A fudgenot the taufe by the perlons. 219 DIRECT. XLIII. Take. heed left you be tempted to rejeR It Cattle, becaufe it is owned byform had per- Ions or to tike.a bad carpfo when it i6 Own- ed by men that are otherwife good : And. that you judge not of the faith and catsfe by the perfans, when you.fiotald judge of :he perlons rather by thefaith and caufe. I Confers when we have no other reafon to en-i I dine us to one opinion or toanother,but only the reputation of them that hold it, ceteris paribtré, in matters of weer godlinefs, the judgment of godly men is much to be preferred before theirs that are ringodly, and they are much liker to be in the right. But when God bath given us ether means to know the.truth, we .muff impartially make tire of them. It too oft falleth out that honeít people are like (fraying fheep : If one leap over the hedge., the teawill croud and llrive to follow him : And therefore erreurs are like Languages and FaThi- ors, that follow the Country where they are bred. The religious peQfle in S,rcden and Dena- ¡nark have one fort of erreur ; In Holland and Helvetia perhaps they h?ve another : In .France, and Spin, and Italy they have others : In Greece, and .4rmeni', and.Ethi«pi-Q they have others, And it is an eaf=e matter before we are aware, to fall into the common epidemical difeafe; and to th nk, This is heft, becaufe the hell and fir:Elea p eplel -are
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