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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 Apostle speaking of Antichrist (who is the Antesignanus of all Heretics) calls him [Greek or Hebrew], that man of sin; no such sinner as he: Lyranus expounds it, one totally given up to sin; and Theophylact, the ringleader of sin: And truly, it is most just with God to give them up to corrupt lives, who rejecting his truth, have given up themselves to corrupt errors and lies.
The Apostle speaking of Antichrist (who is the Antesignanus of all Heretiques) cals him 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that man of sin; no such sinner as he: Lyranus expounds it, one totally given up to sin; and Theophylact, the ringleader of sin: And truly, it is most just with God to give them up to corrupt lives, who rejecting his truth, have given up themselves to corrupt errors and lies.
2. Heresies are a drowning and overwhelming flood: a flood (you know) is such a collection, such an heightening confluence of waters, as swells the rivers above their bounds, and lays all under water. Now there are three things which heresies do overwhelm. 1One is, the glory of all glories: the glorious Name of God, the glorious Name of Christ, the glorious Name of the holy Spirit, the glorious name of divine truths, Heresy turns the glory into a lye: It gives God the lye, and Christ the lye, and the holy Ghost the lye; For it gives truth the lye, the Scriptures the lye, which are the glory of God, and Christ and the holy Spirit. ⟨p. 22⟩He who makes the Word of God a liar, makes God himself a liar; O sirs! what is God without truth? and what is all the goodness of the Gospel without truth? and what is all the fabric of mans salvation without truth? Truth is as it were the pin, the clasp, the knot that ties all; pull out that, untie and break that, the excellencies of God, the glories of Christ, the sweetness of promises, the souls of men, the salvation of mens souls, all are dashed, are broken, are gone: And such work doth heresy make, it doth dissolve the bond of all glory; yea, it doth resolve God into worse then nothing: No God is better then a false god, there is an open or secret blasphemy in all heresies: No man can contemn the truth of God, but in that he must likewise condemn the God of truth.