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The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House…
The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, January 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, Ianuary 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgvvick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by M.F. for Samuel Gellibrand, 1647
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THE NATURE and DANGER OF HERESIES. › Part 2: 2. Of the Danger of Heresies.
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1. For heresies, they are compared in Scriptures sometimes to a Gangrene or canker, 2 Tim. 2. 17. Their word will eat as doth a canker: The canker is an invading ulcer, creeping from joint to joint, corrupting one part after another, till at length it eats out the very heart and life. Sometimes to a shipwreck, 1 Tim. 1. 19, 20. Hold faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: In what a condition are the miserable passengers, when their ship is split asunder by the Rock? All their goods are lost, and all their lives too. Christ calls them leaven, Paul calls them a bewitching: Learned writers call them a leprosy, poison, fire, a tempest, our text, a flood.
1. For heresies, they are compared in Scriptures sometimes to a Gangrene or canker, 2 Tim. 2. 17. Their word will eat as doth a canker: The canker is an invading ulcer, creeping from joynt to joynt, corrupting one part after another, till at length it eats out the very heart and life. Sometimes to a shipwrack, 1 Tim. 1. 19, 20. Hold faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack: In what a condition are the miserable passengers, when their ship is split asunder by the Rock? All their goods are lost, and all their lives too. Christ cals them leaven, Paul cals them a bewitching: Learned writers call them a leprosie, poison, fire, a tempest, our text, a floud.
2. And as for Heretics, they are expressed by creatures very dangerous and hurtful; sometimes they are styled foxes, Cant. 2. 15. The foxes which spoil the grapes; sometimes they are called dogs, rending dogs,