• liumanum, &c..' Seeing idolatrous images would downe:-r----eeb h' h 1 d . . J f h d fi . ' Cnt IS w o e evtce, m pace o t em to erect an .et up divers im~gin 1 · that the people, inflead of the former, might bow downe to the~ ton~ Heb. t 3·9· 1'vorfhipthem: _Since which it hat~ been.and i_s his.dai.ly practice, ~t~~r Apoc. •·J'f· to broach,:Do~ImM no'liM& peregrmM, new zmagmat1ons never heard of before: Or to!evlvet?e old,and new ~reffe them. And thefe (for that ~ Con z.Io, by themfelves theywill not utter)to mmgle and to card VVith theApoJ!les dofirine, &c.that at the leafl: yet, he may fo vent them. · And ~his indeed is the difeafe of our ag~, and the jufi complaint \Ve ma~e o~tt. . That there hat? beene goo~nddance made ofimages :hut, forzmagmattons, they, he daily fl:amped tn great number, and infiead of the old Images, let up, deified 1 arid worfhipped, carrying the names and credit ofche Apoftle's :Dofirine;go'l!ernment, &c. Touching thefe imaginations then, to find fome heads of them : r 1"im: 4.'r. Theybee, in refpect ofthe Devill, who infpireth them, called 'Dofirin.e Marrh.~=:9· d.emoniorum. In refpect ofthe inllruments, by whom he breathes them Apoc.s, I 3· out, :Dofirin.e bominmn : As the doctrine ofthePharifees,'fhcdo&rineof JWs•M9· the Nicolaitans, Thefe men were oft\Vo fdrts,asS. Paul forteth them,' W~l)luwhich from without entered into theChurch : • Mm arifing from among them~ fel11es, teacblngpetwrfe things. . , .z . 1 Thofe which from Without entred, were P!Jilofophers from the Ji":g"'.;::i,:' Gentiles : Pharifees from the !ewes. Both which bred many ima.ginations .~/ilic inCbriffian rf<!li,gion. . Church. Againll them both,S.IP,:ml givc:th adouble ca')leat. Not to bejeduced by Col. 2 • s. ·pbilo{ophy (meaning as he fhewcth, the vaine deceit ofthat profefsion;) z Tim.6.1o. that is the former. • Norwith the humane traditions andrudiments ofthe Pharifees: that, is the latter. To a'lloid oppojitions offcience {al(ly fo called: Tic:r.r4. there isthefirfl. To avoid Iervijh fableJ andtraditions:thereisthefc· Luke S·lllt. cond; For, from thefe two forges,came a great part ofthe imagination; which ·enfued. Each of thefe fects, efleeming his old 'lllinegood; and confequently brewing it with thenew wine oftheGojpeO. 1 By' Phil•· Imaginations by Pbilofophy. Firll, .by the courfe of the Eccle[Ia: fopbJ. llicall Hilloryicappear9ch, that Simon Magus (who _of aheathenPhzlo– fopher became a Chrifl:ian, and was baptized) after, through thegall of bittemejJe wherein he was, fell away againe and prove~ the fir~ of Atb s. z3; all heretikes. Hee firll : and after Valentine . and then, IJ3ajiildes dev1fed , ' ' b many llrange JPeculatiw phanfies. And indeed, whofoev~r t?ey ee, that dote about unprofitable curious fpeculations, from th1s kmd they fprung firll. _ After eh&, thofe tWo maine herelies, that fo mightilyt~oubled the Church : Firfl:, that of the Manic/m, who brought aneceft'z0' upon a~l things by meane~ofhis d~oprin~ipi~ : ma~ingmen [ecure how the~;d· . )
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