Church-1100r" of Bifbops in which he tells them [That be would obey the Apeolical precepts : but ' that was not Apo/tolled which was contrary to the doíirri.e of the Apoftles I Chrift raying, be that is not with us is againli us: And that cannot be A- ' pofolical that is againft Chrift : as the Teneur of the Popes Letters were His nonobilante fo often repeated, (hewed his inconfiancy and his blotting the ` purity of the Chriftian Religion, and perturbing the peace and quiet of So- eieties; a torrent of audacioufnefs,procacity, immodefty, lying, deceiving, hard- ' ly believing or trufting any one; on which innumerable vices follow. And ' next after the fin of Lucifer, which in the end of time will be that alfo of `Antichr , the fin of. perdition, whom the Lord will deftroy with the Spirit ' of his mouth , there neither is nor can be any other fort of fin, fo adverfe and` ' contrary to the dacfrine of the Apoutles and the Gofel, and fo hateful, dete- '(table and abominable, as to kill and deferoy fouls by defrauding men of the ` care of the Paftoral office and Miniftry : which fin thofe men are known by the molt evident teftimonies of the facred Scripture to commit, who being pla-- L red in power of pafloral care, do get,the friary of the pafloral office and mini '(try, out of the milk and the fleece of the Jheep of Chrift, t who are to be pie- " kened and raved, but adminifter not to them their dues: For the very not ad- ' minifiring of the Paftoral minifteries, is by the teftimony of Scripture, the killing and defiroying of the fheep: And that there twofortsoffine, though unexpeeledly ' arethe very worft, and beyondallcomparifónexceedall otherfort offin, is manifeft by ' this, that theyare,in thetwo exiJeent fore,aid things, though with difparity anddif ' frmilitudes, direítlycontrary to theheft things:Andthat itthe worfi, whichis contrary '-tothebelt: Andas thefefins, as muchas in themlieth, oneof them it the dear-tali- ' ors of the Godhead it felf, which isfopereff"entially and fupernaturallybet: and the ' other is thedeftrultion of that conformityanddeification (of fouls) by the gra- cious participation of the Divine beams, which is the heft thing efentially and naturally. And at in good- things, the eaufi of good it better than the efëlt, ' f in evils, the caufe of evil is aorfe than the gat is manifefe, that the in troducers in the Churchof God, of fuch mofe mifchievous deferoyers of (holy) formation and deification in the fheep of Chrift, are werfe than the deroyers ' (or murderers) themfelves ; the nearer to Lucifer and Antichrift, and in the ' greater" degree of mifchief (or- priority) by how much the more fuperexcelling; a and by the greater. and diviner power, given by God for edification and not for ' dejirullion, they. were the more bound to exclude and extirpate Inch , moft mif- chievous murderers. ( or detìroyers) from the Church of God: It cannot' be therefore , that a holy. Apoltolick Seat, to wbich all power is given by our ' Lord Jefue Chrift the holy of holies, for Edification, and not for deruelion as the Apofile teftified, fhould command, or require any thing that bordereth on ,s or tended, towards fie hateful, dete(table, and abominable a thing tofeint Chrift: ' and fo utterly pernicious to mankind, or by any way endeavour any thingthat tendeth thereunto. For this were either a defielïion- or a.corruption or an 0- 4bufe of Chrifis awn power, which is evidently molt holy and nor full; or it. ' were an abfolute elongation from the Throne of the Glory of our Lord Je- ' fusCbr¡{ta and the next fitting together of the two forefaid Princes of darknefs, 'and.
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