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A16944	A sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, May 30. 1626 vvherein may be seene whom we are to repute hereticks, and schismaticks, what sleights they vse to deceiue, Gods iust iudgements on them, and how we may escape those nets which they lay for vs : also good councell to the magistrate, minister, and subiects, necessary for these times / by Mattheuu Brookes.	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1626 (1626)	STC 3837; ESTC S4166	26,742	50

scandalo of offences giuen and of those that lay blockes and cast stumbling stones in the way to ouerthrow their brethren contrary to Christian charitie and Christs commandement who hath commanded vs to loue one another as hee hath loued vs and contrary to the Apostles rule that wee should consider one another to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes Furthermore vpon what reason the Apostle doth indite those that cause deuisions and not those onely but them also that cause offences it may appeare by the Scriptures which setteth forth the causing of offences to be a most capitall crime for which cause God commanded the people of Israel vtterly to destroy the old Inhabitants of the land of Canaan left they should cause offences and cast stumbling blocks in their way They will turne away thy sonnes from following mee that they may serue other Gods Our Sauiour Christ saith Woe vnto the world because of offences it must needs be that offences come but woe to that man by whom the offence commeth And woe to him to whom our Sauiour Christ saith Woe for what said he a little before It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke and that hee were drowned in the depth of the Sea But for what cause is a woe so grieuous pronounced against him that causeth offences St. Paul giues the reason By this m●ane● shall the weake brother perish for whom Christ dyed when yee sinne so against the brethren and wound their weake conscience yee sinne against Christ For Gods loue take this to heart yee of vncircumcised hearts and eares who neuer diue into the reckoning of it what it is to wound the weake consciences of your brethren and I speake not to those onely that maketh deuisions in our Church either in matter of Doctrine or of Ceremonie if there be any such that heare me this day But to you that offend your brethren by your euill liues either in the abuse of Christian liberty to your lusts as drinking to drunkennesse dressing to pride sparing to couetousnesse eating to gluttony or such like whereby that which is lawfull is vsed vnlawfully or else by doing that which is absolutely vnlawfull as Whore-mongers Theeues Vsurers Lyers sweaters and such like You wound the weake consciences of your brethren ye cause your weake brethren to perish for whom Christ died repent and amend your liues or let me tell you that yee your selues will say hereafter that it were better if that a milstone had beene hanged about your neckes and that you had beene cast into the depth of the Sea For though it be necessarie that offences should come yet woe be vnto you by whom they come I must now demonstrate this impiety a Contrario as it were by laying white against blacke to discerne the colours Contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned This is the touch-stone at which all deuisions offences must be tryed by this we must try the spirits whether they be of God He had taught them the high and profound mysterie of Christian religion by authority of the Scriptures now he condemnes not simply all deuisions all offences 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with respect and relation those onely that are contrary to Gods word and the proportion of faith and manners which was that doctrine which they had learned at his mouth We must deuide our selues from all Iewes Turkes Papists Infidells and Hereticks as the Israelites were deuided from the abominations of Aegipt and if wee cause offences to them as Lot to the Sodomites and the faithfull of the primitiue Church to the Idolatrous Gentiles by the synceritie of our Religion and our good conuersation wee sinne not for this is bonum Schisma and bonum Scandalum a good Schisme and a good scandall which Christ himselfe made or rather which hee professed to make I am come to set a man against his Father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in law against her mother in law And a mans foes shall bee they of his owne houshold But the vnlawfull deuisions and offences are those that are made contrary to the Apostolicall doctrine the blessed word of God Ex illo saith one of the learned Fathers fidem alimus ex illo spemerigimus ex illo fiduciam firmamus thereby wee feed our faith thereby wee aduance our hope thereby wee confirme our trust for this is the power of God vnto saluation to all those that beleeue this is able to make vs wise vnto saluation through faith which is in Christ Iesus and therefore though we or an Angell from heauen preach any ether Gospell vnto you then that which wee haue preached vnto you let him be accursed saith Paul but those that doe so let vs now see how we must deale with them Wee must marke them and avoide them Marke them the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth that wee must bee like vnto those that sit vpon watch Towers to obserue the comming of the enemie For they that cause deuisions and offences are the common enemies of the Church of God and they come to destroy our soules and therefore we ought to be most carefull to marke them Secondly they come with all policie and subtilty and bring in their damnable heresies priuily and therefore we ought neuer to bee absent from our watch-tower but to haue an eye vnto them continually left they come vpon vs vnawares and suddenly destroy vs and as this is generally the dutie of all men vpon this reason that euery man hath a soule which is his best part and the choysest thing that hee possesseth and more deare vnto him than all the world for what is a man profited if hee shall gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule or what shall a man giue in exchange for his soule So more especially it is the dutie of those that are in authoritie either in the Church or Common-wealth vpon this reason that in the Scriptures they are called Watch-men for how doe they watch if they defend not Gods flocke diligently against these rauening Wolues And against whom doe they watch if not against these enemies of mens soules Therefore let euery man in generall marke them as they desire the saluation of their owne soules but more especially the Magistrates according to their places as they will answer for the soules of those that shall be seduced Whom in the name of Christ I doe beseech to be carefull of it Let them marke them by making them knowne vnto Gods people in their colours as Paul marked Hymenaeus and Philetus and Alexander the Copper-smith as St. Iohn marked Diotrephes and our Sauiour Christ the Scribes Pharisees and Saduces Take heed and beware of the leauen of the Pharisees and of the Saduces Let them admonish the people to take heed of the leauen of Iesuites Anabaptists Brownists and all deuiders and