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heaven_n	enter_v	kingdom_n	lord_n	7,476	5	4.1420	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42999	Self-contradiction censured, or, A caveat against inconstancy, and the inconsistent contrariety of the same mens pretences, principles, opinions and practices dialogue-wise digested into a deliberative discourse between affection and judgement : and intended to serve as spiritual physick for two great diseases of phanatick spirits, hypocritical deceitfulness, and enthusiastical delusion / by Christopher Harvey ...	Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663.; Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663. Aphēniastēs.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1044; ESTC R19273	60,139	192

yet I presume no Christian dares deny but that in the exercise of that authority which Peter then did offer to resist there was male-administration in the highest degree If ever power were abused it was when Christ himself was apprehended by it yet in Christs own quarrel against the officers of Annas and Caiphas Christ himself saith to Peter Put up thy sword into his place into the sheath Not that our Saviour wanted power to make his party good for he adds in the next verse Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me twelve Legions of angels but as it follows verse 54. How then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be The preservation of Christs liberty and life was in it self a good end and a good particular subordinate end so long as it served for the advancement of the glory of God the general supreme end that is so long as his hour was not yet come and so long he himself provided for it but when the Scripture was to be fulfilled which had said he should be numbered amongst the transgressours and make his soul an offering for sin Isa 53.10 c. when God was to be more glorified by his death then he would be by his life then neither others nor himself must any longer interpose for his preservation and deliverance No not though he were provoked unto it not onely by one of the malefactors that was hanged and by the souldiers that crucified him but likewise by the rulers and the people generally and that with the strongest inducements that invention racked on the rules of art could reach unto He saved others let him save himself If he be the Christ the son of God Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross that we may see and believe This one How then shall the Scripture be fulfilled that thus it must be is an argument beyond them all which Christ himself cannot answer any other way but by obedient suffering And that he did it not for our sakes onely but for our example also St. Peter tells us plainly 1 Pet. 2.21 SECT XXIX What means in their use are inconsistent with or contrary to the advancement of the glory of God Aff. BUt how shall I know what means are inconsistent with or contrary to the general supreme end of all things the advancement of the glory of God Judg. By that which I told you before in the first caution if they be such as the use thereof is either unlawful in it self or unto you For herein saith our Saviour is my father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples John 15.8 and the fruit that God expects from men to the end that he be glorified by them is obedience 1 Sam. 15.22 23. Our Saviour of himself saith I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do John 17.4 and to his disciples Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 5.16 So to the end that Christians may shine as lights in the world St. Pauls direction to the Philippians is Do all things without murmurings and disputings that ye may be blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation Phil. 2.14 15. When any thing is done agreeably unto the word of God which he hath magnified above all his name Psal 138.2 then his glory is advanced But when any thing is done contrary thereunto he is dishonoured Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my my father which is in heaven Mat. 7.21 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honoureth me with their lips but their heart is far from me But in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Mat. 15.8 9. That is done to Gods dishonour what ever it be and under what pretence soever which is done against the rule of his revealed will SECT XXX Whether the glory of God may be advanced by the sins of men Aff. IS the glory of God then never advanced by the sins of men Doth not St. Paul suppose that the truth of God may more abound through a mans lie unto his glory Rom 3.7 and doth he not expresly say that where sin abounded grace did much more abound Rom. 5.20 Judg. It is true that God who in the creation brought light out of darkness yea made all things of nothing can when he pleaseth bring good out of evil and raise honour to himself out of those very actions whereby he is most of all dishonoured Yet we cannot say properly that his glory is advanced by any sinful action but only that is advanced in it or through it Not by it as by the cause but in it or through it as the occasion And if this were a sufficient warrant for a man to do any thing amiss that God will work himself honour out of it the same plea might serve to justiany the most hainous offences and enormous crimes that the devil himself can ever devise to tempt men to Our rule then must be to enquire not what is inconsistent with or contrary to that advancement of the glory of God which he will raise unto and work out for himself but which he directeth us to labour for and would have to be aimed at and intended by us and that as before is the honour that accrews to him by our obedience SECT XXXI Some means sometimes probably conducible to the supreme and principal if necessarily destructive of or inconsistent with a particular subordinate end are not alwayes to be used Aff. SO much for the third that means destructive of the supreme must not be used though they might be available for subordinate ends What is the fourth caveat Judg. The fourth is this What ever means is effectually conducible unto the supreme and general end of all things if withal it be destructive of or inconsistent with the particular subordinate end for which you stand ingaged you must resolve to let it alone and not to meddle with it unless the particular subordinate end it self be such as may be forborn without any hinderance at all unto the general supreme end and unlesse that means be so necessary that the general supreme end cannot be obtained without it by any other means Thus for them that preach the Gospel to live of the Gospel is effectually conducible unto the advancement of the glory of God who hath ordained that he that is taught in the word should communicate unto him that teacheth him in all good things Gal. 6.6 But for St. Paul to take wages of the Corinthians amongst whom he conceived it necessary for him to preach the Gospel freely was though not unlawful in it self yet so unfit for