270 Satans way to defiroy Religion. DIRECT. LVII. Tet let not any here chest you by overdoing . nor meer names and titles of Unity deceive you in.i~tead of the thing it fel f liter inuß yeti ever dream ofany Head and Center of the Unityofthe Catkola-k Choch,but Cbri(l himfelf Here is no part of Religion which Satan J. doth not endeavour to deflroy, under pre- tenfe of promoting it : And his way is to overgo Chrift and his Apofiles, and to feem more zeal- ous than ever they were, and to mend their work by doing it better or doing more. Chrifl was not flriet enough for the Pharifees, in'keepingthe Sabbath, nor in his company, nor in his diet. Satan hath always two ways to deflroy both trtatb and duty ; The firíl is by dire&oppofing it ; But when that will not do, the next is by overdoing and pretending to defend it. If he cannot deflroy zeal, by fcorning it,and quenching it ; he will try to do it by overheating and diflefnpering it. If he cannot deflroy knorxledge s by the way of grofs` ignorance, he will try to fpin it out into the finer threds of vain and innumerable queflions and fpe- culátions, and to crumble it into fuch invifibl atomes, that it thall be reduced to fcepticifme or nothing. If he cannot deflroy faith by open in- fidelity, he will try to make men believe too much, by making the objeas of their own belief and cal<irg that a particular faith,& altering Goa' word
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