27 8 DtreEttons forgetting and keeping tifm to be Reformed ? Chrift is fo moderate a Re- former , that he only bids, Downwith the Symbo- lical Myftical Rite of mans vain addition. But the Serpent is a more Zealous Reformer : He faith , Out with exprefs Covenanting; Out with Children ; They are a corruption of the Ordinance and to others he (aies , Out with Baptifm it fell. We might follow him thus through other Ordinances. indeed he fo Over-does in his Reforming , that he would not leave us a : ofpel , aMinì[ry, a Magi- ftracy to be for Chrift , an Ordinance , no nor a Chrift : ( though yet he would feem to own a God, and the light ofNature. ) All thefe with him are .Antichriltian. By this time t hope you fee that this way ofOver- doing hath another Author then many zealous peo- pledo imagine : and that it is the Devils common fuccefsfull trade: fo that his Agents in State-Affem- blies are taught his Policy , whenyouhave noether Way of un-doing, let it be by over-doing. And the fame way he takes with the fouls of particular per- fens : If he fie them troubled for fin, and he can- not keep them from the knowledge of Chrift and free Grace, he puts the name of [freeGrace and gofpel-preaching ] upon Antinomian and Libertine errours which fubvert the very Golpel and free Grace it felt: If he fee men convinc't of this, and that it is neither common nor Religious Libertinifm and fenfuality that will bring men to Heaven, then he will labour to make Papills of them, and to fet them on a task of external formalities , or macerat- ing (heir bodies with hurtful] faftings, watchings and cold, as if fetf murther were the higheft pitch of Reti-
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