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A75477	Antipharmacum Saluberrimum; or, A serious & seasonable caveat to all the saints in this hour of temptation. Wherein their present dangers are detected, and their present duties vigorously urged		1664 (1664)	Wing A3503; ESTC R229361	43,186	47

upright in their generation Arg. 2. and kept themselves pure from the corruptions of the times they lived in Noah walked with God when the earth was overspread with an inundation of wickedness Gen. 6.9 and Noah is saved by the Lord when the Earth is overwhelmed with an inundation of water Gen. 6.8 Lot his righteous foul is vexed with the filthy conversation of the Sodomites and he is graciously exempted from the desolation that came upon them Gen. 19.16 he would not joyn hands with sinners and God will take him by the hand as a friend to rescue him out of the danger Elijah will walk with and appear for God when he could see none to stand by him when Idolatry had over-spread the face of the whole Country and what miraculous and wonderful Providences did he experience in his protections and sustentations Either the Lord will hide him in the grave from the troubles that shall be among the living Isa 57.1 so Angustin was taken away a little before the Sacking of Hyppo Pareus a little before the taking of Heydelburg Luther before the Wars break forth in Germany Methusela just before the Flood or else he sets some special mark upon them that they may be distinguisht in the general calamity Ezek. 9.4 5. Go through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that sigh and that cry for all the Abominatins that be done in the midst thereof And to the other he said Go after him and smite let not your eye spare neither have ye pitty So Rev. 7. before the Vials come to be poured out upon the Earth the Servants of God are sealed even such as had kept themselves pure from Antichristian Polutions The danger we run our selves into thereby dangers I say Arg. 3. not only of destruction Sor a companion of Fools shall be destroyed Prov. 13.20 but of defilement also the Devil hath his Agents and Factors in every corner to entice you to sin and you have corrupt hearts as apt to receive impressions from the examples and perswasions of sinners as tinder is to receive fire and it is no wisdom you know for him that carries Gunpowder about him to come too near the fire where the sparks flie Now to prevent this danger of being infected with the Sins and Evils of the Time I shall lay down a few Directions 1. If you would prevent Infection in these evil dayes begin every day with God season your hearts ever morning by communion with the Lord. This was Davids practice Psal 139.18 When I awake I am still with thee It was blessed Counsel which a worthy person gives in this case Before earthly things saith he break in upon us Mr. T. Case in Epistle to the Morning Exercise and we receive impressions from abroad 't is good to season the heart with thoughts of God and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind before they are prostituted to baser objects When the World gets the start of Religion in the morning it can hardly overtake it all the day and so the heart is habituated to vanity all the day long but when we begin with God we take him along with us to all the businesses and comforts of the day which being seasoned with his Love and Fear are the more sweet and savoury to us 2. Be choice in your company Christ indeed conversed frequently with Publicans and Sinners but it was still in order to their good and there was no danger of receiving any evil from them there was nothing in him to fasten a temptation upon but we can seldom get off without a taint 3. Quicken up your zeal for God this will be a spur to the discharge of your duty in all places times and companies Love said Mr. Gurnal ever goes armed with Zeal this is her dagger she draws against all Opposers of Truth Qui non zelat non amat Many times we hear the Name of God prophan'd and dare not take as much liberty and boldness to reprove sin as they do to commit it whence is this but from the want of Zeal O it would make thee as it did Jonathan to cast a Kingdom at thy heels to appear against Sin and me-thinks thy interest in God should provoke thy zeal We must not neglect the duty of a friend for fear of incurring the suspition of an enemy 't is better lose the smiles than the souls of men if thou discharge thy duty the sin is his if not 't is thine too 4. Furnish your hearts with such Principles as are antidotes and preservatives against infections As Physicians advise in times of infection to carry some Preservatives still about you Of this sort I shall commend four or five and shut up this Head 1. Nothing must lie nearer thy heart if thou be a Christian than the Glory of thy God all ends interests designs must be subjected to that and whatsoever cannot be subordinated must be rejected If this Principle were but well setled upon the heart what brave Spirits would it breed and raise in thy breast it would untye thy tongue like Craesus his dumb son to plead for thy Father It was a brave Speech of Hierom in an evil day when the rage of the enemy was great against the Name and People of God O that they would turn their weapons upon me and be satisfied with my Blood And a sweet one is that of Bernard to the same purpose Malo in nos murmur hominum quam in Deum Rather let their reproach fall on Us than on God Bonum est mihi si dignitur Deus me uti pro Clypeo I should account it a mercy if God would vouchsase to use me as a Shield Much like that of David The Reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen on me If Gods Glory be thy principal end thus it will subject all other ends and interests to it and then it will open thy mouth to plead for him and appear in all the concernments of his Name 2. The Peace of thine own Conscience is to be preferred to the favour of any man and will abundantly recompence the frowns of men This is our rejoycing even the Testimony of our Conscience This is the sweetest friends sacrifice it not to any mans lust or will 3. The greatest expression of love to another is to hate his sin Prov. 27.6 Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend and the greatest injury to another is to connive at his wickedness Lev. 19.17 4. No man shall be a loser at last by being faithful to God and to his Duty if you have no reward from men yet to be sure you shall from God and yet God so orders it oftentimes that men shall love you the better for your Faithfulness Prov. 28.23 He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flatters with his lips 5. A Christian should do that and nothing but that now which he judges will

nay by this means thou mayest be sinning in another when thou lyest in the dust Lastly consider how careful God hath alwayes been to keep his People off at the greatest distance from Idolatry Compare these Scriptures 2 King 17.15 Ezek. 44.20 Numb 23.38 1 Thes 5.22 Heb. 4.1 O let these Arguments be impartially weighed and let not any low fleshly interest be set up to oppose them COUNSEL III. Beware of such persons as are Factors and Agents for Antichrist and keep off from such a Ministry the tendency and scope of which is to entice and draw you to Idolatry Mat. 7.15 10.17 Phil. 3.2 Col. 2.8 There is a * It is not my design to asperse any godly person that by the prevalency of temptation may joyn w th them the Lord I hope will recover such out of the snare but I speak of the body and generality of them generation of men now abroad skilful to destroy souls who would make Merchandise of you and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as mean well but want prudence to discern such as mean ill These are of two sorts the generality of them are by a righteous hand of God given over to such dissoluteness and debauchery that their folly and madness is made manifest to all men 2 Tim. 3.9 And others that have gifts and parts how few are there of them but imploy them in defending abominable Superstitions and perswading their Congregations to submit to them So that you have your choice whether you will drink poyson mixt with water or infused into brisk and generous wine which will give it a speedier access to the spirits These are † Jactant crepanque Scripturam sed eam non intelligunt imo pervertunt apperiunt quasi fontes scientiae qui aquam non habent doctrinarum praemittunt imbrem velut nubes prophetiae Hieion contra Jov. Wells without water deceiving the hope of weary and thirsty souls Clouds they are without rain that send not forth one gracious shower to refresh the Inheritance of the Lord The best of them is a bryar and the most upright of them sharper than a thorne hedge Mic. 7.4 I believe there be many among you that are sharp set and by this time have felt the misery of a spiritual famine 'T is bread you come for but your Father hath shut up house and is gone for a time the Glory is departed they are become Wells without water breasts without milk is there not a vanity in these as well as in the creatures when God is withdrawn from them We may say concerning them as Isaac did to his father Gen. 22.7 Behold the fire and the wood but where is the Sacrifice Here you may see the skin and shadow of an Ordinance but where is the power where is the life quickening and soul refreshment that was wont to accompany them Ah poor England what hast thou lost what a Ministry hast thou sinned away wa st thou not renowned among the Nations for the power and purity of Ordinances were not thy Ministers as sheep coming up from the washing whereof every one bare twins and none was barren among them How was the Lord Jesus lifted up in thy Ministry that all might see the Necessity Beauty and Excellency of him and did not the pangs of the New-birth frequently come upon souls in thine Assemblies But alas those dayes are over they are gone they are gone ah wo is us that we must say So it was Well then what will you do in this case will you seek the living among the dead will you suck empty breasts whence you can draw nothing but wind or blood O no but rather say as Cant. 1.7 Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest where thou makest thy Flocks to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of thy companions These Companions of Christ must be none of yours Because it is the manifest drift and design of their Ministry Arg. 1. to unteach and beguile you of those precious Gospel-Truths which you have formerly received and learnt This some of them have not shun'd to declare in the face of their Congregations and nothing is more apparent than that it is the design they all manage I appeal to your own observations what is more common with them than to tell you you have been misguided by your Teachers these twenty years and now must return to the good Old Way which themselves are utterly unacquainted with Now what do you by attendance on such a Ministry but run your souls upon a temptation to unsettlement and Apostacy and dig a grave as I may say to bury all the precious Truths you have learn'd under your former faithful Ministers Who may sigh over you and say as Peter Martyr did when he was in Oxford at the coming in of Queen Mary he heard a Colledge-Bell ring to Mass and looking out at his Study window saw the Scholars flocking apace to it being struck to the heart with this sight he brake out into this expression Pet. Martyr Haec una notula said he omnem meam doctrinam evertit i.e. This Bell rings a passing-peal to all my Doctrine and upon serious consideration this will appear to be no small evil For you cannot but be convinced that it is your duty to be immoveably fixed in the Truths of the Gospel which you have received and to suffer no man to spoil you of them if you doubt that read 2 Pet. 3.17 18. Col. 1.23 Ephes 3.17 Col. 2.6 7. 1 Cor. 15.58 And if this be your sin to be moved away from it then it must needs be your duty to avoid the temptations means and occasions of such unsettlement And this is that which is intended in all those cautions given in the Word and but lately recited I am against the Prophets that steal the Word every man from his neighbour Jer. 23.30 He means the false true Prophets that enticed the People from those Truths which the Prophets had taught them There be spiritual Cut-purses abroad pray look to your selves the old Chemarims are revived again in this Generation the word Zeph. 1.4 is conceived to come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incaluit i. e. men more zealous and hot than ordinary for their superstitious Traditions inflam'd with desires to draw you to it Ut multitudine sequacium sese efferunt Which the Apostle englishes Gal. 6.13 that they may glory in your flesh And therefore beware of men Doth not your attendance upon Arg. 2. and following of such a Ministry help to midwive and bring forth all those evils with which their Ministry travels and is in pain to be delivered of could they do any hurt if they were generally declined and avoided their strength lyeth in you As a great Commander once said to his Souldiers That he flew upon their Wings Hence it was