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A61678	Deceivers deceiv'd, or, The mistakes of wickedness in sundry erroneous and deceitful principles, practised in our late fatal times, and suspected still in the reasonings of unquiet spirits delivered in a sermon at St. Paul's, October 20th 1661 before the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet, Lord Maior of the city of London, and the aldermen his brethren : being the initial also of the Reverend Dr. John Berwick, dean of the said church, at the first celebrity of divine service with the organ and choiristers, which the Lord Maior himslef solemniz'd with his personal presence from the very beginning.	Stone, Samuel, 1602-1663.; Browne, Richard, Sir, 1602?-1669.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5735; ESTC R18742	26,609	51

Deceivers Deceiv'd OR The Mistakes of Wickedness In Sundry Erroneous and Deceitful Principles practised in our late fatal Times and suspected still in the Reasonings of unquiet Spirits Delivered in a SERMON At St. PAVL'S October 20th 1661. Before the Right Honorable ●ir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet Lord Maior of the City of London and the Aldermen his Brethren Being the Initial also of the Reverend Dr. John Berwick Dean of the said Church At the first Celebrity of Divine Service with the Organ and Choristers which the Lord Maior himself Solemniz'd with his Personal presence from the very beginning 2 Tim. 3. 13. 〈◊〉 evill men and seducers shall waxe worse and worse deceiving and being deceived LONDON ●rinted for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. To the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne Kt. and Baronet Lord Maior of the City of London with the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren Grace Honour and Peace be multiplyed Right Honourable and Worshipful THe nature of your Order for the pnblication in Print of this imperfect Piece following puts your subscribed in minde of a passage from Augustus to the Poet Ausonius Scribere me Augustus jubet mea carmina poscit Poenè rogans Your Order might have been as well a Postulation or Demand as a Desire but you seem therein like the most excellent Augustus who exprest in a like case more humanity and condescension than Power towards his Poet as you have done unto your small Prophet or Preacher he shall therefore humbly take leave to presume as the Emperor took the Poet and his Poem into Protection it being a product of his own favour and importunity that your Lordship and Brethren also will do the like unto your Preacher and his Sermon unto which your Honors have given this Publick-being Eadem est causa producens conservans is a true rule of the great Mistress of Reason Logick That which gives Being conserves it not but that the work of it self as the Author humbly conceives is very much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or self-potestative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or self-sufficient to warrant is self in the whole import thereof it aiming at the preservation of our far more excellent Augustus and this his Royal City and your Honorable persons and his and your dearest interests Civil Sacred and Natural together with the whole Church and Nation as it layes open how weakly soever those wicked deceits of ungodly Godly men which have and may again by the same slights and advantages of delusion ruine all but for that there can be no such natural reciprocation of interest as when a grateful issue in its dependance of existence throws it self upon the principal Cause for patronage and countenance Your Preacher hath observ'd the Order of your Hororable Court punctually in the substance of the whole Discourse and every part thereof though not in every word possibly having not written it in order form or method in which respect as he was fain to vary expression often in the delivery so it must be excusable in the Copy but he is sure nevertheless this draught in Print answers almost adequately the main exemplar in your memory except as afor said and a word or two sometimes of Transition perhaps or Apology or the like with an addition of one false Position or deceitful Principle of sin more to compleat the number of seven that he might give you a perfect number at least of Particulars though a number of Imperfections and an Appendix moreover unto the sixth Which as to him it was not grievous as St. Paul's language is in another case Phil. 3. 1. so to You and the Reader he hopes it shall be both safe and profitable the Deceit therein mentioned communicating to the advantages of Sin in all the seven and may be a furtherance to any fallacious imagination or deceitful practise proceeding from the corrupt heart of men viz. Spiritual senses and meanings of Scripture contrary unto or divers from the Letter whereby the Law of God it self therein written which is only transgrest is wrested to justifie transgression Both which Additionals had been spoken in the Solemn Audience had not the Preachers civility to your Honorable selves and pitty to the laborious crowd below time being spent prevented him and therefore he doth not scruple your acceptance thereof now it being frequently exemplated in impressions of other Sermons Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim and 't is but like some after-birth or superfoetation that intellective Nature would be discharged of If any man shall scruple peradventure that some passages of the Discourse were too smart he may remember that St. Paul was once upon the question Whether to come with a rod or no 1 Cor. 4. v. last and St. Jude adviseth a way of saving some men by pulling them out of the fire ver 23. with terrors or denunciations or otherwise as you may conceive exprobations And I know not what sons of thunder should serve for in the Church but to shoot thunderbolts and 't is the barking dog and that sometimes pincheth a little which drives straying sheep into their fold and worries the Dogs of the concision i. e. evil workers of Schisms and Divisions Neither is any part of the style so severe and pungent except against the most monstrous and prodigious abominations and such actors thereof as we have to the affrightment of our memories so deeply smarted by or such who are still obdurate and impenitent in their disobedience whom the Indemnity it self favours not and one passage of the Sermon hath distinctly marked out making a difference of others according to St. Jude's counsel loco dicto And of the former sort either there remain some or not if not Who should complain if so Who shall be displeased at the Authority of the Ministry which is to rebuke sin before all that others may fear 1 Tim. 5. 20 The drift of he whole endevor in short was only this Whereas many Deceivers are entred into the World 2 Joh. 7. and many Delusions and Deceptions with them to the experimental wo of this Church and Nation King and People and the same perilous principles of Deceivings are by strong observation discovered or much suspected amongst persons still disaffected so as abundant caution scarce sufficeth against them but according to the Drammatist in Aulularia Qui cavet ne decipiatur vix cavet cum etiam cavet He that takes heed that he be not deceived scarce takes heed enough when he takes the most That therefore by a loyal Subject and dutiful Son of the Church the fallacies might be retexed and the people undeceived the guilt of their former horrible commissons lying still upon their souls before God without Repentance and by fresh actings will be more aggravate and accumulate even to the endangering of their salvation which no temporal pardon or oblivion can help them in 'T is confest much hath been spoken by many worthy Pens and

Preachers to this purpose before but interspersly only and occasionally from mixtures of other discourses not in one method together as this and therefore you Right Honorable especially have the greatest challenge of this Dedication for your uncessant diligence and pains to your great peril also often in discovering and suppressing the practises and actors of these pernicious Deceits as your Epistler hath done them in their Principles who therefore makes bold to conjecture that your Lordship had a Noble and Honorable ambition of enmity against such deceitful wickedness in taking an advantage even at the expiration of your Government to check it for future by making publick to posterity this draught of Arguments against it as if you had a mind to combate it by any kind of opposition though ne ' re so weak as doubtles this little Pamphlet must needs prove when you can no longer rebuke it with the sword of your Office which you now lay down Ever Honorable to cease your further trouble by prolixity as your Lordship is remarkable by your unwearyed vigilance and prospection acted for the safety of our King Laws Church and Nation your humbly oblig'd shall leave you and your Honorable Brethren with this only passage of Miltiades and Themistocles in Plutarch Miltiades had done excellenly for the good of his City and Common-weath for which he was rewarded with so many trephies of Honor as Themistocles afterwards his successor could not sleep or rest perfectly for dreaming and continual incumbency of his thoughts and phansie upon the glorious Atchievements of Miltiades which at last he matcht with his own May it so fall out 'twixt your Honorable self and Brethren both your present and your future successors that they may never rest without thoughts and noble emulations of your famous acting for our King and Nation and at last add another parallel to Plutarchs in becomming every one of them successively as glorious in the peoples observation as your Noble self And so may Wisdoms blessing Prov. 3. 16 17. rest upon you all Length of dayes be on your right hands and on your left hands Riches and Honor your wayes be wayes of Pleasantness and all your paths be Peace Which is the prayer of Your Lordships and Honorable Assistants humble Servant in Jesus Christ Sam. Stone Deceivers Deceived OR The Mistakes of Wickedness PROV XIV the latter part of the 8th Verse But the folly of Fools is Deceit THis particle But being discretive and so conjunctive might occasion me to take some notice of the connection but because that is not very usual in the Proverbs and the words themselves will afford us matter enough for our present Exercise I shall therefore consider them only absolutely without relation The folly of Fools is Deceit Folly and Fools are denominatives re voce the name and quality of the one deriv'd from the other every fool so call'd by his folly and all folly the quality of fools and the meaning of this quality wickedness the Wisemans fool here is a wicked man he that knows not this may very well be both So 't was in his Father David's language too Psa 14. 1. The fool that said in his heart There was no God is presently exprest by corrupt and abominable works And in St. Paul's likewise Tit. 3. 3. the disobedient and slaves to lust and malicious c. are all prefac't by fools We our selves were also foolish and disobedient c. Now if folly be sin and fools sinners the words afford us these two parts a Supposition and a Proposition First A Supposition in the denomination of the subject Sin is folly and sinners are fools Secondly A Proposition by an attribution of a praedicate to this subject that is Deceit Sin or folly is deceit The Supposition that sin is folly and sinners fools would afford us ample meditation for this time but because Deceit is a causal attribute unto sin and antecedent to folly our first Parents being first deceiv'd themselves before they became fools or sinners and convey'd that appellation to posterity Deceit therefore shall first step forth leading Sin in her hand Sin is deceit and sinners are deceiv'd that 's our Observation Sin is deceit and sinners are deceiv'd So speaks Divine Wisdom here and 't is seconded with Humane Wisd 4. 11. Lest wickedness should alier his understanding and deceit beguile his soul Wickedness and Deceit are so intrinsecal and complicate one with another as they serve mutually to express each other or if you would rather that the Divine voice should eccho to its self again ye may have it in the fore-mentioned of Titus 3. 3. where the foolish and disobedient are rendred also deceived We our selves were sometimes foolish and disobedient deceived serving divers lusts c. the service of lusts set off with deceit I shall proceed upon it for this present occasion only in two steps or degrees of method 1. In the manner of sins acting 2. In the principles or reasonings of sin whereby the slaves or servants thereof are deceiv'd First that in the manner of sins acting it is deceit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said Clemens Alexandrinus The shadow or likeness is one thing the reality and substance is another Now sin takes the shadow for the substance the likeness for the reality and so commits her deceit Mendacique diu pietatis imagine fallor Said the wanton Sister in the Poet. She complained that she was deceived a long time under the lying likeness of Piety Thus doth the Prodigal deceive himself under the shew of Liberality and the Covetous man of Thrift and the Intemperate in the free use of the Creature and the Proud man under a colour of Magnanimity and the foolish Dueller in a mistake of Valour and thus through this nearness of likeness in appearance betwixt good and evill Christian Liberty is turn'd into Licentiousness Christian Affability and Courtesie into base prostitute Flattery Laudable Ceremony into Superstition Love into Lust Recreation into Voluptuousness Feasting into Luxury Decency of Apparel into Gaudery Dominion into Tyranny Subjection into Slavery Faith into Phansie Hope into Presumption Zeal into Fury Godly sorrow into worldly and necessary Humility into voluntary thus saith Clemens again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking of Virtue and Goodness They are depriv'd saith he meaning Erronious sinners thereof being robb'd or gull'd and cheated as if bewitched and so deceived If I have walked with vanity or my feet have hasted after deceit Job 31. 5. Deceit and Vanity so near together that the same Stride gathers them both And so much for the manner of the deceit of sin Secondly Sin is deceit in the Principles or Reasonings or Imaginations in the hearts of sinners which the power of the spiritual Militia casteth down 2 Cor. 10. 5. That such deceitful reasonings were alwayes in the thoughts and communications of the sons of men appears not only by the Prophet Jeremiah Chap. 17. 9. The heart of man is