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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62099	Foure sermons vvherein is made a foure-fold discovery viz. of ecclesiasticall selfe-seeking, a wisemans carriage in evill times, the benefit of Christian patience, the right nature and temper of the spirit of the Gospel / by Edvvard Symons ...; Sermons. Selections	Symmons, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing S6343; ESTC R23479	123,513	204

are pleased must be the beloved of God and so long as they are friends with them God is friends with them no longer as if they were alwayes of as unerring a spirit as the Pope conceits himselfe to be when he sits in Cathedra for this is the Popes course to a haire Story tels us when he hath beene at oddes with the French King why presently he hath proclaimed him the enemy of Christ and all the Christian world must up in armes against him as against Gods enemy and the Frenchmen for their Kings sake were all dogs upon the sudden and cleane remission of sinnes should he have that should kill one of them but so soone as the Popes worship was pleased againe warres must cease forthwith and the Fiench King is the most Christian King againe and his subjects all good Christian men and great pity it were to shed their bloud Now as I was saying to observe men that professe so much hatred to the Pope as some pretend they doe and yet be so like him in conditions is matter of much vexation to an honest heart 4. He hath more need of patience then others because he sees more evill in the world then others in regard of a more inlightned eye for what the eye sees not the heart rues not saies the Proverb but what the eye doth see the heart doth rue if rufull I le name but one particular which for Religion and Gods childrens sake doth much afflict his heart to see it and that is a notable tricke of the Devill whereby he much prevailes against Gods people and it is this He puts upon some of his owne servants the names and titles which the prophane world by his meanes puts upon Gods children that so by the evill conditions of his owne birds he might make those that are truly godly to become odious that go under the same name and habit Because the prophane world by his setting on cals the godly Puritans and Precisians therefore shall some of his brats call themselves so too and so for their advantage another way take upon them the reproach of Christ whereof they are not worthy and bring disgrace upon Gods dearest ones For by the way Brethren you must alwayes remember that though the world cals all Gods children Puritans yet all that call themselves Puritans are not Gods children for then many of your railers slanderers whisperers backbiters censurers of all others but themselves would be Gods children yea and many of the cheaters too the couzening Merchants and Tradesmen for a great many doe weare Christs livery onely to deceive when all other shifts faile some will turne Alehouse-keepers but some more vile will turne Professors as Master Bolton notes that under an Israelitish garment they may the better cheat the Egyptians and if they be convinced it is a sinne which will be hard to doe why yet they can with a bold forehead maintaine that it is the sinne of the trade then and not the sinne of the man O how these stinkers doe vexe the spirits of Gods faithfull ones and no one thing is more apt to breake their patience then these very conditions of these men for like the Angel of the Church of Ephesus they cannot bear or indure the sight of such things And indeed there is no way better to remove this object of offence from the eyes of Gods faithfull ones then to take the course which the Angel there did Rev. 2. 2. He tried them that said they were Apostles but were not and found them liars so we should try them that say they are Gods children but are not and find them liars search them out strip them and whip them wee Ministers should doe so in every Sermon if Rogues be stripe and whipt in every towne they passe through they would not be so bold and so brazen-faced as to coun●erfeit themselves to be whom they are not so if these wretches were but stript and discovered by their markes in every Sermon and well lashed by the word of God they would not be so bold as to take upon them to be whom they are not But as it is not one man that can strip and whip a company of incorrigible persons they will quickly knocke him downe then they will quickly stab him with their secret weapons many therefore must put to their helping hands So it is not for one or two Ministers to goe about this businesse it wil not be for their safety they wil soon have their credit knocked down or stabbed every one of those wretches carries a secret weapon in his mouth more sharp then any sword wherewith they can soone dispatch themselves of their single opposites No it must be a combination therefore the Ministers of Gods word must joyne together and resolve upon it to separate the vile from the precious to strip them and to whip them and those Ministers they must be whose lives and doctrines are both consonant to Gods word for if such onely that smell too ranke of superstition or that are notable for loosenesse of life and carriage speake against the vices of such persons why all shall bee taken to bee but Gall and bitternesse and they will thinke but the better of themselves for such mens invectives therefore I say others that are of a more allowed stampe should for the credit of Gods poore children take the matter in hand and discover the Devils brood from the precious ones it was the maine of our Saviours labour in all his preaching as we all know to discover hypocrites Indeed they themselves will well and diligently inveigh against the prophane crue and so they easing us of part of our labour we may the better attend to them But truly friends goodnesse is so rare and geason in these dayes that honest Ministers are glad to see the shadow of it in any body which when they discerne for to incourage such persons in a progresse of good they are sparing of them and preach onely against others sinnes till indeed they have spoyled them spare the rod and spoyle the child saies Solomon for they hereby grow so proud so well conceited of themselves so pure in their owne eyes and so stiffe-necked that they often prove the onely murderers of our names and credits if ever after we goe about to deale with them But at leastwise if we feare to be so venturous as to deale with them to discover the vile from the precious yet let us at least distinguish the precious from the vile discover the properties of Gods true children who are alwaies harmlesse holy well-spoken humble scarce daring oft-times to owne so high a title as the title of Gods child yea we Ministers find it that it is as hard sometimes to perswade one of them that they are so as to perswade one of the other that they are not But we must not runne any further this way we have gone too farre already some will say you have seene now foure reasons