471 the Life of the Church : And therefore if any Jove- killerdo call himfelf, a fervant of Chrift and a friend to Holinefs. or to the Church, he mull .ßrft prove that rrdering it is an :ia of friend/hip,, and a fer vice acceptable to chrifL :.+1pe would think by their praaife. that for ,.nerlock A- brahams trial for their Laws anti...covred it the work of juf ifying faith, to kilt z1.e 1,./arch, and of- fer it tip in facrifice to Chrift But bef:jre, they bring us to believe that fuel a facrifice is accep- table to him , who offered himfelf a facrifice for the Church, and who calleth for a living acceptable facrifice, Roan. I 2. 8. They have need ro make a better proof of their authority,, than Kelley did Of his Revelation , when he brought Do6tor Dee to confent to adultery, by the fame pretended warrant : God who is Loveaccepteth not filch a facrifice at the hands of Love-killers and Church- defiroyers. But efp`cially when betides this acrimony of mind, there (hall other more pernicious difea- fps be cóntra&ed, and foment there cenfures t re- proaches oftheir brethren;the malignityof the dif- eafe is a fad prognoflick.Two fuck caufes of it Pawl layeth open, one A .2o.3o.the other Rom,16.17, i8.0ne is the devilìfh fin ofpride; and a deereta have manydifc.iples to be our appl huders[ They /14 fpeakperverfe things to draw awaydifciples alter thee. The other fe'fafhnefs, carnality and cvveteoumaae¡s [They ferve not the Lord 7efcsi, but their own bellies, i And fo 2, Pet. 2. 3. ThroughCoveteoufnefs they (hall with feigned words rake Mérchandije ofyon + hey buy and fell mens fouls for gain Thefe are Gain - fayers in a double feed`s : Their craftlrinth tbere f2,
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