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A41440	The leaven of pharisaism and sadducism purged out a sermon preached before the Court of Aldermen and city of London at their Guild-hall Chappel on Sunday Decemb. 16, 1688 / by J. Goodman.	Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing G1110; ESTC R37399	15,173	36

THE Leaven of Pharisaism and Sadducism PURGED OUT A SERMON Preached before the COURT of ALDERMEN AND City of London AT THEIR GUILD-HALL CHAPPEL On Sunday Decemb. 16. 1688. By J. GOODMAN D. D. Imprimatur Carolus Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris Domesticis Jan. 3. 1688 9. LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavel at the Peacock at the West-End of St. Pauls 1688 9. CHAPMAN Mayor c. Cur ’ Special ’ tent ’ apud Grocers-Hall DieVen ’ in Festo S. Thomae Apostoli xxi o. Decemb ’ 1688. Annoq ’ R ’ R’s Jacobi Sec ’ Angl ’ c. Quarto THis Court doth desire Dr. Goodman to Print his Sermon Preached on Sunday Morning last at the Guild-Hall Chapel before the Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe To the Right Honourable Sir John Chapman K t. LORD MAYOR And to the Right Worshipful The Aldermen of the City of London My Lord and Gentlemen IN Obedience to your Order I here present You the Sermon which I lately Preached at your Chapel And although it hath never been my custome to Dispute your Commands in this Case yet at this time I think my self under a double obligation to comply with them Partly in regard that Your Lordship by a sudden and dangerous Distemper of Body was then disabled from affording your Presence at the Delivery of it and partly in consideration of the seasonableness of the Subject of this discourse which I verily think to be such as may in a great Measure Atone for whatsoever defects there may be otherwise in the Management of it and in that confidence without further Preface or Apology I commend it to Gods Blessing and your Candour May it please the Divine Majesty to restore Your Lordships Health and therewith sill You with such a Measure of his Grace and Holy Spirit as may inable You to adorn that great Station in which he hath placed You till it shall please him to prefer You to an Higher in his own Kingdom And may all you the Worthy Magistrates of this Great and Famous City live to see Jerusalem in its Glory I mean not only the Times wherein you live Blessed with Peace and Prosperity but the Church of God setled and the Protestant Religion which is no other than Primitive Christianity revived in its native Purity and Simplicity firmly Established which as it will be the greatest Glory to this Age and the greatest Blessing to Posterity so that You in your Stations may be instrumental in so Glorious a Work shall be the Hearty Prayer of My Lord and Gentlemen Your Obedient Servant J. GOOD MAN. Jan. 1st 1688 9. A SERMON Preached before the ALDERMEN AND CITIZENS of LONDON St. Matth. XVI 6. Then Jesus said unto them Take heed and beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees THere are two very common and very unhappy miscarriages in the External management of Religion Whilst on the one side some Men think themselves obliged severely and rigorously to Prosecute all that differ from them although it be but in meer opinions or the Circumstantials of Religion And others on the other hand seem so cold and unconcerned in this great affair as if all Religions were alike and it were perfectly indifferent what Principles a Man entertained so he had but some kind of Devotion The former of these Mistakes takes its rise from too confident a presumption of our own Judgment and a fond and groundless pretence to Infallibility and therefore exacts of all other Men a Conformity to our Measures The later proceeds from as unreasonable a Diffidence and Distrust of the grounds of Believing as if there was really no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Standard of Truth and Falshood and consequently these last sort of men are as void of Faith as the other were of Charity To be sure both of them are very dangerous forasmuch as the one begining in Confidence ends in Cruelty The other begining in Scepticism commonly ends in Atheism But both these dangers may in a great Measure be avoided and great Light gained towards the government of our selves in this weighty and difficult business by attending to the Carriage of our Saviour towards the several Sects of the Jews respectively For where as it is well known that there were three notable Parties amongst them commonly distinguished by the Names of the Essenes the Pharisees and the Sadducees it is very remarkable concerning the first of them namely the Essenes That though they were very numerous at the time of our Saviour and withal held several very odd and unjustifiable opinions yet our Saviour is so far from all Bitterness and Severity towards them that we do not find that he makes any kind of Reflection upon them But for the other two viz. The Pharisees and Sadducees he upon all occasions sharply inveighs against them and severely exposes them Now the reason of this very different Carriage of our Saviour seems to be this That the Essenes tho' they were mistaken in some Opinions yet were sincere in their minds harmless in their Lives quiet and peaceable in their Spirits They contented themselves to enjoy their own Consciences and let other Men alone they were not a Confident and Boysterous sort of Men that must either have the sole Government of the World or else be always Plotting and Contriving of Mischief but humble and modest and so capable of being recovered from their Errors But the other two Sects viz. The Pharisees and Sadducees they were quite another sort of Men pretenders to Infallibility and consequently presumptuous and over-bearing perpetual Dictators in opinion fastuous and disdainful towards all others too wise in their own Eyes to learn of any one and too sanctimonious to be reproved by any Body withal they were a Crafty and Projecting sort of Men that must either Rule or Confound the World. Our Saviour therefore to Teach us to make a discrimination in the like Cases as I observed gently passes by the Essenes but always sets himself most severely against the two other Sects and particularly here in my Text gives his Disciples caution against them Take heed and beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees The special occasion of these Words was this If we look to the begining of this Chapter we find these two busie Sects though at other times they had Hot Disputes between themselves yet now lay their Heads together and Conspire against our Saviour But as the usual guize of Hypocrites is they come to him very demurely with these Words Master we would see a Sign from thee What! Had they had no Signs hitherto had Jesus wrought no Miracles amongst them all this while or were these Men only strangers to all the great passages of that time But We would see a Sign from Heaven And why a Sign from Heaven would that be more unexceptionable than any he had hitherto given them would this convince them No that was not their