 61. as dearly valued and as much tendered that there be no Searchers appointed for seducing Sectaries In times of a common plague the infected are shut up removed to the pesthouses not suffered to go abroad and infect others Should not the like care be had that schismatical leaveners be not suffered to meet in corners and private conventicles to the perverting and poysoning of mens souls ought not as watchfull an eye to be upon that pestilence of error that walketh in darknesse the destruction that wasteth at noon-day Psal 91.6 * Dominus te totamque familiam ab omni malo ac praesertim a Daemoniis meridianis istic obambulantibus custodiat Beza Epist 1. Andr. Duditio viz. from the Errors of Anabaptisme Brownism Antinomianism Toleration of sects and schisms under pretence of Liberty of Conscience Mr Edwards in Epist to his An●apolog For like Absolom they spread their tent on the top of the house in the sight of all Israel they are not ashamed nor blush to preach on the house tops their places and times of meeting are known proclaimed come who come will Is this to root out heresie schisme or to keep the covenant of our God If the enemie should storm or steale into this garison what a bustling would there be how would every man take the alarum and stand to his armes how would they be censured and fined as malignants that should not so do no enemy so dangerous as Heresie no garison of that consequence as the soul which we are not to suffer to be fraudulently surprized by false teachers nor violently taken from us by the powers of hell There is no proportion or comparison between malignant cavaliers and seducing impostors that more dangerously set up the kingdome of darknesse and tyrannie of the Devil Why should there be any Gallio that careth not for any of these things Acts 18.17 Jeremie sadly complaineth of some great ones that were not valiant for the truth Jer. 9.3 Godly Magistrates have forced Antidotes on a distempered corrupted people compelled them to repair to publick ordinances 2 Chr. 15.13.33.16.34 32. brought them into the Bond of a nationall covenant What wonder is it if every wherry swim so swiftly into the bottomlesse abysse when they have so fair a wind so ful a tide when they are preferred advanced countenanced put into places of great trust command and profit and engrosse every gainfull office Mammon of unrighteousnes will not onely work with a Blaam but will biasse a better spirit then his was to seduce others and be seduced himself Every man would be of the winning hand would be of a thriving and gainfull trade no tradesman so custom'd or hath the like return as Sectaries that trade in merchandise of Souls But shall the Godly Magistrate freely suffer them to retail their deceitfull wares In free corporations they will not endure forreiners to set up by them and steal away their customers Market towns have a standard an assize for bread and beere c. Bread that will not hold out weight is to be given away it would do well to see the bread of life to have his true weight And to set a fine on their heads that make and sell that which is light naught unwholesom leavened The Publicans among the Jews sate at the receipt of custom (p) Luke 5.27 Luke 19.2 to see and compell the poore bleeding country to pay tribute unto Caesar taxes and assessements imposed and exacted for the use of the Roman state and our Saviour so far condescended to the necessities of those times that himself payd tribute-money such as was levied and assessed upon him Matth. 17.24.27 But he denounceth a dreadfull woe to the Scribes not because they payd tithe of mint and annise and cummin due by Gods law but that they omitted the weightier matters of the Law judgement mercie and faith these saith he ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone Mat. 23.23 Magistrates and men in place should see God have his due as well as themselves have their due they should see that religion be not corrupted Gods word perverted the souls of people destroyed What serve mothers or nurses for but to look to their little ones and not let them eat dirt chalk coals in stead of bread spiders poyson in stead of sugar milk or wholsom nourishment I should think such an undutifull ungracious child not fit nor worthy to be suffered to live in a family that Ishmael like should mock the Isaacks Gen. 21.9 neither are such worthy to live in a Christian * illi certe nullo modo sinendi sunt vivere cum illorum temporalis vita aliis sit aeterna mors Za●ch de Magistr Mr Cotton on Rev. 16. pouring out the seven Vials 3. page 16 17 21. 4. page 17. if any have a conscience to turn men from God he would have men have as much conscience to cut them off church especially not to be cockered countenanced that spit in their aged mothers face the church of England and call her Whore And thus much may suffice for the two first observations out of the Text. The end of the first SERMON The third followeth viz. Doct. 3 THe best of Gods people need charging to take heed and beware of false doctrine Even the Apostles themselves bred up and fed up in Christs own family are in danger of being leavened How doth Saint Paul feare lest the Corinthian Saints should by Satans subtilty be beguiled and their minds corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11.3 How doth he in sundry places charge and adjure Timothy This charge I commit unto thee to hold faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus c. 1 Tim. 1.18.19.20 I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels 1. Tim. 5.21 I give thee charge in the sight of God and before Christ that thou keep this commandment 1 Tim. 6.13 O (q) O exclamatio iffa praescientioe est pariter charitatis praevidebat enim futuros quos etiam praedolebat Errores Quis est hodie Timotheus nisi vel generaliter universa ecclesia vel specialiter totum corpus praepositorum qui integram divini