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A51220 The banner of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, display'd, and their sin discover'd in several sermons, preach'd at Bristol / by John Moore ... Moore, John, b. 1621. 1696 (1696) Wing M2544; ESTC R16818 58,646 155

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be placed upon the border of their Vestments The Form of it and the Orders of God for it is written in the 4 last ver of the foregoing chap. the words are these And the Lord Spake unto Moses saying Speak unto the Children of Israel and bid them that they make them Fringes in the Borders of their Garments throughout their Generations and that they put upon the Fringe of the Borders a Ribband of blue And it shall be unto ●ou for a Fringe that ye may look upon it and rem●mber all the Commandments of the Lord and do them And that ye seek not after your own Heart and your own Eyes after which you use to go a Whoring That ye may remember and do all my Commandments and be Holy unto your God I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the Land of Egypt to be your God I am the Lord your God Which Command was no sooner delivered by Moses but presently Corah and his Confederates stood up and told him to his Face That he took too much upon him to order them what to do These things have at last brought me through a Wilderness of troubled thoughts home to my Text which contains four parts 1. A Message from God to Israel by Moses and Aaron ver 23. 24. 2. The Message it self which was both short and smart and we may observe that as these Mens Remonstrance was short and bitter so Gods Answer to it in this Message is shorter and smarter Get you up from about the Tabernacle of Corah Dathan and Abiram 3. Moses the Messenger's Expedition to deliver it And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram He that had an Ear always ready to hear had an Heart always ready to obey I● God bid Moses rise he is ready to go if God bids him go he runs so the Psalmist I made hast and prolonged not the time to keep thy Commandments Psal 119. 60. And again I will run the way of thy Commandments when thou hast set my Heart at Liberty ver 32. 4. Moses's Love to and care for the rest whom he thought not past recovery delivering his Message to them in such a frame of Spirit as he thought most likely to prevail with them if any thing would in begging and intreating them Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked Men and touch nothing of theirs least ye be Consumed in all their Sins Now from these parts of the Text and from what hath been spoken as previous to it I shall deliver these six Propositions or Points of Doctrine 1. That it is dangerous and unsafe for Christians to Congregate themselves with such a People tho' never so full of Knowledge and seeming Holyness that do deny Conformity to such Laws and Ordinances as God hath delivered to them by the Hands of faithfull Governors 2. That God will reject and disown the Knowledge and Holiness of such a People 3. That the Sin of such Nonconformity doth exceedingly provoke the Lord to Anger and stir up the Fire of his Jealousie 4. That a People under such Delusions may think themselves Holy and Righteous and at the same time be most sinful and wicked 5. That it is no new thing for a Spirit of damnable Delusions to shelter it self under the Cloak and Masque of extraordinary Holiness 6. That it is the Part and Duty of all the Servants of God in their several and respective Places and Callings to use all Lawfull means and endeavours to stop the further breaking forth of such horrible Delusions and Destructive Principles Having delivered these six Propositions I shall return to prosecute the first Which whilst I am doing I humbly pray you to hear me without Prejudice for the Lord who knoweth the Secrets of all Hearts knows that I have none against the Persons of any of the Sons of Men for I Believe that Christ dy'd as well for them as for my self and therefore I cannot hate them And the Method I shall Observe will be this 1. I offer to your Consideration the Reasons why I Judge it dangerous and unsafe to Congregate with such a People 2. I shall give you a Prospect of the preposterous and unlucky Dispositions of these Mens Spirits under this new discovery of theirs Scisme I may call it 3. Give you a Taste of the harsh bitter and lamentable Effects which this new Doctrin of theirs brought forth in the Common-Wealth of Israel which when we have weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary we shall easily be perswaded to believe Solomon That there is no new Thing under the Sun 4. Shew you how the Just Holy and Righteous God took this Disturbance of the Church's Peace at their Hands and what a kind of Savour the Smoak of these Mens Incense did send up to Heaven 6. And Lastly Consider what the more then probable drift and design of these Men might be which they intended to carry on under this false ●eligious Cloak and I beseech you Christians that you will mark me warily whilest ●lav down my Reasons for Proof of my first Assertion that so ye may neither misaprehend me here nor misreport me abroad to my Prejudice aud Scandal of others The first Reason why it is dangerous so to Congregate is Reason 1. Because every particular Christian hath not the special Gift of the Holy-Ghost to discern Spirits Every Man and Woman in any true measure Professing Christ may have so much Knowledge and be so far enlightened as to be sencible of their Misery by reason of Sin committed in the State of Nature to know what Christ hath done for them in satisfying Gods Justice and remouing the Curse of the Law and Punishment due to such Sin To believe in him for Pardon of Sin to love and delight to do his Commandments And yet not have the special Gift of the Holy-Ghost to diseern Spirits The Apostle St. Paul in the 1. Cor. 12. 4. saith That there are diversities of Gifts but the same Spirit that gives them And then at ver 8. reckons them up in order thus For to one is given by the Spirit the Word of Wisdom to another the Word of Knowledge by the same Spirit To another Faith by the same Spirit to another the Gift of Healing by the same Spirit To another the Working of Miracles by the same Spirit to another Prophecy by the same Spirit to another the Discerning of Spirits to another divers kind of Tongues To another th● Interpretation of Tongues And then Concludes thus But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit dividing to every one severally as he will Knowing then that there are many lying Spirits and many false Christs many false Prophets and deceitfull Teachers gone forth into the World who ever have and ever will by their sly Insinuations endeavour to draw away Disciples a●ter them and seduce the Servants of Christ to leave and forsake the plain High-way of Salvation to go into the by-paths of