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world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93787	A caveat against seducers: as it was preached by Richard Standfast, Mr. of Arts, and rector of Christ-Church in Bristol, whereunto are annexed the blind mans meditations. By the same author.	Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5204; Thomason E1816_2; ESTC R203605	25,969	77

c. and some Pastors and Teachers Mark not all teachers for who then should be hearers but some Pastors and Teachers And why hath hee given the Church Pastors and Teachers but amongst other ends for this also that we should not be tossed to and fro and carried about c vers 14. If then God gave Ministers to prevent Seducers we may well account them no better than Seducers that shall revile or oppose them Fourthly Beware of those who decline the word of God revealed in the Scriptures and set up any other Rule to walk by in the worship of God and way of salvation 'T is his word that is the Truth and therefore to decline this and instead thereof to set up Traditions new Lights or pretended Revelations is the mark of a deceiver There be many in these latter daies that have boasted much of the Spirit and pretended to Revelations no less than Angelical but let them boast and pretend what they will Si à verbo discrepant non sunt Evangelica Revelationes sed Diabolicae illusiones if they agree not with the written Word of God they are no Evangelical Revelations but they are diabolical delusions 'T is the way of Christs Apostles that we must walk in we must hear them i.e. beleeve regard obey and follow them and they that do not thus hear them are not of God and by this we may know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of errour 1 Joh. 4.6 Fifthly They that are for divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine which we have learned from the blessed Apostles are to be marked and avoided for they serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies Rom. 16.17 If it be but strange doctrine with which heretofore we have had no acquaintance which is brought unto us Heb. 13.9 let it stand at the door and examine it thorowly before it be let in and unless it have a good certificate give it no entertainment but if it cross the unity of the Spirit and the bond of Peace away with it for unnecessary strife and needless divisions have no agreement with the Spirit of God To this purpose give mee leave to acquaint you with a passage of a modern Divine much to be taken notice of his words are these In a Church where the Doctrine of Salvation by Christ only is soundly and truly taught and received if any the most sanctified man in shew shall teach any thing which may tend to make a division or faction See Mr. Par. in his Loctures on Rom. 16 17. and to disturb the peace of the Church suspect and be jealous thereof for either it is false or if true yet better be buried as low as the center of the earth than to be broached to break the Peace and unity of the Church Thus hee Sixthly Beware of those that promise liberty beyond the bounds of the Gospel The Gospel indeed is a perfect doctrine of perfect liberty shewing us the ready way how to be freed from the terrour and rigour of the Law from the service of sin and slavery of Satan and from the curse of God and the wrath to come But if any man shall stretch this liberty to a freedome from Parents and Masters and Magistrates and Ministers to a freedome from the Ordinances of God to a freedome from the Moral Law as the Rule of our Obedience to a freedome from penitential sorrows and from praying unto God for the pardon of our sins this is beyond the liberty of the Gospel This is not liberty but looseness this is liberty turned into a cloak of maliciousness and they that thus promise liberty are themselves the Servants of corruption See 1 Tim. 6.1 2 3 4. Seventhly By their fruits you may know them Mat. 7.16 Mat. 7.16 not by their leaves but by their fruit for the leaves may bee fair when the fruit is faulty Not by their cloathing but by their carriage for that may be sheepish when this is ravenous and devouring not by their street-doors but by their secret chambers for the one may be swept and clean when the other are foul and nasty There is filthiness of the Spirit as well as of the flesh and though they put away fornication and drunkenness yet if they retain pride and hatred and malice and wrath and seditions and heresies are they not carnal Men may pretend to much light and perfection and acquaintance with God but if they say They have no sin they are a company of lyers 1 Joh. 1.8 10. And they that walk in hatred let them pretend what they will they walk in darkness 1 Joh. 2.9 11. And therefore look narrowly into their conversations A conversation truly pure and truly peaceable patient and meek full of self-denial and mercy and charity is a conversation suitable to the Gospel but they that walk contrary to these are disorderly walkers Walkers indeed some of them are for they go to and fro and compass Sea and Land to make Proselytes who if they come not within compass of the Statute against Vagrants and Wanderers whom a whip and a pass should convey to the place from whence they came yet they should be carefully avoided by all those that wish well to their own peace and the good of their brethren Or lastly If this be not the true meaning of that place Mat. 7.16 then by their fruits we must understand the fruit which grows upon their doctrine observe what fruit their doctrine brings forth for by that you shall know them The scope of their doctrine will help to discover what they are If it tend to the denying of all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to living godly righteously and soberly in this present world 't is well but if it tend to the strengthening of the hands of evil daers this is according to the false Prophets of old Jer. 23.14 If it tend to peace and love and mercy and meekness 't is well but if it tend to hatred variance envy and malice it cometh of evil If it tend to build men up in their most holy Faith if it tend to a growth in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ if it tend to the growing up in all things into him which is the head i.e. into a greater communion with and conformity to the Lord Jesus 't is well but if it tend not to these things 't is but hay and stubble at the most or else 't is a wind of doctrine empty and light stuff at the best having more of noise and sound than of soundness and solidity But if this wind prove blustering and tempestuous raising up storms of sedition and rebellion and kindling the coals of needless contentions all the day long though it carry with it never so great a shew of zeal and holiness yet can it not proceed from the Spirit of that God who is not the Author of confusion but of peace 1 Cor. 14.33 But