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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79892	Golden apples. Or Seaonable and serious counsel from the sanctuary to the rulers of the earth, held forth in the resolution of sundry questions, and cases of conscience about divisions, schisms, heresies, and the tolleration of them. Collected out of the writings of the most orthodox, and judicious divines, both Presbyterians, and Independents. / By Sa. Clarke, pastor in Bennet Fink.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Anthony, Burgess, d. 1644.	1659 (1659)	Wing C4518; Thomason E1881_3; ESTC R209888	84,688	239

Seducers God hath promised whatsoever is necessary for our strengthning and bringing to heaven therefore he will not denie us so necessary an aid as this is Fourthly See that thou preserve in thee a holy fear and reverence of God Psalm 25.12 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way he shall chuse Dr. Sibs on Phil. Quest How do Seducers bring in Quest and disperse their errors Answ By creeping into houses Answ and secretly depraving and corrupting that Doctrine which is publickly taught and acknowledged to be the truth of God 2 Tim. 3.6 They creep into houses and imitating Satans subtilty they set upon women who can least resist and lead them captive who yet are cunning enough to seduce their husbands and thus not one but many houses are subverted Tit. 1.11 Such were the Pharisees Mat. 23.14 So 2 Pet. 2.2 They privily bring in damnable Doctrines Quest Quest Why doth Christ suffer such Deceivers in his Church Answ Answ 1 First To trie the faith of his and their love to the truth whether they will abide with him in tentation Secondly To rouse us out of security that the more snares are laid for us we might be the more circumspect c. For Error is of a very spreading and infectious nature hence it s compared to Leaven Mat. 16.22 To a Gangrene 2 Tim. 2.17 So also is error in manners Gal. 2.13 If Peter dissembles a number will fall with him and Barnabas also will be drawn into the dissimulation Quest Quest What motive do Seducers usually make use of Answ Answ Filthy lucre usually is that which sets them on work whilst the Priests and the Prophets could bite with their teeth i. e. while they are well fed all is peace to the feeders Mich. 3 5 11. but if their greedy apperites are not satisfied they prepare war against them as if they were enemies to God and man So Eze. 13.18 19. The false Prophets polluted the Lord amongst his people for an handfull of barley pieces of bread and would sew pillows under every arm-hole promising them ease and prosperity and made vailes for every head thereby promising Gods protection and so preached peace where God had not spoken it and all to feed their covetousness Such Merchants the Apostle speaks of 2 Pet. 2.3 Who through covetousness with fained words would adulterate the truth and make merchandize of souls so 2 Cor. 2.17 Phil. 3.18 19. Their belly is their God Quest Quest How else will it appear that Magistrates may punish an obstinate Hetick with death Answ 1. There is precept for it Answ 1 as Deut. 13.5 Deut. 17.5 Secondly There is President and Example for it Exod. 32.35 M●ses commanded 3000 of the Levite● to be ●ain for their Idolatry And 1 Kin. 18.40 Elias caused 400 of Baals Priests to be slain when there was no Mag●●● are ●o do it So of Josias 2 Kin. 23.6 Jehu 2 Kin. 10.25 Yea even Nebuchadnezzar made a Decree That whosoever blasphemed the God of Shadrach c. should be cut in peices c. Dan. 3.29 It s foretold that under the Gospel false Prophets should be punished with death Zach. 13.3 c. Quest Quest What danger is there in tollerating Heresie and Hereticks Answ Answ 1 First Hereby the Command of God is broken Deut. 29.18 Secondly This mixture exposeth a Nation to Gods revening hand and it s stil'd Rebellion Josh 22.17 Thirdly It s dangerous to the sound as afore Fourthly It threatens ruine both to Church and State By it publick justice is corrupted peoples affections are distracted and distempered and way is made for tumults and Massacres as experience hath taught Dr. Tailor on Titus Fifthly Such allowance would prove destructive to holiness both personal and domestical Omnis Religio nulla Religio every Religion and no Religion will soon be the same suppose the husband is of one opinion the wife of another children and servants embracing others what shall the Master of the house do here how shall he perform family duties Dive●sity of opinions wi●l interrupt their prayers 1 Pet. 3.7 New opinions suffered will devoure the old and a tolleration of every Religion will destroy all Religion Sixthly this liberty is inconsistent with civil tranquility the woful condition of our own Nation is a living nay almost a dying witnesse of this whilest every pa●tie endeavours to support it selfe by the ruine of the rest Seventhly the late Bishops of Irland may shame and silence such as plead for a general tolleration For when a tolleration of Popery in that Nation was proposed by the Lord Deputy and his adherents they gave in their unanimous judgement in writing that it was a grievous sinne to tollerate Popery and would make all that granted it accessary to all their abominations and guilty of the destruction of seduced souls Eightly this indeed is the Doctrine of the Turks to tollerate all religions but though it finde allowance in the Turks Paradise yet it should never be admitted in the Paradise of God It was a prodigious thing in the dayes of Jeremiah ch 2.28 According to the number of thy Cities so are thy gods O Judah Mr. Thorowgoods Parl. Serm. Decem. 25. 1644. Quest Quest What rules are Magistrates to observe in tollerating smaller errours Answ Answ 1 First they must see that the persons tollerated be known to be modest pious and peaceable lest some of an evil spirit should for evil ends lay claime to and so abuse such libertie Secondly that all bitternesse insolency turbulency of spirit all reproachful language and tumultuous carriages be forborn Thirdly that no Church-meetings for worship be allowed but in places known that there may be free accesse for any to them It shewed great prudence and ingenuity in the French Protestants who in one of their treaties of Peace made this motion that some Officer of the Kings might be deputed to be present at their Assemblies for preventing of State jealousies and vulgar calumnies For John 3.21 He that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God Mr. Mainard in his Parl. Sermon Feb. 26. 1644. Object Object But we see that the States of the united Provinces allow diversity of Religions Answ First Answ 1 where the will of God is evident the contrary example of men is not to be regarded Secondly the evil example of one State is not to be imitated contrary to the example of all other Protestant Churches Thirdly these States were nver bound to God by such a Covenant for uniformity as we are Fourthly In these States there hath been a connivance at errours by particular Magistrates for their private gaine But to this houre there was never any Sect amongst them so impudent as to offer a petition for tolleration by a Law and when not long since some assayed to do it they repented since of that folly Fifthly hath not the Magistrates connivance without any legal tolleration so