274 DireE1ions forgetting andkeeping they are. Had not the Devil turn'd Orthodox., he had not made fo many trueChriftians Hereticks, as hiphaniw and eiuftón have enrolled in the black Lift : Had not the enemy of Truth and Peace got into the Chair , : and made fo parhetique an Orati- on as to inflametheminds of the Lovers ofTruth to be over-zealous for it,and todo toomuch, we might have had Truth and Peace to this day. Yea fill, if he fee any man of Experience andModeration it and up to reduce men to the ancient limplicity, he prefently feems themoil zealous for Chriff, and tels the unexperiencedLeaders ofthe flocks that it is in favour offame Herefie that fuch a man fpeaks ; he is plotting a Carnal °Syncretifm, and attempting the reconcilement of Chrift and ?elsal ; he is tainted with Popery or Socinianifm or Arminianifm, or Calvinifin, or whatfoever may make him odious with thofe he fpeaks to. Owhat the Devil bath got by Over-doing ! And as this isr true in DoElrines, fo is it in Wor- fhip, and Difcipiine, and Paftoral Authority, and Govcnrmenr. When theSerpent could not get the World to defpife the poor Fifhermen that publifhed the Gofpel,(theDevil being Judged, and theWorld convinced by the Power of the Holy Ghoft, the Agent, Advocate and Vicar ofChrift onearth ) he will then be the forwardeft to honor and promote them : And if he cannot make ionftantine a Perfe- cuter of them , he will perfwade him to raife them in worldly glory to theStars, and make themLords of Rome, and poffefs them with Princely Dignities and Revenues. And hebathgot as much by over- honouring them, as ever he did by perfecuting and dc-
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