171 Diretltonsforgetting and keeping the ground of certain heart- burnings and mutual Hatred, Contentions, Revilings, and Enmity. Is not here enough got at one CA ? Doth there need any more to the et ablitluing of the Romlib and Hellith darknefs ? Did not this one ac`f found the Seat of Borne ? Did not the Devil get more in his Gown in a day, then he could get by his Sword in three hun- dred years ? And yet the Holy Cho[f gave them full warning of this before-hand, 2 Cor. z L. 2,3. For cam ealoi e over you With a godly ?calmfie ; for I have efpoufed you to one Husband, that Imay prefent you es a chaßVirgin to Chrifi. But 1fear lef by any means,a4 the Serpent beguiledeve, through hisfubtil- ty, foyour minds fhouldbe corruptedfrom the 'implicity that is in Cbrift. Rom. 14.1. Him that u weak in the Faith receiveye : but not to Doubtful! Dijputati- ont. Pfal.19. The Llwof the Lord is perfec`l. 2 Tim. 3. i 6, 17. Ali Scripture is givenby In/pirationfrom God, and ùprofitable for Doctrine', for Reproof , for CorreElion, for Inf$ruElion in Righteortfnefs , that the Manof God may be perfeCt, through!, furnifhedunto all Good Works. I fa. 8. 20. To the LaW and to the Teftimony : if they f peak not according to the1re, it is becaufe there le no truth in them. With Many the like. This plot the Serpent bath found fo fuccefsfull, that he hath followed it on to this day. He bath made it the great Engine to get Rome on his tide, and to make them the great Dividers of Chriffs Church : He made the Pope and the Council of Trent believe, that when they had owned the antient Creed of tht Church, theymutt put in as many and more additional Articles of their owns and Anathe- matize
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