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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

spared because there were so many in it that knew not their right hand from their left Therefore you see the example of Elias was not rightly alledged and good men may through ignorance misapply Scripture And if good men may then no doubt but evill men may and will too indeed not an Heretique or Schismatique that ever was but they would alledge Scripture for their opinions but it was Scripture mis-applyed and pe●verted as the Apostle sayes many doe to their owne destruction 2 Pet. 3. 16. We have many now adayes of this ranke whom the Apostle describes by their conditions and by their followers 2 Tim. 3. from the first to the tenth verse and among other their conditions he sayes ver 5. That they have a forme of godlinesse that is they can alledge Scripture to their owne ends though they deny the power of it in their lives Secondly he sayes they are men of corrupt mindes and reprobate concerning the true faith and he compares them to a couple of Conjurers Jannes and Jambres that withstood Moses the true called servant of the Lord. Thirdly he sayes further they are housecreepers they love to worke in secret And then their followers with whom they most prevaile are silly women that are not able to withstand them that through their sillinesse do admire them these they take captive and so they doe some men too that are as silly and as weake as those women laden with sinnes and divers lusts And Oh how fast such corrupt hearers doe drinke in corrupt Doctrines Indeed corrupt hearts will always swallow downe corruptions and errours faster then truths How many yeares have many of Gods faithfull Ministers beene painefully Preaching truthes in publique as Christ did to some people and yet they have not received the same but now of late we have had a brood of Sectaries and they have whispered up and downe in corners men that have come in their owne names and what abundance of followers have they gotten upon the suddaine It was a true saying of our Saviour to such kind of followers I am come in my Fathers name and ye receive me not if another shall come in his owne name him ye will receive Joh. 5. 43. And indeed you may alwayes know an error by peoples readinesse to receive it like will to like a corrupt Doctrine will quickly take a corrupt heart and you may discover evill men and false teachers by this they that cannot or doe not apply Scriptures to themselves for the humiliation of their owne hearts and for the sanctification of their owne tongues and lives as many of these doe not cannot rightly apply them for others instruction at least they may be suspected in their allegations for the Spirit of truth is the Spirit of sanctification good men may be mistaken in alledging Scriptures therefore much rather may evill But I will hold you no longer in the Context I come to the carriage and words of our Saviour in the Text it selfe wherein we have two things 1. Our Saviours dislike of their motion 2. His confutation of it His dislike in the first words He turned and rebuked them His confutation in the rest And first of the first He turned and rebuked them Doubtlesse the Apostles expected another kinde of turne then they here met withall they looked he should have turned and commended them for their zeale and said Well I see yet some body loves me though others care not for me yet you doe I see it grieves you that this disgrace is offered me you are worthy for this your tendernesse towards me to sit the one on my right hand and the other on my left in my kingdome Sure I say the Disciples did expect some such like words as these with the confirmation of their motion but sayes the Text He turned and rebuked them They were zealous indeed but they were rash withall and therefore he turned and rebuked them from whence we learne that Rash zeale deserves no commendation but rather to be rebuked When men out of their private spirits will goe about to revenge Gods quarrell upon sinners they shall have no thanke at his hand for their labours here was sin against God committed and as great a dis-respect offered to Christ as almost could be yet we see he doth not approve of their desires to revenge it Men of blood that have cruelty in their hearts and mouthes and hands too if they have advantage against their owne enemies that have used them ill or against Christs enemies that have used him ill are to be rebuked we Ministers may nay we must rebuke such spirits and such motions And a great many such spirits have we now adayes whom if we should rebuke as Christ here did his Disciples they would cry out upon us for no friends of Christ or of his cause no but friends of Publicans and sinners rather as the Pharisees said that Christ was when he rebuked them The Pharisees indeed would have had Christ rebuked none but those that themselves called and counted Publicans and sinners and never to have meddled with them though they were never so hypocriticall and vile for if he did at any time they would be sure to defame him and exclaime upon him and miscall him so now we have many that would have us Ministers Preach onely against the sinnes of Drunkards and prophane persons and superstitious Papists but by no meanes they would not have us touch the sinnes of Professors be they never so blameable for they cannot they will not beare it at our hands our good names at least shall surely smart for it if we doe the least glaunce in a Sermon against their hypocrisie or headlong zeale is a sufficient ground with many of them to make them whisper us about the Country to be men of most bitter spirits against all goodnesse and against Gods people Indeed few men doe we meete withall that will take rebuke as the Disciples here did specially when they are rebuked for their rash zeale in the cause of God or Christ for which they expect commendation rather and perhaps it is that onely which many of them ayme at but it shewes that such are Professors rather of the Pharisees stampe then of the Disciples However our S●viours example and action doth here 〈◊〉 us that rash 〈◊〉 deserves no commendation but rebuke rather Observe againe that Christ doth not bid his Disciples consider whether the good that might come by burning the Towne would out-weigh the losse thereof as the Powder Traitors when the case was propounded among them whether the Popish Lords and Knights in the Parliament house should be blowne up among the rest they consulted whether the good that might come to the Catholique cause by that deadly blow would not out-weigh the losse of them and finding in their hellish thoughts that it would they concluded to blow up them too No our Saviour Christ did not go that way to work here with his Disciples