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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97180	The devilish conspiracy, hellish treason, heathenish condemnation, and damnable murder committed and executed by the Iewes against ... Christ their king ... As it was delivered in a sermon on the 4 Feb. 1648 ... out of some part of the gospel appointed by the Church of England to be read on that day.	Warner, John, 1581-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W902; Thomason E550_16	37,074	47

and named Scribes Pharisees Elders Rulers of the People Sadduces Lawyers the People and the whole Councell Lord what a bach of Treason is this and was there ever the like Conspiracy of all sorts sects and places professing one Religion and Allegiance yet to worke the murder of their King But that the world may know and hate them in their wickednesse and may learne to beware of such and the like know that the Pharisees among the Jewes were a Sect not an Office and most dangerous infestious infectious to the people because they were become most numerous and powerfull and that you may know them the better when you meet with them 1. Consider them in their Origination 2. Their Devotion 3. Their Tenets 4. And their Practises And for the first you shall never find a Pharisee mentioned in all the Old Testament he being not a thing knowne or heard of in the antient Jewish Church but such as sprang up and crept out not long before the time of Reformation and so soone as he peeps he professeth himselfe a Seperatist from the rest of the Church and from thence he hath his name or title Pharisee and he is a thing outwardly though hypocritically holy even to superstition not onely in the matter of Tythes and holy Fasts to which he was so great a Pretender Luke 18.12 that he will have two Fasts in a Week and Tythes of all but in the observation of the Sabbath he is so zealous if not superstitious and so hearty for the publike treasury that neither must the Disciples of Christ pick the eares of corn as they passe to put them in their mouthes Matth. 12.2 no nor may Christ cure a blind or a lame man though but by speaking a word on that day without danger of a Councell v. 14. And though Gods expresse Commandement be Honour thy Father thy naturall civil spirituall Father yet if by Corban that is a Gift or Contribution Gods Cause as they call it may be benefited then Caleato patrem the commandement of God in this case saith the Pharisee is of none effect but is null and void And by these and the like Tenets and Separations from others they did too soone over-spread the whole Land and bewitched the People to their Faction Luke 5.17 Insomuch that they became in a short time the onely Oracles as it were among the People witnesse that Interrogatory of the Jewes Ioh. 7.48 Doe any of the Pharisees believe or follow Christ the King which is as much as if they had said You are not to believe and follow any but where the Pharisees teach or lead the way and the opinion of their knowledge and zeale grew so great that their Persons but especially their Faction governed saith Iosephus not Jerusalem alone the Metropolis but upon the matter all Judea too insomuch that Herod himselfe as the same Authour hath it was afraid to displease them Would you know some other waies how they raised themselves into such Authority and how thereby you may learne them out then know that they were very much above other Jewes for praying praying often long prayers and openly as Mat. 6. v. 23. and for preaching accordingly insomuch that rather then they would be without the Word preached they would go to heare Iohn the Baptist Matth. 3. but take this note by the way that if Iohn preach to them to doe good works rather than to heare and talke they 'le never care to heate him more for after that Sermon I find not though they loved preaching that they over loved or heard Io Baptist againe And to the advantage of their number and power some of these Pharisees could use their tongues very well Christ gave them so much their due when he said Matth. 12.24 They being evill yet speake good things for so when they came to intrap and insnare Christ Matth. 22.15 they begin as Iudas the Traytour did Matth. 26.16 with Master yea they would seem so tender of the preservation of Christs person that Luke 13.31 they will forewarne him of the Herodians as such as were set to kill him while themselves are yet still in all other things labouring to insnare and undermine him Some have put the Question Whether these Pharisees may be saved in Answer whereof I shall need to adde no more then Christ's determination pronounced Matth. 5.20 Vnlesse your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the kingdome of Heaven so that although Paul a Pharisee as Matthew a Publican repenting and converted may yet so long as they wilfully maintaine and obstinately practise as such Pharisees did they could not ordinarily be saved And so with one observation more I shal leave them all such as they are to Gods justice mercy and the observation is That at the first rising and commotion these Pharisees were most busie in tempting Christ and setting the people on against him yet in the later part tending to his Condemnation and Execution they appeared not so much as the Scribes who were over-active in all even to the last not onely in betraying but killing Christ the King Now these Scribes pretended especially to two things whereby they raised themselves in the opinion of the seduced people 1. That they as Luther on Mich. 4.2 spake of the Anabaptists so these held and made the world believe that themselves and such as they were the onely Saints to be saved and all the rest were but cast-awaies to be damned The 2d thing was their pretence to perfect understanding and frequent use of the Scriptures And touching the latter of these two Calv against the Anabaptists observes that they as these and these as they stuffed out all their impertinent and wicked discourses with more impertinent Texts of Scripture and continuall mention of and Revelation of the Spirit And from these two pretences they tooke upon them to be the onely Interpreters and Expounders of the Scriptures although as Buxtorf in Synag Iudaic of these Sects praeter falsitatem hypocrisin nihil habent there was nothing in either more then falshood and hypocrisie and Calv adds of them as of the Anabapt that they were as proper Interpreters of Scriptures as Hogs are Dressers of Vines for saith he they expound not but as Saint Peter speaks of such 2 Pet. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they pervert Scriptures the word in the Originall implies the practise of Glovers and Shoomakers who when the Leather will not reach home they stretch and teare it by their teeth And to examine the truth of this Assertion of Buxtorf and Calvin concerning these Scribes and Anabaptists be pleased to take a tast of some of their Interpretations as Buxtorf and others have set them downe and by this little resolve whether the whole race of them be extinct or not or not rather living and yet triumphantly flourishing among us Therefore when the Prophet Hosea 2.9 saith I will espouse thee