[ 37° ] ing breath of ulcerated malignant minds, yet can– not bear it, but draw back andrihrink :Therefore Chrift pronounceth a dreadful Sentence againil: ·thofe that offend ( that is, by fuch fiumbling– blocks turn back and difcourage) even the 1eaft ofthefe childiih beginners ; It were better for that · man that a Jv1ilftone were ha1;1ged about hu N~c~ and he were cajf into the Sett. · · ' § 3. But no fcandal or fnare is fo dangerous as thofe which are made by Rulers or Great Men, or by Paftors and Teachers on the pretences of Religion, and Divine Authority, abuling the holy Name ofChrift. , · § 4· And the fame Artifice that Satan ufeth a– gainfi Godlinefs in general he ufech againfl: parti– cular Truths, Duties and Perfons. And one of the mofi dangerous that I now perceive the Prote· fiant Religion affaulted with, is putting the Name of Nonconformifts, and Puritans, and Schifmatick!, on Protefiants as Proteftants, and the Name of Catholick, the Church, the Church of England, the Clergy, yea of the Reformed Church, and of r Protefiants on the Papal Roman Sect. The Church of England, King, Parliament, Archbia1ops, Bi.. fl1ops, and the reft were uxty years ago and lefs againfl that as Popery, which now is obtruded on us ~s· the fenfe of the Church of Englllnd againft Popery : Such Wonders can bare Names do with _ · the ignorant: And they go on without any great refifiance. · § 5. Whereas there are great differences · a– mong the Papifis about the degree of the perfonal Power of the Po~e, the Cheat is this; To confine the ~ameof Pap1fis to the one party, and to own · the Opinions of the othe1· Party, ·and to call t~em - f[e§by~~pan$
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