An Exp~(ttion, 'With Notes to the quick : When we corn@ to d~al particularly with every mans work,., then the fire tryeth it, I Cor. 3· I 3• I do the rather urge this becaufe ufually ungrounded:.:.ea/ fiayeth ingenerals, and thofe that know leafi, are mofi loofe and invective in their difcourfes. () u. -· 2· We fhoula as carefully avoyd Errors, as Vices ; ablinde tove · • VJ erv, l . J is worfe then a lame foot, yea, a blinde eye will caufe it; he that hath not light is apt to ftumble , Rom•. I. 26. firfi they were· given up, Ei~ v!Sv J.JI~K-~f.1.ov,. toa v~in minde, and then. to 'vile af– f_eClions: ~ome Opm1onsfeem tob~ remote, and to. he far enough . from prac1:tce,. and yet they h1ve an mAuence upon tt, they mal<e _the heart foolifo, and then the life will not be right: There is a link and cognati\m between Truth and Truth, as there is between, Grace and Grace .; and thereforejpeculative Errors do but make way for practical. Again, There are fome Errors that feem to encourage firiClnefs, as Free- will, univerfal Grace,&c. but,truly weighed, they are the greateO: difcouragement; and therefore it· bath been the juO: Judgment of God, that the broachers of fuch, Opinions have beeo mof.tloofe in life, and (as the Apofile Peter maketh it th-e-character of all erroneous perfons, 2 Pet. 2.) vain and fenfu:d. The ApoO:le Pt~u! preffeth firidnefs, and ·our work.. the more earnefily, becaufe God muft work.. all, Phi!. z. I 1, q. Well then, Be~reof erroneous conceits, your fpirit is imbaf~dby them ; Men think nothing is to be fhunned but what isfoul in act, and fo publiquely odious: Confider, there is jilthinefs in th~ JPirit, as well.u in the -~e[h, ~Cor. 7• r. and a vain minde is as , bad, and as odious to Go J, as a viciom life : Error and Idolatry will be as dangerous as Drunkennefs and Whoredom, and there– fore you fhould as carefully avoyd them that would entice you to Errors, as thofe th:lt will draw you to Gn and profanen~fs; for Error, being the more plaufible of the two,the delu!ion is the more firong; natural Confcience wiH finite for Profanenefs. Many, I am perfwaded, dally with Opinions, becaufe they do not know the dangerous refult of them : All falfe principles have a fecret 1 but pefrilent influence on the life and converfation. , Oi{crvllh3. 3• [Do not err,] Thatis, do not mi!lake inthis matter, becaufe ~tis an hard thing to conceive how God concurreth to the act, and not to the evil of the act ; how he iliould be the Author of all things, and not the Author of fin ; therefore he faith, however it be difficult to conceive) yet Do mt r1·r: TheNote is 1 That where ·- -- - - - · - --··- --- · - -- ----- - - . Tr11th~
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