Of lMAGIN _ATIONS. ved, becaufe it was ordained what fhould become ofthem. Secondly, the ,othq of the Pelagian, who afcnbed t? mansfree-~zll, an ability to keepe -Go p's Lmv; and the~eby made vOid the gr~ce of Cbrift. Both thefe were but t\VO ball:ard lhps ofcorrupt Pbllofopbte : The former, an imagination iffuing from the feet of the Stoikes and their fatal! deSiinic : · The latter, from the feet ofthePeripatetikes,and theirpure naturalls. 27 Imagilzations by L•daifrne: As the curious fp:culatio~lS came from 2 By[#; the Philofopl,ers of the Gentzles ; So whatfoever iuperfhnous obfervati. daifm•~ · ons were imagined, came from the Pharifees and fcets of the Iewes. As Simon Magus is reckoned, the fidl heretike : SoEbion thelnv, isrhe fe. cond. And from him fprang the opinion of the necefity of Iewijh obfer1Jances ; which was the occafion of the Councell in .AEts 15. and the opinion of IVorjhipping Angels ao Mediators, as Theodoret teilifieth upon [olof z..18. And for thofe Ceremonies,as at the firil they defired to retaine thofe very famethatwereludaicall; So (when it was withilood by the AioSlles) they did after hut turne them, and new varoifh them over into others like, and with them fo clogged the church, as the le))Js efiate was much more tolerable than the[briftian's,Saint Auguftin's com-: plaint, Ep: 119. Now from thefe two forts ofperfons proceeded thofe two feverall meanes, whereby (as it were in two moulds) all imaginations have been r call, anJ the truth of Go o·s word ever perverted. 1. From the Pl1a- . _ ri[ee, That peeciog out the netv ,garmmt with old raggs oftraditions, that Mat·9· 17; is,adding to and ceking out Go o's truth,with mens phanfies; with the PbylaEterics and fringes of the Phari{ees, who tooke opon them to ob- , ferve many things befide it. 2. From the •Philofopher, that wreiling and Mar.7+ (entering 'ofthe Scripwres (which S. Peter complaineth of) with expo- :fitions and:.gloffes newly coined, to make them fpeake that, they never _ · 'G· · ft 1 dft r r 1 fS · h 2Pet.3.16' ' meant. 1vmg uc 111e'))J an range .en.es top aces o crzpture, as t e - ' · Chut:,ch of CHR 1sT never heard of. And what words are there.or can there bee, that (being helped out with the Pharijee·s addition ofa trutb un1vritten, or tuned with the Philofopher's wreil ofade-pijedfen(!) may not bee made to give colour to a new imagination? Therefore, the anci- ~nt Fathe~s thought itrneet, that they that would take upon them to in~ terpfete the 4poftle's DoEtrine, fhould put in jureties, that their fenfes they gave, were no other, than the Clmrch in former time hath acknowledged. .It is true, the . dpoHie~ indeed fpake from the Spirit, and every affeeti0n~,.of theirs \•ias an oracle : but, that (I rake it) was their peculiar priviledg\!. Bttt, all that ate after them, fpeake not by re-velation, but by labonri_nJ:.!n tl1e '))JQrd and lear.ning: are t\ot to utter their owne phanfies, and:tQ.defire to be beleeved_Lipon their bare word'· cif this be not domilrari JU~i,so be Lords oftheir·Allditor's faith, I know not what it is : ) ~~~ onely ()~ conditi~:m, tha: the fenfe, they uow give, b~e nQ: a feined ~ ., .•;.,~·,1;; Cc cc c z. feofe '.:.. ..__ . --· I
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