364 Prudence nec jary in converfng rz. underflandings. And therefore concerning XIV. pretenders of this fort it may be Laid, that lefs fenfe and difcretion appears in their management, the more juftly they are liable to fufpicion, either of an intention to de- ceive, or rather for the molt part, of being deluded themfelves by a warm imagination, which without ground they attribute to a divine irnpulfe. But this I shall not any far- ther infift on : for the text, as I underiland it, does not relate particularly to apostles or other infpired perfons, but to ordinary Chri> ftians, pretending to as from no other prin- ciples or direaions than thofe of confcience and reafon which are common to all. In difeourfing farther from this text, I shall, Firfir, Confider the bad charafers and dif pofitions of fome men here reprefented by the allufion of dogs and (wine, with refpec to holy things, or the doarines and precepts of religion, Secondly, The neeefiity and reafonahlenefs of treating religion with great caution, on ac- count of thefe bad charaters and difpo- sitions. And on both thefe heads I will make Lome ufeful reflections. Firfl,
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