. ' ' Lnagill~tions toriching faith. . On the othe~ fide, againfhhe other part ofthe foundation c[mth ; ) LattantUa Chniban and a great learned man call hisMine ofwhomwas the fetl: oftheEncratites: who offended at . . rhelicentious'!ives ofthe Gnoftikes, ·fell into the other extreme, that Non eft curandum quid1.uiJq; credat,id tantum curandumeft~quid quifq; faciat..:that the [reedmight be cancelled well enough ; for, :an upright and.llraight courfe oflife, Go o onely regarded: And in every SeEf, aman might be faved, that li-ved '»Jell. Thefe, for their foher and temperate kinde ot life, termed themfelves Encratites,tly.t isftriEf li-vers; and all other Chrill– ians that lived not in like aulleriry, Pjjchicos (that is) carnal! men. Such is in our daies the imagination of theCi"Vill Christian; who, fo his conve~fation be blameldfe and honell, careth not for rf\§ligio11 and Faith at all, hnt for the moil:partlives and dies in brut"ifh ignorance. Wemay ea~ thefe t?e En~ratites ofour A'ff/· 1 Imt!ginations touching the !f3ttilding. A fecondary par_t oft?e .Ap~flles :h~~~t~1j -1>oEfpne,and not ofhke necefs1ty With the former. Ep1phamtUwnteth * {Hereji 61.) There were.afecr, a branch ofthe oldCathari.or Puritanes {as he faith)whichcalleth themfelves .Apoflolici, propter exaEfttm difciplin.e fiudium, &c. For an extraordinarie defire they had above othu men to -have difcipline atid all thing:;, to the el\act patern.e ofthe ApojUes daies ; which is it felfe an imagination. ' , For, it were caco~elia an apifh imitation; to retaine all in ulethetr; fee; -~ . ing diverfe things; even then, werebuttemporaria.For befide their Canon, Gal.6.u>: ~n matters of knowledge, they ~ad theii>dogmataor demta;not o_f ~quail Acts , 6 ,4; Importance ; as was that of eatmg tlmtgs firangled, and bloNd ; wluch no · man now thinketh himlelfe bound eo abil:ainefrom. And, .beftdes their Epitaxes, commandements in matter of prattice, they had their· 1Jiataxes,Injunctions, not ofequal! regard with the former. Sudi were their Agap£, love-feails after the'Sacrament : and their celeBrating the 1 Cor.u .19 Sacrament after Supper;whichno Church at this day dothim'itate. Ther• Iucde u. , r tr. 11 l . h . . . . . ' J Or.! 1.2~ .rore, to prene a t iat was In t at ttme1s an tmagmatton. ' -- ' \ · And, as to preffeaU ; fo, ofthefethingsthatremaine, topreOeall ~ alike, or thinke an equal! necef'sity cifthem, which was a parcel! ofthe imagination. of the:l?onati.fh. For;fome things the :Apoftles peremptorily commanded : Some things they IJad no commandeme1it for, but onelygave . c-ounfe/1 : Some things they commanded arid taught : fome things, they _ taugbt and e~horted : w~ereofea~h was to ?eeileemed in his owne value ~ ~~~:~:!~: and worthtndfe : Neithertodlfpenfe With thecommamlement; nor to 1 Tim+ti· niake a matter of neceflity of the [ounfell. Both which have not a little cS· 2 , harmed"the Church. · · . Lailly, for thefe matters of"Counfell, which for the 1nofl: part are !hings in.diff~r.em, th.ey alfo fall upon two imaginations :_ 1 Some fay.: ·) · · - ~cc;cc 3 Omnta
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