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A77492	An antidote against the poysonous vveeds of heretical blasphemies, which during the deplorable interval of church-government have grown up in the reforming Church of England. As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth. / By Iohn Brinsley, Minister of the Gospel there. Augus. 10. 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4705; Thomason E612_13; ESTC R206488	47,516	58

against those vices and errors of the times And in this way let this Premonition be useful to all the faithful Ministers of Christ Now that we see this prediction verified amongst us in so punctual a manner 1. Be not discouraged at it Truth is such times as these are discouraging times They are so to all Christians who desire to be found faithful with God But specially to the Ministers of Christ Paul would have Timothy here to know that there were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} difficult and perilous times acoming Perilous specially to men of his Coat his Calling And such they are When Professours turn Apostatizing Blasphemers then let Timothies the Ministers of God look to themselves Then every Athanasius shall be a Satansius and what not they shall be loaded with slanderous imputations and obloquies to render them odious in the eyes of the world But let not this dismay or discourage A thing which the best of men in this case may be subject to We see it in Jeremy when he saw what entertainment his person and message found among many how The Word of the Lord was made a reproach unto him and a derision dayly how his doctrine was sleighted derided mocked at by such men as the Apostle here speaketh of Blasphemers what were his thoughts hereupon you may read them Jer. 20. 8 9. Then I said I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name Hereupon Jeremy what with fear and discontent he beginneth to take up a resolution of silencing himself of laying aside his calling Such discouragements in such times the Ministers of Christ are subject to But let them not give way to them Thus it hath been and thus it is here foretold that it should be And wherefore foretold but that the Ministers of God whom after a special manner it concerns might not be so offended at it as to be discoraged at it These things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended saith our Saviour to his Disciples speaking of the evill times which were to come after his departure from them John 16. 1. And so this thing hath the spirit of God foretold that the Ministers of the Gospel being forewarned might also be forearmed against what ever disheartnings or discouragements 2. But on the other hand Awakened Excited animated to greater Vigilancy Constancy Courage 1. Vigilancy When Foxes and Wolves are abroad it is time for the Shepherds to look out And such are seducing Teachers Foxes O Israel thy Prophets are like the Foxes in the deserts saith the Prophet Ezekiel cap. ●3 4 Such are false Prophets seducing Teachers being as Paul saith of Elimas Acts 13. 10. full of all subtilty and craft And as Foxes so Wolves I know saith Paul to the Elders of Ephesus that after my departure grievous Wolves shall enter in amosg you not sparing the flock Acts 20. 29. meaning thereby Seducers false Teachers whom our Saviour describeth to be Wolves in Sheeps clothing Mat. 7. 15. And being such it standeth the Ministers of God his Shepherds as they are often stiled in hand to look out to them To them is that speech directed Cant. 2. 15. Take us the Foxes the little Foxes that spoyle the Vines It is the speech of Christ to his Ministers saith our new Annotations upon it exciting them to look out have an eye to false teachers who seduce weak Christians And Paul foretelling the Elders aforesaid what Wolves should break in upon the Church in the next words he gives them an Item bespeaking their vigilancy Therefore watch Act 20. 31. The Ministers of Christ hearing of such dangerous instruments abroad should be so much the more vigilant over their flocks 2. And as vigilant over others so Constant in respect of themselves This is Pauls charge to Timothy in this chapter 2 Tim. 3. Having foretold him what times and persons were to come he giveth him his lesson v. 14. But continue thou saith he in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of And let all the Ministers of Christ take it home to themselves In the midst of what ever revolutions and turnings though the whole world should turn round yet let them stand like so many Centers not so far complying with any error of the times as to decline any way or Truth of God which they have beleeved professed held forth 3. And being constant in the Truth let them be so much the more zealous and couragious in defending it and opposing the Adversaries of it So far should this opposition be from damping their spirits as that it should by an antiperistasis make the fire of holy zeale to burn so much the more intensly within them Such effect it had in Paul when Elimas the Sorcerer a seducing Teacher withstood him seeking to turne the Deputy from the faith Act. 13. 8 9. See how Paul's spiritwas stirred within him Then Paul filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes on him and said O full of all subtilty and all mischief thou child of the Devil c. with such a holy zeale did that good Polycarpe Saint Iohns disciple confront that Blasphemous Heretick Marcion who meeting him and demanding of him whether he knew him Yes saith he Agnosco te primogenitum Diaboli I know thee to be the first-born of the Devil So far should the Ministers of Christ be from being dismayed or terrified by these Adversaries that they should as Calvin speaks upon the Text Animos potius ad resistendum colligere rather gird up their loynes and gather up their spirits that so they may go out more couragiously in the strength of God against them This branch of the Application I might yet amplifie and inlarge by shewing you in what wayes and by what meanes the Ministers of God are to go out against such adversaries of the Truth as viz. by preaching against them writing against them confuting their Errors plucking off the Masks and Vizards and disguizes from their faces discovering their Impostures that so their folly being made manifest to all men they may proceed no farther as our Apostle hath it ver. 10. of this chapter But I have already expatiated far beyond the limits which I propounded to my selfe when I first took this subject in hand and therefore shall here conclude desiring God to make these Meditations as profitable as they are seasonable FINIS Psal. 1. 3. Prov. 25. 11. Ezek. 9. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Prov. 31. 31. Sub extremis diebus comprehendit universum Christianae Ecclesiae statum Calv. ad locum Ita tamen ut mali●a de quâ loquitur subinde majores vires sumat cum tempore crescat usque ad extremum diem H●rming ad loc. Cicero Eustathius Vide Bez. in Gr. Annot. in Mat. 9. 3. Aut quia est {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Aretus Problem loc. 109. de Blasphemiâ Hâc significatione peculiari usurpatur à sacris Scriptoribus nostris quomodo etiam apud Platonem bisponitur Beza Gr. Ann. in Mat. 9. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sunt hoc loco qui in Deum probra congerunt sed in genere maledici Vide Leigh Critic sacra ex Sculteto Blasphemi in Deum ejus doctrinam falsa impia de eo loquentes Claud. Espencaeus ad loc. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in ipsum Deum maledici nam in hoc sensueminen●iore sumendam hic hanc vocem indicat ordo Grotius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} contemptores aliorum Idem ad loc. Epiph. Haeresi 26. Vide Engl. new Annot. in 2 Tim. 9. 6. Q Vocem Blasphemiae Tremel Dicitur hic {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} non qui Deo maledicit sed qui quod Dei est sibi arrogat Groti ad loc. Opinio Epicuri Deum non curare res humanas quae videtur etiam Aristotel●s fuisse sententia Gro. in 1 Tim 6. 4. Isa. 37 23 24. August de Haeresi August de Haeres Simpsons History of the Church Cent 2. de Haeres See the Testimony of the truth of Jesus Christ by the Ministers of London Anno 1648. Mr. Bartlets Soveraigne Balsom in fine Reas. 1. Deus non est Author cujus est ultor Fulgent Comfort for Beleevers c. pag. 36 37. Reas. 2. Eng. New Annor Reas. 3. Reas. 4. Applic. Vse 1. Vse 2. Vse 3. Ainsworth in Levit 24 11. Propter talia delicta fames terrae motus pesses eveniunt Vide Alsted Theolog. Casaum cap. 15. Cas. 5. Vse 4. Quest Answ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ab a intensiva {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Sumo {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ab {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} appareo quod quis enimere se caeteris mortalibus superiorem esse persuasum habeat Cui respondet Latinis Superbia q. super ire Leigh Critic Sacra {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} his Contemptores aliorum Grotius ad Text. Diodati ad loe Vide Grotium ad loc. Alsted Theol-Casuum cap. 15. Cas. 5. De Blasphemiâ Vide Alsted ibid. Jura Civilia praecisione linguae punierunt aliquando hoc peccatum c. Alii ut terribilior esset p●na jusserunt per occiput eximi linguam Aretius Loc. Com. 109. de Blasphemiâ Jura Canonica pessimo exemplo induxerunt mitigationem paenarum c. Dedit enim ista tantam Blasphemiarum segetem ut nihil srequentius sit inter Christianos quam impune nomen domini Blasphemare Aretius ibid. Vide M. Carill in Job 2. 9. Perkins in Galat. cap 3. v. 25 Alsted ubi supra Ireneus lib. 3. cap. 3. Euseb lib. 4. cap. 14. lib. 7. cap. 23 Vse 5. Vide New Annot. Eng. in 1 Cor. 5. 5. Applic. 2. Vseb l. c. 14.

use the Apostle Saint Peter maketh of the very like Premonition to that in the Text 2 Pet. 2. 17. Yee therefore beloved seeing yee know these things before know that dangerous Seducers shall come such as other of the Apostles had given them warning of and himself had foretold and described cap. 2. ver. 1. There shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them Through whose means many should be seduced as it there followeth v. 2. Many shall follow their pernicious wayes c. beware saith he lest yee also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastnesse And let the like Caveat be directed to every of us which is not so needlesse as some happily may imagin Time was and that not long since when some of those who are now deeply ingaged in the guilt of this sin would have thought themselves as free from any danger of it as the best of us now can Should one some few yeers since have come and told some of them that they should do thus and thus that they should turn Blasphemers that they should jeare at the Trinity jeare at Scriptures jeare at Ordinances jeare at Ministers opposing the truths and wayes of God would they not have been ready to reply as Hazael did to the Prophet 2 King 8. 13. What Are we Dogs that we should do such things Nay should it have been told us concerning some of them that we or they should have done thus would we not with the Apostles in the like case have been ready to suspect our selves as soone as them yet are they thus fallen O let these their falls make us jealous over our selves knowing that we also are made of the same mould and are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} men subject to the like passions the like infirmities Such as unlesse the grace of God do support are subject to be caried away as they have been And therefore presume not upon our own strength This it was that brought Peter to deny and abjure his Master but be jealous over our selves Taking the Apostles advice 1 Cor. 10. 12. Let him that thinketh that he standeth take heed lest he fall Many of those who are thus fallen time was when they thought they stood and stood fast so as they should not have been so soone removed to another Gospel as Paul complains of some of his Galathians Gal. 1. 6. they should not have been brought to renounce and speak evil of those truths and wayes and Ordinances and Ministers which before were so dear and precious in their eyes Quest But how shall we be preserved and kept from this great Evill Answ. A usefull Question For your direction herein take notice of some things to be avoyded some things to be practized 1. Some things beware of viz. Such things as make way for this sinne Such are those four particulars which precede the word in the Text Self-love Covetousnesse Arrogancie Pride Each a step to this great sin of Blasphemy And therefore as we would be free from this take heed of them 1. Of Self-love Inordinate self-love of setting up our selves making our selves the end of all our Actions So the Philosopher defines a Self-lover {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} One that doth what ever he doth with an eye to himself his own profit honour pleasure c. One that seeketh his own things and not the things of another contrary whereunto the Apostle willeth Christians to do 1 Cor. 10 24 One that seeketh his own things and not the things which are Jesus Christs as Paul complains of many for so the word All must there be taken {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} pro {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} All for many in his time Phil. 2. 21. Now beware of this of thus setting up our selves of being thus inamoured with our selves doating upon our selves Narcissus like to be inamoured with our own facts our own fancies our own opinions so as to set up our selves above God and his Word Which if we shall do no wonder if in the end we come to be metamorphosed and make bold with what ever is his and so come to blaspheme him 2. Beware of Covetousnesse which as it is the root of all evill so sometimes of this This it was that made Demas forsake Paul and his way turn his back upon both even his imbracing this present world 2 Tim. 4. 10. This it was that made that rich young man turn his back upon Christ Matth. 19. 22. He had great possessions and they had him possessing his heart This it was that made the Pharisees to jeare at the Doctrine of Christ to deride him Luke 16. 14. They heard all these things but they derided him For they were covetous And this it was that made Judas to betray his Master even his coveting those wages of unrighteousnesse And this if it take possession of the heart and hold it it will make thee if need be to blaspheme him 3. Take heed of Arrogancie Of arrogating too much to our selves as the word there properly signifieth Of boasting of things without our line our measure which thing the Apostle disclaimeth 2 Cor. 10. 13. Take heed of being puffed up with an high over-weening opinion of our own graces gifts parts whether reall or imaginary It is Solomons counsel and it is very proper in this case Prov. 3. 7. Be not wise in thine own eyes 4. Take heed of that which is near akin to this Pride {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Superciliousnes of being so highly conceited of our selves our own worth our own abilities as to look overly upon others despising and contemning them as Golia sometime did David and as men upon a high Tower look down upon them which are below Of all these beware Surely some one or other of these it is that hath been the bane of most of these miserable Apostates seducing Teachers who are now turned Blasphemers Observe them and we shall find them to have been men deeply in love with themselves their own opinions in love with their own credit and reputation men that would be some-body in the world Self-seeking men in some kind or other It may be they have been in love with money for which they have parted with truth Being men of low or desperate fortune they have not cared by what ladder they climbed to preferment However this we shall generally finde amongst them that they have been {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Arrogant Proud Vainglorious Supercilious men highly conceited of themselves thinking meanly of others specially such as were not in their own way And by this means it is that they have now climbed up to the highest staffe of the Devils ladder even become Blasphemers That we may never split upon the same rock take heed of stearing the same course Take heed of Self-love